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Within the shores of the Demon Continent, a giant ghost ship slowly began to leap out of the oceans and fly above the skies…
"Guuuuoooooonnn…!"
It was no one else than Wellerman, after evolving through the time skip, it had become a monster comparable to a Divine Beast, it possessed an enormous size, probably being around 70 meters big, with many rooms inside, packed up with phantasmal cannons, and powerful magic as well.
An army of skeleton pirates commanded it from its surface, chanting and releasing an eerie atmosphere that also contained some divine energy… all these pirates had fused with the soul of Wellerman alongside the captain but remained their egos as they gained great power.
After staying for so long inside the divine realm, they were finally given the chance to explore the vast oceans, and had many adventures along the way! However, now it was finally time to reach the destiny that Ervas and Veronica had been chasing this whole time, the Demon Continent!
And over Wellerman, Veronica and Ervas stood watching over the large continent from the skies. Now that Wellerman gained the Air Swimming Skill, it was able to easily travel through the skies!
"Phew, we finally got here… And it looks… Quite desolate. Hey, is that a dungeon?" asked Veronica.
"Yes, there are multiple dungeons spread around… Several deserts, a forest filled with mist, swamps, and there is a volcano over there erupting with blood," said Ervas.
"Wait, blood?!" asked Veronica in surprise.
The scenery of the Demon Continent was truly the definition of Chaos!
Aurora, formerly known as Kireina's clone, emerged at their side.
"Oh! Damn, this please is really something," said Aurora.
"Aurora-chan! Yep, look at this… Haha…" sighed Veronica.
"It seems that this place is filled with miasma, which makes it a comfortable place for Beast-kin and Demons to live in, but it also makes it hard for other species to live in here. Well, not us," said Ervas.
It seemed that the Demon Continent had changed its landscape so much because of all the miasma it had, which caused even mutations in the landscape and created all sorts of scenarios, and even more, countless dungeons spread all around, filling the place with monsters.
"I guess the people in here gotta be tough to survive," said Veronica.
"Indeed, it seems that the people of this continent are naturally gifted with more strength, perhaps being aided by the Dark Gods also comes into consideration," said Ervas.
The group continued to travel through the skies as a sudden wave of darkness emerged from all around.
BOOM!
Ervas and Veronica were, however, very calm.
Another second after, several pillars of phantasmal energy erected from the ground, connecting with each other into an enormous dome of phantasmal darkness.
WHAAAM!
"What is this?" asked Aurora.
"A Dark and Death Formation, only talented users of these elements could erect one…" said Ervas.
"Meaning… Yeah, this guy is in here too. If the System Master spread his soul fragments all around and gifted them to the Demon Gods here…" said Veronica.
"Then that means that the Necromancer's soul pieces had come here to kill us by using the parasitized bodies of many other Demon Gods they found along the way," said Ervas.
"Oh… Well, you already knew about it?" asked Aurora.
FLASH!
As the giant formation was erected, the entire Wellerman and all the people on it were trapped in this divine formation.
Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash!
Suddenly, over a dozen of different Demon Gods appeared, some resembled a mass of red tentacles, others a large wolf made of shadows, another looked like a mass of vines, and so on…
But they were not really right on their mind, in fact, there was another mind consuming and assimilating their minds, someone sinister, even more than these Demon Gods themselves!
And this mind was… No one else than the former residual mind of the Demon God King that had given birth to the Necromancer, this entity that they had fought long ago…
It had somehow survived, and the System Master picked it up when it came to aid Hekaton. The split souls learned of this because they got Hekaton's memories, of course.
The System Master did a lot of things with this soul, it replicated it, used Hekaton's power to make it stronger, it tamed and brainwashed it to become obedient and do as it was ordered, and it was given a lot of powers too, some even got Cheat Abilities…
But most of these split souls were sent here, of course.
Why? Because the System Master knew that this was the perfect place to get enough soldiers! It carefully gifted most of the demon gods it could find with these split souls, and each and everyone got parasitized and became another version of the Necromancer…
Naturally, they used the Cheat Abilities they were given alongside their development of death magic and gathered together for the sole purpose of waiting for the split souls to get here so they could crush them.
All the Demon Gods exuded enormous auras, if they had come here earlier when they were not as strong, this fight might have been one where they would have not been able to survive. The power of these gods was simply very immense, they didn't even compare with the other demon gods they had fought.
Within such a deadly army, a Demon God that resembled a humanoid demon with red skin and covered in spikes of steel coated in flames emerged and began to laugh maniacally.
"Gahahahahah! HAHAHAHAHA! It is done! We had done it! It is over for you! We gathered here and worked so hard for this day… And finally, you've walked right into our trap, just as planned!" it laughed, raising a Spatial Blade.
The other Gods also began to laugh eerily, even Aurora felt a bit disgusted by them.
"Uegh, they give me goosebumps. Just how clueless they are?" she sighed.
"Hahaha! It is over!"
"Let's kill them and absorb their powers!"
"Finally, at long last!"
"Those Dark gods were so annoying, a good thing we managed to escape from them and now we can get our job done!"
However, the split souls glanced at them expressionlessly…
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