Chapter 75: Nyx, Night Incarnate. (1/2)
Alex's senses were dulled, but after dark mist covered the place, he felt a hand gently place itself upon his back.
With the little strength he had left, he turned around.
There she was, a goddess very familiar to him.
Long black hair ornamented with stars.
A hazy black dress.
It was Nyx.
However, Alex perceived her true facial features for the very first time.
Her irises and pupils looked like a spiral galaxy and black and strong eyebrows folded into her glabella, forming a frown.
She looked at him and she said, ”Rest well, my child.”
Suddenly an even darker mist than the one that surrounded them formed around his severed body parts.
When the mist dissipated, newly-formed bones were visible, and with his skeletal system in place, his body could slowly heal.
Alex wasn't, however, in any state to focus on anything other than recovery, as he collapsed and fainted.
When Alex had lost consciousness, the mist that covered the entire battlefield disappeared.
The demoness frowned at the arrival of this unfamiliar woman, and she said, ”Who are you?”
Nyx didn't reply to her question and instead commented, ”Selling yourself to a demon god for false immortality and strength? What a coward.”
The demoness gritted her teeth when she heard that and exclaimed, ”And what do you know?!”
She then summoned a horde of monsters from her ruby and they all charged at Nyx.
However, when they attacked her, their attacks simply passed through her body, and she stood there, stoic and divine.
Nyx asked, ”Your true being is that of the ruby? Why would you willingly become a cursed object?”
The demoness seemed angrier the more Nyx spoke, and she shouted, ”You don't know anything! Lord Angra Mainyu promised us the world if we give him the strength to finally defeat Ahura Mazda and we will be spared from his rampage!”
Nyx didn't offer any reaction and simply moved her hands.
Instantly, a dark smoke formed into similar monsters to the one the demoness summoned. The shadow monsters attacked the chimeras and it was clear to whom the victory would belong.
The shadows obliterated the monsters in a one-sided massacre.
The demoness groaned inhumanly and charged by herself at Nyx.
Only when she was about to dig her nails into Nyx did the latter react and halted all of the movements of the demoness with a simple palm.
The demoness couldn't move even as Nyx seemed to grasp her loosely, and in a desperate attempt to escape, she summoned a monster that charged at Nyx.
Yet, when the monster attacked Nyx, the attack passed through the goddess's body and ended up landing on the summoner herself, who was thrown back and screamed in pain.
”Arghhhhh, why are you so strong!? No one should be able to counter the power that Lord granted me!!!” The demoness screeched.
Suddenly, Nyx turned invisible.
Darkness unlike any other surrounded the demoness and helpless screams could be heard from inside the darkness.
”But Lord murdered my entire village....I had no choice...”
”He promised me I'd get back all of my relatives when I give him enough offerings for him to become invincible....”
”I gave my all to Lord.....”
Soon, the sound of sobbing emanated from the sphere of darkness.
The darkness then moved away from the demoness and formed back into Nyx's body.
The demoness was on the ground, and she was weeping endlessly.
Nyx frowned and with a move of her finger, dark mist reformed into a thousand sharp arrows.
The arrows surrounded the demoness from all directions, and at the speed of light, they punctured her instantly, turning her into a porcupine.
When the arrows dissipated, there wasn't even a body left and only a bright ruby stood as a testament to the one-sided fight.
Out of a sudden, a fleet of black vultures appeared.
The vultures then strangely, collided with each other and formed the figure of a man.