Chapter 170: [War Against a God] 9/?: Soul Break

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As Legion managed to 'trap' the creature from continuing its charge outside of the depths of the dungeon, Ervas unleashed a rain of large, car-sized spheres of pressurized No-Attribute Mana, which he named Mana Cannonballs.

Unlike his Telekinesis Cannon, Mana Cannonballs were an advanced form of Mana Bullet, and although they did not hold a large enough attack power as a Telekinesis Cannon, they were cheaper and could be used in large quantities… and could also hit many times instead of just a large hit, which was what Ervas wanted.

"Soul Break," he said, as he used Soul Break in each Mana Cannonball, enhancing them with a slightly golden hue, and infusing the attacks with the power to break souls.

The aberration groaned in anger as it created a larger and thicker fleshy tentacle, covered in several layers of black scales, it slapped Veronica's Titan Golem to the ground, instantly flattening into a metallic pancake.

Boom!

"Damn it! Get up quickly!" said Veronica, calling upon the dead spirits inhabiting the Titan Golem, which slowly began to shape it again to its original form.

However, as the Titan Golem was flattened, Ervas' attack finally reached the monstrosity, hitting it directly into its mass of vivid red minced flesh and dark scales.

Flash! Flash! Flash!

Clash! Clash! Clash!

As if the sounds of cracking glass resonated through the dungeon, each attack detonated into a small magic explosion, and the flesh and scales of the monstrosity began to explode into pieces, falling back from within the spatial distortion ring that Legion was constantly maintaining.

"GRRRYYAAA! IT HURTS! IT HURTS!" it groaned, with the distorted voice of Oggoth resonating from within the voices of Anir and Kelsus fragments.

The cracking glass noises were produced not by the flesh but by Oggoth's soul, which was being slowly cracked into pieces through Ervas and Veronica's Soul Break-charged attacks.

Soul Break was a skill that, simply enough, had the power to demolish Souls. Even the Souls of Gods could not escape from this power, and as long as the attacks were strong enough, the damage would be dealt directly to the user's soul. The Skill was rather versatile in its use, and as long as the user possessed it and 'activated' it alongside any attack that the user unleashed, the attack would become capable of breaking souls.

"Here, have more, Oggoth"

Ervas charged a new barrage of more Soul Break-charged Mana Cannonballs, while Legion kept the monstrosity that Oggoth had become tightly trapped inside the spatial distortion. Veronica had already raised back the Titan Golem, which she used once again as a shield, while she began to throw Javelins as if they were missiles through her shapeshifted shoulders, each javelin was also enhanced by Soul Break, clashing against the monstrosity and making it fall back more and more, Oggoth's screams resonated through the dungeon as everyone present heard the cries of pain of a god.

"GGGGAAAAHH! STOP! YOU DAMN RATS!" roared Oggoth, the immense pain brought his clouded mind back to reality for a split second, making him unleash a barrage of attacks with its enormous fleshy body covered in scales.

Clash! Clash! Clash!

"Shit! Titan Golem, defend us!"

The attacks were in a whipping motion, trying to slap and flatten Ervas and Veronica, but only managing to flatten once again the Titan Golem, for it to quickly go back to its original form and shapeshift more arms around its body, which used to release a rain of meteorite jabs towards the twisting and pulsating flesh and scales… of course, as such golem was Veronica, it used Soul Break in every attack.

"Soul Breaking Meteorite Jabs! Abyssal Phantasmal Punch!" roared the Titan Golem, as Veronica's main body kept controlling the regeneration of the Titan Golem while also firing Javelins as if they were dozens of bullets, alongside Shade and Ozgeth who charged cannons of darkness and light towards the large tentacles that sometimes would manage to slip off Legion's spatial distortion ring.

"GGRROOWL! GRRRAAAAA!"

Oggoth quickly went back to his monstrous nature, struggling to escape the spatial ring made by Legion, however, it lacked enough Mana or Divine Power, as Oggoth had spent it all just recently, leaving only the two fragments, which only possessed strong vitality and strength as its only tools.

However, as Oggoth kept roaring and slowly dying, it desperately began to make the dungeon tremble through his tantrum, and suddenly, his scales began to tremble as well, beginning to detach from the flesh and launch towards Veronica and Ervas as if they were bullets, heavy enough to crush a whole building.

"Ervas!" said Veronica, as she rushed towards Ervas to protect his frail body, shapeshifting herself into an enormous dome-like structure of around ten meters, protecting Ervas while covering herself in many layers of shields, the ones she had in her Armory Skill.

"You're very versatile, Veronica…" muttered Ervas.

"Yes, although this shape is hard to move or attack… but I can still throw things!" said Veronica, shapeshifting herself even further, resembling a small fortress of pure dark metal, forming a cannon in the middle of her body, and two smaller cannons at the sides, where javelins began to be launched from them at fast speed. From the main cannon, Shade and Ozgeth did the best they could by converging their powers despite their differences, firing cannons of light and darkness.

As Veronica kept receiving Ervas Mana, she kept reinforcing her defenses, her armor cracked into pieces with each scale launched at her or each mass of flesh slapping her body, but because she had tightly wrapped into the floor, she was not faltering.

"It is desperate… It should be about time…" said Ervas, his bones emerged from his flesh and formed a large and sharp spear, more bones grew as he infused more mana, making the spear sharper and denser.

"Let me coat it!" said Veronica, covering the sharp bone spear with her liquified metal body, giving it a cleaner and more streamlined structure and shape.

"Let's use it to make it snap and then we enter," said Ervas, planning something with Veronica.

"Alright~," said Veronica, generating a rudimentary ballista atop her fortress-like body, as the spear of bone and dark metal was launched at great speed towards Oggoth's screaming and itching fleshy body. With Veronica's Artillery Technique and both her and Ervas' Soul Break charged into it.

CLASH!

"NNGHH?!"

The spear penetrated the launched scales with great force, breaking through the air itself and penetrating the twisting and pulsating flesh of Oggoth's body. Deeply seeping itself through the flesh, although it lacked organs and vital areas, Oggoth could not help but cry in pain for yet another time.

"NNGGAAAAAHH! S-STOP! YOU… YOU RATS!" roared Oggoth, shaping his flesh like body and putting all of his mass around the spatial distortion ring around himself, which slowly began to crack.

"Ah! Ervas-sama… I cannot maintain it anymore, he will break out!" said Legion.

Even with all of Ervas Mana, Legion still lacked control over Magic, and its Space Attribute Magic was merely at level 2 yet, it needed a lot of leveling to fight against the strength of someone like Oggoth and the fragments combined… it had mostly reached this point thanks to the almost endless fuel granted by Ervas and Legion's multiple minds working together to maintain all the spells.

However, the spear was not simply a spear, it came charged with special guests that Oggoth didn't expect, thinking that it was only a strong projectile that got stuck into its flesh body.

"Now!" said Veronica.

"Yes, I'm ready…" said Ervas.

Both of their souls had been connected through this whole fight, and when they designed the enormous bone spear, they shaped their souls into long and thick threads, entangling it with them and then firing it at Oggoth so it could serve as a bridge for them to enter into his main mind!

The presences of Veronica and Ervas' souls emerged from within the spear, seeping within the flesh and entering a completely dark space.

The two souls were exactly shaped as Veronica and Ervas, who then moved around the dark space, finding what they were looking for.

"Oggoth's soul," said Veronica.

"He has been absorbed by the fragments quite a lot…" muttered Ervas.

Inside of the flesh and scales, Oggoth's soul existed. The soul was shaped like a round and oval eye with a crimson iris, but instead of looking clean, it was infected by a vivid red flesh all around, as if it were mold slowly seeping away any life within it… and around the red flesh, black scales were growing relentlessly.

The eye quickly noticed Ervas and Veronica, roaring like a mad monster, it extended the flesh and scales towards them.

"Don't even try" said Veronica, confidently flying towards the eye alongside Ervas, as both of them extended their soul's arms and shaped them as claws and tentacles, fighting against the fleshy tentacles and scales, and slowly overwhelming them.

"NNGGG…! Go away…! GRRAA!" roared Oggoth, trying to defend himself as Veronica and Ervas reached him… their crimson eyes flashing with a voracity never seen before in them…

"You've done a lot of things that had annoyed us, Oggoth," said Veronica.

"Yes, it's time for you to pay for them… This is personal," said Ervas.

Both Veronica soul, which resembled an endless abyssal and dark shadow, and Ervas soul, which resembled a hollow and white specter covered in golden glows converged together… forming something anew… and complete.

The enormous soul was gray-colored, covered in a cape of abyssal shadows, having four arms and even a tail. It had four crimson eyes and two golden-colored wings alongside a halo of the same glow and color.

The enormous gray soul extended its claws, ignoring Oggoth's desperate attacks and seeping its claws deeply within the eye, the flesh, and the scales.

"NNNGGAAAAHH…! I will not… die! RATS! H-How dare you! HOW DARE YOUUU! I am… a GOD!"

"God or not, you still have a soul. Soul Break"

Dropping the mere words of their skill, Ervas and Veronica activated Soul Break on Oggoth's soul while tightly grabbing it with their four monstrous claws.

"NNGHH?"

Crack, crack!

"W-Wait!"

Crack, crack!

Ervas and Veronica tightly began to crush Oggoth's Eye with their soul claws… seeping their power within and making him crack as if he were a crystal ball.

"UNGGHH…!"

Crack, crack…

"It's over. Go back to the void where you belong, Oggoth…" said Ervas and Veronica, closing their claws.

CRASH!

"NNNGGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!"

Screaming in utter and excruciating pain, Oggoth glanced at his last moments, as he was broken into pieces, his memories flashed through his distorted mind, the memories when he was born as a little and mischievous Gazer, the memories of him fighting for his life and surviving against many odds… the memories of him evolving and acquiring godhood.

"Death… I have evaded you for so long… Now, you have come to pick me up… Isn't it?" he thought, as his entire being faded away, cracked into pieces, and then… devoured by something perhaps even more terrifying than himself.

Ervas and Veronica suddenly felt a strange surge of power, the quality of their combined souls increased, and the red flesh and dark scales suddenly jumped into their souls, and instead of parasitizing them… they became obedient, merging with them.

"Main body! Main body!"

"Shut up," they said.

"Shut… up?"

"Sleep," they said.

"Sleep…? Sleep…"

The two fragments calmed down and obeyed their orders as if they were always their true body.

Ervas and Veronica's consciousness were sent back to reality as Oggoth's body began to crumble, fading away and becoming dust within seconds.

"We… We did it?" asked Veronica.

"Yes… and we might have gotten more out of this than we expected," said Ervas.

"Wait… did we just ate… him? And the fragments…" muttered Veronica.

"It seems like," said Ervas.

"Oh damn… Huh? Since when I have millions of Mana?! …Is this a bug?" muttered Veronica.

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