Artes' grin widened as he observed the mortal before him. "You're intriguing, I'll give you that. But don't mistake my interest for leniency." His tone was calm yet filled with nace as the Nine Heavenly Moons spiraled behind him, gathering energy so imnse it dimd the very Sun, bathing the world in their blinding luster.
The chaotic motion of the moons intensified, the power surging into his Nine Heavenly Moon Sword, which glowed brighter, almost unbearable to behold.
"You survived once, but let's see how long you can endure."
With a flick of his wrist, Artes unleashed another wave of slashes. This ti, they roared through space like divine judgnts, their force splitting the air, leaving behind trails of obliterated matter in their wake.
Aengus, hovering in his draconic form, grimaced. He could feel the colossal energy radiating toward him, each slash easily twice as powerful as before. His soul, already strained from devouring the last attacks, warned him of the risks.
"If I try to devour them all, my soul won't survive," Aengus muttered to himself. But he couldn't back down. He only needed one. Just one attack absorbed into his Omni-Devour to tip him over the edge and reach the coveted level 1,000.
Summoning every ounce of his will, Aengus opened Omni-Devour once more.
"Co!" he roared, the black void spiraling to life with a ferocity that matched the incoming assault.
The first slash hit.
"GULP!"
The black hole consud it, but Aengus shuddered, his soul groaning under the imnse strain.
The second slash was incoming, burning brighter, faster, deadlier.
Aengus roared again, breaking the devouring skill just in ti to maneuver his titanic fra out of the path. The slash tore through the space he'd just vacated, carving a canyon into the world below.
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The final slash ca, streaking toward him like a sharp divine teor.
Aengus charged forward, attempting to escape, but he couldn't avoid it this ti. His massive dragon body was hit directly by the radiant slash, striking just below the waist.
Aengus' lower body—legs and tail—was severed cleanly, and his colossal form crashed into the ground once more.
"Boom!"
As Aengus lay amidst the debris of the crater, he felt the excruciating pain and the rapid blood loss. The massive pool of blood created a lake spanning kiloters, because of the scale of his dragon form. It quickly subrged him in the blood pool. Yet, despite the agonizing wounds, Aengus refused to scream.
His upper body still subrged began to shrink, reverting to a smaller, humanoid dragon hybrid form. anwhile, his severed lower body floated lifelessly in the big, blood-red lake above.
"Haha..."
Artes grinned wickedly, his eyes gleaming with triumph as he stood over the fallen mortal.
"You shouldn't have picked a fight with the gods, mortal. If you'd been obedient, you wouldn't have to die so early—at least, not yet." He shook his head mockingly, pretending to lant the situation.
"It's a sha I couldn't bring you alive to Her Excellency, as she ordered." Artes sighed with feigned sadness, but the tone of superiority in his voice was unmistakable. "Oh well, I suppose your dead body will suffice."
He smirked, his divine aura intensifying as he prepared to claim his prize.
However, Aengus wasn't dead. His Immortal Regeneration (SS) skill kept him alive like an indomitable force, repairing his shattered body at a miraculous pace. His mind remained fully conscious, keenly aware of every mont.
As his lower body began to regenerate, his eyes locked onto his level: 1000.
Finally, the ti had co. To use the Divine Stone.
But before he could wield its incredible power, he needed to make a critical decision: Which skill should be upgraded to SSS Rank?
Ti was slipping away, and Aengus's brain kicked into overdrive. With Manas amplifying his cognitive abilities, the outside world slowed to a crawl, each second feeling like an eternity. In his hyper-enhanced perception, he noticed Artes walking on the surface of the blood lake, oblivious to the transformation brewing beneath him.
"Master, please—you must choose a skill now!" Manas urged, desperation in its voice.
"I know..." Aengus responded, his voice calm but resolute.
Aengus quickly initiated the Synthesis Process, combining all his most destructive SS skills into one ultimate ability. He focused on pure offensive power, knowing that his survival hinged on his ability to unleash devastating attacks against a god.
As the skills rged, a surge of creation and destruction began on his Soul. The chosen path was clear. Aengus would create a being of absolute destruction.
Synthesize: [ Abyssal Blazing Dragon (SS) Primordial Beast King (SS) Solar Flare Do (SS) Fire Dragon King Transformation (SS) Fla Lord's Domain (SS) Thunderstorm Manipulation (SS) Storm-Bringer Kraken Transformation (SS) Chaotic Maelstrom (SS) teor Breaker (SS) Crimson Tempest (SS) Apocalypse Awakening (SS) Thunderstorm Manipulation (SS) Voidbreaker Slash (SS) Oblivion Horizon Slash (SS) God Kairos Doom Fusion (SS) World Corrosive Venom (SS) Seven Elents Chaos Manipulation (SS) World Corrosive Venom (SS) Dinsion Slip (SS) Reflective Scales (SS) Ice breath (A) Lightning Roc's Skybreaker Dive (A) Golden Wyvern's Scales (A) Elite Human Transformation -29 (A) Inferno Warlord's Rage (B) Ravenous Stonebeast (B) Arctic Bear's Glacial Shield (B) Aqua Serpent's Vortex (B) Phantom Mirage (B), Hurricane Gale (B) Unlimited Bloodlust Shadow Monarch's Dominion Void Cloak Fiendish Dream Weaver Scorching Wrath Hellfire Nova Death Spiral Eternal Damnation Black Fla Judgent Incubus Drive Avarice's Grasp Hell's Gate Cage of Tornt Moloch's Stampede Abyssal Armor Fiendish Resilience Wings of Perdition Fiend Regeneration Hellstorm Shadow Bind, Call of the Abyss Demonic Dominion Blood Lord ]
[ Your Synthesis was successful. ]
[ Your skills have been synthesized, but due to world limitations, its effects has been suppressed to SS Rank. ]
[ Synthesized Skill: World-Destroying Chaos Monarch. ]
Class: SS Tier Entity
Nature: All Elental Chaos Overlord, embodying absolute destruction, manipulation, and creation of catastrophic forces.
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"Still SS, huh?" Aengus muttered with amusent.
"World limitations?" He scoffed at the absurdity.
Still he combined almost every destructive skills and abilities to increase the potential of his ascension to SSS Rank after using the Divine Stone.
"Just you wait... Once I shed these limitations, nothing can stop ..."
Aengus said with suppressed fury as he took the Divine Stone, which illuminated the blood-red lake where Aengus was subrged in hot blood.
Without any second though, he put it inside his mouth with cold resolve.
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"What's that?"
"This....No, this cannot be... He cannot... How?" Artes' voice was trembling on the spot after seeing the divine radiance where the mortal was supposed to be facing death..
Artes seed as if he had gone mad as he charged towards the spot to stop what was happening.
The blood-red lake began to boil over, as if soon, chaos would be unleashed upon this world.
"Ba-dum, ba-dum!"
The ominous heartbeat of an World entity echoed, shaking mortals and gods alike through dinsions.
Every being was alert, as those heartbeats, like the birth of a creature defying the laws of existence, resonated with each and every living creature, striking fear into their hearts.
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