Chapter 127: Absorbed

The next day, I summoned the gods and sped up time in the created place.

Salem and I spent two weeks there making sure that the relics would not bring us any surprises.

The gods could connect to the Relic of Knowledge upon arrival to instantly learn all the most important events that happened during their absence.

I made sure they couldn't do that, and I also learned more about Salem herself who was not opposed to sharing various stories from her life.

Darkness affects her very strongly, and it's noticeable.

Thus, she gradually discovered methods of remaining herself to experience fewer sudden emotional changes.

It's simply because all her negative emotions are amplified many times over, and she can immediately switch to anger from irritation if she doesn't watch herself.

The real anger turns into an all-consuming rage I recently witnessed when she thought I was a servant of the gods.

It was only sensible for me to summon them in the Grimm Lands because summoning them on one of the inhabited continents would have been stupid.

I simply brought all the relics closer together and enveloped them in light, and I felt a signal through their connection with the gods.

"Well, this is exciting. The first real gods capable of destroying the world."

I said it aloud.

After all, the gods in the Battle Arena... are quite weak to be honest.

I dealt with each of them even before using large amounts of Platinum Kryptonite, and they were simply unable to oppose me after that.

The live stream is in progress, and I've sent a satellite into orbit that I built, linked to the global network, and gave Salem and Ironwood access to see.

Two huge power sources emerged in the sky above the Earth and landed next to me after a short time.

They were the God of Light and the God of Darkness in person.

"Has humanity already atoned for its guilt or is it ready to face punishment?"

The God of Light spoke.

"It is ready to fight for its life for sure."

I replied to the God of Light.

"You are not from this world, too powerful, it's unforgivable. The experiment has been spoiled..."

God of Light spoke threateningly, but his voice didn't really change. I felt the threat.

"Shall we destroy him?"

God of Darkness asked him.

"So, there will be no peaceful outcome, right? Then... face the Seraphim of the End!"

I exclaimed and was enveloped in a full suit of armor made of Eighth Metal with some amount of Ninth Metal.

I looked like a three-meter humanoid with wings on my back and a bright aura, but there was also a dark part.

This armor is the strongest artifact I've created.

In an instant, I teleported to the God of Darkness, and I tried to decapitate him with a sword strike...

Light appeared next to Darkness at the speed of light and pushed me away with a powerful energy burst.

In less than a second, he incinerated tens of kilometers of earth around us with this burst.

"There simply won't be one."

I firmly gripped the sword and pulled two suits entirely made of Eighth Metal from the ring.

I created them because I was interested in seeing how they would help in battle, and each one had hundreds of kilograms of this metal.

"For this insolence, the planet will be annihilated!"

Darkness and attacked me with a sword of darkness he created.

The earth and space around us were under a lot of pressure from our hits and immediately created a crater in the ground for many kilometers. 

Meanwhile, the shockwave with a mix of our energies annihilated everything in its path for vast distances.

My aura and Ki were working at full capacity.

This fight made me a little stronger because the magic added to the already strong physical traits of the armor.

Darkness clearly lacked skills because if it weren't for Light, he would have lost his hand and part of his horns.

"Two against one seems unfair... but three against two seems more to my advantage."

In an instant, my two suits appeared next to the Light and were propelled by a crypto-drive based on the combined knowledge of Tony Stark and myself while utilizing magic-technology.

They attacked him with different weapons made of Eighth Metal.

The Eighth Metal is an excellent conductor of energy and can even amplify it.

There was something akin to an S-bomb inside the suits, but more like an S-reactor.

These suits could hold their own against Superman as they could withstand colossal physical damage.

"Brother!"

Darkness exclaimed when I created dark magical bonds to be strengthened by my Will while momentarily restraining the God of Light.

Darkness began transforming into a huge black dragon, and I tried to slow him down by attacking him at that moment.

However, he put his tail in the way to block the blow, but I cut it off, which caused further damage to the surrounding environment.

"Ura-arr!"

Darkness roared in his dragon form and lunged at me.

He opened his mouth and shot me a beam of pure Dark energy. I took it in on my wings and turned it into Light energy.

The collision of the two opposing forces caused an explosion, creating a crater with a diameter of a hundred kilometers.

However, I stopped the damage for myself.

After the attack, Darkness opened his mouth again and tried to devour me while diving down at me from above.

"I'm not quite ready for such a close encounter..."

I muttered while defending myself with my wings and broke through various layers of earth with my back.

Darkness pushed a path through me that was tens of kilometers long in just a few seconds.

He showed no signs of stopping and was ready to send out another concentrated stream of darkness.

However, I simply teleported up to Light... who was doing quite a number on my suits.

He left dents on them at light speed, but they resisted and fired bullets made of Eighth Metal.

Light was too agile while dodging them easily, and he effortlessly struck them at the speed of light in close combat.

"Alright, I've tested what these toys can do, now it's time for something else."

I whispered to myself and teleported the suits back into the dimensional ring...

We had already caused enough damage to this continent during the battle, and they were using more and more of their power each second.

The suits had performed decently, and it was evident that Light was close to overpowering them.

"It was just my first experiment of this kind to create an army of Iron Legion using divine metals.

They are quite strong against these enemies, but it's better to fight them myself when it comes to gods of such power.

I caught their attention as I flew higher.

"Brother, let's not let him get away!"

Light transformed into his dragon form and reached me in less than a moment...

I fully deployed my alchemy and tried to influence Light... but it didn't work.

However, I created a portal, and he flew into it using magic and immediately found himself far in space next to another planet.

Interestingly, the gods had different dragon forms.

If the God of Darkness looked like a European Horned dragon with four paws, then Light resembled an Asian dragon.

He looked like a long snake without wings... but this fact didn't prevent him from flying.

They felt as if I was slowing down and decided to corner me near the Moon, and that's when I decided to use the item I had specially kept up to this moment.

The Depiction of Nature and Society, an S-rank item capable of isolating space and sealing the chosen target or targets in a space where the owner can manifest various effects.

Also, various creatures weaker by sixty percent than the chosen targets will appear in this space.

"Well done for arriving together."

I told them who quickly caught up with me near the shattered moon.

As soon as the words left my tongue, I used the card... and reality trembled.

I felt space change, and I couldn't understand how it worked as if it were a concept of the world telling me who and how to seal.

They found themselves in a huge isolated space but in separate parts.

Light found himself in pitch darkness while Darkness found himself in a very bright space reminiscent of some kind of paradise.

"It's working..."

I uttered.

The space in front of me was quite large, about the size of Japan.

They were separated from each other and were in places that directly opposed their power.

Of course, they immediately wanted to escape, but their strikes against the barrier achieved nothing.

"It's time for another test."

I said, taking out powerful S-bombs and moving them towards the Darkness who was already under attack by creatures resembling bright angels.

He effortlessly tore them to shreds, but they still possessed forty percent of his strength, and there were many of them.

The S-bombs started to explode, and the bright light made his limited space seem to turn into a supernova.

The bombs kept exploding one after another, and I stopped at the five hundredth.

The God of Darkness looked... battered.

The smell of burnt flesh arose, and a barrier around himself began to sustain it, but the damage was done.

I moved towards him.

"Not feeling so proud now?"

I asked him.

"What is this?!"

He asked while still in his dragon form, and he came at me with such a powerful attack that it was capable of piercing through the moon.

However, I spread my arms wide, and a black halo appeared above my head.

This monstrously powerful attack of pure Darkness hit me, but I didn't let it detonate.

I began to compress it using all my strength and the souls in the amulet.

After a few seconds, I had a dark orb over my hand... capable of smashing the same moon into pieces.

"One-on-one, you're not as strong as you seem."

I lied.

I would have lost badly without armor and magic enhancement, but I had a plan for that outcome.

I used magic to increase myself to about the same height as the dragon and then started fighting close up again without saying anything else.

Light couldn't help him this time, and he didn't last even ten seconds because his situation reminded me of Superman's.

He had strength but no skills.

In a one-on-one battle, I quickly defeated him and thrust my sword into his chest, piercing him through.

"Im... possible."

Darkness croaked and was pierced by my sword.

He died quickly, and I was about to seal his essence... but an unforeseen event happened.

Darkness' soul attempted to find the nearest suitable vessel... and that vessel turned out to be me.

"Damn..."

I created a magical seal beneath me and summoned the amulet containing the souls.

Then I began to seal Darkness into it, and he showed no resistance and seemed not to be fully aware of himself.

However, all his power remained inside me... The halo above my head pulsed with strength and didn't disappear.

I knew the dark creatures in the space of Light would attack him again. 

I teleported there and summoned the Road Roller (D) from my Gacha inventory.

I then dropped it on him and pinned him to the ground.

Moreover, the roller was imbued with the power of darkness.

"Your brother is already dead; now it's your turn."

I said to Light.

"This will be your end!"

He may have felt Darkness' death because he immediately attacked with full force and struck at the speed of light, but he didn't harm my armor.

I still felt it and flew to the other end of space.

"Rather, it will be yours."

The Darkness surrounded me while creating a literal dark shroud and altering my armor visually to appear more intimidating.

I felt a tremendous surge of power after absorbing the strength of the God of Darkness.

I wanted to apply this power and destroy everything in sight.

A sword swing sent a slash of dark energy at Light.

He hid behind a shield of light to protect himself, but an explosion broke the barrier upon collision.

After that, a dark laser from my eyes made Light roar in pain. 

I sped up with aura and magic to the fullest and used the Bang technique "Explosive Heart Release Fist" to swing forward.

The newly built multilayered light barrier was broken by my first strike, and Light started beating me at the speed of light.

I started to influence the space around me by using alchemy and darkness.

This made Light slow down within half a meter of me and surprise him enough to cut it with my sword.

"Ohh..."

I swayed because everything happened just like with Darkness and I absorbed his power and sent his soul into the medallion.

 After that, I began to feel changes at a fundamental level, and my very being and soul began to evolve rapidly.

I also realized that I was constrained by the laws of the universe in this world not significantly but noticeably.

It's not entirely accurate to say "constrained," but it's more like I was missing something... So I did what came to my mind first.

I teleported to a world where there are many gods and powerful beings.

I found myself in such a world and felt like a switch had been flipped, and the powers of Light and Darkness began coexisting inside me.

I slowly entered a state resembling meditation and used Personal Reality (A).

I did not realize that I had ended up in some artificially created space with strong "Holy" energy.

I didn't notice how my body was enveloped in a cocoon of light and darkness, how my very presence caused "ripples" in the world's space, and how some "Heavenly System" connected to my soul, most likely recognizing me as the most worthy or most similar to the creator.

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