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"Void Claw."

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CLASH!

Ervas' Void Claws reached Mason from afar, breaking his Gravitational Gravity Barrier through the power of the void within his soul, and hitting him directly with a strong hit that combined Ervas Psychokinesis, Phantasmal Aura, and his Unarmed Fighting Techniques!

Mason took the powerful hit head-on, as he was thrown into the air like a ragdoll.

Although he was rather high in Ranks at Rank 9 and had also changed Jobs several times, giving him stats that made him into a Superhuman of the same category as S-Ranked Hunters, Mason felt Ervas attacks with immense piercing strength, as if they completely ignored his defenses.

"Unngghh…!"

BOOM!

Mason hit the ground once more while vomiting blood.

Lucas screamed his name as he tried to send his Life Attribute Artificial God Spirit to help him, but they were all being blocked by the literal army that Ervas brought with him, not even the healer spirit was being given any time to rest!

Mason was growing weaker and weaker, that last hit drained a large quantity of his life and mana, even the familiar spirit was feeling weakened. And even more, it hit directly into his soul, this is the feeling he had when it hit him, which felt as if it completely ignored his defenses, it was because Ervas blow targeted directly into his soul!

"Ungh… So this is my end… Even after.. awakening and everything… No… I can't… Not after going so far… No…! NO!" roared Mason, as he unleashed a wave of gravitational forces around him!

BOOOM!

"Another of those waves? That's not going to work anymore… I have created a way to fight back against them," said Ervas, as he suddenly conjured many magic circles around him and poured millions of mana into them!

Flash!

All the circles flashed with gray light as they merged with his vast aura, psychokinesis, and void form and void embodiment, suddenly generating an enormous wave of the pure, black-colored void, which devoured the electromagnetic waves released by Mason in an instant!

BOOM!

Mason was left in shock as he realized that Ervas has been learning about his attacks and ways to counter his power this whole time, finally creating a spell that can do it swiftly!

Mason charged all the power he had while gnashing his teeth, as he was about to burst it into another wave of electromagnetic forces, only for Jason to fly towards him like a blazing meteor!

"You are one stubborn man, aren't you?" he asked, as he raised his mace and hit Mason horizontally, hitting him with the weight of several hundred kilograms alongside the searing flames propelling such a blow, directly breaking his spine in the process of hitting his back!

"UNNGGAAGGH… Y-YOUUU…!"

CLASH!

Mason was once more thrown into the air like a ragdoll.

He began to vomit blood as he felt the agonizing pain of his broken bones penetrating his internal organs, even his lungs.

He vomited more blood as his entire mind felt dizzy…

He prayed to Hekaton for help, but Hekaton glared at him coldly from above his Divine Realm, through the eyes of Lucas.

"Hmm… He has not approached him yet… But perhaps soon…" said Hekaton while staying still and analyzing the situation.

As Mason fell from the skies half-burned alive and while having most of his bones broken, Ervas flew towards him, while gathering large quantities of bones and wrapping them on his Void and using the Void Embodiment Skill.

"This should be enough…" said Ervas.

He infused the Void-wrapped bones with Psychokinesis, firing a gigantic noodle-like arm of bones and void towards Mason, grasping his entire body, and crushing it mercilessly!

"Eh?!"

The hundreds of bones began to break through Mason's entire flesh, as he screamed in agony while still being in midair!

"Nnnnnaaaaaggaggagaaaaggh…! NNNGGYAAAAHH…! Y-Youuuu… Monsteeeeeeeeerrr…!" screamed Mason with wrathful resentment, as his flesh was completely torn apart by Ervas mercilessly!

"Die already," said Ervas, flying towards Mason as he began to use Soul Break over him to devour his soul!

"Nnnnggyaaaaaaaahhhhhh…!"

Crack, crack…!

CRASH!

Mason's soul was fragmented into pieces as the pain of his existence fading away made him agonize even more.

Ervas flew towards him intending to eat his soul but suddenly felt as if something sticky was strongly keeping his soul fragments together, and then… it began to inflate.

Ervas glared at it as he suddenly realized that Hekaton's Familiar Spirit has not died yet, and it was suddenly inflating inside of the fragments of Mason's soul, like a balloon!

Ervas, however, already had his soul all over Mason's soul, and was not able to unwrap it before it could explode!

Hekaton, who glanced at this from within the despairing and crying eyes of Lucas seemed content.

"This is the ideal time, explode," he said nonchalantly, ordering his own Familiar Spirit to explode as if it were a mere bomb!

"This should definitely kill him… If not, it would at least damage his soul a lot, as I had made sure to fill this Familiar Spirit with soul-breaking capabilities," thought Hekaton.

Ervas quickly tried to unwrap his entire soul from Mason and escape, but a second after, the soul inflated more as bright light began to emerge from it!

"This…!" muttered Ervas as he gnashed his teeth, however, a sudden flash of darkness quickly appeared before him!

"ERVAAAS!"

Veronica came to the rescue, quickly fusing with Ervas soul, as the two felt a new rush of power!

FLASH!

"Veronica!" said Ervas.

"We can't run from this now, resist it! It's a Soul-breaking bomb made by Hekaton!" said Veronica.

"I knew there was something fishy…" said Ervas, as both split souls became a single being once more, an enormous, gray-colored soul with many arms and claws!

"Huh? So she's back!" said Hekaton in surprise, putting his faith into his Familiar Spirit Bomb.

The Familiar Spirit exploded, generating an immense detonation all inside of Ervas and Veronica's fused soul!

BOOOOOOM!

Ervas and Veronica combined their intents, wills, and powers, becoming a single entity as they resisted this monstrous explosion with everything they had!

The enormous rush of soul-breaking divine power felt horrendous to them, it was as if they were being bathed in lava! Their entire souls were melting and shattering into tiny pieces slowly!

However, Veronica had already resisted one of these and even ate the fragments left by the Familiar Spirit, so she quickly assimilated this power and infused it all over their fused soul!

"Hang in here, Ervas!" said Veronica.

"I have faith in you!" said Ervas, both split souls trusted each other greatly, putting their entire might into resisting the deadly explosion of Soul Attribute Divinity, the strongest power of Hekaton. Although Hekaton was terrible at anything else, when it came to using his own soul divinity, he was an expert!

Creating a bomb that could shatter souls was as easy as existing! Putting everything he had into the bomb, he felt rather secure about his victory.

However, against his expectations, Veronica had already survived one!

He knew that she used some strange Skill to survive or something, so had hoped for this time to finally end her.

And as he saw that both fused and took into the bomb together, he assumed that they were about to foolishly die together as well!

But that couldn't be further from the truth!

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