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(DHF)Chapter 224: Scorching the heavens
🕑 Added 2025-10-15 14:48:51 +0000 UTCThe change was immediate as the elixir entered my stomach. My cursed energy surged violently and almost beyond my control. There was no containing it however as it within mere moments already began to overflow from my reservoir and pour out into my flames. The miles wide inferno reacted like it was injected with steroids as it rapidly swelled until everything for as far as I could see was my flames. The earth was thick molten liquid now like a massive swamp almost. It didn't slow the beast down much but there was still a hindering effect on it.
I meanwhile was hovering above the lava from the sheer effect of my overflowing cursed energy igniting into hellfire and pushing me up. I didn't hold back at all and furiously pumped out every once of energy my body was producing into the flames as I worked to condense them down. This wasn't strain, not anymore. This was purposeful self destruction. My body wasn't meant to channel so much power, at least for now. Muscles tore and were repaired, veins burst sending my blood dripping from every inch of me only to steam and vaporize on contact with the air.-
I twisted my body as a massive shockwave blasted me towards the beast as my bones crumbled. It swung it's blade at me in an attempt to both harm me and block my own weapon but we weren't playing on the same level anymore. It's blade was pushed back as the creature was flung violently backwards. My sight blurred as my eyes dried out but I forced them to return to normal with my technique as I chased the monster through the air cackling madly. The pain was exquisite and only made my mind sharper as the torrent of power erupted from me.-
The beast struck the pooling lava and dragged a massive trench through it and the unmelted rock beneath it but didn't even have a chance to block as I slammed my weapon into it's chest at close to mach 3. My body took just as much damage as it did as my arm, shoulder and torso shattered only to be pulled together in the same instance. The beast however had it's humanoid torso crater under the force as dense muscle and bone were collapsed. The land didn't fare any better as the impact shook the earth for at least a fifty miles and the ground cratered in devastation.-
I panted as exhaustion reared it's ugly head and the temporary power of the elixir began to fade rapidly.
'Time to end this.' I thought as my mind barely clung to consciousness.
I raised my hands into the proper form before speaking "Domain expansion: Fallen forge!" I said with power.
The inky black barrier of my domain flowed from beneath my feet as it manifested around me and the monster that was already starting to recover. The familiar red stone domain with screaming souls and flowing flames leading to and anvil appeared though this time there was a large pool of glistening blue liquid next to the anvil.-
The anvil itself glowed a rich golden color and I myself was cloaked in a flowing curse script as I raised my weapon and brought it down on the anvil.
"CLANG!"
The sound of metal on metal rang out and the beast violently reacted as it swung it's blade in panic as the burning light in it's eye sockets flickered.
"It's too late. Accept your fate." I said calmly as I brought my weapon down again.
It thrashed in vain as my domain began to pull it apart piece by piece with the removed parts flowing through the channels of flame on the floor before being dumped into the glistening pool and then set aside after the steam cleared. Credit where it was due the beast never stopped struggling until it's head was finally taken to be refined. I kept the tendons, bones, blade arms and organs of the beast but got rid of the rest. On the far wall right next to the amphisbaena soul a new soul appeared in the form of the Knuckelavee also screaming in torment.-
I moved the refined parts into the specially made bag as the torrent of smoke from the beast filled me and finally let the domain vanish. Before I ran out of juice from the elixir I shot off across the sky westward as far as I could before landing and encasing myself in a tree with a hole in it to breath from as darkness claimed me. Overcoming my limits like that came at a terrible cost as I was tired down to my very soul. Such an exhaustion was not so easily recovered from.-
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(3rd person POV)
While Alex slumbered deeply within his tree refuge a nationwide manhunt for him was issued by Kali herself. Mere hours after the battle ended she and her entire familia arrived at the site only to find nothing but devastation. No slain beast and most importantly, no slayer. In truth were the spectacle of the fight not so grand it could be seen from a hundred of miles away Kali wouldn't have even realized it had started as her scouts failed to inform her of Alex's passing. At further thought she figured out that He had found her scout in his path and killed them for secrecy.-
The destruction goddess did not care that she herself held ill intentions towards him only that she had been cheated her prize and even suffered a loss instead. A Telskyuran messager were dispatched to Orario demanding Alex for damages to the country and supposed murder of one of the Kali familia members. Through this messager however word began to spread of Alex's power as the full level of the destruction he created was revealed. What was also revealed was that Alex himself was missing, vanished like nothing more than wind.-
Not dead as Hestia said she hadn't felt the death of him through her connection to his falna but missing all the same. Ouranos did not bend to the Telskyuran demands however but revealed the terms of the agreement the Kali familia themselves set up for the crisis on their land before dismissing the messager who was NOT happy to have to report utter and complete failure of their mission to Kali.
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Thanks for the fight. Double thanks for not extending the fight into multiple chapters đ. (Nothing wrong against your fights it is just that I am a reader that skips fights because for me most fights from the same anime feels similar when you have read as much fanfics as me đ )
