Chapter 603 - Ivars Return
Chapter 603 - Ivars Return
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Explosions filled the Amon Continent's sky as one man and three giants covered by a dark foul aura fought against dozens of shining Divine Avatars.
Zatiel alone fought twenty-one golden giants, while the Corrupted handled the other eighteen. There were five headless Divine Avatars on the ground.
The Neo-Demon made sure to preserve the bodies in the best possible condition, severing the karmic bond between the Divine Avatars and the Gods. As for the Corrupted, their battle style was much more ferocious, but they managed to keep the enemy at bay despite the difference in numbers thanks to the A.I. Chip's help.
Of course, if the Depravita were able to act freely, they would take the corpses away, devour them, and come back to kill some more, but with the A.I. Chip's constant surveillance, they did not have a way out.
Thanks to that, the Neo-Demon could focus solely on his battle. Even for him, fighting twenty-one Divine Avatars was not easy.
Zatiel's eyes narrowed as he responded with his blue and red lightsabers to two punches coming from his left and right. Each of those fists was more than one hundred times larger than his body, but he managed to stop them like nothing and exert shock waves that sent the attackers flying away.
Unfortunately for the Neo-Demon, just as he did that, an ice meteor descended from the sky and struck him point-blank, sending him crashing down.
"BOOM!" An explosion echoed through the continent as the Neo-Demon blasted into the ground.
The ice meteor that collided with the Neo-Demon transformed into a golden ice giant whose aura put him at the Limit Rank 7.
Not willing to waste time, the Divine Avatars flew toward the ground. While that attack may cripple any other Rank 7 life form, they knew it would barely harm their opponent.
Just as they were about to reach the Neo-Demon's landing zone, the Divine Avatars felt a spike in energy, and their eyes widened as every single one knew what that meant.
A blast of supernova energy emerged from the crater, and although the Divine Avatars did their best to move away, the beam vaporized one while destroying the limbs of another two.
No matter how many times they saw it, none of the golden giants could stop feeling shocked by the raw power of that attack, and the ice Divine Avatar was no different.
Utter awe was the last emotion in the ice Divine Avatar's face as the Neo-Demon appeared in front of him and buried the blue lightsabers in his head.
Zatiel severed the karmic link between the Divine Avatar and the God controlling it before storing the body in his space ring and looking at the remaining golden giants.
Although they attempted to hide it, hopelessness filled those Divine Avatars' eyes, and the reason was simple. That ice meteor attack carried the limit of what they could display inside Gods' Tomb, yet they saw not a single injury in their opponent.
The truth was that the ice meteor did harm the Neo-Demon. Still, the Sacred King Aphotic Dominion managed to nullify almost ninety-five percent of its power, and his wounds healed in less than a second due to his bloodline and him having activated Sacred King Battleform.
As Zatiel flashed toward his enemies, a barrage of attacks landed on a Corrupted and blew it to pieces. From the broken corpse, a Depravita emerged, and it immediately transformed into a foul fog.
The Divine Avatars fighting the Corrupted saw that, and each of them immediately activated an artifact that generated a Yang Domain around them.
Yang was positive and could repel ghosts and negative spirits, which was mildly effective against the Depravita's Negative Force Field.
It granted the Divine Avatars some protection against the Depravita, but they could not attack it in its fog form. That was when another golden giant took a golden sphere that unleashed powerful yang sunlight.
That sunlight burned the dark fog, forcing the Depravita to regain its physical form and dodge the attacks coming from the Divine Avatars.
The Yang Domains stop the Depravita from physical contact with the Divine Avatars. For the nightmarish creature to teleport directly into the golden giants' minds, their negative emotions needed to reach a high enough level, which was not present in any of them at this moment.
Zatiel was not surprised by the Divine Avatars' preparations and how they faced the Corrupted. After all, this is the ninth time they have fought.
Although he could induce negative emotions in one of those Divine Avatar, generating a gate for the Depravita, he did not. The Gods did not find a way to fend perfectly the possessions of the nightmarish creatures, so they programmed the yang artifacts to generate self-destruction of the bodies if a Depravita enters one.
The Neo-Demon learned that by the hard way, as one of the Divine Avatar exploded into an ocean of yang flames when a Depravita entered his brain, significantly weakening the creature.
Before the Divine Avatars could harm the Depravita, Zatiel's right eye glowed, teleporting it inside. He then flashed to the corpses in the ground and collected them in his space ring before flying away with the two Corrupted.
None of the Divine Avatars pursued the trio. They had already attempted before, and the only thing that came out of it was them losing bodies.
Zatiel was simply too fast, and once the Corrupted entered the Phantom State, their speed and defenses improved to a point even Limit Rank 7 Divine Avatars found hard to suppress.
The Neo-Demon and the Corrupted did not fly too far. As soon as they left the Magic Castle, they stopped. Without the castle augmentations, the Divine Avatars could not threaten them.
Not a minute after the Neo-Demon and the Corrupted left the Amon Continent, golden giants emerged from the other two strongholds and went to replenish the numbers of the one that just faced the four.
Since they did not even bother trying to hide it, the Neo-Demon saw everything, but he did not care. He knew that soon, the same Divine Avatars he and the Corrupted killed would enter Gods' Tomb again.
All the Rank 7 Gods created new Divine Avatars to send into the Transitional Plane the moment the one they had inside was destroyed. Of course, they did not have the resources to take this endeavor on their own, but the Greater Gods were helping them, so Gods' Tomb would not fall into the Magi's hands entirely.
Who controlled more continents meant nothing for Zatiel, and he was happy with the constant supply of enemies and food that were the Divine Avatars.
He took the ice Divine Avatar in whom he performed Karmic Severing and allowed the Depravita in his eye to possess him and transform it into a Corrupted.
Immediately, he used his blood to carve runes in its body and commanded the A.I. Chip to adjust the Depravita Battle Formation to the new Corrupted's powers.
Once he finished with that, Zatiel gave the Corrupted the headless' golden giants corpses so they could eat, and he took an intact Divine Avatar for his plasma wheel.
The Neo-Demon replenished his power and was already planning his next skirmish as his eyes narrowed and he stared into the void, only to see Ivar appear.