BXBX NOVEL Chapter 166: Overperformed.
The only ones who seemed calm in the face of this very familiar catastrophe were Sol\'s women, and the gods that had been rescued from the dark universe, it was the clear opposite of what they saw the last time, one universe turning into complete starless darkness, versus this one being turned into pure light.
In the midst of this unbearable light that threatened to end all, Dr\'ul continued to exert all of her power forcing Sol\'s hammer down in the process, but after the first minute she realised something was very wrong, at first she could feel tension, as if he was struggling to fight back, but now all that tension had been eased and it took her a moment to realise that it was because his hammer hadn\'t been moved at all.
"What...?" The goddess ground her teeth impatiently. "After everything I did..." She closed her eyes, and Sol watched several strange runes appear across her face, and witnessing this with him also was Ikaris who stared at the runes with her mouth slightly ajar.
"After everything I have sacrificed...!" Dr\'ul\'s divine mana spiked irregularly as she released the handle of her weapon and stared at Sol who smiled up at her whilst only holding his hammer with one hand.
"All my efforts!!" She raised her hands and created a spear out of the remainder of her flaming hair, leaving it at its original length while blood escaped the corners of her her eyes, her mouth, her nose and ears.
[Death Magic: Ender Spear]
"Master vestic, if she completes this next attack her soul will be extinguished and she will die." System spoke in Sol\'s head, and he nodded and released his hammer, pushing her mana away like a curtain and grabbing the spear before she released it, just as the Circular rune appeared in his chest competing his transformation into the Godslayer.
"Let me continue, let me fight, release y-"
Dr\'ul\'s eyes bulged when Sol grabbed her hair roughly and stabbed her with her own spear through her abdomen, safely returning the frightening magic inside of her and then appeared beneath her again, catching his hammer as the runic word [seal] appeared on the flat surface.
"You have done well you fucking overachiever, I\'m proud, more than proud I\'m impressed beyond what words I would use to praise your efforts, this is strength I have never faced before, pure and true power, so that\'s enough, however, I won\'t watch you kill yourself, take pride in yourself Queen Dr\'ul, you have forced me to exert even more power than I used to destroy Void." Sol gave her a serious glance as his hammer slammed into her body.
The racing ink-like light stopped moving as soon as Dr\'ul was struck, and following her getting smitten by the powers of The Beginning her body was engulfed in gold and her silhouette vanished in trails of thin black lines. "Now, let me show you the difference between what a god is, and what I am!" Sol roared finishing his swing and exerting his powers beyond their fight.
His voice traversed the entirety of their plain of existence instantaneously, grabbing the borders of the shattered reality and dragging them back to him when he raised his head and unleashed a singular beam that spanned from one side to the next encompassing everything and shaking the foundations of the heavens causing panic as the gods quieted and the mundane cowered in terror.
[What is this!?] Sven; the god of goats next to Dina fell to his knees covering his ears when the sounds being emitted by the Godslayer reached him. [What the blazes has that bastard become!?] He bellowed with his snout pressed to the floor beneath him trembling and screaming like, well; a frightened goat!
Not just him, aside from the new gods, and the Arkadian ruler gods that made up the seven as well as Sorath, everyone else thought he had gone off the rails and was about to carry out his initial threat of ending everything when Dr\'ul had gone too far.
"You personify the powers of light, like Ikaris you\'re strong beyond words, but I don\'t personify light nor do I power, I am the light itself, I am that power, I am the beginning!" Everyone heard Sol\'s voice simultaneously, and just when the heavens felt like they would be torn apart everything stopped, and the lights and chaos caused by their fight all subsided; within a moment all the damage that had been done was undone, and Sol was standing before Dr\'ul still in his Godslayer form in the exact spot they had begun their fight.
"Is it even possible... to defeat something like this?" Dr\'ul asked, falling to her knees and slumping forward with her head hung low and her hands trembling as she sat and observed her divine powers calming down through his suppression, the only thing that had changed was her physical state, she was visibly injured, and her armour was only barely holding on to her.
Her breastplate being held by the firmness of her own cleavage, and her hair pooled around her body hiding the rest of her securities.
"...I admit defeat," Dr\'ul let her arms relax at her sides and slowly raised her head to stare at him again, though at some points she felt she had the upper hand she now understood that he let her fight to her fullest, he allowed her to demonstrate her power, but in the end with all the praise and admiration he had for her, his power was an uncontested giant in comparison to hers.
"Good, you had me worried you\'d try fighting again." Sol chuckled and took a knee before her, slowly resting his elbows on her shoulders and conjuring a large crimson coat around her exposed back.
"Sol-"
"Well done, Goddess of War." Sol spoke and then reverted back to his original self with a sigh and huff helping her to her feet and fixing the coat around her shoulders, while he did this a loud horn sounded around them, and ikaris descended from above in a flash of golden light, smiling with a slow applaud.
"Marvellous, truly marvellous, to think my little sister would be so close to my own power, what a shock." Ikaris cheered, and hearing this Dr\'ul blushed and lowered her gaze with a humbling smile.
"You flatter me, Majesty."
"Oh no, I mean it." Ikaris chuckled, hooking her elbow with Sol\'s and pressing her finger against Dr\'ul\'s forehead. "You are nearly half of my overall power, in this vessel I possess, or even if I transcended it and fought you as my soul-vessel, you would still win, the only scenario where I beat the monster that you have become is with all my strength returned to me."
"Dr\'ul, saying you have the power to destroy Arkadia and other universes is not an understatement, currently, there is no power other than the Godslayer and myself that can suppress you, because the Light does not fight, Void is dead, And Darkness has been erased from existence." She admitted, and Dr\'ul blushed and looked at Sol who nodded with a smile.
"The strongest god of battle to ever exist, truly, you will only grow stronger with time, you have no need to be sad or depressed at this outcome, you overperformed." Ikaris finished and then turned to the eye that had been observing and relaying their conversation to the spectators.
"With that said, this battle has come to an end, the winner by unanimity, is the Ally of the gods, the Godslayer; Sol vestic!" Ikaris raised his hand with a bright smile while Dr\'ul applauded before them, having accepted that she would never reach him, and that him fighting her at all was acknowledgement of her strength and hard work.
The pantheons erupted in cheer, and the mortals the same, everyone aside from the god of goats who lamented at his constant disrespect of Sol and the fact that Sol had always paid attention to him.
"How was it?" Sol turned to Dr\'ul again, and she smiled and nodded, turning his coat into a cape as her armour grew over her body and her hair regained full vitality.
"It was my first real fight, I have much to learn still, I know it is brazen of me but I would request to fight you every now and then in the future, not as a challenger, but as friends." She walked to his left and took his hand raising it high as well.
"That\'s not a bad idea, even though the very thought of war is a bitter pill for me, I was forged through it, I am a warrior, and I embrace the title, I\'d love a good fight here and there." Sol admitted just as they all vanished, reappearing in the midst of the colosseum with Dr\'ul walking forward and raising her hands, quieting the crowds once more.
"I thank you all for being available today, and I might as well use this moment to relay a special announcement to you all; gods and mortals alike." Dr\'ul lowered her hands and then turned to Sol and Ikaris taking their hands and holding them together.
"In the very near future..."