novelraw Chapter 278 278: Overwhelming Superiority
Chapter 278 278: Overwhelming Superiority
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Agustina and Catrise smashed his body constantly with their hammers. Zorba used his Undead and also conjured deadly clouds of cosmic curses, constantly weakening the Venerable and lowering his stats while his scythe attacks cut his soul and sliced his spiral apart more and more while Death Breaths began to make his skin and flesh rot.
And Selene summoned her powerful Fantasy Domain. Millions of Niflheim Imitations manifested and descended, impaling his entire body and unifying into a freezing spell to bind his soul, body, and spiral in place, if even for just a couple of seconds.
"RAAAAHHHHH!!!"
Mirai, Timothy, Selene, and Melisa roared together, spinning around the sky as they descended and using their auras to combine their arts and magic into one single, almighty divine authority, if only for a few seconds.
"Spiral Soul Fusion – Primordial Spiral Soul Dragon Descent!"
"ROOOAARR!"
Combining their Dragon Bloodlines and Dragon Energy into a single attack, the giant dragon descended, piercing the Venerable's entire body, soul, and spiral in a single, descending and catastrophic attack.
BOOOOOMMMM!!!
White light consumed it all as he was unable to defend. His body was instantly disintegrated to a subatomic level, and his soul instantly burned to cinders.
A fragment of him remained within his Spiral, attempting to escape as everyone else lay on the gigantic crater unconscious.
"I-I have to get out of here...! My body and my soul...! If I wasn't a Tier 0 Spiralwalker, I would have died!"
Tier 0s can survive even if their bodies and souls are completely annihilated. Having become one with their Spirals completely, they are their Spirals, and as long as the Spiral is not destroyed or eaten by someone else, they cannot die completely.
"I have to parasitize someone... else... in this ethereal form... my Spiral Authority will be eaten in the Fantasium Dimension! I have to—"
"Hey."
But before he could move anymore, Yuki and Yudra appeared before him, their swords gleaming brightly as their auras surged with draconic and divine power, forming a giant sun behind them.
"E-Eh? Aaaahhh! Get away from meeeeee!"
The Venerable ran away, only to be stopped by Blake's wives. Their combined magic bombarded his frail, spiritual form, resembling a giant mass of golden nebulae-like dust.
"Where do you think you are going, bastard?!"
"You have done enough destruction!"
"Die already!"
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
"Nnngaaaahhhhh!"
As he screamed in pain, Yuki and Yudra rushed to finish him, temporarily fusing as Amaterasu and drawing their divine sword once more, the Kusanagi no Tsurugi, which gleamed with exquisite brilliance and beauty, becoming as big as a pillar that pierced the stratosphere.
"DIVINE... JUDGEMENT!!!"
The sword descended, and because he was unable to escape anymore, the Venerable was split apart once.
SLAAAASH!
Then dozens of times more, until his body completely vanished, leaving behind the shattering Spiral he had refined his entire life.
"A-Ah... AAAHHHHHH!"
And how it all exploded, completely erasing him from existence in the process.
BOOOOMMM!!!
...
And yet.
FLUOSH!
"Mandala... Rebirth."
Upon complete erasure of his body, soul, and spiral, a special ability activated, one he had refined for a moment where he would be put into an absolute corner.
"W-Wha...?!"
Everyone that put everything into it to kill him, who were just waking up from falling unconscious, gazed in utter disbelief as he began to reform completely.
Body.
Soul.
Spiral.
Everything returned, and his aura surged with even more power than before. His body was now one kilometer tall.
He had over twelve arms, and red flame-like tattoos spread through his body. At the same time, his headless neck regrew three heads, one resembling an angel, another a demon, and a third his human face.
Thousands of suns blazed around him, as if he were made of a galaxy itself... and lastly, a giant gold-red eye opened in his chest.
"Hahaha... HAHAHAHAHAA!"
His laughter echoed through the ruined battlefield as he marveled at his new power. Everything he had done finally paid off.
"I let those two kill the demon, and his power is now mine!"
"What?! The Demon...?" Erika asked.
"E-Erdrich?" Elizabeth gasped.
The moment they learned Erdrich was dead, even more confusion appeared across their faces. The Headless Venerable smiled at them with a condescending smile.
"When I helped him fight you all, I had planted a special Rune into his body, one that would give me part of his powers and authorities as long as he died within an hour. My calculations were true; we have become one and ascended together. We are now a being of Heaven and Hell, unified! My Ascension... is complete!"
"This fight is not over, bastard!" Mirai roared.
"As long as we are here, we will not let you go!" Catrise said.
"We will not give up," Zorba spoke.
Louis's betrothed stood in front of the Venerable, their auras surging with their combined power as they faced the almighty, evolved, and ascended Venerable.
Everyone else stood up to fight him, rushing against him. But he remained with a gentle smile, taking all of their devastating attacks that would have hurt him before.
And he was unscathed.
In fact, as they hit him their attacks were reversed back and they ended up hurting themselves, sent flying away by their own attacks.
"You bastard!"
Amaterasu rushed at him, roaring furiously, only for her sword to shatter into pieces as she struck his head. Her eyes widened as a fist punched her away, sending her flying into space.
"I am unparalleled."
He began to float in midair. The Flames of Inferno and the Celestial Light of Nirvana surged from the ground as pillars of all-destructive energy as he began to destroy the surface of Spiritias completely.
"This world and its core shall be mine!"
RUMBLE!
The entire planet started trembling and cracking apart as the core at the center began to tremble. A giant rainbow crystal started to drag toward him.
People all around the planet began to die without end. Volcanoes erupted and magma consumed everything.
Screams echoed endlessly as the core reached him. His aura was so strong it burned and disintegrated those that drew closer, torturing them and forcing them to retreat as they saw him holding the gigantic core of Spiritias.
A massive Spirit Orb!
"It was nice meeting you all."
He laughed as Spiritias began to be destroyed, explosions spreading everywhere constantly!
He opened his three jaws, which merged into a giant maw, and swallowed the entire core in a single gulp.
"But I am done here."
After absorbing the Core, the entire world of Spiritias fell into the Abyss below as he laughed, floating and flying toward outer space, away from the Dimensional Vortex.
Everyone fell in despair as they saw the abyss... or rather, something else entirely.
"Eh?"
Mirai gasped as she saw that the Abyss below had become a beautiful, endless heaven full of floating islands and continents full of life, nature, and resources aplenty.
The fragments of Spiritias that fell all suddenly began floating. The essence of this Heaven that had appeared out of nowhere fused them together into enormous floating continents.
"W-What the...?" Timothy looked around, noticing the potency of nature on every continent. "What is going on? Wait, is this...?"
Zipangu also fell and was destroyed as the bastard took the core while he was at it, but eventually it also was saved the same way.
"What is happening?" Yuki asked.
"Mom, look!" Yudra gasped.
"Sorry, everyone, we took too long taking care of the Demon King."
A voice echoed from above. Noah appeared inside of Braveblitz, apologizing to everyone.
"Blake!"
"You are alive!"
"O-Our world... it is safe?!"
Erika, Elizabeth, and Eleanora were completely shocked as they saw everything happening right now in awe and disbelief.
"It is all thanks to him. His power... truly, vastly surpasses all of ours," Blake said as everyone saw a giant white dragon fly higher into the skies and then...
"Where do you think you are going? Halt."
His voice resonated through Reality, commanding it.
"Ngh?! W-Wha...? What?!"
The Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns felt a chill down his spine as his entire body stopped moving instantly.
A giant spear pierced his heart in that instant. His three faces showed clear disbelief and horror as blood poured from their mouths.
"W-What?!"
Giant, white-scaled hands patted his heads and shoulders as a giant jaw approached his neck and then whispered something to him.
"Where are you going?"
"Who...! Who are you?!"
The Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns turned into pure liquid gold and escaped the spear's grasp, regenerating fully away from the one that had arrived.
"Louis Drakeheart, Prince of Frostbane, Grandson of the Dragon King. That is all you need to know about me."
"...! You are that kid... I see. Then why not cooperate with me?! With our power combined—"
"I do not need to share my power with a weakling like you."
"What?!"
TRUUUM!
Suddenly, space stopped for a second and then resumed.
And in that moment, the Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns vomited blood from all his heads as his entire body was cut apart, blood and guts splattering through the stratosphere.
"G-Gaaahaa?! W-When...?! What did he...?!"
He could not believe it when he saw something even more shocking. Louis was behind him, his claws covered in his golden blood, shaking them to clean his hands.
"What did you...? What did you do?!"
With a roar, the Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns put himself back together, growing into an enormous demonic, draconic, and human form, using all of the power he stole from Erdrich at the same time as his own stacked together.
"I WILL KILL YOU!"
He went berserk, realizing Louis was a threat he could not underestimate. He used his powers to rewrite reality and alter it, imposing his Authority and completely suppressing Louis's Fantasium from even being usable.
CRAAASH!
And he struck, as Louis's entire body exploded into... shadows.
An endless sea of shadows, no, rather, a giant Cosmic Nebula made of Abyssal Void and Darkness! This Abyssal Void surged forward, coiling around his entire body with immense power.
"W-Wha...?!"
Then he saw Louis behind him, his claws piercing his body and shattering all of his ten cores, which were present because the Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns was actually also a Fractured aside from being a Tier 0 Venerable.
"Guuughh?! My cores!"
He clenched his teeth and punched Louis in the back, only for that Louis to disappear, as if he were a clone made of thin air.
"What is happening?"
Another Louis appeared in front of him, his spear thrusting forward as five forms of his spear technique were unleashed in quick succession, thrusting the Venerable's body and covering him with holes. Draconic lightning and light consumed him.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
"Uuuggh! W-What the hell is going on?!"
His monstrous form accelerated at full speed, rushing toward Louis to destroy him by piercing through him!
But as he did, Louis shattered into Psychic Glass, a hardened form of Psionic Energy, which then became ethereal and wrapped his body.
Twisting him and shredding him apart.
CRAAASH!
"GAAAAAAHHH!"
In that moment, he saw another Louis.
And another.
And another!
"So you can create clones? Is this your power?! That is not something that can defeat me! Not when I have absorbed the Demon King's power and possess Spiritias and Zipangu's Cores!"
"Then why not give it a try?"
"I SHALL!!!"
With fury and wrath, completely dropping his "ascended" and "tranquil" personality, a mere mask to pretend to be virtuous, the Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns roared. His suns rotated all around him and then surged everywhere in every direction, exploding.
"GENESIS NIRVANA!"
Countless explosions surged everywhere. Cracks in reality appeared and shattered everything. From these cracks, more white light consumed it all.
At this level, most beings of such power simply employed the most destructive attacks, which ended in countless explosions capable of destroying everything.
And yet.
Yet!
"Weak."
The white dragon stood there. The celestial prince of the ashen throne remained unscathed. Power capable of leveling galaxies... was not even worth tickling him.
"H-Huh?"
The Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns's eyes twitched in disbelief.
And then.
Louis moved once more.
TRUUUM!
Time accelerated in a second, and...
"GUAAAAHH?!"
Louis's hands had torn the Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns into two halves, blood and guts splattering everywhere.
"I-Impossible! W-What is this... power?! Time? He is manipulating time?! But I would have noticed! I could have stopped him—"
And he was not wrong. At his level, mere time manipulation could not work. He was an ascended being that existed within many planes of reality, thus he was able to easily pinpoint disturbances within the dimension of time and easily stop them from affecting him.
Yes, that is... how it was supposed to be.
But Louis... was different. His "Time" was not from the Universe itself. He held the unique power to create his own "Time," thus, his own Internal Time Dimension.
This...
It allowed him complete reign and authority over time, one power that could not be easily stopped unless they possessed an equally powerful ability.
And, aside from raw power and energy alone, the Great Headless Venerable of Nine Suns, unfortunately...
Did not.
"I-I cannot regenerate?!"
He realized too late that Louis had manipulated his time so he could not regenerate. His body remained frozen in time, and so all his wounds only worsened and he lost more and more of his energy.
"Y-YOUUUUU!"
But he was not weak either.
He resisted and fought like a frenetic, wild beast.
Each of his punches shattered reality as both Louis and the Venerable pierced several dimensions and worlds as they fell through the Dimensional Labyrinth.
"Louis!"
Mirai's voice called as she moved across space with the rest of House Frostbane. The Dragons, Titans, and Gods of Yggdrasil stayed behind, defending the Fantasy Worlds.
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
One dimension after another, Louis kept on choking the Venerable as the Venerable desperately shattered and devoured world after world.
"STOP IT! GAAACK! LET GO... OF ME!!!"
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
However, Louis's grip only intensified, all of them falling constantly through a gigantic vortex, a spiral of madness born from hundreds of worlds stuck together.
"He is descending super quickly!" Anastasia panicked.
"That damn Venerable will not give up, will he?!" Agustina growled furiously.
"We must keep on, hurry!" Zorba said desperately. "Louis!"
"Your majesty! Hang in there!" Catrise cried.
"Why are you all so worried?" Timothy laughed. "He is fine! In fact, he is using the Venerable to create a path toward the depths of the Dimensional Labyrinth!"
"Wait, what?!" Mirai gasped. "Then that means...!"
She looked behind her, realizing what Louis was using. He was indeed using the Venerable's outburst of immense power to create a Wormhole, a "safe" tunnel that pierced through hundreds of worlds in mere seconds.
This "safe" wormhole was also made of Emptiness born from the Venerable's Spiral, which was the only way to create a safe tunnel toward the depths of the Fantasy-Devouring Precursor.
Louis could have done it, but he would have taken too long to do it, and even if he tried to devour and absorb the Venerable's powers, it would have taken him hours anyway.
There was not any time. Thus, Louis employed his own Body, Soul, and Spiral as a tool to create the tunnel leading toward Oblivion.
Because the wait had simply been too long already.
Behind House Frostbane, they saw a giant army of Cosmic Beast Familiars surging endlessly like a tide of nebulae, massacring all the Entities and Grievances on the way.
Leading the army was the Summoner King, his wives, and right by his side were Benladra, Gustaf, and every other dragon and titan that could have made it here.
It seemed that they were all following Louis, who was singlehandedly spearheading the charge against the one behind the accelerated digestion of the universe.
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
Countless dimensions shattered. Mirai's eyes widened as she saw dozens, hundreds of views of worlds, ruined and laid waste, filled with aberrations and monsters that emerged and attempted to fight them but were quickly taken down by their amazing skills and strength they had cultivated all this time.
Everyone in the army grew more and more nervous, their hearts pounding faster and faster as Louis remained calm and composed, even as the Venerable flailed his arms desperately.
"GAAAHHH! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING MEEEEEE?!"
"We are almost there! Have patience, worm."
"W-WORM?! HOW...! DARE YOU!?"
The Venerable furiously stopped shattering dimensions only when they had a couple to go, as he roared, fighting back Louis.
Only for Louis to stop time once more and tear him to shreds.
"GAHAAA?!"
In agony, his pieces splattered everywhere as Louis's hand rushed toward there and then he inversed his death, reviving him.
Then he grabbed him, growing ten times the Venerable's size and transforming him with Agustina and Surtr's help as they flew toward him the moment he sent them a telepathic message.
Using their Heavenly Smith And Spiritual Forge, they refined the still living and struggling Venerable into a giant, golden drill.
"Good enough. Now, everyone! Charge!"
The drill stood in front of them as everyone charged, advancing as their Combined Auras flared around the drill, piercing the last dimensions.
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH...!
And...
Crack, crack...!
Cracks appeared across the gigantic golden drill as Louis and everyone realized the last Dimensional Membrane was the hardest ever.
It was so thick and immensely rough to pierce that even the drill they created using that venerable who had devoured two world cores was not enough to pierce it completely.
"That must be the last Dimension. It must lead to the Heart of the Precursor, son!" Gustaf said.
"What can we do? The drill cannot pierce through!" Benladra said. "Should we combine our power even more? We will be exhausted once the final battle begins...!"
"Hm..."
Louis patted the glass-like dimensional membrane and nodded, grabbing the drill and then fusing it with his flesh and blood until it became one of his arms, gleaming gold with immense radiance.
"A-Amazing!"
"Did he just fuse with that monstrously strong venerable like nothing?"
"Wow, how strong is Louis?!"
Everyone gasped at what Louis did so casually, fusing with the enslaved, transformed Venerable and then infusing all his power into his Golden Arm of Radiance, as he now called it.
"This will... do!"
BOOOMMM!!!
Louis smashed the last dimensional membrane as cracks spread everywhere, and then the entire membrane began to explode, shattering as an immense quantity of Fantasium flowed out everywhere.
"Nnnggh?!"
Louis realized everyone would die if they were hit with such an immense quantity of corrupted Fantasium, so he compressed it in front of him, growing larger, and larger, and larger, until he became as big as a galaxy.
And...
"Enough... IS ENOUGH, OBLIVION!!!"
With a mighty draconic roar, his giant hands compressed all the Fantasium leaking out of the shattered heart of the multidimensional lifeform, the Fantasy-Eating Precursor, and absorbed it into his body, overflowing with immense power until his white scales shimmered with rainbow color.
FLUOSH!
Everyone saw Louis overflowing with immense power as threads of light of many colors flew toward everyone's bodies and souls, boosting their power even more.
And then, the white light surging from the other side absorbed Louis and everyone close to him toward it.
FLASH!
As everyone fell, Louis could see what lay beyond the white void: an endless expanse of... sand, of white sand.
No, rather...
It was...
"Ashes?"
His eyes widened as he saw someone standing in the middle of that sand, touching the giant skull of a long-perished dragon, of enormous size.
Wearing a complexly white suit, with short white hair, pale skin, and golden eyes, he stared at Louis with surprise and a gentle smile.
"Hello, Louis. We have met many times before, my Eternal Adversary. But to you, it might be the first time we met, right?"
Louis's eyes widened. His entire body raged with fury, his veins popping from his forehead as his aura erupted with immense power.
The source of all his suffering, the reason everyone had died through so many timelines.
The origin of his despair, of his pain, of his misfortune.
He was there.
"OBLIVION!!!"
And Louis greeted the man with his claws rushing down toward his body.
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