Chapter 113: The Battle Part 2

"Who am I, you ask?" Ray sneered and said. "I'm your maker and it's time to put you down for your rebellion."

The other Ray is confused because the one that colluded with Ray Elliot to send him into this omniverse is him from the far future. This Ray had yet to commit the act. But Ray could easily pull a string of his memories and share it to the other Ray.

"This… this is absurd! Are you going to pin a crime on me that I have never done?" The other Ray were outraged and made his group look at him worriedly.

"Yes and I do not care really. You have done it or not yet is just some finer details but the fact that you did still stand." Ray replied and decided it's time to get serious.

Every being in the vicinity except for the Undying Legion, they suddenly felt like being pressed down by immense weight from Ray unleashing his Telekinetic might to essentially push everything into the ground and grovel before him.

The first to fall to their knees are the Godslayers and the two sister goddesses of Mesopotamian. The one remaining standing is Nyx, still capable of resisting the colossal pressure by expanding her personal shadow domain to resist and the other Ray, who is being empowered by the World's Will to fight against Ray, the invader on this world.

"That's… an unreasonable idea. To punish what I had yet to do. But if this is how you act, I can see why my future self will do this." The other Ray stares at Ray defiantly as power from the world surge into his body and quickly raises his power to resist Ray's Telekinetic pressure that are pressing down on him.

Ray was however not paying the other Ray his attention and locked on the spiritual connection from the World's Will that is feeding the other Ray power from the World. The world has neither a developed consciousness or a protective force like the Counter Force but has a strong instinct to defend itself and uses the other Ray as a makeshift Counter Force. This means that killing the other Ray or anyone resisting him is not a permanent solution as the World's Will would simply choose another individual to rise up as another agent to fight him off. So, unless he cuts off the root of the problem, fighting against the Campiones and the other Ray is just like cutting the grass instead of uprooting it entirely. Merely a temporary solution that will reappear again with perhaps even more dangerous as it adapted to his methods.

Ray spared the other one a glance before he sighed and said while being devoid of emotions. "So be it then. Your opinion matters little to me. I had planned to enjoy this revenge a little bit but unexpected things happened and I have to change my plan."

Ray made his decision to subdue the world which had been feeding the defenders power first before taking care of the enemies. The instant the Telekinetic pressure vanished, Ray focused his mental power to subjugate the World's Will.

The other Ray instantly felt the connection from the world weakened and suffered pain as the world shivered which manifested as minor rumbles all across the physical world followed by terrible weather across the land, sea and air. Brutal storms raged on the sea which sent the entire oceans into raging waves, non stop rumbling of the ground felt on each continent and terrible winds which brought tornadoes and thunderstorms raged on the skies. These natural disasters are the painful wail and howl of the World being slowly torn apart by Ray's psychic power that devours it bit by bit.

Normally, descent of Heretic Gods creates natural disasters because the display of their power is unseen by those not blessed with magical knowledge and only the effects are seen which makes the normal human speculate them as natural disasters. This time is not much different as the untrained eyes only see the effect but couldn't see the event that is taking place.

Ray used the 72 Demon God Pillars as his amplification tool basically by spreading them strategically all across the world to cover it with his psychic power. But this leaves him near defenseless against the Campiones and the other Ray's group. Or so the other Ray thought until two homunculus clones of Ray appeared out of a portal with their signature platinum white hair and ruby red eyes as opposed to the original that should have blond hair and blue irises.

"Of course it's not that easy…" the other Ray muttered as he regrouped with Ishtar and Ereshkigal while warily eyeing the clones' movements, contemplating what he should do next. Against an enemy that he knew absolutely nothing about and Sha Naqba Imuru unable to give him any useful information to work with. Even if there is a sense of dread, he also couldn't help to feel excited and alive again to fight against someone stronger unlike the Heretic Gods which are easily dealt with as long as he knows their identity and has some preparation.

When the clones started to act, they split up and each faced one group. The Campiones group with Godou, Luo Hao and Doni and the other Ray's group with Ray, King Artoria, Ishtar, Ereshkigal and Nyx.

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"Can you get a glimpse of information on our enemy?" Ishtar asked Ray who had been silently observing the clone with a pair of golden eyes.

"No, Shu Naqba Imuru can't see anything at all. Perhaps he has countermeasures in place or the noble phantasm isn't capable of doing it." Ray shook his head disappointedly and continued. "But one thing for sure is the power of the original and the clones isn't that far off which means we are screwed if he can bring out more." Ray ended and created a golden gate to bring out Ea once again which is excitedly rotating as if telling it was eager to show it's might.

Ray smiled at his weapon's eagerness before it vanished as he looked at the clone equipped itself with a lance that made King Artoria to immediately frown as she recognized it very well because it was once a weapon she wielded. The corrupted version of the holy lance, Rhongomyniad.

"Incoming!" Nyx shouted to alert the group as a massive amount of mana surged from the clone and fed the corrupted holy lance.

The thick dark cloud above the sky which blotted out the starry sky suddenly glowed and a gigantic spear of light descent from the sky, turning the previously dim battlefield into daytime and struck awe to almost everyone including King Artoria herself because this magnitude of power is beyond the limit of herself in her peak when wielding the holy lance.

"He intended to crush us all in one go with this move." Artoria said, still stuck in awe.

"Doesn't surprise me at all." Nyx said nonchalantly with a sigh and called upon her divinity of the primordial darkness to swallow the spear.

None of the two Mesopotamian goddesses and Artoria possess powerful defensive ability to block this strike. Meanwhile Ray has defensive noble phantasm in the treasury but none is useful to block the attack. Not even the famed Shield of Gods. Thus, while Nyx holding back the descending spear of light, Ishtar rode her Boat of Heaven, Maana to launch barrage of shot on the clones along side Ereshkigal who summoned the avatar of Underworld Queen, a giant female skeleton avatar that wield reddish energy spear to block the clone attacks aimed at her sister.

If the clone had personality, it would feel annoyed being attacked by Ishtar, who usually uses hit and run tactics but fortunately it was controlled only by Partitions and Mental Override: Combat Mode which fight with logic and calculations to use most effective moves instead of emotions. Thus, the most effective method it chose to deal with Ishtar is to create a wall of hundreds of magic cannons to drown and outmaneuver Ishtar with homing shots to deny her room for evasion.

Ishtar was caught like deer in the headlight when those magic cannons appeared out of nowhere and shot a barrage of beams which each shot packed with power equal to one Rank-A Anti-Fortress noble phantasm that chased her to the end of the world.

"Ishtar!" Ereshkigal shouted and tried to block the shots with her avatar but she was too late to reach Ishtar in time.

Ishtar with the Boat of Heaven, Maana, tries to flee and out run those shots but the clone isn't going to let her as he immediately doubled down with a mental attack which caused her mind to lapsed and stunned for half a second. Not that the clone isn't strong enough to attack longer but half a second is all he need as the first shot hit her with the force of a truck speeding hundreds of miles per hour and cause her to be thrown like a ragdoll by the force of the attacks as hundreds more is chasing after her.

The clone crossed Ishtar off as a threat and now focused on the remaining one. Next being Ereshkigal who no longer focused on him and was distracted by the injured Ishtar. But he is suddenly forced to change his target to Ray who is suddenly coated by a purplish black aura that bursted out of his body as a domain which covered the ground where multitudes of creatures with similar color themes emerged from the domain and swarming toward him from the land and air.

In response to the emergence of the Shadow Monarch army, Tanya within the Greatsword of Artorias held by the original opened the floodgate and released the Legion of Undying to counter the Shadow Monarch army summoned by the other Ray. Both army clashes against each other but the Shadow Monarch army have the upperhand with Shadow Domain under their feet giving them 50% power boost but the Undying Legion have the upperhand in sheer numbers exceeded hundred of billions ready to be summoned to replace each dead one immediately unlike Shadow Monarch army which each death cost mana of the summoner to replace.

Fortunately, Nyx manages to save Ishtar by sending her into the Nyx's realm of darkness. The bad news is the hundreds of homing shots now targeting her instead and she is forced to defend herself first which directs her focus away from holding back the gigantic spear of light in the sky.

Ray reassured Nyx that he will take care of it and donned the Shadow Monarch armor while equipped with Ea in his hand which had been charging up for quite a while and reached critical point, ready to be released. Ray lifted his head slightly to look at the gigantic spear for a second before he exhaled and inhaled air.

"HaaaaHA! ENUMA ELISH!" Ray laboriously lifted the cylindrical sword to point at the descending spear while maintaining perfect control on the energy which had reached critical point and blasted the energy charged up by Ea.

The space-severing winds impacted the gigantic spear which created a very shrill noise as if the reality was crying out in pain as both attacks were too powerful and caused the reality to shatter and break around it, opening cracks in reality that lead directly into the void.

Ignoring the crack in reality, Ray opens all the Gate of Babylon and Trace noble phantasm to shoot barrages of weapons, spells from staff and grimoire to attack the clone. At best, this serves to only annoy the clone and not to actually injure it.

The real attack is the lightning that he is about to conjure using Melqart and Zeus' authority while using [Annihilation Wish] to raise his power. After the activation of [Annihilation Wish], it's a point of no return. It's either he wins or dies from his body collapsing under the strain of the power ups.

(To be continue…)

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(Author note)

Sorry the update is very slow. I recently got a job which starts at 2.30pm to 11:30pm. Its a fucking exhausting and back breaking job. By the time I get home, my back, shoulder and legs hurt like hell. When I wake up the next day. It's usually 10-11 am. Hve to cook, wask clothes etc.

So, basically no personal time much less time to write. Although I squeeze a bit and try to write while tired. But my writing quality is shit to be honest. Today I can write because today is a rest day. Which only once per two weeks and twice a month only. So, expect a waaaay slower update from now on and I apologize in advance for the slow updates and bad chapter quality.

On the side note, I did start on a draft and prologue for a new novel which I plan to be the next one I work on after this is done if I ditch the idea of making a sequel for this fic. I plan to make my own original one about an apocalypse in the modern world with magic but instead of zombies, fantasy creatures invade and overrun the worlds while MC, who secretly is a magus, tries to survive with his friends while trying to uncover the reason for the monster's appearing on Earth.