Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1361: ALL Hands (4)



Bandit King's Boundless Collection operated in the same manner as how Araeyn managed the Null Remnants with his AUTHORITY. Its GeoScape was smothered by the darkness Skullius had released, but the plethora of colossal, glowing items remained, drifting about.

They each represented an aspect of reality basic or otherwise, that Kenno had been exposed to - gravity, Distorted Gravity, time, space, Stagnant Space, and many more. Even without his Territory, Kenno could control these around his target, but with it, his prowess was raised greatly. Of course, as a mere mortal, he couldn't hope to kill a Deity by affecting them with these aspects. Skullius had even implemented the Womb to hold his Territory together, in case the Deity decided to thrash it.

This didn't mean Kenno was useless in this case, however.

Clasping his hands together, he was the first to fall deeper and deeper into the grand darkness that now filled his Territory. But as he did, he programmed all the random, glowing items - anchors, shields, doors, spears, pails - to form a column below the Doom Knight.

All these items then embodied Distorted Gravity, which he had experienced from his master, and applied it onto the Doom Knight. The creature immediately began to drop into the darkness, following after Kenno.

<HMMM!> Unfazed, the Doom Knight shattered all the random items in an instant, but newer ones kept taking their place, keeping the effect alive. <INSOLENT!>

The darkness got thicker and thicker, beating like the ocean waves, the lower the Doom Knight went, and when it tried to move upwards, it turned out that up and down, tomato- tomahto, potato, potahto. Once deep enough, only the master of the darkness and the master of the Territory knew where the boundaries of the grand space were!

But of course, this abundance was no mere pool of [Evil Darkness]. Skullius had activated the Dousing Sanctum, a facet of his [King of Severing Twilight: AfterDark]!

The Andori had never been this potent in all the times he had used it so far. It was currently empowered by the Immortal Realm Physique, Expanded Shadow Fiend's Leather!

Cloaked in the armour resulting from the Physique, the Hybrid Warmoth descended upon the Doom Knight, along with Uyuniya. His [Vision of Calamity] flared, and sent another obscure blast which landed square on the creature, but enacted no real damage.

Yet... something significant finally happened.

[You have met the prerequisite conditions for the influence of 'Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz' <Void> application]

[Strike the enemy fourteen consecutive times using attacks enhanced by 'Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz' to extract the <Void> benefit - loosening the target's connection with their Broader Existence for a hundredth of a Consternal]n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

...!!!

Skullius' eyes sparkled.

'Consecutive, huh?' he thought, and immediately, he sent a message to Uyuniya via a mana network link. She gave a simple nod.

...But then the Doom Knight made the first move.

<DEAD SCREECH.> It called in a livid voice, and pointed forward its sword. An indescribable noise, almost dense enough to touch, was expelled from the end of the sword, and the chaos it wrought caused the darkness to boil. It was some form of Andori.

Skullius felt the damage pile on him even with his new Immortal Physique; his body contorted, as did Uyuniya's.

...But an instant later, they were fit and fine again.

...!!!

The Doom Knight was taken aback, but then it could think of nothing. Its mind went blank for

a miniscule speck of time, and when it came to, Skullius and Uyuniya brandished their swords to carve into it!

It barely managed to react in time. Its sword was a blur, clashing with Skullius' four and with Uyuniya's two. Great sparks lit up in the darkness.

'It's not supposed to be able to see in this darkness, but I suppose its senses are just that powerful,' Skullius thought, and then his hands rapidly played a game, switching the swords from hand to hand to hand to hand and striking as quickly as possible at all points on the Deity's torso. Uyuniya did the same, but the Doom Knight was more than a match for them.

He blocked all their strikes, and then...

CRACK!

SHKACK!

Skullius was nearly twisted into a pretzel and Uyuniya might have become a well-recognised knot!

The Doom Knight used its Broader Existence to bend their bodies!

But Skullius and Uyuniya returned to normal in the next instance, and again... the Doom Knight lost its thoughts and consciousness for a small instant. When it came to, Skullius had managed to nick its side with a blade of light, and Uyuniya jabbed the point of one of hers right below its knee. Both swords were layered in puce and turquoise!

The Doom Knight's fury overcame it, and its sword - suddenly wreathed in green lightning and Undeath energy - moved so fast that it ripped Skullius' in two and cut Uyuniya into three dozen pieces. Using its insurmountably denser Broader Existence - befitting of a Deity - it held them in place and slowly started to squash them, but alas...

It lost a sense of what it was doing along with its grip on Skullius and Uyuniya. Right in that instant, the Gajjkav materialised from the darkness and devoured it whole.

Skullius and Uyuniya turned feral.

The former blasted the Gajjkay with fourteen [False Ticklers] while Uyuniya stabbed it with a blade of darkness that Skullius accurately bathed in Maximum Jaqquezjaqqz before it hit!

The sequence and execution was perfect. The Gajjkav even turned bloated and gigantic because of the effect of Exorbitance.

The fourteen [False Ticklers] were sure to meet the conditions Skullius had seen necessary for the <Void> function of his new Exotic Parlous Nature, along with Uyuniya's one extra blow. This wasn't even including the tonnes of damage that should have reached the Doom Knight as a result of the Exorbitance.

Yet...

<DIVINE SWORD HAND.>

The words came before Skullius and Uyuniya could comprehend what followed. Their bodies were to burst into fragments and fly about like decks of cards, since they were closest in range

to the attack.

A hand had appeared, connected only to sparks of a red flame in the darkness right in front of

the Gajjkav.

Well, it might have been a hand, but it looked like the double-edged end of a sword every other microsecond. It sent a sensational series of sharp, whipping blows, impossible to discern with simple Divine senses out into the darkness. They pierced the black, tall and merciless, and spread out into Aigas.

They cut land and sea, reaching even to the drapes of time hanging in the present. They cut the air and the mana, and the sky until Aigas almost began to resemble what otherworldly individuals might have called a pizza from an aerial view!

The force of the blow didn't stop there.

It cut through to even the great void immediately surrounding Aigas, venting its fury.

It was a formidable attack indeed. A formidable sword-based Andori that could be replicated thousands of times with ease by the Doom Knight given its immense energy reserves. However... it failed to shatter Bandit King's Boundless Collection. The Territory had not been cut into more than 100 pieces, as the stipulation for the Womb's limit.

But even worse than that, was the fact that [Divine Sword Hand] had failed to eliminate its two immediate enemies.

Through the influence of Expanded Shadow Fiend's Leather, the Dousing Sanctum's innate ability to transfer damage from its user - and whoever within it they wished - to another

source was greatly enhanced!

This was why Skullius and Uyuniya kept recovering from the Doom Knight's blows.

And that was also why Skullius decided to bring in everyone else to the party.

Elita and Aurolio joined in, their Bare Guises - sapphire and gold respectively - equipped.

Araeyn too showed himself, along with the 1,000 Penetrators, ready to serve to their last

breaths.

...And then it was one final bout of chaos.