496 Above the Waters of Atlantic Ocean, Ending the Battle as Swift as He Could (1/2)

Day 126 - 2:10 PM - Mount Malabito, General Nakar, Quezon

Atop the mountain, Yukine and Kouki safely watched the spectacle.

The shocking scene they had watched was enough to make the hair on the back of their necks stand up in fear.

What they saw was not like things they encountered before.

Furthermore, she had just conversed with Mark the previous night, where they mentioned the name of The Great One. And yet, the next day, he came to crash the party.

”No wonder the Oracle said that it is a calamity.”

Kouki, the tengu, murmured beside Yukine.

The Great One, the eighth founder of Auraboros, the Deity of Nothingness, those three were among the four titles that he had.

As for the fourth one, from the people of his time, The Great One was called the Black Storm.

There was not much known about the Deity that gave himself the arrogant title of The Great One. And even his origins were obscured. However, there was one thing that Yukine heard from her mother, the Empress. It might just be some hoax or rumor, but it might have some truth in it.

The Great One was neither a creature or a human.

Even so, considering him as a human might not be wrong at all. He was not born as a creature of nature, after all. Instead, he was born as a none existent twin of a human child.

He was not invisible like anyone would imagine. The Great One was born without a solid body. Very similar to formless demons.

That was why even his mother never knew of his existence at all.

When he was born, however, the calamity struck.

The whole village turned to dust.

He was a child, bearing the curse planted unto his mother. It was his destiny to destroy since he was born.

No one knew what happened to him after that.

The next time he appeared was a decade later as he destroyed the place where the curse came. At that time, he finally gained a body of his own with painstaking effort.

And that was when the people noticed him as a calamity called the Black Storm.

Unfortunately, the gods at that time would not let a creature like him grow. They chased him down, gaining his ire.

That ire forced the creature that had no mortal body, to begin with, to grow more powerful.

The Great One, unlike other beings of Earth, was born a Deity. The curse he carried was that strong to give birth to a catastrophic deity.

Those gods managed to kill the physical body he created, but never managed to kill his spirit.

Thus, like what they did to others, they sealed the catastrophe away.

But before the Auraboros formed, the first founder reached out and released the imprisoned disaster.

And now that humans started to go extinct, it seemed he decided to start playing.

Yukine murmured as she remembered the attitude that he showed to Mark.

Mark was quite desperate to fight and protect his base, but to The Great One, it was nothing but a game.

The fight here as over and the devastation left by The Great One was quite massive. If the people living in that base were regular people, this was enough to make them struggle.

The crops they planted and soon would be harvesting were all turned to empty fields filled with nothing but blackened dust.

The forest that served as secondary protection of the base from the eyes of many was already gone. The nearest edge was several dozens of meters away.

Luckily, the spring that was the source of water of the base was inside. If not, who knows if the water got contaminated. It was also questionable if the soil basked in this black dust was still arable.

The lingering stench of danger should be enough to make the edible animals stay away. And the magical energy left by the battle might attract infected from who knows where.

After this catastrophe, the base was in for a worse time.

Nevertheless, even though the battle here already finished, it was still ongoing on the other side.

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Day 126 - 3:10 AM - North Atlantic Ocean

The dark before dawn sky obscured the dark clouds that appeared once more.

They flew above the Atlantic ocean, a place where nothing and no one would be dragged into this battle unknowingly.

It was a good choice of place by Spera. But knows how she had been here in the middle of this ocean before?

Mark stared at the enemy in front of him as the injuries he acquired started to recover.

On the other side, The Great One watched Mark heal as if it was something amusing.

”I seemed you noticed.”

The Great One said as he looked around. Nevertheless, there was just amusement in his voice and did not care much whether he was found out or not.

”As if I will try to destroy that body near my base.”

Mark replied with a glare.

It was kind of unusual that The Great One kept on obscuring the sky and the face of that body even though were was no need to do so. And thinking about that matter, it became more and more suspicious.

That was when Mark realized.

The Great One was trying to drag his place into the wrath of the Observer.

Everyone who knew called them Observers, but it did not mean that they were able to see everything, especially those detached from the world fate, the ones with the potential to become gods.

Gods had to hide because their godly auras were easily detectable, but those below them, it was not easy even for the observers to locate them immediately. They were only observers and not the god that created the world.

That was where the eyes came in.

The stronger once tend to attack, but how were they Obeservers able to locate those to be attacked in the first place?