Life Hunter

Everyone had guessed that at this point. Gabriel groaned and was ready to act but she didn"t move as a cone of flames flew just above her in the sky.

Ifrit came back to take care of it himself apparently. He roared and his body emerged from the flames. His eyes ignited and seemed to leave a red trail each time he moved his head "Go away" He waved his hand and a cube made of fire surrounded the black hole.

The attraction stopped immediately and the air wasn"t being sucked anymore. But the cube of fire was slowly shrinking as it was destroyed from the inside. Ifrit just sneered and chanted "[Advent of Fire]"

The cube shined and exploded in the next instant. A big earthquake was produced and a giant smoke mushroom raised. The shockwave reached everyone and Chulainn"s group had to retreat even more. The deafening noise of the explosion temporarily drowned every sound in the battlefield.

When the flames died down, the smoke was dispersed and the black hole had disappeared along with a big chunk of earth. Only leaving a scorched ground "Hey" Ifrit then turned to look at Chulainn "If you can"t control it, don"t use it. You"ll just kill yourself along with everyone else" He said and landed on top of a mountain.

He sat there and started watching the battle as if it was an entertaining show. Chulainn wryly smiled and laid down on the ground. His mana was depleted and he didn"t have the strength to move anymore. It was the same for Lanya and Lilis as they had forced a soul resonance between them. They were not that similar in the first place, so it used up a lot more energy than with Ofia and Lena back at the academy.

"What was that though?" Chulainn muttered "I don"t think it"s because I lost control. It felt like…it went berserk for an unknown reason"

"Maybe it"s the hidden effect," Lanya remarked and Lilis nodded "Improving the power by letting it go berserk"

"Mm" Chulainn mused and then sighed "Anyway, I"m stuck here now. That think drained me out" He said and looked at the nearest combat zones.

"Utain was defeated?" Baphomet was a bit surprised "That magic was quite something, huh?" He praised Arima"s theory.

"Hey, he used it too, maybe we should start" Azes muttered to Zeus and the latter nodded "Let"s go then, [Resurrection]" Azes chanted the same thing as Utain and his aura exploded.

"[Resurrection]" Zeus followed and the same phenomenon occurred. The two G.o.ds began their Soul Manifestation and Baphomet silently watched without doing anything to stop them.

Below Azes, a bright circle appeared was drawn and the scroll he was holding since the start was slowly disappeared into the ground inside the circle like it was going under water. When the scroll was completely in, the area inside the circle now looked like a white ore.

"[Cause and Consequences]" Azes chanted and the circle suddenly encompa.s.sed the entire zone around the three of them. And the ground became flat everywhere with that white ore as the ground "[Closed Territory]" Azes ended his chant and the ground glowed once before a transparent wall raised on the circ.u.mference of the circle.

"[Divine Herd]" It was Zeus"s turn to activate his Manifestation. Thunder rumbled strongly and lightning fell around Zeus like a downpour "[Commandment made manifest]" The lightning falling down wasn"t disappearing after touching the ground but was actually gathering into big and small spheres.

When the lightning stopped, each one of those spheres released a powerful aura and started shapeshifting into different types of beasts. The bigger ones transformed into beings like dragons, basilisks, dinosaurs, phoenixes, chimeras …while the smaller ones turned out to be smaller beasts of every kind. Wolfes, lions, bears, birds, insects, snakes, and things like c.o.c.katrices, nine-tailed foxes, griffins…

An army of familiars like those appeared around Zeus as they all stared at Baphomet. All of them were at the first divine, without exception. An army of around five hundred summoned beasts had materialized to fight with Zeus.

"So, you both have an eternal-cast type Manifestation, huh?" Baphomet casually commented.

Soul Manifestation was fundamentally the same thing as Resonances with Soul Beasts. But the Manifestation could come in many different ways and was more of a unique skill than anything else. Utain"s skill acted on his body to transform himself into a werewolf to increase greatly his overall strength.

For both Zeus"s and Azes"s Manifestations, they were magic that would eternally last until something specific happened. In Azes"s case, his magic will only disappear when the enemy is defeated. While for Zeus, his magic will end naturally when all of his familiars are destroyed.

Those types aside, the two types of Manifestation remaining were instant-cast magic and weapon summoning. The former was a devastating or miraculous magic that surpa.s.sed by far what the caster could normally do. While the latter was basically creating a weapon capable of greatly increasing the holder"s power.

Also to come back to the fight between Chulainn and Utain. Chulainn didn"t use his Manifestation since it was an eternal-cast type, not strong enough and fast enough to counter Utain. And for Lilis, her unique magic was an instant-cast type but not suited to fight Utain.

Also, usually, the G.o.ds set a rule to limit the use of the Manifestation as much as possible since it could create chaos in the battlefield and do more harm than anything else. But now that Utain started it, everyone finally started to use their own.

Vastra, who was in the middle of a conflict of spirits against Aphrodite, released it. And after her, it was Poseidon"s and Hades"s turn who both had a weapon type. Poseidon wielded a trident while Hades summoned both a shield and a sword.

Baphomet chuckled as he felt the auras surging everywhere "Let me show you what true despair is" He smirked and declared. Even Ifrit directed his attention to him.

"[Resurrection]" The Evil G.o.d chanted like everyone else. At the same time, the air became filled with a black mist coming out of his body. He exhaled and an even darker miasma escaped his mouth.

That mist condensed and became a cloud that raised to the sky. It even went higher that Arima"s Life Harvest. Then, suddenly, a detonation resounded and that dark miasma literally covered the whole sky, it had literally become black. It seemed that Baphomet"s Manifestation also fell into the eternal-cast category.

"[The Evil G.o.d"s cemetery]" Baphomet chanted and from the ground that had been affected by Azes started to mix with a black color. But Azes"s magic fought back and didn"t disappear.

The G.o.ds looked anxiously at the scene. Baphomet had definitely released his Manifestation but they didn"t feel any change in his aura and nothing else had occurred besides that new sky.

"Come at me" But even like that, Baphomet taunted his opponents with a huge smirk. Zeus and Azes looked at each other and frowned. But they were not going to hesitate over that.

Azes made the first move and extended his hand. He pointed his palm at Baphomet and sighed "I rule…" He simply muttered and everything inside of his Manifestation"s area of effect became crushed by a gravity force so strong that the number in Newtons would get someone dizzy.

Baphomet hunched his body a little but kept a wide grin on his face. Azes then squinted his eyes and the ground around the Evil G.o.d formed sharpened spikes that shot toward Baphomet and pierced him from everywhere.

Zeus commanded his familiars to move and told them to attack without holding back. The dragon went up in the air and his belly swelled as he inhaled. The chimera howled and charged toward Baphomet and all of the other beasts followed it.

When the dragon was ready, it roared and spat an electric beam directly onto Baphomet. The other beasts also stacked him physically and thunder rumbled more than once. It was then Zeus"s turn and he clenched his fists. Lightning swirled around him like a snake and he suddenly disappeared to strike Baphomet with his hammer in the next second.

A threatening explosion occurred and Baphomet"s figure was sent flying away. Zeus joined back with Azes and waited. They knew Baphomet couldn"t die from this since he was almost immortal. But immortality is as it is, "almost" is the correct word. No one can be truly immortal. If they injure him enough, Baphomet should not be able to regenerate or revive at one point.

"That"s what you must be thinking right?" The Evil G.o.d"s voice echoed and the G.o.ds" eyes narrowed in shock. Ifrit also scowled as he looked over.

Baphomet stepped out from the smoke of the explosion and revealed himself to everyone. He was completely unharmed. He snorted and looked down at the G.o.ds "You will never be able to kill me" He declared and waved his hand. His sword immediately flew at him and he caught it in the same motion.

Azes clicked his tongue and resumed the fight with Zeus. Ifrit calmly observed and hummed "An interesting Manifestation. Turning the caster into a true immortal" He mumbled to himself and looked up at the sky "But immortality is always flawed" He added as he observed the black mist in the sky, emanating a faint glow.

He then turned his head to look at Hades and Poseidon. Those two"s fight was the fiercest by far "Although Hades is stronger, Poseidon has a great advantage thanks to his absolute dominance over water…" He a.n.a.lyzed their battle for a moment and then his attention was attracted by another big conflict on this battlefield.

"This chaotic flow of spirit even scares me. Those two are not to be underestimated" Ifrit muttered as he looked at the part of the battlefield which had the most infantry. Angels, devils, purgatory"s prisoners, even the zombies Arima made were killing each other there. If you hear it like that, you may not find anything strange. The strange fact was angels were killing other angels, zombies were killing zombies, devils were devils…and you could even find those three races helping each other sometimes.

It was without saying that the ones responsible for that were Vastra and Aphrodite. They both specialized in mind control, distinctive from Lilis"s control over emotions.

At the moment, the two beauties were in the middle of a battle. And even if Aphrodite was at the third divine while Vastra only at the second, the latter was still matching her enemy and even maybe surpa.s.sing her. Vastra was actually using two subordinates at the third divine to fight for her and the Manifestation she just released was a transformation type like Utain. She had now the appearance of a succubus and her overall magic power had greatly increased.

Unfortunately, Aphrodite didn"t have any "puppets" to use so she was forced to fight by herself while also trying to disrupt Vastra"s spirit.

It was also in that particular battlefield that Gabriel spent the most of her time. She had to protect her soldiers that were being controlled. She seriously wanted to smack Aphrodite for encroaching the minds of her angels like that. But she also knew that if Aphrodite stopped, Vastra would become a huge problem.

"You sure are uselessly tough for a Love G.o.ddess" Vastra commented laughingly as the giant she was sitting on clashed with Aphrodite"s wind.

The G.o.ddess sneered "I will get rid of that grin soon enough" She uttered and threw two spheres of compressed wind she had created.

When they touched the giant, they exploded and created giant domes of wind along with a strident noise. At the same time, the other lackey of Vastra attacked Aphrodite from her blind spot with a dagger.

The G.o.ddess gritted her teeth and chanted: "[Repel]" A wall made of wind formed around her and blocked the attacker"s dagger but the latter immediately transformed into shadows after he failed and then vanished. After that, the giant came back to a.s.sault her. Aphrodite groaned. It had been like this for the entire time. The big one would fight her head-on while the small one would try to sneak up on her.

"Let"s see who will last longer" Vastra smirked and spread her bat wings.