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177 To Face the Divine
🕑 Added 2018-11-13 19:33:15 +0000 UTCThe air around me burst outward as I unleashed a singularity in the center of a Skyburner's chest. Its ribs snapped. Its armor ruptured. Its smooth skin split. The gialgathen sunk into the abyss, the creature caving in on itself. Air siphoned into the singularity before it devoured all the sound around it.
All went silent, the battlefield quiet as a graveyard. In a flash of light and radiation, the singularity imploded. Another discharge of energy rippled outwards, sending spires of metal out like spears. The shockwave left another pit of raw ground in the steel. It left liquified metal and stone behind it.
The scenery itself deformed in the singularity's wake.
The two Skyburners tumbled through the silver infested scenery, both of them blown away. The orange and white Skyburner rolled through shards of metal. It stood up, its limbs shaking and one of its wings snapped.
The other Skyburner, purple and black, limped with a broken front leg. This beast spread its lilac shaded wings, trying to fly away in time. Before it escaped, I leaned over and jumped towards the creature. It took off, but I landed onto its back, smashing it back down.
The metal dented beneath us, my mass overwhelming the monster. I raised my right hand, a white aura leaking from my fist. Using the overkill damage from my initial impact, I clubbed my hand onto the Skyburner's head. It squished like an orange under a steamroller.
The blowback rattled through my bones, my entire frame ringing. I held together, standing up as another shockwave spilled out over the wasteland. Even silvers ran off, flocking for escape from the carnage. Beneath me, the gialgathen's body shivered, nerves firing off as a plume of blood shot out from it.
It sprayed over me, the liquid evaporating in an instant. A fine, red mist floated where the beast's head once was. I turned towards the last remaining gialgathen. The once noble Skyburner quivered, its will to fight broken beyond repair.
I rolled my shoulders, walking over to it. As I did, I tore off strips of my own metal skin. As it regenerated, I lifted the pieces and melted them, collecting a ball of molten metal. As I neared the final beast, it turned and fled. I reached out with both my hands, jerking the creature back to me.
It clawed at the metal, tearing long slash marks as it scrambled to get away from me. I shot the liquid metal, splashing it over the creature. The Skyburner raised its head, pure agony consuming it. Before the beast died, I raised my hand, cooling the molten metal.
Encased in obsidian metal, the gialgathen writhed in its casted cage. With severe burns and a broken will, the beast ceased its struggle within seconds. I stepped up to it, the monster froze in place. Its head reared into the sky, only its jaws and upper mouth free.
It turned its eye to me, its eyes widening as I stepped up. It gasped out,
"You...you are a monster. You have broken me."
I shrugged, "I can do a lot worse if you don't tell me where the other camps are."
The Skyburner's pupils narrowed, true fear spreading over its face. It coughed, "No...No...I will never expose my brothers and sisters. We are one, and we are many. I will not let you find them, Harbinger."
I raised a hand, heating the metal around him. It scorched his flesh in a few places, causing him to roar out in anguish. I snapped,
"Look, I'm not into this whole torture thing. You'll find I'm a damn quick learner though if you don't let me know what's going on here."
The Skyburner heaved, "No...It will not come to pass. What you will unleash onto me will never rival the wrath of the one I follow. "
I heated the metal again, and he squawked like a chicken having its feathers plucked, "Yeah, we'll see about that."
Before I committed to the interrogation, I looted the battlefield. After recording footage of the aftermath and the corpses, I harvested the carcasses.
Well, the carcasses that I could harvest.
The two Skyburner's I smashed on impact left little for my armor to eat. Each of them disintegrated into a fine mist. Same story with the one that died to a singularity. The other corpses were different, they even uncovered a few interesting details of the fight.
The ancient general, Ghaikhag Monothos, was decapitated. His neck was cut clean, so clean that it bisected, showing an anatomical graph of a gialgathen's neck. I found one more Skyburner just outside the crumbled walls of their base, its head lopped off in the same manner. Althea assassinated both of them, leaving me plenty to drink up.
After eating them, I ran past the final body. I punched its head off, leaving plenty left for my armor. I walked back to the encased Skyburner, finding Tohtella and Althea gawking at it. As I paced up, Tohtella turned to me and raised a pistol at my head. I rolled my eyes while she gasped in relief once she recognized me. Tohtella turned to the Skyburner, her hands on her hips,
"I underestimated both of you if I'm honest. To think you both held such destructive potential. It's terrifying."
Althea shook her head, "Here I thought my dual assassination was impressive."
I spread out my arms, "What? It was impressive. You insta-killed a level 10,000+ enemy. That's insane."
Althea scoffed, "Uh, it doesn't quite have the same wow factor as blowing the entire base up. You obliterated two of them right after that as well."
I shrugged, "We had time to plan and got the jump on them." I turned to Tohtella, "Did the slaves make it?"
She nodded, "We lost a third of them. The yana worms inside them frenzied once we teleported the slaves out. Torix improvised, freezing all of them. This put the espens and worms into cryogenic sleep. It's unfortunate, but some of them will die from that as well."
Althea bit her lip, shivering, "That's better than watching those worms eat them alive."
I nodded, "Well, we did our best. I killed five of the Skyburners. I'm killing this last one as well. Better than wasting the experience."
Althea scoffed, pointing above her head. I glanced, and her title appeared.
Althea Tolstoy, the Shapeless Arbiter(lvl 6,201 | Class: Breaker)
I grinned, "What? You're a Breaker now?"
She puffed out her chest, "I've been working on the tree for a while now, ever since we fought Yawm."
I shook my head, "Wow. How did you get so many skill points so fast?"
She shrugged, "I've had a ton of extra points ever since I unlocked my legendary skill forever ago. I used them along with a few extra skills I've been training on Giess."
I raised my eyebrows, "Looks like I won't be outleveling you for long."
She rolled her eyes, "Uh-huh. You'll get a class here soon. Besides, your hustle will get you level capped pretty soon."
Tohtella looked between us. She shook her head, "She's a Breaker now?"
Althea put her hands on her hips, "Yup. I'm not as strong as Daniel yet, but I'm keeping up...mostly I guess."
Behind us, the Skyburner roared out, "Such drivel. Silence yourselves or silence me. I will not waste away here as you all-"
I raised a hand, heating his armor up. He bellowed out, his voice echoing for miles. I snapped,
"Yeah, we'll talk as much 'drivel' as we want too."
Foam dripped from the edges of the Skyburner's mouth as it glared at me. I turned towards Tohtella and Althea, "I'll worm the information out of it. You two can go help Torix."
Althea nodded, but Tohtella shook her head. She adjusted her glasses, "I'll stay here and assist you."
Althea leaned over her, a head taller than Tohtella,
"Just so you know, you touch my man like that again, and that General isn't the only one I'll break."
Tohtella gave her nod even as she blushed, "I promise you that it was a momentary lapse in professionalism. I was only curious about the armor's properties."
Althea poked her chest, "You get curious about his 'armor' again, and I'll get curious about what your insides look like. Ok?"
Tohtella sighed, "Understood."
Althea pursed her lips and crossed her arms, "Good." She looked up at me, "You better tell me if she does anything."
I rolled my eyes, "I'll bring you the hand she does it with, alright?"
Althea nodded. She looked between us one last time before disappearing like a ghost. I turned back to the Skyburner, and I frowned,
"Look, I don't want to torture you."
I heated up the armor. He howled out, but I growled over the beast,
"But I will do what it takes to stop this bullshit. Understand?"
The Skyburner glared at me,
"Kill me Harbinger. Tormenting me only belittles the standing of someone like you."
I narrowed my eyes, "How do you even know I'm called the Harbinger?"
The beast let out a pained laugh,
"Hah, do you not recognize what you are? When I first laid my eyes upon you, fire cycloned around your frame. You paced from the burning crater you left behind, and I understood what you were. It required no introduction. It required no words."
I frowned, "Hmm. Weird."
A few minutes of torment later, and I gained a skill I never thought I would.
New Skill Gained! Torture(lvl 1) - Some bring their enemies to death in an instant. You bring your enemies to a line between life and death, bringing hell to life. +1% to physical pain caused to others.
I closed my eyes, grimacing at the skill. I sighed, turning away from the Skyburner. Tohtella adjusted her glasses, "What is it?"
I shook my head, "I'm not cut out for this. Let's just put him out of his misery."
An amused smile trailed onto her face, "Kind of you. Allow me to continue the interrogation."
With cold eyes, Tohtella opened her dimensional storage. She pulled out a jar full of yana worms, the same pot from behind her desk. She channeled her mana, zapping the fluid in the jar. The worms writhed, eyes opening all along their writhing bodies.
Tohtella walked up to the Skyburner, "Hello there. It's good you can understand us."
The Skyburner snapped at her, "Begone, weakling. You are nothing but a leech on the underbelly of this world. You feast upon the scraps of great warriors."
She kept her amused grin on her face, "Oooh, really? Good. This weakling has something like a leech in this jar. Care to take a look?"
The Skyburner peered down at the vial. His pupils turned into slits as he howled, "Accursed Yana? You wouldn't dare...I've done nothing to deserve their desecration. I've done nothing that warrants such a trail."
"You and I disagree on the matter. Tell us the location of the other camps. Otherwise, I will dip just enough yana into your mouth that you'll barely be conscious. We'll dump you out into silver territory, and your kind will remember you by your zombied corpse."
He frothed out, "There are three other camps such as this. One lays by the mountain of red and fire and ash. Another rests by the ocean of green and blue and the River of Tears. The last camp resides on the remains of Lehesion and Emagrotha's great battle."
Tohtella nodded, snapping her fingers. The jar cooled, the yana's eyes closing. She glared up at the beast, "See? All you had to do was follow orders."
Tears poured out of the Skyburner's eyes. He wailed out, "I am a betrayer of many. Kill me as I deserve it."
Tohtella turned to me, "Do as you will."
She walked past me, looking away from the Skyburner. I kept my eyes on her, a different, icy side of her showing itself. She turned back to me, her eyes empty,
"What is it? Is there something on my face?"
I frowned, "No...Not really."
I turned back to the Skyburner, "You resisted for a long time. There's no shame in dying in battle."
He gasped, "I died no such death."
I melted and pulled the encased armor out from around him. After singeing him a bit, I jerked the metal back to me. My armor reconstituted it, the molten mass sinking into my skin. The Skyburner gasped,
"You...you give me a warrior's death? For what reason?"
I raised my fists, "It's all I can give you."
The Skyburner lowered his head. After a moment of thought, he peered up,
"My name is Draygalga Fire-Swallow. Tell my brothers that I fought with bravery. Tell my sisters that I was noble in defeat. Would you do this for me?"
I nodded, "Yeah, you have my word."
He nodded, "No matter the Yana nor the agony rendered unto me, I would expose nothing. This, I give to you as payment for my debt."
I raised an eyebrow. Draygalga gasped out, "The one that leads us cleaved the sky with a swing of his claws. He is the oldest and strongest of our kind, the mightiest of us all."
Tohtella jotted a note onto her clipboard, "Tell us. Now."
The Skyburner's eyes narrowed, "He is known as Lehesion, the Army of One."
My eyes widened as Draygalga leaped towards me. He snapped his maw, but I shifted on my heels, sidestepping him. His jaws clanked, sending out a shockwave in front of him. It left a dent in the metal as I countered with a left hook.
His bottom jaw dislocated turning sideways. He whipped his tail at me, but I deflected it with my forearm. I hammer-fisted the back of his head, slamming his face into the ground. As I raised my foot, he gurgled with his broken face,
"I return to Giess, honor to thine name."
I squashed his skull under my heel. I lifted my foot and squatted down, I placed my hands onto his neck. My armor devoured him, thousands of needles sapping his strength. After he died, I turned to Tohtella,
"Did you hear him?"
She looked at me, her expression frozen in place,
"We must warn the public. Lehesion has returned. We need to evacuate areas near the base and arm cities."
I frowned, "Is he that big a deal?"
Her eyes hollowed,
"He is a living god."
Comments
Alex R
Monsoon said in another chapter that Yamn would still destroy Daniel
Daniel Aziz Awan Goncalves
I honestly don't think so, it took an army of thousands, Althea, Nox, Daniel and Torix, a team full of breakers, ajax and a bunch of luck to kill him, like if I had to be honest it was luck. Daniel managed to use Yawm's strength against him. But imo he still wouldn't stand a single chance against Yawm in a 1v1
Shannon Smith
"He's a living god". So was Yawm. Now he's particles, lol.
Pretentious Slime
Oooh I read about those. Yeah their like launched from satellites and can be equivalent to a large meteor crashing into earth. Except more condensed.
Alex R
He did take over a couple of Yamn's minions when he died.
Pretentious Slime
Danial is probably immune to shock wave damage. So long as it doesn’t have enough force to somehow travel through his body. If it did somehow travel through his body, he would probably be vibrating quite a bit since he is basically made out of metal.
Pretentious Slime
Why do shockwaves kill people so easily? Because humans are like 70% water. When a shockwave travels through you, it kinda messes with your water. Lol
Pretentious Slime
Fun fact, shockwaves, if powerful enough, can kill. Ever watch the fight of hulk V Hulk buster in that one avengers movie? If you haven’t, there is a part we’re iron mans hulk buster fist collides with great force into the hulks fist, causing a shockwave powerful enough to break glass and push people over. This technically should have killed anyone that close because shockwaves can rupture organs and tear your body up from the inside. But it’s a Disney marvel movie so that didn’t happen to the innocent bistanders. Another good example would be, explosives. Ever wonder why some people who are caught up in an explosion have little injury but are still dead? Now you know.
Alex R
Plus he struggled to contain Daniel's final fight until he just had the shield explode.
Alex R
I'm not surprised he took a lot of damage. He turned himself into a rod from god which IIRC have destructive force comparable to nuke. And the rods themselves get obliterated when they hit the ground.
Pretentious Slime
I would say that it would be much more realistic to write that his re-entry made a few shockwaves so powerful that they parted the clouds. While sonic booms come from an object going beyond the speed of sound, shockwaves can be formed from an object or energy pushing with a great amount of force against air.(my knowledge in this area is very limited but I did my best to be accurate.) a nuclear explosion would cause a shockwave so powerful that you could actually see it travel across a large area.
Kurt A
Im pretty sure that would just be the result of being at such a high level compared to those suppressed.
Pretentious Slime
Your welcome, I also didn’t add that the reason for a rail round not causing a sonic boom is because it’s able to cut through the air with ease do to its design. There are probably a few other reasons too, but that’s about as far as I read.
Monsoon117
Thanks for the fix. I researched it a bit, but I got caught up with one of the more common myths about it I suppose. It's one of the dangers of introducing a concept. Either way, I'll edit the description to match my newfound understandings, and thanks for the help.
Connor Alexander
I forgot to send in a thanks for the chapter! I wonder how you are going to show power for this godly character, as this gialgathen would have to have functional magics and powers of a higher order without schema's system. Will the function differently, like his commander in the tournament, with odd effects and overwhelming power
Pretentious Slime
I guess what I’m getting at is, I can understand 2 sonic booms. But more than that and it just simply doesn’t make that much sence. However, if it is because his armor isn’t exactly the most aerodynamic hunk of metal. That would probably be good enough for explaining. Either way, sonic booms don’t mean +speed. It’s possible to shoot a rail round out of the electromagnetic rail cannon at 5,000miles an hour and have a complete lack of sonic boom.
Pretentious Slime
Ok so I looked it up because I was curious. Apparently, In order for an object to make multiple sonic booms, it would have to be quite big or be shaped oddly. I read an article about the falcon 9 creating 3 shockwaves as it landed. That’s because the front and back of any airplane/shuttle create shockwaves when they exceed 1.4time the speed of sound. Were did the third come from though? There are fins on the falcon nine for guidance. They protrude far enough that they were able to produce a sonic boom. Normally people can’t hear the second sonic boom because it happens in rapid fire succession.
Pretentious Slime
I guess I forgot that it wasn’t too long ago that Danial and Yawm squared off. The disparity in knowing how low their chances were even before yawm woke up. It’s easy to hype things, but sometimes overhypeing can cause people to overestimate. Still, no one can deny that since then, danial has become much stronger. I was surprised that he even took damage crashing into Giess. But I guess you would have to be going pretty fast to create multiple sonic booms.
Pretentious Slime
The last bit of the yawm ark reminded me of Hunter x Hunter Antinium ark. Just dark and phycological.
Pretentious Slime
Despite their lack of combat efficiency, to me it Doesn’t seem like speakers should be underistimated or taken lightly. The speaker guy leading the first Giess tournament was able to overpower the gialgathens movements(without even touching him) that danial was fighting. I would bet that it would take quite a bit of willpower to escape something like that.
Monsoon117
Speaker's get enhanced social nuance, trustability, willpower, intelligence, and they can manipulate other people easily. Their a charisma/intelligence class for the most part, with an emphasis on talking and smoothing over social relations between various cultures and schema's system.
R. D. Schubert
Thanks mate! Keep 'em coming!
Alex R
That makes sense. I guess I was putting part of the Breakers abilities on Fringe Walkers. What does a Speaker give you? I think it's the only one left that you havent said what they give.
Alex R
That makes sense. I guess I was putting part of the Breakers abilities on Fringe Walkers. What does a Speaker give you? I think it's the only one left that you havent said what they give.
Monsoon117
Just to verify, but Yawm would still smash Daniel if they fought on a level playing field. Yawm is still stronger, has access to broken magic, and has healing and toughness that rivals Daniel's. Yawm only lost because he wasn't trying to vaporize them from the start. He put on a show to capture Ajax. He ended up miscalculating though, getting injured, and ended up paying a steep price for it.
Monsoon117
I think he meant more for the 'feel' of the arc rather than the actual plot details. This is also the third arc in the story involving a big boss enemy.
Monsoon117
So Fringe Walkers aren't given true damage. Yawm had stuff that did true damage, but that came partway from his Breaker class and Etorhma's runes. Fringe walkers are given longevity bonuses, enhanced aoe effects, survivability bonuses, extra raw stats from a higher level cap, and are given mental resilience enhancements. Breakers are given a higher resistance cap, access to arcane magic, exclusive single target abilities, some antimagic properties, and bonuses to single target spells/debuffs/etc. I hope this makes sense.
Pretentious Slime
Some might say that a breaker doesn’t sound as good as a fringe walker, but breakers would most likely be the ones to challenge people like yawm.
Anon_Anon
From what we learned so far, Breakers are made for 1vs1/PvP scenarios. It seems like they have a lot more single target damage and gimmicks (ex: that one Stamina drain ability one of the breakers have, true damage, etc.) which makes Althea's kit perfect for a Breaker. Fringe Walkers are suited for AoE/PvE scenarios since they cleanse entire worlds. Presumably, they would have a lot of AoE abilities, have high survivability, and some ways of preventing/counteracting eldritch from infecting their bodies.
Kurt A
Breakers probably also get abilities that reduce their targets survivability, wither by locking them in place or perhaps some unpurgeable DOT abilities. They may also have ways to prevent injuries from healing, though Daniel probably has enough hp region to counter that anyways.
Pretentious Slime
Sounds about right. Though fringe walker’s will always have some sort of edge over breaker do to them often haveing a better means of survivabilty.
BrauBaer
Thanks for the chapter.
Pixelblade
They both have advantages, with fringe-walker possibly being stronger, but it mostly depends on how compatible the class is with a person's build. I think.
Pixelblade
Breaker gives you arcane damage, but that seems a bit redundant for Althea with her armor penetration ability. As for the other stuff they get I don't really know, but it was mentioned that they make the best 1v1 fighters/duelists in Schema's system, possibly even being able to beat a fringe walker in a solo fight. Fringe walkers on the other hand get all the AoE goodness. Their builds are geared toward fighting hordes of Eldritch and depopulating entire fringe-worlds.
Alex R
What does Breaker give you that Fringe Walker does not? We know Fringe Walkers give the true damage. But why would you become a Breaker over a Fringe Walker?
Pretentious Slime
Yeah he could probably take on yawm single handedly. Though it would probably be a difficult fight for the both of them. Especially if, somehow, yawm has enough time to launch one of his atomic attacks. Yawm can also heal from just about anything too if there is an abundance of plant life around.
Pretentious Slime
I think the one piece doflamingo ark fits perfectly here.
Alex R
I also forgot about the Legion juggling the event horizon damage heal
pukeofhurl
On other hand this is better than buu saga in someways XD also monsoon cell saga was my favorite as well :D
pukeofhurl
Just saying this is nothing like buu saga... if anythingnits freeza ressurrection arc of super since the god is back from the dead leading new armies and then even that isnt a great comparison the person closest to being buu is actually daniel... that regen as a weapon was how kid buu destroyed planets without killing himself
Anon_Anon
On a side note, I'm kinda surprised Torix isn't asking for any corpses to re-animate since he probably outleveled his old minions. Or maybe he's using his own sources outside of Daniel's view.
Alex R
He did with Althea and Hod and Torix's help. I'm asking more of a 1v1.
Itisn1tmyname
he already did though?
Alex R
Can Daniel currently defeat Yamn? I think if he couldn't, he'd atleast be able to give close to as good as he gets.
Jacob Santos
I guess buu might be a good comparison if you are facing an impossibly powerful opponent. Probably be more cell saga.
Monsoon117
it should be our. Good catch.
Anon_Anon
"He is the oldest and strongest of your kind, the mightiest of us all" Isn't it "our kind" or was he actually referring to Daniel?
Monsoon117
Thanks for the comparison. I love DBZ, though the cell saga was my favorite.
PloofDoodle
Another god
Pretentious Slime
Yawm, god of flesh. Yes, yawm was considered a living god and we had an entire story ark for him. But I’m not sure if yawm could replicate this gods feats. (I wrote this with hesitation because yawm isn’t exactly the most godly of people.)
Jacob Santos
Buu saga
BladeTytan
Daniels' whole build is designed to kill gods/overpowered enemies, the huge health pool portion combined with the overkill reflection attack Perk deals huge damage, and then the regen to heal himself to fighting condition rapidly (and if the perk has no cooldown, use it again).
s1ntec
Pretty sure the part you are currently missing is yet to be written
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Alex R
Hes a living god. Which means Daniel and Althea will make chump change of him in a few chapters.
Loric
Wait is lehesion the one that fought for second class citizen rights for the espens and the other gialgathen was the one leading the slavery charge? Why is lehesion back with the skyburners or am i missing something?
28th00
Wouldn't be the first time he killed a Living God... Wait, isn't he technically one too?
Kevin Ramos
Well would you look at that, another exp boost for the mc
Thomas dupre
Wasnt yawm considered a living god as well ? just add another to the resume lol
Monsoon117
How so?
Jess Koch
Sounds like a cute way of saying third
Alex
Things are heating up in the New World fandom...
Pixelblade
Amazing chapter... Good thing we have a slayer of pseudo-divinities close at hand
Pretentious Slime
I’m gonna read this and then say first because that would mean that I was the first to read this to it’s full extent before saying first.
Monsoon117
Fixed the Ital and Bold words littered throughout the chapter. Grammarly won't let me format it, so I inject those words to let me know where to bold or italicize text. Forgot to change it before posting this time.
Jess Koch
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