Chapter 366 I Am Very Calm...
Chapter 366 I Am Very Calm...
"We made it within my adjusted calculations, Uncle," Jena smiled at Sol while he was in the process of slowing down having reached their destination.
"I haven't seen or interacted with that many of them, but I can tell at a glance; this is not a normal collective, everything we expected is right behind this veil," Sol came to a halt, resting his feet on the outer walls of the collective and releasing a sigh of relief amidst another of tension. "We have no idea what we're about to encounter."
"Be a little optimistic, uncle," Jena appeared at his side and bumped his arm with a dramatic punch. "You are the Golden Godslayer of the Grand Collective, there are few if any Primordial beings as powerful as you are, there is power in the name Sol Vestic," She smiled at him.
"This is not a part of the Grand Collective, Jena, and there are a lot of primordial deities here, Sol Vestic is a nobody to this Super Collcetive, so whatever you do, don't go bragging about anything I can do no matter what happens, understood?" He narrowed his eyes at her and turned his back to the wall, staring at the small orb of light in the distance.
"The Grand collective is barely visible from here, and we couldn't see them at all when we just started our journey." Sol turned to the wall again and rested his hand upon it.
"Are you ready, Master?"
"I don't have a choice but to be ready, Jena, this has everything to do with the survival of our home, worst-case, I return and take them all here, abandoning the rest of the grand collective, but that is the same as running from my responsibilities, which I never will."
Sol balled his fist, digging deep into the divine mana that had been stored over the last six days of travelling through the Grand Collective and the passage and unleashed a punch directly against the wall, expecting that it would have caved in immediately, but to his surprise the wall of energy dented instead.
"Unexpected," Jena stared at the rapid spiralling fluctuations of energy within the dent, watching them merge like thread and repair the damage from inside. "It consumes energy from an interior source to heal any external damage, it is the same as the techniques that Lady Ikaris uses whenever she applies healing to anyone or anything."
"So..." Sol balled his fists again, kicking off the barrier and swinging his legs several times as if he was swimming as he gained more distance from it. "What you're saying is that I will have to hit it harder?"
"Yes, much harder!" Jena cheered excitedly seeing Sol descend once more, manifesting the divine crescent on his chest while his hair glowed a brilliant star-like flaming white.
"Hauu!!" Another devastating attack collided with the barrier, but this time, even though he had multiplied his strength to several dozen times the power of the first attack the barrier barely seemed to budge, dispersing the shock of his attack evenly across hexagonal scale-like patterns that spread as far as he could see in every direction.
"Fuck, I never expected this," Sol scratched his head with a nervous chuckle. "This barrier might be invite only."
"Will you give up?" The little girl asked him watchign the barrier carefully mend itself, also at a loss of ideas.
"I'll try a different approach, my fists are blunt so I will apply piercing pressure instead." Sol took a few steps into the passage and raised his hand towards it, pointing his index.
[Unknown Tier: Pulsar]
Without any preparation, any buildup or any warning at all Sol manifested the greatest [Pulsar] attack ever concieved, but had to immediately raise his hands and cast a shield around himself when the explosive beam of raw divine mana bounced right back at him.
"Fuck all!" Sol snapped in frustration, deflecting the attack off into the passage behind himself and approaching the stubborn wall once more with a scowl. He summoned the sword he had taken from the Emporium General and in a swift motion thrust it forward.
Again, the result was the same, rather than get an actual injury or show signs of failure, the barrier rejected his attack and sent the sword flying out of his hand whilst also leaving a crippling surge of lightning raging across his body.
"What the-" Sol grabbed the barrier and took a deep breath when the lightning ceased from dispersion. "You stubborn..." He began funimg at this point. "Why won't you break?"
"It may have been the direct tampering of a Primordial Deity that forced the barrier to have such a dense makeup." Jena suggested, expressing worry for Sol who was getting more impatient with each passing moment.
He cast every element he could think of imaginary and otherwise, nothing worked.
over the course of the next day, he tried using reality distorting magic to bypass it but every time it seemed like the barrier would break or give way it grew denser and redirected his power at him.
"When I find out who did this, I am going to smash their face in!" Sol exclaimed with another punch against the barrier, seeing his strength get dispersed across the vast body. "I am gonna beat them to a pulp!" He exclaimed in a flush of irrational anger.
"This barrier..."
Sol's eyes went dark with rage.
"This Collective..."
He began grinding his teeth.
"This is really pissing me off!!"
"Uncle-"
[Unknown Tier: Warp].
[Unknown Tier: forced Sun].
[Unknown Tier: Pulsar].
[Unknown Tier: Cataclysm].
[Unknown Tier: Dark Spear].
[Unknown Tier: Divine Retribution].
[Unknown Tier: Amplification].
"U-uncle, wait-"
[Magic combination.]
"Heaven Piercer..." Jena named the cast, seeing the many contrasting magics distort the very passage they occupied while they formed one large golden mana-spear, cackling with black lightning and humming with white light fragments.
It was massive too, beneath it, Sol would have been invisible if not for the bright white light coming from the crescent on his back.
He stared at the barrier in disdain, there had never been something he couldn't break, this frustrated him into using all of the accumulated divine mana he had been saving; mana that could wipe out several dozen Universe Sectors in one fell swoop had been condensed into a singular point that had the barrier reacting and actively condensing before it was even attacked.
With his hand above his head controling the [Heaven Piercer], Sol grimaced for a few minutes more, allowing all of his divine mana to seep into the spear before he released it wordlessly.
"The light from that sector of the Super Collective dimmed as a mass amount of energy was directed into the point of impact, and when Sol's attack exploded it erupted in the shape of a great cone, shooting off into the passage and dispersing over the course of a few minutes.
"Uncle... calm down," Jena attempted to hold on to Sol's hand, but a force she had never beheld repelled her from next to him.
The barrier was still intact, there was only a small white crack the size of a hand at the very epicentre of the explosion, silently, Sol approached and rested his hand on the crack and then retreated to where he was before, turning towards the barrier again with his eyes narrowed and his jaws clenched.
"I am calm, I am very calm."
Sol smoothly spoke before his mana exploded from white to golden and the crescent on his back morphed and grew into a large circular ring brimming with sun-like storms along the surface. "I am incredibly calm,
Jena!
" Sol hissed out a pocket of golden mana and opened his hands in a grand gesture, grinding his teeth as he channeled power from the beginning as well as his Collective.
"I just don't have the time to be patient with my calm, I have already wasted an entire day out here!"
"A calm Sol Vestic would never go to this length..." The girl muttered, watching his ears grow and his eyes invert when he assumed the complete Godslayer form, crests, sigils and all.
[Unknown Tier: Heaven Piercer]
Instead of the one attack she thought he would create now that he was in his Godslayer Transformation, which came with thousands of times more potent and dangerous mana, Jena watched in horror as Sol made more; seven great spears in total.
"This is overkill," She chuckled to herself, shaking her head.
"This is the bare minimum!" Sol exclaimed, clasping his fists and crossing his arms in a gesture of further combination while the spears began merging into a singular unit. "I need their help, that is all there it to it, if I have to break in before I ask politely then I will be as fucking flamboyant as I can be!"
"This might break in a bit more than you are expecting, uncle," Jena sighed and rubbed her forehead, finally understanding what Alpha meant when she told her that the stronger the person was, the more irrational they became when faced with a situation where their power was tested beyond their expectations.
"I'm breaking in."