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He hadn’t even moved, his new control over matter having reached a brand new level. The Intent’s face, which had been surprised a few seconds ago, immediately sported a brand new feral grin.
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Gathering power inside his body, it allowed his body to keep being sliced by the array of constantly multiplying green lines.
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Akhenamen’s eyes never left the Intent, analyzing his brand new use of the Intent of Gauss Unmaking. This time, it was the entire area that was being targeted. His feet resting on top of a green Tri-Astromath construct took a single step back, matter shattering between him and his destination, reality crumpling like a crushed sheet of paper. Appearing in front of Valencia and the teens.
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A single hand lifted itself toward the sky, and hundreds of thin green lines started to appear all around him. He knew he couldn’t defend against the Gauss Intent’s attack. The best defense was attacking back.
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However, Akhenamen had seemingly forgotten he wasn’t the only Transcendent here. Valencia’s body exploded in size, the shape of a golden and red Hydra appearing around her body.
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Letting out a roar that blew sand for kilometers around them, the massive, golden glowing hydra started to coil around the teen. Trusting Akhenamen in keeping them safe from the Intent’s attack. Her shield lifted high, and massive golden shields appeared all around them, each looking more like a scale than a shield, all of it forming a Hydra's head.
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The Intent has released his new attack. In a single instant, all matter, sand, air, anything that wasn’t inside Cygislax had been turned into… nothingness. As if everything around had just disappeared. All that remained was the golden hydra’s head, which had been sliced thousands of times in a single second and was still standing. Not because it could resist the slashes, but because it healed faster than what the Gauss Intent could damage.
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Akhenamen looked unharmed apart from a few swiftly healing slashes here and there; the thin green lines had attacked the Gauss’s attack, erasing them before they could reach him. Looking at the already fully healed Hydra, he knew he couldn’t underestimate the Transcendent of Pyrax; their close combat fighting capabilities were definitely even greater than his before he had unlocked this new form of the Argent Sovereign.
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His new race, created from refining an uncountable amount of Liquid Silver into Living Silver and adding more and more to his body, had one single yet ridiculously powerful ability. It boosted his stats by 500 points for each.
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If we count his Origin Boost, it made him reach the equivalent of a rank 6 Transcendent, with physical stats even greater than those of a Dominion. Still, if Dominion also had an Origin Boost, which they had no reason not to have, then their physical stats reached Transcendent rank 10. Well above his.
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“Go deal with the Intent, don’t worry about them, I’ll make sure they are safe.”
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Akhenamen had promised those under his care would never have to suffer, and he intended to keep his promise. The intent had played enough. He just gently nodded at Valencia, a thankful smile on his face, the smile looking like a small green line on his face; it wasn’t an actual mouth, just a representation of his lips.
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Once again, he appeared before the Intent. A single instant had passed, his feet slammed hard into a green rectangle below him, and his warglaive, for the first time, tested his brand-new strength. Over 6000 Might was gathered into this strike.
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His new title made the might of his attack clear. He wasn’t even a World Boss anymore; he had become a literal calamity. His attack shattered space over half of the Great Desert’s entire surface, leaving the sky into floating broken shards.
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The power unleashed was so above anything Akhenamen had conceived, making the entirety of the Pyrax’s Empire and Brightheart Covenant feel a powerful shockwave wash against them.
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The entire System’s power started to swiftly repair the damage caused by this one attack. Showing the kind of power Akhenamen was still far from reaching. He could shatter an entire country with a single attack, yet the System had repaired all damage in an instant, and a massive storm started to surround him.
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His Sight and Arcana stats are able to feel himself and the Intent being transported into a brand new dimension. Most likely, the System’s method to protect its continent. It sent the powerful Transcendents into a place where they could fight to their heart's content. The battlefield was a perfect reproduction of Cygislax.
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Talking about the Intent, he had been completely shattered, too surprised by this sudden increase of strength to have reacted on time. Its body floats in thousands of small particles before all assembling back into a brand new body. Its shape is now a perfect copy of Akhenamen’s argent sovereign body.
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[No originality… We have to admit. We look great.]
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All around them, new bodies, each as towering as his Argent Sovereign form, appeared; all of them were Dominions without exception, and he even recognised Ruby-Khion and Finion, every god sitting on a massive throne, their realm showcased behind them.
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[A public?]
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Finion winked at Akhenamen, his voice reaching his ears.
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“Yo! Been a while. Don’t worry, we rarely have the chance to see fights between a Divine Law using its full strength and a rank six Transcendent. We’re just here to watch. Welcome to the big people’s court.”
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[Divine Law? I thought it was just an Intent.]
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“It uses the strength of an Intent to adapt to your level. But it is a Divine Law. Careful, it won’t hold back anymore now.”
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[Thanks for the warning. Well, time to fight.]
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Inside the Divine Law’s burning eyes, Akhenamen saw the entire power that he could unlock by studying this Divine Law, destroying entire realms. A silent power that offered such a swift and inevitable end, it could only be described as scary.
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It wasn’t a Divine Law that strived for an even or careful fighting style. It was silent, swift, and completely overwhelming, winning not by beating your enemy but by erasing them from existence completely.
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The Divine Law bent its knees, space around them cracking as he appeared before Akhenamen barely a single milli-second after, matters around them instantly wiped from existence. Akhenamen’s body is able to withstand this by erasing anything trying to erase his own self.
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His glaive went back into his Inventory; he would fight using only his understanding of the Divine Law of Gauss Unmaking. Hands raised in front of him, sending silent yet deadly continent-slicing attacks.
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His creation of what he now called Gauss Dimensional Cuts was getting faster and faster; his ability to suddenly appear at another location, destroying every matter around his point of arrival instantly, without any need to concentrate.
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His tail was lashing out in hard strikes, covered in numerous green vines, each being a particularly thick Gauss Dimensional Cut, able to slash all matter with every whipping motion it made. Become a truly deadly weapon.
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Even the Divine Law’s last attack, which had targeted an entire area, was now just another weapon in his arsenal, as wide green spheres of antimatter would appear behind the Divine Law’s body, trying to catch up with his great speed.
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Hundreds of Gauss Arcs are flying between the two opponents. Akhenamen’s GAALs are especially deadly. Each Arc they would shoot, having almost five times the power of a normal one.
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This kind of apocalyptic battle could have wiped out the entire continent of Zenthia. City-sized bubbles or beams of matter sundering attacks flying all around the battlefield. Akhenamen had to admit that at first he had been on the losing side.
His body is constantly pierced or swallowed by bubbles or beams of Gauss energy. Mending his body using the seemingly unending wave of Liquid Silver summoned from the floating black cubes.
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Yet, now, his attacks matched the speed and ferocity of the Divine Law. His speed, allowing him to evade most attacks sent his way. He didn’t know how much time was passing, but he knew that he was getting better and better.
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His fighting instincts were refined and honed from thousands of attacks. Any physical attack would always cause cracks to appear all over the dimension, like a cracked window. Repaired the next instant by the System. Bets between the gods and goddesses flying left and right. Each has its own opinion on how this fight would end.
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A fight truly worthy of the rank of Cygilite Calamity.
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[Be careful dad! The gods seem to think this is far from over!]
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[Don’t worry, Syllena, I don’t intend to lose in front of so many gods. I have the entire pride of the Cygilites on my shoulders now. How could I lose after making such a claim?]
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Akhenamen saw that the Divine Law was backing up; it was preparing something big. So was he.