Chapter 922: An Encounter that Caused an Unconscious Breakthrough.
Kali, who was meditating in silence, suddenly opened her eyes when she felt a disturbance in Nightingale's space. Even though Victor had suppressed almost all of his power, such a significant presence that influenced so many things around could hardly go unnoticed by Kali, who had even more abnormal senses than her fellow gods.
The obvious change in 'nature' with the arrival of two true dragons was too significant to escape her notice.
"They have arrived."
"Yes, indeed," Dun Scaith nodded. Unlike the powerful woman next to her, she didn't sense the arrival of the two true dragons but rather the approach rune she had given to her disciple.
'She still uses that gift, huh... That's sweet,' Dun Scaith thought with a gentle look, but at the same time, a confusion arose in her mind. 'If she's using that gift, how couldn't I sense her exact location before?'
Dun Scaith's doubts didn't linger for long when she heard a voice.
"Darling, you came too?" Aphrodite asked.
"Uh-huh." A confirming sound was heard.
"Aphrodite, let me go!" Scathach growled.
"Oh... Sorry, Scathach."
"Tsk, how can you be physically stronger than me?" Scathach couldn't understand this.
"It's because I'm a goddess," Aphrodite boasted proudly.
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"In fact, it does," Victor spoke. "As I mentioned, dragons are compatible with all creation, especially divinity, so since her divinity is of a higher level, this status also applies to her physical body. After all, divinity nourishes the body, and since there is no incompatibility between body and soul, both become stronger."
"... Does that mean you're completely broken then?" Scathach commented expressionlessly. She didn't doubt Victor's words because he was the progenitor of her race and knew more about it than she did. But this specific doubt couldn't help but surface in her mind. If the level of physical strength was equivalent to his divinity, wasn't Victor completely overpowered then? After all, he had several things inside him that boosted his physical body.
"I mean... Yes?"
"What's your level of strength now?" Scathach asked.
"I honestly don't know, but if I want to, I can lift several dense stars with just my physical strength," Victor replied absentmindedly. He had never tried it, but thinking about it, he couldn't say it was 'impossible' for him to do.
"... That's ridiculous," Scathach muttered.
"Indeed... I understand using your power to do that, but lifting it with physical strength alone?" Aphrodite also couldn't believe it.
"Hmm, why don't we test it now?"
"... What are you going to do?"
"Just an experiment." Victor created a massive earth sphere in his hand and then used his control over creation to add more 'weight' to the object.
"1,000... 2,000... 10,000... 1,000,000... 100,000,000,000... 500,000,000,000..." Victor's face slightly contorted, and he began to visibly exert himself to lift the object with one hand.
He used his other hand to support it, and as he felt his muscles tense as if he were holding something extremely heavy, he stopped.
"969,969,000,000 TONS is my limit without using energy." Victor's body emitted a faint glow of both negative and positive energy, and he held the object in front of him as if it weighed nothing.
"With my energies, I can hold even more." Victor spoke as he played with the sphere that weighed more than the entire planet.
"... Once it goes beyond a billion, the number becomes irrelevant, Victor. You can literally hold a planet in your hands if you wish," Scathach shook her head at this absurdity.
"Well, that's true..." Victor recalled that he once held the sun in the palm of his hand, though he was using his powers at the time.
"Don't forget the fact that you're not using your divine authorities to enhance your body or even in your dragon form."
"Hmm, that's also true, although in my dragon form, I have the same physical strength as in my human form. But in my dragon form, the energy pulses more uncontrollably, so I must have more physical strength in that form," Victor deduced based on his previous experience of assuming his dragon form. He not only felt at ease with his energy in that form, but that energy was constantly surging within him like an inexhaustible battery. If he used all that energy efficiently... he had truly become a force of nature, huh?
"Only a few beings can handle me in this sector now, and I haven't even fully trained my divinities yet," Victor couldn't help but wonder how strong the beings in the next sector would be.
"Please stop playing with that ball. If it falls on the ground..." Aphrodite was sweating nervously as she watched Victor playing with that supermassive ball.
"Let the water flow, let the water fill every corner of your being, don't hold the water back as before... Let it flow."
Unconsciously, Kali closed her eyes, and her entire body began to glow with pure destruction energy. Her appearance started to change; her crimson hair turned into pure energy, her eyes took on the appearance of a galaxy of pure crimson, her skin began to turn into pure energy.
Eventually, it was no longer just a god in front of everyone... It was something more, something close to a primordial, but soon the effect was undone, and Kali's appearance returned to normal.
Kali opened her eyes; her eyes didn't return to their previous state; they remained a crimson galaxy.
"I see... That's what was missing... As expected, coming here was not a mistake."
"The mistake of foolish gods is that they overthink something simple. Power must be controlled? Yes, but it must not be prevented from flowing."
"Every corner of your existence must embrace your power." Slowly, Victor's appearance began to change as well, and just like Kali, his entire body was covered in black, violet, and crimson.
Soon, what was in front of everyone was... Something unknown. It wasn't a god, a dragon, or even a primordial; it was something more... Something terrifying, something that should not be allowed to exist.
"Ugh," Dun Scaith closed her eyes and placed her hand on her head in pain; it was as if the very existence in front of her couldn't be comprehended with her senses.
Ironically, something similar happened to Aphrodite and Scathach.
"Be Water, My Friend." Victor smiled with a grin full of sharp teeth that divided his entire face, violet-crimson eyes opened all over his body and looked in Kali's direction.
Kali opened her eyes widely when she saw this being in front of her, before she could even realize the clothes that controlled her power were completely destroyed replaced by a long red dress that were her divine robes created with her own power.
Even in this state her power did not leak, and it continued flowing towards Victor, because of this connection, she could 'see' Victor's essence, she could see why he was called the god of chaos, that pure chaotic energy within His was pure madness, and even she knew that if she kept looking at it for too long, she would go crazy.
Therefore, she closed her eyes, and in the three seconds after she opened her eyes, Victor's appearance had returned to normal.
"...I never thought Bruce Lee's words would be used in such a terrifying way." Aphrodite spoke while controlling her body's breathing and trying not to feel afraid of her own husband. "Just what was that, Darling?"
Scathach just like Aphrodite just kept looking at Victor waiting for his answer, she didn't blame Aphrodite for her reaction, after all, she felt the same thing as her now.
"What are you talking about, Honey? That was me." Victor smiled slightly.
"...I see... It seems like I should get used to it."
"Don't worry, today was special, I won't use it much, after all, I don't want to scare everyone." Victor spoke with the same smile on his face.
Aphrodite just nodded, she felt a little bad that Victor wasn't showing another part of himself to everyone, but in this case it made sense, this wasn't something that should be shown to the family, but to the enemies.
remembered what happened, and who it is this man in front of her, she didn't care.
"Nice to meet you, Victor." The moment her hand touched him, her divinity of Victor looks back at Kali, and raises his hand towards the goddess, and says: "Nice to meet you, Kali. My name is Victor."
Kali looks at Victor's hand for a second, she would deny the handshake, after all, with just that handshake, she could destroy a being unconsciously, but when she remembered what happened, and who it is this man in front of her, she didn't care.
"Nice to meet you, Victor." The moment her hand touched him, her divinity of destruction took effect in full force, but nothing happened... No burst of power, no side effects, it just flowed naturally between the two.
'How long has it been since I touched someone?' Kali wondered, it had been so long that even she didn't remember.
"The pleasure is all mine." Victor smiles gently, and then he lets go of her hand and turns around, he floats toward his wife's back.
The next moment he moves away from Kali, the connection is severed, the goddess's power explodes around destroying everything around her.
Immediately Kali controls herself and tries to seal her power, but remembering Victor's words, instead of sealing her power, she lets it flow into every corner of her existence.
Then her body is covered in a red energy of pure destruction, but the power doesn't leak, instead of relying on clothes like before, she was doing it with her pure skill... A skill she already had, I just wasn't using it correctly.
Kali looked at Victor, and when she saw the amused smile on his face, for a moment she felt like she wanted to punch his face, but she didn't know why she felt that way, his smile was just annoying like that.
'Why did he move away...?' She felt dissatisfied with him moving away from her, the feeling of having her mind calm, and body relaxed was something she had forgotten, and the moment she got it back, it was quickly taken away from her, not to mention that the feeling of being connected to someone and touching someone's hand without them being destroyed was something that wasn't exactly bad.
"...You've definitely found an interesting partner, Siren."
Scathach's attention left Kali and Victor and went to the woman with long brown hair, she growled, "Don't call me by that name."
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