บท 164: Chapter 164
I could feel Mephisto's bloodlust across the courtyard. He was now barely trying to mask who he was. I could see the fleshy mask he was wearing start to literally melt and bubble away.
"Gross…" I muttered as parts of his fake face started to fall off and land on the ground. Bright red skin was visible underneath. "Make sure you both stay close to me," I said to Heather and Kunou. If he was exposing himself so blatantly, then he was preparing to fight me.
"Maybe we should just go?" Heather suggested. "The Ancient One told me never to mess with this guy."
I shook my head. There was no way I was missing an opportunity like this. Not only was I merely facing a weaker avatar, but this would give me some insight on how the real Mephisto fights if I have to face him someday.
On top of that…
[Quest Initiated: Slay the Avatar of Mephisto!]
→Reward: Level UP X 2!
… I didn't want to miss out on two easy level-ups! And speaking of easy level-ups…
I conjured a small Lightspear and hurled it at the still unconscious Issei nearby! It pierced right through his head and killed him instantly. The quest demanded that he had to die to be completed after all.
[You have Leveled UP X3!]
[Layla of the Fallen: Angel of Hope, Death's Favored]
[Level: 54]
[Sacred Gears: Purger of Darkness, Orb of Anywhere]
[HP: 13000]
[MP: 9800]
[Faith Energy: 3]
[Vigor: 800]
[Strength: 140]
[Intelligence: 980]
[Luck: 100]
[Skills: Observe 4, Angelic Mastery 4, Acting 4, Light Manipulation 7, HP to MP Conversion, Mana Burst, Senjutsu 1, Six Paths, Susanoo 1]
[Perks: Never Tell Me the Odds, Lucky Shot, Mana Replenisher]
[Drawbacks: Sin of Lust]
[Available Free Stat Points: 80]
[Skill Up Point: 0]
I now had 80 Free Stat Points to spend. I put 20 into Intelligence to get it to 1000. I also put 50 in Luck and 10 in Strength.
[For reaching 1000 Intelligence you have unlocked the perk: Mana Furnace!]
→Mana Furnace: You live and breathe Mana! Mana now regenerates 3 times as fast!
[Error!! Error!!]
[A skill has been detected that has the same effect already!]
→The perk Mana Regeneration has fused with the skill Senjutsu!
→Senjutsu has reached level 2! I now regenerate 5 MP every second!
"Father! Are you alright!?"
"What's going on?"
"That damn Fallen has done something to Father!"
The surrounding Angels screamed out! I didn't have time to go over all the benefits I just got before they were all summoning Lightspears and charging at me! Albeit, they were moving very slowly compared to Angels from my own universe. I raised my hand and was about to blast them all away and test out my new Deva Path!
"Stop!" Mephisto called out loudly! All the Angels halted in place. They glared hatefully at me, but made no further moves to attack.
"Father?" One of them questioned. They were shocked at how horrible he looked all of a sudden! His skin was melting off of him!
Mephisto laughed. "Yes, I am your father! Tell me, children. Do you all love me?" Mephisto asked.
"Of course we do!"
"We love you, Father!"
"We could never love anyone more!"
All of the Angels stopped to proclaim their love for Mephisto. I was disgusted at their declarations and their sheer stupidity. Mephisto must have gotten rid of all the smarter Angels and just kept around these idiots to entertain himself.
He grinned at me before he spoke again. "Do you all pledge your souls to me?" Mephisto asked all of the Angels.
My eyes widened at his question. I shouted loudly! "Wait you idiots! Don't answer that!"
It was too late, though!
"Of course I do, father!"
"My soul is yours forever!"
"Mine too!" "And Mine!" "Yes. Of course!"
Right after they all pledged their souls, the fake skin over Mephisto's form finally dropped off him completely. Exposed underneath was the avatar of the evil deity. His eyes glowed fiery red, his hair was pitch black, his ears were pointed, and his skin was bright red. He was once again cackling loudly.
"Father?" One of the Angels asked in confusion upon seeing Mephisto's true form. "What has happened to you?"
"I'm not your father you stupid whore! He's been dead for a long time! I've loved having you as my loyal followers though! I'll especially love torturing you all for all eternity now that your souls are mine!"
The dawning horror of realization appeared on all of the Angels' faces. I grimaced as I knew that I couldn't save them at this point. Not without going into Mephisto's domain and actually killing him there.
Until then, their souls would belong to him.
Mephisto waved his clawed hands and all of the human vessels surrounding us slumped to the ground unconscious or dead. White orbs of light started floating above the bodies. They all turned and rushed towards Mephisto. He opened his mouth wide, and over a dozen Angelic souls were sucked down into his stomach!
He let out a loud belch as he licked his lips and grinned wickedly at the three witnesses. "That really hit the spot! And it gave me the boost I'm going to need for this!"
A wave of power erupted out of Mephisto and started blanketing the area in a foul miasma. I countered the miasma by releasing my own Light Energy into the surroundings as well to stave it off.
"He feels so much stronger!" Kunou exclaimed.
I used [Observe] on him again. His level had gone up quite a bit!
[Mephisto - Level 62]
"This world might suppress the strength of beings like myself, in higher realms, but there's always ways to get around that! Devouring the souls of the world's inhabitants is the simplest method!" Mephisto bragged as he started walking towards my group. He soon became wreathed in fire, and the ground beneath him started to boil everywhere he stepped.
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บท 165: Chapter 165
"You got this right, Layla?" Heather asked in trepidation. "I've never felt someone so incredibly powerful! It's like standing in front of Voldemort times 100."
I patted Heather on the shoulder reassuringly. "Yeah, I've got this." I started walking towards Mephisto, who was slowly walking towards me as well. I willed my eyes to shift for the first time to the Rinnegan. My vision didn't change, but I immediately felt more powerful. I also instinctively felt multiple new abilities that I knew I could perform.
"Those are some creepy looking eyes you have now. I approve! Do they do anything interesting?" Mephisto asked, curiously. He wondered if those were what I fused to myself earlier.
I smirked and pointed my palm towards Mephisto. He raised an eyebrow at me in response. "They sure do! Almighty Push!" A wave of invisible force erupted from my palm and slammed into Mephisto, who was not expecting such an attack!
"Gaaah!" He grunted in pain as the force ripped him from the ground and sent him crashing through the nearby shrine. The wood and tiles, already damaged from earlier battle, immediately collapsed on top of him and bruised the evil deity.
"Damn, that was awesome!" I cheered as I inspected my palm. It hardly cost me any MP either. Sending Mephisto flying only cost me 50 MP. It was too bad that such a fun ability had a 5-second cooldown, though.
"Bitch!" Mephisto screamed as the rubble exploded off of him in a shower of flames! He levitated in the air and rocketed forward towards me! A sword of Hellfire appeared in his hands.
My Deva Path was on cooldown, but that didn't mean I couldn't try my other abilities out on him. "Susanoo." I stated calmly.
Mephisto quickly arrived at my location and tried to cleave me in two! His flaming sword was blocked! His attack was stopped by a large rib bone.
A large purple rib cage completely surrounded my entire body. I smirked at him from inside of my makeshift shield. I was finding that Susanoo was far stronger and more cost-effective than my Lightshield was. Plus, it could guard me from all sides at once!
"Fine! If I can't hit you, I'll just kill the two little girls!" Mephisto raced around me and immediately tried to go after Heather and Kunou on the sidelines. What a cowardly tactic…
"I don't think so!" I said. My cooldown ended. "Universal Pull!"
Mephisto made it halfway towards the two frightened girls before he was yanked backwards by another invisible force! He screamed in annoyance when he found he couldn't fight the pull! He couldn't even spin around to face me!
A powerful Lightspear formed in my hand, and I rammed it right through Mephisto's back! "And that's why you don't turn your back to me!" I kicked him in the back and sent him crashing into the dirt with my spear still sticking out of him.
I felt like testing another ability and pointed my arm towards Mephisto once again. He was stumbling in pain and trying to pull the burning spear out of his chest! His eyes widened when my arm transformed into a genuine rocket launcher.
"The fuck!?" Was all he could say before a literal missile slammed into his face! Instead of exploding with rocket fuel, it exploded in a shower of Light Energy! He let out another loud anguished scream as his red face was burned black!
"Holy crap! Are you a cyborg now, Layla!?" Heather exclaimed.
I willed my arm to transform back. That felt really weird. I wasn't sure if I was a fan of that particular Path… It also didn't seem to do that much damage compared to a general Lightspear.
"You fucking, bitch!" Mephisto finally yanked the Lightspear in his chest free and hurled it to the side. The hole in his chest started to close, and his burnt face started to heal as well. "Learn your place!" Mephisto screamed loudly, and then he started to swell up. He went from being around 6 feet tall to 20 in only a few seconds.
"Susanoo!" I called out again. I was glad that I finally had an ability that could counter enemies going supersize on me! I poured in far more MP this time and began to manifest the full skeleton!
"What!?" Mephisto exclaimed as a towering 30-foot-tall purple skeleton manifested in front of him.
My Susannoo's eyes were glowing at him eerily, promising him further pain and embarrassment!
"Do you know who the fuck I am!?" He shouted angrily.
His question was met with a giant skeletal fist smashing him hard in the face. The air around us vibrated from the force of the blow! Mephisto stumbled backward as his head wrangled out like a gong!
I made sure to punch him so he stumbled away from Heather and Kunou. I followed that up with another couple of devastating blows. Oddly enough, I could actually feel what my Susanoo felt, and with each punch it landed, I felt Mephisto's bones break and shatter. His avatar was getting the beating of a lifetime!
"T-this… This is fucking bullshit…" He huffed out as his large form struggled to stand upright. It was pretty hard considering both of his legs were currently broken. His regeneration was being pushed to its limits.
Shapeshifting himself into his larger form also seemed to focus more of his magic on that and less towards healing.
He quickly shrunk himself back down and my new eyes could see that he was about to cast some teleportation magic.
[He's trying to run away!]
'Not happening!'
Before he could, a giant skeletal arm completely wrapped around his entire body with crushing force! I squeezed hard until he screamed and his concentration broke. The teleportation spell he had been building up winked out in failure.
I de-manifested most of my Susanoo and only kept up a partial torso and the giant arm holding Mephisto in place. Susanoo was a powerful ability, but it was also an MP drain at full power. That minute-long fight cost me 2000 MP.
"You weren't planning on running away now? Were you Mephisto?" I asked while grinning up at him. I willed the skeletal hand to squeeze harder, and he let out another scream. I couldn't believe that I was toying with a Level 62 so easily!
…Although I wasn't aware, at the time, that as an Avatar, this Mephisto didn't have full access to most of his greater abilities…
"Fuck you, Fallen Angel! I'll get you back for this! I was so close to wiping out all the supernatural in this tiny world and taking it for myself!"
I shrugged. "So close, yet so far." I then closed my fist as tight as possible! The crushing force ended up bursting the Avatar like a balloon…and soaking me in a downpour of his disgusting blood. Needless to say, he wasn't regenerating from being turned to paste.
"Eeeeewwwwuuu! Gross Layla! You're covered in demon blood!" Heather whined out loud from the sides. "That's disgusting! And it smells…"
"You stink, Lady Layla." Even Kunou was giving me a grossed out look…
I groaned as I smelled myself…Yikes.
[You have leveled up x2!]
…
–Back in Kyoto–
"...And that's what happened." I finished explaining to Yasaka.
"Uh huh…" Yasaka replied. "That was quite a crazy story." She'd heard tales of Mephisto, but never thought him actually real.
"It sure was…"
Yasaka looked to the side and could see the two Kunous sitting together talking happily. That brought a smile to Yasaka's face. Halfway through my story, the older Kunou had stopped crying and let Yasaka go when her own daughter came out to see what all the noise was.
"I could also use a bath. Maybe we could take one together?" I asked Yasaka with a grin.
A grin that would have come off more sexy if I wasn't covered in Mephisto's blood.
Yasaka shook her head. "Not happening…You need to scrub yourself thoroughly." She said and she had no doubts that I was going to require more than one bath… "I'm currently forced to use Senjutsu to block my own sense of smell."
"Awe…"
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