Rise of the Alchemy God

.

The battle between Ethan and the demon went on for hours, with neither side managing to gain the upper hand, or at least, that's what the demon thought.

But soon, he realized it wasn't because the human was unable to gain the advantage in their fight.

Instead, it seemed the human was using him as a test subject for his various attacks.

Obviously this realization makes him a furious.

"You little bastard! Don't think you can underestimate me!" he bellowed in anger while raising his scepter.

Several symbols began to form in the air.

Ethan, who had just destroyed yet another zombie-like creature with a punch infused with his pure Qi, saw this unfolding scene.

However, he didn't stop his opponent. Instead, he turned his gaze to the symbols that were beginning to spread in the air.

The symbols were written in an unknown language and were primarily composed of red energy.

Although Ethan had never seen these symbols before, that didn't mean he had no way of deciphering the language.

In fact, as soon as he began analyzing the symbols in the air, a familiar sound resonated in his mind, and a blue screen appeared before his eyes.

DING!

[Unknown formation detected.]

[Analyzing...]

DING!

[Analysis completed successfully.]

Ethan wasted no time in absorbing the information.

While he believed he could gain the upper hand against the demon in front of him, that didn't mean he would underestimate him.

Indeed, throughout their entire fight, Ethan had maintained a certain level of caution toward his opponent, all while testing his abilities on him.

He had found an opponent of the same cultivation realm and didn't want to miss the opportunity to test his newfound strength.

And he had to admit, his power so far had not disappointed him at all.

He was certain that if he wished, he could obliterate the entire continent with a single attack.

Essentially, he was a god in the mortal realm.

He understood why beings who ascended from the mortal realm to the spiritual realm were eventually forced by the will of the heavens to ascend.

Allowing a being of his level to roam freely in this plane was akin to condemning it.

A single whim of his could cost this plane dearly.

As soon as he accepted the information from the system, he felt a sudden wave of knowledge flooding his mind.

Immediately, a new status screen appeared before him.

.

[-------------------------------

[Formation of the Thousand Calamities]

Level: 4

Description: A summoning formation written in the ancient language of demons, capable of summoning one of the thousand demonic calamities.

NOTE: The summoned calamity will be random, and the summoning time will vary depending on the amount of demonic Qi of the summoner.

[Price: 2.000.000 Sp]

-------------------------------]

.

[Do you wish to learn the formation?]

[Y/N]

Seeing the information, Ethan understood what the demon was trying to do and couldn't help but snort.

Although he was confident in his ability to defeat the demon, he didn't know what these demonic calamities were. Judging by the level of the summoning formation, however, he could tell it was nothing good.

Thus, without hesitation, he absorbed the knowledge about the formation. The moment he assimilated the information, he opened his eyes, and a bluish-green light radiated from them.

He raised his hand and a dark green energy began to condense on it.

With a gesture of his hand, he materialized a faint symbol in the air.

Mo Yan, who had been busy setting up the summoning formation, thought he had enough time to complete and activate it.

After all, he still had a few creatures protecting him from the human in the meantime. But just as he was halfway through the formation, an abrupt sense of danger struck him.

His gaze darted toward his opponent's position, and as soon as his eyes focused on him, they narrowed, and he murmured in disbelief.

"T-That... that's a demonic rune!" he stammered, shocked at the sight of a symbol as large as a palm floating above the human's hand, radiating a dark and sinister aura.

He didn't know what kind of energy the green aura was, but simply recognizing the symbol and understanding its meaning terrified him.

He couldn't understand how the human knew the ancient demonic language, but seeing him use one of the runes needed to erect formations of his race left him speechless.

Even more so because the rune in question was the primary rune of his formation.

This made him realize that not only did the human know the demonic language, but he also understood the formation he was building.

In other words, the human knew exactly what he was trying to do.

This, clearly, was not a good thing for him. It meant the human would interfere with the formation, not by attacking him directly but by sabotaging the formation itself.

"Damn it, how the hell does he know our language?" he asked himself in frustration.

He knew that Setting up the summoning formation would now become more problematic, and he wondered if his beasts would manage to prevent an attack on the formation.

But just as he was pondering what to do, he saw the core rune of the formation that the human had created begin to tremble, and soon other runes appeared around the central rune.

"Huh? What kind of formation is that?"

He wondered, perplexed by what he was seeing.

At first, he had thought that the other party had created the central rune of his formation to stop his formation.

However, seeing that instead of using it now that it was fully formed, the human created other different runes, he became confused about his intentions.

Even more so because he couldn't determine the purpose of this runic formation.

'I have a bad feeling about this,' he thought as he began to speed up the process of setting up his formation.

He could tell that whatever it was, it wasn't good news for him, and he had no intention of waiting to see what would happen.

What he needed to do now was finish his formation, after which he could take care of that human.

So, he focused on his formation while mentally commanding his creatures to attack the human.

If he could interrupt the other party's formation, or perhaps even ruin it, it would only be a good thing for him. Thus, he decided to use the rest of the three creatures that he had left for a combined attack.

After all, he knew that these creatures were no longer much help to him, and as such, there was no point in spending further energy to maintain them.

The giant, contorted creatures, receiving their master's command, let out a loud roar as they charged at Ethan, who was also in the process of erecting a formation.

Ethan continued to create runes, paying no attention to the creatures closing in, and in an instant, they had already reached him, ready to attack.

Just as a giant shadow creature, over ten meters tall with three pairs of arms, was about to attack him, a green light burst forth, and before the creature could even make a move against him, it was eliminated instantly.

But it didn't stop there.

The source of the intense green light, revealed to be a formation made up of the dark green runes created by Ethan, shot upward and soon reached Mo Yan's formation.

Mo Yan, who saw that he was nearly done with his work, was already celebrating.

Just as he was about to complete the formation, he felt that something was wrong and looked in a direction where he saw a strange disc made of various symbols and geometric figures. It had reached the same level as his formation, invading it with relative ease.

"What is that-"

And just as he was asking himself what it was, the disc began to rotate.

Soon, various green lines emerged from it, and in what seemed like an instant, they spread like a spider's web, covering the entire invisible surface of Mo Yan's formation and striking every point where the various symbols that maintained his formation were located.

Mo Yan couldn't react in time and immediately felt the connection to the formation he had almost finished creating break.

Before he could do anything, all the runes he had created died out, forming three rings around him.

And before he could even try to escape the encirclement or break the rings of runes, a green sphere materialized around him, engulfing him inside.

"What?"

Bam, bam, bam!

Mo Yan, clearly panicking due to the sudden chain of events, immediately tried to strike with all his might against the green walls of the sphere in an attempt to damage it and escape.

However, he quickly discovered that no matter how hard he struck, he couldn't make even a scratch on the slightly transparent walls of the green sphere.

"What the hell is this thing? human, let me out of here!" he roared as he continued his attempts to break the sphere.

"It's useless," Ethan's voice echoed.

He approached the large sphere, several meters in size, and positioned himself at eye level with the demon, who was considerably tall.

"I must admit, your formation techniques aren't bad at all," he said with a smile directed at Mo Yan.

"Look, I even managed to create this little masterpiece," he added, glancing at the points where the three rings made of runes were anchored.

The demon couldn't follow what the human was saying, but that didn't stop him from continuing his curses.

Seeing this, Ethan smiled and made another gesture with his hand.

"If I were you, I'd make myself comfortable," he said as the sphere began to tremble, and its size gradually started to shrink.

"you'll be staying there for quite a while.," he added, grabbing the green sphere that had now shrunk to the size of a tennis ball.