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Chapter 226: He Was Not Joking At All!
Chapter 226: He Was Not Joking At All!
Chapter 226: He Was Not Joking At All!
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"This… I can still fight…! I will… protect my world!" muttered Judith, trying to stand up, but the wounds on her soul weakened her, making her tremble in pain.
"Let me… I will kill him… Ungh…" groaned Zudithe, trying to help Judith stand up, but it wasn't as if he was any better.
"It is hopeless, give up on it. I do not have the intention of killing you. Don't test your luck," said Frank quite ruthlessly.
"Damn… arrogant brat! I will… beat some sense on you!" roared Zudithe, as he flew towards Frank while unleashing a spatial magic spell!
FLASH!
"Ah, that's… Wait, Frank!" cried Axitl.
Frank was then suddenly enclosed into a cubic-like space!
"You lowered your guard, invader!" said Judith, as she suddenly rushed towards Frank and unleashed her spell, combining her divinity with Zudithe!
FLASH!
Suddenly, Frank began to be absorbed by an enormous black hole within the space itself, which was… throwing him somewhere else!
He saw it, it was Earth!
"What?"
It was the outer space of Earth, it seemed that these Gods had prepared a special technique to send him back to his world and seal the entrance to Terra!
"We got him!" said Zudithe.
"Wait, let him go!" roared Axitl, as she tried to attack Judith and Zudithe, but was suddenly affected by something… a floating cube that Judith summoned!
The Goddess of Time glanced at Axitl with an angered and dead-serious expression.
"You leave me no choice!" she said, unleashing the power of the Nexus Cube, which began to affect Axitl's mind!
"Nnngh…! NNNNGGYAAAAAAAAHHH…!"
"We won!" said Zudithe.
"Frank will be gone and Axitl will become obedient at last…" sighed Judith in relief.
"Gone? I am still here," said Frank.
"WHAT?!"
Zudithe and Judith suddenly glanced back at the pocket space they entrapped Frank inside, as they were sure to have seen him sucked by the black hole!
However, they saw… Frank's arms!
His soul's arms were tightly grasping the pocket space walls, pulling himself… out of the damn black hole!
This was something that should not even be possible!
"Did you think that this cheap trick would stop me? Cosmic Magic, when combined with Void and Chaos Magic has a lot of crazy effects…" said Frank, his eyes glowing with red light as he combined his spells and magic together once more!
"Spatial Claws," said Frank, as he shaped his hands like claws and grasped the spatial walls of the pocket dimension itself, finally pulling himself out of the powerful blackhole!
"Seal," said Frank, waving his hand as he suddenly closed the black hole effortlessly!
"T-That's… impossible! How can you be better at Spatial Magic than me?!" asked Zudithe.
"Well, when I ate your soul I also got your memories. Damn, you had a long life, didn't you?" asked Frank with a grin, as he had acquired Zudithe's memories when he ate a fragment of his soul for the second time, acquiring his knowledge and experiences!
"Y-You are a monster…! You are truly a monster! TIME CAPSULE! TIME SEAL!" roared Judith, infusing all the power she had leftover "Frank!"
CLASH!
Frank was then encapsulated in thirty Time Capsules and then sealed, finally stopping his charge!
"Now, Zudithe, create the black hole again!" said Judith.
"Yes! I- Eh?!" muttered Zudithe, as he saw Frank… moving!
He was moving even when time has stopped!
This was… ridiculous!
For a Goddess of Time, to see someone that was not even of her same divinity doing something so outrageous was infuriating and frustrating!
This was clearly an impossible feat by all means!
But Frank… was someone that liked to do the impossible!
Crack, crack… Crash!
Frank kept walking towards the Gods, without even exerting force, he broke apart each Time Capsule as if they were mere glass, falling into pieces on his feet as they dissipated…
The seal has broken apart and eaten by his soul, and then, he emerged once more in front of the Gods.
"You are really making me reconsider this…" he sighed, he was really beginning to consider simply eating these Gods now…
Similar to Zudithe, Frank acquired Judith's memories when he ate her soul fragment!
Although he had no Time Attribute Magic he simply manipulated pure, attribute-less magic, and slowly used it to manipulate the Particles of Time within all of creation, forming time attribute spells out of nowhere!
He did not even need an affinity, to begin with, Frank could easily learn any Skill or magic by just touching a book!
Using the same logic, he used the experiences and knowledge he learned from Judith and easily formulated a Time Attribute Spell to cancel out the Time Capsules and Time Seal!
Flash.
Frank used his newly created Spell, Teleport, as he reached Axitl and touched her head.
"I see that you immediately tried to brainwash her now, you are really rotten trash, aren't you?" asked Frank in anger, as he suddenly healed Axitl's mind, slowly making her fight back the brainwashing!
Then, he seeped his hand inside of her very body and took away the Nexus Cube that has fused with her soul!
"This thing… I will keep it as a souvenir," said Frank, saving it inside his Inventory.
"Ngh… How is it possible that you can… fight against us?! You are merely Rank 4!" said Zudithe.
"Rank 4? Oh? Do you mean the Mana Core Rank? Well, that is something of my physical body. I am here with my naked soul, right? By eating your Divinity Fragments my Soul has already become a Divine Soul and my Soul Core turned into a Divine Core. My Stats are also skyrocketing, and whenever I unleash my soul, they increase exponentially momentarily. Did you have a way to check my Status too? Well, let me tell you that Stats are not everything," laughed Frank.
Indeed, although Frank had a Rank 4 Mana Core in Terra, and his stats were quite high at Level 50, he still should not have been able to fight a God!
At most, his combined power could equal a Rank 6 Magus, but… he was clearly stepping into the Rank 7 Realm, which was most of the power level of the Gods of Terra!
Indeed, the Demon King, whose Rank was between 8-10, was stronger than the Gods themselves, and this is probably why they did not fight it themselves and used mortals to sacrifice themselves against it.
But thanks to Frank's soul and his ability to adapt and evolve in battle, he had already reached a similar Realm to the Gods in front of him, and by using his powerful Gluttony, he violated and ignored their defensive measures!
Even if he was technically weaker if he could ignore their defenses so easily, then what was the difference?
Frank glanced at the two Gods expressionlessly, as they sensed his soul evolve and turn into a Divine Soul!
"Hmmm… Maybe if I can eat you two, I should be able to reach the realm of the Demon King… So what do you prefer? Obey me… or die miserably?" asked Frank, as Axitl finally snapped back from her brainwashing, stopping her agonizing scream as she fell unconscious at his side.
Zudithe and Judith suddenly feel despair.
It was useless.
Maybe if they had the energy before creating Terra, they would still be able to fight back Frank and possibly beat him for real.
But they were weakened, their energy source had exhausted even more now that they unleashed so many strong spells…
Frank knew that he was not able to fight Gods that were in their prime, but weakened Gods such as them… if he used enough tactics such as eating them slowly through the fight, that he would be able to pull out a victory.
And this world was the best starting point, with so many weakened Gods…
Gluttony was a mere manifestation of his System Powers, of his Trait.
So, it was Frank's Trait, the power that only Overseers possessed, that gave him such a huge advantage such as being able to eat souls and ignore defensive measures by just eating them away.
And now that his soul has become so strong, the after-effect of losing his sanity through Gluttony was not there anymore.
Seeing such strong trump cards at his side, no matter his mana core rank or his stats, Zudithe, and Judith saw themselves as hopeless against him.
But the pride of Gods was enormous.
"…We would rather die than obey an alien!" roared Zudithe.
"Nngh… We will not give in…! This is our world, the one we created, nurtured, and protected…" said Judith.
"There is definitely no way that we will lend it to you…" said Zudithe.
"Well said," said Frank, extending his entire soul over the Gods, shaping it as a monstrous jaw filled with razor-sharp teeth!
"Then die," he said.
"WAIT!"
Frank stopped his track, as he glanced at the beautiful goddess in front of him, crying and trembling.
"Please… Frank… For all… the things we did for you… please, reconsider… Do not… Do not kill my siblings… Sniff… Please… I implore of you! Please! Please!"
Thineas began to kneel before Frank, asking for his mercy pathetically, surprising Zudithe and Judith.
"…"
Thineas then moved towards her siblings, as she forced them to kneel.
"Ngh… What are you doing, Thineas?!" asked Judith.
"Stop… Agh…" muttered Zudithe.
"Kneel, you idiots! Why would you ever want to die?! Are you insane or something? How detached are you from life?! When exactly was the time when… my siblings became so emotionless? You are alive, you know? You are not machines! You have to live, don't sacrifice yourselves so foolishly!" said Thineas, as she goddess of life, she treasured life more than anything.
"Nngh… Zudithe… Judith… Don't be stupid…" muttered Abraddon, who slowly walked towards them.
"Abraddon… Your wounds…" said Zudithe.
"I am… fine. The kid beat me, that is how it is. The law of the jungle, you obey the strong, that's it," said Abraddon, the god of beasts.
"But…!" muttered Judith.
"You idiot! Don't you remember how he said he wanted to save Terra? He wants to ensure that we will not take away anything he made hereafter he saves it! Frank… has good intentions, but you idiots always force him to use force! You force him to become someone that others hate… Just accept his help… Just as he said, let us get our shit together…" sighed Thineas.
"I agree… it is time to change…" sighed Abraddon.
Zudithe and Judith glanced at each other… they seemed filled with bitterness.
But they remembered all the siblings and family they had here… dying for nothing just because of pride.
While resisting the urge to scream in anger at Frank, the two Gods sighed.
"Fine…" said Judith.
"We… apologize," sighed Zudithe.
Frank glanced at them as he squinted his eyes.
"I don't believe you… But I will make sure to make an insurance," said Frank, as he extended two pieces of his soul, shaping them as black-colored worms which entered the souls of the two Gods, seeping deeply as parasites!
"Nngh… What is this now?!" asked Zudithe.
"An insurance. If you dare disobey me or plan my demise in some way… They will eat your souls," said Frank, quickly shapeshifting back to his humanoid form.
"Fair… enough..." sighed Judith.
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