Chapter 59: Judgement of Shamash
Everyone was looking from afar. As Ein didn't move for hours on end. Facing east, so he would see the sunrise.
Mei looked down on the ground. As her heart ached from seeing his situation. "Does anyone know what to do? Anything?" She asked in hopes of someone volunteering to talk to Ein.
Nobody answered as they looked at the ground. Lowering their heads. "I... I'll go. I owe her one last song." Eden started to walk towards them.
She sat on the piano he took out earlier. It was like he didn't notice anyone. Still looking at empty space in front, never blinking. As he hugged Himeko to his chest.
"Himeko... My sister. This is my requiem for you." She started to play, and sang the very 1st song Ein made for her. As she wishes for Himeko to pass on and see them in the next world.
The sun started to shine on their forms. As Eden looked at them for a brief moment. And quickly went away. "My era is over as well, after this incident. My music wouldn't be needed by the public anymore." She looked at their silhouettes.
Ein then slowly stood up. He took out a solid chunk of the metal base for soulium, then he shaped it into a coffin. He dug somewhere near his parents and wrote a sign, he put Himeko inside the coffin and propped it at waist high.
He then flew off to the base. Confusing everyone on what was his plan.
"Let's go." Kevin said as everyone followed him to Himeko's coffin. They saw the sign, as it read. "Bury her at the already dug hole. You can see her one last time, I can't lower her down myself."
Everyone then started to view her one last time. She was still warm, with a slight smile on her face. On her hands were the very 1st stuffed toy she received when it was won by Ein in an arcade crane game.
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Ein holed up inside a workshop, everyone not knowing what he was doing. He left the dragon's corpse to Mobius before, but a few weeks have passed already.
"Mobius, do you know anything about what he's doing?" Mei asked her if Ein told her anything.
She shook her head. "He just left me with the corpse of the vipralopa class. I sequenced its dna already, once we sequenced one. Metatron can figure out the others quite quickly."
Mei frowned. "I'm getting worried, he won't be affected by not sleeping and resting. But I worry about his mental health."
Mobius patted her on the shoulder. "He'll bounce back. He won't take this easily I assume, but he will be back. Stronger than ever."
The door to Mobius' lab then opened. They saw Ein with cold eyes as he stared at Mobius. "Is it done Mobius?"
She nodded. "Yes, the vipralopa classes Mahesvara and the dragon is sequenced. Vishnu is ready for insertion as well."
"Then let's get it done quickly." He entered the testing chamber and went to a tube immediately. As the tank filled up with water.
Mobius already knows what he wants and started the procedure immediately. Starting with the raw DNA of Vishnu, nothing really changed or mutated on him. Making Mobius smile in glee.
"That's a judgement class, and he absorbed the DNA of it just like that. Kevin turned to a walking ice block with the ICHOR of Parvati." Mobius saw Kevin's data, his body has a permanent temperature of -30c or lower.
Ein integrated with the DNA quietly, even though his body looks fine on the outside, he was mutating rapidly inside. As his cells melt, he gave Mobius a gesture.
Mobius then pushed a button and the remains of Vishnu appeared in the chamber. Ein went out of the tank after an hour, he then started to devour the corpse of Vishnu. His jaw unhinged as he bit kilograms of the beast one bite at a time.
He made quick work of it, as he assimilated even Vishnu's body. Basically making him an upgraded one, his body glowed of honkai energy. Massive amounts of it started to funnel to him.
Taking out tons of crystallized honkai energy, he started to feast himself on them as well. Focusing, he tried to make a reactor inside him. Refining honkai energy inside him using his soulium imbued cells. Making tons of pure and raw energy, that's much easier to use and convert.
The testing room was flooded with the energy, as he funneled it to his body and solidified his 1st honkai energy reactor. He sighed, spewing out superheated steam, as he took out the 5th key and cooled himself down.
He entered the tank once again and spoke. "Next, Mobius. Save the best for last." As she nodded at his words. Starting the 2nd procedure, she licked her lips at his form.
After another hour of him absorbing Mahesvara, his appearance changed. Slightly, but there's a change.
His ears elongated like an elf, but it was very short. Not unlike the long ones in fantasy, then black crystals like obsidian and onyx formed on his arms and chest. He frowned as the honkai DNA fought tooth and nail to consume him.
He didn't let it though. As he suppressed it by decelerating his cell activity with Naraka. And forcibly changed his body back to normal.
"Interesting! He can still change back to normal!? He still looks like a normal human, but under that... We don't even know anymore." Mobius talked to herself as Mei silently watched his condition.
"That's the raw and unbridled genes of Mahesvara. How can an organism survive that? We have tried to use Vishnu's prototype ICHOR and test subjects still exploded from the regeneration and power." She said with astonishment.
"Mobius, take it out." After a few minutes, a crystalline body appeared on the lab. With his newfound strength, he bit at the crystal and crunched it like rock candy.
Mobius thought that he looked like a simulation that evolved extremely quickly, and without repercussions. He improves and gets better than the beasts he consumed to evolve. Making him better than perfect in her eyes.
He consumed Mahesvara like candy and he nodded satisfactorily. "It's enough energy for now." He closed his eyes as another core formed. Now fully focused on absolute control, the energy he refines can be shaped and turned almost any way he wishes.
Clenching his hands. He then willed the honkai energy to make a block of tungsten. Utilizing the 6th, and Mahesvara's traits.
A 50 kg block of metal appeared as he caught it and played with it like a plastic toy. "Hmm, satisfactory." His control on herrscher powers strengthened. Depending on the honkai beast he consumes.
"The last and best one." They started the last procedure, and it quickly turned extremely violent. As Mobius and Mei had to deploy the shields to protect themselves. Fires blazed and lightning zapped everywhere inside the testing chamber.
Black scales started to appear on his arms and face. His pupils turned to slits as 2 thick horns jutted upwards on his head just like the beast.
Violet and red veins appeared all over his body as he persevered to reign the violent energy in. He took out the 3rd and 5th key to control the lightning and fire.
Everything started to calm down, as black lightning arced on his body. "It's not enough." He took out honkai crystals and compressed it with a gesture of his hand. Turning tons of crystallized honkai energy into a sphere.
He opened his mouth, showing a row of sharp teeth that looked like daggers. He chomped on it as a violent crunch resounded in the room.
He finished eating it and gulped it all down. "Mobius, bring the corpse here!" He shouted as his voice was heard by the 2 girls behind the shields.
Mobius pushed a button as the corpse of Alatreon slowly appeared. Ein ate it quickly as he started to form the 3rd core, at the center. It formed a trinity with the others, making a nexus. The last and strongest one made violent honkai energy, so strong. It could corrupt a city in mere minutes if unleashed upon it.
Vishnu's core went overdrive as it refined the violent energy of alatreon. While Mahesvara's tried to control it, then the energy is stored all over his soulium frame and now honkai beast body.
Mobius and Mei disengaged the shields as they looked at him. "He looks. Menacing, to say the least." Mei gawked at him, with convoluted horns, black scales with violet and red veins. A thick tail that looked absolutely ripped, overloaded with muscles. And sharp eyes with slits for pupils, as his green orbs feel like they could pierce your soul.
"Ahhhhh. I can feel the power emanating from him." Mobius had a dazed look on her face as she observed him.
He started to change back as his claws returned to fingers, scales to skin, and the horns retracted. Leaving only his draconic eyes.
"Hahhh. Excuse me then, I have things to do." He left a dazed Mobius and dumbfounded Mei.
"He's unstoppable now. I can feel it, he could probably destroy earth much faster than herrschers. And he isn't even fully assimilated yet." Mei spoke with anxiety.
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"Metatron, is it finished?" He asked the A.I. about the latest weapon. "Creator, It's complete. Please be careful about it, you can erase cities with it with a swipe." It made a small jab at him.
"No worries. I'll burn things that are in my opinion, more satisfying to conflagrate." He looked at the pistols. (pic here)
He rolled it on his finger as he put it on holsters. "It's time." His horns jutted out of his head as he went outside and flew away.
When he was far enough from the base. He brought out his wings and turned them into jet engines. Flames came out as he released shockwaves, travelling at least a hundred kilometers in a second reaching speeds of mach 300.
Anything he'd hit would instantly be vaporized from his 10 ton ultra dense weight and hypersonic speed.
He arrived at Sydney Australia in a staggering 90 seconds. And he could even go faster. He stopped dead on his tracks as he emitted a shockwave that destroyed the surroundings.
"Hmm, time to test this out." He whipped out his pistols and located every honkai beast in the area. He started blasting everything with incredible speed, as everything it hit turned to ashes.
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"Dr. Mei, a surge of honkai energy has been detected in Sydney Australia." Prometheus announced to Mei as she immediately panicked.
"All eyes on Australia Prometheus! Right now!" She waited anxiously for the satellites to give feedback as she saw Ein wielding an orange and smouldering great sword. (pic here)
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Ein swung the divine key in Zweihander form. Melting everything it touches and the honkai beasts turn to ash.
He then saw an emperor class, Ganesha. He squinted his eyes at it. "So you respawned huh?" He held the sword with both hands as he put it right in front of his chest.
"0th power." The sword started to transform, as it bathed the surroundings in a tsunami of fire.
"Might of An-Utu" The sword gave an intense heat. As it started to melt the ground around the area, spreading the flames and heat farther and farther. (pic here)
"Hmm. You should be thankful to be the 1st one tasting these flames." He brandished the sword and super heated fire washed over the ruined city. Bathing it in divine fire, as it was razed to the ground. Leaving nothing but ash.
Mei looked at the destruction and frowned at the overkill. "He's very angry. And that sword, is like destruction incarnate, burning everything to the ground."
When the dust settled. He looked around and saw that nothing of the city was left but ashes and molten lava.
"Ahhh, that's neat." He then took out the 5th divine key. As he activated its 0th power. Turning the city of ash to a frozen tundra as far as the eye can see.
"Let's try this." The twin pistols of Shamash were created because it has so much violent energy, it needed to be divided into two. The 0th power combines it again to one as it transforms into a blade of pure destruction. But he will go, even further beyond.
He overloaded the sword with honkai energy and accelerated the atoms near it, increasing the heat once again. While Naraka controls it until it is time to unleash hell on earth.
Shamash transformed again, with the 2 cores on slots visible. It burned a deep orange on the center as the edge turned bright like a star. Its form turned more streamlined as it released millions of degrees of heat. (pic here)
"Divine fire sunders the earth!" He flew up high and slashed with the sword. Lighting up the sky like a supernova explosion.
Naraka protected the other half of australia that still has people. Shielding it from the flames that vaporized everything.
With his immense control of the flames, the heat just affected above the ground, singing the earth slightly. Or the continent would have melted from the intense heat.
The continent was divided in 2, by a wall of frost, protecting the citizens. While the other side, nothing was left except the bare ground.
Mei sweated from the display. "Damn. He really could destroy everything, he just left the lab and an hour hasn't even passed yet." She saw the absolute decimation that the weapon caused.
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