“No matter what you do, the descent of my lord Chthon is inevitable. It would be better for you to accept your fate without any useless resistance.” Magnus said, as arrogant as ever.
“I refuse to believe it.” I replied defiantly.
There was simply no way I was going to accept my defeat. I knew that the moment Chthon descended, our future was over. We would either be killed or become Chthon’s puppets. As such, a defeat was something unacceptable.
I flew and crossed the Chaos Barrier, my body still not receiving any resistance from the barrier for some mysterious reason.
“Do something, Dr. Strange!” I said as I gave the ritual box to him.
As much as I wanted to smash that bastard Magnus’ face, what was most important now was to deactivate this ritual box and stop Chthon’s descent.
“It's useless!” I could hear Magnus' mocking voice from behind me but I paid it no mind.
“Albion, my spells are not working on the ritual box!” Dr. Strange said sorrowfully. Did that mean we could do nothing?
“I told ya! No matter what you do, it's useless. Just accept your fate— It can't be!” Magnus was saying his usual drivel when he suddenly shouted, his voice full of panic.
When I looked towards Magnus, I could see that he was looking at the sky with surprisingly with an expression of horror.
I looked up to see that a rainbow light had appeared in the red sky filled with Chaos Magic and was making a pattern, a pattern of a web.
Once the rainbow web pattern was completely formed in the red sky, it released a pillar of rainbow light which smashed into the ground before my eyes.
A figure appeared from the pillar of rainbow light, someone I knew all too well, the one who had made me who I was today, Spider Supreme.
“Hello, everyone! Looks like you are in the middle of a little crisis.” Spider Supreme said as if this literally world ending scenario was a little crisis.
A small smile appeared on my face because I knew that Spider Supreme would never have joked like this if he could not handle this situation.
However, this smile could not be maintained for any longer since Magnus’ aura suddenly rose sharply after Spider Supreme's arrival.
His presence was also much stronger than before. It was almost as strong as the Chaos Magic which was filling the sky right now.
“To think that you were still alive, Spider Supreme! Everyone had thought that you were dead when you dropped off the radar a hundred years ago.” Magnus said in a surprisingly warped voice which was much different from his own.
“So, you have finally arrived, Chthon!” Spider Supreme said, making me realise that it was actually Chthon who was speaking through Magnus.
“To answer your question, I was always alive, just on a vacation. However, I had wanted to reveal myself as late as possible. But who could have thought that you would be so insidious, Chthon? Sneaking your own agent into a Multiversal Convergence, that is something I thought only the God of Symbiotes did.”
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“I was clearly not insidious enough if you could find me even while hiding, Spider Supreme. Given your words, it seems that you are the one who stopped the symbiotes from corrupting the Spiders in the Multiversal Convergence last month.” Chthon said, realising from Spider Supreme’s words that he was the one who stopped the symbiotes’ plan.
“I was just lucky that my protege was here.” Spider Supreme replied.
“So, Albion was your protege, huh! No wonder he has a power even I have no information about.” Chthon said as he realised why I had such unique powers.
“However, have you grown foolish over your vacation, Spider Supreme? You can never defeat me as long as I have Magnus.” Chthon in Magnus' body said as he pointed towards the rainbow web pattern in the sky.
Suddenly, the Chaos Magic in the sky converged towards the rainbow Web pattern and before long, the rainbow web was half red. It was a sign that Spider Supreme's mystic art had been corrupted by Chthon.
“As long as Magnus Parker is in this world, you would never be able to borrow enough energy from the Web of Life and Destiny to remove my influence here. Why have you come then?” Chthon asked.
Chthon was calling Spider Supreme's unique mystic art the Web of Life and Destiny and that Spider Supreme was actually borrowing power from it. Was this Web of Life and Destiny something much greater?
“Have you come to donate your life to me? My influence in this world has gone so strong that without removing it, the ritual of the Runes of Kof-Kol can never be reversed. So, it is impossible for you to defeat me.” Chthon said arrogantly.
As he said these words, a huge hand formed of Chaos Magic suddenly came out of a spatial rifts, a sign that Chthon’s advent had started.
“Ha ha ha!! My advent has started, Spider Supreme. There is nothing you can do now. Just swear your allegiance to me. I would gladly take you under my wing.” Chthon awkward with a laugh as if everything was under his control.
“Why can't I do anything now?” Spider Supreme suddenly said.
A use amount of lightning suddenly started generating from Spider Supreme's hands as he said these words. Moreover, I could feel that this lightning was much, much more stronger than my own red lightning.
“Lightning! Ha ha ha ha!! Have you fallen so low that you would actually use elemental magic on me, Spider Supreme? You clearly know that elemental magic is useless against me.” Chthon said mockingly, reminding Spider Supreme that his attack was useless.
However, his mocking expression soon turned into one of shock as a double-edged spear appeared in the hands of Spider Supreme. Looking at the spear, the weapon seemed to be formed not of any metal but actual bone. Moreover, it was not any ordinary bone since it gave off a golden glow.
Although I didn't know anything about this spear, I could feel an extremely strong magical signature from it along with a distinct feeling of sacredness.
“The Lance of Divinity made of Sacred Bones!” Spider Supreme invoked.
“Come forth and annihilate all evil, [Sakra’s Vajra].”
Spider Supreme threw the spear directly at the giant red hand in the sky after finishing the chant which revealed that the spear was actually a Noble Phantasm, perhaps of Indian origin since its name definitely sounded Indian.
Boom!
As the spear flew into the sky and hit the giant red hand, the entire sky was filled with lightning making it difficult to see what actually happened in the collision.
However, as the lightning subsided, my eyes widened in surprise as I looked at the result. The giant red hand, the spatial rifts, everything had disappeared as if it had never existed.
The only things remaining were the half rainbow, half red web pattern along with the beam of light still being released from the ritual box. Even the Chaos Magic enveloping the sky had disappeared, revealing the original sunset sky.
“How did you do it? What was that spear? It should have been impossible for you to have anything which could deal with my power!” Chthon asked furiously.
“You don't need to know.” Spider Supreme replied nonchalantly as he took the ritual box from the hands of Dr. Strange.
“This is not over, Spider Supreme!” Chthon warned Spider Supreme as he suddenly disappeared into a spatial rift.
The web pattern above had returned to a complete rainbow colour, signifying that Magnus Parker, Avatar of Chthon was no longer in this world.
“Let's finish this!” Spider Supreme said as the Eye of Agamotto on his chest opened, revealing the time stone inside.
Green magic circles filled with the power of time appeared on Spider Supreme's hands as he casted a time spell on the ritual box. Soon after, the ritual box stopped releasing the red beam of light and returned to its original state, completely free from the influence of Chaos Magic.
“It's over!” I muttered once the ritual box returned to its original state. I let out a sigh as I realised that this world had been saved despite all the odds.