Chapter 159: Clash Of Divine Domains
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As the spider thought she finally had me, 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 through one of the techniques I used against the Barbarian God.
“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}”
With this technique, I can skip through time momentarily and deal damage in a time that has been skipped, an attack that simply cannot be dodged no matter what.
However, it consumes large quantities of Time Essence, equal to a Venerable’s Technique despite being from a Skill.
I suppose even my Skills wouldn’t be able to be wielded by other normal people due to how they’ve been adapted to only be used by me.
“A-Ahh…! My… chest?!”
She suddenly vomited dark purple blood from her mechanical mouth. Whatever that was, it might be some sort of liquid that kept her machine body going. I don’t know how much she could modify the Mechanical Gods bodies, but it seemed they had become something biomechanical.
“Orochi!”
“SHYAAAAHH!”
I roared as the eight heads of Orochi manifested once more, surging into the skies and then descending, resembling spears of light and demonic darkness.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
I attacked her from the back, pushing her down into the sands below. She groaned, quickly trying to fight back, her eyes once more activating.
“Don’t think you can just toy with me!” she screamed.
“{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Sunlight Eye}”
FLASH!
Her crimson eye shone brightly, absorbing the endless sunlight of the sun above the desert and then releasing a massive beam of pure concentrated sunlight against me.
BOOOM!
“If my normal tricks won’t do, then I’ll simply destroy you with the brute force you asked so much for! {Dark Purple Sandstorm}!”
She also summoned the power of Set, modifying it with her Divinity to summon dark purple sands as hard as diamonds, which engulfed me in a huge storm, attempting to slice through me.
FLUOSH!
“Not enough…!” She stood up. “{Dark Nether River’s Waters}!”
She summoned the water-bending powers of another of the Mechanical Gods she absorbed, unleashing a gigantic tsunami of dark purple water capable of consuming souls.
SPLASH!
“More… I have to overwhelm her completely!” She kept screaming.
She summoned a massive sword imbued with the power of the Mechanical Gods, swinging it against me several times, attempting to slice through me.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“How about that?!”
After a combo of several attacks, she laughed, gasping for air, smiling at me.
The smoke dissipated, and indeed, that was a bit strong.
“You can manipulate the powers of the Mechanical Gods you absorbed, huh? Not bad.”
However, I was simply unscathed.
“Nooo! Not a single scratch?! How do I even hurt you?!”
“Maybe you’re not trying hard enough?”
“SILENCE!” She screamed.
“{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Magic Sealing Eye}”
TRUUUM!
Suddenly, I felt that all my Mana was sealed instantly by a divine force encompassing me whole. The magic I wielded and that enhanced my original abilities was simply… not there anymore.
“My magic is truly gone!”
“Hahaha! Without that damned Mana, you’re nothing! I should have used that before!”
She jumped towards me, swinging her giant claws and trying to tear through my body.
However, Yamata-No-Orochi remained as I swung my blade upwards.
The Darkness of Yin and the Light of Yang emerged, swirling together with all eight heads, combining into a massive black and gold-scaled snake with a blade-shaped horn.
“But that doesn’t mean I can’t attack anymore.”
SLAAASH!
I swung my blade down at the same time as the gigantic snake I created came rushing towards the spider, hitting her with tremendous force and piercing through her head all the way down.
CRAAASH!
“Uuuaagghh!”
As she was almost sliced into two halves, an explosion of the concentrated energies blew her two halves apart, exploding and scattering her pieces into the entire desert.
BOOOM!
“Aarrgghh…! Y-youuuu!”
However, a second afterwards, the pieces began floating as I noticed dark purple fog wrapping around them and helping them unify together once more.
CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!
“Hahahaha! As long as these parts are fueled with my power, I will regenerate and reconstruct myself endlessly! These “Mechanical Gods,” as you said, are simply superb! And the souls that piloted them are so rich in darkness and resentment! They all hate you the most, woman! They want you dead!”
Her new form, however, was different; taking a snake- and spider-like chimeric form with eight spider legs and dozens of giant snake heads, she tried to imitate my techniques, attacking me with giant, metallic, and sharp jaws coming from every angle.
“I see how it is…”
I quickly started gathering Ki into my entire body and then released it instantly, destroying her Mana Seal over me.
FLASH!
“Then I’ll simply have to utterly destroy you, cockroach.”
I swung my blade several times; a storm of slashing attacks was unleashed, consuming everything within my surroundings in mere seconds.
“{Yin and Yang Harmonious Blade Arts}: {Chaotic Blade Storm}”
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“Nnggaaaggh! Dammit!”
She kept groaning and screaming in frustration as her snake heads were being sliced apart into countless tiny pieces, ultimately exploding into metallic dust before she could regenerate them properly.
“How about this?!”
She combined several snake heads and then filled them with her eyes, activating her eye abilities once more, a dozen times upon me.
Attempting to delete space with me.
Trying to steal my lifeforce.
Absorbing my Time Essence.
Trying to fill me with holes through firing sunlight beams.
And even sealing my Mana.
Not once but a dozen times at once!
Indeed, that was a bit harder to counter immediately; she was figuring out roundabout ways to stop me.
Yet…
Even with all of that.
I am not someone she can toy with!
“Enough.”
With a single word, I made heaven and earth tremble as an invisible shockwave of pure force was released from my body.
Her techniques were instantly disabled, and the pressure alone pushed her entire body down into the ground.
BAAAM!
“G-Graagh?! W-what is that force… that presence?!”
To her, it might feel like Gravity became a thousand times heavier.
This was simply my own Primordial Venerable Authority
It is a "presence,” an invisible "force,” that is released as a sort of pressure.
It is simply the pressure emanated from all of my contained powers.
All of my cultivation, all of my knowledge, all together into this.
“This is the weight of my powers; can you fight me while facing it?”
“I… I… I CAN!”
She suddenly started pushing upwards; her body was being destroyed, yet she constantly regenerated on top of that.
She couldn’t match my level of power, but she could try to break through it with sheer regeneration, a similar trick I’ve seen before with the Primal King.
Indeed, this universe is full of such wonderful opponents.
“GRAAAAHHH!”
Even as my Authority was constantly crushing her body with the pressure of something capable of surviving a black hole, she kept attacking me sluggishly.
Yet she figured out ways to speed up; using her eyes to steal the time of her own minions below and the hunters, she started to speed up, enhancing her speed even as she was being crushed constantly.
“I’ll show you that I am a true Primal Goddess!” Her eight hands gathered together into the shape of a huge spider.
“{Primal Divine Domain}: {Arachnid Realm of Endless Reflections}”
FLUOSH!
In a second, I was swallowed by a Divine Domain several times stronger than any Domain used by the many Gods I’ve fought before.
It was perhaps… a hundred times much bigger, all-encompassing, and stronger. The laws that governed it were like another world… or realm.
“Hahahaha! HAHAHAHAHA!”
The spider’s laughter echoed everywhere all at once, as I found myself wrapped in her white spiderwebs, completely turned into a small prey for her.
The entire “realm” within her domain was made out of spiderwebs that seemed to me made of… glass, endlessly reflecting images.
War, bloodshed, spiders, destruction, laughter, cries, angered screams, people beating each other.
“Welcome to my domain of Endless Reflections!” she laughed. “This is my world. A world I’ve made using Hatred, Disgust, Fear, Sorrow, Frustration, and many other negative emotions!”
“Is that so? It’s quite amusing to see.”
“Hah! Still relaxed?!” she laughed. “That cocky attitude you have will not last a second more when you see this!”
As she walked around the spiderwebs, suddenly, her reflections were multiplied several times, becoming perfect copies of herself.
A handful appeared, followed by dozens, then hundreds everywhere, in every angle.
“Can you handle my reflections with a hundred percent of my power?!”
“Hah… I should give it a go then.”
I smiled as my entire body was covered in golden flames, burning the spiderwebs covering my entire body.
And then…
TRUUUM!
I released my pressure once more, forcing all her copies within my surroundings to kneel and then shatter and explode into pieces.
“Agh, you can still use that power?!”
“There is nothing that can chain me and nothing that can stop me. Among the heavens and the earth, I am known as the only one whose truly free.”
“W-What? Stop talking bullshit!”
She charged against me, resisting the pressure by wrapping herself around spiderwebs; her reflections copied her.
Hundreds of giant spider claws rushed against me, striking me from every angle only to be destroyed instantly or sliced apart.
CLASH! BOOM! CRASH! RUMBLE!
“In that accursed world where I came from, it was always thought that nobody was free from destiny and death,” I said. “No matter how strong you grew, there was always someone stronger! You could always become someone else’s prey, someone else’s toy.”
“SHUT UP!”
“So, the only way for me to be truly free was… by becoming the strongest and destroying anything in my path to power.”
“W-WHAT?!”
“I regret it even now, but it was the only way… I killed… maybe millions of people.”
“H-Huh?”
“There is not a day where I don’t feel the pain of those I’ve slain… Even when they were mostly wicked people… they were still people.”
“…”
She suddenly stopped moving, realizing something was wrong, space around her was being bent around and distorted.
Her Domain was being consumed by another one.
Mine.
“Ah…? Where am I?!”
And out of nowhere, she found herself in a human form, a slender, white-skinned woman with long purple hair and four red eyes.
“Raaarr!”
And there was a group of wolves with golden horns rushing towards her.
“My Domain is my Story. The more I tell you about it, the more it strengthens and manifests itself. incredible right?”
“N-No…! This is impossible! I was just… I was just winning!”
She tried to fight the thunder dogs only to be bitten and massacred.
“Gryyaaaggghh!”
She realized her powers couldn’t be manifested fully; she was as weak as I was when I appeared in Murim.
“Aaagghh!”
She started running as she was missing a whole arm and with her entire body covered in bites.
The dogs gave chase, and then she ended up falling off a cliff, rolling through a plantation of rice.
The farmers appeared, protecting her and chasing away the dogs.
“Hahh.. Hahh… Gey away from me, you filthy monkeys!”
However, instead of acting submissive to them, she screamed, and the villagers looked at one another and ignored her ramblings, leaving her dying on the plantations.
“Ugh… Guugh…!” she started groaning. “Why am I so weak… T-This is not… This is not possible! This is… an illusion!”
“Maybe,” I smiled. “But the damage you’ve taken is real!”
“AARRGGHH!”
She screamed angrily, as I suddenly sensed an outside presence breaking through my Domain.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
Domains are powerful inside; it's hard to break out of them, but when something is trying to break from outside, they’re easier to destroy.
“I FOUND YOU!”
She appeared above the giant crack in the sky, a fusion of her smaller spider robot minions she possessed.
I guessed as much; unless I find her real soul, I cannot completely trap her; she can manifest again outside and destroy my Domain.
Whatever.
I closed my hands as I destroyed my Domain and blew up hers and then her entire body.
BOOOOMM!!
“Nngaaagh…!”
She screamed, falling into the sands again, her body parts trying to regenerate, only to find black flames, Void Fire, covering half her body.
“I won’t let you regenerate anymore,” I smiled. “Void Flames plus my Pressure… I think you’re the first I’ve had to use two of such powerful techniques to handle. You’re truly an annoying cockroach, or should I say spider?”
“A-Ahh…! Hahh…! Y-You’re… you’re unbelievable!” she complained. “Is there even a way to win against you?! …No! It doesn’t matter.”
She smiled, realizing something…
RUMBLE!
Suddenly, a gigantic storm of dark purple sand crystals emerged, encompassing her completely and then giving her a massive, endlessly growing body.
Like Set did, huh?
But that wasn’t all, as she merged with the nether waters as well, becoming an even more tremendous titan.
“I can do this, right! I can do this! HAHAHAHA! I’LL DESTROY YOUR STUPID CITY TO TEACH YOU A LESSON!”
She materialized a massive hand cannon, pointing it at Alejandria.
“If a battle between giants you want, I’ll give you one.”
RUMBLE!
The eight heads of Yamata-No-Orochi merged with my body as I infused myself with the powers of the Demons and my other Elemental and Draconian Abilities and Skills.
Until my body grew to a ridiculous size.
Using my massive hands, I grabbed her cannon before she could shoot and destroyed it.
BOOOM!
“W-What…?!”
“Let’s finish this, shall we?”
My body had changed, becoming a draconian and serpentine demonic giantess, encompassed by radiant crowns of light, and with a long snake-like tail.
“{Primordial Spiritual Body Transformation Arts}: {Heavenly Eight-Headed Serpent Demon Queen: Ibuki-Douji}”
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