NOVGO.NET Chapter 1795: The Swiftest Father
Chapter 1795: The Swiftest Father
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“{Divine Spiritual Soul Weapon Master Arts}: {Ten Thousand Burning Blows}!”
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“…!”
Shade glared back at the ant as he realized every route in midair he wanted to use to evade the blows was engulfed by dozens of consecutive blazing explosions.
“It is over, human hero! Any last words?!”
As the ant laughed, his weapons unified into a gigantic blazing hammer, rushing down toward the hero in front of him with all its power.
“{Divine Spiritual Soul Weapon Master Arts}: {Spirit Soul Weapon Fusion: Infernal Hammer of Demise}!”
TRUUUM!
The hammer rushed down, its power and flames sufficient to release destructive shockwaves everywhere, heating the atmosphere so intensely that Shade felt the heat coming from every angle.
He had no escape routes, and a giant hammer was about to flatten him in place!
“{Shadow Exchange}”
FLASH!
His entire body, however, disappeared a second before the hammer could hit the ground, releasing a huge explosion of flames and magma everywhere.
BOOOMMM!
“You teleported by exchanging my shadows with yours?!”
The ant noticed immediately what happened, seeing Shade appear behind him, his two daggers aimed at him.
“But that won’t be enough! I am a Weapon Master, the strongest of my mother’s children!”
The ant rapidly spun in midair, all six of his blazing weapons intercepting Shade’s incoming attack. The pressure of the fire encompassed Shade with deadly divine spirit flames as well.
“{Divine Soul Weapon Manifestation}: {Abyssal Dragon Fang Dagger: Thanatos}”
The legendary dagger of the Heroes who preceded Shade, powerful and poisonous, was made from the fang of the Abyssal Dark Dragon, Tenebrous, one of the strongest children of the Dragon King. This was not Umbra, of course. It was an imitation of another Relic he had wielded prior to Umbra, gifted to him by the Church of the Gods early in his heroic life.
The Divine Dagger of Primordial Darkness, Umbra, was resting within Shade’s Soulscape. The power of this dagger was simply not worth the effort that Shade had to exert by wielding her.
Especially against this foe.
He was saving her for something much stronger that would satisfy the Divine Relic.
For now, his Divine Soul Weapons were more than enough!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
“AAAGGH?!”
The six-armed “Weapon Master” was quickly shocked as Shade’s Aura expanded, summoning dozens of divine soul weapons at once.
Indeed, Shade’s specialty within his Soul Weapon was his ability to quickly replicate the Abyssal Dragon Fang Thanatos and use them as projectiles.
In that second when Shade decided to get serious, dozens of cutting attacks and stabs pierced through his foe’s entire body, his green blood splattering everywhere.
“W-What…?! Impossible! I was… much faster and stronger!”
“…What exactly made you think you were stronger and faster than me?”
For the first time since their fight began, Shade finally spoke, responding with scorn, his eyes turning deep red, glowing brightly with killing intent.
“Fine, I’ll fight you.”
“You weren’t fighting me before?! You dare lie to my face, human hero?!”
The ant angrily responded, his weapons slashing through Shade’s entire body, cutting, piercing, and cleaving through his armor and flesh.
“{Divine Spiritual Soul Weapon Master Arts}: {Hellfire Assault}!”
SLASH! CLASH! SLASH! CLASH! SLASH! CLASH!
Each attack carried an explosion of flames, which Shade evaded easily, moving from one place to another even while in midair, while firing more of his daggers, which were already covering his foe’s entire body.
“Ugh…! Your daggers aren’t as effective. My body is much tougher than you think!”
“{Divine Soul Weapon Explosion}”
“What did you say?”
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
To the surprise of the ant, each of the daggers, now over a dozen, exploded across his entire body, each explosion tearing apart a piece of his flesh and innards until he was torn to shreds.
“GRAAARRGGGH!”
The Weapon Master screamed in horror, dying on the spot. Shade looked down on him as if he were a pathetic ant crushed on the road.
“Well, they were indeed strong, but in the end…”
RUMBLE!
A powerful shockwave hit Shade, sending him flying away from the spot. His eyes widened as he saw the ant rapidly revive, all of his pieces assembling back together.
At the same time, he grew larger, twice as tall, with an additional pair of arms, making eight in total.
The last two arms grew long, dagger-like divine weapons, copying the weapons Shade used against him, but longer, resembling sharp blades.
“Divine Protection?! He revived…”
Shade quickly calmed down, realizing that this was only to be expected at this point. If his foe was a “hero” given a divine blessing, then the power of the divine protection was now more than evident.
Probably granted to him by his “divine mother,” these titles of heroes weren’t just for show, as they were granted actual divine power, beyond what Shade had ever imagined possible.
And what’s worse…
“He’s grown much stronger, several times stronger. Does this race of ant monsters grow as they are damaged and recover? Some sort of adaptation ability? That’s formidable.”
“KRIEEEEEHHHHH!!!”
The eight-armed ant roared, leaping toward Shade while stepping on the empty air itself. All eight of his weapons rushed toward Shade, attacking him with ferocious, blazing swings that unleashed powerful shockwaves of flames, engulfing Shade in countless explosions.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Shade protected himself from the flames, encompassing his entire body with an Abyssal Veil, and then used Shadow Exchange to appear behind his foe. Ignoring the flames, he quickly wielded his Divine Soul Weapons once more.
This time, he decided to use techniques.
“{Abyssal Assassination Arts}: {One Thousand Bleeding Stabs}”
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“UUGGHH?!”
The ant vomited blood, his body stabbed dozens of times per second. He writhed in agony as golden flames healed him, sustaining his fight. His weapons struck Shade directly as he unleashed a technique.
“{Divine Spiritual Soul Weapon Master Arts}: {Endless Hellfire Assault}!”
Multiple attacks bombarded Shade instantly from every conceivable angle. The assassin had never faced a foe capable of covering so many positions simultaneously.
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