NOVPUBPov Hades:
I advanced against the enemy, my claws holding his sword while the other launches a sphere of Starfire making him fly forward, pushing away all other enemies behind him.
My fists and wings collide one after the other against hundreds of enemies, but I couldn’t kill any of them, my only goal being to advance deeper until I broke through the enemies’ siege.
When I reached the other side, there were hundreds of wounds on my body, some of them even serious injuries.
"Don’t stop!" (Samara)
"I know..." (me)
I keep advancing, I wasn’t stopping for a second while Samara was behind me, her body wrapped in chains as she was storing power.
"< Breath of Chaos >" (me)
"Don’t waste energy!" (Samara)
"Easy for you to say that!" (me)
I felt every blow I received, but no matter how serious the injuries were, they were nothing for a Herald like me, nothing that could truly kill me.
My duty was to drag Samara to the center of this Star System, everyone else stayed behind, for them it is better to maintain a well-controlled perimeter to fight instead of risking it like we are doing.
With my last attack preventing a wave of enemies that were coming towards me, I had enough time to get where I needed to.
"< Infernal Drain >" (Samara)
With the momentum of my wings I arrived in front of that column of light, then the cocoon of chains undid revealing a clearly weakened Samara, but even so she pierced my stomach with her hand without hesitation, gathering a large amount of Chaos Power in the most brutal way possible.
"Did you need that!?" (me)
"We don’t have time for your nonsense!" (Samara)
"< Unholy Divine Magic: Divine Corruption >" (Samara)
With my power fused with hers, without wasting time she stretches out her hand touching the column of light, her currents cross the column of light, the luminous energy begins to darken in seconds until it becomes like black ink, stars emerging from within like eyes opening.
"How long!?" (me)
"< Divine Seal >" (Samara)
This darkness spreads throughout the scene as if it had exploded, inside there were still creatures moving, Dragons that explode outwards followed by energy jumps that seem to disperse when in fact they travel through the entire Star System due to the altered energy flow of this place.
The very configuration that they made by altering this Star System for their damned ritual was now connecting everything together and the Dragons of Chaos power together with the Anomalous power were traveling in all directions at the same time corrupting everything they passed through.
The stars left in their wake formed constellations of Runes that interconnected in a text I couldn’t understand. It took mere minutes for us to be surrounded once more, but by then Samara had a smile on her face as all the columns of light disappeared from the surrounding planets.
"They can’t get in anymore, and they can’t get out either." (Samara)
"That’s good to hear." (me)
"< Activate >" (me)
I hold a piece of bone covered in Runes and magic circles that light up, making the space ripple. In less than a second I feel my body being pulled away as chains once again attach themselves to my body. Samara once again sticks to me, hitching a ride.
The end of the journey took only a few seconds and we were already in the middle of the battlefield, we were next to Alice who served as an anchor for this magic, she was being attacked by 6 of those Ascendants and without saying anything else I joined the battle as well as Samara.
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Pov Selene:
The sword cuts towards Baldr, he continues using his speed to avoid a fatal blow, but he cannot completely evade all the blows and this time I tore off his ear.
"I ignored what you did to that God to recover, we all took it as retribution for his acts of greed, but now this!!??" (me)
"What did the Ascendants promise you!?" (me)
"They didn’t promise me anything, we made a deal, they would help me become an Ascendant and this universe would join their Dominion under my command." (Baldr)
"< Origin of Blood: Return to Death >" (me) 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
"< Divine Law of Light: Palm of Heaven >" (Baldr)
Knowing about his plans only infuriated me more, he even dared to open a passage for them to enter, if it weren’t for our quick attack the ritual would be complete creating a firm passage instead of that unstable gate.
I couldn’t tolerate this any longer and as if resonating with my own murderous intent a roar of war travels to my Soul coming directly from the Sword of Zenos.
That army that marched with him across the universe hardens into one will once again, my eyes become bloodthirsty as the power of Death surges from me and accumulates in the sword amplifying from the murderous intent.
With a swing of the sword, space vibrates, cracking continuously as Baldr creates a palm of millions of kilometers to defend himself, the large hand that descends seemed like a sky on its own, but as soon as my sword cuts forward, the hand splits in half and with that delay I lost him once again, one of his hands was also split in half with death energy contaminating his wound that he cuts without hesitation.
"I’m going to kill you!" (me)
"No, you’re going to try to kill me... you can’t destroy a supreme like ME!!" (Baldr)
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Pov Zenos:
Her body was smaller than mine, but her arms were now burning brightly, her clothes were fire itself as well as her hair were strands of white light, her eyes were orbs of fire that looked like two compressed Suns, the heat around her was unbearable and her every movement seemed like a solar storm.
Fighting this Ascendant was like facing a Sun, just being close to her made my entire body suffer burns and each blow I landed caused a bit of damage to me at the same time if it was direct.
Ranged attacks had almost no effect, her power was not flexible, I could easily understand that her characteristics were Light, Sun, Fire and Strength.
Her power has no depth, but is concentrated becoming more destructive, unlike me who was much more flexible in attacks having hundreds of characteristics to use in each blow.
But fighting from a distance became impossible and the best choice was to concentrate those up close, which left me at a certain disadvantage.
While her 4 energy arms delivered continuous blows, her hands carried a large royal scepter that had a Crystallized Sun on it, this was a real Sun that had been refined, it was inferior to my Divine Weapon, but it was still strong serving to better concentrate her power.
"(Attack now!)" (me)
"< Titan’s Rage of Divine Eclipse >" (Sakura)
"< Demonic Apocalypse Slash >" (Ragnar)
"< Breath of Chaotic Night >" (Nix)
"< Fangs of Unholy Blood >" (Orion)
"< Leaves of the Tree of Darkness >" (Layla)
"< Eye of the Anomalous Abyss >" (Hinata)
"< Unholy Dragon God Slash >" (me)
"< Law of the Sun: Solar Flare >" (Ascendant)
The whole time I fought alone, making her gradually lose her caution towards the other Gods. I noticed that she was moving away from the other battles and pretended to resist and when we got far enough away for her to think she had won.
Our battle seemed like a stalemate and it really was, her strength was similar to mine, at least under those conditions, as soon as I saw an opening I didn’t hesitate and gave the signal for everyone to attack.
Unfortunately I didn’t have time to accumulate much power or she might be wary of my attack, but with everyone’s power added together the damage wouldn’t just be a sum but a multiplication several times over.
Breath attacks that distort everything they touch, leaves that seem to fall from the stars themselves as if it were a rain of arrows, blood that accumulates in a large Dragon’s head with its teeth opening towards her, a sword formed by the intertwining of millions of forest branches, a blade that cuts through the void as if it came from hell itself and an eye that opens above the light revealing an endless void that pours in pure darkness like a waterfall over her.
All the attacks were coordinated to happen at the same time and yet she still managed to react.
Suddenly she crushed her own scepter in her hands, releasing the Sun sealed within, then she made this Sun collide with the illusory Sun behind her, generating an explosion of flaming light in all directions like a tsunami of destruction.
Most of the attacks hit this flaming light first before reaching it or were destroyed directly before reaching it, only Hinata’s attack seemed to have managed to ignore this flaming light, that waterfall of darkness being unable to be illuminated, but the eye itself was blinking about to disappear.
When everything calmed down, everyone was injured, I, who was closest, had my entire body burned and part of my bones destroyed, but when I looked, the Ascendant was still there, she was seriously injured at least.
One of her arms was crushed while a dark spot pulsed on the side of her body, her hair of light disappeared, leaving only a bald spot full of light blue blood.
"I didn’t want to have to use that attack, but I have no choice if even that didn’t work..." (me)
