The whole world that was watching the battle was silent. No one could say a word after what they’ve just witnessed.
“Just a single stomp to destroy a continent? What madness!”
This was what was going through their heads.
“Mi…ko?”
Those from Primus World could only look on in shock as they saw Miko laying motionless on a piece of land. His bones were sticking out, his body was beyond dyed in his own blood, and his eyes were rolled to the back of his head. They all asked themselves the same question.
Was he dead?
No one could tell.
As for his love ones, they all had vacant looks in their eyes as if their souls had left their bodies. Most of them were already incapable of processing any thought. So forget crying or screaming, they could barely remember to breath much less.
As for Joesph who cushioned the blow for Miko, he wasn’t in a much better situation, but he was conscious.
*Cracks!*
Cracks could be heard coming from his body as he tried to get up. Soon black mist could seen coming from his body and his wounds started to repair themselves. After a long time, he finally stood up.
“Whew. You’re incredibly tough, boy.”
Typhon said after seeing him get up.
“It’s just my master’s restoration technique. I’m not tough at all.”
Joesph replied.
“Edwin Magnus, huh. We actually got along pretty well.”
Typhon replied.
“You’re the first person I’ve ever heard say that.”
Joesph responded with a wry smile.
“So? What are you going to do?”
Typhon asked.
“You’re master has lost his source of power and is a state of suspended animation. Do you wish to fight in his stead, or do I have kill all of you and wait for him to get up before I’m able to experience a good fight again?”
Joesph smiled at his question.
“I’m not the only one left who can fight you know?”
*BOOOM!*
At that moment, Nero literally came out of nowhere and stabbed his sword into Typhon’s chest.
“Soul Explosion!”
*BOOOM!*
An explosive sound came from Typhon’s body and blood started draining from all of his pores.
“B-Bastard, you attacked my soul?!”
Typhon roared and ripped through Nero’s body with his claws. Blood sprayed out of the severely deep wound, but Nero had a bloody smile on his face.
“Eat shit, Monster.”
He said.
Typhon got mad and slammed his fist on his chest.
*BOOOM!*
Nero’s body shot out of the sky and crashed into the ocean. The waters were stained with his blood.
“Shit! That freaking hurts!”
Typhon roared.
“Normally instead of crying about pain, you would’ve died after getting stabbed with his sword.”
Typhon looked around and saw that he was surrounded by everyone else.
“What’s this? Are you all mad that I destroyed your continent or are you mad because I destroyed your leader?”
“Both!”
Everyone rushed at Typhon at the same time. The first one to get a hit in was Echo.
She hit him across the face with a punch, but was in returned hit in the stomach so hard she started puking.
“Grr!”
Even so, she still headbutt Typhon in the chest. Rouge, who regained consciousness, did a horizontal spin over her head and cut into Typhon’s body with his sword.
*BOOOM!*
The cut exploded, but because of all of the power he used during this war his destructive power decreased quite a bit, despite still being in his God of Destruction mode.
Typhon grabbed him by the face, and slammed him into Alexus who was going to attack him from behind.
He then kicked Echo away and turned around to taking on Nova and Maria who were attacking together.
*BOOOM!*
The two worked in perfect sync as they entered an intense melee with Typhon.
Nova struck from below while Maria attacked from above. Typhon caught their fists, but was immediately kicked when they twisted their bodies.
After being freed, they distanced themselves before charging forward at the same time. As Typhon readied himself to take them on, the space distorted and they appeared from his side.
*BOOOM!*
Their fists didn’t connect, because Typhon moved from the spot his was in. When he looked down he saw a small hole opened up in the sky tearing the space apart.
“Impressive. They combine their Chaotic Qi attacks to create a fracture in space. It wouldn’t kill me, but if their attacks had landed it would cause a wormhole to appear in my body and tear my apart from the inside.”
He smiled.
“The way that those two synchronize together means that they’ve fought along side each other for a very long time and this isn’t the first they’ve team up.”
He spun around and shattered a giant arrow shot by Alexus, and even ripped off the arm of Darwin who hid in the arrows shadow to attack him.
“Trying to use teamwork to overcome the difference in strength huh? Not a bad tactic. However…”
He appeared in front of Andreas who was preparing to shoot him out of the sky.
“I already told you that schemes are nothing in front of overwhelming power!”
*BOOOM!*
He punched out and broke through Andreas gun that he was trying to use to stop the attack and hit his chest, causing it to sink in.
Andreas was sent flying until he hit the barrier that separated them from the rest of the world.
Typhon’s body was suddenly wrapped with chains and dragged towards the creator, Alexus. Typhon allowed himself to be drawn and even accelerated towards him.
*BOOOM!*
He rammed into him like a mad bull and lift him up overhead with his heads. Alexus felt his ribs break, but he bared the pain and wrapped the chains around Typhon’s neck and squeezed his heads together.
“Do it!”
Alexus roared.
Rouge appeared with his sword covered in black flames. He thrust his sword and flames shot out forward in a piercing straight line.
When Typhon saw that, he began to struggle, however before he could break free Alexus body began to grow in muscle mass and size. He literally looked like a muscle balloon that could pop at any moment.
“Wha?!”
Typhon was surprised by his physical strength.
When it came to physical strength, Alexus was at the bottom among the branch leaders, however he did something the others couldn’t. He used alchemy to pushed his body beyond its limits to exert strength that he didn’t have before.
Typhon tried to struggle even more, at this moment Alexus skin was bursting apart and his blood was spraying in the air. If his body grew any further he was going to burst.
However, he didn’t need to. Typhon who body was being restrained was pierced with the black flames. It was the same for Alexus who was restraining him.
“Guh?!”
The black flames burnt their insides and even damaged their very souls.
“To sacrifice your own family….You people are ruthless.”
Typhon commented after seeing that Alexus was hit as well.
“I never really like the guy, so I have no problem killing him.”
Rouge replied.
“But we’re not sacrificing anyone. As a member of this family he’s expected to survive this much.”
“Hahaha! What a cold hearted bunch! But if you think this is enough to kill me, you’re wrong!”
Typhon shouted.
“We know.”
This time Alexus whispered in his ear.
“That’s why we prepared a back up.”
The moment Alexus said that, he and Typhon were once again pierced with a beam of black flames.
“W-Wha?!”
This black flame came from the ocean. Soon Nero was seen emerging from under the water pointing his blade in the air.
“Combination Technique: Black Cross.”
He said with a smile.
Because of the way the two were bent with the first flames stabbing through them, when the second flames pierced them from below it looked like they were in the intersection of a cross.
“You crazy bastard….You’re gonna die!”
Typhon told Alexus.
“Yolo, bitch!”
Alexus responded with a laugh while feeling his insides being roasted.
“Hahahaha!”
Typhon laughed as well.
It was at that moment his body crumbled like sand and disappeared in the wind leaving Alexus alone to be crucified.
“?!”
When Nero and Rouge saw that, they deactivated their attacks and freed Alexus.
Typhon appeared from the sand again and held him by the throat.
“You’re brave. I’ll give you that.”
He said that, but Alexus was already out cold with two sizzling holes in him.
Everyone else were racking their brains to figure out how he escaped.
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“He used the abilities of his other God Persona to escape.”
Joesph said.
He was focusing on healing Miko’s broken body, which was why he didn’t help. He stood up after seeing Alexus in Typhon’s clutches.
“Typhon! Let him ago and I promise you to give you a fight worthwhile!”
He shouted towards the sky.
“I never planned on killing him in the first place. Someone as brave as this is rare.”
He threw Alexus into the ocean and watched as he sunk to the bottom.
“Keeping someone like that alive is more beneficial than killing them in my opinion.”
He clapped his hands together.
“But you said you’ll give me a fight I can enjoy?”
He smirked.
“I really wanna see that.”
Joesph looked at Miko and sighed.
‘I can’t use it with permission from one of my masters though…..I guess I’ll have to improvise.’
He thought to himself and flew up in the air to confront Typhon.
Meanwhile this was going on, there was something happened inside Miko’s soul and mind.
Miko laid motionless in a world of pure darkness. His eyes were opened but vacant as if they lacked life. He stayed like this for what felt like an eternity. After a really long time, life returned to his eyes.
Yet, Miko didn’t speak. He just laid there as if lost in his thoughts. Soon someone appeared standing next to him.
“Yo, Partner.”
When Miko looked his eyes widen.
“Edward?”
He finally spoke.
“Looks like we both bit off a lot more than we can chew.”
Edward said with a laugh.
“Am I hallucinating?”
Miko asked.
“No. Sadly, you’re not.”
Edward responded.
“Although, if I was an illusion I probably would tell you that I’m real after all.”
He said with a laugh.
He sat next to Miko.
“You know, Miko. I’ve been watching you all this time in the afterlife and I gotta say, this whole thing has gone way out of proportion.”
He said.
“I mean we only wanted to conquer half the continent. How did you end up slaying gods and fighting Typhon? Something isn’t right here man. I mean the continent we wanted to control was destroyed as well. What the fuck?!”
“You know, when I think about it you’re kind of right.”
Miko said admitted.
“Wouldn’t all this stuff happen in the final war? I’m still 14, how did the story escalate to this point?”
Miko asked.
“This is just poor writing man.”
He shook his head.
“I agree.”
Edward nodded.
“But it can’t be helped. The story has already escalated to this point, we just gotta stick with it and hope for the best.”
Edward sighed.
Miko looked at him in silence for a while.
“What is it?”
Edward noticed his gaze and asked him.
“Be honest with me, Edward. Did I go about this the right way, or did I just mess everything up?”
He asked.
“I’ll be honest. I don’t know. Everything that has happened has surpassed everyone’s expectations a long time ago.”
Edward replied.
“But I can say this. You did your best.”
He smiled.
“I wish that I can say that that’s all that matters, but this isn’t a nice enough world to accept such naïve words.”
He added.
“So what are you going to do now?”
He looked down at him.
“You’ve lost you’re source of power. Without it you’re not even an ant in front of Typhon.”
“What else can I do other than just let my anger and madness run wild.”
Edward started laughing when he heard that.
“What? You’re against it? Isn’t that the reason you appeared before me, to remind me of the wrath I felt the day I saw you, all of you dead.”
“Oh? You figured it out?”
Edward rested his head on his palm.
“Of course. To the current me, you’re nothing but the embodiment of my wrath and hatred. Why else would you appear in front of me?”
Edward smiled.
“So you’re just gonna let everything go huh? But will that be enough?”
“I have an idea.”
Edward didn’t say anything and stood up.
“Then I’ll be on my way.”
After he said that he started to walk away fading into the darkness.
“See ya, Partner.”
“Don’t come down here too soon.”
After Edward said that, he disappeared without a sight. Miko was left in the dark all alone.
“So what will it be?”
At that moment, Augustus stood next to him.
“How about we work together? Your power and my madness working side by side.”
Miko said.
“Who will be in control?”
Augustus asked with a smile.
“The both of us.”
“Oh? And how would that work?”
“I wreck havoc with a wild and unpredictable fighting style, while you hold the reins and prevent us from killing our allies and giving them instructions.”
Miko answered.
“So it’s like you’re the beast and I’m the tamer.”
He nodded with a smile.
“This is pretty interesting. As expected of myself, even if you’re inferior.”
“You want me to take my anger out on you first?”
Miko said with a glared.
Augustus ignored what he said and gave him a hand and pulled him up.
“I had some unfinished business with Typhon anyway.”
The two showed a sinister smile.
“Lets fuck it up.”
Back outside, Typhon was fighting Joesph and others with a frown on his face.
“This is what you meant by giving me a fight I would enjoy? Don’t fuck with me!”
He roared and started to take everyone down in a fit a rage.
“?!”
However, he froze when he felt like the atmosphere suddenly changed. He looked down and saw Miko standing up with murky aura surrounding him. Typhon immediately felt a chill run down his spine when his eyes met Miko’s.
Yet, he smiled with great excitement.
Miko smiled back at him and said-
“I’m gonna make shoes out of you.”
*BOOOM!*
At that moment, his skin literally exploded like a broken shell and a silhouette as dark as the darkest night was revealed underneath. Two holes that indicated his eyes appeared and shone a devilish light, before a crescent shape appeared indicating the mouth. Behind it several tentacle with mouths appeared along with 6 crow wings.
“Kill you.”
The mouths on the tentacles all started talking at once, with each possessing a different voice and saying different things. The voices sounded like that of a woman, a child, a man, an elder, an angel, a devil, a beast, and finally a monster.
“I want to destroy everything.”
“Mama! Where are you, mama?!”
“You bastards betrayed me! I will slaughter you all!”
“Everything is insignificant in my eyes.”
“Your pure smile is like bleach to my eyes.”
“I wonder how you’ll taste?”
What they said had no order or connection at all. It was like countless thoughts were beings projected at once.
Even while this was happening, the silhouette still kept that creepy smile on its face as it stood with a slouch.
Everyone that saw this being couldn’t help but feel like their minds were becoming cloudy the longer they stared at it. Especially those that listened to what the tentacles said. They felt like their minds were being invaded and was being tainted at the same time.
“Oh?”
The silhouette suddenly stood up straight.
“It took longer than I expected to regain control.”
Cracks started appearing on the silhouette before it shattered into pieces revealing Miko underneath. However, this Miko had profound purple eyes and half of his hair was purple as well.
“The form that I just took is basically what the Third Stage of Deus Malum: Insanity King will be like.”
He said and smiled at Typhon.
“What do you think? Did it perfectly portrayed insanity?”
“Portrayed? That was purest form of insanity I’ve ever seen.”
Typhon answered honestly.
Everyone had to agree with his words. That thing that Miko emerged from just now was definitely the incarnation of insanity itself.
“I see. That’s good to hear.”
He suddenly disappeared from where he was and reappeared in front of Typhon. He threw a punch, which Typhon showed no intention of dodging despite it being abnormally slow.
*BOOOM!*
The moment the fist made contact with Typhon, his entire body was blown to bits and a hole opened up in the sky.
If one looked inside that hole, they’ll see that it had a dark void like it was an endless space.
“He just punched through the dimension with no magic or Qi, just physical strength!”
Everyone had their mouths dropped to the floor when they saw the result of Miko punching Typhon.
At that moment, Typhon appeared out of nowhere and attacked Miko from behind. Miko spun around and swung his leg like a whip.
*BOOOM!*
His foot clashed with Typhon’s claw causing the sea under them part and the clouds in the sky to split and move in two separate directions.
The two didn’t budge at all, which signified that they were equal in physical strength.
“So it really is you Augustus!”
Typhon shouted.
“Your breath stinks as ways, Snake Legs!”
The two pushed each other back before charging at each other again.
*BOOOM!*
They entered an intense melee with both of them throwing devastating blows right behind the other.
Augustus threw a hundred island-sinking blows in a second, which Typhon skillful dodged and flapped his wings to create typhoon behind typhoon.
Augustus literally ripped these country-sinking storms with his bare hands and charged towards Typhon clenching his fist. Typhon flew towards him and thrust out a palm strike while Miko threw a punch.
*BOOOM!*
The fist and the palm collided and caused a thunderous explosion.
Typhon’s 100 heads all breath out fire on Augustus who replied by summoning a sea from his palm which rushed to intercept the flames.
*BOOOM!*
The clash between fire and water caused a thick fog to cover the sky. Both of them rushed into the fog, and loud explosions could be heard over and over again.
Shockwaves from their intense clashes spread and forced the ocean in two different directions, revealing the bottom.
*BOOOM!*
Typhon was seen flying out of the fog with Augustus continuously stomping on his chest with a mad laugh.
He crashed into the seafloor and shattered the seabed. Magma burst out from underground and swallowed them, but that didn’t stop their battle for an instant.
Typhon kicked Augustus off him, and chased after him with a right hook. He punched him across the face and lifted him off the ground with an uppercut to the chest, and then a roundhouse to the head.
Augustus was blown away flying through the pillars of lava that were bursting out of the ground. He twisted his body and landed on his feet, by that time Typhon was already above him aiming an axe kick at his head.
Augustus jumped to the side and that axe further destroyed the seabed and caused it crumble. An Abyss appeared under them, which Augustus kicked Typhon into.
Typhon landed on a gigantic sea monster that was dying from the lack of water around it. When he saw Augustus aimed a stomp towards him, he quickly leaped off the monster.
*BOOOM!*
Augustus stomped on the monster and it burst like a water balloon, causing its blood and flesh to splash on the both of them.
He the quickly chased after Typhon and jumped in the air throwing two quick kicks, which was like he was dribbling a soccer ball, which Typhon successfully blocked by crossing his arms in front of him.
His 100 head stretched and clenched down on Augustus’ body with his fangs as if he wanted to devour him. Augustus spun his body like a top and Typhon’s 100 heads that were restraining him were ripped off by the sudden spin.
With Typhon’s 100 heads still munching on him, Augustus slammed his palm on Typhon’s headless body and blew him back. Augustus then ignited and turned into a flame and turned the heads clenching on him to ashes.
He then shot forward like a beam and chased after Typhon.
*BOOOM!*
Typhon suddenly charged forward and stepped in his face, and even used it as foothold to leap upwards. At that moment, all 100 heads regenerated and spat out blast of black lightning.
*BOOOM!*
Augustus was hit and blown away with his body smoking. Typhon chased after him and grabbed his leg. He then slammed his body down on the ground like a hammer. This caused the entire seafloor to shake vigorously.
Typhon lifted him up again and slammed him on the ground over and over again liked he wanted to break him. When he lifted him again, Augustus suddenly twisted his body while his foot was still being held by Typhon. His leg twisted like a rope which caused his bones to stick out
Typhon found himself being looked down upon by Augustus, before he stabbed his hand down his throat. He then forced his entire arm down it and grabbed his heart. However, Typhon bite down and bit off his hand before he could rip it out.
Augustus leaned back and a blade emerged from the where his arm was severed, which he used to slice off Typhon’s hand and free himself. He landed on one leg and thrust his arm blade into central head, and stared in his eyes.
“When did you gain such a wild fighting style Augustus? I can’t read your moves.”
Typhon said.
“What make you think that I’m the one doing the fighting?”
Augustus replied.
“Wha?”
Before Typhon could respond, Augustus or rather Miko, forced the sword downwards and cut him into two right down the middle.
He then started to chop him to pieces with fast, wild, yet accurate slashes. Typhon’s body parts flew all over the place as Miko became unbelievably wild.
His body quickly formed back together, and he immediately tried to escape.
“Rah!”
However, Miko leaped after him and grabbed him by the shoulder and started ramming his arm sword into him over and over again.
“Damn it!”
Typhon kicked him away but Miko sunk his feet into the ground to stop himself and leaped after him again. Typhon charged forward and swung his leg like a whip and entangled him in it. He then left his snake leg and slammed Miko headfirst into the ground which caused more lava flow out of the ground.
“Ah!”
Miko immediately swung his arm and severed Typhon’s leg, which caused Typhon to momentarily lose balance. Miko didn’t missed that chance and flew towards him like a beast and bit off a piece of his chest and shoulder before spinning around and cutting off one of his wings.
Typhon spun around and lodged his countless fangs into Miko’s body and started to tear it apart like a school of hungry piranhas.
“Ahhhh!”
Miko roared and started biting off Typhon’s heads in retaliation. When that didn’t work he started crushing Typhon’s eyes or rip open his skulls causing his brains to fall out.
His display was far more savage than the monster which was Typhon.
Typhon was forced to let go, and was immediately cut into two by Miko summoning another blade.
“You think I’ve forgotten, Snake Legs!”
Augustus spoke will Miko was continuing to savagely tear Typhon apart.
“You can’t be killed as long as the world exist because you were literally born from it and shares an eternal connection with it. The only way to defeat you is beat you to the point you can’t move and seal you.”
He smiled.
“Since that’s the case, we’ll enjoy tearing you apart until you admit defeat and throw you back into the pits of hell!”
Miko got even more savage. He started devouring Typhon’s heads while taking a beating from Typhon himself. He ripped out his heart and squished it, before having his other arm ripped off by Typhon.
Another blade came out from this wound which he used to cut Typhon apart. Typhon retaliated by ripping off his leg, as expected another blade came out, which he used to stab Typhon’s throat.
Miko then flew back and used his ability to respawn his missing limbs.
“?!”
After healing his body he was assaulted by an intense pain that shook his very core. He started vomiting blood nonstop and his body started to tremble and wobble.
That’s when he felt a severe pain in his chest. He looked down and saw that Typhon was grabbing his heart.
“You can’t constantly regenerate like I can, can you?”
Typhon smirked and pulled the heart.
*BOOOM!*
At that moment Typhon’s arm exploded. He looked around and was greeted with a kick which sent him flying away.
The one who kicked him was Joesph, and the one who destroyed his arm was Alexus, who finally came to.
Nero grabbed Miko and they all flew out of the sea.
Once they all flew out, the waters that was being suppressed by the fight between Miko and Typhon started to flow back into its rightful place, swallowing up Typhon.
Nero and other carried Miko very far away from the sea to distance themselves from Typhon.
“Miko! Miko!”
Nero called out to Miko who was consciousness was fading in and out while he continued to vomit blood. Soon he started bleed from all of his pores and was once again dyed red.
“This is bad. His body is crumbling from all the stress its endured today. His life force is almost used up too. If this continues he’ll drop dead any minute now.”
Joesph said after examining Miko. It was at that moment Miko grabbed his hand. He forced himself to stabilized midair.
“Fuck, I’m seriously dying.”
He said. He looked at everyone around him.
“Alright, listen up. This is Augustus speaking, Miko is currently being consumed by his own bloodlust, so I’m doing to talking.”
Once they heard that, they felt various emotions all at once; but the situation was urgent so they didn’t let them overwhelm them and listened to what Augustus wanted to say.
“I can’t use any of my techniques that could defeat Typhon, because this body can’t take the stress from using them. That’s the reason why I fought Typhon with physical strength alone. Luckily, Typhon is a man with lots of pride so he didn’t use his special powers either since I wasn’t.”
He said.
“This works out for us, but that snake legs bastard is still a monster with strength alone. I originally wanted to beat him into submission, but I can no longer do that. So here’s the plan.”
He looked them all.
“I’ll do must of the fighting, and you guys help me push him back through the gate that leads to Tartarus. We’ll destroy the gate after that. If that happens it’s our victory.”
They all nodded indicating that they would help him. He smiled when he saw that and looked at his trembling hands. Everyone subconsciously looked at them as well and showed a concern look. They all could tell that Miko/Augustus was dying.
This was the side effects from using the power of the continent at the cost of his life as well as unleashing Augustus power immediately after. His previously boundless life force was now almost dried up.
‘Even if I survive this battle, I’ll die in a few years time if I don’t do something.’
He thought. He shook his head and got rid of all unnecessary thoughts.
*BOOOM!*
At that time Typhon emerged from the sea and was flying towards them.
“Listen. Don’t worry about me and do everything you can to force that bastard back to the pits of hell! If you reach your limits immediately break them and continue to fight! That’s your only path of survival!”
“Oh!”
Everyone faced Typhon and prepared themselves for the worst. That’s when Augustus received a message from Miko and smiled.
“Don’t worry. None of them will die.”
He showed a savage grin.
“Allowing the people under my protection to die will stain my name. As such I won’t let them die even if they want to! Let’s go!”