As he turned his head, he saw Francis Blood looking at him. "Don't be so surprised, kid. We lived for so long. We naturally have a trick or two to protect ourselves and the clan."
"But..." Azzy wanted to say to him that he isn't a match for the enemy anyways but Yashna cut him off by stating, "We saw what you are capable of and understand why you are still hesitating to do it. Don't bother. Everyone is safe in my Shadow Palace. So, go all out."
"Hidden skill: Attribute Bestowal."
Using his hidden skill, The eight thousand year old leader of the Blood Clan tapped Azzy's back once again, which gave him temporarily control over blood attribute, "No wonder Brother Qridus put his entire hopes of the clan's future on you. Go and fight without thinking anything. We will help you to the best of our abilities."
Yashna Night also acted simultaneously, "Night clan's ancestral technique: Power transfer." The shadowy forms of Yashna disappeared one after another and entered Azzy's body at the speed of light.
Azzy gained a boost of significant strength by Night clan's technique. He felt as if he reached the peak stage of supreme realm and his entire soul power recovered instantly.
With the replenishment of the soul energy, Azzy didn't hesitate to spend it all by unleashing a series of soul skills as his enemy conjured the barrier to imprison the area before he raised the sword and preparing a technique to replicate the swords dozens of times so that his prey won't be able to escape with any tricks.
"Soul skill: Eyes of God"
"Soul skill: Puppet Ghost Creation"
"Hydra, use soul skill: Void Gaze."
With ten wasps spread out so that he may swap with their positions at any time just like how Yashna help him out earlier, Azzy had brought out whatever Jupiter's lightning he could invoke at the moment and proceeded to rapidly absorb every bit of natural energy he found in the clan village, turning all vegetation and streams of river into barren land.
*Hissss*
The Undead Hydra which returned to its peak state took the action, once Azzy finished his absorption.
"Soul skill: Void Gaze"
Since it is a demigod beast, Azzy's entire reserves were emptied in an instant but he got one second of time as the demigod found himself to be trapped by void energy from all sides.
Azzy didn't waste that second and charge forward with a few wasps while the enemy is still in the middle of invoking the skill but couldn't move at the moment.
Azzy reached him in a fraction of second and struck his chest with Jupiter's concentration beam of raw lightning while simultaneously striking the demigod's head with a punch that released every bit of natural energy that he absorbed so far.
"Oraa..."
*Sigh*
"You have left me with no other choice, huh!"
now
The Reaper's whisper echoed Azzy's head just as the energy sword was released by the angelic figure.
Azzy still couldn't sense his connection with either hourglass or the other two cosmic jewels. Hence, he felt like the Reaper really forsaken him and Azzy closed his eyes to embrace the death in disappointment.
But the sword never reached him.
It stopped right in front of his forehead while he sensed another connection right at the forehead. It was such a familiar feeling.
When he opened his eyes, his eyes witnessed a black colored orb with lightning sparks dancing over it, blocking the energy sword from moving further while letting its black lightning sparks envelop the sword.
"Hmm?" The angelic figure developed a frown on its face as its eyes fell on the scene, where its supposed energy sword attack turned into a black sword of lightning and turned against it. "The anti-divine energy mixed with death energy and also divine lightning energy of Zeus?" It roared as if it was in anger, "It's you, the betrayer."
"This..." Azzy's eyes widened as he remembered a thing from the past. It was a memory of his second awakening that started a whole chain of events.
The Reaper's voice then filled in his head, "I don't make exceptions for the sinners, but for you, I'm going to give another chance for Vajra's soul."
"Vajra's soul?" While Azzy grew confused at first, he remembered a conversation from the past and revelation drawn upon him, "Vajra isn't exactly a true Arcana spirit. It was just the beastly form of an Arcana spirit with its true soul imprisoned in the eternity jar.
Meanwhile, the black lightning orb controlled the energy sword and attack right back the angelic figure. The latter's sword and the energy sword clashed.
The black orb glowed at this instant, bringing down a black lightning bolt from the sky that's been torn apart by the sword of radiance earlier.
The angelic figure pushed away the energy sword and flapped its wings to dodge the black lightning bolt, but in this instant, the black orb teleported right behind its enemy and released a torrent of black lightning current to blast away the angelic figure, forcing it to abandon its host and flew high in its sword form.
The black lightning orb responded to this move by unleashing a couple of chains of lightning, capturing the sword tightly.
"You... betrayer, free me this instant. Lord Thanatos won't leave you until you were destroyed..." The sword started screaming in its usual distorted voice but the lightning orb paid no heed to it.
The black lightning orb slowly made its way to its master who was stupefied by how easily the battle is completed, and spoke through telepathy, "Descendant of Aelius Crescent, consider this as a present for my redemption."