Chapter 157: Bing Xue Against A Primal Goddess
Listen while reading: Disaffection
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(Bing Xue’s POV)
In front of me, something I had slightly predicted was happening.
The strange presence that had been summoned into this world a day or so ago, which had been mostly dormant and slowly expanding across the wastelands of the USA.
Suddenly appeared all the way here on Egypt, a Divine Entity of some sort, most likely summoned here from a different world or timeline.
I believe this thing might have some connection to the third tribe of Cavemen that had come to Earth through the gray portals.
I cannot simply glance at every inch of the world and what is happening in here, even less when I am in another world.
However, the presence I sensed, and the origin of this presence provided me with some clues.
Amun was fantastic though, and seeing Merneith and Hekita grow closer together as friends while combining Ra and Anubis was amazing; I actually didn’t see that coming at all.
Therefore, Neferteri and Set were defeated, and so were the rest of the otherworldly Egyptians and their mechanical gods.
We’ve won.
This intruder, this uninvited guest that appeared and thought she could not only snatch the bodies of the deceased but their souls and even their machines, turning them all into monsters to strengthen her own manifestation doesn’t count.
Yes, they won; therefore, what happens afterwards is my responsibility, and I will end this myself so the rest can finally rest and have their well-deserved break.
“Why is she back?!” Merneith cried. “And what happened to her? Why is she some monster now? Ugh…” She looked disgusted.
“Mom! What do we do?!” Hekita asked as she was sitting over Anubis hand. “We have to stop it!”
“Hm…”
I nodded, glancing down; there were roughly two hundred arachnid mechanical monstrosities. They were at least three to four times stronger than the original Divine Machines or Machine Beasts.
However, nothing that Anubis and Ra can’t take care of anyway.
“Okay, I’ll take care of the big shot,” I said. “Hekita, Merneith, destroy the spiders down there that are trying to get into Alejandria.”
I had already set up a mighty barrier around the city anyways, so they weren’t getting inside any time soon. It was an enhanced Starlight Barrier with Divine Photon Essence added into the mix.
However, the power that these things held was similar, if not stronger, to what the Primal King wielded. A very refined, powerful version of Primal Power.
And I fear their origin might be from an entity even stronger, a God of some sort, that originates from the Primal Earth where Fiery Hair and the cavemen came from.
A God born from the Myths of that world, an arachnid one at that, with a treacherous and evil personality, and capable of not only bending primal power completely to its will but expanding its own existence through it.
In the absence of Mana and other energies like Spirit Energy, the Divinities of Primal Earth found other ways to be born, Primal Power itself.
Seeing how thick and cloudy this energy is and how “alive” it feels, much stronger than even Mana, Spirit Energy, or Ki, it is quite clear that whoever somehow managed to be born out of it entirely is several times stronger than their counterparts, even more if it’s a god.
A warrior born in this Primal Earth that has only used Primal Power, like Fiery Hair, is tremendously powerful, beyond any hunter on this planet.
Then a God born from Primal Power alone, when compared to the other Gods I’ve been fighting…
Yeah, I can already begin to imagine it.
A monster, one that might be worth my time.
“Eh? You’re taking it on your own?!” asked Merneith. “But…”
“It’s fine! Mama is super-duper strong; she kills gods easily!” Hekita said. "Anubis, let’s go stop the spiders! The Demons will join us!”
“Okay…!” Anubis nodded.
“Fine…” Merneith sighed. “But don’t die, Bing Xue!”
Merneith jumped over her mechanical god, Ra, and quickly entered it.
Once both girls flew away from my sight, the approaching, fifty-meter-tall Arachne-shaped monstrosity drew closer.
Her appearance was beyond hideous—a combination of metal, purple crystals, black and gray steel, and fog everywhere.
Even worse, the corpse of Neferteri had been infected and merged with the metal of Set, fusing with it and growing gigantic, resembling an Arachne as her torso rested over Set’s monstrous form.
Yeah, this new God really loves spiders; she will turn anything she “blesses” into them.
I’ve never been someone that liked creepy crawlies, honestly.
So I’ll have to take care of it.
“This city… I’ll destroy it! I’LL DESTROY EVERYTHING!”
Neferteri was dead, yet her soul had been somewhat sealed and cursed within her own corpse, and Set, fusing with the mechanical god’s shattered core, the two became a single aberrant creature.
“RAAAARRGGH!”
The spider-like head that was Set groaned, opening its jaws and suddenly beginning to charge purple-colored energies, firing a massive beam against the barrier surrounding the city.
BOOOM!
The beam was tremendously strong, generating a massive explosion over the barrier. However, it seemed that the barrier could hold on just fine-
Crack…!
Never mind, it seems that this careless barrier I set up might not be able to hold back too much, a mere beam created a crack, and several of them could open a small part.
This only further proves to me that this spider is quite strong, good.
“Alright, I’ll take you on.”
I stepped into the empty air, reaching the giant monstrosity within a second.
“GRRHHH?! I… remember you! You’re that one… that one that got trapped?! DIE!”
She barely remembered me as someone who got trapped and couldn’t be helped.
She swung her massive claws, resembling crab-like pincers, big and heavy enough to blow up dozens of buildings per blow.
I glanced at the incoming blow as I reinforced my body with my Venerable Aura, tightly wrapping it around my body.
And taking the form of a Blade.
“{Dao of the Blade}: {Sword Physique}”
SLAAASH!
The moment the claws reached me and touched my body, they were rapidly being sliced apart, tearing down and exploding as golden flames spread through the wounds.
“GRYYAAAGH?!”
The monstrous woman screamed in agony very loudly as I glanced into her eyes, unsheathing my Yin and Yang sword.
Despite using Soul Blade being efficient sometimes, using another sword, plus Soul Blade, will create a wonderful effect.
“My turn.”
I unleashed my Divinity and my Venerable Aura, summoning an inferno of flames as the heavens above trembled, crimson clouds gathered around my body, and fire started raining down, destroying the smaller spider machines that got in the way.
“{Primordial Heaven Soul Blade: Red Heaven Inferno}”
“Wha…?!”
Neferteri groaned in confusion before I swung my blade horizontally against her; the crimson clouds and the endless inferno of flames erupted at the same time, releasing a slashing wave.
Which, thanks to the simple [Quadruple Slash (S)] Skill, was divided by four.
SLAAASH! SLAAASH! SLAAASH! SLAAASH!
Four slashing waves of flames reached Neferteri’s aberrant body, splitting apart her arms, then her torso, and then her spider legs one after another, followed by blazing explosions.
“UUAAAGGGHH!”
Her scream reverberated across the entire desert as her entire body was set ablaze. I felt disappointed, though, that Barbarian God was tougher than this.
“Looks like one technique was enough to defeat you? For proclaiming yourself as the new God of this world, you’re quite pathetic, spider.”
“SILENCE!”
I heard her furious scream; it wasn’t Neferteri’s voice anymore, but that of an ancient arachnid goddess from the Primal Earth, surging from within Neferteri and Set’s fused and split apart bodies.
“This world is mine to plunder and feast on!” she said. “I won’t let you take it away from me!”
Then I heard Neferteri again; I couldn’t completely tell if it was her or the Spider speaking through her.
Nonetheless, it didn’t matter.
RUMBLE!
Giant spider legs grew from their destroyed body as countless fleshy tendrils and wires wrapped around one another, quickly regenerating her back together instantly.
“Interesting, so you can do that.”
“PERISH!”
She opened her spider-like jaws and released several purple beams against me, which I noticed could distort space slightly.
They weren’t as potent as Void itself, but they were certainly powerful.
Therefore, I had to intercept them with my own long-ranged attacks, right?
FLAAASH!
I let go of my current form as I transformed into a being of pure light, glistening brightly as if I were a second sun above the skies.
Using this form, I harnessed energy within my chest, releasing it all at once.
“{Primordial Spiritual Body Arts}: {Divine Photon Beam}”
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The golden beams of Divine Photon Essence clashed and exploded against the ones fired from the arachnid, blowing up into loud explosions above the skies.
I stepped forward, flying at lightning speed and reaching Neferteri, confronting her with my Yin and Yang Sword.
“Perish.”
I swung my sword, channeling the power of Heaven once more.
{Heavenly Soul Blade}!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“GRAAAHH!”
She roared back as she was being split apart, swinging her massive pincers and clashing against my body, constantly attempting to cut through my body.
“I’ve had enough of your screams.”
I kicked her head and blew it up into pieces.
BOOOM!
“GUUUGH?!”
Set’s spider-like face groaned in pain after feeling Neferteri’s entire head explode into ashes.
It quickly started rushing towards the city, while its divine aura continued to expand, generating countless spiritual spiders made of primal power.
“Not going to work.”
I kicked them, punched them, and sliced them apart as they came.
Within a second, I reached the huge spider’s body, quickly absorbing the essence of heaven into my sword and growing it to a ridiculous size.
{Primordial Heaven Sword}: {Nirvana}!
A sword I once used to split the heavens and the earth of Murim to defeat the mighty Venerables standing on my path.
Now I use it against a corrupt being of evil.
“Begone!”
SLAAAASH!
The vertical slash not only split the giant spider apart, but golden flames, electricity, and light consumed its two halves instantly.
The aberrant and agonizing scream of the spider machine echoed as its entire body battled to survive, constantly trying to regrow anew while burning to death.
“Almost… ALMOST THERE!”
However, I heard her voice, as I suddenly saw several giant machines rushing towards the massive spider monstrosity.
One resembled a huge centipede, another a dragonfly, and the last a beetle. Although they also had spider-like traits.
“Oh right, you wanted to do this.”
I saw my wives chasing the mechanical insects; some of them already had serious wounds.
I guess they were trying their best, but after being reanimated, these things really got tougher.
CLANK!
CLANK!
CLANK!
The giant insects reached the dying spider monstrosity, quickly merging with it in a similar fashion to how Amun-Ra-Anubis was born.
FLUOSH!
An explosion of black and purple lightning surged from within its new, remade form as a massive feminine and humanoid figure materialized.
With eight spider-like legs coming from her back, six humanoid arms with long and sharp claws, and a spider-like head with slender legs and sharp talons in them, she materialized.
[Warning! An Unknown Otherworldly Goddess has physically manifested into your world!]
[The Evil Arachnid Queen of Malice and Cunningness, the Great Web Mother, Arashkaghl-Dolth has manifested!]
[Her Divinity Aura Domain spread further around her body, disrupting and corrupting the world’s laws to fit her own Divinity!]
Even the System alerted me of this being fully manifesting.
“Aaahh! This is… a decent avatar for my divine manifestation!”
The voice of a woman echoed from the massive one-hundred-meter-tall machine of black and dark purple colors, with several spider-like eyes made of red jewels across their slender body.
“So you come from the Primal Earth?” I asked her with a smile. “Be happy; I let you fully manifest, or it wouldn’t have been satisfying to defeat you.”
“Hah,” she smiled at me, crossing her six arms. “Don’t think you can stop me now, fool.”
Her crimson eyes shone as space around me began to distort.
“{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Space Destroying Eye}”
TRUUUM!
And space itself was deleted, alongside me.
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