Chapter 205: Lewis Arrives...
"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 am 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 am very, very, one hundred and ten percent proud of myself. Happy now?"
"This kid, do you even know the reaction other gods would have if they find out what you just did? They’d go crazy!!"
"Sure they will, says the two hundred thousand-year-old god whose wounds have already healed."
Hades looked at his shoulder bone and saw that the wound had already closed up completely without a single scar. His clothes then reformed themselves right before his very eyes and covered up his body.
"Hmm...That happens..."
"Tsk...Leave me alone, I am exhausted. There’s no energy left in my body anymore."
"Of course, there isn’t. You were able to injure me, you know?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..."
Arthur replied as he laid back on the ground. It was at this time that Layla, Esna, Nicole and Edward finally came over with Undine in tow. Or rather, were brought closer by Aurora.
Hades then exclaimed with a look of remembrance on his face and snapped his fingers, next a black haze emitting a sinister aura rose from Arthur’s body causing Nicole and the rest to instinctively back away.
**KYAAAAA!!!!!
Snapping his fingers again, there was a screech like a vengeful spirit’s wail as the black haze dissipated. Seeing this, Arthur couldn’t help but ask.
"What was that?!"
"The curse of the Styx, I really got too heated there huh?"
Hades’ reply left Arthur slack-jawed, he did hear Hades say something about the curse of the Styx but didn’t exactly expect it to happen!
Aurora then dropped down from the sky and looked at Arthur’s body. She noticed the silver blood but decided not to say anything before healing him with her flames of life.
"Thanks."
Arthur voiced out his appreciation as he closed his eyes and lost consciousness. Seeing him, Layla could not help but ask.
"Is he gonna be okay?"
"Aurora’s healing should deal with his physical injuries, after that he just has to wait for his energy to recover. Let’s give him an hour to recover the bare minimum."
She nodded upon seeing the unconscious Arthur. Then there was a sudden awkward silence until Edward finally broke it and addressed the elephant in the room.
"Okay, so what the fuck just happened?"
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"So you got a ’bit’ too excited due to your son’s growth and accidentally released the seal on your strength at the last moment, turning what should have been a mountain divider into a planet buster?"
"That’s about it."
Edward facepalmed after hearing Hades’ explanation for what happened at the end of the father-son duel.
The attack Hades used was one that he would normally only use while fighting against titans and giants, even in its weakened state, it was still powerful enough to cleave mountains in two.
However, upon seeing extreme nothingness and how it was able to damage him, Hades’ control of the attack temporarily slipped and a tiny little piece of the attack’s true power seeped out of it.
The result was the planet bursting mass of energy that he hurriedly redirected into the sky, towards that unknown planet in the distance.
’First time I’m seeing a planet get destroyed so easily. It’s understandable because he’s a high-ranked god but it still doesn’t make sense.’
Edward grabbed his head and thrashed around as he tried to make sense of the earlier scene. For Nicole, although Undine wanted to cover her eyes, she had to let Nicole see so she could understand a bit about the power level Undine wanted her to reach in the future. The sight shocked the shit out of her but Undine constantly used magic to calm her mental state repeatedly.
As for Esna, this was the first time she had ever seen a planet meet its end so she was curled up under some broken rocks trying to comprehend what she just saw.
Meanwhile, Layla was the only relatively okay one among the quartet. She picked up a piece of broken rock and crushed it in her palm while in deep thought.
’I want that kind of power, the power that would let me do what I want without anybody trying to restrict me.
Power to destroy all the schemes and conspiracies of those foolish cousins of mine.’
She dusted her palms and took a deep breath to calm herself. The glow in her eyes receded and looked up towards the sky, where the destroyed planet once was.
She then looked at Arthur and remembered the words he said to her on the day she resumed for their fourth year.
’You have no idea what kind of cheat existence I am. You are different. The fact that you are already an intermediate stage is a feat in itself.’
’Cheat existence huh? Undine called him a ’Progenitor’, I have to find out if it’s really what I think it is.’
Looking at Aurora who was seated atop a nearby pile of rocks, she decided to ask her some questions while waiting for Arthur to wake up and the others to regain themselves.
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"Ugh! My stomach hurts."
"Course it does."
Arthur woke up with a severe pain in his stomach, he voiced out his distress and a voice replied to him. He then opened his eyes to see his head on Layla’s lap, however, the strange thing was that she was piling up rocks on his stomach for some reason.
"Care to explain?"
"Boredom.
Edward and Nicole went back to the spacecraft with Her Majesty, only Esna, I and your dad are still here, he said he had something to show us."
Arthur remembered Hades’ earlier words and pushed the rocks off his stomach before standing up, he did a few stretches before walking over towards Hades who was instructing Esna on a different way to use dark magic.
Before he could talk, he suddenly felt a shadow cover the ground and could not help but look up. A giant hand could be seen stretching from one end of the sky to another.
|Hmm? My lord’s aura is coming from here.|
Next, a massive face almost the same size as the planet Sele could be seen, and the red eyes of the gigantic being gazed down on the planet before closing slowly.
***WHOOOSSHHHHH!!!!
The gigantic being then reduced in size, small enough that he could enter the planet but still Large enough to dwarf mountains.
**DOOMMM!!!
His foot landed on the ground with a loud noise and the earth trembled beneath his feet. Layla couldn’t help but feel cold sweat as she stared at this being, she instinctively moved towards Hades’ position for safety.
With each step the being took, he reduced in size by half, by the time he had walked over to where they stood, he was already as small as an average adult male.
He ignored everyone else and took off the hat on his head, revealing his messy brown hair before walking towards Arthur and dropping to one knee.
"Greetings, My Lord."
Seeing the person who was large enough to hold the planet Sele in his palm a few moments ago, kneel before Arthur and address him as ’lord’ stunned Layla.
Arthur did not notice this and nodded before gesturing for the man, Lewis to rise.
"You still use this uniform, I should get you guys a new one, probably with a raise and a 5 week’s break after we’re done with the spell."
"Your magnanimity is appreciated, my lord."
"Don’t flatter me, I’m simply giving you guys what you deserve. You’ve worked too hard these past few years."
Lewis only bowed his head slightly at Arthur’s words. He then turned to Hades and bowed respectfully. Upon seeing Esna, he tilted his head and asked Arthur.
"Your progeny?"
"Yeah, how can you tell?"
"You mentioned that the one you found had a similar eye colour to mine."
Hearing Lewis’ reply, Arthur looked at him and saw that he and Esna did indeed have the same eye colour. He simply shrugged and asked Lewis about the real reason he came here.
After nodding to Layla as a small greeting, Lewis levitated into the air with his right hand stretched out. Arthur looked around him and wrapped ambient cosmic energy around himself, levitating into the air also.
Seeing this, Hades told Esna and Layla to wait before taking off into the air after the two.
After reaching a certain altitude, Lewis activated his authority.
[Authority of Space: Spatial Isolation - Release]
