"Now," Cassius continued as his expression frosted over, Lilith and Mora's copies flaring ludicrous amounts of energy by his sides, "let's get this over with already. You've been chasing for nearly a week, so I assu you're just as ready to conclude this farce as I am. That is unless you wish to destroy more of the Cloud Worlds that you protect?"
The Harpy Deity stared, unblinking. It then spoke a few cryptic words in an indecipherable language before brandishing its 5-foot-long high-ranking sapphire-colored spear.
The Harpy Deity thrust forward with its spear, crossing a distance of thousands of miles in an instant. The spear's tip made contact with Cassius's left arm, imdiately reducing the arm to cinders. Yet, with his right arm, Cassius grabbed hold of the spear before the Harpy Deity could pull it back.
Leaning closer to the Harpy Deity, Cassius let his right hand bleed because of the sapphire spear.
"Do you know why we're different?" he whispered, his veins bulging and his hold on the spear tightening. "What differentiates us the most is neither our appearances nor the way we carry ourselves. No, what makes so different from you… is that you've lived as a God-like being for far too long. None could compare to you, and because of that, you've beco rusty. Not only that, your resistance to pain has lessened."
In the spot where Cassius's arm once was, a blue fire appeared. The fire quickly expanded from a tiny blue spark to a giant mass of raging flas.
"I, on the other hand, am used to pain," he said. "I'm used to everyone being stronger than I am. I'm used to fighting uphill battles."
"!!!"
The Harpy Deity—sensing a large amount of danger from that blue fla—gave up on trying to retrieve its spear. It attempted to retreat yet almost imdiately realized that retreat was impossible.
Cassius's right hand—the one that had been holding on to the sapphire spear—forcefully pierced itself into the spear. His hand was then ripped open, followed by his arm. The sapphire spear now extended several feet behind his shoulder, having pierced all the way through.
Because of this crazy action of his, Cassius was able to grab onto the Harpy Deity with whatever bloody ss remained of his right hand. Now, the Harpy Deity was stuck in place. And although it hacked away at his hand without delay, it didn't have anywhere near enough ti to destroy the hand.
"I'll show you right now—the difference that separates and you by a chasm," Cassius said, with his left arm having been replaced by a massive fiery blue cannon 20 tis his size. "If you can survive this, then you'll live on for the sole purpose of fighting again. But if you can't…"
Feeling a sense of danger far greater than before, the Harpy Deity tried doing sothing similar to what Cassius did. It went to slice off a chunk of its body, but it held back at the last mont.
That was the Harpy Deity's one and only chance to turn things around in its favor. And it… failed.
Cassius's emotionless expression did not change as he unleashed a huge blast of fire from his arm cannon. However, within the dilated pupils of the Harpy Deity, it saw a wide, sadistic smirk that practically scread, "What did I say? We are different. Bred different, lived different, built different."
"!!!!"
KA—BOOOOOM!!!
An enormous eruption of Azura Flas shot out of Cassius's arm cannon, with the initial fires engulfing everything in an instant. The Harpy Deity—being no exception—was swallowed by the flas, its eyes reflecting the horror coursing through it.
Zooming out, the Azura Flas grew larger and larger, with the cannon shot becoming more of a world destroyer. Hundreds of continent-sized Cloud Worlds were vaporized on the spot, with all of their essence automatically absorbed and refined by the flas.
If one panned the cara even further out, it looked like the mighty fire breath of an unbelievably powerful dragon was left to wreak havoc across the Cloud Dinsion. Billions of lives were lost in a nanosecond, having died without getting out even the quietest of screams.
— After the residual energies of the Azura Fla Burst Cannon attack dispersed —
"Do you finally realize the difference between you and I?" Cassius asked, more than 70% of his body gone. "You weren't willing to do what needed to be done. I, however, did what…"
Before he could finish his words, his consciousness faded.
He died.
Yet, he was not the only one who had perished, as not even the Harpy Deity's ashes were left after being hit head-on by one of the Azura Fla's most powerful forms. What Cassius had been talking to was no more than particles blowing in the cinder-filled wind.
OOOM!
After a couple of milliseconds, Cassius's body reford.
He had returned to the world of the living.
However, even after experiencing sothing that most other beings only experience one ti in their lives, Cassius remained indifferent to the whole ordeal. He didn't even so much as flinch, with his attention upon rebirth being promptly directed toward the System Notifications flashing in front of him.
*Ding!*
[You have killed the Harpy Deity—the Original God and Guardian of 'Cloudia'!]
[Experience Bar trendously moved!]
[You have erased more than 90% of the Dinsion's population as well as the Harpy Deity, thus completing the Platform's Challenge!]
[You have obtained 9,820,000,000 Class Points, bringing your total Class Point amount to 11,100,700,000!]
[Challenge 4377 Completed!]
[Good job getting this far, dear Host! You're around a tenth of the way finished with the Platforms! Only a bit more to go and you'll make it to the finish line!]
The Idle Evolution System was more than enough to bring anybody to a ntal hospital ward, and Cassius wasn't too far off…
With a sigh verging on collapse, he growled, "Just get on with it. I don't have all day."
[Why, of course you do! You have whatever amount of days is left from your original 100-year deadline! Plenty of ti, I'd say! Probably…]
"...What was that last part for?" Cassius asked, his whole face twitching. "Why'd you say it like that?"
[Well, it wasn't like I made any proper calculations before setting that deadline or anything! Hehe~]
Cassius: "...."
[Fine, fine, just leave already. Stop looking at like that… It's scary…]
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