196 Chapter 196: Nine Lives Blade Works (1/2)

Hades crawled out of the crater, his body still fuming. It had taken him quite some time to regenerate this time, probably a few minutes.

”Nope, that only took out one of Hades' lives.” The relief was evident in Selina's voice, even as she traded blows with Anastasia and dodged her poisoned daggers. Right now she was so flustered and preoccupied with fighting her opponent that she couldn't even see what I was doing. ”Any more tricks, boy?”

”You mean them?” I asked, gesturing to the gigantic silhouettes, half-concealed by the smoke that now filled the city from my fight against Hades. ”We've been waiting for your spirit. He took so long that I thought he had finally died, you know.”

Hydra and Draco stood behind me, growling and snarling ferociously. What? Did you think I just stood around for several minutes doing nothing while Hades regenerated? Of course I used that time to quickly complete the summoing of my most powerful Constellation spirits.

”Well, I'll be. You never run out of giant monsters, do you?” Selina risked a glance at me, her lips pursed in annoyance. As for Hades, he merely raised his hand. Annihilation flew back to his grip. I was slightly disappointed that Cerberus's Herculi wasn't able to destroy the weapon, but I refused to show my dismay. Instead, I smiled.

”What do you expect? I'm the Summoner Sovereign.” I shrugged and then pointed upward. ”Go check the title of this garbage story if you don't believe me. It says right there…well, okay, maybe the title might not be referring to me, but still…”

”Stop breaking the fourth wall!” Selina snapped irritably. ”It ruins the immersion and annoys the readers!”

”But we need to pad the word count for all those spirit stones,” Anastasia pointed out. Okay, we didn't, but whatever. In any case, I returned to the issue at present.

”Six more lives, right?” I asked, as if to confirm with Selina. It was possible she wasn't telling the truth, but she had no reason to lie and lead me on a merry goose chase. Not when she was so confident that I couldn't kill her contracted spirit. I still went and provoked her anyway. ”Still think I can't defeat your Hades?”

”You have a snowball's chance in hell of winning against my Hades!” Selina sneered, still confident in her inevitable victory. Responding to her resolve, Hades gripped his Annihilation tightly and lumbered forward.

”Well, I won't know until I try!” I yelled and charged forward. I slashed my golden sword down, only to meet the berserk spirit's Annihilation in a destructive clash.

This time, however, Hydra had joined me in the fight. His serpentine heads began biting away at Hades, who was forced to disengage from his clash with me to defend himself from my Constellation spirit. He desperately loped off one of Hydra's heads.

Three more heads grew back in its place. The newer, more ferocious heads renewed their assault even more aggressively than before.

”How…?” Selina growled as she glanced in her spirit's direction, watching Hades fight Hydra's heads away by decapitating another one of them. However, he only increased the number of heads of his opponent. ”Impossible!”

”I suppose I should tell you the legend regarding the Hydra.” I sighed, knowing that it was unlikely that Selina would persist in ordering Hades to continue beading my Constellation spirit. ”Whenever you chop off a head of the Hydra, three more heads will grow in its place, stronger and more ferocious than before.”

”Damn it!” Selina cursed and flung out a mental command at Hades. At the same time, Anastasia struck, pressuring the already beleaguered Assassin. ”Get away from me!”

”Not so confident now, are you?” Anastasia taunted. A vein bulged in Selina's temple and she slashed at Anastasia, who gleefully danced away. The blade sliced through thin air, missing the green-haired beauty completely. ”Oh, getting mad now, are you?”

”Shut up!”

Despite the momentary distraction, it appeared that Selina succeeded in getting her command through. Hades leaped away as one of Hydra's heads attempted to crush him. Instead, the Constellation spirit only left a crater in the already devastated ground. Hissing, the head responsible for that attack rejoined the other brethren in pursuing the fleeing spirit.

The flailing heads struck deep holes into the ground, raining dirt and concrete onto the evading Hades. Hades swung his Annihilation out to parry a blow from the Hydra, but accidentally severed one of his heads.

”Shit…!” Selina swore as three more heads grew from the wound. ”Hades! Stop cutting off that damned serpent's heads!”

”It's not as if he can help it,” I explained sympathetically, mercilessly slashing Hades across the chest. He stumbled back, caught off guard by my sudden appearance and speed. The dozen Hydra heads then smashed into him.

And exploded.

I could only watch in horror as black purplish mana surrounded Hades and consumed Hydra, disintegrated the titanic Constellation spirit in an instant.

”Draco! Fall back!” I yelled. My dragon retreated immediately, flapping his great wings in anxiety at the sudden turn of events.

”Destroy all of them!” Selina shrieked, no longer able to control her rage.

The purple and black glow around Hades expanded exponentially. The entire area around him disintegrated, the very ground crumbling under his feet, as a violent storm raged about him. The chill of death permeated the atmosphere, causing me to shudder.

To have taken out Hydra in an instant…what the hell was that spell? A spell that could decimate one of my most powerful Constellation spirits in a single hit?

The amount of mana that the berserk spirit was emanating was enormous. Just from being near him, my Herculean armor was already beginning to crumble. If I didn't do anything and soon, I would disappear along with the disintegrating surroundings.

”Draco! Thuban!” I ordered.

Draco charged up the black mana even as we watched the raging spirit discharge more destructive mana.

”You don't get it, do you?” Selina snarled, cold fury lacing her words. ”My Hades embodies death itself. He's the strongest spirit that ever existed! Hades will never lose to anyone!”

”We'll see about that,” I replied evenly, facing down the berserk contracted spirit with icy resolve.

The destructive black mana burst from Draco's jaws and slammed into Hades…only to dissipate as soon as Hades sliced the tremendous beam apart with his Annihilation.

My mouth fell open.

”No way…how is that…?”

I had a slight ray of hope when Cerberus's Herculi took out one of his lives earlier, revealing to me that a direct blast could still kill him. But right now, Hades just took a direct blast from Thuban (which was more powerful than the Triple Herculi spell) head-on, and deflected it away with his weapon. That meant I had to disarm him if I wanted to kill him with that spell.

It was a bloody nuke spell, damn it! One that could level entire mountain ranges, and the bastard deflected it with his bloody halberd!

”All your attacks are useless against Hades now, even your demigod strength,” Selina crowed. ”It's over.”

I felt Annihilation smashing into me, destroying what remained of my Herculean armor. Rolling away, I finally came to a stop, coughing out blood.

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”Argh…” I struggled to get up, leaning on the golden sword of Hercules.

”Stop fighting!” Selina bellowed from a distance away, though I couldn't tell if that was directed at me or Anastasia. Hades delivered a vicious kick in the ribs, throwing me into the air before sending me crashing heavily onto the ground several meters away.

Gritting my teeth, I struggled to my feet again.