200: Battle of Gods (1)
Chapter 200: Battle of Gods (1)
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Fotia, the primordial fire goddess, had received the weapon, [Status Cutter]. The blade that's not only the bane of The Gamer, but all Level-up System users across the omniverse.
Fotia, being the child of the Primordial God, was strong from birth, very much so. Although she hadn't received her father's true powers, she received a portion of his flame related divinities, earning herself the title of Primordial Fire Goddess, even though she was chronologically not that old.
With all that power, along with this sword in her hand, she was quite confident for this hunt.
Consuming the blood and flesh of the Primordial Deity as its materials, and being forged in his Primordial soul, the white and red heavy sword in her hand matched its creator's colour scheme.
Even as she held the sword, it bent the reality around it, breaking the fabrics of existence in real-time before the realm fixed itself. [Nowhere] was a higher plane of existence, yet it was being torn apart. When brought to a lower plane such as My Hero Academia, the whole world might get torn apart if not controlled.
Though she doubted that since the Cube Omniverse's Will would actively suppress the sword's status too, though she also doubted how much it could suppress since the Will wasn't in its previous all-powerful state anymore.
"Are you ready, my daughter?" A deep voice, sounding like the burning of firewood, asked from behind her.
She nodded at her father, not even looking at him, making him chuckle.
"You seem nervous."
"I am not." She looked into his eyes. "I am simply excited. I can't wait to butcher that kid."
Her father didn't say anything, silently allowing her to realise the dangers of this mission. This kid, the new gamer, was as bad as the old one. He had destroyed the whole planet, bringing it to its doomsday, just to gain enough levels to match the incoming threat.
He had cloned himself using a "Quirk", the power source in of that world, and all his clones have been raiding dungeons, killing billions, levelling up his quirk in a weird way, while the Gods weren't even able to distinguish who or where his real self was.
They should be able to sense it once they land on that plane, though.
"How's the sword?" Her father asked, looking at her hand that was welding the Status Cutter.
"It feels great… and powerful. Though I don't know how well it will fare against him under the protection of the Cube's Will." She looked at the sword, clenching it harder.
"Looks like you are ready," her father said as he turned around, looking at the 300 Gods gathered behind him, standing in three divided groups, behind three leading gods.
One of them was Thor, the strongest variant of the Norse god of Thunder.
Another was Hercules, the strongest variant of the Greek demigod of Strength.
The other was Tsukiyomi, the strongest variant of the Shinto god of Moon.
These three each led a group of one hundred gods and goddesses, where each of them was the strongest variant of themselves across the omniverse.
The chief gods of the Prime weren't participating, as they were hard to order around, but there 303 were still one of the top Gods present. With them present, any chance of the Gamer escaping was reduced to zero.
Let alone his chances of survival.
"It appears that everyone is here," her father said, his hands behind his back. "Then let's begin."
Everyone cheered just as the Primal most God brought his hands in front of him, clasping his palms together before he started to pull them back. As his palms separated, so did the ground in front of the army of gods.
The cosmos themed ground slowly split apart, a radiant purple light coming out from beneath the surface as everyone watched the universe move below it. First it rotated, then it zoomed inside the cube, the scene moving speed an unknown times greater than the speed of light as it soon locked the target on top of a green and blue planet.
Earth.
The split showed the apocalyptic radioactive planet beneath it, showing the cursed gamer standing with a few girls.
Fotia blinked at the sight.
'Hm? They feel stronger than before they entered that Tower... How did they grow this much in 25 days?'
That was confusing. She wasn't able to watch the things inside the tower, the Gamer System's authority could at least stop their gaze from looking in, though it would have failed to stop them from raiding inside in case the Gamer didn't come out by himself.
Fotia's eyes suddenly widened as she watched the gamer use a dimensional travelling item, using it immediately.
"Father! He's trying to escape!"
Her father frowned too. Now that he had opened the Gate, if he wanted to stop that teleportation the gate would also collapse.
Her father clenched his jaws and snapped his head at one of the leading Gods of the army.
The Odinson.
"Thor! Jump down!" It would hurt him a bit, jumping through this uncompleted gate, and even eat some of his power out, but at least he would be able to stop the gamer from escaping. "Now!"
Odinson seemed to hesitate for a second before he jumped.
Unfortunately, it was too late. Time was slightly imbalanced between these two places because of the gate trying to fully connect the two places. It's already been two minutes in the lesser plane compared to the 20 seconds that have passed here. That much was enough for the dimensional teleportation to activate.
Golden flashed for a second as Fotia grunted aloud… but as the light vanished, she noticed something satisfying.
Though the girls were gone, the gamer hadn't vanished yet.
For some reason, he had stepped out of the magic circle.
"...Aha, what a retard~ He just killed himself!"
As the gate still tried to fully connect with the world, the Omniverse actively resisting, Thor had already jumped down with his huge hammer in his hand.
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[Quest, "Win", has been generated!]
Neji didn't care to see the details of the Quest as his eyes caught a black dot falling from the sky, falling towards him at the speed of lightning.
A Hamaxe, as big as a man, was being wielded by a huge bearded man. The hamaxe was coming towards Neji's head.
Neji raised his right hand, the world slowing down at his relative speed increasing, and the hammer came hitting right on top of his palm.
"Divine Dividing."
The impact that should have destroyed America into blitz ceased to exist as Neji divided part of it while absorbing the other part using «Fa Jin - Level 71» that had been mixed with many more shockwave absorbing quirks.
All of a sudden, Neji was fully charged.
The bear of a man, Odinson Thor, his ginger beard covering his face as he wore a Viking helmet, looked stunned at the spectacle.
[Thor Odinson - Thunder God - Tier 18]
Odinson might be shocked, but Neji was surprised too.
It was surprising that this was actually Thor, one that was more mythologically accurate than a certain lady killer, but he was more surprised at his Tier.
Only 18?
He knew how different the game became with every Tier change. For example, Kimi could very effortlessly take on all the other girls and their grandmas even though they were just two tiers below her. The gap only increased when the tiers grew higher. But still, only 18?
Whatever the case may be, Neji regained his composure before the lightning fanatic and immediately entered his Divine transformation.
With a burst of blue mana, white scales erupted all around his body and covered his skin in milliseconds before a thick glossy draconic armour wrapped around him, with wings as blue as a lake.
It was the Vanishing Dragon Form.
Thor realised the danger and backed off, his movements faster than the speed of lightning. However, Neji was faster than that. He moved swiftly, behind Thor and kicked him in the waist.
Space cracked, Thor's armour breaking apart as he hit a building, and for some reason… he didn't keep going through the building.
Even though he hit the building at a speed greater than lightning, he didn't destroy the building?
What? Did the radiation somehow make the buildings more durable?
[Master, I sense a greater will at work here. The Will of the Omniverse is enhancing this Planet's durability by a great fold. If not, you'd be fighting in outer space in no time. As this planet wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure of so many Gods and would be destroyed.]
That explained things. But Neji had already started moving by the time the explanation was finished.
Thor stood up abruptly, yelling like the Viking that he was as he swung the axe side of his hammer at Neji's face.
Neji teleported from the incoming attack, finding himself behind Thor as he touched God's back, about to finish him off.
He channelled his own Lightning, as purple as the sky above, sourced from his quirk, «Thunder God - Level 95». He then strengthened the power of the lightning with «Upgrade - Level 94» that boosted his quirks a whopping 5000%.
Then, he released a beam from his palm, hitting Thor on the back and coming out from his chest.
A chilling cry left God's throat, his hands shaking as his weapon fell from his hands. He yelled for another three seconds, before his whole torso melted away and he fell to the ground.
Neji stopped the burst and looked down at the corpse of one of his lifelong enemies.
[You have killed "Thor Odinson", a Tier 18 enemy! You have gained 180 levels!]
[You, the Fusion, have reached Level 3038!]
[Your existence becomes more refined!]
"His fictional counterpart could take on the force of a dying star," Neji said, his hands glowing purple. "But he couldn't even endure the thing he had dominion over. Imagine."
Neji pulled the hamaxe towards him using his telekinesis. Luckily, this weapon didn't need him to be worthy or something similar, it was just really heavy that's all.
"Ten points for the mythologically accurate part. Good job, you guys." Slowly, Neji turned around.
Finding himself face to face with exactly 303 people, and unless his «High Spec - Level 87» was lying, they were all above Tier 16, with two being at Tier 20 and one at Tier 25.
The one that he was familiar with.
"So we finally meet again." Neji put the hammer on his shoulder, his body's size growing correspondingly with his armour as he became big enough to comfortably use the hammer. "Goddess of Fire, Fotia."
"Look at that, your eyes are as annoying as that bastard." The red haired gorgeous said as she wielded a sword that had reality rippling around its edge.
"I would you rather not compare me to other people, not even my predecessor." Neji gently requested, "Unless you want me to vaporise you just like the fatass on the ground."
The Goddess of fire simply scoffed, taking a battle pose. "Vaporising fucktards is my job, not yours."
Then she suddenly disappeared.
And Neji was suddenly in full alarm, forcing him to use Permeation.
At a speed greater than Light itself, the pyromaniac reappeared in front of Neji, catching him off guard as she swung her sword that was blazing with a boiling red alien energy.
The bizarre sword stuck towards Neji's neck, about to divide his body into a perfect two.
Neji moved, at the last second.
Although Neji managed to dodge a fatal blow, the sword still managed to hit him.
It hit him at the edge of his shoulder, slicing through his shoulder like a hot knife through butter and came out by his armpit, but not because his Permeation worked, not at all, the attack has bypassed that quirk.
Rather, that's just how the sword worked, it cut through anything, without caring about defence or any other invading trick. Though it didn't do any visible damage despite cutting through, Neji felt a pain in his very existence.
An immense pain in his core.
Numbers, blue in colour, erupted from the invisible wound, where the slash had fallen. Those numbers showered out from his body like blood, a strange sight to behold.
His Status has been cut.
[Beep! Beep! Emergency! Unknown attack detected! The Gamer's "Status" was damaged!]
[The quest- "Win", has been destroyed!]
[119 Levels have been destroyed for both you and Kurai!]
[You have devolved to Level 2800!]
[13 of your quirks have lost 1 level each!]
"...Ah."
Neji blinked.
So this thing was why he could never win in his Future Sight.
Though he didn't lose any HP, this thing was so Anti-Gamer to him that his Future Sight couldn't even see how and why he lost levels in the fight, just that- he somehow did. This thing, this damned sword, it negated any abilities commented to the Gamer System.
As a gamer, this was his Kryptonite.
However, Neji just so happened to have a plan for it.
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