Chapter 445 - You're Already Dead

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Valen wrathfully swung his gigantic blade against them, a single swing suddenly turned into an enormous storm of slicing attacks, clashing against the entire group!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

However, Erebus and Rust emerged in front of the group. Using their powers, Erebus generated several Dungeon Walls to shield everybody, all while Rust created several metallic walls to reinforce Erebus defensive measures!

CLAAASSSHHH!

The impact of Valen's attack clashed against the defenses, and although many were destroyed, Rust and Erebus were able to stop his mad attacks!

Valen continued unleashing slashing attacks while those behind Erebus and Rust continued to unleash long-ranged attacks, without realizing that someone was lurking right above him! When Valen's eyes realized there was a giant made of blazing steel falling over his head, it was too late!

SLASH!

"AAGH!"

Valen was shocked, an enormous titan made of red and orange armor with a helmet shaped as a skull, and whose interior was purely the divine soul made of flames of a powerful former floating skull fell from above and pierced his head with his large blade, slicing his head in half!

"YOUUUU!"

Valen roared wrathfully, directing his rage against Belphegor, who had attacked him sneakily! His enormous arms turned even more grotesque as they stretched terrifyingly, attempting to wrap around Belphegor! However, the valiant knight swung his blazing blade constantly, slashing apart Valen's tentacles and burning through his entire body!

"Nnnggh…! How can this be…?! I-I am being overpowered by these mere Gods…?! Me?! A Vampire of such a high rank?!" Muttered Valen in utter frustration, he had worked incredibly hard for all the things he had accomplished, yet he couldn't recognize the effort of others and could only see everything through a surface level.

His entire mind was being shrouded in anger and frustration, but he quickly decided to simply go all out, opening several jaws across his body and unleashing beams of chaos and blood energies converged together, attempting to conjure several Blood Reigns against everybody!

BOOOOMMM!!! BOOOOMMM!!! BOOOOMMM!!!

The enormous explosions blew away everybody, as they also broke through their formations and defenses! However, right before Valen was about to fight them as they were weakened, a Shoggoth emerged out of thin air, cracking space itself and piercing one of his eyes with her powerful spear!

CLAAAASH!

"AGGH…! W-What the?! You again!" Roared Valen again, recognizing the one capable of creating pocket spaces, Abyss! He quickly decided to fight her back with everything he had, swinging his powerful Soul Weapon and clashing it against Abyss Kosmos spear! Both weapons seemed almost equally strong in terms of durability, but Valen's weapon was clearly stronger in everything else!

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Meanwhile, Nesephise emerged behind Valen while he was being distracted by Abyss, as she summoned her powerful Divine Spirit Magic and Divine Water Magic, as the spirits of countless amphibians were summoned in the thousands! It results that Chaos had given her a Cosmic Core before letting her go, and after she swallowed it, she gained the power of cosmic energy, which boosted her magic even further, allowing her to learn new techniques and magics such as these!

"This is… The power of the Saint?! You not only dare escape with the egg but you come to fight me?!" He roared frustratedly, as Nesephise smiled nervously.

"I won't let you kill any more of my people anymore! I'll take back my world, my home!!!" Roared Nesephise, her army of amphibian-shaped water spirits fell over Valen, swarming him and devouring his body slowly, some froze his body, others melted it, and some others bit and devoured him!

"NGGGHH…!" Valen's powers were not responding to him either, as he fought more, his powers continued to grow stronger but he wasn't even ablet to control them properly. Something was interfering within his own body!

…And that something was there, watching him.

"Wait… Where… did Chaos go?!" Valen wondered, he had attempted to seek for him this entire time but he was being constantly distracted by others.

However, it seemed to be too late.

"I've always been within you, Valen."

"Eh?!"

Valen suddenly felt completely stiff, his body did not respond to him anymore!

"Since the moment I exploded using my flesh, I turned into small bacteria-sized flesh pieces, and I began to parasitize and devour your body from the inside out… Of course, I used my soul, cut into tiny pieces to possess you… And devour your soul and body slowly."

"Ah… No… T-This can't be! You're a weakling! I killed you so easily back then!"

"Well, the thing is, I didn't die… Right?"

"A-Ahhh…!"

"I think you've not realized it yet… Valen, but you and I, are already the same being."

"What?!"

"You're already dead."

And then, Valen realized something, as everybody stopped attacking him, he looked into his own body, his surroundings, and everything, he seemed calm, oddly calm.

"Your soul was already eaten, and your ego is the last remaining thing you've been using… And that ego, is now also gone."

"No… T-This… It… can't… be!"

CRUNCH!

Valen's consciousness was greeted by darkness, only to be engulfed by Chaos mind and fused with him, his memories, his thoughts, his experiences, everything became part of Chaos, and his individualism disappeared.

His monstrous body shapeshifted back into the appearance of Chaos, as Chaos sighed in relief, it seemed that everything went according to plan. Indeed, this was all an elaborate plan he had made.

He knew he couldn't defeat Valen, he knew that even if everybody joined forces, it was utterly impossible, and he had already considered that the frog wouldn't help them anyways, as it was very selfish in the end.

So he simply devised a plan, making it as if he sacrificed himself, and letting Valen slice him into pieces and lower his guard to get very close to said sliced pieces. He acted like a small microorganism, or a colony of them, both soul and flesh devoured him from the inside, but Valen would realize this sooner or later, so Chaos had to ask his allies to distract him until he could take over him…

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