Listen While Reading: The Great God Ibuki-----

  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}”

  Through the power of shapeshifting my body and abs the powers and esseny teique, I was able to match her size, giving me an easier time dealing with her massive blows.

  Although she had yet to deal actual damage to me, I knew she had more tricks, and her massive body stantly regeing made it pretty annoying to deal with her.

  Therefore, making a rger body to punch her even harder might make things simpler.

  And well, it’s fun.

  I’m really having fun with this fight, so I want it to st even a little bit more.

  My appearance was rather uhis time; I mixed into my Demon Queen form with the maed aura of Orochi and bihem with my body made of Photon Essence.

  I gained four additional arms, white and golden scales c several parts of my body, and long, white-colored horns covered on red blood-like tattoos.

  The rest of my skin turned slightly red, and my legs were gone, repced by a long tail with white, red, and bck scales.

  Orochi’s eight heads remained, now mixed with my silver-colored hair.

  “H-How did you…?! You transform?!”

  The spider was clearly shocked, but I simply smiled, juring ons out of my [Cursed & Blessed Bzing Starlight Relic Creation] and the [Divihunder Spirit Armament] Skills bined with my Divine Photon Essence, whiow could gain the properties of molteal.

  Six ons were made for all six of my enormous hands: a sword, a spear, an axe, a hammer, a dagger, and a trident. I unleashed a barrage of attacks she couldn’t tank anymore.

  With the sword I sliced her arms, with the axe I cleaved her body, with the spear I pierced her eyes so she wouldn’t use her little tricks again, with the hammer I crushed her legs, with the dagger I sshed her neck repeatedly, and with the trident I pushed her away and then lifted her into the air.

  The purple diamond aher water body she had made was pletely useless; I easily shaved it off her with ease, and although she stantly attempted to remake it, it was futile.

  “Uuaaggghh!”

  As she screamed in agony, she tried juring her domain again, making it smaller and ing my body with it, as I noticed dozens of her refles surging from the ed spiderweb-like domain and rushing to attack me with their cws and spider legs.

  “Hahahaha!”

  I could only ugh; she was indeed a fine oppo, surprising me every now and then! It felt like I was fighting the Venerables again ba Murim.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  I received her blows with my Soul Bde, releasing it by bining my Photon Esseh my own Orochi Aura. My hair moved on its own, shaping into bde-like snakes and g against her refles.

  Then, I pushed her down using my trident. Her sharp cws destroyed the on though, freeing herself even though the trident’s bdes were still stu her stomach.

  “Guuggh…! I-I ’t regee?!”

  She g her destroyed body; no parts were ing baymore.

  “I already told you, you will no longer py games with me, spider! Fight me like your life depends on it now!”

  TRUUUM!

  I released my authority as the domain ed around me like a spiderweb shattered into pieces. My snake heads, made out of my hair, reached her in that moment, biting through her arms and shoulders and taking ks of her metallic body.

  CRASH! CRASH CRASH!

  “Aaarrgh! Nooo!”

  She quickly twisted her body and then attacked me with her remaining legs beh her torso. Eight sharp-bded spider legs reached my body, enhao the brim with several yers of divine aura.

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

  The hits were strong enough to make me feel a slight amount of pain on my scales and skin. I smiled, quickly moving toward her and ing her head with my hammer.

  CRAAASH!

  “Ungh?!”

  As she fell to the ground with a loud thud, I quickly imbued my Divinity Aura into my tail and bi with my Divine Ability and my Soul Bde, turning it into a long goldeail.

  “It has been fun so far.”

  “NOOO!”

  She screamed furiously as I noticed something surging from within her once more, the purple sands ing around her and fusing into her internal wounds, filling her cracks more and more.

  “GRAAAHHH!!!”

  Her entire body transformed into a gigantic jaw with thousands of fangs, ing around me like some sort of metallic slime covered in crystals.

  “Hm?”

  “If I die here, you’ll die with me!”

  With a malicious ughter, she began to charge her body with all her Primal Divine Aura at once, all while summoning her Domain again. As weakened as it was, it twisted spad merged with her body.

  Dozens of her refles appeared in that moment, attag every iny body as they aimed to hurt me or damage me even slightly.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  “Certainly, things would be more thrilling if you could even damage me.” I sighed. “Unfortunately for you, this body of mine ot be easily hurt.”

  “GRAAAHHH!”

  She kept screaming as she attacked me, pletely ed by her frustration and hatred, uo prehend or perhaps accept my superiority over hers.

  Indeed, she es from a world where there might be no od than herself, or perhaps the others had never been a challeo her.

  Whatever the case,

  “I don’t want the materials you have within you or the souls you’ve taken to go to waste,” I said. “You see, I’m sure my daughter and Merh would be upset if they were pletely disied. So let’s do this differently, alright?”

  “W-Wha…?!”

  I grasped her entire body tightly with all six of my arms, then ed her with my long tail and my snake-like hair, and then…

  “I’ll purify you, dear,” I smiled.

  I harnessed all of my Primordial Venerable Ki into my physique and released all of my light-based power at ourning into the embodiment of luminesce.

  “W-What…?! What are you doing! What are…?!”

  “I am Light.”

  “Huh?!”

  FLAAASH!

  “And like light itself, I shall purify you from these metals and these souls, begone, evil goddess! You do not belong here!”

  “AAAAAGGGHHH!”

  Her scream echoed across the entire p as my glistening, holy light enpassed her entire body pletely.

  The dark purple and bck fog enpassing all our surroundings instantly dissipated as all her tiny little spider maes immediately burst into golden fmes.

  As for her body, it was losing its bd dark purple coing back to the fold of the Meical Gods she was made of.

  “S-Stop…! STOOOP!”

  As she kept screaming, I didn’t stop; I ed her with my powers and didn’t let go. My entire body became nothing but purifying light.

  “Goodbye, spider.”

  I quickly materialized another Bde made out of my Body and Soul, attempting to swing it and cut through her soul to kill her ond for all.

  Using my God Dev Skills, I was already beginning to rapidly absorb her powers and devour her piece by piece.

  The pain she felt was tremendous, making her panid scream.

  “Aaahh! Noo! I won’t let you eat me!”

  However, she screamed, and before I could kill her, she let go of her vessel, and her entire presence disappeared. She cut her own soul to leave a part for me to absorb before esg.

  FLUOSH!

  “Ah… Well, she got away.”

  I attempted to track her down, but without a strong e like the Gods had with the System that I could abuse, I was uo find her.

  However, I could still sense her somewhere… She has hidden within this world itself.

  Somewhere.

  “Mama! You did it!”

  My thoughts were interrupted as I heard Hekita in the distating over Anubis.

  “Amazing! You defeated that thing!”

  Merh was right by her side over Ra.

  The spider maes were gooo, turned back to their previous forms.

  Well, they were mostly all junk already.

  Any person inside of them was looo.

  “It seems to be the case.” I nodded. “Hmm! But what a mess this is! Look at all these parts. Is it even possible to repair them?”

  “A-Ah!” Merh gasped. “The meical gods…”

  “Ihey all ended up beiroyed, reformed, and theroyed again,” I said. “Are they even “alive” like Ra and Anubis are? I wonder if they’ll regee back?”

  “I-I have no idea,” said Merh. “Ra, you talk now? Do you think they be…?”

  “Merh…”

  Ra gred at the rge pieetal and parts scattered across the sands.

  “They’re dead. It’s impossible for them to restruct themselves.”

  “D-Dead? But Gods ot die! You are…”

  “We die… They had been crushed over… And ain. And their Cores were… Sucked dry of their Essehey’re nothing but… Metal pieow, unfortunately.”

  “Hmm… Indeed,” Anubis nodded. “Meical Gods… dead. Father… dead. Hmm, saddening feeling.”

  “My stepmother also died,” said Merh. “Well, I killed her. I wish she could have beehough; if I could have captured her instead, maybe showio my father and making her fess her crimes instead. Maybe that would’ve been more… much more satisfying, maybe.”

  “I see…” I nodded.

  “Mama, will you stay like a giant forever now?” wondered Hekita, gng at my enormous body. “You’re HUGE!”

  “Ah right…” I realized. “My bad.”

  FLASH!

  I returo my inal appearance, much smaller and pact. We nded on the flng over the rge quantities of metal pieces everywhere.

  We even noticed half of the head of Set around there, with the heads of the other Meical Gods miraculously intact. They looked damaged and oxidated.

  “Everything is finally over, but… Why do I feel so sad?” sighed Merh. “The Meical Gods—they didn’t have any fault ihings. They were only used as tools. And even wheried to reason with them, they would simply still obey their pilots.”

  “Father… Set,” muttered Anubis. “He didn’t want to get along; he said I was a traitor.”

  “Anubis…” Hekita caressed his giaallic cws. “You’re not a traitor! You simply decided to fight for what you believe instead of being forced to do what you didn’t want to do!”

  “Hekita…” Anubis would definitely be g if he could. “Thank you… for being my first… friend.”

  “Heheh! No problem!” Hekita smiled cutely, hugging his leg. “Let’s be best friends forever!”

  “Yes…” Anubis smiled. “Forever best friends… Sounds good… I like the sound… of that.”

  Merh g Ra, who was standing there gng at the graveyard.

  “Ra, you’re my friend too?” She wondered, looking into the ground.

  “I sider myself… more than friend…” Ra said. “Aren’t I… your family, princess?”

  “Family… that’s right! We’re family!” Merh smiled.

  “Hmm…”

  As I g the wastend and noticed the other hunters already moving back to the city, I decided to try something.

  “Let’s first gather all the metals; we wouldn’t want them to remain in here,” I said.

  I pointed my right hand’s index finger into the sky.

  “{Divine Photonic Magic Field}”

  FLUOSH!

  A magic field made of Divine Photon Essence emerged, resembling a golden sphere above the skies, which quickly attracted all metals within the viity that I chose.

  Eventually, the graveyard was cleared pletely, leaving behind the destroyed remains of the corpses of the people that fought here.

  It was a gruesome sight.

  I stored the metals inside my Inner Realm for the time being.

  “Although these people could be sidered demonic cultivators as they were rather vilinous, they do deserve a proper trial,” I nodded. “So let us give them a sed ce… to be punished properly, shall we?”

  “Oohh?!”

  Merh gasped as she saw the bodies of all those that die rewind back to their inal living appearances, and I returheir souls back where they belonged.

  “You’re right, Merh,” I said. “Sometimes just killing isn’t satisfying. Making people pay through the w and making them reveal their sins to the people that loved and trusted them… is much more satisfying. We will expose that woman to your father, and she will fess all her crimes. Right, eri?”

  “A-Ah…! Where… Where am I?! What happened?” She kept g. “D-Didn’t I die?!”

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  Pach