Chapter 639: Void Beast (Fixed Chapter)
Alex’s face contorted.
Luther’s voice dropped even lower.
"It it enters our universe fully, it won’t be weakened enough to matter. Perhaps slightly disoriented for the moment, but it’ll still have its full strength."
Alex looked from the rift to Luther again.
"You fought it."
"I delayed it, while trying to escape with your girl." Luther corrected. "Fought implies a cleaner exchange than what happened."
Alex’s respect for Luther grew even deeper now. Luther putting his own life on the line to save Mira was something he’d never forget.
"Do you think we can kill it, if both me and you fought it?"
Luther was an S rank, Alex an A rank. Both were King tier, so surely with both of their strengths combined they might be able to do something?
Especially since Alex’s strength now that he was fully released from the System’s control was far beyond what he had before.
Luther shook his head, to Alex’s dismay.
"No, even if I were at my full strength, the best we might do is delay it long enough for it to get bored and return back where it came from. But if that doesn’t happen... then you should prepare to say your final goodbyes to that girl we risked so much to save."
Alex’s face hardened even more after hearing that.
But their options weren’t all spent just yet.
"What if we had an A tier Divine Class beast of our own fighting by our side? It’s only a new A- rank beast, not on the verge of S tier like that one, but the strength it harbours is still immense." Alex asked.
He wasn’t going to hide anything at this point. He was prepared to bring Brontes out earlier when he first encountered Luther, so nothing was stopping him from doing so now against the even stronger Divine class Void beast.
Luther’s eyes and antennae perked up at Alex’s words.
"Do you truly have a Divine beast on your side?" His tone sounded hopeful, something that rarely ever showed itself from an Awakened of his level.
Alex nodded in confirmation but didn’t say anything more.
’To think I underestimated him even now...’
"Then I think we might have a decent shot!"
Alex didn’t wait for an answer from Luther, though, as he’d already begun summoning Brontes from his taming space.
His bond with the beast stirred instantly.
The space beside Alex distorted a moment later, unaffected even by the chaotic rift just a few dozen metres away from them.
Bronte’s moderate frame stepped through the portal a moment later, stretching into the reaches of Bugonia, even the outside universe as a whole, since the last time he was out in the Primordial Expanse.
For the brieftest moment, everything seemed to fall away as Alex and Brontes exchanged a glance.
"It’s been a while buddy, I know."
A faint smile touched Alex’s lips.
However, it didn’t last for long as Alex transmitted his memories of the events over the past hour to Brontes, letting the Divine beast soak it all in for himself.
"Grrrr..." Brontes growled when it realised its master’s companion had been trappedand was now injured and unconscious.
But even for Brontes’ combined might and power, he wavered slightly when facing the chaotic Void rift opposite them.
Bronte’s Aetherial lightning began to dance across his body in thick arcs. He darted away at thousands of kilometres a second, then his body began to expand at incredible proportions to its original size.
Now that he was back in the outside universe, he was no longer confided to a small body like Alex’s and everyone else and was able to let loose.
In just a matter of seconds, Brontes returned to his planet sized mass, to the shock of Luther and every other being in the Bugonia system who sensed his presence the moment he appeared.
Luther simply stared, forgetting about the approaching imminent threat from the chaotic void rift for a moment.
"This..."
Even he was briefly at a loss for words.
Brontes was only an A- rank Divine Beast.
But the pressure he radiated was monstrous. Tyrannical even. In some ways, even more overwhelming than the Void beast’s approaching aura – because unlike that foreign wrongness, Brontes was a creature of intelligence.
The Void beast meanwhile was just an amalgamation of instincts – not a single thought pass through its thick skull.
His mere existence carried a natural authority that lesser beings could hardly endure.
That was the might of a Divine beast.
Luther’s eyes flicked between Alex and the Divine Beast.
He drew a slow, incredulous breath.
"You truly are full of surprises."
Alex ignored him.
His full focus had already returned to the widening rift.
Brontes, too, now faced it directly.
Through their bond, Alex could feel the Divine Beast’s instincts clearly.
Disgust, aggression, and proteciveness.
But there was a slight feeling of anxiety that transferred across.
’Even Brontes is nervous...’
But his young mind stopped at that.
Unlike an Adult Aetherion, he still had much to develop in the brain department...
Brontes did not understand caution in the same way Alex and Luther might.
He simply understood that a dangerous thing was coming and it wanted to kill his master.
So it had to die.
At that moment, the chaotic void tear convulsed violently as the creature on the other side finally began to show itself.
It was a thing of the same monstrous proportions as Brontes. The rift rapidly grew bigger and bigger, reaching a scale of thousands of kilometres in diameter to accommodate the Void beast’s vast body.
It looked like a mass of shifting flesh and armour that refused to settle into one shape.
Black-grey surfaces rippled over each other like wet hide stretched across too many bones. The thing really did look ghastly. A long spine like structure dragged itself through the rip in reality, barbed with all kinds of jagged hooks and bones.
To Alex, the thing looked like a hellhound ripped straight from the depths of hell.
It was canine in stature, but devoid of any skin, muscle or innards. Just a mass of bones and thin misty black surfaces to cover it. Where its eyes stood, two orbs of grey light glowed.
