Chapter 158: Eight Eyes Of Malice
Listen While Reading: Well Matched
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A gigantic humanoid machine materialized through the fusion of the corrupted mechanical gods; with a slight arachnid appearance, her massive body towered before everything else.
[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.”
Honestly, I had to admit it; I was being arrogant. I’ve seen everyone fighting and struggling, so I also wanted to feel a bit of that.
No matter how hard I try to run away from Murim, Murim always comes back to me. Despite how much I hated it, the feeling of fighting and releasing my powers is… nice.
It’s a constant, annoying urge within me. It is as if all the strength I’ve accumulated won’t simply stay still; it desires to be shown, to be released, to be destroyed.
Therefore, I happily receive a good challenge, or if anything, some good entertainment.
“Hah,” she smiled at me, crossing her six arms. “Don’t think you can stop me now, fool.”
She was, however, even more arrogant than I was. Her Divine Powers surged, all made out of Primal Power alone.
Her crimson eyes shone as space around me began to distort, rapidly breaking, and then…
“{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Space Destroying Eye}”
TRUUUM!
Space itself was deleted, alongside me.
It felt slightly…
Painful?
Ah, amazing.
The moment space was deleted with me, I suddenly found myself within the place where deleted space goes.
Some sort of endless, black void, a limbo where all things that disappear go, only to be endlessly consumed and destroyed.
Seeing how I was able to survive a black hole, this wasn’t really affecting me.
“Huh, pretty amusing Ability…”
I looked behind, suddenly sensing someone watching me.
“…”
A presence, something within the endless nonexistence.
It didn’t move; it didn’t react to me other than looking at me.
And it seemed all-encompassing.
How odd—what sort of lifeform is this?
No, is it even alive?
“Are you trapped here? Well, I have nothing to do with you, so if you excuse me…”
I swung my fist forward, and then the space started to distort.
Someone who attempted to delete my existence ended up teleporting me to some sort of limbo.
Not bad; I have never fought such a foe before!
I’m getting slightly excited now.
RUMBLE!
FLASH!
“Hahahaha! And she’s gone! Isn’t that beautiful? With my almighty eyes fully manifested into this powerful divine body, this world is mine to claim and-”
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
As I heard her laughing, I broke through space and time with my fists, utilizing the power of the Dao of the Void, encompassing my hands with Void Essence and also using [Primordial Divine Sentinel of the Dark Past and the Bright Future: Aeternitas’ Martial Arts] Skill.
“Hey, that was pretty interesting if I say so myself.”
“HUH?!”
The moment I appeared in front of the spider, she screamed out of pure shock and disbelief, her titanic, metallic body giving a step back.
“H-How did you survive being deleted within space?!”
“Your power is actually not that lethal,” I explained. “First of all, I’ve realized it technically doesn’t delete anything; it simply captures a part of space and anything within it and sends it to a place I’ll call Limbo. There’s a being living there if you didn’t know; although it doesn’t speak or move, it only watches.”
“W-Wha…?!” She didn’t seem to be understanding what I was saying too much, unfortunately.
"Indeed, that void simply deletes something once it reaches there… if they’re weak,” I said. “My body is more than capable of withstanding the pressure of a black hole, and I can also survive in the empty space. So… well, your ability is nothing but a short teleportation. And now that I’ve learned about it…”
“SHUT UP! DIE!” She screamed. “{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Space Destroying Eye}”
TRUUUM!
Immediately after I was going to say something important, she activated the ability again as one of her eyes flashed with crimson light, and then space around me began to distort.
I felt the sensation again—this slight pain that made me feel alive. It was slight, but it was pain, something that only Heaven’s Will could cause to me.
Yet…
As I told her before.
“It won’t affect me anymore.”
I grasped the distorting space with my hands wrapped in Void Essence and Space Energy, both generated from the Daos I’ve learned and also their respective skills.
And then…
CRASH!
I broke space itself, shattering it apart; the area that was about to be sent to the limbo once more was disrupted, freezing, and then…
BAAAM!
I punched it with my fist, as it suddenly was infused with Time Essence and returned back to its original form.
“I-IMPOSSIBLE!”
“Unless you use brute force, once you show me such a technique, it will no longer work on me anymore,” I smiled. “I will never fall for the same trick twice, spider.”
“DON’T CALL ME SPIDER! MY NAME IS ARASHKAGHL-DOLTH!”
She furiously screamed, rushing toward me with her giant humanoid legs, which quickly divided and transformed into eight enormous spider legs.
So the slender, beautiful humanoid legs were just for show, huh? She still feels better using a spider body, hah.
CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!
Her utterly gigantic mechanical body moved across the sands, making the entire desert tremble with immense force and power.
She was a massive foe, although the Heavenly Will was larger.
“RAAAAH!”
She swung her giant blade-like spider legs that she had in her back as well, attempting to impale my body with extreme power and precision.
Unlike the previous form that she had, which only contained the corrupted Set and the undead body of Neferteri, the toughness of her metal has been increased at least tenfold.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
However, it was nothing I couldn’t parry with my bare hands. Or better, with my sword.
“Ngh?! She’s just parrying—ACK!”
As she was trying to attack me with brute force, as I had recommended her before, I parried her blows and then stepped forward, combining my Aura with my Swordsmanship.
Until suddenly, the illusion of a huge snake with eight heads materialized, covered on white and golden scales, and with bright crimson eyes.
I imbued my powers at full, releasing the complete power of a technique I had once used against Mursha in our spar.
Before, I had only summoned eight heads.
However, its true form are eight heads.
“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Blade Arts}: {Heavenly Demonic Eight-Headed Serpent Blade: Yamata-No-Orochi}”
“SHAAAAHHH!”
The titanic snake heads rushed towards the bladed legs, biting them with extreme force and then slicing through their thick metallic material.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
“Aaah! Impossible! You’re…?! How did you summon snakes out of nowhere!”
The spider was annoying without a doubt; she was constantly asking me why I did these things.
It’s quite clear that her experience in battles against powerful foes is near null; she’s a Primal Goddess that has lived for thousands of years being only worshiped.
“This is true swordsmanship.”
“SHYAAAGH!”
The snakes opened their jaws and continued biting and biting the spider mech more, injecting their acidic venom and rapidly beginning to melt or oxidize the metal.
At the same time, I controlled the snake with my sword as I swung it against her; countless slashing attacks hit her body from left and right, leaving behind huge slicing marks but not enough to destroy her.
“You’re very tough, I have to admit it!”
The combination of four Mechanical Gods mass with the Soul of a Primal Goddess and their divine Primal Energy has created an immensely tough body, without a doubt.
However…
If I combine Void Essence and Time Essence with my swordsmanship…
Then!
SLAAASH!
I swung my blade horizontally, releasing a shockwave of black and dark purple energy, slicing through the spider legs at long last and destroying them in the process.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“Ugh!”
It seems that the power of Void, as always, is incredibly strong. However, I was able to quickly notice how the spider legs were beginning to regenerate again.
How annoying.
“Enough with your struggles!”
Her eye shone again as she attempted to destroy me by deleting space where I was flying.
“{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Space Destroying Eye}”
TRUUUM!
Yet, once more, I rejected that.
I punched the empty space as the distortion quickly dissipated.
This was followed by four of the snake heads to rush down, biting and tearing through her metallic armor.
I rushed forward, swinging my sword against her.
I combined Soul Blade with Void Manipulation.
And then, through the Red Heaven Technique, I unleashed an inferno of flames.
Void Flames.
SLAAASH!
As I slashed her, a giant wave of black flames engulfed her arms, burning through them. Anything these flames burned quickly was consumed and turned into nothingness.
“Aaarrggh!”
As the spider screamed, she swung her eight spider legs from her back against me, having fully regenerated them already, and pushed me away with all her force.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“Dammit!”
As she screamed angrily, her other seven eyes began to glow brightly.
“{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Life Absorbing Eye}”
And one of them shone bright emerald in color, as I felt my life force being suddenly siphoned from my body.
“Oh?”
FLUOSH!
“Hahaha! So much life!”
The wounds within her mechanical body rapidly began to regenerate as she absorbed my lifeforce and transferred it to her new avatar.
Interesting ability.
“RAAAH!”
She charged forward, her regenerated fists clashed against my sword, and her spider legs tore through the snakes.
I concentrated my Aura around my body and then released a shockwave, pushing her away from them.
RUMBLE!
“Ugh?!”
The shockwave alone shook her entire body as electricity from my Divine Photon Essence began to course through her body.
However, her body resisted that, quickly maintaining itself alive from my lifeforce.
I had an endless lifeforce as a Venerable beyond Immortals.
Therefore, if I let her absorb it endlessly, she will never die…
“How about I transfer something else then?”
I grasped the rivers of lifeforce she was absorbing and then channeled the power of all my Demons and the Library itself.
This was a Demonic Spell I had read in one of those books.
“What are you…?!”
“{Demonic Energy Transfer}”
Dark red demonic energy surged from my body, contaminating the lifeforce I sent to her and filling her body with destructive energies.
“Uuaaaggh!”
She wasn’t compatible with demonic energy at all, which was completely alien to her own powers, this energy acted like a poison, rapidly beginning to make her entire body explode from the inside out.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“This is a Spell usually used to empower Demons and give them more power as a Demonic Warlock,” I explained. “Interesting how I could use it to damage you, hah!”
“GRAAAHH!”
She quickly opened another of her eyes, which shone with blue light.
“{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Time-Draining Eye}”
FLUOSH!
“Hmh?”
Suddenly, I felt as if my entire body, and my own perception as well, was going incredibly slowly compared to hers.
She moved incredibly quickly, punching me several times and then attempting to impale my body with her spider legs.
Thankfully, I was incredibly tough, and as I used the Blade Physique Technique, every time she tried to hurt me, her hands and legs were sliced instead.
“Aagh! How are you so tough when you’re so small?!”
“So you’re absorbing my time, huh?”
“Ah! Why are you…?!”
“You come with an amazing arsenal of abilities, spider… However.”
I waved my hand, a shockwave of Time Essence was released, and her grip over my own time was destroyed.
And instead, I skipped through time, appearing behind her.
“Impossible! How did you do…?!”
BOOOM!
And a huge fist-shaped hole appeared through her chest.
“{Aeternitas Martial Arts}: {Primordial Divine Sentinel of the Bright Future}”
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