Chapter 572: Daughter of the Herald
A silver streak tore through the night sky as Selene flew at incredible speed.
Her long blonde hair whipped wildly behind her as ether blazed around her body like a burning aura.
Her lips were curved into an excited, battle-hungry smile.
’Found you.’
Far ahead, a massive golden rift had torn open in the atmosphere.
From it, a figure slowly descended.
He had the appearance of a handsome middle-aged man with flowing crimson hair, radiating an oppressive divine pressure that made the clouds around him churn violently.
The Divinity’s eyes looked at the land below with clear arrogance, searching for suitable believers or targets to begin spreading his faith.
BOOM!
Selene didn’t bother announcing herself.
She accelerated like a silver comet and slammed directly into the Divinity with a powerful kick, her heel crashing against the side of his head.
CRAAAASH!
The impact created a thunderous shockwave that split the clouds for miles.
The Lesser Divinity was sent flying sideways like a meteor, tumbling through the sky before he managed to stabilize himself.
He turned toward her with furious eyes, wiping a small trail of golden ink from the corner of his mouth.
"Who dares-?!"
Selene hovered in the air, casually resting her sword on her shoulder as a confident smirk adorned her face.
"A Divinity sneaking into our world in the middle of the night?" she called out in a mocking voice.
"How rude. Didn’t your mother teach you manners?"
The Lesser Divinity narrowed his eyes and he could feel the powerful energy radiating from her.
"Seems like you are the strongest of this world-"
Selene’s smirk widened "Wrong, I am second strongest. And you’re trespassing on my father’s territory."
Without waiting for a reply, she vanished in a flash of silver light and reappeared right in front of him, swinging her sword in a blindingly fast arc.
CLANG!
The Divinity summoned a golden greatsword just in time to block her strike.
Sparks of divine and ether energy exploded between them as their weapons clashed.
"You insolent mortal!" he snarled, pushing her back with raw divine strength.
"I am Valthor! This world will soon bow to-"
Selene spun in mid-air and delivered a devastating roundhouse kick to his ribs, interrupting his grand speech.
THUD!
Valthor grunted in pain and was forced back several meters.
He immediately counterattacked with a sweeping horizontal slash.
*FEEEN* A wave of golden energy burst from his blade, forming a crescent-shaped arc that tore through the air toward Selene.
Selene twisted her body and dodged the slash, as the attack continued past her and sliced through several clouds, dispersing them into golden mist.
She vanished in a burst of silver light and reappeared directly above him. Her sword came down in a devastating overhead strike.
BOOOM!
Valthor raised his greatsword to block, but the force of her blow drove him downward several dozen meters.
He retaliated by slamming his fist forward, releasing a concentrated beam of conquest energy that exploded right in front of Selene.
She crossed her arms and took the hit head-on, getting blasted backward through the sky.
But before she could stabilize, Valthor appeared behind her in a flash of golden light and delivered a brutal kick to her back.
THUD!
Selene blocked it with her sword but was sent hurtling toward the ground, crashing through several clouds.
Valthor laughed "Foolish girl! No matter how strong you are, you are still just a mortal-"
SWOOSH!
A silver flash shot up from below at terrifying speed. Selene reappeared right in front of him, her eyes glowing with excitement and battle lust.
"Who said I was done?" she grinned.
She feinted high, then dropped low and swept her leg in a powerful spinning kick.
Valthor’s guard broke for a split second. In that opening, Selene drove her silver sword straight into his abdomen.
SHIIING!
The blade pierced through his armor and sank deep into his body, spraying blood into the air.
"ARRRRGHHH!" Valthor screamed in pain.
Selene twisted the sword viciously before pulling it out and kicking him away.
Valthor tumbled through the sky, clutching his bleeding wound.
Selene hovered in the air with a thrilled smile on her lips.
"You dare injure a god, you insignificant-"
Before he could finish, Selene raised her left hand.
BOOM!
An invisible wave of gravitational force slammed into Valthor from above, crushing him downward.
The air around him distorted as gravity multiplied tenfold in an instant.
"Ghh-!" Valthor grunted as his body was forced several hundred meters lower before he stabilized himself with divine power.
Selene didn’t give him a moment to breathe.
She dashed forward and Valthor countered by spreading his arms.
From his body countless chains erupted outward.
They shot toward Selene like serpents, seeking to wrap around her limbs and drain her strength.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Selene spun and slashed with blinding speed, cutting apart several chains mid-air.
But more kept coming. One chain managed to graze her left arm and immediately, she felt a heavy draining sensation.
"Tch-!" Selene clicked her tongue.
The space around her distorted violently as she increased her own gravity output in a localized burst, shattering the chain binding her arm into golden fragments.
"Not bad..."
She vanished in a silver flash and reappeared right in front of Valthor.
SHIIING-!
Valthor barely blocked with his greatsword, but Selene immediately followed up with a gravity-enhanced punch to his chest.
CRACK!
Valthor’s ribcage audibly fractured as he was blasted backward like a cannonball, carving a trench through the clouds.
Selene chased him relentlessly.
"You call yourself a God?" she taunted, appearing above him and stomping down with a gravity-amplified heel drop.
"You’re nothing but a weak invader!"
BOOOM!
Valthor was slammed downward again.
His body began to glow with violent crimson-gold energy.
"You haven’t seen my true form!" he bellowed in a distorting voice as power surged through him.
His body rapidly expanded and muscles swelled as he grew in size.
In seconds, Valthor grew from a tall humanoid into a towering thirty-meter-tall giant.
His crimson hair turned into flames of golden fire, and massive golden chains erupted from his back like wings.
"Behold the True Conqueror! This world will kneel before-"
"I don’t have much time to deal with your bullshit," Selene interrupted coldly.
She gripped her silver sword tighter, "You came to the wrong world, ’God.’"
Without hesitation, she shot forward and Valthor swung his arm, trying to swat her out of the sky.
*screech* The air screamed as his fist descended.
Selene twisted and unleashed a focused gravitational pulse.
CRRRRRACK!
The space around his massive fist warped and crushed inward. His punch slowed dramatically as if moving through thick molasses, giving Selene the perfect opening.
She dashed inside his guard and slashed upward with her silver sword, pouring ether and gravity into the blade.
SHIIIIING-!
The sword carved a deep, glowing wound across Valthor’s enormous chest, letting the blood pour out like a waterfall.
"ARRRRGHHH!" Valthor howled in pain.
He retaliated by slamming both fists downward, creating a massive shockwave of energy.
At the same time, hundreds of chains erupted from his body, lashing out like dragons.
Selene spun rapidly, her sword creating a silver storm that shredded dozens of chains.
"Pathetic," she growled.
She activated her gravity domain and the chains around her screeched as they were crushed under extreme gravitational pressure before exploding into golden dust.
With that, she flew straight up toward Valthor’s face.
"Die."
She raised her sword high and brought it down with all her strength, amplified by multiple layers of gravity.
CRAAAAASH!
The blade sliced deep into Valthor’s left shoulder, severing his arm and blood exploded outward in a torrential spray.
Valthor screamed and tried to grab her with his other hand.
Selene flipped backward in the air, dodging the massive fingers, then used gravity to pull herself forward like a slingshot.
She appeared right in front of his face and drove her sword straight through his left eye.
*SQUEALCH*
"GAAAAAHHHHH!!!"
Valthor’s roar of pain shook the entire sky. He staggered backward, clutching his ruined eye as golden flames of energy leaked from the wound.
Selene leapt high and brought her sword down in a final, devastating overhead strike, pouring every ounce of her gravitational power into the blade.
BOOOOOOOOM!
The silver sword cleaved straight through Valthor’s head, splitting his skull down to his jaw.
A massive explosion of divine energy erupted outward as the Lesser God’s body began to disintegrate.
His body started crumbling into golden particles that scattered into the wind.
Selene hovered in the air and watched coldly as the last remnants of Valthor dissolved into nothingness.
"No god touches my world," she whispered.
The night sky gradually grew quiet again.
Selene twirled her sword once before making it disappear and stretched her arms above her head.
"Now, I go back and get some compliments from my Papa."
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