Chapter 677: [Ares Vs Allen (5)]
“You forced me into it, don’t blame me if you die because you asked for it.”
Ares sneered in contempt.
“Come, continue bragging!” Allen snorted. "...it's free!"
“You will see!”
Ares aura once again exploded and the flames on the Infernal Sword became even more eye-catching. Below Allen, the willfully burning crimson-black Infernal Flame suddenly distorted intensely before turning into a tall flame giant that was howling while it rushed at Allen.
The Giant Flame Avatar’s height was dozens of meters, its body and four limbs were made of flames, and its facial features could be spotted clearly. It was condensed and formed from the Infernal Flame released by Ares. Its aura was so thick and terrifying, it was clear that it was several times stronger than that ball of infernal flames.
[Flame War God Avatar]!
When the Flame War God Avatar approached him, Allen had a temporary feeling of suffocation.
Allen had extensive knowledge and experience, but it was the first time he had ever felt this kind of sensation coming from just an avatar…
When both arms of the Flame War God Avatar smashed down from the sky, the wind it swirled up sounded like ghosts crying and devils wailing.
Just as Ares felt his victory was imminent, a resonant woman’s cry suddenly sounded over the arena. Then, a bright, snow white-colored flame soared into the sky.
The beautiful translucent Ice Queen flew before Allen and faced the terrifying Flame Avatar.
Boom!!!!!!!
The Ice Queen blasted with rage, and a ring of sunlight suddenly appeared in the sky above the entire place, and it shined upon the whole area with a bright, red light. In the sunlight that was seemed to have come from the firmament, Allen and the Flame Avatar were fiercely pushed away from each other in the incredibly violent profound energy storm.
The Flame Avatar flew back upside-down, and it rolled speedily like a rubber ball. The flame surrounding its body splashed all over the place. But unfortunately, they didn’t completely scatter from the strike. Ares swung the Infernal Sword in his hand, and the upside-down Flame Avatar stopped itself abruptly. It flipped in the air nimbly and then quickly flew back and floated in the sky just behind Ares.
Bang!!! Allen, on the other hand, landed on the ground, his body continuously sled backward until he abruptly steadied himself with his hands. A pair of long sizzling lines stretched a few meters in front of him, showing the distance he had traversed which almost reached over ten meters.
The clothes on his chest were burst open completely, and there were more than ten scars with different depths added on his chest.
Ares eyebrows wrinkled greatly, and said coldly, “I expected no less from you, Epimetheus!”
But his gaze turned from Allen to the beautiful silhouette of the Ice Queen. His gaze flashing a doubtful expression.
This Avatar... it doesn't seem to be a normal Avatar. It possesses a life force of its own as if it was an independent being.
Emotions and Expressions...
What kind of Avatar is this...?
An Avatar is like an extension of one's soul and so it's life-force is completely connected to the host. It can be said to be the manifestation of desire, emotions, personality, or character of the host. They are neither true beings or independent creatures. Much less, a life or being of itself.
They are basically just Magical Techniques!
But this beautiful Ice Queen Avatar...
Ares thought that Allen's Avatar manifested in this image because it copied the appearance of the one Allen love or desired in his life. However, now that Ares clearly focused his attention on it, he felt another life-force coming from it. One that is completely independent from the 'Fool'. It's not his Avatar...? Ares thought. But that was wrong because Ares can feel that the beautiful ice queen was connected to Allen in more than one way.
Then, what kind of avatar was it...?
And besides... Ares' gaze narrowed. Why does he feel her extremely familiar...? The Olympian War God felt somewhat bewildered and confused. Which God does it resembles?
"... ..."
Allen didn’t speak. He slowly stood up and then, both of his hands were holding on the handle just between the two blades of the [Starlight Rebellion]. Under an incredibly sharp, shrieking sound, he rotated the sword as he made two flips in the air. He retreated several meters away from his former position and placed the [Starlight Rebellion] horizontally in front of his body…
The war God's pupils dilated as he was slightly stunned for a short period of time by the fierce change in his opponent's expression.
The aura on Allen’s body didn’t change, and there also wasn’t any aura on the [Starlight Rebellion], as though it was a 'dead' sword. But when Allen held the [Starlight Rebellion] in his hand, anyone watching him could clearly feel that Allen had changed completely: his aura, momentum, even his expression… had completely changed.
As if he had become a slightly different person.
Each of the crystal swords was as long as one meter and the surface as wide as half a meter. With a handle of one meter, the exact length of the double-bladed sword was as long as three meters but the size of the sword was even larger than Allen’s slender figure.
Even if a nine to ten-foot giant held the sword in its hand, there would be a strong uncoordinated feeling. However, when it was in Allen’s instead, the overall feeling was so in accordance that it didn’t make people feel any bit of disharmony; instead, it felt like the sword belonged in his hands. It was a perfect fit that couldn’t be described with words, as though this sword was made for Allen from the beginning, while Allen himself also existed because of this sword.
The aura of the black-clothed youth didn’t change at all, but facing the Allen who was holding the heavy double-bladed sword, the Greek War God who looks at him, including Phobos and Deimos who was watching attentively on the battle occurring before them, felt a pressure which seeped directly into their soul. Most especially Ares, since he was the one who was facing Allen directly and was the sole target of this aura. The smile on the arrogant War God's face had already become stiff. It was as if an iron board that weighed over a hundred and fifty thousand kilograms pressed on his chest, and almost suffocated him.
An indescribable pressure caused Ares to feel extremely uneasy in his heart, but he was a War God—Ares, the Olympian War God, his uneasiness quickly went away. He roared deeply, “Epimetheus! No matter what you do, you cannot defeat me!!”
He said with a matter-of-fact expression.
Ares suddenly blasted out his sword. A large sea of flames tumbled like crimson-black smoke that covered the sky and swept towards Allen. The Flame War God Avatar also moved at the same time, following the infernal flames, bringing a frightening aura that even caused space to tremble as they both rushed towards Allen. The Flame War God's flames seemed to have transformed into an enormous head of a ferocious mastiff.
It roared angrily at Allen's direction.
Facing the overwhelming infernal flames and the terrifying Flame War God Avatar that struck at the same time, Allen didn’t step back at all. Instead, he held up his [Starlight Rebellion] without a hurry. The crimson-black infernal flame quickly approached him. It was as if there was a boundless sea of flames in front of him. A crimson red tsunami rushing towards his position.
Allen’s draconic eyes narrowed. And his demonic figure looks imposing with the [Starlight Rebellion]. Demonic Energy surged out from within him, Electric sparks crackled like lightning dragons around each blade of the [Starlight Rebellion], before Allen stepped forward and swung the double-bladed sword casually. The instant the sword was swung, a ferocious wave of air along with electric sparks was swept up and the sound of the blast was shockingly deafening.
Riiip! The air became heavily distorted and a sound like cloth ripping apart rang through the place. The fire which had blanketed the entire area was easily torn apart, and a huge vacuum appeared amidst the flames. Allen started to move as he rushed straight into the sea of flames. His heavy sword danced in the air, resembling a flood dragon dancing in the waves.
Wherever the [Starlight Rebellion] landed, it completely blasted, broke and cut away those incomparably fearsome crimson-black infernal flames as a huge heavy sword energy storm wreaked havoc in the inferno. In the span of a few short breaths, the sea of fire that had blanketed the entire arena had been blasted into smithereens.
Ares was startled by the sudden surge of power and when he was about to attack again, he suddenly saw Allen’s figure flashed goldenly and disappeared.
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“What?!”
“Eat this Ares! Full powered Cocytus!!”
The image of an Ice Phoenix flashed into life as a phoenix cry split the air and Allen’s entire body morphed into the form of an ice-blue phoenix composed of raging flames, as he explosively charged at the War God's direction.
That instant of awesome might and pressure caused the entire place to fall into complete silence.
Boom!!!
The silhouette of the Phoenix smashed into the flaming mastiff and into the Flame War God Avatar and with a loud explosion, the Phoenix directly tore through the infernal beast, leaving countless flame beast fragments fluttering across the sky in its wake.
In an instant, ferocious and terrifying Infernal Beast had been completely destroyed, and all of this had occurred at the speed of light.
Even though all of this had happened, the power of Ice Phoenix Flames had still not completely dissipated; it carried the might and pressure of a phoenix as it shot towards the Greek War God. Ares was so shocked that his eyes were practically bulging out of his face as the ice phoenix violently smashed into his chest.
Boom!!! The energy shielding Ares body was instantly shattered by the full-powered [Starlight Rebellion] and the remaining power of the Ice Phoenix plowed into Ares body. Following the roaring explosion of phoenix flames, the Greek War God’s body flew out like a kicked rubber ball as he miserably screamed while being sent flying into the distance.
Crack! Boooooom!!
Along with the crystal blade of the [Starlight Rebellion] being a broken, a deafening explosion occurred as the body of Ares crashed on magma filled ground.
“… …”
Silence followed as it wrapped the entire place.
Allen raised his head and looked in the direction Ares had flown. When he had smashed the Olympian's chest just now, he had clearly felt his own strength being heavily obstructed by something. Aside from the invulnerability, the body of the Greek War God is indeed something not easily pierced through. Even without the aspect of invulnerability, the body of the War God alone, triumph over any other Magical Armors with a legendary and above grade in the world…
And so, because of this extremely strong defense, his full-powered attack, which had been weakened due to the obstruction of the Infernal Beast, was unable to deal any heavy damage to him. Surely.
As long as one possesses the aspect of the War God…such defense is extremely enviable!
Even still—
*Ding!
[Analyzing Opponent complete… 15%...58%...89&…100%...Creating a model… 36%...58%...78%...95%...100%...]
At this moment, with great timing, a voice rang out in the back of his head, giving him great excitement that completely overwhelmed his fatigue and disappointment from not defeating Ares immediately.
Although, more than someone being there... it’s more like words appearing directly in his mind. The voice lacks intent; like the voice that would come from a computer, calling it synthesized would perhaps be most accurate. Then, reflected in his retina was a blue screen where the Greek War God; Ares, virtually appeared as a whole and looked the same as the current look of Ares he was fighting.
The model was very vivid as if it was the real person!
Floating next to the Greek War God’s figure, there were seven azure cards with names faintly embossed on them.
Allen read the text embossed on top of the cards.
[Spirit Surge] [Super strength] [Fire Empowerment] [Anger Empowerment] [Telekinesis] [Shapeshifting (Size Alteration)] [Shapeshifting (Transformation)]
[…because of the opponent's extremely powerful mental guard, further extraction and analysis are considered impossible. Advice: Need the opponent near-death or weakened to continue extraction…]
As Allen was fighting intensely with Ares, all this time, one of his Ultimate Skills [Predator of Wisdom: Uriel] and [The Plunderer: Beelzebub] has always been working and analyzing every opportunity that Allen and Ares exchanged closely.
Unlike before when he needed to focus or touched someone to plunder, this time even if he was fighting he can leave all the necessary processes and data gathering to the two Ultimate Skills he had, though it takes some time. Even still, the analysis and data extraction took a very long time, probably due to the power of Ares.
Well, he was not a God for anything~
Allen didn’t use it much often because it takes too much time and his magic power would be divided into three portions. And thus, only used it when an opponent is extremely powerful or those that catch his interest, just like the Greek War God; Ares. If the opponent is on his level, the skill he would be able to plunder would surely be unique among other monsters.
Smiling faintly, Allen then touched each card presenting its skills.
Immediately, the scenery in his brain started to change.
It felt like an illusion.
[ Card selection completed… [Spirit Surge]… [Super strength]… [Fire Empowerment]… [Anger Empowerment]… [Telekinesis]… [Shapeshifting (Size Alteration)]… [Shapeshifting (Transformation)]…
… analyzing each card… establishing a model… establishment of the card’s model completed… asking the host whether to absorb or not? ]
“Absorb…”
Glaring at Ares who was now slowly standing on the ground, glaring at Allen who was suspended in the air—their positions now were reversed, causing Ares to become extremely angry and humiliated. Seeing this, a wicked and taunting grin appeared on his face.
Shua!
As Allen felt his magical power being consumed slowly, a black card finally appeared…
[ Greek War God: Ares (Part 1) ]
--a name engraved at the top of the card and a figure of the Greek War God covered in flames while holding his blazing infernal sword was on its center. At the bottom part was the Greek War God’s simple description, as well as seven skills that were successfully analyzed. Though, only basic ones. He actually wanted for the [Invincibilty] Ares possess, oh well, there are still some chances in the future.
“Good! Good! Epimetheus! You have really angered me truly this time!”
Ares gnashed his teeth, his eyes turned bright red, even the sclera and his body slowly expanded, becoming over a ten-meter tall flaming person, almost similar to that of the Flame Avatar he had created just now but with demonic horns like thing on his head.
Rather being called a God, Ares more like a Flame Demon than anything!
His body seemed to be completely made out of flames as stood towering in front of Allen. But this is not something to be shocked. As a War God who focuses on violence, The God aspect of Ares has changed gradually over time due to the believers they had in the mortal world. Their aspect and divinity directly corresponds to how their believers depicted them.
And in this appearance, it greatly shows that people see War as something demonic and evil.
“Dad’s furious now…”
Deimos who was quietly watching the battle muttered solemnly.
“For the great uncle to be able to push father to this extent… just how did uncle obtain such power…?” Phobos wondered in curiosity and interest.
The two of them sat a few distances away from the battle’s location. However, there’s no sign for them helping Ares or joining the battle. After all, this is a one on one battle. It would be their father’s shame if they were known to gang up on a single opponent. Furthermore, even if they wanted it, their father; Ares would not like it, stealing his prey in front of him. He would rather lose, and die than shame himself with such stupidity.
And even still, they try to do it, they would surely face the Olympian's War God's wrath in the end.
It's not something they wanted.
Allen’s expression was still unperturbed. The only downside he can pick out on his new Ultimate Skills is that due to the efficiency and success increased significantly, the plunder skill [Beelzebub] didn’t steal the skill and instead with [Uriel]’s help, [Beelzebub] was able to copy the opponent skills and abilities.
And so, even after the plundering, the opponent would still retain its ability. Unlike the original [Robber] thief skill, [Beelzebub] might be said to be greater than it by a huge margin, due to its success rate. But it was softer than and more merciful than the original form.
Well, not like Allen can complain about it. After all, [Beelzebub]’s efficiency in stealing skills and abilities are far incredible that the [Robber] thief skill couldn’t compare. It was not just one or two, but most or all skills of the enemy he might be able to plunder in one action. In addition, if he tries to steal all of the skills Ares possesses and robbed him of it, the War God would be useless. He would not be of use for the upcoming battle at all.
“Save the talk for later, Ares. You are the one who had lost sight of what is important before you, just because of your measly desire! It’s now the time for your wake up call from your stupidity!” Allen snorted.
He looked at the [Starlight Rebellion] whose edge was chipped and broken and felt a pain in his heart. Transferring magic power on it, the blade glowed and slowly recovered. However, it would still take much time—saying that, he placed the [Starlght Rebellion] on his back.
[I can still fight, Master!]
Rebellion’s voice rang out. But Allen shook his head. ‘Not for now’ he gently replied.
‘Rest for a while, I will need you later,’
[… …]
Allen swiped the black card floating in front of him, which was invisible to anyone except him. Then, the Black Card containing Ares power and abilities slowly entered his body and immediately after, Allen can feel the hot but comfortable energy flowing through him.
The Magic Power that he had lost was slowly being recovered at an insane speed, and in the end, Allen felt energized.
Clenching his fist, Allen made a fighting stance as he faced the giant God!
The time for the curtain to drop down for this little escapade is now coming closer.
The Finale has begun!
"Ares... time to end this farce!"