Chapter 2055: Death Pulsar
When Eris noticed that Arad wasn’t going to just die from a simple stab or a solar flare, she decided to go back into wasting energy and throw entire stars at him. As long as she had Amaterasu supplying her with divine magic, she should be able to keep it up.
If she wanted to win, she had to put everything on the line.
The problem with that strategy was that with Arad actively trying to suppress her with his authority over her blood, controlling such a vast amount of power was harder than she could safely manage. An entire star, while it looked easy for her to spawn and hurl away, was, in fact, a deadly, delicate balance.
Eris was already punching far above her weight class, so going further was stepping into a dangerous and deadly territory.
While making a ten-meter ball of plasma wasn’t hard, making an entire star required her to maintain the balance between the star’s gravity and the fusion core at its heart, and any mistake would lead to a massive explosion. This is the reason why she isn’t just summoning two suns at once in this fight right now.
But Arad had shown her something interesting earlier in this fight, it was the way he turned a black hole into a sword. She didn’t know if that was possible or not, but Amaterasu had also shown her before how to compress a star into a suit of armor. So, just how her plasma can take the form of butterfly wings, can’t she just... compress the entire purple sun into a suit of armor and a weapon?
She recently did that and created boots for her crowning ceremony, but those were nowhere as dense as she would need to deal with Arad.
With a faint smile, Eris mumbled as flames started burning from her limbs. "Is it even fair to call you a dragon? Even as a divine, I still can’t seem to jump over you."
To Eris, Arad looked like a titanic great wall that gets taller the higher she jumps, preventing her from ever scaling it. Even with murder twisting fate to get him killed, he refused to die.
She got the authority to do it, she got the power to achieve it, and so all that was needed was for her to outwit Arad. And for that, she had to shift her methods. She won’t use this armor to fight him directly, since it wouldn’t be enough. She would instead use them to hold her own body together to be able to unleash her ultimate attack, like a lifting belt.
A purple dragon is born to a red and a blue draconic parent, so even though she inherited her blood from her father, she still had access to both fire and lightning separately. Those two powers showed clearly out of her purple sun.
The heat generated by the purple sun can generate flames, and the rapidly spinning core of her purple sun also generates a godly electric current, which is the source of her sun’s magnetic field. So, to win against Arad, she would have to use that.
As Eris took a step forward, Arad’s body in front of her started crumbling into dust. The crushing magnetic field emerging from Eris was forcefully ripping all electrons from his atoms, ionizing and breaking their bonds with each other.
"You don’t have the right to stand in front of me with a material body." She stood straight as her body got covered with a suit of compressed plasma armor. She couldn’t directly use the purple sun due to a lack of skill and proficiency, but she could get something usable.
Amaterasu smiled. "Look at her, the little murderous sun is growing. If anyone ever sees a bleeding purple sun in the sky, they should know that it is going to be a very, very bad day."
As Arad’s body was torn apart by the magnetic field, his mother was still watching, and she frowned. "This should be the beginning of the end. She underestimated him too much."
As Arad’s body disappeared, what was left was his black, empty silhouette, still refusing to be filled by anything, not even light.
In his void form, Arad’s entire body gets replaced by his void, and his sheer draconic will keeps it sustained. He becomes immune to all physical attacks and phenomena since he technically doesn’t exist and is made of nothing, and anything that dares get in the space under his control gets erased from existence and digested.
Eris jumped back, and her hair turned into raging flames as she opened her arms and channeled the deadly electric current stored inside her purple sun all at once, causing a titanic lightning storm to emerge around her.
The currents of lightning flashed, each bolt the size of a whole moon, and they all formed a large rail, overcharging everything to its limit. Eris then summoned not one, not two, but three full-sized and unstable purple suns, pulling enough power from Amaterasu to hurt herself.
This one move, she had just improvised by having seen how Denki fights, and she was hoping that it would have enough power and mass to damage Arad in his void form.
To hurt Arad in his void form, there were very few possible options. The first was to damage space directly, and that needs space magic, and the second was to contort time, both of which Eris couldn’t achieve directly.
But what about a single, massive, and fast-moving titanic mass of overcharged plasma and matter? Would it have enough mass to twist the fabric of space?
Eris didn’t need to control it; She didn’t need it to be stable or usable more than once. She needed to push against her own limits and pull something out, even if it would explode in a fraction of a second after forming.
Having seen how Amaterasu works, Eris pulled her three stars together and started forcing them to merge into a single, massive red sun. The moment those three stars merged, and the red sun was born, the crust collapsed down, and it flashed into a supernova. But that red star wasn’t what Eris was aiming for; she wanted what would be born after she murdered her own creation.
The flash was bright enough to drown everything and be seen from everywhere. The gods’ armies who were nearby all looked toward the titanic blast, thinking that Amaterasu was going on a rampage again, and Taurus was sweating, knowing that it was just Arad’s wife going crazy.
"Can he really tame that drakaina? Not even older dragons would dare approach her." By his words, Taurus knew many desperate dragons in the army, and many of them were very powerful. But with how much power Eris was releasing now, he was certain they wouldn’t even dare look toward her.
What came after was a radiant, violent, and rapidly spinning blue star, a Neutron Star the size of a small city, yet holding enough power to shred the fabric of space and bend it like noodles. At this point, Eris’s body was already falling apart, unable to will the star she created to remain stable for even a second.
This Neutron Star was made of compressed atomic nuclei all crushed together into what looked like pasta or lasagna, and it was so dense that the entire mortal world would fit in the size of an apple, and if it were any denser, it would’ve collapsed into a black hole.
From its poles, the star puked a colossal beam of charged particles and radiation like a galactic beacon, ripping anything and everything around it apart as it spun several hundred times a second, pulsing and roaring with enough heat, gravity, and magnetic power that anyone who saw it from afar ran away.
By forming this Neutron Star, Eris now understood further the difference between her and Amaterasu, the endless gap of power between them. Amaterasu is keeping millions, if not billions, of stars even more powerful than this all stable at once without sweating, yet she is almost dying from a small one.
But thanks to this Neutron Star, at this moment, Eris can almost confidently consider herself Arad’s strongest wife. Since this star can bend space and time, not even Linda could survive a direct hit. The only one above her would be Kali, and that woman was on a tier of her own.
Gamond was watching from the private quarter, and seeing the Neutron Star roaring for that fraction of a second, she realized that Eris was no longer a world power capable of destroying a world, but a Solar Power, capable of destroying an entire solar system, if such a classification even exists.
Eris was hiding this for three reasons. She can’t control it. She can’t use it inside the universe, and lastly, a Nyar’s avatar would’ve been the only valid target. So now, she decided to pull against Arad and see how he’ll fare, hoping this won’t kill him too much, because it was already far above what she, as a divine, could survive.
The newborn Neutron Star spun faster and faster, the two ungodly beams of destructive ionized matter coming out of the poles growing stronger, and Eris used every last bit of her will to tilt it and point them toward Arad. The magnetic field she used before helped her as it latched to the neutron star’s magnetic field, and when it fully tilted, it was time for Eris’s strongest, deadliest, and most destructive attack she could muster.
She pulled her will from the neutron star, and instantly, there was nothing to force it to hold its shape. All the compressed matter, that energy, heat, and nuclear stress, was all unleashed at once, all aimed toward Arad in a single, titanic beam of charged particles that moved near the speed of light.
[Secret Art: Death Pulsar]
Or as Arad would’ve named it.
"Fuck everything in that general direction."
