CHAPTER 347 - SHINING BLADES PIERCE THE SKIES
The numerous forces of multiple Prime Worlds watching this scene portrayed in the point of view of Noah and Athena found it breathtaking to watch as they could so clearly observe the converging of essence from the army of the many serpents standing opposite to these two beings.
In their hearts, they knew they never wanted to be in this situation in their lifetimes!
Yet the two beings facing this terrible army held calm eyes as one was shining a resplendent gold, her body covered in full golden armor and shining golden wings where only her unshaking eyes could be seen. The other held an even more unique look as a golden robe dr.a.p.ed over him regally, from his back the appearance of grandiose white-gold feathered wings erupting out in a glorious array of colors as his face was that of calmness!
The two Celestials were completely unfazed by this tremendous scene of an entire army in front of them.
In the Prime Warship floating above the space of the Magus World, the Grand Master was looking at this scene closely, his power ready to jump in at any instant if something went wrong.
Even though it seemed like his actions of allowing Athena and Crixus to go into the Magus world were easy to arrange, he had to send messages to various Grandmasters before he got his way. He affirmed that this experiment would only be for the training purposes of these two exemplary disciples, and that no harm would come to them under his watch. Thus he was watching with even more interested eyes than the numerous forces that were watching the illusory screens above their planets.
"Death it is!"
The furious Devouring Winged Serpent voiced out loud as her words acted as the trigger for the start of the battle.
OOOOH!
Immense waves of energy erupted out as Noah observed with calm eyes the rushing of numerous serpents towards them.
It was a scene of terror as those watching from a distance of multiple planets far away felt their hairs rise at the scene of this humongous force rushing towards the two beings floating in the skies.
As a response to this rushing force, Noah turned towards Athena and asked this valiant looking figure.
"Shall I make the first move or will you?"
His mind continued to be that of slight interest towards this impassive and noncommunicating senior disciple that he had sparred with multiple times over the span of the last month.
Every time they fought he always held an edge over the battle as she limited herself to the same number of fate lines that he held. But his skills that were fully enhanced with skill points and the numerous passive boosts that he received from multiple other abilities made it so that she could never get a winning edge over him. Yet after the end of each battle, he only felt that the fight was becoming harder and harder for him.
This monstrous Athena was adapting extremely fast at his power, even while limiting herself to a specific number of fate lines. At the last few sparring matches, even with his enhanced abilities, the matches were actually coming out as a draw! This was the shocking talent of this being that was apparently also holding a Noble Fate!
He could already see the shining light within her eyes, the fact that she loved battle being the only thing that he understood about her.
Athena’s eyes were locked onto the singularly most powerful Devouring Winged Serpent that was rushing towards them at a fast speed as she replied.
"Junior Brother, since this is a mission that you proposed, why don’t you start us off and show me the skills that you could not show me before?"
Feeling the enormous source of strength from the golden robe that dr.a.p.ed over his body as well as the glorious wings from his back that came from [Empyrean Armament], Noah couldn’t help but shake his head at the insane boosts of the skills he obtained from the Celestials.
After putting the maximum skill points in the two abilities, [Empyrean Guards] allowed him to summon 6 beings made of immense light as [Empyrean Armament] granted him a boost of 30% to Soul Damage, Physical Damage, Speed, and Defense for every Empyrean Guard that he absorbed!
This granted him a shocking boost of 180% to all the aforementioned features in the form of the golden robe that dr.a.p.ed over him, granting him tremendous defense and making his body feel even lighter than he thought possible as he put into account the [Lesser Cthulhu]’s Child of Space ability.
The golden sword and shield he held on either of his hands also made him feel like he could defend and attack against anything that came towards him, this confidence only being shot higher as he felt his Fate Lines resonating within his body. Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.
He still did not fully understand and could not quantify the boosts of these spectacular Fate Lines that allowed Celestials to fight beings of higher levels than them, but he would gradually come to know, with this battle today granting him a chance to learn many things.
As for the words of Athena, during their sparring matches he had only ever used [Empyrean Guards] and [Empyrean Armament] as both Athena and he knew very well the next two skills were ones that could deal Soul Damage when cast, that they were not skills to be used in a spar and thus Noah or Athena had never cast these skills before.
Noah’s thoughts moved fast as he looked at the first one he wanted to try, confirming the changes of the skill when he placed the maximum number of allowed skill points onto it.
[Smite of Liberation](5/5) :: Cleanse the souls of those that stand against you as you smite them with a Blade of Liberation. The blade is incorporeal and yet physical at the same time, granting +300% Physical and +300% Soul Damage. Limit of 5 Blades of Liberation per cast.
Noah gazed at the spectacular numbers of the skill and the added description of the number of blades as the numerous figures of deadly serpents that were rushing towards him, the three at the forefront being the most dangerous. An impassive look appeared on his face as he breathed out and steeled himself, ready to test whether he could defeat those of the next level with ease while using the abilities of the Celestials, his mind fully prepared and ready to carry out a bloodbath.
It would be the bloodbath that would go on to save this planet, only taking down those responsible for sowing the abundant chaos that was going to spread across the stars. He knew he was walking on an extremely tight rope here as he had joined the ranks of Celestials and was even carrying out missions similar to them, yet he did not want himself to completely be against them as he did not agree with the way they did things!
It was a very thin line to walk on, and this test, this bloodbath on the Magus World, would be the first step to seeing whether he could do things differently than them.
His gaze met the ferocious charging army of serpents as light words escaped his lips.
[Smite of liberation].
RUMBLE!
A golden hue spread across the skies as a droning sound could be heard by all those in the surroundings. The color of gold was slowly replaced as sharp points of blades began to appear from the skies, the blades being enormous in size as one could very clearly make out their physical features being tens of meters wide.
They observed the sharp ends of multiple blades as they pierced through the layer of clouds and began descending down at a ferocious speed!
VOOM
The blades pierced through the layer of clouds as they became more and more pronounced, those watching being able to see sharp white blades that were attached to golden hilts. These five blades carried with them a golden aura of righteousness that seemed to be smashing straight into the army of the Order of the Black Serpent.
Noah’s own body was trembling as his fate lines had become barely discernible, their presence going on to augment the strength of [Smite of Liberation] even more as besides the increased Physical and Soul damage, the blades rushed down to their targets even faster.
The Devouring Winged Serpent turned her eyes upwards in shock as she felt this stupendous attack that in no way should have come from someone in the void realm.
This took her by complete surprise as her numerous heads faced the skies and opened their wide terrifying mouths, letting out enormous colorful blasts of elemental energies that rushed to oppose the descending blades.
BOOM!
Just the simple size of the Blades of Liberation made it so that the terrifying attacks from a being that was at the Soul Forging Realm to only strike the tip of the blade points as they seemed to be cut apart, the blades themselves continuing to descend down as a sheen of gold light covered them, the Supreme Law of Fate backing them not being able to be withstood by the attacks of the Devouring Winged Serpent as they went on to smash into the ranks of the numerous serpents coiling in the skies.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!
The color of gold erupted out and it was soon followed by a bloody red hue as many watched with rapt and unbelievable faces at the bloodbath that had begun in the Magus World!