God-Tier Extraction Talent: Reincarnated in a Game-like World!

Chapter 639: A Goddess

Crimson Judgment swept horizontally without any complicated technique or unnecessary movement, because Gabriel relied on nothing more than absolute strength.

Slash!

More than a dozen heavily armored goblins were severed at the waist together with the thick shields held before their chests, their scorching blood instantly staining the forest floor red.

Yet Gabriel’s movements did not pause for even half a second as the second strike immediately followed the first and the third came directly afterward, with every flash of crimson sword light sending another group of goblins crashing to the ground.

At that moment, a goblin warrior nearly four meters tall suddenly charged from the side, gripping a massive battle axe almost as large as an ordinary person with both hands.

It released a deafening roar and brought down a blow powerful enough to easily shatter boulders directly toward Gabriel’s head.

Gabriel did not even bother turning around before raising his left hand.

Bang!

His five fingers closed directly around the descending axe blade, stopping the enormous weapon in midair and causing the savage expression on the goblin warrior’s face to instantly freeze.

Gabriel slightly turned his head and looked at it.

“Too weak.”

In the next moment, Gabriel exerted force through his wrist.

Crack!

The enormous battle axe shattered between his five fingers, and before the goblin warrior could react, Gabriel drove a single punch directly into its body.

Boom!

The goblin warrior’s entire upper body instantly disappeared as blood and chunks of flesh exploded in every direction, leaving only half a corpse to collapse powerlessly onto the ground.

The elves behind Gabriel who had witnessed the entire scene with their own eyes simultaneously fell into a deep silence.

The elves had naturally seen powerful individuals before, and their race had never lacked formidable warriors of its own, but the way this human fought was so direct that it bordered on incomprehensible.

From the moment the battle had truly begun until now, Gabriel had never probed his enemies, never retreated, and had not shown even the slightest trace of hesitation despite already being surrounded by thousands of opponents.

It was almost as though, in his eyes, the thousands of enemies surrounding him could not even be considered an army and were merely prey that happened to be slightly more numerous than usual.

More and more goblins began rushing madly toward Gabriel’s position.

However, the only result was that the pile of corpses surrounding him continued growing higher as every creature that entered the range of Crimson Judgment was cut down before it could stop his advance.

In the distance, Edgar finally arrived at the battlefield and stood atop an enormous ancient tree, quietly watching the figure who had already slaughtered his way deep into the goblin army alone.

He remained silent for a long time as memories from several months earlier surfaced in his mind.

Back then, when this young man had first appeared in Edgar’s beginner class, Gabriel had not even reached Level 30.

Although Edgar had already realized that there was something extremely unusual about him, he could never have imagined that after such a short period of time, the young man who had once needed his training would already have grown to such an extent.

“Monster,” Edgar softly said.

Aelira, who stood beside him, did not disagree, because during the brief time they had been speaking, more than another hundred goblins had already fallen beneath Gabriel’s sword.

Farther away, Sophie, who had followed everyone to the battlefield, had not paid any attention to the corpses from the moment she arrived and instead remained quietly standing among the canopies.

For some reason, from the moment she truly approached this battlefield, the power belonging to the World Tree within her had once again begun undergoing a change unlike anything that had happened before.

This time, however, the power was not extending toward the location of the World Tree but was instead spreading outward through the entire forest.

Sophie slowly raised her head as she realized that she could feel countless trees and vines, along with the innumerable root systems buried deep beneath the earth and intertwined with one another.

All of them were gradually entering her perception as though the boundaries separating her consciousness from the forest itself were slowly disappearing.

Her perception expanded from one kilometer to two, then from two to five.

Yet even after reaching that distance, it showed no sign of stopping and instead continued spreading deeper into the forest at an increasingly rapid pace, almost as though this ancient forest, which had always rejected every outsider, was now willingly opening everything it possessed to her.

Then, from somewhere so unimaginably distant that Sophie could not even begin to determine how far away it was, a consciousness countless times more powerful than the World Tree fragment she had previously encountered gently touched her once again.

Although the contact lasted for only an instant, her entire body immediately froze.

At the same time, deep within the Sacred Forest, inside a region where even ordinary elves were forbidden from entering, an ancient root so enormous that it resembled a mountain range lying beneath the earth suddenly began glowing faintly without warning.

A second ancient root soon began glowing, followed by a third.

Then more and more of them awakened throughout the depths of the Sacred Forest as life force that had lain dormant for an unknown number of years began surging wildly through the earth.

Ancient roots awakened one after another while an unimaginably vast aura of life continuously spread throughout the entire forest.

Within the deepest reaches of that radiance, a consciousness that had slept for an unimaginably long time finally awakened for the first time, even though what had awakened was merely the slightest trace of its true existence.

There was only an extremely vague thought, one that possessed neither a voice nor any form of language.

However, it crossed the entire forest before finally descending upon Sophie.

The ancient consciousness did not regard her as a guest, an inheritor, or even a host.

What it conveyed was an entirely different concept, one whose mere appearance carried implications powerful enough to completely change the entire Elven Royal Court.