Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1362: A Thousand, A Thousand and A Thousand!



'The damn thing must have used some kind of spatial Andori that allows it to warp parts of its body or the whole out of it in tricky conditions. It must have sneakily warped itself from the Gajjkav just in time while leaving its hand to unleash that attack,' Skullius thought as the others appeared. 'Well, fair and fine, but that ability doesn't seem strong enough to escape this Territory sealed by the Womb and enhanced by Expanded Shadow Fiend's Leather. As long as my Amras holds, we should be able to do something significant here.'

And indeed, Skullius' Amras reserves were depleting rapidly, so much so that he wasn't using the [Vision of Calamity] anymore. Even with the benefits of his newly equipped Immortal Realm Physique, he would soon be running dry. That's why this was his last hurrah against the Doom Knight.

He attacked with fervour that accurately portrayed his resolve.

It wasn't that hard to find the Doom Knight in the darkness. The Dousing Sanctum allowed him as much freedom with the elements within it as Araeyn had with the Null Remnants.

He brought along everyone as he zoomed upward and threw them upon the Doom Knight. As long as they were in the darkness, he had the ability to keep them alive and even boost their powers to a degree.

He led the way, of course, along with Uyuniya, who used her Mastered Void Gate aspect, as she had been doing before.

Again, the Doom Knight, utterly defenceless against it, lost touch with its Broader Existence and was left wide open.

Uyuniya hadn't been able to apply her aspect to the Doom Knight before simply because it was a much stronger target than someone like Skullius. However, when she and Skullius had tasted that terrible Andori it used to almost temper their souls with Undeath, she applied Fundamental Barter to her aspect. Or rather, she modified the one she had applied.

Previously, her aspect was limited to some few seconds of active duration, and could only be used on any one target to force them to lose touch with their consciousness and powers. This was what gave it the power to rival stronger Divines.

But she edited it.

Now, her aspect only applied to enemies with a Broader Existence and lasted for a quarter of the original time. With the Fundamental Barter, in addition to applying the necessary restrictions which gave an exponential boost of 5 to power and efficiency, making a correction to this original setting or adding another stipulation that hindered freedom in using your ability, added another 2,5 exponential boost to said ability!

This was how Uyuniya brooked through the gap in strength between her and the Doom Knight.

And thus, she and Skullius, who conjured twenty [False Ticklers] and wielded his four swords in addition, managed to land three clean hits on the Doom Knight before it came to, and then its great sword clashed against theirs, sending great sparks flying everywhere.

But then the Penetrators joined in.

The Elder Sages flung KILL Runes, and STALL Runes, and FALL Runes and BURST Runes. But...

<DIVINE SWORD HAND, MAXIMUS.>

The Doom Knight seemed to have a thousand hands. They whipped out like sjamboks, mimicking swords and cutting down the Runes seamlessly before they could reach, while also parrying Uyuniya and Skullius' blades... and the [False Ticklers].

But there also seemed to be a thousand Skulliuses and Uyuniyas. Once their attacks were parried, they dipped into the darkness and appeared in other positions almost instantaneously, poised to attack again. The Doom Knight carved through them, folded them into ugly squares, fried them with its green lightning and beheaded them, but there seemed to be more of the two to spare each time... and the [False Ticklers] whipped around, zipping back to attack once swatted away.

And then Uyuniya applied her Mastered Void Gate aspect again.

The instant it was applied, Skullius sent a signal to Elita and Araeyn. The former was faster. Her Mastered Void Gate applied with the Doom Knight because undoubtedly, it was an unrighteous enemy, and to even attempt to fight it was a very selfless act. Elita was decked in brilliant light and she was like a shooting star in the blank, dark sky when she streaked to the Doom Knight and managed one meaningful strike against its gut.

Indeed, Skullius had enhanced her Broodweiler with Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz. Her blade managed to scratch the Deity's skin and cut slightly into its flesh. Yet, it wasn't only the flesh that it cut. The sword had breached the Doom Knight's Broader Existence slightly because of its Absolute Prime Property!

Skullius saw the tiniest leak of Amras from the Deity's skin. It was just as what had happened when his clone, created with Second Divine Sinew, had been attacked by Broodweiler - its Amras had started to leak out as evidence that its Broader Existence had been reached!

It just so happened that when the Doom Knight came to, it also spotted the implication of the wound it had been dealt. It honed in on Broodweiler at once.

<HMMM.>

With its Broader Existence, it stretched out Elita's flesh and ripped her apart before claiming Broodweiler.

...But Skullius had been aware of the risk of having the sword on the battlefield.

He transported the sword from the enemy's grip to Araeyn, and the Apostle, having already been prepared, safely stowed it away while Elita's body reformed.

'Fourteen consecutive attacks is a hard standard to meet!' Skullius cursed and he and Uyuniya were upon the Doom Knight again.

Great tentacles of rough flesh spilled from its joints and attempted to attack the Territory boundary again, but Skullius sliced them through with [False Ticklers]. When more of the Penetrators had lit the Doom Knight with countless Runes and Levin attacks that it blocked and struck down, he unleashed a stream of [Nonstandard Splicers]!

The Doom Knight very motions were cut and for a small window, it was immobilised.

The creature had been exposed to this attack before, however, and it attacked with its Broader Existence instead, folding (literally) every potential enemy closeby.

But Araeyn was unaffected. He had hidden a safe distance away, almost forgotten. He had been waiting for this opportunity while looking at the battle through his master's eyes - the only conceivable way he could judge events correctly. Following his master's upgrade from 'Vehement Bone Nullmancer' to 'Nullmancer', he could manage such a feat.

While the Doom Knight was immobilised, 1400 spheres of a greenish Null Life Essence appeared around it and gaped, increasing in size. Each of them, if one looked closely enough, teased the dimensions which they acted as gateways to on their surfaces.

And as it just so happened, all these gateways had a powerful suction. Each wanted to drag the Doom Knight to its own domain!

"[Multi-Cardinal Micro-dimensioning]," Araeyn declared and in the next instant, he became a dancing illusion with 1400 spirit bodies!

While this still was the effect of a skill, and couldn't harm the Deity at all, it managed to buy an extra second of disorientation on the Doom Knight that allowed Uyuniya to apply her aspect on the Doom Knight once more.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The terrestrial princess managed to land five blows on the Deity, the Divine Penetrators landed a few more with Runes and Skullius managed to strike with nine [False Ticklers]!

All the attacks were imbued with Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz, and this time, there was no

mistake.

They had all landed.

And...