Chapter 148: The demigod Necromancer II [REWRITTEN Chapter]
"...None of it had to do with me."
Arthur summoned Celestia and stabbed the blade into the ground as he continued.
"However, dealing with him, I going to be ’my’ decision."
"You want to kill him?"
"Indeed.
Let’s say we leave and he wipes out Dokpas like he plans to, maybe gains the power to use the law of knowledge in the future and reads the records of the planet like Three just did.
Maybe he finds out why his mother came here and the reason she was killed. With how he is now, he might get some twisted sense of vengeance and want to finish the mission she never accomplished.
Who knows how strong he’d be at that time? Sovereign, Transcendent? Maybe a Deity. Anything Is possible if the right seeds have been sown.
And if there’s anything my little trip to the Crystal Realm last year taught me, it was to nip things like this in the bud."
Lute who had been with Arthur throughout the whole Phirex incident, was completely confused about exactly what Arthur was talking about, as he did not recall the boy being in a situation that taught him that.
"Arthur...your eye is...blue."
Nicole’s words pulled him out of his thoughts and he turned to see Arthur’s left iris had taken on a completely blue hue.
"Ah, I forgot my contacts."
Arthur held up his phone and looked at his face through the selfie camera as he spoke, while Nicole moved closer and asked if he was okay.
"I’m fine. It’s just that, the same way you have a very high talent for Water-related stuff, mine lies with time.
Mine is also too high, to the point where I sometimes see things I don’t wanna.
That happened when I was on Phirex, and the end result was my order for Lewis to take it out to prevent something similar to what I just explained from happening, not just with one person, but many of the survivors."
Without giving anyone a chance to ask him any more questions, the boy turned his gaze back to the Hill in the distance, giving a sideways glance to the soldiers on the walls who were getting ready to defend against the undead hordes about to come charging.
Internally likening the place to the Fields of Asphodel once more, the boy had Lute remove the sound block before speaking to the City Lord.
"You’re opting for a defensive battle?"
"We have no choice. To deal with these numbers, we’d need Area of Effect attacks.
Otherwise, fighting through all of them to get to the Lich at the other end would leave us exhausted and in no state to battle a Lich powerful enough to control these many soldiers."
"If you know what you need, then why don’t you use it?"
"Unfortunately, we do not have many combatants who have attacks with enough AOE."
Arthur looked around and saw that the mage types amongst the combatants here only constituted to a measly 10% of them, so he understood why the City Lord said they did not have enough.
’I’m guessing they simply don’t know that many spells.’
He moved over to where Nicole was consoling one of the water spirits who was lamenting about ’losing its home’. Slinging a hand over her shoulder, he asked.
"Nicole dear, think you can handle this?"
She glanced at the undead horde that now appeared to be falling into some kind of battle formation before nodding.
"Where’s the nearest natural water body in the area?"
Her question towards the City Lord was answered by the spirit she was consoling, who pointed at the Hill while shouting ’behind’.
"...yes. There’s a river behind that hill. An undead mage who controls water has used that river against us before when were broke through the horde and reached the Hill."
The man spoke of this failed attempt with a frown on his face as he recalled the good men he lost to the Undead mage’s attacks.
Receiving her response, Nicole stretched her hand out in that direction and went silent, closing her eyes as she attempted to sense the river.
Upon successfully detecting its exact location, she opened her eyes which lit up with a subtle glow and spoke.
"AquaGenesis: Dominate."
Silence pervaded the area after she spoke, and just when the City Lord was about to ask what she did, Arthur turned towards him and told him to get all the men who were standing in front of the walls to go behind with immediate effect.
This order was certainly very random, but when the ground beneath their feet started shaking, the man figured out the reason why and quickly complied with Arthur’s words.
As soon as the last person went behind the walls, he felt a wave of magic power surge under his feet, down to the walls they had built.
Cracks began to fracture the ground near the walls, and the earth trembled intensely. After a while, the ground gave away and burst open, allowing dozens of high-pressure water pillars to erupt from below and shoot into the sky. These water pillars followed arched trajectories, converging toward the distant hill and intersecting with each other mid-air.
Nicole, in a sweeping motion of her hand, directed the combined mass of water created by the fusion of these numerous high-pressure pillars to cascade like a waterfall. The deluge crashed down onto the landscape, sweeping across the meadows with unrestrained force.
The surging water waves carried immense pressure, obliterating the skeletal soldiers and tearing the undead knights apart, reducing their once formidable bodies to mere fragments.
"The inferior grandmaster undead are still holding on somehow."
"Leave those to me."
Layla replied to Arthur’s words as she snapped her fingers, using her magic power to summon a dozen hover guns in the air.
’I’ve been wanting to test out the full limits of this...seems like 12 is my current limit.’
"Imaginary Armament: Fire."
Each of the guns fired concentrated magical beams, streaking through the air as black flashes of light. These magical projectiles pierced through the skulls of the giant ghouls and undead knights, resulting in multiple magical explosions that continued to take down the undead.
Meanwhile, the seemingly endless waves of water carried the remains of the defeated undead away.
The City Lord looked at all this with a strained expression, especially at the quiet-looking Nicole who was easily summoning the water from a river that was kilometres away, passing it through the ground and sending it forth as a wave that swept away master realm undead with ease.
’Children from beyond the stars, have this kind of power? If she were to turn this wave on Dokpas...’
He shivered involuntarily when he imagined the consequences, and as if Arthur knew his thoughts, the boy turned towards him with a knowing grin.
Nicole flooded the water back to the river, along with the undead swept up by the waves. This was going to render the river unusable for a long time to come, but Arthur offered to purify it with his divinity later.
The boy picked up his sword and twirled the blade around, infusing his silver aura into it as he crouched lightly and spoke.
"You two have had your fun. Now, it’s my turn."
He kicked off the ground and dashed forward at near sonic speed, streaking through the air so fast he appeared to be a flash of light that shot straight towards the hill.
A few seconds later—
**KAAABOOOMMMM!!!!
—the hilltop exploded with a bright flash of light, sending a mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke and flames into the skies.
Seeing this, Layla facepalmed and spoke with a sigh.
"He’s at it again."
"Indeed, he is."
After Nicole voiced her agreement, the two teenage girls unfurled their wings and dashed off right after him.
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When the two girls arrived, they were met with the scene of corpses strewn about on the floor, either bifurcated or shredded to pieces, with residual traces of a very familiar silver aura on them.
Looking forward, they saw Arthur sending forth six black panther-shaped lightning constructs. The six of them all slashed at a tall Death Knight with their claws, before merging together behind it to form one single giant panther.
"GROARRRRRR!!!!!"
It roared loudly before dashing towards the Death Knight with its mouth wide open, tanking the spells of all the other undead mages as it chomped down on the Death Knight and ripped its body in two.
As if that wasn’t enough, the panther construct exploded, causing tendrils of lightning to spread out omnidirectionally, crashing into the undead mages and sending them flying.
Meanwhile, the caster of the spell was running forth, killing undead after undead with his weapon.
With each strike, he weaved through the advancing undead, his blade blurring as he cleaved through their decrepit forms, consigning them back to the land of the dead.
It seemed there was a multi-layered cave formation in the hill, hence the reason why undead emerged from holes in the ground and charged towards him in swarms.
The ground cracked open and a giant ghoul emerged, the aura of an intermediate grandmaster surging outwards, making one feel sick just by being near it.
Just when the arriving City Lord thought Arthur would be surrounded, the boy pivoted, and with a swift, fluid motion, summoned a pillar of radiant silver light on his sword.
’Sword of Victory.’
In one deft strike, the full-powered attack sliced through the towering giant ghoul, bifurcating the monstrosity and sundering its form.
The corpse, disintegrated into a grotesque misty vapour that filled the area, causing what remaining dredges of ’green’ on the hill to turn black instantly.
Arthur was about to charge forward once more when he sensed an Undead Mage lurking behind him, its withered hand extended to cast a spell.
But before it could finish its chant, Arthur turned and swung Celestia, sending a powerful three-pronged Aura slash towards it. The torrent of silver energy manifested in the shape of three talons cut through the air and struck the Undead mage, shattering the forming spell circle, before going on to split the creature itself in three parts.
From the hole, the giant ghoul had emerged from, a grotesque, decaying worm creature slithered into view. It extended its mouth and unleashed a charged beam of ominous, dark-coloured divinity directly at Arthur.
"It’s about time you showed up, isn’t it?!"
Arthur shouted out as he let go of Celestia and took to the skies with his wings. He cupped his palms before his chest, channelling divinity into a condensed orb, which he fired as a beam to intercept the oncoming attack.
However, what could have been an epic battle between two energy beams was quickly one-sided, as Arthur’s divinity overpowered the worm’s, instantly consuming its entire form and terminating its existence.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"
That voice filled with rage from the depths of Hell rang out, as a figure jumped out of the range of the explosion that ensued when Arthur’s attack destroyed the worm undead.
"You don’t really need to know that."
Arthur flapped his wings and charged straight towards the figure He swung Celestia downward, unleashing a slashing attack, but his opponent conjured a staff-like construct infused with divinity to block the strike.
The collision of their attacks sent shockwaves rippling in all directions, causing the ground beneath them to crumble. In a brief but intense moment, their eyes locked, and both combatants assessed each other’s strength.
They backed away a second later, taking distance from each other and landing beside their ’allies’.
"This guy...he’s a Superior Grandmaster."
Arthur revealed the strength of the other person, a boy who appeared to be in his late teens, with grey-eyed and white-coloured hair, an inverse of his dark-coloured divinity.
The City Lord was surprised to find this out, as even he, the strongest fighter of Dokpas was not a superior stage. Even if they had succeeded in breaking through the undead hordes without issue, he doubted they would have been able to deal with the superior grandmaster opponent in front of them, as well as the other undead he could see being summoned from the shadow of the teenager’s feet.
A fully armoured Death Knight rose from the demigod’s shadow, standing nearly two metres tall and wielding two swords emitting a dark mist around them.
"Transference."
With the demigod’s mutter, his body turned into a black mist that was sucked towards the Death Knight, and a second later, the Death Knight’s eyes lit up with an eerie grey light.
Tightening his grip around his swords, the demigod who had entered the Death Knight’s body, shouted out with rage.
"I don’t know who you are, but you’d pay for messing up my plans!"
Immediately, he crossed the two blades in front of each other and swung them forward, releasing a crossed slash of dark divinity that carved through the ground on its way to them.
At the same time, the river behind the hill stirred, with pillars of water surging towards the sky, and the bony-robed figure of an Undead Mage could be seen atop one of them.
"Layla! Nicole!"
"On It!"
Right after Arthur called out, he filled his sword with his silver aura and swung it down, sending forth a Sword of Victory that split the crossed aura slashes in two.
Layla summoned her custom assault rifle and inserted a mag filled with light attributed bullets, before pulling the trigger.
**RATATATATATAT!
The sound of machine guns unleashed a relentless barrage that felled one undead minion after the other, acting as the background music for Nicole’s battle with the Undead Mage.
Along with her group of angry spirits who were annoyed at the mage who took their home and polluted it, she countered all of its dark and black magic spells with ease.
It sent pressurized spears of water towards the girl, but that turned out to be a very big mistake.
’Dominate, Reverse.’
