Chapter 204: Avyssaléos Exorismós vs Extreme Nothingness
Although Layla tried to resist, Nicole exuded a silent pressure that made her reflexively comply. Aurora’s voice then rang out as she decided to grade them.
"Alright, the lot of you. I am gonna give you a 7/10. And as for the reasons why;
Firstly, none of you noticed that you wasted a lot of energy attacking a clone, while the real me was behind you all along.
Secondly, you Nicole, lose your composure far too easily, one attack on Layla and you disregarded the fact that I was practically in front of you. You did not even realize your spell became unstable when you tried to dash over to her.
Third, you relied on this foolish spirit a bit too much."
"Hey! I’m right here, you know?!"
Aurora ignored Undine’s rant and kept on addressing the mistakes the four made and correcting them. Seeing this, Layla finally remembered that it was supposed to be a training session in the first place.
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When Aurora was done telling them about their mistakes and ways to deal with them, she then teleported them over to the other hemisphere of the planet where Hades and Arthur were.
Undine didn’t return to her mini-sized form, instead, she chose to follow them in her full body form and go over to see Arthur and Hades.
However, upon arriving, they failed to comprehend what they were seeing.
"What the?!"
"How in the hell did this happen?"
The entire area was nothing more than a wasteland at this point, shattered earth, dried-up rivers, and cracked mountains.
It did not look like what a place where just two people were ’training’ should look like.
***HUMMMMM!!!
They then heard a loud humming sound before sensing an absurd amount of energy building up in the sky. Looking up to see the source, they were met with a very nonsensical scene.
"Is Arthur really in our generation?"
The clouds parted open and something that could only be described as a giant red laser, one filled with the essence of the law of destruction and strengthened by cosmic energy, dropped down from the sky diagonally.
****BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
As the laser landed, they felt the ground shake, saw the sky shake, and felt themselves shaking. Aurora created a barrier to protect them from the shockwaves that were released as a result of the laser’s collision with the ground.
Correction, collision with Hades’ sword.
|And this! Is how you parry a beam attack.!|
A true voice rang out as the young quartet couldn’t help but reflexively cover their ears because of it. Nevertheless, they did not miss the scene of the red laser getting reflected towards a different part of the sky.
"Just what is he teaching the boy?!"
Undine couldn’t help but shout out after seeing the nonsensical feat Hades just pulled, unfortunately, that was far from the end of it.
The laser’s intensity reduced until it dispersed completely, however, they felt another huge amount of energy building up from the ground this time.
|Try this one on for size. Use the sword spin technique I taught you!|
Aurora protected the quartet from the side effects of hearing Hades’ true voice as she saw multiple gigantic spears of darkness manifest mid-air and launch themselves towards the hole in the clouds the laser dropped from.
***SHINNGGG!!!!
However, right before the spears reached that hole, there was a sound, the kind two blades rubbed together would make.
Then a silver line ran through all the spears of darkness simultaneously, the next second, they exploded with a burst of black flames.
From amidst the explosion, a figure dashed out leaving a trail of silver behind it, the ground trembled as another figure shot into the air leaving a trail of black light behind it.
The two figures clashed, resulting in another explosion in mid-air.
***KABOOOMMM!!!
Suddenly, a fierce wind blew, clearing the smoke from the explosion and revealing the two culprits of all this destruction.
|¬Woohooo!!!¬B-being "sub cos"|mic roc¬|ks’!¬"
A cracked faux true voice rang out as the two figures descended to the ground.
|Hmm? It seems the others are done.|
"¬R-real¬y?¬|
|Yeah, so let’s end this shall we.|
|¬No-p¬robmem! I-m’ also R¬unning| o"ut of en~ergy¬|
The two speakers, Hades and Arthur landed on the ground and stared at each other in silence for a moment. The next, their auras suddenly spiked, causing the air around them to tremble and the ground beneath their feet to crack.
[Authority of the Progenitor Godslayer]
[Authority of Darkness]
Hearing Arthur’s words, Undine’s eyes widened as she voiced out her confirmation of Arthur’s identity.
"I knew it! He was a progenitor!"
Aurora on the other hand, inadvertently glanced at Hades and instantly sensed something wrong. She didn’t hesitate to cover the quartet beside her with her magic before jumping back into the air.
Hades took a stance with his dominant foot out forward and his other foot backwards, his sword rose above his head, and all emotions in his voice disappeared as he began to chant.
Arthur took a deep breath and took a stance with his free arm stretched forward and his sword arm pulled back, the cracking faux true voice suddenly becoming clear as he began to chant.
|Know the mercy of the King of the Underworld.|
|¬The power of time shall accelerate.¬|
|With this single strike, I shall send you to the deepest reaches of Tartarus.|
|¬And destruction shall end your very existence.¬|
**BOOM!
**BOOM!
The two simultaneously kicked off the ground, shattering the sound barrier with their first steps and blitzing towards each other with trails of light following behind them.
|Be cursed by the Styx! : Avyssaléos Exorismós!|
|¬Be reduced to Nothing! : Extreme Nothingness!¬|
Hades swung down with his sword coated in deep darkness while Arthur thrust his sword covered in purple light forward to meet his blade.
The end result of the collision was blinding to look at.
Even Aurora and Undine couldn’t help but cover their eyes due to the bright flash of light.
However, that flash was only for a second.
The Next;
***WOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
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*****KKAAAAAAAAAABBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was the largest explosion of the day.
Any onlookers would have to take a step back and look multiple times due to the sheer grandness of it.
From the sound alone, one would think the world was ending. However, it seemed that planet Sele would live to die another day.
***RUUUUMMMMBLLLLEEEEE!!!!!
All the energy from the explosion was suddenly redirected towards the sky. It then burst out of the planet’s atmosphere into space but kept on going until the mass of energy crashed into another uninhabited planet.
**BOOOMM!!
Since the explosion was in space, the sound could not be heard clearly from the ground but the sight of a planet bursting into pieces was ingrained in the minds of everyone present.
The planet was just that large and the explosion was just that bright!
Hades rose his hand and a thin layer of darkness covered Sele, preventing it from suffering the after-effects of a large planet in its star system suddenly getting destroyed.
The broken pieces of the destroyed planet fell as meteors towards Sele but the barrier of darkness blocked them all.
After a few minutes, when there was nothing left as the planet had been consigned to oblivion, Hades released the barrier of darkness and stared at Arthur who was on the cracked earth a few feet away from him.
"Hahahahahahahaha!!!!"
Arthur burst out into laughter even though he was coughing out silver blood due to his internal injuries, he still kept on laughing.
"Really boy?!"
Hades couldn’t help but shout out loud at Arthur’s attitude. Arthur forced himself to sit up and licked the blood off his lips before shouting back.
"Are you kidding me?! That was my strongest attack, I even had it modified and added both anti-divinity and cosmic energy into it and look what it did to you!!"
He then pointed at where Hades’ left collarbone was supposed to be and continued.
"That!
Just That!
Only That!"
Where Hades’ left collarbone, scapula and shoulder blades were supposed to be, there was a giant hole there instead, courtesy of Arthur’s full-powered Extreme Nothingness.
A few of his ribs and a piece of his neck were also taken out in the attack as golden blood flowed endlessly from the wound.
Hades retorted to Arthur immediately.
"What?! Boy! Do you understand that you are just a fifteen-year-old superior stage grandmaster? One who can use the powers of three laws!!
Not one or two but three!!! And they’re difficult laws to use like time and destruction!!
I’m a fucking two hundred thousand-year-old god and you were able to damage my physical body, even if you had to use your progenitor authority alongside your anti-divinity and cosmic energy to do so.
You should be proud of your achievement!!"
Arthur rolled his eyes after hearing Hades’ words before replying, his tone dripping with sarcasm.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m very, very, one hundred and ten percent proud of myself. Happy now?"
