43 Chapter 42 Hidden Part 2
Yoko used her dark tide orbs to create an ice shield in front of herself. The shield was pierced by the flame rapier but it bought enough time for Yoko to shift her head and neck causing the stab to only sear off the edge of her neck. Yoko had the shield shift into the water to dowse the blade before turning into spikes causing the Erinys to back off.
With a hole in her neck and the one in her stomach still healing slowly, Yoko was in bad shape. Her body could take a lot of punishment but her mind was still used to a human amount of pain. The intense pain caused her to plummet to the ground but before she hit the ground Zero caught her.
"Looks like it's time to switch." said Zero
"No I can still win." argued Yoko
"You lack the experience to beat her. Why don't you take a rest." said Zero as he activated his mental manipulation to make Yoko sleep.
Zero walked towards a couch and placed Yoko on it to allow her to sleep peacefully. He then flew into the air to face the Erinys.
'System'
RACE: ERINYS
SOUL: GREATER VALKYRIE SOUL
SOUL RANK: B-
LEVEL: 87
ATTRIBUTES: WIND, LIGHT, FIRE,
STRENGTH: 2750
SPEED: 3640
MAGIC ENERGY: 120,000
VITALITY: 39,500
SKILLS: FLIGHT, WING MANIFESTATION, SPEAR MASTERY, LANCE MASTERY, SWORDSMANSHIP MASTERY, HOLY RESISTANCE, FIRE RESISTANCE, WIND RESISTANCE, HOLY MAGIC MASTERY, FIRE MAGIC MASTERY, WIND MAGIC MASTERY, GREATER VALKYRIE PHYSIOLOGY, AFTERLIFE TRAVELING, LESSER MINOR DIVINITY, WAR EMPOWERMENT
'What is lesser minor divinity and war empowerment?' asked a concerned Zero
LESSER MINOR DIVINITY: THE USER HAS A MINOR PORTION OF DIVINITY AND DIVINE POWERS GRANTING THEM STRONGER AMOUNTS OF POWER BEYOND MORTALS BUT STILL WEAKER THAN THOSE OF LESSER AND FULL DIVINITY. USERS CAN GAIN THIS LOWER DIVINITY BY HAVING A DIVINE ANCESTRY, TRANSFORM INTO A MINOR DEITY OR OTHER DIVINE BEING EITHER BY ANOTHER GOD OR BY FAITH. THIS LEVEL OF DIVINITY IS VARIABLE AND UNIQUE BY THE USER'S NATURE AND CHARACTER OF BEING; HOWEVER, THIS WOULD ONLY BE POSSESSED BY LESSER BEINGS LIKE MID-LEVEL DEMONS, NYMPHS, SATYRS, HYBRIDS, ASCENDED DEMONS, AS WELL CERTAIN TYPES OF FAE AND SPIRITS.
WAR EMPOWERMENT: THE USER BECOMES STRONGER, FASTER, AND MORE DURABLE DUE TO WARS AND ALL FORMS OF CONFLICT INCLUDING MENTAL, PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, AND CONCEPTUAL ONES, REGARDLESS OF THE AREA AND NUMBERS INVOLVED, POSSIBLY UNLOCKING ABILITIES RELATED TO THE AFFINITY AND ENHANCING THE EXISTING POWERS. SOME USERS MAY BE ABLE TO DRAW SUSTENANCE FROM THE CONFLICTS OR EVEN SLOW OR STOP AGING.
'So she's a god?' asked Zero
INCORRECT ERINYS WAS CREATED BY A GOD AND GRANTED A LESSER MINOR DIVINITY
THEY HAVE LESS DIVINITY THAN THAT OF A DEMI-GOD
'So what are my chances of winning against her now?'
HOST HAS A 65% CHANCE OF WINNING AND A 12% CHANCE OF KILLING THE TARGET
"Apologies for interrupting you 1on1 fight. I have a proposition for you." said Zero as he smiled
"What is it?" asked the Erinys
"Well it's simple if I win you serve her as your master for all eternity and if you win you get to our souls." said Zero
"Why would I need to make a deal with you?" asked the Erinys
"If you don't make the deal it will be impossible to obtain our souls. I'm sure you've felt that our bodies don't contain our souls. So do we have a deal?" asked Zero
"Very well it's unlikely that I'll lose. We have a deal." said the Erinys
"Good then let's begin." said a smiling Zero as he circulated mana. Then the mana condensed and formed a purple bat tattoo on both individuals.
The Erinys for a holy flaming spear and took her stance as Zero took his void sword stance with a claymore. The Erinys charged at Zero and trusts her spear towards Zero but missed as Zero shift to the right and slashes at the Erinys forcing her to retreat. As the Erinys readies herself for a follow-up attack but Zero didn't attempt it. The Erinys formed orbs of holy fire and launched them at Zero but he vanished and appeared behind her. With his leg, he kicked her with his maximum strength send her into the wall.
The Erinys emerged from the crater glaring at Zero. She created orbs of flames and launched them towards Zero but Zero teleported and appeared in front of her. Zero attempted to slash her but she covered herself with flames forcing Zero to stop his attack. This created an opportunity for the Erinys to stab Zero as he tried to use the claymore to defend from the attack. The spear pierced through the claymore but before it could stab Zero he teleported and retreated to the middle of the room.
The flames around the body of the Erinys vanished and she started to breathe heavily. Her mana pool was starting to run dry so she would lose at this rate. She flew towards Zero with her flaming spear and Zero made to attempt to dodge the attack. As the attack was about to land Zero activated his time-stop ability and the Erinys stopped completely.
Holding nothing back Zero proceeded to attack the defenseless Erinys. He held nothing back as he attacked and after a minute of constant attacks, he deactivated the ability. The Erinys stopped midair and began to show an expression of pain as she fell to the ground. Zero landed right next to her and pointed a blade at the Erinys' throat.
"Do you yield?" asked Zero
"I will never admit defeat! You have to kill me first!" yelled the Erinys
"Well as an honorable Valkyrie do you admit that I am stronger?" asked Zero
"Yes, I cannot lie. You are more powerful than I for now." Said the Erinys in a quiet voice
As those words left her mouth the tattoo glowed and the Erinys collapsed in pain as the terms of the contract activated. In admitting that Zero was more powerful than her; the Erinys unconsciously thought that she lost to him in strength. Since the conditions for winning or losing were not defined this counted as a loss for her. Zero had manipulated the Erinys' honor to make her admit defeat.
"Good looks like the system was right. Killing her would be difficult." said Zero as he had noticed during the battle that the Erinys was slowly getting stronger and faster. The more they fought the worse it got for Zero. So he had been forced to end the battle through trickery rather than victory.
The contract was slowly engraving a contractual seal on the soul of the Erinys for her to serve Yoko. As the process was occurring Zero walked over to Yoko to check on her condition. Her body was mostly healed by now as the wound on her neck had disappeared and the one on her stomach was almost fully closed. Zero slit his wrist and placed it to her mouth and she opened her eyes and began to drink his blood ravenously. After 20 seconds she released his hand and her wound instantly closed.
"Rise and shine." said Zero
"What happened? Where is she?" asked the confused Yoko
"She right there." said Zero as he pointed to the unconscious Erinys
Yoko punches Zero in the face and he falls backward. "Why did you interfere I could have beat her!" Yoko was raging that Zero had taken the opportunity to finish the fight from her. Her eye started to glow and icicles began to form on the ground.
"You couldn't have won. You're more powerful than her but you lack the experience to use your abilities effectively." stated Zero calmly as he got up off the floor
"I could have beaten her but now that you've killed her I'll never get a chance to know!" yelled Yoko
"I didn't." stated Zero
"What!?" asked Yoko
"I didn't kill her. She's not dead just knocked out." explained Zero
"Then what did you do?" asked Yoko
"There's something I need to find out from her. I also thought she could help train you so I made her your minion." said Zero
"You and I have to have a talk." said Yoko
"Alright however you still need to finish off those first." said Zero as he pointed to the Valkyries that were still in the air.
