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Chapter 36.1: Agnis Hourai V Part 1

  How did you even find me.

  “With my genius! Tracking you furballs down is always such a hassle, I wonder though, you seem quite calm. You are in front of a goddess show some respect!”

  Well that’s bullshit. She must have had a cultist tip her off somehow.

  Yeah, yeah whatever. I more or less expected you so this doesn’t come as a surprise, look at my house if you don’t believe me.

  I pointed at my house which was intact even though tomato goddess had blasted it twice.

  “How vexing, you furballs always find a way to annoy me, either way it’s time to start my furcoat breeding project!”

  I decided to put on an act with some illusions to make it more realistic.

  Wait wait! Spare me! how about this!

  I presented some fur I had collected over the years.

  How about I give you this and you leave me alone!

  “And why should I negotiate with you, I can have unlimited fur if I catch you.”

  That! Hmm, that is actually a very good point. How about this! You get some blue tasty oil with it!

  The spiciest Secret Weapon #3 got added to the deal.

  “That is an alluring color but I can just take what I want.”

  I interrupted several casts this bitch wanted to throw at me and came up with something better.

  How about this one, the final deal.

  I held up my index finger.

  How about you leave me alone and I will stop harassing you.

  “I thought you furballs were supposed to be intelligent, you have never harassed me nor will you able to, now surrender!”

  Well, you are correct in that but I can start.

  My gaze shifted northeast.

  They should be somewhere there, right? Your religion?

  “Fool! Do you think I will allow you to touch my possessions?”

  Want to find out?

  My [Tail Dynamo] fired up, I used [Spatial Flop], causing tomato goddess to flop on her back, used [Accel Step] and headed northeast, to the country of Bizax. I didn’t know where her capital city was but I waas sure I will recognize it when I see it.

  “Return here immediately!”

  Yeah, how about no.

  [Frost Mirrors] got created to make sure I didn’t get hit by any light attacks flying at me.

  She wanted to fight? Cool she can get one but not next to my home but next to hers. I will also be able to go all out without catching innocent bystanders. Anyone worshipping her is guilty. I just decided that. I might not be able to kill this bitch but she will weaken if I wipe out her religion and hopefully, I can scare her off afterwards.

  She had no issues keeping up to me but she didn’t seem quite… lightspeed. “Come here furball! Don’t you dare touch my country! I will pulverize you!”

  My tails smacked some attacks away which got slower for some reason. She was red like a tomato though.

  I stuck out my tongue and flipped her the finger before using [Accel step] to accelerate.

  “You won’t get away with this!”

  I’m quite leaving you behind so I might if you don’t speed up!

  She started throwing a tantrum and the area behind me lit up as hundreds of light-based magic was getting cast.

  Nilah, take care of that for me, will you?

  Nilah turned to her fox form, hopped on one of my tails and used her [Tail Dynamo]. I threw a sword copy at tomato goddess and Nilah used [Kryokym] through it, emptying her mana reserves so she could absorb this bullshit tomato goddess was preparing. It did kill her but she regenerated without stopping to cast her bullshit. Nilah’s mana free zone did take care of it though.

  “Ugh you and your obnoxious pet!”

  I sped up some more. I was safe for now and did my best to make sure Hjuva wouldn’t gain battle scars from this pursuit. The Igrini Kingdom, however… I reflected any attack I could into the sky and left countless [Flour Time Bombs] behind. They completely ruined the tomato bitch’s clothes and turned her into a white angry ghost. I tried to think of a dish that used tomatoes and flour but I couldn’t come up with anything at the moment as reflecting light-based attacks had a higher priority.

  “You are so dead furball!”

  Come on tomato bitch don’t be so angry don’t you like your flour dress?

  I curled up in my tails because she sent a laser at me. It just knocked me towards my goal faster. I uncurled and continued running while inspected the tail which got hit. Not a scratch. I needed to spread this knowledge. My cousins would benefit from this knowledge. Giana however... She will probably be unkillable with this but she might not even need this.

  The border got close and I stopped trying to preserve the environment. The moment I passed the border was when I started igniting my tails in foxfires and throwing foxfires around. I also chucked more [Flour Time Bombs] and sparked the dust cloud to create dust explosions. It also dropped the visibility, not that I cared about visibility.

  “Ugh, such cheap moves! Where are you!”

  Cheap moves she says… it seems to be working though. I was enjoying the resource-efficient [Flour Time Bombs] and dust explosions. Who would have thought that you could fight a god with food?

  It was time for Secret Weapon #3! The gasmask went on, the spiciest jar with blue oil got opened and I froze pellets and flicked them with my frost augmented fingers at tomato goddess and went for her eyes.

  Bullseye! Or maybe Goddess’ eye? It doesn’t sound as good.

  “Aaagh! What in Biian’s name is this!” She clutched her eyes.

  Wait you curse with your own name for that? How narcissistic…

  Her aim turned quite terrible as I might have blinded her. The area got bombarded by lasers, light waves and other light-based spells. I made an illusion that made noise to direct her into the wrong direction all while I still flicked spicy pellets at her.

  “I almost forgot why I wiped your race off this planet!”

  You mean ‘almost.’

  “Shut up!” She glowed and seemed to be going into phase 2.

  “Tails!”

  Abghare-hadi!

  “What? That language… I recognize that! It’s that language that purple bitch uses to negate my Words of Dominance!”

  Purple bitch? No clue who you’re talking about but glad this is how I’m supposed to counter your word bullshit.

  “Furcoat!”

  Abghare-hadi!

  “Aaagh! How vexing!”

  Abghare-hadi! Oh that wasnt needed.

  “Stop rejecting my Words of Dominance at once! I order you!”

  Abghare-hadi?

  She screamed out of frustration and her phase 2 dropped. She was still targeting my spicy pellet flicking illusion though. What a clown.

  I created clones to spread out and setup various primal runes. I might have to drop primal language related attacks on her. It was to be expected but I needed my full skillset to take this bitch down.

  The spicy pellets and [Flour Time Bombs] stopped working because she was using divine energy to blow it all away. This was both good and bad news. The more she uses the sooner she gets kicked back to the divine realm but whatever comes next is going to hurt like hell.

  “I see… an illusion…” She blew my illusion away and beelined for me.

  Cessanam! Oh, this also works on gods, just like it works on demons. Wait gods and demons… don’t tell me you’re a different side of the same coin?

  Tomato goddess became more tomato-like and less goddess-like. “Don’t you dare compare me to that filth! Those abominations!”

  I take that as a yes.

  My tails curled around me as I took another blow and got launched into the Sevian sea and spotted a city. I wasn’t sure if that in the distance was the capital of Bizax but it had a lot of gold and marble, even an enormous cathedral, never mind it is the capital. There was even an enormous statue of Biian in front of the cathedral. I knew it would be easy to recognize her capital.

  I was nearing my destination. She wants a fight? I will take it to her doorstep and destroy anything she has built up. Just like Greg’s mother did.

  Half of the Sevian sea was once part of Biian’s country, until Gregs mom blasted it away and the hole filled with seawater. I’m not sure if I can do this on the same scale but Bizax will at least lose its capital today if this bitch continues on.

  I relaxed on the surface of the Sevian sea as the tomato bitch was attacking another illusion. For a goddess of light, she surely is useless against illusions. Gods are starting to feel as if someone gave a horde of babies insane power. Now these babies can kill and one shot almost anything but if something appears that can more or less even the playing field they will be in the end, just be babies.

  My tails layered more illusions to keep her in loops of illusions even when she breaks multiple layers. I sent more clones to below the surface to set up primal runes.

  Hey Nilah, want to bet how long it takes before she finds the real me? I bet 40 minutes.

  Nilah couldn’t speak of course so I had Nilah bet on 20 minutes. I would give her treats if she won and I would get… what would I get if I won? I will think of that later. I created triple point clones and had them on standby. I might be alone but I can still fight as If I have an army.

  This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

  General Agnis here! Shadow clones! You will set up primal runes to fuck that bitch up when she find me! Triple clones! You will stay on standby to when I need your assistance! Water clones! I need you to send water over to me whenever needed. I will be using a lot of foxfire so the area around me will be quite dry. I need your assistance in case I need to use [Tsunami].

  The tips of my tails appeared in front of me and I started to point at them.

  First and 2nd tail! You will be in charge with physical offence, we’re going to try and get close and personal, 3rd and 4th tail! You handle physical defense! 5th tail gets a break because it’s doing dimensional probe stuff. 6th and 7th tail you will be the flexers, switching between physical offence, physical defense or magical defense. 9th tail and I will handle magical offence. I will also be flexing a lot because staying up close all the time sounds like an easy way to die.

  I shifted my gaze back to my army of clones.

  Now I am your general, if I die, we all die! But that doesn’t mean you should be reckless! We have our MVP with us!

  I pointed at Nilah.

  As long as we have Nilah, our goddess of victory, at our side we won’t lose! Probably! So, any questions?

  Dead silence.

  Right…while my clones can respond it won’t be the same as directing an army, moreover my tails and Nilah can’t respond. The tails responsible for magic started preparing several magical skills. The tails responsible for defense started connecting to the leyline currents. I will have to do a lot of things simultaneously. The only restraint is that if I am to use [Silver Torrent] it should be short as I don’t have that much food stored up currently.

  I froze a couch on the surface of the Sevian sea and started to snack and drink some tea. Nilah was on my lap and I had all my tails out. Those handling physical offence at their full length and the others at their compact size.

  The silence before the storm. Biian had to go through 5 more sets of illusion layers before she would be able to find me. I used this time to rest as I was a little bit tired of all the dimensional probe stuff. My 9th tail was paying attention to Biian and attempting to find out more weak points I would be able to exploit.

  Biian’s attacks seemed to be influenced by her mental state. The more pissed off she was the slower her attacks travel. Her lasers deviated quite far from lightspeed now. Quite interesting. Is this a quirk unique to her or is this how light magic works? I don’t know many light users. I did notice though that when Greg did his attribute flip, his light attacks were stupidly slow. What that was about? Is Greg so slow that he’s breaking the laws of physics and creating light that’s slower than sound?

  I was having mixed feeling about deities. They are obviously a threat but…

  “Agh! My beautiful eyes! I command you to stop this nonsense!”

  My illusion was effectively sniping her eyes with spicy pellets again because she stopped using divine energy. How am I supposed to take her seriously like this? Some gods seem to have their shit together, more or less. I first thought that Bellia and Della had their shit together but their long boring fight with this tomato bitch and the later encounters proved that’s far from the truth. I’m sure Chiara also has some unique problems. She did give me salmon though.

  The preparations were finished and tomato bitch finally broke through the last illusion layers. Nilah’s bet was 20 minutes, my bet was 40. Biian took 30 minutes. Who won?

  She looked around and noticed me chilling on my couch. “Unbelievable! What do you think you are doing!? Relaxing while I grace you with my presence? Kneel!”

  Nah, not gonna happen.

  I got up and ready to destroy a religion. My 9th tail instilled the sense of danger and urgency back to me, which was useful because I had lost the feeling and the loss of it could get me killed. Right, she wants to capture me, breed me with a random 9t chick and cut off all my tails. Sense of danger is back. This bitch is going down!

  Tomato bitch walked toward me over the surface of the water. “So have you finally decided to surrender?”

  Oh no, I was just wondering if this would work.

  Tomato goddess disappeared as I cast [Spatial Flop] and [Surface Flip] on her. [Light Pillars] rose out of the sea, which started to become rowdy because my tails had stared [Churning Waves].

  You do know that fighting water users in snow, rain or near large bodies of water is quite stupid right? I’m sure that also applies to deities.

  Water [Dragon] got activated and flew at her. Another [Dragon] flew at her but this was an ice [Dragon]. I hopped on its back and the naval battle had started! Now I’m not a boat but it sounds cooler than sea battle or something. Boat magic would’ve been quite useful here.

  The aim was to be subtle and send massive tidal waves at her capital. Ok massive tidal waves aren’t subtle but I want to catch her capital in the cross fire. It’s not that far from the sea so a tiny 12 meter wave should be able to hit it.

  The [Dragons] weaved between the waves and were big enough to break her line of sight. Aaand then she flew up and looked down on me.

  Hey that’s cheating! You’re not supposed to fly up in this situation!

  She ignored me and sent more [Light Pillars] at me. The [Dragon] and I submerged to evade light based bullshit. It was easy to bend light underwater. As long as I stayed here none of those attacks will hit me. My tails saw this as a cue to start preparing for [Hsien].

  I chucked Nilah at tomato goddess from below the surface. She hit and used a full powered [Kryokym]. It angered her and she sent more light attacks to an illusion of me. I abused the ability of water to refract light. As I have warned her, fighting a water user near water is quite stupid. [Water pillars] rose from the surface and assaulted bitch goddess. All were successful hits!

  “Come and fight me like a man!”

  Not sure what bullshit she is spouting. I don’t abide by human standards and norms. 9t fight dirty. Expecting a 9t to play fair was like expecting a fish to run a marathon. I will stack all the odds against her and kick her ass with every cheap trick and foul play I can come up with.

  I sent more [Water Pillars] at her which were just knocking her around but not doing damage. [Ocean’s Wrath] got activated and I surfaced to instantly get met with various flavors of light attacks.

  No problem, the currents of [Oceans Wrath] caught them all. They were breaking the light so they were quite rainbowy and multi colored. I didn’t like it so I sent them all after her after they were charged. I grabbed Nilah in her sword form and went close and personal. Bitch goddess had just regenerated from having her head blown off and I used a point blank [Quickdraw: Nilah], cut her face in 9 parts and showed her reflection in a [Frost mirror].

  She screamed at the sight of her distorted image. “I had forgotten about this! You pest how dare you do this to my beautiful face!”

  You call that beautiful?

  A laser launched me closer to her capital. All [Frozen Skin] layers broke and 1 illusion layer shattered. A wave had caught me so I was fine. I threw a [Flour Time Bomb] and hid in the dust cloud.

  “This won’t work again!” tomato bitch said as light motes started to appear.

  Uh oh.

  I used [Surface flip] on myself and dove deep down. A ray of light grazed me but I avoided lethal damage. The mana at the surface got corrupted however. The fish that were too close to the surface got their mana corrupted into light and flailed..

  This might be the sign that I should take the fight to her capital. None of these light corrupted fish look tasty. I used [Boil], killed them and chucked them at tomato goddess.

  Here take this! [Random corrupted fish attack!]!

  My tail teleported me to the shore because an enormous wave of light got cast and seemed to turned the sea into light. I forgot that gods have cheat abilities, then again, I can create water out of nothing and turn water into lightning and vice versa. But my race is known for having cheat abilities so that’s fine, not that it has helped us a lot as we’re nearing extinction.

  I evaded an angry laser. Tomato goddess had a fish in her hair and was striggling to get it out as her coordination was slashed due to anger. I had never seen her this pissed off before. She held out her hand and 21 clones formed out of light and rushed at me.

  It seems it’s time for my first big skill.

  The sea started to glow and some primal runes started to light up. I hopped back on the ice [Dragon] and flew at her. The tomato clones came at me from all sides so I swapped myself with the original tomato goddess which resulted in her getting hit by her own clones. How careless. All the runes lit up and I had time to cast.

  Let’s see how you like this primal magic!

  The sea got rowdier as my attack was primed and ready to go.

  Magara surgyatii chet avadii, nankale padet-shawi idac manalis pralux punarum. Magara surgyatii chet avadii, nankale svasare-shawi idac manalis vayer punarum. Avagadumm ade andhyssus akrankabi-shawi idac abhimabus pratura ii naeter.

  I didn’t mess up my pronunciation and the sea climbed up around us enclosing us in a sphere of seawater. It had lifted the primal runes up so they could be seen on the inside walls of the sphere. I didn’t have a name for this skill yet and it wasnt the time to name random skills as I might never use this again due to forgetfulness.

  The runes glowed again and water lasers started assaulting tomato goddess from all sides. Her clones didn’t get spared either. Anything that was considered my enemy got blasted by water lasers.

  While normal water skills didn’t seem to do much to her before this seems to hurt her. Quite a lot of ugly screams came out of her. I repeated the cast again to keep the sphere up but the walls started to get thin because they ran out of water.

  Nilah, let’s go in and fuck her up!

  The water walls dropped. I used [Tail Dynamo] and went at her on my ice [Dragon] which had become sentient. The first slice beheaded her, the second one took her right arm and the third slice took her left arm. Nilah copied herself and several of my tails were holding sword copies while the others continued the [Tail Dynamo].

  I accurately cut off the part that regenerated after its previous cut. Purple lightning cuts, red lightning cuts. Black… oh I got blasted away. My tails, which were in charge of defence, managed to block the attack successfully but due to my near non existent weight it blew me away.

  “Enough! I will just have to kill you and revive you afterward!”

  Wait you can do that? Actually, that’s not the point! You won’t get me alive!

  “That was the point I was making…”

  Right, that was a bad timing to say that cool line.

  I chucked Nilah at her which she dodged, I swapped myself with Nilah and cut her in 2, created an ice cube and swapped Nilah with the ice cube. I switched to a reverse grip, spun around and cut her into ribbons. It was not just the sword in my hand but the swords in my tails that also spun with me.

  The lightning turned silver and I kept slicing and dicing and chucking swords at her. Releasing [Kryokym] slashes where needed and keeping close to her to limit the damage she could do to the area. Her reaction time had slowed down considerably since she was extremely pissed off.

  I had a blast until she glowed and turned enormous. I backed off as I noticed that her hair turned golden.

  Right, I guess this won’t work anymore.

  The ice [Dragon] brought me far away from the enormous tomato goddess as [Hsien] activated. Her movements slowed down even more as the area around us started to act as water and fish, orcas, coral and even more [Dragons] appeared. I started churning out some frost dragons to keep my tails cool while progressing [Hsien].

  All her light-based attacks got refracted away from me. The fish and frost dragons had a blast. Most of the fish instantly evolved into dragons because of all the mana flying around. Nilah had turned into her fox form and was cooling me down. This might have been the very first iteration of our [Heat Exchange].

  My tails put more juice into the attacks and 2 large frost [Dragons] appeared and used [Kryokym] whenever they hit tomato goddess. The smaller ones tried to bind her by freezing her limbs.

  “I hate Pagos! This element is so obnoxious!”

  She kept breaking out of it but the frost dragons refroze her.

  The orcas kept crashing into her and smacking her around with their tails. fish nibbled on her hands nad feet but it was unlikely that they would be able to hurt a godess. 2 orcas rammed into her while having a piece of sharp looking coral in their mouth, inflicting several frost magic based cuts.

  My 9th tail decided it was time to harvest all the energy gathered and send her packing. All my tails paused their actions and combined all the energy into the biggest [Dragon] I’ve ever created and sent it at her. It exploded in her face with a [Kryokym] that dwarfed the one I dropped on Zack and sent her flying.

  Uh oh, that’s the wrong direction. Nilah, she has returned to her human size, it’s time for [Heat Exchange]!

  I used [Nilah] on Nilah and we started [Heat Exchange]. I covered my first and second tail in foxfire, teleported to Biian and punched her with my tails. Another tail grabbed her so she didn’t fly away and the foxfire tail punches continued. As I had expected, these pack a serious punch, pun intended.

  She tried to speak. Probably something obnoxious. The tails responsible for physical defence had to block some of her melee attacks too. My first and 2nd tail were in their 9-meter version so I had superior range. My 4th tail made sure that she didn’t fly away from the tail punches. She was letting out a lot of ugly screams as she got punched, slapped and impaled by my tails.

  The hot and cold foxfires also did a lot of damage. Hablena had demonstrated that I might be able to seriously hurt deities with this.

  Nilah notified me that she was getting too cold which meant that I had to up the foxfire. Nilah used [Frozen Ground], slipped tomato goddess, and froze her dress to the floor as my tail followed up with another foxfire punch. I had to roll aside to evade a [Light Pulse] and sent out foxfire waves every time I evaded.

  She broke out of the ice and got up, glowed and tried to use her stupid skill again. I floored her with a tail sweep and smacked her around. She now had several [Foxfire Frostburn] stacks on her which also caused foxfire and frost based attacks to hurt even more.

  Our fight had brought us quite far from the capital. Luring her would probably work the best so I let her get some attacks in which launched me south, toward her capital.

  Tomato bitch was fast so she had no issues catching up with me. “Oh, you’re not getting away with this! Dispel this tingling from me at once!”

  Oh, so it only tingles... I guess you need more stacks then.

  My tail messed up the timing of the block and she punched through my remaining illusion layers and sent me flying. It took a while before I crashed into something. At least my tails protected me from taking crash-land damage.

  Hey tail what the fuck man! That hurts!

  I got up in a pile of rubble made out of marble. I looked up and noticed that I got sent flying and destroyed the upper half of the enormous statue of tomato bitch. It apears I had gotten sent flying into her capital.

  Never mind tail, good job! Just warn me the next time.?

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