READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 345: Goddess of Calamity.
"Her hair and eyes are those of a Godslayer now?" Raiden stared at Dina, shocked. "What's going on here, is she truly more than just a Witch?" He wondered, but dismissed the idea altogether and scoffed, righting himself and balling his fists.
"You are a witch." Raiden declared.
"...A Divine."
"No, gods do not exist, gods are a myth born of the simple minds of backwater civilizations and lesser races who want to drown in the delusion that they mean something to someone other than fodder and resource, there are no races above Celestials, that is what I am, the superior, the peak of evolution-"
"Yeah, someone else from the Emporium said the exact same thing before he was bested by a Celestial God," Dina scoffed.
"It seems that the truly delusional ones that exist are the people who think that they are the greatest power in existence, and from what I have seen, a lot of you fall into that hole." She began raising her hand prompting wariness out of the Godslayer who was now aware that her hand glowing was neither a sign of her power being active, nor were her hands her weakness.
Without another shared word the two of them rushed at each other, with Raiden getting the better of Dina almost right away with his strength being overbearing compared to hers, but while he was strong, and incredibly fast, she could at least tell that this was what had carried him all this time, he had no technique, just brute strength.
"Talk all you want, nothing you do today will change the putcome of this battle!" Raiden laughed, grabbing Dina by her hair and spinning with her intent on smashing her into the ground, but to his surprise he ended up throwing her in the air instead, and then when the many troops that had shown up aimed their weapons up at her they ended up shooting towards Raiden.
"What the hell are you idiots doing?!" The man snapped arising after the short bombardment, but he too knew something was off, this was the third time he meant to harm Dina and ended up doing something he did not intend to. "If you can't provide the basic backup then get the fuck away from me!" He growled, healing himself from the light injuries.
"Haaaaaah!" Dina slowly spun in her descent, summoning a large [Mana Spear] in her grasp and hardening the mana it held before increasing the speed of her spin and dropping the blade towards him.
As she had expected, the Godslayer was easily able to dodge the attack, but only a moment later the great spear clashed against the ground and the winds that it conjured raised and swirled him around tossing him across the air and then releasing him towards the water.
"He is nowhere near Dr'ul's power!" Dina's eyes suddenly became completely pink burning with mana after she had finally gotten him to turn his back to the land and face her.
Her footsteps were like bolts of lightning hitting the ground, and her breath was like fire when she moved, parting the atmosphere with abominable speed and clashing her hand against Raiden's again, except this time she had prepared a big surprise for him.
Raiden's eyes bulged when Dina's palm burnt his hand and he had to place his other hand on top of that one when he started getting tossed, at first he thought he had fallen for another of her weak flame techniques, but with more and more pressure building between the two of them the Godslayer quickly found himself struggling to keep himself grounded at all.
"Choke on your shock, AND BURN AWAY," Dina exclaimed, unleashing her cast when their hands parted at last.
"INCINERATION, MAXIMUM!" The clouds that had formed from the atmospheric changes her previous attacks had caused vanished, and the afternoon turned dark when the Divine flames erupted several inches away from her palm capturing everything on the horizon in an instant as it exploded like thousands of nuclear divices being detonated sideways.
The ocean beneath the horizontal explosion boiled and evaporated and the shoreline for that entire area completely disappeared in an instant, then, after the initial explosion, Dina's improvised technique exploded a second time encompassing a range three times the size and devastation of the initial explosion, creating a giant trench in the land and swallowing the entirety of the area before her, causing waterfalls to emerge on the sides as the oceans surged back inland to fill the basin her attack had left.
"What is this power?" One of the members of the resistance shook terrified while she asked, unable to even raise her weapon after witnessing Dina's attack against Raiden and the annihilation that the mage had catalyzed. "I have never seen anything like that!"
"All of you, Ikaris's orders were clear, you get one chance to lay down your weapons and leave, you have all seen evidence of their wrongs, you know exactly what they have done now, if you point your weapons at me a second time my orders are to cut you down, there is an omnipresence among you which sees and reports all."
"If you even think of stabbing my mercy in the back, I will retaliate with lethal force, this is your first and only warning," Dina turned her eyes to the masses above her and to those on the ground and they were all shocked into inaction after hearing her voice in their heads.
[The Cadre of the Resistance is still alive, Dina, or rather, it is safer to say he barely took enough substantial damage to call your attack a success,] Alpha warned her, and the mage turned her attention to the basin again and nodded, taking to the skies like a comet and vanishing in his direction.
"I figured that this was the case," Dina frowned. "I may have superior firepower, but I knew something like that wasn't enough either, my goal was to buy myself more time," She admitted.
[By that, do you mean...?]
"Yeah, I need to completely destroy the body of a Godslayer, considering how durable Master was when he first became a Godslayer, I would say I need power greater than that of Orion in order to defeat him, that's just an estimate but at the moment it is where my goal lies, and the only way I can conjure that level of destructive power at the moment is through constant perfect casts...
and then some!"
[Activating Blessing: Child of Chaos]
[Are you sure?] Alpha appeared behind Dina staring at her seriously, and she nodded gritting her teeth when the roots of her hair started turning black and her fingertips started darkening as Divine Chaos began surging through her veins.
Dina stared at her status window.
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[Your Blessing: (Child of Chaos) has reached the threshold and has qualified for greater evolution]
[Benefits: Longer activation time; The blessing can be maintained with less stress on the body for one hour.
Greater Battle Prowess; Your mana and physical capabilities will increase hundredfold from the previous activation limits, you will be at the peak of Divinity.
The certain death penalty upon failure to deactivate will be withdrawn]
[Consequences: Upon failing to cancel the blessing after the timer has run out you may suffer (Mana Paralysis) lasting years to a lifetime, you may never be able to use mana again; losing all your Divinity and becoming a regular human once more.
Mana Crippling; Your mana might work against your body slowly and painfully poisoning your Divine cells until it kills you]
[Bonus effect: When your body has matured in Divinity; all drawbacks will automatically disappear and your new blessing will become permanent]
"Lady Levina, are you sure?" Alpha asked once more and the mage chuckled to herself, nodding and placing her hand on her chest.
"Magic is science Alpha,, if we never push our boundaries and strive for higher heights then we will never discover the vastness of the universe, we must always strive for the next evolution!" She began descending towards the area under the water that she could sense Raiden's power surging and growing stronger.
"What kind of power is she using? I can sense her again," Raiden peered his eyes open staring at his hands, healed but still bruised. "Wait, what am I saying? I will not be beaten by this witch; I will make an example out of her...!!" The Godslayer's mind raced while the water pressed against him and he sunk.
He thrashed his arms and legs, opening his eyes in the darkness and screaming to the abyss as it stared back at him. "I will win, I will destroy her, I will destroy everything, I will destroy the very fabric of reality if that is what it takes to kill this heretic bitch!!"
[Dina, you have achieved a new title as your blessing, it will become a permanent title; applying for the first time will reward you with a 20% buff temporarily-]
[Accept and Activate!]
The raging ocean beneath her sunk and opened up creating a basin within the basin when Raiden's lunacy erupted, and at the same time Dina's blessing was granted to her, the effects of [Child of Chaos] vanished and her appearance returned to her usual Divinity with the only difference being a crest with an upside-down crescent with a line cutting it down the middle appearing in the middle of her forehead.
"Dina Levina!!" Raiden roared, causing the basin beneath her to vanish when his energy finally poured out, silencing the waters and sending mega-tsunamis in every direction.
[Dina Levina; your new Blessing; (Goddess of Calamity) has been fully activated]