Chapter 569: “What are you going to do about the second one?”
|¬Pseudo-Authority of Destruction: ARMAGEDDON! ¬|
Arthur shouted, his voice reverberating with power and the flaming kilometre-wide asteroid plummeted towards the battlefield.
The reaction from the High-Rank angels and Transcendent gods was immediate. They couldn’t afford to stand idle.
They summoned their weapons, brilliant spears of light and divine swords manifesting in their hands, their auras blazing with power.
Waves of light magic surged through the skies as they roused their law energies, unleashing them in a torrent of destructive beams aimed directly at the flaming rock.
The demon generals on the ground watched in a mix of shock and confusion as the asteroid hurtled toward them.
They knew Arthur as their ally, yet the destructive potential of his attack suggested otherwise. It could easily obliterate friend and foe alike.
’Does he intend to sacrifice our forces to crush the gods?!’
Such a question flitted through the heads of the High-Rank demons, and they were ready to aid the Angels in destroying Arthur’s attacks to protect their forces.
It was natural for them to think this way as they had no idea that Arthur, as the Progenitor godslayer, could combine his Progenitor Authority with his Destruction Pseudo-Authority’s Selective Destruction to make his attacks target ONLY entities that possessed divinity.
Anything that did not possess divinity could not be directly harmed by his attacks.
Of course, the collateral shockwaves, the magma, and the crumbling earth that would follow could still harm them, but he had faith in the high-ranked demons to shield their soldiers from all that.
The attacks of the angels and gods cut through the sky like blazing arrows, all converging on this single thousand-metre-wide rock to disintegrate it before it could reach the ground and wreak untold devastation.
But Arthur had foreseen this.
|¬Slow! Detonate! ¬|
He commanded the Laws of Time and Gravity respectively, slowing their attacks and snapping his fingers to detonate the seed of gravity he planted within the asteroid.
The asteroid exploded, not in a burst of fiery destruction, but in a shattering fragmentation. The single, colossal rock transformed into hundreds of smaller, yet no less deadly, fragments.
Each piece still contained the same raw power—destruction energy laced with anti-divinity; a combo designed to obliterate gods on impact.
The sky above the battlefield became a storm of flaming meteors, raining down with terrifying speed.
"Fuck!"
One of the Angel commanders cursed aloud, caught off guard by the sudden shift as he scrambled to react.
They had prepared to neutralize a single target, not a swarm of them. Still, they were experienced Transcendents; they did not falter.
They all redirected their beams, their spears, and their divine magic toward the approaching storm. Blinding arcs of light filled the heavens as they launched counterattacks, each strike aiming to intercept and destroy one of the incoming meteors.
For a moment, it seemed they might succeed.
They obliterated dozens of the meteors, their magic flashing like fireworks against the darkening sky. The air was filled with the thunderous roar of exploding energy as the meteors burst under the barrage, their destruction energies dissipating harmlessly into the atmosphere.
Over half of the meteors were destroyed in this way, reduced to nothing by the concerted efforts of the Level 900s.
But even their immense power had limits.
The sheer number of meteors, coupled with the speed at which they fell, made it impossible to neutralize them all.
One by one, the remaining meteors slipped through the barrage, hurtling toward the ground and the angels could do nothing but watch in horror as the flaming rocks crashed into the earth.
Each impact was a disaster in its own right.
Where a meteor struck, the ground was torn asunder, vast craters forming instantly as the earth shattered and molten rock spewed forth. Arthur’s destruction energy destroyed barriers put up by Sovereigns, crumbling them in seconds.
Shockwaves rippled across the battlefield, sending gods and angels alike tumbling through the air.
The true horror, however, came from the anti-divinity embedded within each meteor.
As the rocks slammed into the ground, the energy within them erupted outward, targeting the ’divines’ as Arthur had instructed.
Demons were completely unharmed by the energy, though many were still wounded by the fragmenting earth.
Hundreds of Divine humans and low-rank gods were caught in the blasts, unable to withstand the concentrated destruction.
Thousands of divines fell in those moments, their lives extinguished in the storm of destruction. The battlefield was plunged into chaos as the surviving divines reeled from the devastating losses.
Arthur hovered above the battlefield, his expression one of cold satisfaction. His plan was unfolding perfectly. The angels and gods were scrambling, desperate to contain the damage, but it was too late.
Was his attack as powerful as a Transcendent’s? Inferior Stages, sure. But Intermediate and Superior Stages could easily do better than this.
However, the type of attack here was key.
Raining down meteors from the sky was Deity-like, and the devastation it had wrought in mere moments was enough to strike fear into even the hearts of those who thought they had seen all war had to offer.
And fear, he knew, was a powerful weapon.
It was only a matter of time before they would turn to the Book of Truth, desperate to expel the Progenitor godslayer who just came out of nowhere and rained meteors before he could bring about even greater ruin.
All Arthur had to do was keep pushing and keep terrifying them until they had no choice but to use it.
Seeing the destruction Arthur caused with his Destruction Pseudo-Authority and the meteor he hauled down from space, the angels were livid.
The gods and divine humans were their allies in this world and other worlds. Some of them were sent by allied god-kings to aid them in resisting the Gozonians in this world and Arthur had just killed thousands of them with his strike.
The angels, their expressions twisted with fury, could hardly contain their outrage. Their wings flared with brilliant light, and the divinity of the gods blazed as they prepared to strike back, to make Arthur pay for the thousands of lives he had so casually erased.
But before they could move, Arthur’s voice rang out again, even more ominous than before, and with a twisted sense of amusement.
|¬ That’s nice. ¬|
He spoke with a sneer, his faux true voice echoing across the battlefield.
|¬But what are you going to do about the second one? ¬|
Inwardly, Arthur couldn’t help but relish the moment he asked that question.
’Damn, I’ve always wanted to use that line!’
Arthur quickly clenched his fist and pulled it down, focusing on his Pseudo-Authority once more.
From the other end of the battlefield, a rumble echoed across the skies and the eyes of the angels widened as they saw the swirling vortex of a gate.
Another Cosmic Gate broke open, and from its depths emerged another asteroid, a bit smaller than the last, but a harbinger of doom all the same.
The Level 900 High-Rank Angels and mid-ranked gods reacted instantly, charging towards the falling asteroid before it could cause the same devastation as the first.
But Arthur was faster. No, he’d simply acted before they did.
Arthur had already sent out the signal to detonate the gravity seed, so the split-second the asteroid emerged from the cosmic gate, it shattered with a violent burst of energy, splitting into hundreds of smaller fragments just as the first had.
The sky was once again filled with a deadly storm of flaming meteors, each one streaking towards the ground with terrifying speed.
The transcendents unleashed their attacks, beams of light and divine energy crisscrossing the sky as they sought to destroy the incoming projectiles.
Shockwaves rippled through the atmosphere as many of the hypersonic-speed meteors were turned to harmless dust before they could reach the ground.
But just as before, they could not stop them all.
Their speed was already hypersonic and Arthur accelerated that speed with Time Magic, so it was too fast for even Transcendents to reach.
The remaining meteors crashed into the battlefield and the earth trembled under the impacts, craters forming as the rocks slammed into the ground.
gods and angels who had survived the first wave found themselves caught in the aftermath of the second, and those still reeling were overwhelmed by the sheer number of meteors raining down upon them.
But as the asteroids rained down with catastrophic force, not all among the divines allowed themselves to be paralyzed by fear and devastation.
Some chose to strike directly at the source of the chaos—Arthur.
A High-Ranked angel blitzed towards Arthur at a speed faster than the boy could even react to, his eyes filled with anger.
Closing the distance, he channelled his magic power into a single blast of pure light magic.
"DISINTEGRATION!"
It was a powerful spell designed to eradicate anything in its path, and the angel unleashed the beam of searing light directly at Arthur, aiming to obliterate him in an instant.
Simultaneously, a Superior Transcendent mid-rank god closed in from the opposite direction. His presence alone was enough to make the air around him crackle with divinity.
Knowing Arthur was a godslayer, he did not use divinity but instead combined his normal magic and aura.
He raised his sword and swung it down after concentrating his energy into a single, massive force that could split the continent into fragments.
***KRAK-BOOOOM!!
Both attacks collided with Arthur at the same time and a massive explosion erupted in the sky, fracturing space itself and creating a gaping hole in the crimson-silver blanket of destruction that Arthur had summoned.
The force of the blast sent shockwaves rippling across the battlefield, shaking the earth below.
Smoke and dust billowed outward, obscuring everything from view as the two transcendent powers clashed with Arthur’s form at the centre.
For a moment, there was only silence, save for the crackling of fractured space and the distant rumble of falling debris.
Surely, he was dead.
There was no guessing game here.
But as the smoke began to clear, Arthur’s figure emerged, floating unscathed.
