76 Escape!
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“Let me give you a hand as well…”
My mother summoned her familiars, which all flew towards father and began to attack the giant core. From the looks of it, this time around, they were actually going to to finish him off! He always somehow escaped and revived back again, but now… they finally got him!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Father’s fiery blade released powerful fire-based attacks, slicing and piercing through the entire black jewel with power that continuously got stronger. In response, the entire artifact, which was also somehow a fragment of the Demon King, was being sliced and burned into tiny pieces.
Then again, it was made of an incredibly resilient material. Even with all this pressure, it was still somewhat compact, not burning into ashes. Though, my mother’s familiars joined and used their holy light to purify this darkness, making the mind of Hell inside the core wail in agony.
A specter soon surged from within the fragments, roaring in pain and trying to blast away my father and my mother’s familiars with his deathly power. However, my father merely swung his blade and made him disappear! My father is so strong!
“Agghhhh…! Uuuaaggh…! No…! I cannot… die! Wait! I was… just doing… what I was told! UUAAAGGGH…!”
“And I don’t care! Die miserably, you piece of garbage! You won’t even burn in hell! You’ll completely disappear!!!”
…..
My father’s soul suddenly surged from his entire body like a monstrous chimera made of flames. Quickly, it expanded its sharp and wide jaws, tearing apart all the souls stored in the core alongside Hell’s main consciousness…
“GRRYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAHHH…!”
BOOM!!!
The fragments of the exploded core were quickly turned into ashes as the entirety of Hell was finished off rather swiftly… well, this simply showed the difference in power between me and my parents. They were in a completely different level. While it took me all I had to even finish him off once, with the sacrifice of Leviathan in the process, breaking apart my entire body, damaging my soul to the point of almost being shattered, and the System, Naturia, and Ignatius’ great efforts, my father easily destroyed him at long last… I’d like to think I helped a bit… if possible.
“It’s over…” my father said, lightly sighing.
“No, father! Wait!” I quickly said.
Everyone then looked at me as they felt the presence of someone truly powerful. This presence was overwhelming, all-encompassing, and made one feel as if it represented all the heavens themselves…
“Bravo! That was a wonderful show!”
The voice of this man resounded across the entire dimension as my parents looked at the current situation with confusion…
“This being was the one that created this dimension… I don’t know who it is… b-but I think it might be a god!” I told them.
“A god?!” my mother asked, not expecting that at all.
“The Dimensional Lord was slain by us… so there’s a god with the power of manipulating space colluding with the Demon King’s army? But how and why?! Who are you?!” father roared with anger.
“Who am I? That doesn’t really matter, no? Dead people don’t need to know about this… now that I’ve got you all here together, I might as well dirty my hands and kill you heroes off!”
“What? You bastard! You’re a god and you’re trying to kill my daughter and us out?!” father exclaimed in response.
“You’re a traitor to the gods!” my mother could not help but say.
“You would never understand! My goals are beyond your understanding. You cannot even possibly begin to fathom the TRUTH of this world and my goals… you’re all chess pieces playing on my board…!” he said.
“What kind of nonsense are you talking about?” I asked.
“Shut up you little wench! You’re all going to die! DIMENSIONAL COMPRESSION!”
TRUUMMM!!!
Suddenly, the entirety of this dimension began to tremble. It was as if something strange was pushing us in.
“W-What’s happening?!” I asked, slightly fearful.
“This… he’s compressing the entire dimension!” Shade said in response.
“We have to escape, quickly!” Nepheline hurriedly said soon after.
“On it!” roared my father. With that, he quickly moved towards us while my mother held me with her arms.
“You won’t escape! I’m the master of this space! What I say are the rules! I’ve had enough fun now. It’s time for all of you to enter the chopping board!”
The Dimension God, as I will call the guy from now on, laughed maliciously. He seemed to be a typical jackass that enjoyed the feeling of schadenfreude. I don’t know why he was being like this with the heroes that gods were supposed to protect, but he really wanted to just kill us off.
FLASH!
The entrance that father created was closed in an instant as the entire dimension continued to compress itself. With it compressing a meter every second, and with the space only being a kilometer in size… in due time, we’ll get crushed to death!
I didn’t know if we could do anything, really. If this being could really control space, then how would we escape? We’re all inside of his own domain, after all. It seemed hopeless…
“If I’ve already sliced a dimension once, then I can do it again!” said my father all of a sudden.
“I’ll help,” Shade said soon after.
“Heh! You only did it because I allowed it! You won’t be able to easily slice through my dimension- ah!”
SLASH!
My father’s blade, which had the legendary power of flames in it, soon began to slice through the dimensional walls in front of him. The strong blade was even capable of piercing the walls of a dimension, doing it quite leisurely even!
In contrast, his entire body bulged with muscles. It felt as if the power required to do this was enormous. Soon, his entire body began to unleash a strong aura of flames.
Shade did the same as his entire body was infused with shadows while Aquarina was being held by Nepheline’s arms. His daggers suddenly grew in size, turning into thin and sharp blades, which he coated in shadows.
“Dimensional Cut!”
“Dimensional Slash!”
CLAAAAAAASSSHHHH!
Surprisingly, their attacks made the entire dimension tremble!
RUMBLE!
“I-Impossible! You can’t just do that! How…? This wasn’t within my calculations…!” the entity could not help but say in shock.
“Then, you’ve calculated it all wrong, jackass!” I said, flashing my middle finger into the ceiling as a large crack in space opened. Soon, I was carried outside of this dimension while I heard a frustrated cry from the being inside it…
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