Chapter 678: [The Final Round]
“Your resistance is futile, Epimetheus!”
Ares roared like a wild beast.
“We don’t know that, Ares. Humans are stubborn and good at resisting their fates!” Allen smiled coldly. “[Garb of the Wolf Lord]”
Crackle! Pale-bluish white electric sparks appeared around him. His body blinking with lightning and releasing a loud sound that could be associated with a cry of a thousand birds. Although he couldn’t invoke his complete Lightning abilities, since [Goro Goro no Mi] had successfully merged with the Leviathan, turning into a [Goro Goro no Mi Model: Lagiacrus] and was now in the possession of his Incarnated Body, he could still display some of it to some extent—such as turning and becoming lightning. But that wouldn't be enough, especially against Ares.
With his power completely released, Allen summoned his personal item, [Garb of the Wolf Lord] which had been strengthened and fully upgraded by him ever since the battle with the Dragon King P’thala. Amidst his devil form, his clothes slowly distorted and changed into a new one. He now wears a high collar sleeveless obsidian shirt, black pants and boots, and black cloth covering his left leg and arm.
The High-collar sleeveless shirt he was wearing was made from a special material which was extremely stretchy, yet very durable. He has a shoulder guard on his right arm with a pad similar to that of a wolf’s head with open jaws. In his lower body, he wears a pair of black pants with a black belt that had a large silver wolf head buckle and black boots with silver plates to protect his shins, and seemingly attached to his trousers.
On his hands was a pair of black gauntlets; The Dragon Fang, the gauntlets made by the legendary Kaveh the Blacksmith of Isfahan.
On his lower legs was a pair of similarly black greaves with three sharp horns at the top and black boots with silver plates to protect his shins and three sharp curved claws at the toes, akin to that of a wolf’s claws.
Wearing the [Garb of the Wolf Lord] which was now a Legendary tier item superior grade, Allen specs had skyrocketed and were already double or even triple that of his original attributes.
“Indeed, you didn’t let down my expectations, Epimetheus! You will still let me enjoy killing you for a little while longer!” Ares mocked in contempt. Still arrogant, despite having received a beating just a while ago.
Allen sneered in contempt. “Words are useless. Let’s fight!”
With those words, his aura suddenly surged. At that moment, he was like an unassailable mountain peak, leaving one unable to see his limits. Wooosh. Allen’s figure disappeared with a flash of lightning and on his former position, a large flaming hand swept over. Ares started attacking. Meteors like fireballs swept passed wherever Allen appeared. However, Allen just easily evaded it by teleporting in every direction.
Baaaaang!! Suddenly, Allen stopped and punched the incoming fireball that has a diameter of ten meters. A loud explosion occurred and the fireball was sent flying back towards Ares. However, Allen didn’t wait for the massive fireball to hit as he immediately shot himself towards Ares, like an arrow shot from a bow, his speed was like a lightning bolt.
Flames suddenly poured over his former position. As Allen evade the incoming attacks, several tornadoes of flames headed his way. Allen’s eyes narrowed and a mass of hot wind was discharged from his body. There was an odd shimmering light behind the spinning masses of air and lightning crackled within the clouds over the tornadoes he had created in an instant.
A loud explosion occurred, causing smoke to cover the entire surrounding. The vision of anyone was impeded by the clouds of smoke and dust, even for Ares. Still, the Olympian snorted in disdain as he watched the cloud of dust in contempt.
“You think you can hide from me…?”
Allen amidst the clouds of smoke suddenly had a bad premonition. He raised his head and his pupils dilated. An unbelievable amount of huge burning boulders like magma came crashing from above like a meteor shower. If the world is going to end by meteorites, this would surely be what it looks like—big, massive and numerous, there’s almost no space between each of them—truly something only a God could do!
Allen thought as the uncountable blazing boulders showered from the sky.
“Hmph! Too childish, Ares!” Allen sneered as he jumped over to the side a bit and picked one of the larger rocks heading his way. Building up his own ridiculous strength he quickly but carefully eyed the monster burning rock. Screaming out, his free arm blurred as he struck the rock dozens of times in a very precise manner.
He was struck many numerous times by a large amount of shrapnel flying off the rock from his strikes yet not even one managed to touch his clothes or skin as if there was slimy membrane covering him, that each shrapnel just slides their way out of him.
BOOOOOM!!
There was a loud boom as the rock teetered and fell on top of them. Dust billowed out and the area was suddenly still.
Ares frowned as the shockwave hit him and caused to step back. Even the clouds of dust were swept away from the very center as if being pushed by an invisible wave. Ares narrowed his gaze but Allen’s figure was still nowhere to be seen—even his shadow.
“Run Epimetheus! Run and Hide! Let’s see how long you can last!”
With a loud roar, a strange, and eerie magical power swept the entire surrounding. Then, immediately after, from within the river of lava, suddenly monsters, like golems made of magma and flames one after another appeared. The bodies of these monsters were pure scarlet and wrapped by faint wreaths of flame.
They were roughly 2.5 meters tall and wielded stone axes, warhammers, and other heavy weapons. There were even undead, skeletons, and zombies, in the appearance of a soldier and warriors alike, some wearing tattered jackets filled with countless open cuts. They seemed to be once illustrious battle outfits, and there was some kind of crest embroidered on it.
On their belts secured around the waist were sabers and swords. Some were even wearing helmets that were easily reminded of those of knights from the thirteenth or fourteenth century. However, the greatest characteristic was the pallor of death. It was undoubtedly the face of a dead person, expressionless, hollow, and eyeballs with dilated pupils. The only difference from a real corpse was the lack of a rotting stench. Not just that, flames and magma flowed within their bodies as they swayed and walked around.
Another variation of [Undead Servant].
[Servants Of War]
Ares Necromancy-type abilities!
Allen appeared just above them and narrowed his eyes dangerously.
Ares sensed his appearance and with his giant flaming form, look at Allen provokingly.
“Hmph!” Allen snorted in disgust.
“Time to finish this fight, Epimetheus!”
“You took the words right out of my mouth, Ares! And also, I am not Epimetheus muscle brain! [Sky Fall]!!”
Allen roared and the gravity around them suddenly fell, like an invisible orb, pushing everything beneath him towards the ground. Even Phobos and Deimos suffered the cross-fire and kneeled, feeling their bodies becoming heavy. Ares was the same, his Flame Avatar was forced to kneel which he found extremely humiliating.
Boooom! A crater formed beneath him as he tried to resist the gravity and pushed it back, like Atlas carrying the sky, Ares roared and pushed back Allen’s power.
Ridiculous!
A true War God's strength is completely outrageous!
One must know, this is like supporting the weight of the entire sky!
"Make me feel alive!"
A voice reverberated in the entire area. As Ares sent a wave of magma back at Allen. Allen hurriedly turned into lightning and dodged it by sidestepping to the right. He then dodged another in the same way. He disappeared and reappeared a dozen times as he sent Lightning Bolts and Ice Flame Bolts towards Ares gigantic body. However, it felt as if he was punching a water surface, it didn’t do anything.
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“Then, what about this—Little Beibei show him your Fangs!”
Following his voice, two black disks about 20-30 centimeters in diameter appeared one after the other above his right and left shoulders. Strangely enough, they had no thickness. It was as if they are just tainted colors in the space that suddenly appeared.
[Master, please select your weaponry.]
A feminine voice rang out from Allen’s bracelet, responding to his call. Unlike the mechanical voice from before, the voice coming out from the silver bracelet was now changed, turning into that of a synthesize voice almost identical to that of Mia, showing Allen's meticulous nature for details. He thought that the mechanical voice was kinda rough and not beautiful. Thus, he changed it.
“Anti-personnel GN Laser, Sonic Impact Cannon! Fill him with holes, pulverize him, and blow him away, my dearest Beibei!!” Allen said with a cold smile.
[AS YOU WISH, MY BELOVED MASTER.]
Immediately after Allen’s commands were shouted, Beibei’s voice happily replied and them something metallic could be seen coming out from the black disks. Although the disks had no thickness, the metal was oddly three-dimensional. It was almost as if the black disks were some kind of window.
“Hm?!”
The metal resembled a muzzle as it turned and pointed at Ares. And from the left hole, bluish-white light began to shine.
Boooom! BOoom! Booom! Snow white laser beams struck the ground, running through the area, hitting and cleaning all flaming minions and undead warriors in an instant, like some sort of divine punishment from the heavens. Allen braced himself as he grits his teeth, eradicating the entire area with his Laser Cannon!
Ares who seemed to be supporting the heavens was riddled with holes and burns from the Laser attack and angrily roared, his strength surged upwards, he lifted up the entire heavens. Feeling the counter pushed, Allen felt a sweet taste on his throat, and he spouted a mouthful of blood.
Suddenly, Ares flaming avatar raised his hand and strike at Allen. Allen’s body flashed and disappeared while flying he continued firing his laser around Ares, like a moth encircling around him, decimating the entire legion of monsters that were spawning in a rapid pace.
Due to the limited space as well as his own gigantification, Ares immediately realized that with his current state, he would never be able to swat or even captured Allen that looks like a mosquito buzzing around him, giving him holes.
With an angry roar, Ares turned back into his original appearance and chased at Allen wildly.
“What? Finally stop playing childish tricks, Ares?” Allen sneered.
“SHUT UP!!!”
As Allen was preparing to intercept Ares, suddenly Ares figure flickered and disappeared. Not good! Allen’s eyes widened as Ares suddenly appeared just above him.
This speed! Anger Empowerment?! Not good!!
Allen frowned and immediately avoided the slash. However, the Laser Cannons on his shoulders met a bad end and was slashed in half. Second fast, Little Beibei who was controlling the Laser Cannons decisively cut off the funnels as Allen jumped back—
Kaboooom!
The cannon which was cut into two exploded with a very strong impact that even Ares was unable to completely defend and was sent flying away. Allen, who was able to react in time, only felt the shockwave and wobbled in the air. However, not a second waste, both sides bounced back as like a ball hitting a wall and rushed towards each other.
Booom! Baang! Booom! Baaang!
Their figures blurred, disappearing in sight and only arcs of lights and sparks could be seen like fireworks in the night sky.
Allen and Ares didn’t know how many exchanges they had made. Their speed increased even faster and faster and faster that even Phobos and Deimos couldn’t see clearly which was which.
This battle is really a realm that completely transcends them!
The battle of Heroes!
Boooom!
Allen and Ares separated from each other with a loud explosion.
Allen slid in the air, causing dust to appear as if there was an invisible platform under his feet. He gritted his teeth; his fair skin was splotched with dirt and blood. Half of his face was already dyed in blood while his eyebrows were furrowed in concentration and concern.
His black coat was stained with blood and dirt and was already tattered as if it was ancient old.
Ares is getting stronger—that is without a doubt.
His Empowerment type skills might have been activated, giving him power and strength over time.
“That damn Ares, can’t he just take a break?! This bastard’s pissing me off!” Allen gritted his teeth and brought his arms up so they were crossed in front of him, palms facing outwards.
"The Eight Inner Gates. First Gate, Gate of Opening! Open!"
In an instant, Allen felt the energy surge through every inch of his body, unlocking one hundred percent of his muscle strength while several veins popped up on the center of his forehead. This is one of the things he had learned a while back, almost forgotten though because of the side effects that would come later.
As expected of one of the most dangerous yet extremely powerful taijutsu of the Naruverse!
The Eight Inner Gates!
"Second Gate, Gate of Healing! Open!" Allen once again felt more power rush throughout his body and more veins popped up on the left of his forehead. "Third Gate, Gate of Life! Open!"
A great wind blew upwards around him as if a tornado was blowing with him as the center.
His blood flow increased, turning his skin a darker shade of red while streams of bright blue energy—presumably Chakra swirled around him.
A mocking voice reached his ears.
"No matter what you do, the result wouldn’t change Epimetheus. You will still lose!”
“God of War, Ares! I will defeat you and fulfill my oath! I will beat the shit of living out of you!”
Ares sneered back in contempt, “O’ youthful Hero! Epimetheus son of dear old Iapetus and Clymene! You shall perish here unfulfilled!”
Allen’s [Setsurigan] --his pair of mystic eyes of samsara narrowed as he felt the rage boiling inside more intensely and found it harder to contain it.
"…Fourth Gate! Gate of Pain! Open!"
With an icy cold voice, he muttered.
The swirling chakra streams around him thickened and he felt more power surging through his body.
"Fifth Gate! Gate of Limit! Open!"
Allen felt tremendous power surging through him. The chakra streams were thick and bright, and a thin green aura of chakra covered his body. He kicked off the air, and appeared right in front of the God of War, his face less than a foot away from the enemy's.
“Hm?!” The eyes of the Olympian widened slightly from Allen’s sudden burst in strength and speed. However, he was still a War God with an enormous amount of experience and hurriedly able to calm himself and counter-attack!“Rooooar!” Ares issued the roar of excitement, after that he step forward towards Allen with the huge sword in his hand. And without hesitation, he slashed with the huge sword towards Allen. However, with the help of [Setsurigan], Allen clearly saw every action of the War God.
Allen also clearly saw the path of the flaming sword attack, and after seeing that, he just shifted all his weight to his right leg and spun to dodge the attack. After dodging, he then places both of his hands on the air as if there was a sturdy platform beneath him and quickly kicked his opponent.
Allen’s Style: Severe whirlwind!
“Baaang!” Allen heavily kicked Ares. But he saw that the fire energy immediately condensed around Ares, especially on the point of Allen’s attack, his body in a flashed, and that flash of light only slightly shook but the body of Ares remained stable. He frowned but he wasn’t the least bit fazed. He clenched his fist and landed a crushing uppercut which connected with the War God’s chin, all his power condensed on his attack, boosted by the five open gates on his body.
Unlike Lee and Guy, Allen’s original and physical body was a million times stronger and powerful than them. And so every attack and power Allen could muster was not something the teacher-student eyebrows could certainly match.
Much less, Ares!
Startled by Allen’s sudden explosive strength and speed, Ares couldn’t follow closely and Allen’s attack shattered almost all of his teeth in the process while he flew upwards a good sixty to seventy feet.
"God of War… your time has ended long ago. Things change already—!" He jumped off the ground with great force, leaving crack-like lines in the air and a large crater on the ground beneath him, at the point of takeoff. He appeared closely at the War God's body, who was feeling his mind in a daze and his eyes flashed, he raised his leg and started to spin rapidly.
“With this technique, even a Godlike Madara was pushed backward—!”
A whirlwind was appearing around the body of Allen. The faster he rotated, the powerful the whirlwind was becoming. After some time the overflowing chakra from Allen took the shape of a white colored dragon.
Allen’s Style: Leaf Dragon God!
Along with the big shout, Allen disappeared and a huge white-colored dragon which was completely made from whirlwind replaced his place!
This dragon resembled the ancient dragon, and its eyes were flashing with light.
“Roooooar!”
The white dragon issued a roar filled with excitement and quickly advanced towards Ares. Ares snapped awake and hurriedly braced himself, crimson flames covered his body as he roared madly— Ares slashed his Infernal Sword towards that white dragon.
But an unimaginable matter occurred, unexpectedly the sword penetrates the huge body of that white dragon without any resistance. This white dragon was purely formed from the whirlwind created by the rotation of Allen, so it didn’t have a solid body!
Shortly afterward, this white dragon collided with the body of the War God, after this suddenly countless powerful force of whirlwind rushed towards him, causing him to feel the power of nature itself. His body seemingly battered with several blows, as if he was a boat in the midst of the ocean during a storm.
This powerful force met with his crimson flames—but what caused Ares to feel shocked was that, within the belly of the White Dragon, invisible slashes of swords and blades attack him nonstop, cutting and attacking his body relentlessly.
It’s as if the White Dragon was a whirlwind of blades itself, it couldn’t be blocked nor stopped.