Chapter 902 God of Sea VS Devil of Water
From the start, there wasn't much conversation that happened between Sona and Aruna, a God of the Sea.
While the other two battlefields immediately developed and easily reached their endings, Sona and, a young-looking God with long white hair and a priestly garb draped on his body, Aruna just stared at each other without a word said with the sea below them constantly forming into creatures and tearing each other apart.
While Sona's creatures were mammals, reptiles, and bird-based, Aruna's creatures were made out of invertebrates, fishes, and amphibians. Aside from that, the other obvious indicator that they were from the different sides was that Aruna's army has a gold-tinted light within them while Sona's army was darker overall.
It would have been a bloody and nauseating battle where none could be left if these were real. Instead, it became a battle of attrition over dominance and control.
Sona had stopped holding back and released the full capabilities of her Demonic Power that had been silently growing larger and purer. Even Sona herself was shocked to realize that her Demonic Power had reached this degree, 'Most of the time, I construct my own Magic Circle and even if I use my Demonic Power, it's only to a tiny degree. I wonder what else could have caused this?'
If she could only conjure and control one 'Leviathan' before, she could bring out six of these pseudo-Dragon King-level water serpents. Not to mention, her army had also grown several times compared to before as a direct consequence of her increased Demonic Power. If this was in her previous world, she'd be able to take out numerous cloned Evil Dragons by herself, given that there's a large body of water near her.
But even with all of that, Sona's army was still outnumbered by the enemy soldiers.
The one who's slowly losing their patience, however, was Aruna. As even though he had a definite advantage in the quantity and the quality of these water creatures seems to be overall the same, he couldn't take any space from Sona even after a few minutes, 'What's going on? Why can't I break through her defenses?' Aruna thought with a frown on his face.
Unbeknownst to him, Sona was making full use of each and every creature she had so even though he had the advantage, Sona was better at commanding her army, 'So there can be such stark differences between Gods. If I was against Freya-sama right now, I couldn't have done anything to prevent the annihilation of my army.'
"That's pretty impressive.", Freya muttered to herself.
"Hmph! My Finn could do the same thing if he's on the same footing!" Loki crossed her arms and defended her own 'commander'.
Takemikazuchi chuckled at Loki's remark, "There's a limit on how much one can rely on their instincts, though? Even if that thumb of his is a miracle, not everything can be predicted."
Loki became silent. While it's true that Finn's thumb was incredibly useful, any dependance on it would only result in him passively responding to everything. Any competent fighter on a Deity's level will want to create an opportunity themselves instead of waiting for one. And that's what Sona was currently doing, creating numerous opportunities for her to bite back.
After the long silence, Aruna couldn't contain himself anymore, "Who are you?... No, the better question is, what are you?" he asked while looking at four pairs of bat-like wings behind Sona, "A monster of the Dungeon? I didn't think we'd get a response this fast."
"I don't really have any responsibility to satisfy your curiosity, but let's just say that everything would be solved if you could defeat me." Sona responded with a curt tone, "Though it seems that you're pretty hands off with your own Familia, seeing that you don't even recognize my face."
Aruna's frown has grown deeper and asked himself, 'She was already on the surface before all of this? Did the Dungeon anticipate what we're about to do?'
His thought process couldn't leave the Dungeon behind, otherwise, there would be no way for him to explain this impossibility that's happening in front of him.
Aruna sighed exasperatedly before a flamberg appeared on his left hand silently, "You are absolutely right. After dicing you up into pieces, the situation should improve even if it's not resolved."
"My~" Sona fixed her glasses with a small smile, "What a gruesome picture. Very contrasting to the image you're trying to portray. Well, it's as much as I would've expected from someone who leads that kind of Familia and even sacrifices his own children just so he could get a taste of power in the Lower World."
Aruna didn't have any comments about that and he didn't really have to deny it. He just swung his flamberg upwards and several 50-meter tall and sharp waves of water emerged from the ocean and cleaved through everything in their path.
Sona directed some of her Leviathans towards them but they were also easily sliced into pieces before dropping down as normal water.
Sona was surprised by the power behind them and immediately flew up to avoid these towering blades. However, Aruna swung his flamberg once again and those blades broke into innumerable pieces before they launched themselves towards the fleeing Sona in the form of small knives.
Sona clicked her tongue and took out her Soul Gear, a blue halberd. As she swung it horizontally, a sphere of water instantly appeared around her and blocked the blades. Although some of them almost went through, the knives that had been rendered useless were taken over and were used as an additional layer of defense for the sphere.
At some point, the knives that were assaulting her all around only served to strengthen Sona's barrier.
Aruna, of course, tried taking back control but found that his knives had been fully dominated and that didn't sit right in him. As a prideful God and a God of the Sea, he didn't like seeing his own attributes taken over. Even then, Aruna remained calm and observed Sona, 'As expected of the Dungeon's unique monster that could even go against a God. Her authority over water is almost on par with mine and she even has something equivalent to a Divine Weapon. Looks like Chaos wasn't lying when he claimed that the Dungeon is dangerous.'
'But then, it makes me wonder more why he insisted that only mortals could take care of it. It's very clear that it's beyond their level and no hero or group of heroes could ever match it.'
Aruna didn't want to waste any more time and dropped his flamberg into the sea below.
Seeing this, Sona hurriedly dispelled her water barrier and threw her halberd towards the sea too after guessing his intentions.
Sona's halberd reached the surface of the water first and the moment it was submerged, it dissolved itself before a large hundred-meter-wide Magic Circle formed from where it dissolved.
At that moment, Aruna's flamberg also reached the sea, it also dissolved. But instead of a Magic Circle, the sea shone with soft golden light as far as the eye could see and only the part of the sea where Sona's Magic Circle is was unaffected.
"I don't know if this was intentional or not, but the Dungeon has chosen the wrong place to antagonize me, for I am the sea itself. In this world where there's only the sea that exists, I am the world and this is my absolute dominion."
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