Chapter 829: Sena's Rage
The whole room burned in an endless inferno of fire and explosions as Selica swung her bloodied fist at one of the bandit's burning faces. Just like them, even though she's somewhat resistant to the explosions due to her [Cartilage Skin], the fire still burned her just like them.
With her body pushed to the limit, fighting while suffering heavy blood loss and dehydration due to the burns and bleeding, her mind went down a spiral, approaching death with each passing second.
A right that was created by the overgod, each person is entitled to their system. That power shouldn't be used without the person being notified unless it's an expected natural progress or an effect forced by another mortal. Even though Aria could modify everyone's system however she likes, give them an infinite amount of poison to kill them, or straight up drop their HP to 0, such an act is forbidden by cosmic law.
But, there was one loophole. That law applied to everything under the overgod's rule. Selica was Sena's creation, and she had given her consent for Aria to modify her stats. It was like a parent speaking for their kids.
"Spend what skill points she has to empower her as much as possible." Sena said. There were some limitations, like Aria only being able to act with what Sena already has, but that was barely enough.
Inside her fire pit, brawling with over a dozen bandits while burning to death, Selica's skills started changing without her knowing.
[Cartilage Skin] =>[Scales Exoskeleton] With one skill point spent, Aria used that energy to force Selica's skin cells to evolve. The dead cells now grow upward into hard scales that cover her whole body, absorbing impacts and resisting heat. They also segmented her body at the joints, working as support for her muscles.
[Volatile Slime]=>[Volatile Infection] With one skill point, the glands that secreted her slime got infected by bacteria, and they replaced it. Now the bacteria are the source of Selica's slime, secreting it like cysts.
[Volatile Infection]=>[Volatile Disease] With a second skill point, the bacteria spread across Selica's whole body and to a residence in any place that could secrete or expel anything. Now her tears, spit, sweat, earwax, even piss and waste contains the volatile slime.
[Volatile Disease]=>[Volatile High Disease] With a third skill point, the disease infected Selica's immune system and took control of it. It now had replaced it as a crucial part of her body, the same way gut bacteria assist in digesting and defending the digestive tract.
[Volatile High Disease]è[Volatile Nerve Disease] With a fourth skill point, the bacteria infected most of Selica's nervous system, but instead of damaging it, the result allowed her to control the bacteria by giving them vague commands. She can now decide whether the slime explodes or not, when, and with how much strength to a certain upper limit.
[Volatile Nerve Disease]è[Volatile Virus] With a fifth skill point, the bacteria turned into a virus that spread across Selica's whole body and infected her cells, mixing itself into her being and becoming an ingrained part of the ecosystem of her body.
[Volatile Virus]è[Volatile Anti-disease] With a sixth skill point, the virus sacrificed changed its survival plan and started acting opposite to all known infections. Instead of harming Selica, or trying to infect other people, it tries to keep her alive by fighting other diseases and actively destroys itself harmlessly when in a body other than Selica's, unless Selica wants the disease to explode.
The demi-plane shattered the moment Sena started releasing her magic, and the world itself twisted around her.
Sena was the daughter of the overgod Cain and the mother of all dragons Tiamat. But from a young age, she was raised by her stepmother, Gracie, the goddess of love, and lust, and the
mother of all life.
Due to that connection, aside from Cain himself, Sena was probably the last person to piss off. Her tentacles exploded everywhere, filling the black void and trapping all the bandits in a
tight grip.
She first used her mother's access to death and pulled the souls of the dead bandits from hell, those bastards only ended up in the first layer, they deserve more. Her tentacles then killed the living bandits at once and added their souls to the mix.
A large bloodied womb appeared behind her back, bleeding rivers of blood as the howls of the dead bandits filled the air.
That was the womb of life, a creation of Gracie that's used to experiment with life itself. It was mostly used to bring species to life for the first time before dropping them into the mortal world. That was the place where all life started.
Sena used the womb of life to enact the rebirth protocol, something akin to reincarnation to birth them again into immortal bodies, and lastly threw them into the incubus kingdoms as sinners. That is the worst place to end up through the entire nine hells.
Sena walked away with Aria as the bandits cried, dragged on their faces by the large muscular incubus on the burning ember-filled ground.
"Bring the meat hooks." One of the incubi growled and turned back to glare at the bandits. "You've been judged into eternal torment. You aren't leaving this place, you won't get used to the pain or torture, your bodies will always regenerate into your current form, you can't go mad, and you can't fall asleep or feel joy." He waved his hand, "Hang them by the ankles."
Thud! Sena landed with Aria right outside Jordan's shrine. The other believers who stood there stared at them surprised. But they didn't have time for that, their bodies kneeled on their own as a sharp pain surged through their bodies. Their bones and cells screamed, the woman standing in front of you is life itself.
"Didn't you go a bit overboard?" Aria asked with a worried face.
"Those bandits had a trace of divine magic in them," She turned her eyes and glared at Jordan's shrine, "Not his, someone else's," Sena growled. "Once I find him..." She growled.
[Get a special place for a god.] Sena's voice boomed in the incubi's heads. [NOW!] All of the incubi fell on the faces, shaking, "As you wish, daughter of life."