Chapter 649: Armageddon Rune (1/2)
”...alright, let's try this again.”
Raven took a deep breath in and gathered his thoughts in a single point. All of a sudden, the air around him turned stifling, a massive and overbearing pressure erupted out of his body. The sheer weight of his astounding pressure caused the earth beneath him to shatter.
Behind him, numerous ethereal lights appeared, blossoming like a lotus flower. Each light transformed into arms which numbered exactly one thousand. At each palm that appeared behind him, a rune could be seen etched in them. No rune on each hand were duplicated, each on was unique and has it's own uses.
The Brush of Wisdom appeared on Raven's stern face. As beads of sweat rolled down beside his face, he raised the brush with trembling arms and drew a single horizontal line. There was an audible sound as he did so.
Right after he finished the stroke, the one thousand arm behind him converged into one, forming a single rune which form could not be seen with the naked eye. Even with any ocular techniques, most people would only see it's outline, not the entire picture.
The rune wasn't big, but the power it exuded certainly was...
It appeared in front of Raven, rotating slowly. As it spun faster, light coalesced and it began illuminating everything. The earth shattered some more and once the rune spun at it's top speed, Raven harshly stabbed it with the brush and yelled:
”Armageddon!”
A massive explosion occurred in front of him. Chaos ensued and debris flew everywhere. The winds howled. Light, space and time were twisted into a disordered mess and total annihilation occurred. The muffled sounds of explosion and chaos lasted for several minutes, revealing a massive crater in front of Raven.
As clouds of dusts settled down, Raven slumped on to the ground, pale faced and completely drained. His chest rose and fell as he tried to catch his breath, he felt dizzy and disoriented. Nevertheless, the brightness on his eyes remained as he wiped the beads of sweat from his face.
”That was an improvement...” He whispered after calming down, ”As expected though, it drains the hell out of me, but at least I have an addition trump card now.”
'Armageddon' is a move that he had been experimenting for quite sometime now. It is created by condensing every single Empyrean-ranked Rune imprinted on his Archaic Thousand-Armed Wheel. Although in reality, the runes he carved on each palm on the wheel were the basic ones out of all, each were refined to its utmost level, making it reach the Empyrean-ranked level.
On paper, this sounds simple, after all it's just combining one thousand runes into a single one, Raven has done something like this before and it shouldn't be hard to replicate it, however thinking about it that way is wrong.
Although it is true that Raven has done something like this before, it isn't really the same. The idea behind it was similar to how one would set up arrays and formations, and while that can be described as 'condensing multiple runes into one' it would just ended up forming an array or formation in the end. Once the array or the formation is broke, the union of the runes will also end.
What Raven did was more of a 'fusion'. He fused one thousand rune into a single one, creating something that has never been seen nor heard of before. The result of that is a total chaos, in a sense that even after the attack was over, it truly wasn't over.
See, with this fusion, Raven also used the unique ability that the Brush of Wisdom bestowed to him, the freedom to casually imprint his 'Intent' or 'Will' to whatever creation he has as long as he used the brush. This rune, aside from being the result of the fusion of 1000 Empyrean-ranked runes, it also carried Raven's insights on Destruction Laws, Spacetime Laws, and Slaughter Intent.
Aside from annihilating everything in front of him, this rune will also caused the area affected to recover in a slower state, it also distorts time and space, preventing anyone who survived the blast to use any kind of temporal techniques. If someone's lucky enough to survive the blast, then they won't escape the Destructive Intent and the Slaughter Intent that will gnaw at them from the inside.
This Armageddon Rune, is created to annihilate Raven's enemies through and through...
That's what really set's apart this technique above everything that Raven has so far.
After having some decent rest, Raven stood up and dusted himself. He left the destruction he caused behind him since it will recover on it's own anyway and he went back to the tent he set up for himself.