Chapter 118: Pseudo-Susanoo: “I’m Going to Self-Destruct.JPG”
In Natsuba Hanae’s observation…
Although the pseudo-Susanoo was just an arm, the amount of divinity it contained was as boundless as the ocean.
This meant that it could freely unleash as many divine attacks as it wanted, like sprinkling water.
The ripples behind Natsuba Hanae were endless.
Crimson sword blades, also endless, shot out, clashing with the lightning from the sky.
As Natsuba Hanae got closer to the pseudo-Susanoo, although he didn’t say anything, she could feel…
The lightning in the sky growing more and more violent, and its speed towards her accelerating.
And each bolt was imbued with a bit of divinity.
Although the pseudo-Susanoo had a lot of divinity, he was clearly holding back, trying to minimize his divine output.
It was only when she got closer that these lightning bolts were imbued with divine attacks.
Now, it took two crimson sword blades to counter one bolt of lightning.
And from time to time, a bolt of lightning would shoot past and hit her, causing a slight pain.
But Natsuba Hanae wasn’t anxious. Instead, a faint smile appeared on her lips.
This meant that, just as she had expected…
A ranged battle with the pseudo-Susanoo was undoubtedly the most foolish move. Close combat was his weakness!
Thinking of this, to speed things up…
Natsuba Hanae simply withdrew the crimson sword blades protecting her, and a deep black, chaotic aura spread around her. Indescribable whispers boiled and spread.
Not far away, the pseudo-Susanoo was controlling the golden lightning to bombard Natsuba Hanae.
Suddenly, he heard the faint whispers.
The brilliant golden lightning arc around him suddenly flickered with a purple lightning bolt.
His movements froze, and then the purple lightning disappeared. Even though his expression couldn’t be seen, a hint of fear could be felt in his movements.
“This is?!”
When he was in Natsuba Kouryu’s body, he couldn’t fully sense the outside world, only sharing a small part of his vision.
So, he had always thought that Natsuba Hanae was just using an ability similar to the power of the Old God.
But now, the indescribable whispers were so clear.
“This is sin.”
“Sin must be punished!”
The pseudo-Susanoo let out a low growl. Divinity spread and shot out. On his left arm, the lightning markings, each one, shone with a sun-like, magnificent aura, dazzlingly bright.
In an instant, the golden lightning in the sky became a vast expanse, like a sea of lightning, churning endlessly.
Then, like a winding, coiling lightning dragon, it descended, and fiercely bombarded Natsuba Hanae.
And Natsuba Hanae prepared to use the power of the Heavenly Emperor Girl to fight back.
But before she could mobilize the power of the Heavenly Emperor Girl, the power of the Old God, as if greatly stimulated…
Began to boil within her.
Natsuba Hanae’s brow furrowed slightly, but she still let the power of the Old God loose.
She had a guess in her heart. The power of the Old God and the divinity of the gods were clearly inextricably linked. Now was a good time to verify it.
The power of the Old God spread from Natsuba Hanae’s body.
Her entire body was enveloped in black and red tentacles, and she once again transformed into the form of the black valkyrie from before. A bird-like mask covered her face, and her silver-gray hair swayed, its ends dyed black.
This was not the same power she had used to toy with Natsuba Kouryu.
But she had mobilized all the power of the Old God in her body, unleashing it completely.
And the black and red tentacles didn’t retreat. They coiled together, with Natsuba Hanae as the end, as the source of power, and transformed into a massive, terrifying python that reached the heavens.
It boiled with an incredibly dense aura of an Old God.
As the snake-like form twisted, it shot towards the lightning dragon in the sky.
The two behemoths, one dark and one bright, collided, but there was no sound.
Instead, they coiled together and began to fight.
For a short time, neither the lightning dragon nor the dark python could decide the victor.
But something interesting appeared to Natsuba Hanae. When the dark python’s snake fangs bit and pierced through the lightning dragon, the part of the lightning dragon that was composed of divine lightning was actually corrupted by the Old God’s aura.
And when the lightning dragon bit the dark python, this symptom did not appear.
But the battle was urgent.
Natsuba Hanae didn’t think much of it. Everything would be sorted out after the battle.
At this moment, with overwhelming momentum, she had completely approached the pseudo-Susanoo.
Under the cover of the Old God’s power, on her black leg armor, a layer of Sanctuary Flame, filled with a deathly stillness, burned and covered it again.
The condensation of the dual power, the power it vibrated, even made space warp.
The pseudo-Susanoo thought of retreating.
But with Natsuba Hanae’s speed, he had only just retreated a little, and it was already too late.
The dual explosion of the Old God’s power and the Sanctuary Flame, like a muffled, fierce earthquake, or a sweeping, violent tsunami, her right leg fiercely swept towards the pseudo-Susanoo’s left arm.
“Boom————————!!!”
A sound that shook the heavens and the earth.
The lightning in the sky violently contracted, and the dark clouds began to swirl wildly. The lightning dragon instantly froze, and the dark python seized the opportunity.
Its body suddenly expanded.
Its abyss-like maw swallowed the dragon’s head whole and began to eat.
Under this terrifying attack…
The pseudo-Susanoo was sent flying into the sky.
A roar like thunder echoed.
“You are an evil god!”
“When my main body arrives, I will surely make you submit!!”
With that, the pseudo-Susanoo, using the momentum of being thrown, quickly turned and continued to fly into the sky, preparing to escape. This was his escape route.
Seeing this, Natsuba Hanae didn’t rush to pursue.
A playful look appeared in her red, glass-like eyes, and a faint smile appeared on her lips.
“Trying to escape?”
“I don’t think so. After spending so much effort, just eating a little of your divinity isn’t enough to fill the gaps in my teeth.”
Natsuba Hanae’s gaze narrowed slightly, and she clenched her slender hand.
As she clenched it, a black and white intertwined chain faintly appeared, and it extended into the distance.
The pseudo-Susanoo, who was speeding through the sky, suddenly stopped.
In an instant, he found that on his left arm, a black and white shackle chain was holding him back.
“Damn it! Damn it! Damn woman! Damn evil god!!”
Natsuba Hanae had already discovered that although the pseudo-Susanoo had some intelligence, it was not much, and he had no combat experience.
He was a straight shooter.
His words and actions were completely without thought.
From the beginning, he had purely relied on divinity to bombard her.
However, that had nothing to do with her.
Her goal from the beginning had not changed.
She just wanted to devour him to supplement her meager divinity.
Natsuba Hanae clenched the chain, and the Old God’s aura instantly boiled and erupted.
An unparalleled, powerful force surged into her hands.
She pulled hard.
“Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalala—————!!”
The pseudo-Susanoo had just been preparing to bombard the shackles on his hand with lightning, but before he could, a huge force came from them.
And pulled him down.
Not long after, the pseudo-Susanoo’s figure appeared in front of Natsuba Hanae.
Natsuba Hanae, kind-hearted, wanted to make the pseudo-Susanoo suffer as little as possible. She prepared to finish him off quickly, and a blood-red lotus made of Sanctuary Flame condensed between her fingers.
And she threw it at him.
In an instant, a surging Sanctuary Flame, using the lightning divinity on the pseudo-Susanoo as fuel, began to burn wildly.
An incredibly intense pain swept over the pseudo-Susanoo.
“The power of death?!!!”
“Why?!”
“A thousand years ago, you didn’t exist. Why do you have so much power?”
“Human? God? Evil god?!!”
“What are you?!”
Indeed, in Natsuba Hanae’s eyes, this was the first time she had seen a real god… or at least, his left arm.
But in the pseudo-Susanoo’s eyes, this was also the first time he had seen such a strange being as Natsuba Hanae.
When he had first appeared, in his perception, she was completely human, and didn’t even have the aura of a supernatural user.
She was a pure human.
But as they fought…
The chaotic aura of an evil god, the crimson aura of a god, and now even the aura of death had appeared.
If the first deathly stillness was something she had used through some special item, this time it was completely confirmed.
The power of death was being mobilized from her body, and released from her hands.
This meant that the strange being before him completely controlled the power of death.
Not only that, but this deathly aura was not only burning him, but also continuously devouring the divinity in his body.
Fortunately, in these thousands of years of accumulation, even if it was just a left arm, the accumulated divinity was as boundless as the ocean.
Just by burning and devouring, with his conscious control, it would be impossible to burn his consciousness away in a few decades.
If the pseudo-Susanoo had come in person, he might have been able to sense another power, one that had a strange, original connection to him.
Because, even Natsuba Hanae, her true bloodline originated from the Natsuba conglomerate.
In other words…
—Susanoo.
Unfortunately, in the face of Natsuba Hanae’s so powerful and numerous powers, this bloodline was so diluted and obscured that the pseudo-Susanoo couldn’t recognize it at all.
And at the same time, Natsuba Hanae had also discovered this with surprise.
This original bloodline meant she didn’t need to refine the pseudo-Susanoo’s divinity. As long as she slightly filtered it in the Heavenly Emperor Girl, she could directly use and absorb it.
And store it in her body, to completely transform the Umbrella Sword into a divine artifact.
Unlike the power of the Old God, which needed to be digested and refined to be completely controlled.
And the pseudo-Susanoo was still trying to analyze Natsuba Hanae’s true identity.
He looked at Natsuba Hanae’s black valkyrie dress.
“Impure!”
“Your evil god power was also plundered!”
“Hahahahahaha, what a fool to plunder the power of an evil god! The dense evil thoughts will completely erode you.”
“And stimulate all your malice, turning you into a mindless monster.”
Although she had suspected it before, now Natsuba Hanae completely understood.
So the evil god he had been talking about was the Old God.
However, she had already anticipated the erosion of the Old God’s evil thoughts. In her view, divinity and the power of the Old God had a strange connection.
Kamishiro Naraku’s Old God had produced divinity because of human worship.
And thus had obtained a new form.
After obtaining that form, its intelligence had greatly increased.
If Natsuba Hanae hadn’t killed it with a single sword strike, with the passage of time, that Old God’s intelligence would have been no different from a human’s.
However, strangely…
The Old God had gained intelligence because of divinity. And after gaining intelligence, the more it used the power of the Old God and the power of a Rule, the faster its own intelligence would decline.
Very strange.
And Natsuba Hanae naturally knew about the erosion of the Old God’s power.
When she had used the divine statue herself, she had had a similar experience. It had simply dug out the violence and cruelty hidden deep in her heart.
And allowed her to vent it.
However, when she used the power of the Old God in this body, she didn’t suffer from this erosion.
It was as easy to control as any other power.
And the pseudo-Susanoo, seeing Natsuba Hanae’s indifference, was a bit surprised.
After all, the erosion of evil thoughts was also very painful.
“Your will is very tenacious.”
“I know how to separate malice. As long as you undo the shackles, I will tell you. How about we make a deal?”
Hearing this, Natsuba Hanae knew her own situation.
So she naturally didn’t reply.
Instead, she continued to throw blood-red Sanctuary Flame lotuses at the pseudo-Susanoo. She just wondered why this god’s left arm hadn’t been burned to death yet.
Seeing this, the pseudo-Susanoo was a bit angry.
“It’s useless!”
“Without a real divine artifact to attack me, even if the power of death burns me, with my rank, my divinity, it will be impossible to burn my consciousness away in a few decades!!”
“I’ve already observed that your real main body is not yet a god.”
“In a few decades, your power and your body will no longer be at their peak. At that time, you will die under my trampling!”
Natsuba Hanae stopped the Sanctuary Flame lotus in her hand.
“…”
She was silent for a moment.
According to her thoughts, her Sanctuary Flame was unstoppable and had always helped her defeat her enemies. And the Sanctuary Flame’s devouring and burning of divinity was indeed effective.
According to her thoughts, although the speed was a bit slow, she had originally intended to just keep burning him.
But he seemed to have inadvertently exposed his weakness?
A real divine artifact?
Natsuba Hanae looked inside her body.
There, endless black and white feathers intertwined, and under the padding of red feathers…
An incredibly dense, even viscous, white-glowing divinity wrapped around a sword hilt of mottled blood red and black, and a sword body of pure white, crystalline and translucent, that gleamed with a cold light.
When the divinity she had just devoured from the pseudo-Susanoo poured into it again…
The Umbrella Sword let out a soft hum.
“Zzzeng—!”
It… seemed to be full.
From being originally half-incomplete, a demigod artifact due to insufficient divinity, it had become a genuine divine artifact.
A divine artifact that could be used to kill the pseudo-Susanoo.
