Chapter 115: Chaos

Chapter 115: Chaos

(Repayment chapter)

Word count = 1340 on 11/20/2023

A rift opens next to Xue Tie's sealed bleeding body, from within it, A monstrous figure is launched out while the 2nd figure is a second Miquella who immediately turns into a beam of light and merges into his main body.

Miquella shakes his hand and the chains binding Xue Tie are broken as he regains consciousness, dropping down to his knees as the weakness hits him. His strength has fallen back down to the basic God officer level as the devoured souls all went to Shade. In fact, his body is weakening even further as the very death power which served as his reborn foundations are also gone. To prevent him from descending to the divine realm, Miquella gives him a bit of energy, but in doing so, he realizes something. It makes him smile briefly but Xue Tie notices it and nods to him. Xue Tie finds that his strength is stabilized at the god officer stage and then artificially raised to the 1st stage god class of power, just below quasi god king level.

"Good job so far Young man. Let's end him now before I break the divine realm." Miquella Congratulates Xue Tie while turning to face Shade who has now shrunk back down into his original state. With the exception of the glowing purple veins on his body. Prime Shade gets up and takes a stance. A calm and collected expression on their face even though all the other god kings who have had a moment to recover their energy, now take up their various stances.

Hui Mie, Poseidon and Asura take up combat stances next to Miquella whilst Kindness and Sheng Ming the goddess of Life take up stances in the back. Kindness summons a holy aura that envelops Xue Tie and the three god kings. Miquella was not boosted as the energy seemed to passively avoid him which might be a reflection on the divine realm's own gradual destruction from his presence. Yet it matters not as he is still stronger than all the god kings combined anyways[1].

Asura is the first to move to strike at Shade as he has a grudge to settle for the corruption he was inflicted with. A hot headed take but he is still fully rational now that he isn't corrupted anymore. He chooses to not physically engage but instead utilize his asura god sword to send out energy waves related to his power type of judgment and righteousness which Shade has to repel or dodge since chaos and all the energy it has stolen from the dead gods serve as its entire energy capacity. Luckily, most lower level gods have already escaped after Xue Tie originally went crazy but there are a few 1st class gods who are observing from a distance.

Shade could try to rush after them but he acknowledges that he is not the fastest person in the area with Miquella around. After dodging Asura's attacks and even sending a few back.

Hui Mie shortly joins in and strikes at Shades openings but it looks like his attacks do little even though it is the power of destruction. He quickly realizes as Shade is about to casually grab him that the destruction energy technically falls under the esoteric concept of Chaos which means that he has instead been feeding Shade with 'delicious' energy. Miquella pulls him back to act as support to them along with Kindness and Sheng Ming(life).

With the god of destruction being found useless, Poseidon can only join the fight alongside Asura using the Sea God Golden thirteen halberds (a technique uniquely used with the sea god trident). He first uses the first form, unified storm[2]. Summoning a giant pool of water to enforce his action, he strikes out in hopes of partially sealing Shade with the unique power of the first form. Unfortunately, even after being pierced in the arm by the trident, Shade continues to move around like normal as the chaos dispelled the esoteric power which would have normally contained Shade.

Unknowing if Poseidon's power would have an effect or not, Asura had struck out with the charge up move he had previously released at Xue Tie before. ('GETSUGA TENSHOU'?!) A beam of golden light energy is sent out at Shade who, after kicking Poseidon away, jumps out of the way of the beam. The energy curves after him constantly but Shade simply dashes away further whilst manifesting Death to confront the beam, having it target the weak points of the beam.

"WHAT??!!!" Yet as he builds up the blade of death to cut through the judgment light, death begins to shimmer as Shade loses his connection to that power. He yells out in panic while sending out what he does control which greatly weakens the judgment beam from Asura but not enough to dispel like Shade intended.

BOOM

A giant dust cloud rises up to reveal that Shade is still find but with a few scratches on his body due to the explosion. He had essentially blown himself up to offset the weakened judgment attack.

"What is going on, why can't I use death?"

"Wouldn't you like to know weather boy" A voice rings out and Shade finds that Xue Tie is crouched down behind him with a smile on his face.

"You? But your powerless!" Shade retorts.

"That might be true, But i severed your connection to Death when you were inside me. I've been reabsorbing it this whole time while you were fighting." He reveals what he cut when he expelled Shade from his mind. This was also the thing that Miquella had sensed when he gave Xue Tie his energy.

Xue Tie got to learn the true state of death in this time as such, he makes death manifest in the form of a sword. Specifically a katana while the surrounding area around both Xue Tie and Shade is enveloped in Death.

"JUDGMENT…..CUT!!!"[3] Xue Tie utilizes the full power he has been given to accelerate himself, grant death to time and space to create a fractured space that is fixed a few moments later when Xue Tie sheathes the sword into his own chest [4].

Shade collapses as his body has been cut by death and space into chunks.

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[1]: I say Miquella is stronger due to the pathway of ascension they have in Elden Ring. The player collects the fragments of the elden ring from the demigods but we never truly witness a true god, at least I don't think we have. If I take on details of the convergence mod. Then we skip the standard god format and skip straight to outer gods aka cthulhu mythos and whatever else there is.

Also if I had to give an alternate reason then it's the convergence of consciousness. The soulsborne games all work based on time anomalies. So if we assume that when they ascend, every version, every form of consciousness from the millions of players were all combined into one. Then that means the same for all the energy they accumulated as demigods…or in Miquellas experience, his sealed egg state. The energy all converged to casually ascend past regular godhood and even the stages of godking, beyond it, into the outer god territory.

[2]: look up the sea god trident for a description of the moves known as it's just a list of 5 moves but only 3 have descriptions. Too long to post here.

[3] Yes I just plagiarized Vergil's (DMC) judgment cut if not obvious. I remade it in a way that could be explained with the spatial affinity.

[4] reverse sword summoning like Shura Kirigakure from Blue exorcist…or Raiden Shogun from genshin…i think. I don't play genshin so i assume she summons a sword from her booba

D2ZwvAY6-disk cord code. Got my 2nd person last night. And the magical thing is that they actually talk. Didn't know yall were capable of speech.