Destroying My Own World

Chapter 187 Opened curtains.

"It's been a while, Agares. How have you been?" Sven asked as he walked into the garden of the palace. "Looks like you guys are in a bad spot after hearing the news about what happened to your leader and his friends," Sven smirked as he swung his scythe around.

Agares didn't say a word and he wasn't bothered by it which made Sven and the others realize something was fishy about it. Suddenly an earthquake happened and it was enough to split the earth. It was so powerful that the palace was devoured and fell into the crack and everything that stood tall on the ground.

Other Awakeners and Chosen Ones were falling into the cracks and they couldn't run from it. It also happened to Gunnar and the others, but Gerrard used his [Thread of Fate] and controlled the ground around them. He could close the crack that even Agares lost control of it which made him quite surprised.

"Eliminating the unwanted eyes and witnesses, huh? Clever," Sven scoffed.

Agares raised his eyebrows and shrugged, and then suddenly a loud roar could be heard from underneath the cracks. It was so loud that it almost broke their eardrums, and then the ground shook even more fiercely. A black serpent broke the ground and went to the surface in the middle of the city from the ground that was as big as Alpha which was supposed to be a third of Nidhoggr's size. Your next journey awaits at empire

A serpent that was so big that it destroyed London with its roar and the flap of its wings that was bathed in lava. That thing was so massive and also oozed a powerful and ominous aura around it that made it more powerful than Agares and the other Dukes of Hell.

"Where do you think they went to after they retreated? This whole continent is ours, and now you just stepped into our domain," Agares asked as he slowly walked away. "Also, we are here not to fight you, we are just opening the curtains for those who want to fight you," Agares added.

A being ten times taller than Gunnar landed right in front of Sven, a woman with long messy black hair with red eyes holding two long swords. A woman with both black and white feathered wings and bat wings in between those two. Her presence was somewhat even more powerful than the serpent that was in the sky. She also released black smoke from her bare feet and if inhaled would be enough to melt the insides.

"Just for your information, that Serpent over there is Leviathan's pet and this woman over here is Astaroth, or Astarte since he was using her woman's appearance," Amaryllis informed after she appeared right behind Sven and the others. "She's the Duke of all Dukes of Hell, a prominent demon even among the Princes of Hell. She's basically bad news for you," Amaryllis added.

"Is that so? Looks like we have to split the team into two to deal with those two," Sven said as he kept staring at Astarte who had an apathetic expression. The more he stared into Astarte's red eyes, the more he felt uncomfortable.

"Enma, Gerrard, and I will deal with her, you guys take care of Leviathan," Sven ordered.

Gunnar, Vincze, and Nagy nodded their heads with understanding and then walked past Astarte. Astarte ignored them, but her cold stare was enough to give them chills down their spines.

The moment Enma walked to the front to put her shield up, Astarte already swung both of her swords down at her. She was surprised, but she blocked it on time, and she could feel the strength from Astarte's attack that was enough to make her legs tremble.

"She's... strong!" Enma grunted as she pushed the sword away.

Sven jumped right above Enma and swung his scythe at Astarte, but Astarte blocked his attack. She widened her eyes for a bit when she watched as her swords were cut in half from that attack. She immediately jumped back and pulled two swords from underneath her wings.

Before Astarte could raise her swords, her whole arms stopped moving and she squinted her eyes with confusion. She realized that her body was being manipulated and saw Gerrard pulling the strings. She slightly smirked and then spread her wings as hundreds of swords appeared and floated behind her back.

"I knew it won't be that easy," Gerrard said as he kept manipulating Astarte's body.

Astarte was being held down, but she could control the swords with her mind and sent them all toward those three. The swords moved like they had their own mind and could find an opening from every angle. It was quite hard even though Sven and Enma could break those swords, and the fact Astarte could summon hundreds more was really a pain for them.

Gerrard tried to move Astarte's body and tried to make her hurt herself, but to his surprise, Astarte could also manipulate her own body with her mind. It was hard to manipulate the body and dodged the swords that tried to slice his body up.

"Just let her go, Gerrard! We need to find her weakness first," Sven shouted as he cut and shatter the swords that flew toward him. "Let's use a different approach," Sven pointed out and swung his scythe to create a massive project attack at Astarte.

The moment Gerrard let go of the strings, Astarte moved her hands and blocked the projectile attack with her swords. She then did the same thing, but with hundreds of swords behind her that could move faster than the speed of sound.

Sven smirked and activated his upgraded skill that used to be [Impetuous], the [Boundless] skill. It made him break the law of physics and nature which made him able to read and predict everything he saw. Not only that, but it also made his growth unlimitedly the longer he activated the skill. It was similar to Mykel's [Supremacy] skill, but on a slower scale and growth, and it also had a time limit which was an hour.

Sven dodged hundreds and even a thousand projectiles that came toward him. He moved so swiftly that he could stay dry under the heavy and windy rain. He then dashed forward and appeared right in front of Astarte, but before he could swing his scythe, Astarte's hair started to act like a sword and was about to stab him.

Sven jumped back and regrouped with Enma and Gerrard, and he barely dodged that attack by cutting the hair with his scythe. The hair grew back and it became longer and more hair grew on her head.

"How the hell am I supposed to get past that?" Sven asked. Suddenly his gaze was distracted by a giant fireball with a strong gravitational pull that flew toward him. "Oh shit!" Sven pointed at the fireball.

Enma moved to the front and activated her upgraded skill called [Preserver] which was similar to the [Inertia] skill but on a smaller scale. She held the giant fireball that was enough to swallow a whole football stadium with it. She was unharmed, and so were Sven and Gerrard thanks to her power.

Enma lowered her shield and saw her surroundings had turned into a crater, but what surprised her was that Astarte's whole body was covered in lava. Although she was covered in lava, she was unharmed and then she slowly turned around to look at the serpent as she blew out the flame on her bangs.

Astarte dropped the swords and they started to float behind her back, and then she reached out her arms that slowly turned into scythes like a mantis. She then swung her arms at the serpent, and suddenly the serpent bled even though there was no projectile attack that could be seen. It shocked everyone because the wound was half the size of the serpent.

When they were still in shock by what they saw, Astarte suddenly turned around and looked at those three with a smirk. She suddenly disappeared and reappeared right in front of them with her arms already pointing at them.

Sven swung his scythe, but to his surprise that his scythe was blocked and only did little damage to Astarte's arms. He also couldn't push her back, so he activated his [Harmony] skill and that wasn't even enough.

"It's on," Astarte said in a soft and soothing voice with a smirk on her face.