“What are you going to fight me to protect her?” said Zero in a condescending tone as he keep trying to push his blade through Hel’s barrier.
“Don’t kid yourself I don’t know what you are but you’re not Zero. However, don’t look down on me little thing or I will crush you where you stand.” Hel responded in a cherry manner for the first sentence but then reverted to a cold threatening tone for the remainder.
Zero walked away from the chard Valna then lifted and aimed his blade at Hel and asked, “Is that a challenge?”
Hel laughed at Zero’s threat and said, “While I’d love to teach you a lesson personally I believe she‘s gotten tired of waiting for you.”
Zero turned to face Valna who was up on her feet and healing as her charred skin peeled off her face. Valna instantly shifted back into her holy flame form and charged Zero vanishing. Zero smirked and vanished from sight. Seconds later thunderous clashes could be heard and as the number of clashes kept increasing changes began to occur.
With each clash sparks of black lightning and white flames would shoot out and strike the ground turning the sand to glass. Due to the amount of mana being generated by Zero and Valna the skies turned black and began to rain fire as bolts of lightning would strike periodically. As the clashes continued the desert-scape soon transformed into an apocalyptic hellscape.
Hel looked up at the skies with a disinterested look on her face as she yawned. She had created a barrier around herself to keep the dust from blowing in her face and now the barrier served to block the balls of fire and lightning bolts. Although Zero and Valna were moving at a level that mortals couldn’t follow she easily saw them and how they were fighting. Each time they clashed Zero and Valna would actually exchange 6 or more blows in less than the span of a second before the force of their attack could even create a sound.
Although Zero and Valna were moving at speed impossible for mortals to see Hel could easily see all their movements. Hel saw that with each clash that Zero and Valna would destroy a part of the other’s body only for it to reform instantly. She shook her head as she watched them waste so much mana on regeneration and how low their damage output was. She had previously felt that Valna’s attacks were weak when she attacked her but she assumed that was because she wished not to really hurt her. The fight she was currently witnessing however showed her that this really was the best that they could do at the moment and this meant Zero had a less than 0% chance of injuring Fenrir. This was very bad since she needed her brother onboard or this alliance would be dead on its knees.
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When Hel looked back up she notice that although it was minuscule Zero and Valna’s speed had increased along with the smoothness of their attacks. She wasn’t surprised in Valna’s case since the most fearsome aspects of war gods were their abilities to improve with every battle and even during the battle itself. She was surprised by Zero also exhibiting this trait since she thought him to be a god with divinity over souls.
‘Looks like I’ll need to look into what type of god he really is later. Huh?’ thought Hel as she slowly looked up
She noticed an invisible magical sigil being constructed above where Zero and Valna were clashing. It was impressive since not even Hel had noticed it until the sigil was 60% complete. The sigil seemed to be primordial magic most likely for the fire element. Primordial magic can create, shape, and manipulate ancient primordial elements that were from the beginning of the universe. Primordial flames are indistinguishable and absolute. No matter if a god has Fire Immunity or is made up of flames that provide no protection from these flames as they will be completely bypassed due to its sheer potency and primeval nature.
‘I hope she knows that those flames will burn her too. Yeah surely she’s not that stupid enough to engulf herself in these flames.’ thought Hel as she watched the magical sigil slowly
Hel’s worst fears were confirmed when Valna released the spell overhead generating a pillar of violet flames that engulfed them both. The pillar only lasted for a split second before disappearing since Valna lacked the mana to keep it around for more than a second. Although the pillar vanished the violet flames engulfing Zero and Valna remained and continued to burn despite the 2 of them trying to extinguish them.
Looking at this pathetic sight Hel sighed she then raised her hand and shouted the word “Nephilim”, and with a wave of her hand, the scenery changed completely. The desert environment instantly changed into that of a snowscape with pillars of ice bursting forth from the ground. Zero and Valna’s new forms were dispelled and revealed their true bodies covered in wounds that would kill a mortal.
Zero’s body was covered in numerous deep cuts, puncture wounds, and severe burns with massive amounts of blood flow from these wounds. His wound had a white glow to them which was the remaining aether from Valna’s attacks preventing the wounds from healing normally. Valna had black patches on various parts of her body and rather than burns the wounds closely resembled the decaying flesh of a zombie. Unlike Zero she was a pure aether being so the wound she received not only damaged her flesh but corroded it like poison.
The 2 combatants fell from the sky and crashed into the snow and Hel walked over to them. With a wave of her hand, the 2 were encased in ice stopping their wounds from worsening. Hel then released a massive orb of green mana that slowly changed into a deep blue color. The mana burst into tiny particles that flew and melded with Zero and Valna.
“There that should do it.” said Hel as she retracted her domain causing the ice entrapping Zero and Valna to start to shatter. The wounds of the 2 began to rapidly heal and they were gone within a few seconds.
As Hel looked down on the 2 unconscious individuals she couldn’t help but sigh and say, “Damn if this is the best they can do we’re screwed. Forget about one day taking down Odin at this rate they couldn’t defeat a normal demigod with this level of strength.”