Listen While Reading: Well Matched

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  As the spider thought she finally had me, I waved my hand, a shockwave of Time Essence was released, and her grip over my own time was destroyed.

  And instead, I skipped through time, appearing behihrough one of the teiques I used against the Barbarian God.

  “Impossible! How did you do…?!”

  BOOOM!

  And a huge fist-shaped hole appeared through her chest.

  “{Aeternitas Martial Arts}: {Primordial Diviinel of the Bright Future}”

  With this teique, I skip through time momentarily and deal damage in a time that has been skipped, an attack that simply ot be dodged no matter what.

  However, it es rge quantities of Time Essence, equal to a Venerable’s Teique despite being from a Skill.

  I suppose even my Skills wouldn’t be able to be wielded by other normal people due to how they’ve been adapted to only be used by me.

  “A-Ahh…! My… chest?!”

  She suddenly vomited dark purple blood from her meical mouth. Whatever that was, it might be some sort of liquid that kept her mae body going. I don’t know how much she could modify the Meical Gods bodies, but it seemed they had bee something biomeical.

  “Orochi!”

  “SHYAAAAHH!”

  I roared as the eight heads of Orochi maed once more, surging into the skies and then desding, resembling spears of light and demonic darkness.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  I attacked her from the back, pushing her down into the sands below. She groaned, quickly trying to fight back, her eyes once more activating.

  “Don’t think you just toy with me!” she screamed.

  “{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Sunlight Eye}”

  FLASH!

  Her crimson eye shone brightly, abs the endless sunlight of the sun above the desert and then releasing a massive beam of pure trated sunlight against me.

  BOOOM!

  “If my normal tricks won’t do, then I’ll simply destroy you with the brute force you asked so much for! {Dark Purple Sandstorm}!”

  She also summohe power of Set, modifying it with her Divinity to summon dark purple sands as hard as diamonds, whigulfed me in a huge storm, attempting to slice through me.

  FLUOSH!

  “Not enough…!” She stood up. “{Dark her River’s Waters}!”

  She summohe water-bending powers of another of the Meical Gods she absorbed, unleashing a gigantic tsunami of dark purple water capable of ing souls.

  SPLASH!

  “More… I have to overwhelm her pletely!” She kept screaming.

  She summoned a massive sword imbued with the power of the Meical Gods, swinging it against me several times, attempting to slice through me.

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  “How about that?!”

  After a bo of several attacks, she ughed, gasping for air, smiling at me.

  The smoke dissipated, and ihat was a bit strong.

  “You manipute the powers of the Meical Gods you absorbed, huh? Not bad.”

  However, I was simply unscathed.

  “Nooo! Not a single scratch?! How do I even hurt you?!”

  “Maybe you’re n hard enough?”

  “SILENCE!” She screamed.

  “{Eight Eyes of Malice}: {Magic Sealing Eye}”

  TRUUUM!

  Suddenly, I felt that all my Mana was sealed instantly by a divine forpassing me whole. The magic I wielded and that enhanced my inal abilities was simply… not there anymore.

  “My magic is truly gone!”

  “Hahaha! Without that damned Mana, you’re nothing! I should have used that before!”

  She jumped towards me, swinging her giant cws and trying to tear through my body.

  However, Yamata-No-Orochi remained as I swung my bde upwards.

  The Darkness of Yin and the Light of Yang emerged, swirling together with all eight heads, bining into a massive bd gold-scaled sh a bde-shaped horn.

  “But that doesn’t mean I ’t attaymore.”

  SLAAASH!

  I swung my bde down at the same time as the gigantiake I created came rushing towards the spider, hitting her with tremendous ford pierg through her head all the way down.

  CRAAASH!

  “Uuuaagghh!”

  As she was almost sliced into two halves, an explosion of the trated energies blew her two halves apart, exploding and scattering her pieces into the entire desert.

  BOOOM!

  “Aarrgghh…! Y-youuuu!”

  However, a sed afterwards, the pieces began floating as I noticed dark purple fog ing around them and helping them unify together once more.

  K! K! K!

  “Hahahaha! As long as these parts are fueled with my power, I will regee and restruct myself endlessly! These “Meical Gods,” as you said, are simply superb! And the souls that piloted them are so ri darkness ament! They all hate you the most, woman! They want you dead!”

  Her new form, however, was different; taking a snake- and spider-like chimeri with eight spider legs and dozens of giant snake heads, she tried to imitate my teiques, attag me with giant, metallid sharp jaws ing from every angle.

  “I see how it is…”

  I quickly started gathering Ki into my entire body and then released it instantly, destroying her Mana Seal over me.

  FLASH!

  “Then I’ll simply have to utterly destroy you, cockroach.”

  I swung my bde several times; a storm of sshing attacks was unleashed, ing everything within my surroundings in mere seds.

  “{Yin and Yang Harmonious Bde Arts}: {Chaotic Bde Storm}”

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  “Nnggaaaggh! Dammit!”

  She kept groaning and screaming in frustration as her snake heads were being sliced apart into tless tiny pieces, ultimately exploding into metallic dust before she could regee them properly.

  “How about this?!”

  She bined several snake heads and then filled them with her eyes, activating her eye abilities once more, a dozen times upon me.

  Attempting to delete space with me.

  Trying to steal my lifeforce.

  Abs my Time Essence.

  Trying to fill me with holes through firing sunlight beams.

  And even sealing my Mana.

  Not o a dozen times at once!

  Ihat was a bit harder to ter immediately; she was figuring out roundabout ways to stop me.

  Yet…

  Even with all of that.

  I am not someone she toy with!

  “Enough.”

  With a single word, I made heaven ah tremble as an invisible shockwave of pure force was released from my body.

  Her teiques were instantly disabled, and the pressure alone pushed her entire body down into the ground.

  BAAAM!

  “G-Graagh?! W-what is that force… that presence?!”

  To her, it might feel like Gravity became a thousand times heavier.

  This was simply my own Primordial Venerable Authority

  It is a "presence,” an invisible "force,” that is released as a sort of pressure.

  It is simply the pressure emanated from all of my tained powers.

  All of my cultivation, all of my knowledge, all together into this.

  “This is the weight of my powers; you fight me while fag it?”

  “I… I… I !”

  She suddenly started pushing upwards; her body was beiroyed, yet she stantly regeed on top of that.

  She couldn’t match my level of power, but she could try to break through it with sheer regeion, a simir trick I’ve seen before with the Primal King.

  Ihis universe is full of such wonderful oppos.

  “GRAAAAHHH!”

  Even as my Authority was stantly crushing her body with the pressure of something capable of surviving a bck hole, she kept attag me sluggishly.

  Yet she figured out ways to speed up; using her eyes to steal the time of her own minions below and the hunters, she started to speed up, enhang her speed even as she was being crushed stantly.

  “I’ll show you that I am a true Primal Goddess!” Her eight hands gathered together into the shape of a huge spider.

  “{Primal Divine Domain}: {Araid Realm of Endless Refles}”

  FLUOSH!

  In a sed, I was swallowed by a Divine Domain several times strohan any Domain used by the many Gods I’ve fought before.

  It erhaps… a huimes much bigger, all-enpassing, and strohe ws that gover were like another world… or realm.

  “Hahahaha! HAHAHAHAHA!”

  The spider’s ughter echoed everywhere all at once, as I found myself ed in her white spiderwebs, pletely turned into a small prey for her.

  The entire “realm” within her domain was made out of spiderwebs that seemed to me made of… gss, endlessly refleg images.

  War, bloodshed, spiders, destru, ughter, cries, angered screams, people beating each other.

  “Wele to my domain of Endless Refles!” she ughed. “This is my world. A world I’ve made using Hatred, Disgust, Fear, Sorrow, Frustration, and many ative emotions!”

  “Is that so? It’s quite amusing to see.”

  “Hah! Still rexed?!” she ughed. “That cocky attitude you have will not st a seore when you see this!”

  As she walked around the spiderwebs, suddenly, her refles were multiplied several times, being perfect copies of herself.

  A handful appeared, followed by dozens, then hundreds everywhere, in every angle.

  “ you handle my refles with a hundred pert of my power?!”

  “Hah… I should give it a go then.”

  I smiled as my entire body was covered in golden fmes, burning the spiderwebs c my entire body.

  And then…

  TRUUUM!

  I released my pressure once more, f all her copies within my surroundings to kneel and then shatter and explode into pieces.

  “Agh, you still use that power?!”

  “There is nothing that me and nothing that stop me. Among the heavens and the earth, I am known as the only one whose truly free.”

  “W-What? Stop talking bullshit!”

  She charged against me, resisting the pressure by ing herself around spiderwebs; her refles copied her.

  Hundreds of giant spider cws rushed against me, striking me from every angle only to be destroyed instantly or sliced apart.

  CLASH! BOOM! CRASH! RUMBLE!

  “In that accursed world where I came from, it was always thought that nobody was free from destiny ah,” I said. “No matter how strong you grew, there was always someoronger! You could always bee someone else’s prey, someone else’s toy.”

  “SHUT UP!”

  “So, the only way for me to be truly free was… by being the stro aroying anything in my path to power.”

  “W-WHAT?!”

  “I regret it even now, but it was the only way… I killed… maybe millions of people.”

  “H-Huh?”

  “There is not a day where I don’t feel the pain of those I’ve sin… Evehey were mostly wicked people… they were still people.”

  “…”

  She suddenly stopped moving, realizing something was wrong, space around her was bei around and distorted.

  Her Domain was being ed by another one.

  Mine.

  “Ah…? Where am I?!”

  And out of nowhere, she found herself in a human form, a slender, white-skinned woman with long purple hair and four red eyes.

  “Raaarr!”

  And there was a group of wolves with golden horns rushing towards her.

  “My Domain is my Story. The more I tell you about it, the more it strengthens and mas itself. incredible right?”

  “N-No…! This is impossible! I was just… I was just winning!”

  She tried to fight the thunder dogs only to be bitten and massacred.

  “Gryyaaaggghh!”

  She realized her powers couldn’t be maed fully; she was as weak as I was when I appeared in Murim.

  “Aaagghh!”

  She started running as she was missing a whole arm and with her entire body covered in bites.

  The dogs gave chase, and then she ended up falling off a cliff, rolling through a pntation of rice.

  The farmers appeared, proteg her and chasing away the dogs.

  “Hahh.. Hahh… Gey away from me, you filthy monkeys!”

  However, instead of ag submissive to them, she screamed, and the vilgers looked at one another and ignored her ramblings, leaving her dying oations.

  “Ugh… Guugh…!” she started groaning. “Why am I so weak… T-This is not… This is not possible! This is… an illusion!”

  “Maybe,” I smiled. “But the damage you’ve taken is real!”

  “AARRGGHH!”

  She screamed angrily, as I suddenly sensed an outside presence breaking through my Domain.

  Crack, crack…!

  CRASH!

  Domains are powerful i's hard to break out of them, but when something is trying to break from outside, they’re easier to destroy.

  “I FOUND YOU!”

  She appeared above the giant cra the sky, a fusion of her smaller spider robot minions she possessed.

  I guessed as much; unless I find her real soul, I ot pletely trap her; she ma again outside aroy my Domain.

  Whatever.

  I closed my hands as I destroyed my Domain and blew up hers and then her entire body.

  BOOOOMM!!

  “Nngaaagh…!”

  She screamed, falling into the sands again, her body parts trying tee, only to find bck fmes, Void Fire, c half her body.

  “I won’t let yee anymore,” I smiled. “Void Fmes plus my Pressure… I think you’re the first I’ve had to use two of such powerful teiques to handle. You’re truly an annoying cockroach, or should I say spider?”

  “A-Ahh…! Hahh…! Y-You’re… you’re unbelievable!” she pined. “Is there even a way to win against you?! …No! It doesn’t matter.”

  She smiled, realizing something…

  RUMBLE!

  Suddenly, a giganti of dark purple sand crystals emerged, enpassing her pletely and then giving her a massive, endlessly growing body.

  Like Set did, huh?

  But that wasn’t all, as she merged with the her waters as well, being an even more tremendous titan.

  “I do this, right! I do this! HAHAHAHA! I’LL DESTROY YOUR STUPID CITY TO TEACH YOU A LESSON!”

  She materialized a massive hand on, pointing it at Alejandria.

  “If a battle between giants you want, I’ll give you one.”

  RUMBLE!

  The eight heads of Yamata-No-Orochi merged with my body as I infused myself with the powers of the Demons and my other Elemental and Draian Abilities and Skills.

  Until my body grew to a ridiculous size.

  Using my massive hands, I grabbed her on before she could shoot aroyed it.

  BOOOM!

  “W-What…?!”

  “Let’s finish this, shall we?”

  My body had ged, being a draian and serpentine demonic giantess, enpassed by radiant s of light, and with a long snake-like tail.

  “{Primordial Spiritual Body Transformation Arts}: {Heave-Headed Serpent Demon Queen: Ibuki-Douji}”

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