Zeke gave a warcry, and tried to give an uppercut to Granberia. She received the 3 fists on her chins, but her head barely moved, giving off only some twitches. "I see… So that thing before was only a special technique…"
She raised her other arm, blocking 3 more fists incoming at her. She stepped back before Granberia kicked Zeke's side.
Surprisingly, despite the difference in strength between the two, Zeke didn't seem that hurt, and was just flung against another building.
Some moments later, Granberia crossed her arms to block 3 more fists that reached her, coming from Zeke who jumped out from the building.
He reared back his right arms, which were starting to get covered with the Power of Darkness, annoying Granberia. "Now what else is there?!"
Zeke punched her once again, this time with a greater strength than before. However Granberia didn't move back yet, hinting to a big difference between the two, eve after everything that Zeke did.
Zeke could use his 3rd Evil God's skill, Destroying Sky Decimating Earth, but not only it will kill Granberia, but it will also tire him out too much, leaving him at the mercy of San Ilia's soldiers.
"Get." Zeke punched her with one left fist. "The." He threw a right one. "Fuck." Before Granberia could think of countering Zeke, he sent both his second left and right arm, leaving her in a defensive state.
"OUT!" Then he grasped the last two hands together, and charged another Falling Moon Sinking Star, before bringing both of his arms down.
Unexpectedly, Granberia vanished in a blur, making Zeke miss the attack and strike the ground. The city trembled a lot at the impact, and a fissure spread out.
The next moment, behind Zeke, Granberia grasped one of his arms and ripped it off through force by placing a foot over his face and applying pressure.
The arm flew away, and Zeke stepped back. Since he was a Demigod, and that was one of the additional arms, it didn't hurt in the slightest, but it was enough to throw him off balance.
Before he knew it, a punch reached straight for his face, knocking him out.
Of course an attack that is worth around 5000 or 6000 strength can do that to Zeke, who has around 3000-4000 points in constitution.
Zeke crashed through some buildings, making many flips with his body, and then his face was dragged across the ground, leaving a trail in the road.
Soon, Zeke's body was stopped from the ground, and fell down, not moving a single itch. Meanwhile, Granberia teleported to where he was and looked down on his weak body.
The extra arms he had turned into particles of energy, the red veins that looked like on verge of exploding vanished, the red wrathful aura surrounding him disappeared… Now he looked as fragile as he was before.
"Whew… That was actually a good fight…" Granberia cracked her neck a bit and stretched her body.
"It was a while since I felt the need to get serious so I won't end you here. If Lord Alice is watching over you, then it's her decision if you get to live."
As soon as she finished, Alice stepped out from a dark place with Angel Halo on one hand and a book on the other. She glanced at Zeke in the ground and back at Granberia. "So you two already finished fighting?"
"Yes, her majesty. He seems like a great challenge for me so I want to keep him alive until he reaches his prime. Is it ok for you to keep him alive or should I terminate him now?"
Alice shrugged. "You won, so it is your decision. This doesn't have anything to do with me."
"Very well. Then I shall take my leave." Granberia bowed down to Alice and walked back to where she left her sword, leaving Zeke and Alice alone.
Alice gazed at Zeke's unconscious body, and approached it. She crouched down in front of his body and touched his chest, covered from the now-destroyed Enrikan shirt.
"It seems you can still do a lot of things… It would be horrifying thinking about what you can do if you wanted to kill all of us."
She picked up Zeke's body and left before people would come here.
…
Unlike the other times, this time there was no dream and Zeke directly woke up. Opening his eyes, he found himself over the green grass, in a plain.
He slowly say up, feeling an aching pain all over his body, and noticed Alice in her monster form playing with some rocks. "...Huh? Where…"
Alice turned her head around and raised an eyebrow. "Huh, this time you didn't wake up the next day…"
"Ugh… Where are we?" Zeke asked, massaging his sore shoulders. Alice just replied with simple words. "We are outside San Ilia."
Hearing that, Zeke sighed in relief and said. "Good, I don't want to get in there anymore…"
"What happened?" It wasn't normal for Zeke to be this wary of a place, so Alice was curious about this.
Zeke sighed in exasperation this time, and replied. "Apparently Ilias told the pope that I was a sinner, so I am pretty much wanted in San Ilia."
Alice was surprised at what he said and repeated. "Ilias declared you as a sinner?"
"Yeah… I got almost killed because she sent some angels down to help the soldiers to capture me, but I got saved thanks to the Mantra of Wrath. Speaking of which…"
Zeke opened his Profile, and looked through it.
[Name: Zeke Conquest
Age: 15 years old
Sex: Male
Race: Demon/Demigod
Title: Hero, Monster Hunter, Pirate Lord.
…
Strength: 162
Endurance: 114
Constitution: 159
Dexterity: 165
Mantra: 992
Bonus Stats: 3
…
Active: Energy Drain, Monsterpedia, Evil God's Forbidden Arts, Hellblaze, Power of Darkness, Soul Stealing, Indura.
Passive: Pirate Lord, Piety, Demonic Physiology, Regeneration.
Hybrid: Sun Authority: Leo, Mantra of Wrath, Demon Mark.]
It seems he gained extra points by breaking his limits. The next thing he did was opening the quest list and turn in the most recent one.
[Round 2: Survive from Granberia. Reward: 50 Bonus Points, 1 Super Spin.]
After receiving the bonus points and the Super Spin, the first thing he did was using the points.
...30 on endurance, 13 on strength, and split the rest between constitution and dexterity… Alright! Done!
Zeke closed the profile and stretched his body, before he opened the Spin screen. "Alright, now let's see what will I get this time…"
Alice went at his side and looked curiously at the screen when Zeke pressed Super Spin.
And what comes out is… A!
[You have received: Monster Calamity God Slayer Fist.]
Zeke felt goosebumps as soon as he read what came out, and a smile extended across his face. "Ok, a surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one…"
"What about it?"
"It's just… I don't need to learn martial arts anymore." Zeke stood up from the ground and stretched his back. "Now… What to do? I should have checked the library at San Ilia, but-"
"Don't worry about it, while you and Granberia were doing a bar fight, I got in the cathedral to retrieve both Angel Halo, which you stupidly left there, and the book you were looking for." Alice passed both the mentioned items to Zeke.
He took them and nodded in gratitude. "Thank you, Alice."
"You're welcome." Alice replied back with her usual blank tone.
Meanwhile, Zeke put Angel Halo in the ground and looked at the book's cover. "...Four Animists and their sources. Hmm…"
Zeke opened the book to the first page and started to read.
"A long time ago-actually never, and also now. Nothing is nowhere. When? Never. Makes sense, right? Like I am writing, it didn't happen. Nothing was never anywhere. That's why it's been everywhere. It's been so everywhere you don't need the 'where', you don't even need the 'when'. That's how every it gets."
Zeke raised an eyebrow. "Bill wurtz?"
"Who?" Alice asked.
"Nothing, it's just that these words are… extremely familiar… You know what? Let's skip this part." After saying that, Zeke turned the pages around and started to read the book where he should have started to read.
[STATUS UPDATE]
Name: Zeke Conquest
Age: 15 years old
Sex: Male
Race: Demon/Demigod
Title: Hero, Monster Hunter, Pirate Lord.
…
Strength: 175 (Demon: 350) (Night: 525) (Max: 700/1050) (Evil Soul: 1400/2100) (Burning Heart: 2100/3150) (Purgatory: 2800/4200) (Rumbling Heaven: 3500/5250) (Mantra: 4492/6242)
Endurance: 140 (Demon: 280) (Night: 420) (Max: 560/840) (Mantra: 1552/1832)
Constitution: 164 (Demon: 328) (Night: 492) (Max: 656/984) (Evil Soul: 1312/1968) (Burning Heart: 1968/2808) (Purgatory: 2624/3648) (Rumbling Heaven: 3280/4488) (Mantra: 4272/5480)
Dexterity: 170 (Demon: 340) (Night: 510) (Max: 680/1020) (Evil Soul: 1360/2040) (Burning Heart: 2040/3060) (Purgatory: 2720/4080) (Rumbling Heaven: 3400/5100) (Mantra: 4392/6092)
Mantra: 992 (Max: Infinite)
Bonus Stats: 0
…
Active: Energy Drain, Monsterpedia, Evil God's Forbidden Arts, Hellblaze, Power of Darkness, Soul Stealing, Indura.
Passive: Pirate Lord, Piety, Demonic Physiology, Regeneration, Monster Calamity God Slayer Fist.
Hybrid: Sun Authority: Leo, Mantra of Wrath, Demon Mark.