Chapter 886: The Disaster Arc IV
Chapter 886: The Disaster Arc IV
As the hell split in half, Cain stared at Kayden with wide-open eyes. "You! What's that!"
"This power…How is a demon capable of such a feat?" Nyar grunted, regenerating from Kayden's strike as he got ready to counter.
"I might not be a god..." Kayden got ready for a second attack. "But you aren't one either. I can cut you."
Nyar flew toward Kayden with an open palm. "It doesn't make sense. I sense a divine spark inside you, but it isn't awakening."
Cain smiled. He could feel it, the primordial rage and wrath boiling in Kayden's veins. Asura's wrath, anger, and might, the god of the destruction. That power could destroy gods, Kayden already proved by killing Talos. Who to say it can't kill abominations?
Cain grabbed both Kayden and Nyar in a net of Magic and flew with them through the cut made by Kayden in the nine hells and out into the ethereal realm. "Kayden! Stay close to me. We'll take him on here."
"No! I'll kill him first." Kayden growled as he transformed into his demonic form, an ancient demon akin to Asura with six arms, eyes, three heads, and a burning black flame and lighting gushing out of his back.
"What are you talking about?! We need to work together."
"No, it's a race to see who can kill him first." Kayden unleashed six slashes far stronger than the one he used to kill Talos, blasting Nyar away.
"Fine! But I'll not bother saving you!" Cain teleported behind Nyar and flashed him with a massive divine smite.
"Both Creation and Destruction, working together, what an annoying duo." Nyar growled.
Around the elvish kingdom, Zaleria stood in the middle of an army of abominations, staring at the spinning mass of chaos floating in the sky. "What a pain. What was your name again?"
"Suc'Naaath." Its voice echoed into the sky, sending waves of magic.
A mass of elemental chaos gives birth to endless abominations from the depth of Limbo, the elemental plane of chaos. This ancient abomination seems to have been born to mirror the concept of unpredictable elemental energy.
"A chaos elemental, what a rare thing to see." Zaleria smiled.
"I'm no mere chaos elemental. Those weaklings are merely elemental and able to use all the elements. Unlike them, I'm true chaos. I might even give birth to a new overgod if luck was on our side." The mass started moving, "Call me Suc! Cause I succck!" A powerful tempest formed, pulling on Zaleria and trying to suck her into Suc and eject her into the outer realm.
"So besides that Large bastard, you're the one summoning all those abominations. How many planes did you idiots infect?"
"Everything, mortal witch. Prepare to die." Suc charged a powerful beam of light and blasted Zaleria down, exploding in a massive burst of fire and lightning. "A red dragon. You might be immune to flame, but the blast and lightning damage would kill with ease."
BAM! Zaleria flew out of the burst, flying with jets of flame gushing out of her feet. She wanted to transform into her draconic form, but against such an unknown creature, becoming a bigger target could only be a disadvantage. She could still feel Sofia fighting on the other side of the planet, and she didn't want to disturb her by flying too close.
One burst after another, Zaleria ignored Suc and tried to cut down the number of abominations summoned by it. Hundreds of thousands were popping out, and each of them held power akin to that of an adult dragon at minimum, and their strongest far surpassed ancient dragons.
Even so, Zaleria found herself bouncing left and right among the chaos, ripping them apart one after another, reaching tens of thousands dead each second.
She might not have a divine power like everyone else, but her raw mastery of fire and raw strength, enchanted by the countless days she spent beside Cain and the multiple enchantments he gave her in the form of tattoos and nails, she was far above any other red dragon.
"Burning fire itself, to think a mortal can achieve such levels of heat. Your fire burned red, then blue, then white, and lastly burned black when even light emitted by it got burned." Suc giggled, "But I wonder. How long your mortal body would hold."
Zaleria blitzed through the hordes of abominations, evaporating them one after another as she picked even more heat. Her firepower grew at an alarming rate that even Sofia felt it across the planet.
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"Grandma." Sofia turned to look at the distance as she lifted Vorvadoss by the head, "Matter isn't burning anymore, it collapsed due to the sheer heat and is now boiling." She could understand with her being the goddess of the elemental chromatic dragons.
Matter consists of countless small particles separated by an empty space, a void. She crushed the matter by directly removing that void and letting it collapse, but Zaleria was doing something else.
Zaleria heated matter to an insane degree that small particles started vibrating so much that they began colliding and mixing. Soon, they started melting into a soup of raw energy that still heated up from Zaleria's magic.
"Even I can't hold that heat." Sofia gasped.
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In the elemental plane of fire where Kussth fought the abomination to protect her realm, the battle stopped for a second as she stopped moving. "This feeling," She looked at the sky as the abomination on the ground burned from the sheer heat and inferno.
The Djinns living there started praying to her as they saw her pause, and she quickly looked at them. "The war is just starting, don't slack off. The worst is still to come."
^Zaleria, to what height are you pushing? My portfolio is fire, and even it is telling me that what you're conjuring isn't fire, isn't flames, it's something far more primal.^
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Cain and Kayden were still fighting Nyar when the battle came to a quick halt after Cain blasted the entire area. "What was that for!" Kayden growled at him.
Cain stopped and looked at the distance. He could feel it, Zaleria didn't have any divine origin or core, but just like her mother, the arrogance of her draconic blood surpassed all. Pushing past all of the limits of the red dragon's fire, she began controlling heat itself.
Kossuth managed to become a sun dragon, living in the elemental plane of fire as a massive white star of raw heat, but Zaleria is something else.
A spark of energy is born when matter burns past the plasma of a sun, a collapse of the rules themselves.
^The explosion that AO started the world with, she's about to recreate that.^ He smiled, ^Fine. I'll give it to you.^
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As Zaleria flew everywhere evaporating anything she came into contact with, a burning scar appeared on her neck, a makeshift divine portfolio. By mimicking parts of Sofia and Bahamut's portfolios, he mixed them together and shoved them into Zaleria's soul.
A temporary effect, but a primordial monster was born, a thermal dragon.
VOOOOOOM! Zaleria flew above Suc and lifted her palm, "With the power granted to me by my husband, and the blood flowing through my veins by my mother. I call a massive burst of heat, to burn everything into ash." She swung her palm down after a chant.
All the mana in the immediate area flashed into flames, exploding in a massive fireball that spread half the elvish continent, burning all of Suc's minions and summoning abominations.
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Sofia shifted into her Draconic form and munched Vorvadoss. With his regeneration, the only clear way to kill him was to digest him, and none was better suited for that than the avaricious goddess of the chromatic dragons.
At that moment, Vorvadoss's space dominion mixed with her newly discovered void element, only lacking a touch of powerful divine magic to be truly formed. The void draconic element was awaiting the essence of the overgod to become a thing.
"Ah! Grandma is about to blast the whole place. At least, everyone is in heaven now." Sofia teleported away and the only two left in the mortal world were Zaleria and Suc. Everyone else had either died and went to heaven or got teleported directly there by Amaterasu.
"Fire won't destroy chaos!" Suc growled, charging its magic to call even more abomination.
BAM! Zaleria stomped the ground, fire bursting from her back as her nails and toenails flashed with a black flame.
"I'm not a divine, nor a mortal." BOOOM! She flew into the sky like a meteor, mimicking Cain's movements, she flew around the world, picking up speed by increasing the power of the fire jets beneath her feet.
"You outsiders have no right to the world! And to cinder shall be thrown!" She flew directly at Suc, spun midair, and came in with a flying kick of pure inferno.
[First Flash]
BOOOM! A star-shattering boom cracked the ground as Zaleria kicked Suc so hard that she pushed her across the ground and out of the other side of the planet.
As the abomination cried, Zaleria flew right through its chaos portal, shattering the monster's guts from the inside out as she came on the other side, into the outer world outside of Cain's domain.
Right before Zaleria was a massive mass of writhing flesh and blood, just like how Cain keeps his true body hidden, Nyar was doing the same.
Without slowing down, and instead by increasing her heat even further and going far faster as the rules of the world don't apply outside, she hit Nyar's true body with all of her might, a kick with the rage of all dragons combined.
In a world-starting explosion and a bright flash of light, Zaleria died as her own heat burned her body.
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Nyar froze in place, his power waning as he puked blood while fighting Cain and Kayden.