Chapter 312 - All Sides Gathered (1/2)

A wave of yellow energy rushed out and hit the building, causing it to be blown backwards. Laz, who was on the roof, wasn't expecting this and didn't have a chance to do anything. Luckily, due to his being in mist form, he didn't suffer any injury as a result. Instead, his body just floated to the ground while the golden eyes within the dark mist faded.

While everyone looked on, Laz body became corporeal and his form was revealed.

”IT'S YOU!” Tommy yelled out after seeing Laz.

”Yeah. It's me. You know what? I guess I got lost somewhere. Isn't there suppose to be a large parade going on around here? I brought some beads with me for... payment purposes? Ah well, seems I got lost. I'll be on my way,” Laz said, making to make a quick get away. He wasn't exactly scared about this situation since there wasn't a need to fight. He just needed to run and the ones chasing him would find it a lot harder to do so in this concrete jungle than the last time he got chased. Of course, Laz wasn't exactly thrilled with being chased, but you did what you had to do and there was no way he was going to be able to fight everything in front of him. Everyone else aside, the giant bronze man was the one who seemed to pose the most risk towards him and Laz's gut was telling him he shouldn't fight him.

Laz's gut may not want to fight, but that didn't mean he was going to get away either. Before Laz could take off, the Bronze man disappeared from where he was standing and appeared in a blink of an eye next to Laz, landing a firm roundhouse kick right at his stomach. Laz took the hit and speed off like a bullet, only coming to a halt when he crashed into the rubble of the ruined church.

”This one... is one of our enemies?” The giant asked Tommy, just wanting to confirm things. For the revived god, he still had a lot of questions about the social make up of the world. The reason why he didn't attack Laz earlier was because he didn't understand the situation after having just awoken.

Now though, thanks to the insight from Tommy and what he learned after draining the earth user, the bronze giant understood that there would be no problems with him crushing this annoying and rather close by bug. As such, he had hit Laz with a good portion of his strength that was boosted by a flow of earth energy.

As far as he was concerned, this would have been enough to kill him.

Hence, he was the most surprised when Laz dug himself out of the rubble and stood up. There was a little blood at the corner of his mouth, but otherwise he was ok.

'God damn that could have been bad. If this guy was at full power, I would be a blown meat sack right about now,' Laz thought to himself as he dusted himself off. Laz knew from his use of Heaven's Gaze that the bronze giant before him was currently one level stronger than himself. While those who had blood lines strengthened themselves through building up their inner energy, going from Awakening, through Condensing, into the Foundation Realm and then to what Laz now understood as the Void Palace realm, the god types do things differently.

The constantly drew power into themselves to strengthen their inner channels and store that power throughout their entire bodies. Their ability comes from channeling the elements as opposed to inner strength. Think of it like using mana to cast a spell. The strange part that Laz didn't understand and seemed unique to this world was why they could only draw upon one power. According the the things he learned from viewing the life from his master, they should be able to access many types of power, not just one.

This wasn't the type of information he was going to share, therefore this answer wouldn't be found any time soon.

Getting back to the moment, Laz knew that his body was far stronger than even the average infected. More than that, even the average infected would have a body stronger than the average chosen of the same level. The only real difference was earth based chosen as their abilities allowed for a natural strengthening of their bodies thanks to their element. Due to this new awakened bronze god, his power was currently at the an infected's void palace realm, which while strong enough to hurt Laz when taken by surprised, wasn't enough to cause him fatal damage without giving him the ability to resist.

Laz knew all this while the bronze giant was quickly putting the pieces together in his head. But for those other chosen, Tommy included and the military and government agents, this looked like a total domination of Laz.

”Ha. So this is the power of a fully fledged god. Even if he is a lower level, just his strength alone is enough to awe. This little piss ant who gave me such trouble in the gate is nothing before him. Now the question remains as to how I keep him under my control...” Tommy said out loud to himself. Only the other chosen gathered around him heard him. And they couldn't have been more impressed by Tommy's thinking. Who wouldn't want a super strong fighter to use as they dėsɨrėd? While this one might be the young master's, perhaps there would be other chances for them in the future or so they thought.

”You... are different, aren't you?” The bronze giant finally asked, looking at Laz.

”Different?” Laz questioned back, not understanding his meaning.

”You're not part of the Jotunheim from around here. You're not like the ones we warred with in the past. Within my bones, I feel... a sense of fear... about you.” Although the bronze giant was saying this, he summoned forth his power and covered himself in rock like, bronze colored armor. While normal armor might look like thin plating, this giant's armor looked like like chucks of metal thrown against his body. It was craggy and crude, but also looked menacing.

Knowing that the giant was about to go all out, Laz decided that he would not only change into his Asura form, but would also see if he could use a speed rune while he had the chance. The great beast of a man had already proven that while he wouldn't be able to harm Laz easily, he also had proven he was fast enough to get it down eventually. Even Laz had trouble following his first attack. If Laz didn't do anything to counter it, it would mean trouble for Laz soon enough. All this was based on the thought that no one else tried to help as the other chosen, minus Tommy, were weaker than Laz. But if they attacked together, the result would be bad.

Just as Laz raised his finger in the air to draw the rune, several black vans pulled up. From inside the vans, dozens of girls emerged from within, many of them dressed in maid outfits. If one were unaware of the situation, one would think that there was a convention going on.

The only non van in the caravan was in the front. After the girls had gotten out of the vans, the drivers side door of the Lambo opened up and out walked Freya wearing a red dress with low cleavage and a high slit on the side for her legs to move freely. Seeing this, Laz couldn't imagine more unsuited attire to fight with. Looking down, Laz was relieved to notice that at least she didn't have heels on.

”Well now, what do we have here?” Freya asked, leading the girls over to stand behind Laz while she stood beside him.

”YOU DAMN WHORE!!!” A scream raged from within the group of chosen as a black haired man emerged from the group, staring at Freya as though he wanting nothing more than to rip her apart.

”Ah. It's you. I'm surprised your still alive... I figured an egotistical bastard like you would rather off himself than live without his dɨċk,” Freya laughed, leaning on Laz. Her actions seemed intimate as though she were provoking the dɨċk-less man, but only the two of them new that Freya was trying to inject some energy into Laz's system, hoping that it would help him to heal faster.

:The goddess didn't want us to come knowing what you were facing. But even she couldn't ignore what would happen if this newly revived god was to run around unchallenged. And she feels you're the only one who can do something about it. So... here we are.: Freya didn't break eye contact with the man who was still fuming while looking at her. Due to his anger, he failed to notice the strange looks that his fellows were giving him, including Tommy.