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375 A Might Unseen and Undeniable
🕑 Added 2023-03-04 00:17:49 +0000 UTCLehesion pulled himself from the void, and his eyes met mine. A grin grew over his face.
"Ah. It is you yet again. I thought we'd called a truce of sorts? Perhaps you wished for another thrashing."
Energy plumed from me, ascendant mana billowing out like blood. The ocean ran red.
"I'm not the same Daniel you fought before."
Golden lightning erupted from Lehesion as he shouted across the horizon.
"And neither am I, child."
Chapter Begin
Lehesion breathed deep. Energy piled into his maw, and he unleashed a giant ray of energy toward the city. It bounced off of the city's barriers while I bolted towards him. I split the sea with my gravity wells, tidal forces spreading everywhere. When I reached Lehesion, he swung his tail towards me.
I flowed around it, and Lehesions tail smashed the sand below. Grit melted to glass from the impact, and water billowed away, vaporizing. Air touched us both, each of us staring. Lehesion boomed.
"You've become even better at avoiding my blows. The weak always run."
My armor grinned.
"You're wrong. I don't need to anymore."
Lehesion smirked.
"Then why have you, little one?"
I raised a hand.
"Come on. Let me have it then."
Lehesion grinned, energy building in his tail.
"You have gained many levels since we last fought-"
I burst into laughter. Lehesion grimaced.
"What do you laugh at? Is your position so pitiful that it's driven you insane?"
I pointed at him.
"First off, you might be projecting a little there. Secondly, levels don't tell you much."
Lehesion's eyes narrowed.
"We shall see."
Lehesion smashed his tail downward, and I reached up a hand. It crashed against my palm with enough force to crush a skyscraper. It could've leveled a large hill or created a small canyon, but I didn't budge. Like a child hitting a steel wall, Lehesion's tail broke from hitting me, bones cracking within.
Lehesion gawked.
"W-what trickery is this?"
I gripped my hand, crushing the golden flesh of his tail.
"Oh, you'll need to do better than this, shiny lizard."
My armor shot through his body, a blazing infestation that soaked in his energy. Lehesion sliced away his tail as he grunted.
"You are as grotesque as always."
I stared at him.
"All you see is the physical. Soon, you will fear what my mind has become."
Lehesion froze in place before shaking himself. He breathed deep before roaring across the horizon once more. It crashed against my wake, and the sound shattered. Silence passed over me as I kept my gaze steady.
Lehesion snarled, "Cease staring at me."
I walked his way. Lehesion boomed.
"Cease."
He waved his giant wings, golden energy beams spreading across the entire area. The ground quaked and rippled apart where the light touched, breaking down at an atomical level. Instead of facing the attack, I switched to The Rise of Eden and generated a colossal stone shelf. It materialized in front of Lehesion.
His beams blasted against several hundred meters of rock. The stone swallowed the rays, and his attack blew him backward. As he flopped, I bolted through the rock and reached him. The shattered god molded his golden aura, creating a shield. With Event Horizon, I pierced it.
Cracks rippled across the gold as I disintegrated his insides. Reaching up a hand, I smashed it down, augmenting my strike with a dozen techniques. Gravity wells. Telekinesis. Heat. Accelerated time. A smaller surface area. My dimensional wake. A reinforced body. A reinforced mind. My strike was a culmination of all my years of effort and struggle. It embodied what I'd done to myself, abandoning my humanity to save myself.
And it ushered forth cataclysm.
Lehesion's body splattered like a yellow watermelon. Blood, guts, Hybrid mush, and water dispersed as heat vaporized the nearby ocean. Glass sprawled like charred tree roots from around the crater. The shockwave passed over me before I stared at my hand and a dead Lehesion. I'd evolved into a whole different being since we last met.
Gazing at the lizard's reconstitution, Lehesion's body returned where his aura lingered. He oggled at his surroundings before jumping away from me.
"Where are your allies? Is this an orbital bombardment? A nuclear assault?"
I cracked my knuckles, waves rippling through the water above from the force I put on my bones.
"No. It's my fist."
Lehesion scrambled away.
"Lies."
I bolted back to him.
"See, I like to punch things. The problem is, it doesn't often work these days."
With a single strike, I destroyed him once more. As he came back, I smiled.
"My enemies are tricky, but sometimes, once in a blue moon-"
I smashed him. He arrived once more. I laughed.
"Once in a blue moon, this actually works, and it is oh so satisfying."
He flew away, sliding through the water with elegance despite his size. I followed. The surrounding ocean disintegrated into steam from friction and heat as I approached. I threw another haymaker at the shiny lizard. His body splintered, becoming a mushy soup at the bottom of a dry sea. The waves around us plumed out before billowing up thousands of feet high.
I blinked in disbelief myself.
Lehesion reformed, staring around once more.
"What is even happening?"
I smiled.
"Let me show you again."
I popped the golden balloon. Seeing his regenerating face, I opened my current status and compared it with a timestamp from when I fought Lehesion before. I turned a hand.
"First off, I'm a hundred times heavier."
I burst the bright blimp. He came to, and I gawked at the numbers.
"I'm two thousand times stronger, somehow. That's wild, I'll tell ya."
I detonated the glowing zeppelin. Regenerating again, he stared at me in horror, and I leaned toward my status.
"Only twelve times more mana regen? Oof, that's starting to slow down. I have to find a way to fix that."
Lehesion's eyes bulged.
"Cease this. What in Eonoth's name have you done?"
I stared at him. Lehesion peered around.
"We...We are still alone. Is Schema helping you? Did you find a hidden artifact?"
I lifted a hand.
"It's my flesh and bones. Tough to emulate."
I pointed at him, trying out singularities within his aura, and the golden energy swallowed all my magic. Unlike Valgus's chains, this wasn't some absolute, antimagic. My sorcery went through but siphoned to a different place. It carried a similar effect to Valgus's shackles, so Lehesion smiled at me. It was a crooked expression, incomplete as his confidence.
"Hah. You've yet to pierce my defenses."
I narrowed my eyes while spreading my hand. Singularities burst an inch outside of his barrier's extent, the shockwaves cascading around him. The lizard disintegrated again. As he pulled himself from the void, fear spread over him. He trembled.
"What has been done? What contracts have you signed? Whose souls did you sell?"
I darted towards him, and he turned around, flying away. Splat. He returned, trying to warp out. I kept the rip in spacetime open and destroyed whatever lay beyond its veil. Lehesion scrambled to pass me, but I extended my armor over the warp before slamming it shut.
Getting desperate, Lehesion flew up, and I followed. Energy coalesced, and an eclipse formed overhead. The day devolved to darkness, and Lehesion howled out.
"You...If I can't kill you, I'll destroy this entire region."
I raised my brow.
"Region? You gotta up the ante. That's not going to cut it anymore."
In my city, the two constructor golems kept the barrier firm. Lehesion channeled energy through his body, stars forming overhead as they had before. I hovered before him, charging mana into my frame and dimensional wake. Once Lehesion finished, his stars shot down from above.
Falling like an apocalypse, the bolts came closer, tiny lights becoming massive beacons. In the shattered god's wake, heaven rained. I faced that eclipse, my form looming in shadow. Energy siphoned through me, channeling into my palms. Ludicrous quantities of mana built up, and I glowed like a sun.
I spread my arms, and singularities cast out over the sky. The dark, inken blots devoured the incoming stars, swallowing hundreds of them. A cacophony of sound erupted, so loud it killed all near it. It disintegrated anything alive, and clouds coursed in from afar. Whirlpools lifted from the ocean to the gravitational anomalies. The sea shifted in the horizon, waves casting up from afar.
Lehesion marveled for a moment before peering down.
"Are...Are you a god as well?"
I rolled my eyes.
"No. I'm Daniel."
Lehesion's eyes closed, and when they opened, I winced. Those controlling him unleashed a devastating psionic attack. Hundreds of mages rushed into my mind, ripping and gnawing it apart. They scorched the air and salted the earth. I bled from my eyes, nose, and ears as vessels ruptured in my head. The liquid pooled in my mouth. It dripped through my teeth like mercury coursing.
And I smiled, my grin wide. I tapped my temple.
"You'll need more. Much, much more."
I pulled in most of the minds from my wake, and they rushed at the attacking forces. They kamikazed into the enemies, my psyches killing several enemies with each of their deaths. Unleashed in a formless goop, they flooded the enemies with mana, memories, and haphazard thought.
There was no reason to use strategy. There was no need for finesse. I assaulted them with every ounce of my ability, and Lehesion's frail mind collapsed under the flow and pressure. His eyes rolled back in his head, and he twitched like an insect pressed with fire. I killed hundreds of mind mages before they tried escaping.
I held them within the palace of my mind, and I barred the exits. They chose this path, one against me. They would feel the entire burden of that mistake. As I slaughtered, a voice rang out in my head.
Tohtella.
"You. What are you doing?"
I continued killing.
Tohtella shouted, "This. This means war."
I reached into Lehesion's mind, finding telepathic strands. I pulled them into the fray. Into the killing field. Into an abyss. My abyss.
Tohtella hissed, "This is about the lottery, isn't it?"
Once close, I inundated the minds. They burst at the seams, driven mad by mana and incoherency. They drowned. They ruptured. They split apart like melons filled with liquid metal.
Tohtella roared, "We will retreat. We will give you anything. Stop. Stop, now."
I spread madness, flooding the weak. The telepathic control of Lehesion weakened. I darted towards him, smashing his body apart once more. Taking out a few runic plates, I detonated them, deforming the fabric of reality where Lehesion's aura lingered. Lehesion's body regenerated into a devolved collection of talking organs and speaking skin.
The remnants controlling him scattered, unable to tolerate the horror of inhabiting such a body. I remained within, tearing it apart. As I gored the mind into pieces, a familiar presence coursed in. I peered around, and I grimaced. Time stopped, and a voice echoed out like far-off thunder. It built in my ears until I felt it in my bones.
"We meet again, living metal."
Comments
Pranav
"no man can destroy me" "I am no man"
Conor McGroarty
Guess “daddy Eonoth” is pulling “second generation rich kid Lehesion” out of the fire again. Though he can’t just shout Daniel to pieces again as he would just reform. What will he say as just being really loud isn’t as hard to hold a conversation with (at least for Daniel it isn’t) compared to Mesmera being a memetic mental presence or Baldowah being a wave of anger and rage? Wonder what the results of Daniel’s mental assault looks like on Elysium’s side? Must be absolutely horrifying and strange that he has changed so much in so little time. Having no information on their forces from Daniel’s lottery really screwed them over. Messing with Daniel in that lottery was an even worse choice since he survived and killed an avatar. What other tricks does Elysium have now that Lehesion, their biggest known individual mighty force, doesn’t work?
Conor McGroarty
Daniel needs to be careful of making and using those cipher bombs until he figures out how to repair the local dimension into something less horrific. Can’t always resort to it even if you can place a “wet floor” (unstable dimension) sign afterwards.
Monsoon117
Fixed and thanks Alex.
Alex R
a familiar presence coursed in -> double space after the a
Connor Alexander
I can’t wait for the snark against Eonoth! What a fun as hell chapter, and an awesome showcase of growth for Daniel!
Monsoon117
This write here is what I live for too.
Aleksander Lie
I did it, he has an escape velocity of about 68% of the earths if you stand on top of daniel. Which mean yeas, things will go into orbit around daniel if u threw say a baseball around him or something LMAO
Monsoon117
Mwahahahahahaha
Monsoon117
I've done the math, and he's nowhere near as heavy as Mt. Everest but he dwarfs anything remotely biological. Whales are around 300,000 pounds for instance, and they are by far the largest animal to ever live. Daniels in the billions now, so he's approaching mountain status. Hah, from Daniel Hillside to Daniel Mountain I guess.
Monsoon117
They're both good in different ways, depending on what you want. The fight against Valgus was a point of fragility for Daniel. The desperation and struggle was palpable. This was a battle of recognition. He's moved miles from where he was, but it was hard to tell with who Daniel's been fighting. This fight is a way of validating all of Daniel's efforts. He is truly formidable, and from many angles at this point.
Drew Rogers
this was great
William Christie
Lehesion was created and introduced so long ago. He was an impossible beast on a level impossible to fathom. His battles destroyed worlds and eclipsed stars, he was the impossible being who Daniel could never truly face in our eyes. Years of effort later Daniel has grown to fight the impossible and through abandoning and torturing himself and his humanity he has become truly a terrible impossible thing. Congratulations Monsoon! You have created a truly amazing story with unmatched written growth. Thank you again for the gift of a new chapter!
William Ristau
No the bad cliffhangers are back go away cliff hangers
Austin Caudill
That was the chaddest shit I ever read
Adwait Gautam
i don't think he is anywhere close to dueling an old one. the system thinks it's nothing in front of an old one, Daniel can hardly grow up to that level depending on system. He needs to develop entropy mana more methodically , and his dimension related abilities. anything that follows the laws of the universe can't damage old ones
FlawlessMovement
Me and my girlfriend are literally sitting here raving about the UTTER FUCKING AWESOMENESS that was this chapter. Your ability to write a fight and have it be GREAT MIGHTY AND GRAND, is literally unparalleled
Shin
Since his cap is 39k levels so roughly 17k to go Thats not gonna change much The biggest gain are the skills followed by his stats from his cipher Once he forms his monarch skill he will get an enormous boost in power
Shin
Lehesion is an ant compared to an old one like eonoth I dont think Daniel will be able to win that Survive yes but not win
Chance Rose
I disagree, while mind and mana fighting is great, that's all that fight was. This fight... It's physical. It's Daniel ripping an old road block in two with his bare hands. I loved it.
OrganicMeat(2.0)
You know, its honestly so satisfying for Daniel to be rewarded for the amount of BS he had to go through while on leviathan, If the system had been with him while he was on that planet he'd probably be fighting old ones by now considering the amount of XP he'd probably have gotten from all that.
Chance Rose
You are the best man. I'm looking forward to it. To much actually. Lmao
Monsoon117
I have it already written. I'll be editing it and writing ahead. I'll also be posting it on the 5th. I'm trying to maintain an every other day schedule.
Fairman
someone on the discord channel found an app to calculate this, and found that he has an escape velocity of .15m/s
John Pratt
To have a noticeable effect on gravity you need a weight that's expressed most easily in scientific notation.
Aleksander Lie
I cant be bothered doing the calculation, but in regarding Newtonian mechanics, how strong of a gravitational pull does he have now? Like could an Apple go into orbit around him?
Zachary Smith
Hillside had a glowup lol
Zachary Smith
Oh. My. God. What a freakin come back for Daniel! Fuck you lizard!
crusty pickle
-This just in- Oversized metal man seen commiting atrocious acts of violence on innocent lizard, more details at 9
Joshua Little
Just needs to absorb Lehesion into his universe now. Thanks for the chapter.
Poekai
Satisfying to the extreme
Charles handgis
These chapters when Daniel cuts loose are always so epic
OrganicMeat(2.0)
Are we getting another chapter today? 😯
justin
This is great keep it up
Matthew Hodges
This was beautiful! Oh so satisfying to read! Thank you for the chapter!
Ferco
Thanks, that was as satisfying as I expected
Bob
Yes! Thank you, didn't know I needed to see a beat down after all his sacrifice on L7, but damn he's grown.
Kemizle
tftc
Kristopher Abraham
Daniel pulling a Valgus by bitch slapping Lehesion out of existence over and over. Only thing missing was unhinged laughter while doing so.
Chance Rose
He should just assault eonoth. Not going to lie it would be glorious. Show all of them who they are messing with and really up the ante.
Chance Rose
Broooooo. Tell me you have another coming soon, I got literal chills reading this, and am about to re read it as this is what I have been waiting for
rizen
Daniel flexing is such a good feeling. Having enemies that lorded over him in the past begging for mercy or retreat is so satisfying here. Power up arc worth it.
Kurt A
This was pretty awesome. Not as good as the final Leviathan battle, but kinda satisfying in its own way.
the void
HAHAHA THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHAT I LIVE FOR!
Justin Drake
TYFTC
Bonesaw
he bout to beat the shit out of eonoth
Monsoon117
These are the kind of chapters I live to write, guys. It's just so much fun to let loose and really showcase what the system's math means. This was a lot of fun, and I even got ahead with the next chapter being already written. It's an interesting one, that's for sure.
Kristopher Abraham
Thanks
