novelraw Chapter 276 276: Zipangu - The Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns' Invasion
Chapter 276 276: Zipangu - The Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns' Invasion
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Zipangu.
A beautiful world full of vast landscapes, sprawling forests, jagged mountains, grasslands, a beautiful azure sea, and many islands full of life.
A world of Kami, Yokai, and Living Legends.
Born from the power of a Unique Skill, a power capable of creating Heaven and Earth.
Created by Amaterasu, the woman summoned by the Ancient Gods of Yggdrasil, her original purpose in that world was never truly fulfilled.
She lived her entire life in Zipangu, and died in it, betrayed by the Gods she had created. A wonderful world crafted using the knowledge of Asian mythology she loved, her very creations... all killed her, turning this world she made into her tomb.
But it did not end there for Amaterasu. Her greatest creation and her "brother," Susanoo, the God of the Sword, who had just slain her, used her corpse and infected it with malice, letting it evolve into an Abyssal Goddess birthing a new world of darkness.
At the same time, her soul shattered, and a few of its fragments fell through the world's dimensional membranes, accidentally landing in Yggdrasil, where Amaterasu's last soul fragments were reborn as a small, intelligent magical beast.
This magical beast, a little Snow Monkey Chinchilla, later came to know the Dragon King when he was still in his infant phase, and both became friends and inseparable partners.
As years passed, the little beast evolved and took on a humanoid form. As she continued fighting and growing stronger, the memories of her past life finally began to flow in, helping her recall her true self and her true powers.
At the same time, the worlds of Yggdrasil and Zipangu were in peril, and due to the schemes of Oberon, the worlds were being connected and about to be destroyed together.
The forces of Oda Nobunaga, who had become the vessel of the Demon of the Sixth Heaven, Hajun, the personification of all "evil" within Zipangu who hated his creator Amaterasu and had planned her death, aimed to invade Yggdrasil after completely conquering Zipangu.
After regaining her true self and her powers, Amaterasu, now named Yuki, moved along with her husband and the rest of his family toward the Dimensional Vortex, where the last great war of Yggdrasil was fought.
There, the reborn goddess of Zipangu faced those that had slain her, and with Drake and his family's help, she was able to avenge her death and even slay Susanoo, ultimately ending with the death of Nobunaga and Hajun as well.
Zipangu, which was in ruins, was reborn as Yuki regained her complete power as Amaterasu alongside her daughter, Yudra, who was also the reincarnation of another of Amaterasu's fragments.
After awakening the Archetype that represented her original persona as Amaterasu, Yuki was capable of utilizing her Unique Skill [Creation of Heaven and Earth] once more, healing all of Zipangu and beginning a new Era of Peace.
To govern and protect this world, the Dragon King combined his powers with Yuki and created Nine Divine Spirit Dragons that would protect this world alongside the future rulers.
Each Divine Spirit Dragon spread their divine blessings into the land of Zipangu, governing these lands and protecting them.
Alongside them, a ruler was eventually given the throne of the Takamagahara of Zipangu. After Yuki grew tired of the throne and realized her daughter did nothing but slack off all day, she decided to teach her how to become a true divine ruler and gave Yudra the throne instead.
Since then, Zipangu lived in great prosperity, until the Dimensional Convergence began and the Dimensional Rifts leading to the Dimensional Labyrinth started to open.
Not even the mystical world of Zipangu was spared from the invasion of the Entities and Grievances, bringing a great new threat to all the people who had grown too conceited with a life full of bliss.
However, Zipangu was by no means weak. The new Kami that had been created, the divine spirit dragon gods, Yuki and Yudra, and the Dragon Family that occasionally came to visit swiftly began taking care of the invasion.
It remained peaceful even when stronger Grievances attempted to invade, as Yudra, Zipangu's ruler, showed her incredible and immense power, annihilating them all.
That is, until an invader not from the Dimensional Labyrinth but from Earth itself arrived. It began to spread his influence over many decades, a Golden Radiance that brainwashed people and turned the inhabitants into fanatics.
The Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns.
His aim was clear. He desired the Fantasy Worlds, and Zipangu, whose Fantasium Origin resonated the best with his Spiral, had always been his main goal.
Earth was already being monitored by the Abyssal Mother, and despite both of them being clear enemies, he was not someone who sought pointless conflict if there was not a guaranteed way to win.
Thus, he slowly expanded his Authority and refined Zipangu, taking over large lands, people, and the sources of Heaven and Earth Essence, which he absorbed to improve his Body, Soul, and Spirit Cultivation Methods.
Thus, when the Dimensional Labyrinth suddenly started to go crazy and swallowed a third of Earth, he decided to "abandon ship" and bring along his Fantasy Realm alongside himself and his countless followers. He would invade Zipangu, slay the ruler, and devour the entire world before leaving toward outer space.
And the biggest problem was that his invasion was working. His powerful Radiance was immense, and unlike others, he seamlessly combined Cultivation with his Spiral of Madness. Being a master of Qi Cultivation himself, he was already at a very elevated level.
His vast energies, powers, abilities, endless army, and all-consuming Authority that filled his victims' hearts and mutated them into Entities and Grievances resembling twisted bodhisattva statues were strong.
Too strong.
"As you may have already guessed, it is absolutely pointless to continue this nonsensical battle, you know? We have already won."
And after a battle that lasted almost three months, he stood unscathed, gazing at the corpses of the Divine Dragon Spirit Gods that he had finally defeated.
Yuki and Yudra were wounded and bleeding liquid gold. The attacks from the Venerable were capable of overcoming even their strongest regenerative abilities.
However, because they were strong enough to fight him together, they had been holding on for a long time with the help of the dragons.
Until now.
"Now rise, my fellow seekers of truth. I shall reveal the path toward salvation to you now."
The dead dragons glowed bright gold, and to the disbelief and shock of Yudra and her mother, the nine dragons that once protected Zipangu turned against it, becoming giant golden dragons resembling massive living statues.
They had stupid faces, smiling with bright red eyes resembling jewels. They preached about salvation as they slowly approached them, unleashing their golden dragon breaths, which further consumed everything into gold.
"There is no longer any point in you resisting. Please kindly give up and accept your salvation."
Two large figures confronted the giant. One was a giant woman made of glowing gold and silver, with long black and white hair and glowing golden eyes: Yuki in her Amaterasu, Empress of the Sun form.
The other was a gigantic dragon covered with white fur, with a beast-like appearance such as ears, whiskers, and more, yet tall, majestic, and mixing both cuteness with fierceness. She was Yudra, the current Empress of Zipangu.
"This damn bastard. This is unbelievable...!" Yuki muttered.
"Mom, what do we do?!" Yudra asked.
By all means, they were not weak, but they were ill-equipped to deal with such an infectious being as the Venerable, capable of not only refining and taking over Zipangu over time but also enslaving its people and turning them into his powerful soldiers with a mere thought.
Only these two had been strong enough to hold him for three whole months while also resisting the conversion, but they were already showing signs of Fantasy Heart Infection. Their blood was constantly turning gold and bleeding from them, and their minds were constantly being attacked with the desire to "let go" of all things.
"Your father...! He will be here soon...! We must trust in him!"
"But daddy is taking way too long! He never does that! Why?!"
"Because... no, we cannot stop having hope...!"
Yuki did not even want to consider the possibility of her husband being killed or something. She held onto hope until the very last moment.
"It is over," the Venerable said, his Nine Suns rotating rapidly and firing hundreds of laser beams against them. "Kindly move aside and allow me to access Zipangu's Core. Your pain and despair shall disappear, the responsibility completely lifted off your shoulders!"
As they were pressured from all sides by the Venerable, his Bodhisattvas, and the corrupted dragons, Yudra and Yuki had no other option. They nodded and glowed brightly.
"Let us fuse, daughter!"
"Yes, mother!"
As reincarnations of fragments of Amaterasu's divine soul, mother and daughter had awakened the ability to fuse.
FLAAASH!
"Hm?!"
A pillar of golden and azure light pierced the sky, and from the light, a blue and gold lotus flower bloomed.
As it bloomed, from inside, a goddess emerged.
Pale white skin, sharp golden eyes gleaming like stars, wearing a long white, red, and gold shrine maiden kimono.
And her hair? Her hair was a mix of gold, red, and yellow, constantly blazing with silky color yet resembling the very plasma of stars.
A beautiful sun-shaped golden-red tattoo gleamed on her forehead, spreading veins of sunlight across her entire body.
With a crown shaped like a rising sun surrounded by sunrays, and wearing a divine and striking gaze paired with an unparalleled, otherworldly beauty.
Behind her were ten different Ascendancy Law rings gleaming brightly and beautifully, embodying all the Authorities she governed over.
A true Venerable.
And this was...
"Mother and Daughter Soul Fusion – True Divine Primordial Divine Empress of Heaven Reborn."
Amaterasu, the real one, who was betrayed and killed, revived.
In the past, when Yuki and Yudra confronted the Abyssal Goddess born from Amaterasu's corpse, upon her defeat, they absorbed her power, completing Amaterasu's soul and body.
However, as they were now mother and daughter, they always remained separated. Yuki knew she could not just deny her daughter the privilege of living her own life.
But even then, they were able to create this technique to awaken Amaterasu's true form.
"Interesting. An Ancient, Primordial God reborn?" the Venerable wondered. "I have learned about you and your history, Amaterasu, betrayed by your brother so easily. I do not believe you are so strong. So why? Why struggle? Please, just surrender quietly and let us join nirvana together."
The Headless Venerable fired nine beams from his nine suns, warping reality so they could strike her from every angle at once within a second of firing them.
And yet...
"I refuse."
They never hit her.
The beams stopped around her, an invisible force field completely negating them from existence itself.
This was her power evolved and trained for hundreds of thousands of years...
"Creation of Heaven and Earth – Absolute World Law Dominion."
She had created this world.
And thus, every law of this world belonged to her to control.
By merely wishing it, these beams, which were under her law, could never strike true.
And what is more...
"Take your disgusting thing back."
With a mere gesture, all nine lasers returned to the Headless Venerable, growing ten times as big as before and striking his body even when he tried to shift between dimensions to escape.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
"Hm, indeed, your power is substantial. Well then, this is... unexpected."
However, he remained unscathed, as all nine dragons shielded him from the attacks and slowly disintegrated them.
Amaterasu gazed at them with contempt for a moment, sighing at their loss as she looked back at him with hatred.
From her sun-shaped tattoo on her forehead, a brilliant sword made of gleaming yellow sunlight manifested, which she held tightly with one hand.
"Primordial Sun-Splitting Heaven Blade: Kusanagi no Tsurugi."
RUMBLE!
The goddess did not stay there. She advanced, moving at lightning speed and appearing in front of the Venerable.
Her sword slashed down, and he warped reality to quickly remove her from his position, only for her power to rewrite his action entirely.
And...
SLAAASH!
"Gaaahaa?!"
For her attack to strike true, cleaving through his entire body and splitting him apart.
He fell into two pieces. Naturally this was never going to kill him. Tier 0 beings were abominations that went beyond life and death.
His body's interior was revealed to be pure liquid gold and light, rapidly beginning to stitch itself together.
But she did not let him. Swinging her sword down with all her strength.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The Venerable attempted to stop her. Hundreds of his servants emerged before her, but Amaterasu cut them all to shreds.
"Y-You...!"
As the Venerable struggled, he was once more cut apart, over dozens of times.
"You have been underestimating what I can do this entire time, have you not?! You believe the ruler of this world is a weakling?! Do not make me laugh!"
She concentrated her divinity into her blade and made it grow hundreds of times over, piercing and splitting the skies as her attack descended.
"Heaven Splitter!"
Boom.
An explosion of immense power surged, striking the Venerable enough to burn his existence rapidly.
"It will not be so easy. Salvation is coming."
His body disappeared, turning into golden sand and leaving a massive crater behind.
"What?!"
And then, she saw it.
BOOOMMM!!!
A massive explosion in the skies surged as a vortex began to suck Zipangu toward a point of convergence, leading deeper into the Dimensional Labyrinth.
And there, she saw him. He had simply run away, flying toward the vortex and deciding to take other measures to expand his power until Yuki and Yudra utilized their trump card.
"Another Dimensional Vortex! But this one is so much bigger... At this point, it is pointless to resist. It is dragging us all away!"
Unable to resist, the Goddess of the Sun and part of Zipangu were sucked into the reality vortex.
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Spiritias.
While the Summoner King faced the Demon King, the Summoner King's three wives, powerful god-like women, faced the impending invasion of The Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns, whose radiance irradiated everywhere.
"We will not let you spread more destruction."
"Wherever you came from, you had better start getting back there."
"We will not have mercy!"
Facing him, they unleashed their strongest forms and all their power, making the Venerable even more delighted than before.
"Ahhh, what beautiful radiance. Let us ascend together, everyone. The path toward salvation lies in death and rebirth... and I shall graciously bless you with it."
The three wives of the Summoner King fought with all their might.
RUMBLE!
Erika leaped into the skies, swinging her giant sword down and unleashing a barrage of attacks using her wooden arms, attacking the headless venerable with all her might.
Elizabeth conjured her strongest Holy Spirit Magic, conjuring gigantic eyes in the sky and firing hundreds of annihilation beams against him.
Eleanora completely channeled all her Dragon Fire, Vampire Blood, and Demon Soul into a single point, unleashing a devastating Dragon Vampire Demon Supernova.
All attacks hit at the same time.
And yet.
"Path of Eternal Salvation – Tranquility."
All attacks were instantly twisted backward, attacking the conjurers instead!
"Wha...?!"
"Ugh!"
"What sort of power...?!"
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
All three of them were blown away, sent flying back into the Spirit Continent and crashing into a mountain, making it crumble into pieces.
"G-Girls... are you okay?"
Erika had managed to save them, turning into a giant wooden spirit dragon and catching them with her body so they could not get completely hurt.
"Ugh, we are so rusty. I have not fought in thousands of years," Elizabeth sighed, looking at her scales falling apart.
"Hmph, I have told you all the time to train!" Eleanora groaned, standing up and glaring back at the thing. "Our kids are thankfully in Yggdrasil... aside from that boy that went to outer space for some reason. Now I am relieved that is the case."
Erika and Elizabeth stood up as they saw the Headless Venerable advancing toward them, only for three Demonic Figures to stand before him.
It was the three strongest Archdemons!
"And who the hell are you?!"
A tall and imposing volcanic giant.
Archdemon King of Brutality, Slaughter, and Destruction, Torturious.
"Hey, is it not better if we let him kill them?"
A handsome fairy-like demon.
Archdemon King of Famine, Pestilence, and Curses, Kiereinon.
"If we let him kill them, then our master will not praise us. We must kill them ourselves... once we are done with this thing."
And a beautiful, tentacled demonic nun.
The Archdemon Queen of Emotional Manipulation, Soul Enslavement, and Mind Corruption, Regalia.
Erika, Elizabeth, and Eleanora were left speechless as they saw the trio of archdemons defending them.
"And who are you, sinful ones? Lost souls I assume. Come to me. I will bring you to the salvation you seek."
The Venerable spread his radiance toward them. The Archdemons, using their Nine Fantasium Cores and their power as Fractured, resisted, unleashing their strongest forms.
"It is clobbering time, I suppose."
Torturious roared, growing ten times bigger than before, so hard and rugged that it looked like he had volcanoes and mountains growing over his body.
"For such a giant being, I must show my best fit!"
Kiereinon became three times as tall, but it was his wings that became enormous, hundreds of meters long, glowing with eye matter and unleashing shockwaves of psychic power and cursed energy.
"May Angra Mainyu be on our side!"
Regalia became a gigantic, tentacled titaness, overflowing with demonic power, her shadow turning into an endlessly spiraling abyss where everything was being dragged to.
The radiance the Headless Venerable unleashed was swallowed by her Abyssal Shadow, allowing the others to attack.
Torturious smashed his head down, followed by punching his entire body. Each blow warped space and stopped the Venerable from returning the damage. Flames erupted and burned his body.
Kiereinon concentrated his power into his wings and unleashed it at full power, covering the Headless Venerable with a sea of black curses, consuming his body and mind.
And Regalia prayed, using her long tentacles to wrap his entire body and invoked Angra Mainyu's devilish might, burning him completely.
It seemed like they were doing it!
"Woah, these guys are so strong!" Erika cried. "Now I dread fighting them."
"They are distracting it at most...!" Elizabeth said.
"Wait...!" Eleanora gasped.
"How pitiful is your attempt at rejecting the true path toward salvation. Fear not, I am diligent in my endeavors. And I will not let anybody... go without being blessed by my enlightenment."
"...?!"
"...!!!"
"...?!"
In that moment, all Archdemons suddenly had their bodies twisted by bright light wrapping their entire bodies.
"NNNNGGH?!"
Torturious groaned, using his raw power to resist.
"Aaaaaaggh!"
Kiereinon was unable to resist, his body rapidly exploding into pieces.
"My God! Please bless us...! With your strength!"
Regalia prayed even as her tentacles were constantly being ripped apart out of her.
"It is useless. Repent and then accept the enlightenment. Accept the radiance, become vessels of truth and—"
"Bastard!"
Erika appeared behind him, her dragon form slashing his nine sun heads one by one, tearing them apart as if they were made of flesh and then making them explode.
"Nnnggh?! Aaaaggh!"
The Venerable was unable to expect her to move so quickly, and it was because Elizabeth had teleported her there using the power of the Holy Spirit of Space.
CRAAASH!
The Headless Venerable's headless body crashed into the ground below. The three Archdemons were barely saved, and then hundreds of rays of light descended from the sky, attacking the Venerable.
"Get out of the way or die, demons. Your decision!"
Elizabeth only gave them a single warning before attacking. The archdemons quickly scrambled away however they could as the Headless Venerable was bombarded with countless attacks.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
"Hm... fruitless is... the attempt of the... sinful... but I shall... guide you... toward nirvana."
FLAAASH!
The Headless Venerable stood once more. Nine new suns manifested instantly and rotated around his body, rays of sunshine firing everywhere, attacking everyone around him and sending them flying away.
"Futile is... the attempt of the weak of heart. You must walk the righteous path, without faltering, and without a weak mind. Only by never hesitating, by never doubting yourself... you can build a new future. We must—"
"Stop it...! STOP TALKING LIKE YOU ARE SMART, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
However, out of nowhere, a giant black fist smashed his nine suns apart, and then another appeared, crushing his body into the ground once more.
"Unnghh?!"
Suddenly, he felt a small crack appear in his Spiral as that attack... he really damn felt it!
He looked into the skies, noticing a giant humanoid vampiric demon dragon queen emerging. Eleanora had unleashed her beast form.
And using her Blood Void Warp Magic, she manipulated space, sending her fists against him from every angle.
"Get ready. I let my husband borrow my spear, so we are doing this the unfancy way!"
With a sneer, she unleashed a barrage of endless attacks, punching the Venerable with so much intensity his entire body trembled constantly, gaining cracks and shattering, blood pouring everywhere.
"Your attempt is futile... I am someone blessed by heaven for a mission, a purpose that I must fulfill and—"
BOOOMMM!!!
Before he could continue talking, a hole was made through his chest as Eleanora pierced his body. Erika and Elizabeth were riding her body, enhancing her power by fusing their Auras into her, giving Eleanora's form a black spirit wood armor and an aura of all the holy spirits within her.
"NNGGUH?! T-The salvation... you must not... reject it...!"
The Headless Venerable quickly began to recover, but then...
"DAMN BASTARD!"
"Stay down!"
"By god, just stop it!"
The three Archdemons leaped and smashed their bodies into the ground, using their own bodies to stop the regeneration.
"Hmm... futile."
However, Nine Suns emerged above them and exploded toward them as they impacted their bodies.
"Path of Eternal Salvation – Genesis."
All nine suns glowed brightly and exploded upon contact with the three Archdemons, exploding and completely covering everything within the surroundings in pure white.
Eleanora, Elizabeth, and Erika were unable to respond in time, and so the entire world of Spiritias felt what struck them.
BOOOOMMMM!!!
The white light began to disintegrate everyone.
"A-Ahhh...! Blakeeeee!"
Erika cried in agony and despair as she began to disintegrate, burning in agony until she turned into ashes, her soul shattered into thousands of pieces and vanishing.
"N-No...! ERIKAAAA!!!"
Elizabeth screamed in horror, but the light struck her as well. The Holy Spirits above the sky began to explode and die one after another as the all-consuming light of Genesis killed them as they tried to shield Elizabeth.
Ultimately, Elizabeth disappeared entirely.
"Ah..."
Eleanora shed a few tears as she saw her end, closing her eyes.
"I am sorry... Blake..."
And her spiritual being, her core, and everything was destroyed.
"RETURN!!!"
However, a command echoed through Space and Time.
The Summoner King's voice vomited blood. His giant cosmic dragon form bled all over as he used all his power to warp reality.
In that moment, the attack from the Headless Venerable was reversed, returning to what it was before.
Erika, Elizabeth, and Eleanora... they were reconstructed as time went back.
But only halfway!
"No...! I cannot...!"
Blake, who had summoned himself to the surface and barely made it in time, was unable to have enough power to cancel and reverse such an attack.
The Genesis of the Headless Venerable carried his power and authority after all!
Thus, what else could he do?
Even more, as the Demon King cared not about him, his sword plunging into Blake's heart and destroying his cosmic source, shattering it into pieces?
"I care not about them, nor anybody. If this is the opportunity given to me by fate, so be it."
"Ack?! Erdrich?! Y-You damn bastard...!"
"Goodbye, Blake."
In that moment of despair, as all the strongest beings of Spiritias were dying.
As the Demon King and the Headless Venerable unknowingly worked together to bring them all down...
The sky shattered into countless pieces, as a vortex brought entities from another world of such immense power that time itself...
Stopped.
"Heart of Spacetime – Absolute Reverse."
In that moment, as he died, Blake witnessed what true Time Manipulation truly was.
Everything, from space to time, reversed to their previous forms!
"Aaah?! Eh?"
"Ugh...! W-What?"
"Blake?!"
Erika, Elizabeth, and Eleanora were revived out of nowhere, groaning and vomiting on the floor in disbelief of what they had experienced.
Meanwhile, Erdrich, against his will, was pushed back, his stabbing attack toward Blake's heart completely cancelled.
"This war ends today."
An almighty voice echoed from the skies, as every player in this wicked war looked into the skies. A radiant, white dragon descended, with eight wings and twelve golden eyes, a crown of golden horns and many arms and tails. A celestial, divine, and yet alien-looking dragon god.
"That is...!"
Blake muttered with weak words as he saw the dragon descending and the many other figures close to him, some small as humans, others almost as big as he was.
But there was...
An army!
An army of thousands of dragons and titans, all descending toward the battlefield at once.
"..."
The Headless Venerable stared in silence as his Bodhisattvas were sent to take care of the invaders, only to quickly get torn to shreds and killed instantly.
"?!"
He saw several powerful figures descend, each one exuding immense power.
A tall, armored knight made of hard metal-like wood, holding a giant pair of golden axes, gleaming with the intensity of nature like nothing else before. His attacks cleaved through all things, cutting them with absolute power and precision, and expanding an endless domain of sharp vines.
A giant half-beast humanoid dragon, a werewolf and kitsune-like hybrid titan, swinging her massive golden claws, tearing everything apart while dividing into dozens of clones made of Dreams and Nightmares. The clones invaded the souls of their victims and absorbed their energy, turning feral and spectral in form and spreading everywhere.
Right beside her, a humanoid girl with clear brown skin and long white and green hair, with wind dragon and light dragon-like features, a giant Dragonoid exuding the might of wind and light, angelic and fierce at the same time, unleashing a rampant rain of light spears and wind tornadoes everywhere.
A giant death dragon with an armor of bones, unleashing an endless army of Undead Dragons, Titans, Gods, and Ancient Spirits upon everything. All those that had died recently became undead, resentful toward their foes. When confronted, the dragon would hold a massive scythe and cut down any foe mercilessly.
A massive blazing golem machine resembling an incredible super mech descended, releasing Fantasium steam everywhere and moving incredibly quickly, shaped like a beautiful princess of steel and metal, swinging a giant, blazing hammer packed with the power of Origin Flames, bombarding dozens of gods under the Headless Venerable.
"My army... why? Why must you continue to get in the way of our salvation? Of our ascension?!"
The Nine Sun Headless Venerable grew furious, his nine suns rotating rapidly and firing dozens of lasers toward all of them.
But they quickly unleashed their Auras and then resisted the attacks, parrying them with their Soul Weapons and unleashing powerful, all-destructive attacks!
"Huh?"
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
"NGAAAAHHHH?!"
The Headless Venerable screamed, crashing into the ground and bleeding everywhere. His body convulsed as his regeneration slowed to a crawl.
"I-Impossible...! What is this?! My Spiral power is slowing down—it is weakened?!"
He finally broke character as he realized that these newcomers were the real deal.
He screamed, crawling away as they began to chase him.
Meanwhile, the dragon in the sky descended and commanded the rest of his army, which spread across the battlefield, beginning to slaughter all opposing forces.
His aura surged, showcasing dozens of powerful Ascendancy Law rings at once.
And his presence was overwhelming, utterly so!
The Demon King, the Summoner King, the Headless Venerable, the Three Wives of the Summoner King, and the Three Strongest Archdemons all felt his immense presence.
"Tier 0 Spiralwalker?! A damn divine dragon?!"
All of them thought the same thing!
It was a well-known fact that super powerful fantasy races such as dragons or titans were unable to even become Spiralwalkers due to their massive incompatibility with it.
But the one before them completely defied those established rules.
Not only was he an immensely powerful Divine Dragon from Yggdrasil... he also possessed the Drakeheart Bloodline, the strongest of all dragons.
He exuded the potent Psychic Aura of an Ultimate Esper.
He possessed over twenty Ascendancy Laws, governing various Laws and Authorities.
He was a Heaven and Earth Essence Cultivator, having reached an incredibly high rank everyone here had never seen before.
And on top of all that, he was a Tier 0 Spiralwalker?!
"The Summoner King, right?" the giant dragon looked at Blake. "The Three Fantasy Worlds and our Universe are at peril. The Dimensional Labyrinth, no, the Precursor is continuously devouring our Reality as we speak. We must unify and enter its depths to stop Oblivion. Will you help us?"
"...!!!" Blake gasped. "You must be Drake's grandson! I have heard about you... Louis, right? I had no idea you were... it almost... you almost exude the same level of power as your grandfather?! But he is bound to Yggdrasil... I suppose he could not come."
"I would not be so sure," smiled Louis with sharp golden eyes. "But for the time being, we are here and..."
CRAAASH!
Suddenly, Blake panicked as he saw the giant dragon summon a golden spear and attack him, only to realize it did not aim at him but at an attack coming after Blake, protecting him from it.
"Summoner King, your guard is too low. Get your shit together."
"...!"
Blake gasped, noticing the Demon King himself, Erdrich, standing in front of Louis with a furious glare, having enhanced his size to match Louis's immenseness.
"Get out of my way, you nuisance. You are not the one I have a grudge to settle."
"And you are nobody for me to listen to and comply with your pathetic request... Limitless Demon Venerable."
"?!"
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