Chapter 442: 441: An Unending Battle

Chapter 442: 441: An Unending Battle

Chapter 441: An Unending Battle

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Neji's arrival on the battlefield sent tremors rippling through space. He landed before the colossal Trihexa, the ground quaked beneath him, and a cloud of dust and debris billowed around his imposing figure.

"What are you doing here?!"

"Get out of here, or you'll get caught in the crossfire."

Odinson Thor, the Asgardian God of Thunder, yelled in shock at Neji's appearance, who dismissed the Asgardian without sparing a glance.Rêạd new chapters at novelhall.com

Trihexa's multiple heads were focused on this old yet unexpected threat. Each of its dozen eyes burned with crimson rage as it ignored Thor completely.

Thor hesitated for a moment, his warrior's pride clouding his mind. Then his blonde hair flickered as he turned to the figure of his dead father. Not all of Asgard had fallen, if he retreated now and helped the others flee, Asgard could survive somewhere else.

"..."

With a frustrated grunt, he turned around and picked up his father's dead body. The bodies of his comrades remained in the vicinity, but he knew there was no time to pick them up now. He took Odin and scattered out of the battlefield at lightning speed.

That left Neji and Trihexa alone, facing one another as they circled each other in slow movements. For a mindless beast, it sure took its time observing the enemy.

This Apocalypse Beast had a history with Neji – or rather, his Divine Predecessor – where the Biblical God sealed up the beast for hundreds of years. The imprisonment had filled the mindless beast with a burning desire for revenge, but sadly, the culprit for its suffering had died while sealing it. So to find the man alive and more powerful than before, was perplexing.

The beast was not smart enough to question the changed appearance Neji had, but it didn't need to. It could smell the Biblical God from Neji, and when it registered its rage, it stopped wasting time.

"Groaagghrr!"

The beast let out a deafening roar, its seven heads unleashed a barrage of destructive beams in Neji's direction. Fiery breath and venomous projectiles streaked through the air, consuming Neji in seven multicolored beams.

"Enuma Elish."

Within the beam, Neji moved with extraordinary speed and thrust Ea forward. The signature technique of Ea clashed with the combustion of the seven beams, and since Neji charged up the attack quite a bit, it didn't lose against the seven beams.

Trihexa was 'The World's End' embodiment. Apocalypse in Flesh. However, so was Ea. The Sword of Rapture, too, was an 'Anti-World' Sword. Apocalypse in a Blade.

The two Apocalyptic beams clashed. If this was the Rating Game dimension, it'd have crumbled right away, but Asgard was a much more stable dimension. It managed to withstand the clash of the beams, sending cracks across the space that quickly fixed themselves. The world screamed in pain as End met End.

Normally, Neji would never pick a fight with a being so high in the Tier spectrum. He knew he was no match, moreover when the creature was Anti Faith. However, he had similar powers to the beast, he was a good match. So he was trying his luck.

Boost was tiresome, too. It made him fatigued, and his Stamina and Mana decreased by a lot every time he used it; unless he increased his END or INT which focused on Stamina and Mana, that was a big drawback. As expected, such a power ought to have some limits even for the Gamer. Maybe specially for the gamer, because while he could Boost unlimited times, he couldn't boost all his Stats at once, unlike the normal users of the Booster Gear. But Neji was managing for now.

Despite minutes passing, as he cast Boost that stacked up on top of one another, he seemed unable to close the gap between their power levels. While he was doing the attacks better now, and his speed was faster, but none of his damage amounted to anything since the beast could heal everything.

He supposed, for situations like this, the Divine Dividing was better than the Boosted Gear. He should get his hands on that too very soon. For now he focused on the battle, finally he was feeling closer to Trihexa in power, its attacks were feasible now.

"Boo-"

"Enough."

A blur blasted out of nowhere. Neji's eyes saw it all thanks to their magical nature, but Trihexa seemed to miss it, Rumi appeared out of nowhere in her Wild Form, and only then did Neji notice that Trihexa was morphing – each head separating itself into seven different bodies.

At the same time, grotesque red-scaled dragons were coming out of its back. It was a version of the Red Dragon Emperor, and Neji could feel an odd version of Boost from the creatures. He remembered reading about this in the canon, but he didn't expect the creature to have it in this world since he had taken the Boosted Gear for himself.

"Ah," Neji grumbled. Rizevim must have done something with his weird usage of many Sacred Gears. Maybe he wished it with the Holy Grail?

All of this observation happened in a single second, as did Trihexa's morphing. Rumi grabbed Neji by his torso and shot to the sky, leaving the battlefield.

"It's finally getting serious; we need to leave. It can't Boost itself, but the armored dragons can. And it's seven now. I can't let you endanger yourself." Rumi explained as she dropped near the other two girls. They shot him a look as he grumbled; he was the one who told them to take him if things got dangerous.

"Hey, I-" Neji was confident in going on for longer, but the girls wouldn't let him.

"Let's ruin Asgard a few more Pantheons. We can use the time. Gather some powers that can actually hurt the thing instead of merely tickling it. We'll return in a few days." Momo said.

"She's right," even Ryukyu agreed. "It was a good fight, but the monster was finally getting serious. Let's leave for now."

Neji sighed and nodded with his eyes closed. Quickly opening a portal, he and the girls stepped out of Asgard. The beast tried one last attack towards him, but he waved it off with a beam of Ea. He wasn't running because he was weak if the beast thought that. This was simply a tactical retreat.

The portal closed behind that. Asgard, or at least what remained of it, fell that day. The rest of the Norse fell too, on the same day. Luckily, not as many people died since Thor and his companions managed to make the population flee.

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