Chapter 259: Ascension to Godhood.
Chapter 259: Ascension to Godhood.
[Dominion Magic]
[Telekinesis; Unknown Tier]
The moon shook and vibrated violently as it approached the planet, growing more unstable as the seconds passed by with giant cracks racing across it as Dina roared from the cosmos using her powers to their max and swinging her hands wildly applying more pressure from the opposite side intent of blowing everything apart, white blood escaped the corners of het mouth and her nose but she kept using more power regardless.
"What a frightening woman," Keele stared at the smaller chunks flying above and around her crashing into the ground and waking the terrain. "She is already as strong as most Godslayers," Keele tightened her fist and took a stance, inhaling deeply and then staring up at the moon again.
"I wonder if the others are like her..." She mused and then went silent holding her shaking fist steady and hovering her other hand above it as if protecting a small flame from the howling winds around her.
"Do you see that?" Sol stared intently at what was to come while Ikaris nodded next to him. "How interesting... if in another reality, we weren't enemies, the emporium could have been great allies against demons, hell, maybe I wouldn't have had to raise a finger, to begin with, you wouldn't have been put directly in harm's way, a lot of tragedies could have been avoided..."
"Love, some things are best left in your mind for the sake of those who are with you," Ikaris rested her head on his shoulder, and Sol looked at her and then around at Arla and Sara who were staring at him with complicated expressions masking their faces; she was right; if the emporium had been allies, he wouldn't have met any of them, it's more likely that he'd have died miserably and been forgotten on earth, everything he currently had, his love his wealth and his happiness was all thanks to the emporium being the enemy.
Ikaris supposedly fled the Emporium at the end of the war, without her needing help to defeat the demons, he wouldn't have been summoned, if the emporium had been allies in their universe he wouldn't have been able to become Godslayer, he'd have never been to Arkadia... he wouldn't have met anyone he was with.
Sol gladly ate his words and shook his head, resting his palm on Ikaris's cheek and looking at Arla and Sara, he wouldn't have suffered on Atla, but he also wouldn't have healed thanks to his wife and lovers, his maid, and his daughter, his friends from Arkadia, the gods... None of that would have existed if the emporium had rid the collective of them.
"Sorry, I said that without thinking," He stared, but they knew as much; what he thought about at that moment he slipped up was Ikaris losing their first child and how much pain that brought them.
"We understand, Sir," Sara smiled and then looked at the fight through Alpha's many eyes again, gaining different angles and perspectives as if she was omnipresent herself.
Keele's body shimmered with a slight light, it wasn't anything any of them had seen before- she was powerless, sure, she had strength, but that was all, aside from her suit aiding in her ability to regenerate and enabling her to fly Keele had no powers whatsoever, but they could see something clearly fantastical about her here, she was nigh glowing.
She huffed several times and then bent her knees and leapt leaving a crater in the planet the same size as the moon that was about to crash into it leaving them all at a loss for words, she spared like an ascending comet leaving a trail of flames in her ascension before she roared out and swung her fist inches short of the moon causing a gigantic wave of pressure to explode from her fist, Dina on the opposite end couldn't feel anything at first she was askance of what was taking place on the other side.
However, the cracks that she had been staring at suddenly all erupted in flames and the moon exploded violently back at her sending everything out into the cosmos in an instant while one particularly large chunk rapidly ascended and slammed into her pushing her out into the great field of debris.
She didn't get time to recover from the shock of what she'd just witnessed since Keele emerged from the debris and spun delivering a kick in her side and reaching for her arm catching and spinning her back into the chunk of moon causing it to stop moving from the contrasting momentum.
"...Fuck," Dina hissed in pain and raised herself from the crater she'd made, staggering when smaller chunks hit the floating fragment and shook it violently. "A general is a general, regardless of the drugs in their system; she's a whole different breed of warrior," She mused, casting [Divine Heal] on her side and undoing the damage Keele's kick had caused.
"If I do anything big, she just responds with something big in kind; it's like a game of who can make the bigger boom; I won't win if I expend my mana so recklessly and I won't learn anything like this either," Dina admitted to herself, flashing her hands and summoning more mana over her hands like a glove while the intensity of her hair dimmed and the length shortened to its original length again.
"Have you abandoned your tricks?" Keele asked enthusiastically staring at Dina for a response, I cannot teach you something I am also incapable of," She balled her fists and went into her fighting stance again, and Dina blew a clot of blood from her nose and simulated Ikaris's bare-knuckled stance this time causing the mentioned to raise her head and lean her gaze with intrigue masking her eyes.
"I was just thinking the same, you can't expect me to play by your rules though, this is a fight I want to win regardless of learning anything, if there's something to learn I'll grasp it while driving my knuckles into your flesh!" Dina pumped herself full of mana and dug into the moon-turned-asteroid dashing the full length of it twice and then snapping in Keele's direction and delivering a punch akin to Sol's [Clockwork] punch without any kind of windup, Keele hadn't expected the attack to reach her that quickly so only managed to block it as it forced her feet off the terrain and shot het back towards the planet they were escaping.
As though no barrier existed and no gravity could hold her, Keele made a crater almost as soon as she passed the clouds leaping out of the way when Dina's fist connected right where she had landed creating a crater that began sinking the entire continent and started flooding it with water from the ocean surrounding it on all ends.
"Jesus, they're both crazy..." Sol stared with his brows furrowed as he saw Dina and Keele clash fists several times and break apart only to return and smash their foreheads into each other and leap away again.
"Keele is many times more durable, but Dina is making up for it by casting a continuous [heal] across her entire body; it barely consumes any mana at all to use [heal], so she's doing it passively and focusing on dealing as much damage as she can!" He shook his hands. "Ikaris-"
"Yes, dear," she chuckled at his excitement. "I am seeing it as well."
A fight that could have ended in a few minutes if white had gone all out and caught the other one off guard had lasted five hours, trading blow for blow and destroying not one but all thirteen continent-sized masses of land in the world, triggering volcanic eruptions and earthquakes that could be considered apocalypses because of the sheer destructive force they held, and yet all they had to show for it was Dina's fatigue as she faced Keele right where they had started, though now, the mountains had been replaced by debris from the Moonfall from earlier.
"Your power is admirable," Keele smiled at Dina. Your next chapter is on m v|l-e'-NovelBin.net
"I'm afraid there's nothing left for you to try though, you're a brilliant fighter but this is where our bout ends," She stood upright before Dina and huffed, calming her breath as the suit healed some minor scratches she had sustained while Dina in contrast had many bruises being passively healed while she gasped and huffed on one knee out of breath.
"No," Dina heard Sol's voice in her head when she was about to give in. "Keep fighting."
[Mana is at 0.3%] Alpha gave her an indication of how much power she had remaining without any prompt.
"I can't keep fighting-"
"You have plenty of power to spare, Dina, stop hiding behind your fears, we're watching over you, just let go," Sol answered before she could completely refute.
While Dina spoke to him in her head, Keele stood there staring at Dina for a response. The woman seemed like she was on the verge of surrendering a few moments ago, but now she had an expression of conflict and fear in her eyes.
"Are you...?" Keele wanted to approach Dina but started sensing danger coming from her person again, unlike before though it was a lethal amount something foreboding that she hadn't sensed before not even when she fought Sol.
"Let out your chaos,"
At Sol's prompt, Dina clenched her fists and stood without the aid of her hands, biting her lips as the colour in her hair vanished and the glow went with it, turning it black from the roots outwards and her eyes inverted a second time, causing her iris to glow red while her sclera turned black again while her pupil maintained a pink glow.
"What is this?" Keele leapt away as the sense of danger she was feeling became greater.
"This..." Dina hissed as she immediately began feeling pain. "This is me not giving up."
[Special magic; (Daughter of Chaos) has been activated. For the next twenty minutes, your mana will be multiplied a hundredfold and converted entirely into chaos incarnate; please be careful; even a second of overuse could have fatal consequences.]
"Yeah," Dina ground her teeth and fell into the same stance as Keele did. "I'm aware."
"Keele."
"Mr Vestic!?" The woman jolted when she heard his voice in her head.
"You have nineteen minutes left, after that she's going to stop fighting on her own, but just know, the being before you is no longer just a mage, she has become an emissary of Chaos and destruction; a god manifest in human flesh, if you slip up you'll lose your life in an instant so don't hold back, understood?" He spoke in her mind.
"Wh... Yes, I understand, this is what would be considered a trump card, right?"
"That's right, good luck."
[Conditions have been met; your feet have firmly been planted amongst divinity; you have achieved total divinity through the simulation of pure divine chaos. Would you like to accept your evolution?]
[...Accept]