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Ervas and Veronica flew towards the depths of the dungeon, rushing where Oggoth was supposedly sealed…

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However, as they reached the last staircase towards Oggoth's whereabouts, they felt the roar of a beast, resonating across the entire dungeon.

"NNNNGGGUOOOOHHHHHH!!!"

"What? Was that Oggoth?" asked Veronica, as Ervas stopped his track, making Veronica step in the ground, as he was carrying her with his Telekinesis.

"I think so… What just happened?" Ervas wondered.

"Wait, does he just break the seal?" asked Veronica, as she shrouded herself in her own abyssal soul, while Ervas did the same with his own alongside many Telekinesis barriers.

"Veronica! He's coming!" Shades shouted as the entire dungeon began to tremble intensively.

BOOM!

An enormous mass of flesh emerged from within the depths of the dungeon, moving upwards, it resembled mushy flesh, like vivid red minced meat, which was covered in dark scales.

"Just what is that?!" Shade asked in bewilderment.

"Abyssal Phantom Claws!"

"Telekinesis Cannon"

Veronica readied herself, creating enormous claws to fight against the fleshy tentacle covered in dark scales, while Ervas charged a powerful attack, firing a Telekinesis cannon towards the tentacle, seemingly weakening it, and making it retreat in pain…

However, the dungeon kept trembling.

"NNNGGGGAAAAAHHH! I MUST REUNITE! MAIN BODY!" the voice of a beastly being resonated through the immense walls of the dungeon, as the creature from within the depths that had awakened began to emerge with its entire body now.

"Main body? What does Oggoth mean by the main body? Has he gone insane at last?" Veronica wondered.

"No… Wait, could it be?" asked Ervas.

"Wait, you're thinking the same thing as me?" asked Veronica.

"Yes… He possesses… Oggoth had Anir and Kelsus Fragments this whole time?" Ervas asked.

Anir and Kelsus fragments were a widely known tool used by the Gods in the Ragnarök, which was even registered by many scholars in books that were stored in the libraries of the Demon Kingdom where Ervas and Veronica, once known as Anastacia, lived and studied there.

Ervas and Veronica had read about such dangerous power, something that gods often used to receive a great boost in their powers in exchange for having their minds slowly eroded by the fragment's will, the will of the Great Gods Anir and Kelsus, the ones whose corpses formed the world of Kritias.

The will of such archaic Gods was wild and monstrous, as they only desired to become whole once again with the respective fragments of each other… their motives were unknown, but it was speculated that if such fragments were to one day finally become one each, they would assimilate the world of Kritias and make both Great Gods reincarnate by destroying the world, which was their corpses. Not long after, they would resume their endless fighting, until one of the two could kill the other once again or both killing each other, whichever came first.

Of course, such thoughts were only but theories made by the intelligent races, but there was some truth behind them… Anastacia, when she read about such power, could not believe that Gods had used them as tools, instead of trying to cooperate and seal them away the moment they began to show up.

The origins were often unclear, but in the books that Anastacia read, it was stated that the origin of such fragments was not from the Bright or Dark Gods, but from a mysterious God named the Demon God-King, who was speculated to be made entirely out of such fragments merged, and when he was finally defeated, the gods were not able to kill him, so he was split into countless pieces, forming Anir and Kelsus fragments.

Now, Ervas and Veronica found themselves about to confront not just a weakened, little Demon God that was sealed and ready to be killed through their Soul Break… They were about to fight against the fragments that were once part of a terrifying Demon God that brought destruction and calamity through the Ragnarök… and perhaps, the fragments of the Great Gods, the ones that once died and formed Kritias.

Boom!

The dungeon trembled one last time as an enormous mass of fleshy tentacles made out of this strange vivid red minced flesh covered in sharp, armor-like dark scales emerged, this was Oggoth now… his original appearance, which was similar to Krakenusa, was now no longer the same, his entire being was consumed and assimilated by the Fragments of Anir and Kelsus, and he had now become an aberrant creature.

Ervas and Veronica retreated a few meters, as they glanced at the creature emerge from within the depths of the dungeon, upwards through the staircases. There was a large and spacious room where the two had moved into, and they didn't plan to escape, even if this creature had gone out of control, they still intended in destroying it.

"Veronica, new plan, get big and confront it. I will charge long-ranged attacks. Legion, here, have my mana. Use the spell 'Space Distortion' around the creature in a circle" said Ervas, using his outstanding thought process to command Veronica and Legion.

"Got it! But we will need more than one me!" said Veronica, as she divided herself, creating the largest Clones she could as of now, which only were around four meters tall, compared to the over twenty meters tall aberration, they were rather small… but not for much longer.

Veronica extended a giant claw, of over thirty meters while using Ervas' vast Mana pool. The enormous metallic claw was charged with Veronica's Armor Technique, increasing in endurance and weight, which she used to keep the monstrosity in check for at least a few seconds. The creature, nonetheless, used its enormous tentacles and scales to rampage her large limb, quickly making it crack into pieces.

However, Veronica used the small window of time to gather all the clones she created into a bigger figure, through her ability, which she had been developing of converging her Clones into a greater one, as if they were all pieces of a large mechanical construct, the spider-shaped clones became a large dark-colored metallic golem, which was infused with many dead spirits that Veronica had stored inside her Abyssal Soul.

"I call these Titan Golems!" said Veronica, presenting her invention to the aberration that only yelled and cried in anger and voracity.

"Veronica! Let us assist you!"

"My lady!"

Shade and Ozgeth combined their magic powers once again while rotating around Veronica's main body, as she created large cannons around her body, which she used to fire a large, pressurized cannon of darkness charged with her soul as well and 'Soul Break'!

Crack, crack!

Her large claw was just broken before the blast of magic emerged from within her cannon-shaped weaponry over her body, hitting the monstrosity and burning the flesh while cracking the scales, the creature shrieked in pain as it was somehow affected by the attack of a mere mortal.

"GRRYYYAAAA!"

"Soul Break is working!" said Veronica, as she kept firing cannons of darkness and light while her Titan Golem kept the monster tentacles in check, but due to the voracity and power of the aberration, even the golem was crumbling while tanking most hits, but through Veronica's 'Golem Transmutation', which the golem itself possessed by being a hybrid between her clones and a golem, the Titan Golem healed itself through this technique, taking on more dead spirits inside its body while making them regenerate the pieces that fell by merging them back to the golem's body.

"GROWL!"

"Not so fast!"

The creature roared, unleashing dozens of whipping attacks towards the Titan Golem once again. The Titan Golem resisted them as it created an enormous shield while generating a large axe, using it to resist and counterattack.

"It's done! Spatial Distortion!" said Legion, conjuring a Level 2 Space Attribute Spell that was boosted in power and intensity several times through the millions of Mana given by Ervas.

FLASH!

Suddenly, a slight distortion in space appeared around the creature, forming a slight disturbance in its movements, it felt as if space itself became thicker, trapped in a transparent ring made by distorting space.

"GRAAAWL!"

"It worked, Ervas-sama!" said Legion.

"Good! Keep conjuring it, I have plenty of Mana… Now, Telekinesis Cannonballs!"

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