God's Battle

Time passed like flowing sand…

Brian ignored all the leisure activities and persisted to cultivate.

His life had been diminished to just attending the lectures and just cultivating all day and night.

He even ignored the messages of his friends to meet them for a chat.

Brian knew his situation much better than anyone else, he has a gold finger that could lead him to unattainable heights.

The only huge problem was his cultivation speed!

He had to work 30 times as hard as anyone else in the Star Formation Stage because of his enormous number of Singularities.

Fortunately, according to the information he learned about the next cultivation realms, he would probably be able to enjoy the benefits of his relentless hard work in the early stage.

His real motivation was the hope of eventually surpassing entirety his peers in strength.

The threat of centaurs also forced him to work hard but that was another issue.

…

"… It has been more than one month since you all started studying at the Veda Academy. Atharva-Ved techniques can't be mastered with just learning theory.

I think it's the right time to let the cream of students explore a lower plane with your seniors. Unfortunately, this opportunity is just for the specially recruited students so I ask the normally recruited students to go back to their dorms while I talk about this in detail. The class is dismissed for you." The teacher called Fauzi of Atharva-Ved classes announced with a meaningful expression

Just as he thought, the show finally started…

"I object!" A loud voice resounded in the class.

Brian turned his head to find a centaur looking at him provokingly.

Zotare!

He was a well-known centaur specially recruited student. Technically, normally recruited should be the only ones initiating the fight against the specially recruited students to prove their strength and get the spot to explore the lower realm.

Even the teacher Fauzi had a slight surprise in his eyes. He was in dark about the beef between centaurs and Brian as this was not well-known gossip yet.

"What objection does student Zotare has?" Even teacher Fauzi felt strange of Zotare's action.

"In my opinion, not all specially recruited students have the competence to venture in the lower plane with seniors.

There are a few students who haven't even properly condensed all their Stars, forget developing their believers," Zotare said with particular reference, but his tone altered in the later half as if he were recounting a horrendous crime.

The teacher felt his reference moving towards Brian

He was also slightly confused about the capability of Brian, the supposedly weakest student of class even after he was specially recruited by Lord Hanuman himself.

"What do you propose Zotare?" Fauzi cross questioned

"I propose to have a battle with him and let him prove his capabilities or else leave this class to not spoil the face of Class 5-A" Zotare proposed with justice flashing in his words.

"You are not the one to decide who is allowed in the class or not" Tone of Fauzi's voice increased sharply along with his terrifying aura

He felt his majesty being challenged by a mere student and moreover even he wasn't qualified to remove a student specially recruited by Lord Hanuman himself.

"…but I approve of your test" He suddenly smiled at Zotare who had now become pale without any color on his skin due to being terrified under Fauzi's aura.

"Teacher,

I have a question" Brian suddenly raised his voice

"What is it student Brian, are you scared now?

Don't worry, I won't kill you and leave you a little string of life" Zotare laughed loudly with a mocking mocking tone

Teacher Fauzi's expression also frowned slightly. Being the teacher of Atharva Ved teaching about battles, he didn't like a student who got scared without even putting up a fight.

"What is it student Brian?" He still maintained his demeanor and asked Brian

"I had a little doubt about this battle with Zotare. I don't really mind fighting him but only if I am allowed to kill or some kind of bet is involved which will make the fight motivating for me" Brian expressionlessly asked

Everyone in the class had their mouth agape. They felt that Brian's brain circuit had been damaged for him to ask something like this.

The teacher also had a strange look on his face at this strange request but he agreed with his point of making the fight motivating

"Killing is not allowed but I will add a prize.

The winner will be allowed to draw another race of believers. If Brian wins then this wage will be postponed to the stage when he is eligible to accept it." Fauzi lightly announced the bets like it was nothing

'WHAT!'

Waves were turbulent in everyone's mind

Each student is allowed to draw one race from the school treasury when he/she crosses the Star Formation Realm and step into God's domain realm. The race is dependent on a lucky draw in which the probability to get a strong race at the start is very low.

One could even let life develop on their Star directly without buying believers but that requires a lot of time stones and students with no strong backgrounds like Brian can't afford that kind of luxury so they are forced to buy believers and hope that they mutate.

A smirk appeared on Brian's face when he thought about the prize.

Zotare also felt like gold fell from the sky directly into his lap

He laughed maniacally

"Shall I start the battle?" Fauzi asked

*nod*

*nod*

Fauzi waved his hand and a strange light enveloped Brian and Zotare to form a large dome which was the battlefield where they could fight.

Believers can't come into the Genesis plane directly or else they will be crushed under the horrendous energy here.

The teacher's always created a special area where the energy of Genesis plane won't affect the believers before any fight.

"Come out my pious believers. Show this heretic God your power and behead him."

Zotare wanted to end the fight as soon as possible to get the nice and plump prize and develop a second believer race before going into the lower plane.

Unfortunately, his thoughts were just meant for wishful thinking…

*flash*

120 large figures appeared in between Brian and Zotare.

Thunder Bull!

Brian's eyes widened at the luck of Zotare.

Thunder Bull are not low-grade species but they are a mid-grade species making their potential higher than ordinary gnomes, orcs, goblins, and many more. Their characteristic is that of thunder, Purple thunder symbols were all over their horns and coupled with their huge body made their appearance fiercer.

They were almost half a size bigger than Brian.

Brian soon regained his composure as his expression turned serious.

He closed his eyes amidst the fight as his fingers mysteriously formed a strange symbol.

Zotare felt palpitations and immediately ordered all the Thunder Bulls to condense their strongest attack 'thunder beam' collectively.

In between the horns of 120 Thunder Bulls, sparks began to rise followed by a small sphere of purple energy.

Brian opened his eyes momentarily to check out the attack of Thunder Bulls but closed his eyes again and continued to form mysterious symbols with his fingers.

"SHOOT!" Zotare commanded

A large thunder beam which was the combination attack of 120 Thunder Bulls rapidly shot towards Brian.

Just when it was a few feet away from him, Brian took a huge leap in the sky avoiding the thunder beam and letting it fall behind his earlier position and cause a huge explosion.

*BOOM*

Brian flicked his right hand's index finger and a very small seemingly invisible attack shot towards Zotare.

*pierce*

"Ahhh!" Zotare wailed loudly at the sudden pain

Brian had used not just one but two different types of energies, water and wind to form a small, transparent ice shard as his attack.

All those mysterious finger signs were just a fake to make Zotare attack first and become unprepared for his hidden attack.

The scene proceeded exactly how he predicted it to be.

He had shot the shard into his right shoulder making his right hand unusable until treated.

*Clomp* *Clomp* *Clomp* *Clomp*

Brian leisurely walked towards Zotare who repeatedly commanded the Thunder Bulls to attack him.

"why"

"Why"

"WHYYYY!!!"

"WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN TO ME"

"Kill this bastard God for ME!!!" He shouted at the Thunder Bulls with anger raising in his heart.

"Fool!" Fauzi shook his head from outside the barrier as he already declared the winner in his heart.

It wasn't that Thunder Bulls didn't want to attack but Brian's performance was so perfect making them reconsider his strength and hesitate to attack. They would've maniacally charged at him if Zotare said a few war cries or pleasing words but he was a fool driven by emotions.

A deity driven by emotions is worse than a mortal!

Brian knew that it was his time to shine right now.

Thunder Bulls were at their weakest right now. Their faith was on the verge of collapsing. Their deity was crying out loudly just after being hit once.

Brian had already condensed 29 Stars and woven the barriers of 28 Stars.

The only one giving him headaches was the pure Black Singularity which was also his original gold finger. Brian couldn't figure out any way to make form a Star around it.

Brian waved his hand casually and the ground below trembled before forming shackles on Zotare's body.

The shackles lifted all his four centaur legs into the air and tied both his hands behind his back.

"Much better!" Brian commented making the enraged Zotare regain his senses

"Impossible"

"I don't believe this is real" He shouted loudly

"Same old dialogues every time, change something dude" Brian scolded him while using his little finger to clean his ear.

*snap*

Brian snapped his fingers and an ice shard appeared in his hands once again. This one was much bigger than the earlier one.

He didn't even think before throwing it on his face

Zotare's breathing stopped and his eyes widened

He felt death coming near him

He didn't even have the time to make a final sound of despair

*burst*

The ice shard burst in front of his face when he had closed his eyes in horror

Turns out, that Brian had thrown another ice shard to collide with his earlier one and just cause some skin injuries to Zotare.

"Be quiet" He commanded the stupefied Zotare. Before turning towards the Thunder Bulls

The mind processing power of Zotare wasn't enough to comprehend what just happened.

"now now, I think you all have seen the state of your so-called 'God'" Brian started speaking to the Thunder Bulls in God's language which can be understood by every mortal.

The Thunder Bulls were not fools and could see that this God also wanted to subdue them.

"I am not asking you to get subdued but it's my command and if any one of you object to it… Step forward" Brian said in a majestic and stern voice.

Brian didn't have much time. If Zotare accepted defeat, then he could take Thunder Bulls back on his Star back as the fight is over.

A Thunder Bull slightly larger than all the other ones stepped forward with slight hesitation.

He was also one of the two fanatic believers from the Thunder Bulls. Although he was disappointed in his God, he wouldn't just get subdued by anyone so easily.

The Thunder Bulls weren't actually subdued by Zotare but because of certain rules were compelled to believe in him. Someone like Zotare could never subdue a berserk race like Thunder Bulls.

*flick*

"Thud"

Brian directly flicked once and pierced the forehead of that bull with his ice shard.

"Next?" He said in an unhurried tone. He wanted to form a fearful image in front of those Thunder Bulls.

"I don't mind killing you all right here. Your life and death is in your hands. Make the right choice!"

"… Do you really want to go back to the God beaten by one blow of mine or follow a stronger God like me?" Brian started attacking with his words.

Each of his words directly pocking their soul.

…

"We want to follow you…!"