Chapter 157: Chapter 157: An Elopement Of Love? (4)
The dual Divine Thunderbolt was unleashed by utilizing the Infinite Soul.
After using it, I thought to myself.
'I shouldn't use this in actual combat yet.'
Firstly, the casting time was a bit long.
It took about a second to activate the Infinite Soul.
A second might seem insignificant, but even in the Supreme Realm, where time was finely divided, it was quite critical.
If the opponent was a transcendent, the consequences would be even worse.
'And the power.'
The most important aspect was power.
It was strong.
Originally, the Divine Thunderbolt was the lightning of destruction that obliterates anything.
It was cast, after all.
However, it was weaker than I expected.
The Infinite Soul was an existence made of infinity.
Therefore, the Divine Thunderbolt it unleashed should be stronger than the one I cast.
But what was the result?
'It's only twice the strength of the Divine Thunderbolt.'
There were many points to improve.
However, some issues would resolve over time.
The Heaven-Surrendering Godly Technique.
With the Infinite Soul, it could nort yet be realized.
'Ultimately, the fusion of Divine Thunderbolt and Heaven-Surrendering Godly Technique.'
And it must use the Heaven-Surrendering Martial Emperor as a kaleidoscope.
Only then could the Infinite Soul be perfected.
Well, more than that for now.
'I should kill that bastard.'
I looked at the evil spirit, whose torso was a third blown away, pierced by the Divine Thunderbolt.
It was stuttering, looking at me.
Impos…sible. This, power is…the lightning of destruction…
"What, you know this?"
Know…of course. How could I not know?
The evil spirit was chuckling and sobbing.
Ridiculous. What I thought was an escape route from the seal was actually a trap to kill me?
What was it talking about? I frowned, examining it.
Its words were somewhat unusual.
As soon as the Divine Thunderbolt was used, a reaction emerged. And the word 'trap.'
'Could it be that I've encountered someone who can use my Divine Thunderbolt?'
There weren't many people who could wield my Divine Thunderbolt.
First and foremost, there's the emperor, who used his status to seize my Divine Thunderbolt.
Then there was Shin Yura, and a few others…
The Duke of Extermination.
As my thoughts reached that point, I gazed at the domain.
The domain of the evil spirit.
It was designed to protect the inside from the 'outside.'
But wasn't the evil spirit sealed by the principal?
'Wait, hold on.'
Certainty was not good.
The principal might have dealt a decisive blow and sealed it.
But what if someone fought it and injured it beforehand?
And there was a very high chance that a woman was involved.
A possibility emerged.
As soon as I reached that thought, a possibility crossed my mind.
'Could it be that this place is…'
The spirit wanted to hide this place. If so, then this place was…
Just as I was thinking that, my senses detected danger.
I activated the Infinite Soul.
Two pairs of arms.
One of them extended its palm straight ahead.
Boom!!
An immense shockwave.
Something the spirit had launched was aimed at my life.
But there was no problem in blocking it.
'The defense is quite decent.'
The duration wasn't bad either.
I had used it for quite a while, and I didn't feel any significant burden.
Creak-creak.
I looked at the spirit.
It was watching me, seemingly preparing something.
'It seems to have made a big decision.'
At this rate, I wouldn't survive here.
A cornered rat would even bite a cat.
The power of the evil spirit surged in an instant. The domain it created here was shrinking.
The domain it had established, it was retracting its power.
I'll show you what it means to have reached transcendence!
The area around it wavered. The concentration of the curse began to thicken.
Now, if it hit without any defense, it would be dangerous.
But…
'What is this?'
Achieving transcendence.
It meant casting off the laws of the stars and imposing one's own laws on the world.
Thus, a transcendent being was dangerous.
There was a power difference in every realm, but the gap between a transcendent and a supreme realm was particularly vast.
Yet, its state was strange.
It retracted its domain and amplified its power.
Its realm was transcendent.
However.
'Is it dangerous?'
The evil spirit didn't seem dangerous.
I was prepared for some degree of bloodshed.
'This is below expectations.'
This guy was too much of a pushover.
Though he temporarily amplified his realm and power, he didn't seem threatening.
Even a lower transcendent wouldn't be like this.
'Well, it's still a transcendent realm.'
At least I could shave off some of the Demon God's flesh.
I took my stance.
Though he was not a threat to me, he was still a transcendent.
It should be possible.
Take this!
The evil spirit condensed its power.
I dashed forward using the Wind God's Steps.
It's useless even if you try to block!
The curse blazed.
It began to transform as if creating a black sun.
Whoosh.
Ashen flames burned in my hand.
At the same time, the Infinite Soul began to move.
I took my stance and struck at the evil spirit's head.
Boom!!
With the sound of space crumbling, the evil spirit's head momentarily shook.
Gah!
The evil spirit spewed something like a curse from its mouth.
Perhaps it was because I used too much power at the moment.
It was also evidence that my control was still immature.
You, got you!!
The evil spirit clutched the blazing black sun as if to burst it.
A vast curse. If I were to face it head-on, it would be imbued with enough malice to make survival difficult.
But it didn't matter.
Crackle.
Lightning crackled.
The Infinite Soul prepared the Divine Thunderbolt.
'I couldn't fully harness the power of Limitless.'
Until now, it was just the Divine Thunderbolt.
This time, I should infuse it with the power of Limitless.
'There's no need for repulsion.'
The Divine Thunderbolt repelled the Brilliant Blazing Fire and the Glacial Heavenly Moon.
The two spells were situated at exact opposites.
The Brilliant Blazing Fire, the flame of life.
The Glacial Heavenly Moon, the ice of destruction.
Repelling the two forces of extreme opposition.
However, Limitless Sun had already created them by repelling those forces.
Crack!!
The form of the Infinite Soul began to disappear.
The grayish soul changed into a colorless form.
-It's already too late!!
Fwoooosh!
The tainted sun was condensed to the brink of explosion. Just before it detonated.
The Infinite Soul moved first.
[Extreme, Divine Thunderbolt.]
Just before the colorless lightning was about to be unleashed.
The tainted sun condensed and began to soar.
And then.
────────────!!!!
The colorless lightning condensed into a single point and shattered everything.
As if to obliterate everything blocking its path, the lightning of destruction erased the tainted sun.
It pierced through the evil spirit's body. And it penetrated the domain beyond.
-...How, is it possible?
The evil spirit's eyes wavered. They transformed into a look of disbelief.
-How, can, you. You possess his power?
"…His power?"
-To oppose the Demon King… the Seven Seats… you, in that place…
The sinister gaze of the evil spirit began to slowly fade.
-You are the apostle of ■■■…
It was a profoundly meaningful statement.
I opened the space of void and brought out Shin Yura.
Fortunately, Shin Yura remained calm.
"Is it over?"
"Yeah. I taught them a lesson."
"Really."
Shin Yura seemed like she wanted to say more.
It seemed like she had sensed something.
'Was her intuition always this sharp?'
It felt like she was on an upward trend.
"So, we're going back now?"
"We should return to the Divine Sect… or so I'd like to say, but it might be difficult right now."
"What?"
"It seems like the place we were dragged to is quite troublesome."
"Troublesome place?"
Shin Yura's eyes widened, as if questioning whether such a thing existed for me.
And indeed, it was true.
Ordinary things didn't really hinder me.
However.
Even for me, this realm was a bit of a headache.
It was a space I'd heard about so much that it had become tiresome.
"Keep your invisible armor on, okay?"
"Is it a dangerous place?"
"It might be dangerous."
This place wasn't entirely safe, after all.
I stabbed the edge of the realm with the Wind God's Spear and split it open.
Perhaps because the evil spirit was dead, I didn't feel much resistance.
Crack-
The realm shattered.
I looked outside the realm.
A place where stars could be seen, like the universe.
"This place is…"
"Be careful."
"What?"
"It seems we've mistakenly entered a rather strange space."
I said with a wry smile.
Boundary.
It seemed we had stepped into that place.
There was a woman beneath the Milky Way.
With blue eyes and long blonde hair. Her skin was so white it seemed transparent, and she was a woman of delicate lines.
A goddess of beauty, seemingly detached from somewhere.
The Duke of Extermination quietly pondered atop a mountain of corpses.
'That damn woman.'
Since Han Seojin's death, the Duke of Extermination hadn't uttered a curse.
With a somewhat vacant expression, she just lived on.
But after seeing hope that Han Seojin might be alive, she gradually began to change.
If she had only lived feigning kindness as the head of her clan.
Now, she was returning to being the Duke of Extermination, who annihilated all her enemies.
And recently, this had intensified.
That damn Heavenly Demon.
Because she schemed and pinned the blame on her.
She felt a bit dirtied.
To the point where she wanted to vent her anger on other transcendents.
"Hm?"
Come to think of it, there was such a guy.
A strange being who just reached transcendence and claimed he would become the Demon King.
She gave that being a bit of a touch-up with the Thunder of Extermination.
She couldn't kill him.
She could have if she tried harder, but his immortality was quite bothersome.
The principal suggested.
To seal him first and then convert the magic power coming from him into mana and suck it up.
The Duke of Extermination, who wasn't particularly attached, would have nodded at that proposal.
'Tsk, has the seal been broken.'
The Duke of Extermination raised her lips crookedly.
As if her mood wasn't bad enough already.
The fight here had been stagnant for a long time. Most killed each other, and the fighters were limited.
So, they knew each other's every move.
It meant the fight was in a stalemate.
If the Duke of Extermination rampaged, she could harm the Demon King, but that was all.
That would only worsen her mood.
Thus, the Duke of Extermination rose to kill the self-proclaimed Demon King, an existence ignorant of its own position.
Immediately after.
She sensed something.
'Divine Thunderbolt?'
The Thunderbolt of Destruction.
If it had evolved in any way, would it have changed like that?
That lightning had the will to destroy anything in its path.
The thunderbolt, filled with such determination, affected everything around it.
Its power was so chilling that the battle in this area temporarily ceased.
'Evolved Divine Thunderbolt?'
A lightning bolt that split stars.
Until now, no one could handle it.
If it were of the same realm, no one could stop it, and even those of a higher realm would struggle against the Thunderbolt of Destruction.
There was virtually no being capable of evolving it.
Why did the Empire covet the legacy of the Purple Tower Master?
No matter how much they studied, they couldn't match what the Purple Tower Master had briefly researched.
"A colorless lightning? Was there ever a being with such power?"
"It resembles the Divine Thunderbolt… Wait, could it be the Purple Tower Master? Could he still be alive?"
"There's no being who has ascended right now, is there? How?"
"If it's the Purple Tower Master of the Empire, it's possible! First, the Empire's people should gather…"
Amidst the commotion of everyone there.
Faster than anyone, the Duke of Extermination dashed toward where the lightning had struck.