Chapter 428 - Lucia's Fury

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Lucia was filled with utter fury, after having tried to assassinate the weakened Ifrit, she got interrupted by the annoying Edward, an elf she despised by merely glancing at him. She remembered, however, that he had almost died very pathetically against Ernesticia and her spatial magic, but for some reason Ernesticia was not here to help her, she foolishly thought that Edward was still as weak as before, and she attempted to fight him, only being greeted by an enormous titan made of stone and plants, Gaia, the divine spirit of earth and nature that was summoned by Edward.

Lucia was overwhelmed rather quickly, she attempted to escape the powerful grasp of the titan Gaia, but she ended being rather slow, no matter how fast she tried to fly away, the powerful vines, roots, and boulders conjured by Gaia followed her from behind rapidly, all while destroying anything within their surroundings.

The entire city was being blasted into pieces, the streets were being devasted, most of the people here, who were all nasty bandits, space pirates, or other sorts of people involved in horrendous illegal activities were all being splattered into bloody pulp over the ground as giant boulders started falling over their heads and enormous vines crushed them, if that wasn't enough and some survived, the buildings were destroyed and fell over them, massacring most of the population in mere seconds.

Lucia felt completely horrified, her lord Valen might be growing constantly angered, but for some reason he had yet to come out to stop this, it felt as if he was already busy with something else to come aid her or stop this massacre of his population which he worked so hard to protect.

However, Lucia wasn't the strongest either, she was someone that was supposed to be good at stealth attacks, her powerful knives cut through the vines and enormous tree branches, but they constantly emerged one after the other like an endless wrath of nature itself, while boulder tried to crush her from above, below, and from both light and right sides! It was an utterly insane chase, and Lucia was growing more and more desperate as time went by.

She tried to evade and fight back, but she was being pressured too much, she was being thrown away constantly, damaged, and ridiculed by that Spiritual Elf, the race that her own race despised as the ones that cursed them all for the crime of their ancestor! She feel furious, angered… She had already seen Brutus dead, one of her allies… her friend. She couldn't help but grow desperate and wrathful as she also knew that Ernesticia was being attacked by someone else that could control space, things were becoming dire, and out of this desperation, she unleashed her soul, the deepest part of her soul aura, infused and filled with pure poison…

Because Ernesticia's Divinity was actually that, Poison!

FLUOOOOSSHHH!

Furious and desperate to live, Lucia unleashed a massive wave of poison around her surroundings, acidic and toxic, it began to melt Gaia's vines and branches, alongiside burning the enormous boulders flying towards her! An enormous aura domain emerged around her, not letting anything get close to her without receiving massive damage! She was growing constantly more and more furious, she unleashed the power she often used carefully, as it could be lethal to even the allies around her… This was a big reason why Lucia didn't abused the power of her venomous and poisonous soul!

God's souls shaped themselves according to their divinity and elements in the divinity. Gods of thunder had a soul looking as if it was made entirely out of thunder as well, and they were able to utilize such a soul to fight and more… Lucia's divine soul was infused with deadly poison, her entire body was in fact filled with it. She covered her knives with her own blood and saliva to unleash the deadliest poison she had created inside her own body.

And her own soul had absorbed such capabilities when she evolved not a Goddess, and now, her very soul was poisonous, like an endless wave of poisonous miasma! All the attacks from Gaia were being consumed by the poison!

"I-Incredible…" Said Edward. "To think this woman had such potential…" Edward was surprised, as he looked at the Moonlight Elf furious shockwave of poison, he quickly generated a barrier of spiritual energies as he fused the power of many smaller and lesser spirits together coupled with the divine energy and cosmic energy he had.

FLAAASH!

The enormous wave of poison hit his barrier, slowly damaging it and cracking it! Edward quickly began to infuse more energy, regenerating the barrier until it finally it stopped, the poison shockwave had stopped and Edward saw Gaia whose entire body was melting apart…

"You're too weak, Elf, if it was someone who had awakened his powers fully, I wouldn't fall apart so easily!" Said Gaia angrily.

"G-Gaia, I don't think this is the time to reprimand me like that!" Sighed Edward.

"Sigh. Give me more of that cosmic energy, your divine energy is barely worth anything." Said Gaia.

Edward quickly infused a wave of cosmic energy into Gaia, as her body suddenly regenerated, and was suddenly covered in crystals and metals of high density, which resisted the melting and acidic effects of Lucia's poisonous and venomous soul way better!

Lucia suddenly woke up from her daze, looking hatefully at Edward and Gaia, who was reforming and filling herself with cosmic energy, her entire body resembled a titan of steel and crystals now! Lucia looked at Edward who was floating behind, as a summoner, he was not someone that enjoyed fighting close-ranged, but Lucia knew that as long as she could kill him, the giant would disappear, that was the rule for all summoners after all, even spiritual magic users.

She grabbed her two knives and looked hatefully at the man that was doing this to her, her eyes were filled with deadly conviction to fight and survive, she seemed like someone that wouldn't give up so easily… someone capable of doing many things as long as she had the time…

"I'll kill you."

After all, that's what she does best.

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