Chapter 324 - 48: *Hidden* ; Nao Vs Momonga! (2/2)

”Okay!”, Eve acknowledged. She then let her scaly feet dangle below in happiness.

”I'm going to inform Brother, Big Sis Elsa.”

”Wait, now?”

”Of course! I want to see his reaction like this!”

”Fine. Do as you will.” Elsa said, shrugging her shoulders with a sigh.

Everyone saw Nao and Momonga finally end their conversation, only for Nao to take out one of Yggdrasil's gold coins. It was at this time Miya whispered to Nao, revealing that Eve was now a part of their family.

The moment Nao received this notification, the huge crowd of players saw Nao almost trip over himself and tumble onto the ground, dropping his gold coin along the way.

Seeing this happen, Momonga asked him with intrigue.

'Are you okay, Metatron?”

”It's nothing.”, Nao simply replied, He then straightened himself, getting up from the arena's ground, retrieving the gold coin from the ground.

”Now, back to where we were. Heads or tails? This will decide who of us goes first.”

”Not doing the classic rolling method? A coin toss works too. I'll go with tails.”

”Got it.”, Nao replied. Since Momonga chose tails Nao had heads. He then did a fast flick of his thumb, letting the coin flip high up into the air. The coin attracted the player's attention, seeing as they were deciding on something. Everyone heard their ongoing conversation, and it looks like they'll take a few seconds to cast rapid buffing spells, which excited them. It was a showdown between magic casters, after all.

After a few seconds, the coin finally tossed back down onto the ground, creating a loud bang clank once it struck. It revealed tails. Momonga looked at the result, and nodded his head. He would go first.

Nao stepped backward, giving him good distance. Without any delay, Momonga started to rapidly press his icons on his system overlay, letting out fast chants. The ten seconds started.

”Fly. Magic Ward, Holy. Magic Ward, Water. Bless of Magic Caster. Greater Magic Boost. False Data, Life. Life Essence. Mana Essence, Greater Resistance. Penetrate Up. Shadowy Aura. Greater Full Potential. Delay Magic, Grasp Heart. Twin Maximize Magic : Black Hole!”, Momonga yelled out, chanting spells rapidly without stop. This stunned the players watching him, as they saw a multitude of colored auras wrap around his body. He managed to cast out 14 before the timer stopped at zero!

Seeing his casting done, Momonga took both offensive and defensive stances. He knew Nao primarily casted light spells, but he knew water and thunder spells as well. It was possible he knew other elements, but Nao primarily showed off water and light spells during his matches, while throwing in a thunder spell every so often. Momonga would watch him and Touch Me.

So Momonga decided to raise his resistances against those two types, while giving him plenty of bonus damage to work with. He wasn't sure of Nao's weaknesses, but it was likely he was still weak to darkness. Moreover, Grasp Heart was one of his favorite spells, and one of his strongest. It had a high chance to cause instant death, but Nao probably had resistance against that effect. It could still cause a lot of damage. Black hole was a movement type high end magic spell, and if Nao tried to fly away with his wings, black hole would attempt to pull him back in, dealing damage at the same time. Moreover, he would launch two of these.

But now, Momonga's casting was done and he saw a lot of his MP used. But he still had a lot left, the blessing of being a Heteromorphic magic caster. The crowd was roaring in cheers while others showed their disdain, but he disregarded them. He now patiently waited for Nao to start.

Nao's timer started its countdown. Looking at his massive panel of spells, his fingers danced, even quicker than Momonga and he started chanting.

”Mana Essence. False Data, Mana. Magic Ward, Darkness. Magic Ward, Lightning. Magic Boost. Greater Magic Boost. Blessed of Magic Caster. Greater Full Potential. Penetrate Up. Protection From Evil. Heavenly Light. Chilly Aura. Resist Break. Triplet Delay Maximize Magic : Shining Blast. Delay Boosted Magic : Polar Claw!”, Nao yelled out.

Hearing a continuous string of offensive chants, Momonga frowned. Moreover, he was leading with a very strong light spell, and the strongest single target ice spell! Not only that he delayed them and raised the ice spell's level by another stage! His timer was now over and he casted 15 spells, one higher than his.

Momonga did not delay his Black Hole like he did with Grasp Heart, so to catch Nao off guard, he flew up into the air thanks to Fly. Raising his hand, black mana seeped out of his bones. Nao saw the atmosphere around him start to distort, before the air and clouds started to gather inwardly. He also started to feel a tugging pull, before space distorted in the sky. A black hole emerged out of nowhere, sucking everything into it. Nao's body reacted and lost control, hurling itself toward the black hole that was sucking everything in.

All the while, his health started to drop. The damage increased the closer he got. to the black hole. Even the sky started to dim around it. Seeing the fight start, the crowd cheered.

To avoid being completely sucked in, Nao yelled out another spell. ”Reverse Gravity!”

Reversing Gravity was one way to stop the tugging, and soon he felt his body's senses return back. He attempted to use his wings to fly away from the black hole that was sucking everything in.

”I knew you would try to escape like that, so have another one!” Using his second Black Hole, more dark mana seeped out of Momonga's bones. He launched this Black Hole further away, creating a good distance between the two. Nao soon start his body being tugged toward the second one, and he clicked his tongue inwardly. He felt his body swing around the two black holes as if he entered orbit between the two black holes, slowly chipping away at his health.

Unfortunately the two spells ended not long after they were cast, and the damage hipped away about a third of Nao's health, leaving behind a darkened atmosphere, as if it became night. This type of atmosphere was well suited for Momonga, as he was an Undead. After the two Black Holes vanished, Nao felt his body free once again.

Nao didn't waste time, and waved his hand up. Tapping his icon, he let out a chant after he stabilized his position while in the air. The air around his hand soon became chilly, with frost mana seeping out of his hand. The mana continuously leaked, until a gigantic claw formed, completely made of ice. It was in the shape of a polar bear's claw, and it seemed to be twice as large as the spell casted normally. This was due to Over magic, increasing its tier to a next level. It covered most of the arena.

”Activate, Polar Claw!”, Nao yelled out, swiping down his hand.

The huge claw swiped down fast. The players thought it would be slow due to the size of it but they were wrong. It sped downward fast, blasting chilling air. Unfortunately they could not feel in Yggdrasil, as that was one of its locked senses. Regardless, Momonga erected a shadowy shield in attempt to block it. His shield met head on with it, the ice claw tried to burrow itself into the grounds. As a result, Momonga got blasted right into the right side of the arena.

Momonga's shield cracked apart, creating pixel dust, and several rainbow gashes appeared on his body. If blood could spurt out it would. Polar Claw was the peak of ice damage, the strongest of its spells. With penetrate up and reaching its max potential, it can rip though all sorts of shields. Not even Momonga could fully protect himself from such a spell.

”I'm not done either. Activate, Shining Blast!”, Nao yelled out once more, activated his second delayed spell. Nao raised both of his hands this time, letting his staff float about around him. Three large balls of formed from light mana. This damage based its calculations off one's karma value. Nao did end up working on his karma value to match his angel build, maxing his karma out. It was now +500, whereas Momonga's karma value was -500, two polar opposites. This would do its maximum damage.

”Shit. Metatron is not messing around.”, Momonga said, letting out a rare curse. That spell would likely hurt him more than the Polar Claw just did, which ripped through about 40% of his health in one go. He saw the three shining spheres start circling in a circular manner, as if they were waiting for a command.

”Activate, Grasp Heart! Maximize Magic, Implosion!”, Momonga tapped two more icons swiftly, chanting two concurrent spells.

Nao sent the three large shining spheres downward, to where the wreckage of the arena could be seen. They flew down fast, even faster than the gigantic Polar Claw that struck down earlier. Momonga had an illusory bloody beating heart appear in his hand. It burst open, crushing the heart into pixels. He was planning to use this on Nao directly to stun him for a few seconds, but he changed his targets to one of the spheres, destroying it instantly. Two remained.

The second, all of a sudden, had space distort around it, before it slowly started to crumble upon itself, becoming smaller and smaller. It then created created a large boom, shaking the arena. The second sphere disintegrated into rainbow pixels.

Nao was surprised to see Momonga cancel out two thirds of his spell, but then again, he is fighting Momonga, the leader of Ainz Oowl Gown!

Unfortunately for Momonga, however, the force of the second boom created a blast that caused the third shining sphere to speed up even more. Momonga tried to erect another shield to protect him, but he couldn't react in time before his avatar got swallowed in a large blue-white light. The sphere exploded out horizontally, very similar to how one got hit by Holy Smite. This one blast of karma brought Momonga down by another 20%, and more rainbow gashes appeared on his robe.

He was blasted against the arena once more, striking against the barrier that was long put in place by the admins, so the players wouldn't get hurt from it. The members of Ainz Oowl Gown were dumbfounded seeing their leader wrecked with so many rainbow tears. Nao had some too, but they were less.

Others were surprised too. Momonga was really well known in Helheim. But that wasn't stopping Nao.

”Twin Maximize Magic, Call Greater Thunder!”, Nao yelled, flying downward. Two large blue streaks of lightning formed in both of Nao's hands.

Momonga, who was still in his indent, jumped off the side of the arena, and looked calmly at the generating lightning.

His health was below half, but he didn't care. He even let out a chuckle.

”Haha! This is indeed a showdown between spells. I will respond in kind! Triplet Maximize Magic, Reality Slash!”, Momonga yelled out excitedly. This was one of Momonga's signature spells! Space soon started to bend around him, sending out three white slashes of light in different directions. Nao responded, and shot out two large bolts of lightning.

Seeing spell after spell only incited the crowd to cheer. Their previous disdain was washed away. Nao's match against Momonga was well underway now, and it was approaching its climax!

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A/N : Aht here. Here is the next chapter!

Full Chapter Title : Eve Joins! ; Nao Vs Momonga! (Thank you guys for the name input. In the end I decided to merge Eve and the dragon npc into one character. As to whether the name will change, not sure. If it will, it will become Shion)

A two in one chapter, enjoy!

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