NOVPUBIt’s been a long time since this battle has been going on and the weight of keeping my Divine Incarnation active is getting harder and harder, having Hinata possessing my body has only added weight to my already heavy load.
I look at Erkales’s broken body, I managed to eat many parts of him and yet he didn’t perform any ranged attacks, not even a classic Dragon breath attack.
"(Hinata, how is my Soul?)" (I)
"(Perfectly fine, but his body has been at its limit for some time, one of his muscles tore in the last attack.)" (Hinata)
"(Ignore these little things.)" (I) 𝒏𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝒐𝙢
My body strengthened by Divine Power was no longer able to handle it, but I couldn’t care less, my physical body is secondary as it could even regenerate entire limbs in the middle of combat, even though I haven’t tested it, I think it could regenerate even even my head.
That’s why the only type of damage that really scared me was the one that hits the Soul, I knew that if it continued, it would at some point hit my Soul hard.
I looked at Erkales still standing, he was in a pathetic state to the point of being pitiful, there was nothing left of the ferocity and dread that his appearance made others feel when they looked at him.
But even though his presence and Aura didn’t decrease, even though he seemed to have the upper hand, I couldn’t help but feel that there was something wrong.
"(If I only knew what this bastard really is or at least understood this thing about Anomalies it would be possible to figure out what he’s doing.)" (I)
I was scared, I couldn’t lie to myself, I was already fighting beyond my limit to the point that my body was starting to tear itself apart from the inside and I could feel it in my Aura as well as in my presence that were decreasing, but while that Erkales looks horrible and still maintains a stable Aura, I knew something was wrong.
"(I don’t even know why he’s attacking me... in fact I myself feel a strong instinctive urge to kill him... but I don’t know why.)" (I)
"(Regardless of what my gut says, I have priorities... I need to find the others who were under attack when I was taken and I need to collect one last Essence.)" (I)
"(I have no reason to fight him, I have even less reason to risk my life by doing so.)" (I)
"If you stop attacking me, we can end this fight here, I have no reason to fight you..." (I)
"HAHA HAHAHAHAHA... AH HAHAHAHAHA..." (Erkales)
"..." (I)
I pressed my hand on the hilt of the Star Sword, that laughter was calm no matter how loud it was, his Aura was burning with hunger and the will to fight, the thing that looks like an eye on his head was facing me with a glow of great murderous intent.
"What’s your name, young Dragon God? I want to know the name of the most difficult appetizer I’ve found." (Erkales)
"I am Zenos and I am not a God, at least not yet." (I)
As he spoke while remaining still, I tried to think of how to resolve this quickly and Hinata inside me was doing the same by complementing my lines of thought.
"Good, very good, it’s been a few millennia since I’ve encountered such a challenging Dragon, this was also the first time someone dared to treat me like food." (Erkales)
As he spoke his presence seemed to burn the surroundings as if digesting the surroundings, I knew he must be preparing something and I hurriedly put the plan I thought of with Hinata into practice by letting her take over more of my body.
"< Children of the Void obey My Call >" (Hinata/me)
Suddenly all my Sacred Power was being sucked away along with a colossal flow of the 3 Natural Energies, then a presence emerged from within me coming from Hinata, a type of Authority that I did not recognize.
Soon hundreds of cracks filled with saliva-covered teeth opened up in the space around Erkales, everything happened too fast for him to be able to react or so I thought.
Suddenly gray arms appeared from each of the slits, countless eyes opening and closing from these arms that stretched outwards, the hands had different numbers of fingers and all of them had giant spouts on their palms.
Each hand held a part of Erkales, the hands seemed desperate for food as they crowded around his body tearing off pieces of his body before eating.
Strangely Erkales didn’t fight it and didn’t have any kind of reaction to his body being destroyed in this way, in fact his Aura seemed to condense more and more.
In seconds I felt my Soul vibrate and I also felt Hinata struggling as her arms were taken by chains back to the cracks that closed like monsters closing their jaws.
All that was left of Erkales was his half deformed exoskeleton, what appeared to be his eyes as well as the Curse Core that I placed inside him also disappeared, nothing remained of the strange energies that formed his body, but his Aura was full of power and his presence felt different.
I no longer feel the Auras and power of various Dragons that I felt before, it was just a power and a bizarre Aura.
His Aura was similar to that of a Dragon, but it was fundamentally different, it was as if his Aura was trying to imitate that of a Dragon even though it wasn’t.
His presence was even stranger now, all that existed was hunger, his presence was unstable like a sand castle and could fall apart at any moment or that’s what it seemed to my senses.
While the changes in him caught my attention, the power that arose from consuming so much of it was continually being sucked away by my Blood Core because of Callidora injecting all that power into Niryna.
"It’s been a long time since I used this form... the feeling of hunger... the feeling of clarity in my mind... such an undignified appearance." (Erkales)
"You will pay for forcing me to this point, I will use you to be complete once again." (Erkales)
"..." (I)
As he spoke his entire exoskeleton was deforming and moving taking on the same shape as it had before, but without those metal-solid energies inside, it was like seeing the skeleton of a dead creature.
Soon that exoskeleton began to shrink, as it decreased in size, the bones became wider, thinner and new shapes emerged from it, filling the spaces with nothing, I wouldn’t let him continue with that.
"< Cursed Breath of Chaos >" (me/Hinata)
With Hinata’s help, dozens of mouth-like slits open around Erkales once again, this time Starfire full of purple stars came out of each of these slits as well as my own mouth, our target being the same was surrounded by the destructive power creating a sphere of Starfire that looked more like a gigantic orb containing a starry sky full of purple stars.
"Do you really think you can stop me? Do you think you can defeat me? Do you know how many Dragons I devoured to acquire such a majestic form that you destroyed!? Do you know how much of my HUNGER YOU AWAKENED!!!???" (Erkales)
From within the Starfire orb his voice emerged filled with an increasingly heavy killing intent, his voice at the end sounded more like a roar than a voice, he was targeting me with his presence and I could feel that something was coming to completion within Starfire.
"(I won’t make it that easy.)" (I)
"< Divine Curse: Chaos Curse Dragon Seal >" (me/Hinata)
This time I consumed everything without leaving any reserves, I was making a more than risky bet.
I consumed all that was left of my 3 Natural Energies, all of my Sacred Power, all of the Power of the Divine Spark and all of Hinata’s power.
I extracted all the power I could muster within myself, then concentrated it along with my Authority and Aura completely within the Star Sword, all of this power was sent to the Cursed Sun in the center of the sky in the middle of the sword, as the entire sword exploded in Starfire and Purple Flames when I threw the sword in the direction Erkales was inside the Cursed Starfire orb.
The sword became a Dragon with purple crystal scales surrounding a Dragon body that seemed to be made from the night sky itself, right in its jaws was a sphere of purple fire that was actually my Cursed Sun.
"AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" (Erkales)
"BASTARD!!!!!" (Erkales)
Suddenly I was feeling weaker and weaker, Hinata left my body and stood on my shoulder as I reverted to my normal Dragon form, then the cracks around the orb closed, with no one adding any more Starfire attacks in the orb it was possible to see that this cursed Starfire was being sucked into the center.
In a few seconds the large orb shrank to less than 200 meters and the hilt of the Sword appeared, then all the remaining Starfire disappeared within the sword that was piercing the chest of a humanoid figure made of metallic scaled plates with wings on its back and head a crystal that appears to contain a black hole inside.
The sword going through the chest seemed to be passing through a large cross-shaped mouth there, the entire body was melting quickly because of Fluffy coming out of it.
"I don’t accept dying like this!!!" (Erkales)
