606 Fated Encounters: Nyzzets Labyrinth Conquest 68/?: An Intense Battle! (1/2)

”Zudig and Begudhur intention is not to fight me though, if I simply lower my guard, they will surely release an attack and then hurriedly escape this Dungeon in some kind of way… I cannot simply let them go… I really want to eat them now…” thought Kireina, as her family and servants gathered inside of her flesh, with the new ally on Hydros.

Hydros seemed to not feel comfortable nor Kireina had any issue getting him inside her flesh, seemingly as if he were not haltered by the limits of a god, such as not being capable of entering Kireina's Inner Realms.

However, Hydros was a god who had gotten his physical body taken away, alongside his Divine Core. His cultivation had become stagnant, and he wasn't capable of producing Divine Energy in great quantities as before… the only thing left on him was his very soul, and although it was strong, it wasn't as strong as his original strength, to the point that he was capable of entering Kireina's Inner Realm without issues.

”This place… could this be Kireina-sama Divine Realm? So strange… a world of blackness… but why there are so many souls floating around… thousands of thousands of souls… and… is that a Dungeon!? Inside a Divine Realm?! How!”

Hydros was being taken aback each time he discovered something new inside of Kireina's Inner Realm: Soul World and Kireina family and servants glanced at him with a bit of curiosity… Was he really a god? To their eyes, he seemed more like a big Water Slime with a floating eye inside its mass of a body.

”Hydros, right?” said Rimuru, glancing at the God.

”Ah! Yes, yes, I am Hydros… Oh? Are you a slime? Your presence is quite outstanding for a mortal… What's your name?” muttered Hydros.

”My name's Rimuru, gu… Hydros-san, are you a Slime God?! And are you a male or a female? I can't tell, gu,” asked Rimuru.

”Me? I don't have a gender, as you can see… nor you either, right? Yet you take the form of a female, how curious… Anyways, Rimuru-san, it is nice to meet you. Are you Kireina-sam's family?” asked Hydros.

”Yes! We can do a lot of Slime things together later, Hydros-chan!” said Rimuru.

”Slime… things? You know that I am not a Slime, right?” asked Hydros.

”YOU ARENT, GUU?!”

”N-No, Rimuru-chan… Sorry for disappointing you. I was born before Slimes existed. I am a type of monster that was called… err, what was it? Living Water? Or Water Sprite” said Hydros.

”Perhaps you're the ancestor of the Slimes?!” asked Rimuru.

”Err… Not exactly… I think there is another Goddess that is the ancestor… err, Blooia, was it?” asked Hydros.

”Blooia-sama! She blessed me and many other Slimes in the Empire! So is she like my mommy?” asked Rimuru.

”Well, maybe… I have not spoken with her. I don't even know her” said Hydros.

”What a bummer…” muttered Rimuru.

”Okay, guu!” said Rimuru with a smile again… she was a quite simple girl.

Hydros sighed in relief.

As Hydros and Rimuru chatted around, the fight outside of Kireina's Inner Realm was roaring with thunderous sounds.

Zudig Begudhur was relentlessly devouring Kireina's flesh and Domain layers for a way to escape, while releasing rays of rotting venom, devouring essence, and phantasmal energy towards Kireina, alongside enormous bone and claw projectiles, fired from within their fleshy and enormous body.

Although they thought that using Divinity Devouring against Kireina's flesh would work, it did little damage, showing that Kireina was a mortal. Her flesh, despite being so strong, did not hold Divinity, only her soul held divinity within it… this made the power of Divinity Devouring not as effective against her as the two had believed…

And although they devoured Kireina's flesh, they did not gain any power from it aside from a lot of calories. Unlike them, she kept expanding and expanding relentlessly, shamelessly using her own flesh as a shield, as using Aegis in front of their bites would not be as effective as simply putting enormous walls of flesh against them.

Zudig and Begudhur felt like something was off… Kireina had fallen calm after menacingly shouting at them… she was preparing something.

For now, after the pathetic bluff that both of them threw at her, they began to devour through her flesh and Domain, relentlessly trying with all of their might to escape, but every time they advanced a bit, even more obstacles would resurge in front of their sight.

”Damn it! Divinity Devouring is not as effective against Kireina! Is this because she is a mortal then?! But our physical flesh is affected by it!” said Begudhur's voice.

Zudig immediately recalled the time when he compared himself to Kireina, saying that he was simply a superior version of her because of being a proper God that transcended a Divine Trial unlike her.

However, such statement now came to bite his tail, as Zudig realized that such 'weaknesses were, in fact, a strong advantage… even if Zudig's physical vessel was David, due to being a proper God, it was infected to the point that it had divinity cursing through all of its flesh, making him weak to Divinity Devouring and even more to its superior version, God Devour.

”Don't fuck with me… Are you telling me that Kireina has an advantage because she is a mortal?! Damn it all! Begudhur, let us use all of our power, our divinities and all! We cannot simply let her eat us as she leisurely prepares herself!” said Zudig in anger and frustration, as Begudhur agreed with his thoughts and both merged Gods began to control their body, shaping it as countless tentacles and appendages, imitating Kireina and beginning to attack all of the entire Domain, while firing cannons and other divine techniques.