NOVPUBNow it was just the two of us, me in my Dragon form trying to keep my ability active by chewing a Divine Soul like it was gum and on the other side a bastard who has been hiding his power since the beginning.
Around us a mirrored world formed, it was very similar to what we had seen before, but it was not the same.
When I was kidnapped and thrown into that mirrored world facing that God of Death, I noticed some things, similarities to what I saw in Hell, an entire Dimension alive, but still clearly not like Hell, not like Callidora and that bastard in my front is just trying to imitate something it doesn’t understand.
"(The flaws are visible, but the strength itself is still undeniable.)" (I)
Even though it’s just a copy, its power is impressive, I also can’t understand the power I saw in that mirrored room before and I understand even less than what I saw in Hell, but the simple fact of understanding something about its power shows its deficiencies, not that I can do anything about it.
The place where I am now seems like the opposite of a Territory, it seems that instead of taking an area as his own, he created this space and shares the same place as the environment we are in, so he kept the landmarks the same as the position of the trees, the ground and even the rocks.
Everything had a mirrored appearance as if it were inverted, in the sky what I saw was a dome of mirror fragments reflecting everything on the ground including us.
This place is filled with the Power of Death and I can feel eyes from every mirror, I am within the enemy camp once again.
"(Nothing ever goes the way I would like...)" (I)
"You know, I waited a long time for these two to let their guard down, the whole time they thought my target was just you, it made my movements easier." (Fragment)
He suddenly starts to change, his green skin starts to peel and turn to dust revealing a strange appearance underneath, his body was like several fragments of broken mirrors, in fact I would think his body was like the entire smooth surface mirrored before being broken and now it’s just the broken parts put together unable to become whole again, at least that’s the closest I come to describing its appearance.
Only his eyes look like a full mirror reflecting my image as he speaks.
"Finding Gods of Life and Death like them was very difficult." (Fragment)
"(Everyone is the same, talking when they want to buy time... okay, that works for me.)" (I)
"That’s why I can’t let you have Tharyn’s power, I didn’t think you would be able to defeat him so quickly while I was busy with Sabhat." (Fragment)
As he spoke, I could feel his power flow passing through the mirrors trying to synchronize with Tarzor’s power flow as they both occupy the same space, this must be why it takes so long for him to shed his skin and his presence is increasing so slowly.
He wants to buy time and be prepared, he must not have believed that I could defeat a Demonic God like Tharyn so quickly and still maintain his power in my body, he must be cautious.
Taking advantage of this moment to activate my Divine Weapon is my only option, I also thought of a good way to use this when I am in Dragon form.
"Give me the power you stole from Tharyn and I’ll let you go, what do you think? I just need his power and I have nothing against you..." (Fragment)
"(He doesn’t realize that I can see the flow of power around me, I can see the Demonic ritual he is creating beneath him, he won’t let me go.)" (I)
I continued to gather my Sacred Power into my Divine Weapons, they will not show their full power without using the Divine Incarnation, but they are an asset nonetheless and can help me use my Essences more effectively.
"< Aura Incarnation: Eclipse Second Form >" (I)
My Aura Incarnation is something that I don’t use often because it is weaker than my Divine Weapons or my Divine Incarnation, as in the end it ends up being just the smallest of powers to be used and prevents me from using my Aura freely, I normally don’t I use it so I don’t put more weight on myself unnecessarily.
But now it’s different, I can’t use my greatest powers and I have to rely on that, normally it would be a more defensive power creating armor for me, but now defense was what I needed least.
An illusory Eclipse forms almost instantly in front of me, condensed from all my Aura and Authority, then collides against me, traveling through my body to my Dragon claws where my Divine Weapons activate, becoming the Core of two gauntlets.
"<Unholy Ritual: Imprisonment of the Divine>" (Fragment)
"< Claws of the Devouring Eclipse >" (I)
The enemy wouldn’t let me do anything, at the slightest sign of movement, he moved to attack me, his power was falling into the ritual he was preparing, he used parts of Sabhat’s body inside the mirrors to activate the ritual.
The power of death condensed in the mirrors becoming spikes that came out of the mirrors coming towards me, I also did not stand still, knowing that even Divine Weapons would not be enough, I once again use my power of Anomalous Chaos Devourer on my claws through Divine Weapons.
In my Dragon claws a black metal gauntlet with purple crystals appeared, while in the other claw there was a white metal gauntlet with silver crystals, both had the Eclipse symbols and increased the size of my claws.
I advance against the enemy while Starfire bursts from the gauntlets emanating a feeling of hunger as if I were alive, when I swung my claws against the stakes it was as if my arms were 2 hungry Beasts, the Starfire formed two Dragon heads breaking the mirrored stakes with my teeth before swallowing, the energy from these stakes flowed into the gauntlets before coming to me as if being filtered from all external influence.
"< Incarnation of the Serpent of the End >" (Fragment)
"< Claws of the Cataclysm Beast >" (I)
The bastard was actually trying to copy Tarzor’s power, it was clear now that he was transforming with Serpent characteristics, Zaya told me about Tarzor’s true appearance.
Fragment now had a white Serpent head with mirror eyes reflecting my appearance, his body was almost as large as mine and as I charged at him I was continually being stopped by the unholy spikes he created.
Using the elemental power in my claws I sent waves of conflicting energy that destroyed these stakes as if they were Elemental Beasts, but as soon as I reached him I realized that there were several copies of him everywhere already coming at me.
"(One of them must be the real one.)" (I)
I tried to swing my claws at two of them that were closest, but to my surprise, they both defend and seem solid, then another 3 appear from above in a coordinated manner aiming their claws at me, the concentrated death power transforming their claws into a macabre appearance as if bones were growing out of his hands.
"< Elemental Wave >" (I)
"< Death Contamination >" (Fragment)
Without time or space to review, I closed my claws into fists and slammed them together creating a wave of conflicting elemental power in all directions with blasts of heat, cold and lightning in all directions.
This did little damage to him, but it bought me space or that’s what I expected, unfortunately one of them was too close and before being moved away, he grabbed my wing with his claws causing an energy of Death to course through my body.
Cough Cough Cough
This caused the awakening of my Essence Core whose power clashed head on with this deadly essence, the resulting collision made me cough up large amounts of blood, but I still didn’t stay still.
I grab the arm in my wing pulling him towards me, my other claw tries to go through his chest, but hits head-on against a mirror that appears in front of his other hand, then I open my jaws in the direction of his head, breaking his skull between my teeth.
His head broke as if it were glass, it exploded into pieces that cut my mouth from the inside, even so I felt something inside and used my proper tongue to pull it deeper before swallowing.
As soon as I did that I realized it was a fragment of his body, but this was followed by multiple attacks raining down on me.
"< Reflection of Death >" (Fragment)
Suddenly a mirror forms in front of me as I try to get away from the attackers, then a reflection of me appears as if it were a shadow advancing towards me, but I ignore it, before it could hit me it was sucked in by my shadow, or more specifically, it was sucked into Hinata’s mouth who had just woken up and was in my shadow.
"< Void Crack >" (Hinata)
"< Breath of the Chaos Beast >" (I)
