Chapter 202: Domains of Darkness (4)

"You!" 

"YOU!"

"—YOUYOUYOU!"

It was just one word. 

There was nothing special to it if it were spoken by anybody else. 

And yet it was Aurora of Telriah. The Goddess of Light and the World. Her voice dripped with such a reviled tone, in utter disgust and revulsion that you could feel it palpably in the air. 

You could hear it clearly in your ears and see it in your eyes.

The manifestation of everything that was and the very same being that will also be. A goddess supposed to be an embodiment of light now turned to an overwhelming and bright glare that burned everything in her path.

Shadows faded away from her.

Darkness disappeared once she came.

Horrors and nightmares from unfathomable realms recoiled from her touch and presence alone. Their very nature not able to stay and possess their corporeal forms, they disintegrated into the night.

Mitsuko and Setsuko were the first to shield their eyes—a temporary blindness that swathed their visions and grabbed it from them. Mere creations could never deem it within them to look upon their creator.

And yet this man boldly looked at her without even flinching away.

Aurora could see it: swirling and covering him in a black cloak-like fog. It was almost unseeable to any mortal's eyes, even a Priestess wouldn't be able to see it if they were trained to the highest of their ability.

A layer of darkness that bathed him and absorbed everything in his path.

At that very hour, it almost seemed like the past where everything was equal and in balance. Darkness and Light. An unstoppable force together with an immovable object—perhaps it was a silly thing that a Goddess like her could lose her cool.

A Goddess of Light now clouded over by rage and emotions that were supposed to be far beneath her. She didn't hold herself back as it actually burned within her.

[ You Are Currently Holding The Artifact Of The Falling Kaeli Kingdom ]

Li Yang grasped the jewel in his hand and quickly looked at both Mitsuko and Setsuko. The two of them were frozen in place. He picked up his sword with his other hand and struck at the Goddess diving towards them first—a ray of sword qi that lashed at her from afar.

The appearance of it was akin to a singular line that hit the Goddess directly. But it didn't do anything and only seemed to phase through the Goddess. However, that didn't matter. 

"Get away, both of you!" Li Yang told the two women. 

It was at that moment that the same dark energy that swirled around Li Yang increased in its influence and expansion. Perhaps unseen by anyone else except for the very goddesses and observers from above. 

This covered both Setsuko and Mitsuko in a shawl of black. 

Waves of pink Ao suddenly blasted at the Goddess, quick and rushing and vibrant with life and energy—quickly unfurling and dispersing into threads. 

Another flurry of white balls of Ao that resembled light itself attacked and launched itself at the Goddess. Despite being at a purer and even higher spectrum of light, this Ao also faded way, or rather was reabsorbed by Aurora.

"DID YOU REALLY THINK THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD STOP ME?" The Goddess boomed at them and stopped several feet away from them. She didn't dare step closer to the darkness but stood from afar to attack and hurl light rays at them.

Mitsuko looked at her hands in astonishment. While she may have been blinded earlier, with how the Goddess moved, it was easy to pinpoint her direction but even that failed now. This was her last attack after the extinguishment of the veil earlier.

A potent form of energy she stored in the chances that she lost the artifact of her nation.

But it was nothing in front of a Goddess.

Setsuko's powers that the High Priestess Rhelea feared was this bright white light. It was the purest Ao possible—it may have been the very same Ao that the Goddess Aurora actually used at the beginning of their time.

But all it did was restore the Goddess' hidden wounds.

Mitsuko stared back at Li Yang and then shoved at him. "Go away now and I'll hold her off." It was a stupid thing to say and from the looks on his expression, the man thought the very same thing.

Maybe Li Yang thought he was stupid too.

The stone was in his hands and the System promised him a full-charge and world warp. Even if he were to attempt to buy everything with all the Power Points he had right now would amount to nothing. Bao was preoccupied with streaming, but the chat screen only visible to the two of them appeared in his vision.

Panda: Absorb the stone and fucking get away—I can't do it myself or the Heavens will riot!

And yet Bao didn't even mention something that may have changed how the battle might have been perceived. The Goddess Aurora naturally could control the Ao that stemmed from the people in Telriah as they were nothing but inferior creations.

However the single strike of the sword manifested from that man's—that despicable man's  sword cut far deeper than the surface. It wasn't a cut that ended her life, it was used to defend himself and the women with him, but its effect was unlike anything of this world.

If it weren't for that white-haired fox woman that attacked her, then it would have been hard to repair the wound that destroyed her very light essence. 

This was one of the reasons why she wanted to get rid of him.

Blast him off from the world.

And yet he had already infected the women in this world, cursed them with his own energy that tainted them far beyond than which Aurora already liked. She needed and wanted to get rid of them as well.

Right before any of them could do anything else—

Li Yang's left hand was now empty.

Setsuko gulped down the stone.