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Chapter 962: The Three Cataclysms
Chapter 962: The Three Cataclysms
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Although everyone froze in horror, with their hope fading away, Blake celebrated. He knew that this was it. This was the battle that was going to decide everything. They were not only able to break through Bestellen's powerful defenses at long last, but they were able to damage him to this extent.
With over half his blood missing, a whole arm gone, his stamina reaching critical levels, his health dropping dramatically, and his Divinity having grown weaker after Blake kept attacking it and destroying it…
Bestellen had now decided to spend his own Life Force, the endless Lifespan of a Deity, to gain tremendous power and transform into the appearance he once had at his peak.
Of course, he cannot heal his wounds, nor his age, but the power that he had once at his peak was there, and his Divine Halo, the representation that he was a Deity, appeared above his head.
"He even has a halo?!" Asked Elizabeth. "S-So this dragon is truly a deity?! But how is this possible? Where did this deity come from? Have we been living in a lie this entire time? Are the Holy Spirits, not the only true Gods?"
"It was always like this…" Erdrich said. "Right, Alberta? Your continent, you also have gods there."
"Y-Yes…" Alberta nodded, swallowing saliva in nervousness. "I don't know how it is for Divine Dragons, but for the Gods I know, they're very ancient beings from the Mythical Era, before the Holy Spirits even gained consciousness of their own. The Architect, was said to once have been an Ancient Dwarf, a mortal, that after countless hardships, ascended into a God."
"Your friend is right." Bestellen spoke, his body slowly floating towards the entire group, his wings endlessly blazing with silver and golden flames. "We deities come from the Mythical Era, an Era where your bunch was nothing but ants hiding beneath the ground. It was a completely and totally different world than what it is now!
A world where Titans and Dragons dominated the lands, and where the rest of the Ancient Spirit Tribes conquered the Elements, the Frost Fairies were one of them, belonging to the Ancient Ice Spirit Tribe."
"…" Skadi remained in silence, her magic generating barriers and shields to protect everyone.
"But then… Everything came to an end in the last three wars. The Three Cataclysms." He spoke. "The first one was the War between Titans and Dragons, the giants and strongest tribes born with divinity, it was a war where I saw many of my comrades die.
Those wicked Titans… The second Cataclysm was the War of Spirits, where all Spirits battled for territory and resources in an ultimate battle between Ancient Factions. Surviving Dragons and Titans that allied different factions participated."
Bestellen's blazing arm started generating a sphere of silver and golden flames, which kept growing larger and larger and larger.
"And then, the Third Cataclysm, which closed the curtains of our Era, and opened the one of weaklings that hid beneath the ground like you and your ilk." He spoke. "The War Against Heaven."
"Heaven…?" Elizabeth muttered, without understanding what he was talking about.
The sphere Bestellen was creating kept growing larger, his pressure was so powerful Blake couldn't get closer as hard as he tried! It felt like everything was becoming utterly futile against complete and absolute dominance and power.
"Your Demons are not the first Invaders of another World." Said Bestellen. "The very powers you possess, girl, once belonged to the wicked Celestials that invaded our planet."
"Why are you telling them all of this?" Skadi asked.
"Why shouldn't I? I recognize their strength and bravery, and I've decided to reveal to them a part of the truth, as my farewell gift, before they die by my hands." The sphere he created slowly descended towards everyone. "Can you block this? With this, I killed hundreds of Titans! My strongest Divine Dragon Spell, {Silver Quasar}!"
Silver Quasar, a spell Bestellen used to slay hundreds of Titans. The sphere of hyper condensed Divinity, Divine Silver Flames, and his Life Force represented as Golden Flames, floated above everyone's heads, their bodies paralyzed.
"You surprised me more than I ever thought, you took away one of my arms, even… But this is it, humans. You've truly grown stronger, I recognize that your ancient race, once weak and pathetic, has finally gotten somewhere." He spoke. "But it is a pity that such powerful warriors, will die prematurely… Because they dared to challenge a god like me."
"You speak with such confidence and pride." Blake laughed, his monstrous form beginning to charge all of his Energies, Mana, Ki, Spirit Essence, Blood and Shadow Energy, and more. "But it's not like you're the only one with trump cards left. {Rise}"
"Huh?"
In a split second, Bestellen was surrounded by over five hundred Familiars, the same ones that had died by the hundreds before, were back, now as Undead Familiars, right in front of his nose! And to make things worse, they were overflowing with dark, demonic energies, their projectiles hitting him constantly!
"What's this?! Your last futile struggle to…?!"
"{Undead Wall}!"
However, Blake was not done yet, the Undead Familiars merged together one after another, forming giant walls of rotten flesh, larger than even the White Dragon! Their unified stats becoming so high that even Bestellen's flames were not burning them completely!
"SHYAAAGH!"
"GROOOHH!"
"GRAARRRGH!"
The aberrations roared, attacking with him their endless assortment of tentacles, jaws, and eye beams! The Divine Dragon was completely surrounded and unable to move, his legs, arms, and wings, all of them were trapped within an endless sea of rotten flesh!
"GRYYYAAGH! YOU WICKED HUMAN! DIEEEE!"
With a furious roar, the Silver Quasar descended as fast as Bestellen could muster, Skadi flying towards the sphere and unleashing her Divine Skill in that moment.
"I'll leave the rest to you then." She smiled back at Blake. "{Primordial Ice Embodiment: Skadi}"
FLUOOOSH!
The moment Skadi was about to be engulfed by the sphere of flames and be reduced to cinders, her primordial, ancient divine powers activated, only for once, as her body exploded into endless oceans of frost at the same time as the sphere consumed her.
And the world froze against her eternal, primordial ice.
The sphere of flames, against all logic…
Froze, becoming a giant sphere of ice instead!
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