Chapter 449 - 449: A rematch?

Upon hearing the Beyonds voice, a powerful storm began brewing as countless thunderbolts shot towards the new Gods but none of them count touch their skin. 

The clouds gathered and took the shape of a feminine face with silver glowing eyes, looking down on the new gods with great anger visible in its eyes.

The Beyond's voice struck fear in the hearts of all those who heard it. Even the new gods couldn't stop the images of their deaths from appearing in their minds. They all remembered they were at their peak back then but they lost to this being. And no matter how much they tried to shake that thought off, it stuck to their memories like glue.

"ME? FEAR DEATH? IF YOU ARE SO CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITIES WHY DON'T YOU COME AND FACE ME, HERE AND NOW!" Derik growled viciously.

Roar!

Letting out a roar, Derik's death aura, alongside Cyrus' life aura exploded, creating a powerful field of energy that struck the face in the clouds, forcing it to cry out in pain.

"YOU DARE! ONLY DEATH AWAITS YOU ALL!"

The beyond furious screams shook the skies as the entire sky crumbled and was remade into the darkness with countless twinkling stars! A large eye appeared at the center of this darkness, giving out red flashes of light as it drew closer!

This was the form the beyond took when it made its first appearance, murdering both the new and old gods. This form was scary enough to make the new gods, including Cyrus retreat instinctively due to fear brought up by memories of the past.

Roar!!!!!!

Seeing the other retreat, Derik turned to the beyond furiously and shot to the darkness like a mad beast. His death aura kept surging out until his figure was completely shrouded in it.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Upon collision, numerous explosions kept rocking the skies as both sides kept exchanging blows. Everyone in the continent could see the battle going on in the skies as two figures surrounded by dark aura kept throwing punches and none was trying to dodge or block.

They were taking each other's hit fearlessly!

Bang!

The darkness and Derik's death aura had completely blended making it impossible for any to tell the difference. Within the cl.u.s.ter of stars were faint green laces of aura running across the skies.

"Space power: Star fall!"

Countless glowing gray massive rocks fell from the skies, trying to crush Derik who wore a crazed smile on his face. 

Pope Blata could tell this was the same ability he tried to use on Derik but now it was being used by the Beyond it was on a whole new level entirely.

Judging based on the being posing as the Beyond, it was also at the peak grade of the gold realm but the power it was capable of releasing was far beyond that of a gold realm master, but even then Derik wasn't far behind in terms of strength.

"In the face of absolute power, all forms of tricks are useless! Secret combat technique: Brilliance claw!" Derik growled as a darkish green aura exploded from his claws and he lunged towards the gray meteors shooting down at him.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

With each strike, the gray meteors were reduced to dust, but the death aura gathered around his claw lessened. It didn't take long before he started struggling with the gray meteors, needing more than three strikes just to destroy one.

BAM!

Derik was struck hard by one of the rocks, forcing him to slowly descend as he tried to adjust himself to be able to carry the weight of the meteor.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Countless meteors crashed into the first one, greatly increasing the weight of the meteors Derik was holding on to. His vision blurred for a moment and his body felt numb but then he could hear voices below. No prayers!

Prayer of his believers, prayers of all members of the church of seven, hoping that their new gods triumph against the lord of light whom they abandoned for the new ones. 

Their prayers revealed their fear of death, causing Cyrus and the other new gods who initially retreated in fear to feel ashamed. To think that after living for so long and fighting countless battles, they still won't be able to overcome their fear?

Shameful!

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Suddenly Derik's mad laughter filled the skies as he still struggled with the meteors. His laughter gave those beneath him confidence and certainty that even when forced to battle the lord of light, the god of death could still laugh.

The Church of the seven carried around the truth of the events that led to the death of all the gods, both new and old. Unlike the Church of light, it didn't portray their gods as the absolute. Instead, it recounted the events of the past just the way they happened. Hearing Derik's signature laughter as told in the stories, these people couldn't help but feel at ease. Who would have thought that the god they feared so much would be the one to give them comfort at their time of need.

"DEATH MAGIC: DEATH RAY!"

Derik roared and a beam of darkish green aura exploded from his body, piercing through all the gray meteors and reducing them to dust!

{All his abilities reduce everything it touches to dust? Wasn't that how he was while he was still a true god? He shouldn't be able to have such power until he recovers his godly essence! What the hell is going on!} The Beyond thought as it considered what to do next.

As far as he's concerned, Derik was still at the peak of the gold realm. The true nature of his element shouldn't be so strong right now. The Beyond couldn't tell how Derik recovered so much strength or can draw out the true nature of his death magic at this point!

"Of course I haven't recovered my godly essence but I did get something almost as good as it... A God soul!" Derik read the Beyond's mind and replied accordingly.