Chapter 29

(Listen to this while reading! you have to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSk8-pJkX8 )

No matter how much I think of it, there is no way for me to get out of this mess, the minions are dying like flies, while the ten headed giant is ravaging through them, even more so he summoned more Rakshasas to help him. I fear that if I die, I will be resent to where all of this started…There is nothing I can do except watching them all die. Waiting for my turn, should I just give up, wait that another day passes before I resume the attack? At least by then the Cooldown of the summoning skill will be reset…No…there is a way actually!

“Redemption!”

Seeker of salvation make do with what you are given.

You have fully restored your HP.

All debuffs have been removed.

Your redemption will last for

60 Seconds

Feeling revitalized as the skill had removed the dazed state, I jumped in as high as I could. Shadow stepping through air itself to get closer to the giant. I only have one chance, and I will not screw it up. I reached Ravana’s arms, the ones that were in meditative pose and spun my chains around them, using all the power I got, I ignited the chains, added the soul disruption skill on them, and pulled with all my might.

Resulting in the destruction of both his hands almost instantly.

Ravana

Boss class

Level???

(ancient god)

Critical!

-22 250Hp

-4125 Hp Fire damage

-4125 Hp soul damage

-4125 Hp blunt damage

19 965 375Hp/20 000 000Hp

No fucking way!

Twenty million Hp, How the hell am I supposed to bring that thing down before I die???

The effects of the Tripundra have dissipated.

At least I got that going on for me. The minions regained their wits and began by roaring against the injustice that prevailed them, then they all began by running towards the giant, most climbed and the rest attacked from afar.

Slowly, hit by hit, they began withering the giant’s Hp down. However, the giant was not immobile, he attacked, crushed and even burned some, his Hp barely dropping down, while the minions are crumbling like sand castles, as they climbed and died due to the numerous hands and weapons the ancient god had.

Oh lost soul, your redemption had ended

Rise with a roar for that your debt has been paid.

You have received -0 damage while dealing -85 440 damage in the 60 second period.

Overpaid debt

75 774.

Hidden skill activated.

Absolution

Absolution

For that your debt has been paid.

+ 75 774 Hp

+ 75 774 Mana

+ 75 774 Strength

+75 774 Agility

+75 774 wisdom

+75 774 intelligence

+75 774 Vitality

+75 774 Stamina

+75 774 Willpower.

(60 seconds)

Holy shit! Now that’s what I call a buff.

But I didn’t deal that much damage? Is it possible that the system calculated all the damage that the minions had dealt and added them to mine? Well, no time to dwell on these things, I need to use the time I have to deal as much damage as I can.

I dashed towards the giant, only to find myself instantly before it, as my speed had increased hundreds of times over, rolling the chains around its left leg and pulling resulted in it falling down on the ground. It fell, while crushing several hundreds of my minions, even some Rakshasas too, while it received enormous amounts of damage. I jumped over it, landing on its exposed belly, while rolling the chains on my right hand and punching down with all my might, adding the soul discharge on it, the strike was powerful enough, that all of its heads cringed and shouted from pain, while the ground below its stomach caved in

Ravana

Boss class

(ancient god)

Critical!

-225 000Hp

-45 000 Soul damage

-45 000 Fire damage

-65 000 Blunt damage

19 394 226 Hp/ 20 000 000 Hp

Holy shit! That is a lot! Yet, it is not enough!

I struck then again, with each strike I landed a critical hit, my minions were attacking it, at the same time while I continued on with striking its belly, as much as I could and as much as I was allowed, while the ancient one cried out.

Your absolution has ended.

Not now!

I feared that if the absolution ends, the after effects would be the same as the ones of the redemption skill, where I die afterwards, but it seems that it was not the case.

However, my body felt like it was going to crumble. As the buffs ended, my whole body began to wriggle and spasm. Probably not used to the explosive powers that it just acquired.

I then took a look at the boss, trying to see how much Hp it had lost in my outburst

Ravana

Boss class

(Ancient god)

(Enraged)

15 114 020 Hp / 20 000 000Hp.

So I dealt about five million damage…that is amazing! But it is still far from dead, and I lost the buff…however the worst part was that it is now enraged. If I remember correctly in all the video games I played, whenever a boss goes into this state, shit gets real.

The boss’s body glowed red. While a shockwave of power was emitted from its body, throwing back all those that were attacking it, me included.

While we were fumbling about, the boss rose up, swearing and screaming.

“Insignificant fools! Dare thee, force me to do this! It shall be thine end!”

The giant then, grabbing at one of his glaives, he pierced his one of its own heads, destroying it in the process.

-1 000 000 Hp

For having sacrificed one of his own heads.

Ravana calls upon the power of Shiva.

In but a single moment everything turned to dust as a shockwave of destruction washed over the whole cave. Luckily for me, the perception skill activated before the shockwave could reach. And I used shadow step to walk forward, teleporting behind the shockwave and into the safest zone near the boss’s legs.

Looking back, I saw that all my minions have been eradicated. With the exception of few that began to be spawned, it seems that there is still more to be summoned as many had yet to come forth.

If he does this again then I am done for, I already lost all of my perceptions passive, and have nothing to defend myself with, yet it seems that he had lost one of his heads, and a set of arms.

Now at fourteen million Hp, it seems that he is killable, but still, nine heads, this means at least eight more shots like these…I don’t think I can survive that much…I need to kill this thing now, if not then there is no telling if I could do so some other time, if I was to die, I fear that he might get reset like what happened to the forest, and if that happens, then I will be screwed…

Looking at my arsenal of skills I tried to find a way, or a spell to help me fight against the damned thing.

Only two skills caught my attentions, the two of them I have yet to use. The unbreakable, which allows me to resist all kind of damage for three seconds, and Abigor’s touch.

The first skill, being a defensive mechanism is more than useful, as I can use it to nullify one of his explosions, while the other one is a bit vague, the damage it deals is unquantified, it probably is nothing, or a lot, but no matter what, I don’t think that it will be enough to harm this one enough…

There is also the death vow skill, but although powerful and is an instant kill, it won’t work on this being…its condition does not allow it.

Should I try to use abyssal projection to displace its own heart out? But I don’t know if it would work or not. Yet what is the harm, if it does then fine by me.

Jumping to dodge a sweeping strike of one of the boss’s glaives, I tried to use abyssal projection.

Yet nothing, the space distorted for a moment, but it seems that it is ineffective.

The heads of Ravana began to rotate, slowly, now one of the heads opened its mouth and shot an incinerating fire breath at me, thankfully I can fully change my position even while I am in air using shadow step. So I dodged the shot, and sent a soul discharge at one of his heads, it didn’t deal any significant damage to the boss, though.

This is going nowhere. My damage is not enough for this situation, and this thing seems impossible to defeat, although I am fast and nimble, I will never be able to kill it, because if it casts the same explosion spell at least twice then I am dead…

There is no way to win this fight, God damn it!

‘We can help…’

Huh?

‘Unleash us!’

It’s the souls within me…

‘We can do what you cannot! We are many! We are strong! Unleash us!’

…do I trust them? Should I trust them?

‘You do not need to trust us! For that we shall destroy it!’

‘How do I unleash you?’ I asked

‘Remove the veil! Remove that accursed prison! And we shall do the rest!’

Shit…if I remove that, then I am in a world of pain, yet it is true, the last time I did so, the entire forest turned to cinders…

To hell with it.

I took off the veil, preparing to feel that agonizing pain all over again, trusting them to help, while I trusted none before.

Soul overloaded!

4200%

Find a way to remove the soul overload or your very own soul will be lost within the torrent of souls!

The veins within my body began to pulsate in a green sheen, while I shuddered from pain and agony, opening my mouth for the souls to exit, my eyes shone like a green lamp. Illuminating the hall from the radiance, while the torrent of souls began to appear within the physical world.

The first to exit was Mezu, who charged at the boss, although in a green and ethereal form, he managed to destabilize it. My body began to slowly crack, under pressure, while many other souls exited and went towards the giant, they attacked it, destroyed parts of it, and latched on to it, while my minions climbed on it, attacking it from all sides, the torrent of souls began to rip the boss to shreds while the poor thing was unable to react, it tried to use the Tripundra again, but the souls would always disrupt him. By this time however, I noticed that I have lost almost half my body, as it slowly turned to dust, while I crumbled, barely holding on to my sanity.

The Boss then tried to reuse the same spell, where he would sacrifice one of his heads.

I knew if this works then I will die, no, this pain is worse than death, I think that my very soul is being destroyed.

‘Weakling!’ said a voice I knew well…

Looking at the source, I saw a man, in his twenties probably, wearing the outfit of a king…it had the same voice as the one I consumed that time…the sacrilegious king…

‘You are outmatched…this is true power!’

Said the king while he raised a scepter that looked similar to the one that he had before he died.

“Defile!” roared the king.

And once the words were said, all the other souls made distance from the boss, granting him a second of comfort before roots made of dark grew from underground. Instantly growing all around the giant until he was trapped within them, the roots grew enormous thrones that penetrated the boss while at the same time tightening to increase the amount of damage.

“Destroy!”

The thrones then expanded on an even bigger rate fully passing through the boss, then exploding afterwards. Leaving the boss reeling from hundreds of wounds all over its body…

I can no longer stay conscious, the pain is mind numbing, and at the same time, southing and comforting, now that my legs had crumbled, my left hand perished, and only my calf and right hand were what was left for me to use as a support, I truly wanted to die…

The souls then began to laugh hysterically.

‘We shall be set free! Our part in the bargain had been kept!’

The boss has yet to die…while I have nothing else…perhaps it is my time, I hope it is…do I really need to fight?

Do I really need to struggle?

Perhaps the void is a much better place, why should I go all the way down? Why should I do any of this? Perhaps if I rest now, all will be well…death sounds like a blissful word right now…

A true death indeed…one that I will not rise from again…

‘It is not your time yet, cursed one’ said one of the souls as it approached…this one…I remember too, he was the only soul that did not fear me that day…the only soul that felt different…

This one then got closer to me, and grabbed my veil, placing it on my head.

‘No!’ cried the other souls ‘Release us! We were about to be set free! NO!’

Soul balance

100%

You have subdued the torrent of souls within you.

My body began to regenerate, slowly reconstructing itself, bit by bit, growing back to its original state. While I huffed and sighed.

The souls then were sucked back into me, granting me release from the numbing pain.

Taking a final look at the one that helped me before I dissipated…I saw a strange looking man, wearing gentlemen clothes and a hat to match. At his right hand was a mix of a spear and a saw, while he had a holstered pistol on his left side.

He gracefully removed his hat with his left hand and bowed to me while dissipating. As I tried to inspect him before he was gone I could only see

XXX

(GoodHunter)

Level999

A hunter of beasts and horrors…

I stood up to take another look at the giant that was unmoving.

Ravana

Level???

(Boss class)

(Weakened)

Stunned 50 seconds

6 020 150 Hp/20 000 000Hp

It is in a stunned state. A good chance for me to deal more damage, more so it is weakened.

I then charged at him, there is no way for me to waste this opportunity, it took a lot of damage, and it is almost dead, I need to finish him off right now, there is no way for me to get a better chance in the future, I need to kill it now!

I jumped towards one of its faces, although most of his faces were now crushed and destroyed by the effect of the thorns that the sacrilegious king used, the rest were still fine.

Once I shadow stepped near its head’s area, I began channeling the soul eruption skill.

Forty more seconds!

“Abyssal projection”

I used the spell to reposition the miniature bombe to where its heads were, and shadow stepped as far as I could

Thirty seconds!

The explosion occurred, while most of his heads were now shattered, yet four more heads remain!

I approached again, using all the power within me, using consumption with one chain, and striking at its wounds with all my might, critically hitting and landing enormous amounts of damage, yet it was not enough! Not nearly enough

Twenty seconds remaining!

The minions seem to be too few in number at this time, the ancient god is still immobile and their damage is insufficient.

Ten seconds remain!

Only one chance

“Abigor’s touch!”

Time stopped.

My right hand caught fire, it was not painful. A blue soothing flame that was welcoming and warm was engulfing it.

I then touched the giant with it.

It took but an instant for the flame to cover all of his body like wildfire.

Time resumed, while the countdown finished.

The boss had more than four million Hp left…while Abigor’s touch was dealing no damage to him at all.

The boss then pierced one of his four remaining heads as fast as it could resulting in another notification.

-1 000 000 Hp

For having sacrificed one of his own heads.

Ravana calls upon the power of Shiva.

All is lost…

No!

“Unbreakable!”

The explosion occurred while I fully negated the damage. Not moving an inch from my spot, while the ground was charred and the remaining minions were rendered to dust.

The temple began to crack as the ceiling began to cave, enormous pieces of it began to fall, while the boss had yet to fall.

It looked at me one last time, threatened by the rage in its eyes, I used shadow step to enlarge the distance between us.

The three remaining heads now changed position to appear to be cheek to cheek. They all opened their mouths, while a blinding light radiated from within…

This is it…

By the power of the cathartic flame.

Not even the divine may remain

The ancient god then began to crumble, the blue flames ate away at it like infernal flame would do to dry grass, every piece of it turned to dust, while it walked like a zombie towards me. Its right leg destroyed, and its hands turning to ash, the ancient one tried to speak while words were caught in his throat, it then fell, soundlessly, as its body became ash the moment it touched the ground…

You have slain the guardian of the fourth circle.

You have defeated a boss in a legendary dungeon.

Awards for defeating the boss shall be handed to you once you leave the dungeon.

For having slain an ancient god you have received the title

God Slayer.

(+50% resistance to the light element)

For having slain one of the divine, all shall look at you with admiration and fright, never shall you feel fear from any of the upper realms.

+5000Hp

+2500Mana

+2500Stamina

+2500Strenght

+2500Agility

+2500 Intelligence

+2500Wisdom

+3000Vitality

+15% fortitude

For having obtained the title God slayer

You have unlocked the new ability

Overdrive

Destroying the very limits that your body have set upon you, you can increase your power by 1000% for 60 seconds.

10 days Cooldown.

Enters weakened state after using the ability.

Based on your efforts and current status the most suitable reward shall be handed to you

Do you accept to receive your reward now?

Y/N

…

There is even more? My stats have overgrown this much…the title looks absurdly overpowered while this is not even all…more so, the actual award for defeating this thing will still be waiting once I finish this dungeon…

I pressed yes.

You have gained two abilities

Savagery

Hand of Ravana.

Savagery

Passive

(Legendary)

One’s true nature is wrath, to become one with yourself one should only surrender to it.

Granted power from the god that gave up knowledge for power you learned the passive skill savagery, granting you more power the more continues attacks you deal

(Continuous attacks have higher chances of landing critical strikes, for each critical strike gain +10% attack power and -5% resistances)

Hand of Ravana

Passive

(Unique)

Although dead, you can still call upon a power that was once his

Changes the hand of the user into that of a beast.

100% chance of landing a critical strike on stunned targets.

For every critical strike that lands under a stun/daze target

+600% damage

100% to cause bleeding

Instant kill to any target that is at least 200 levels below the user’s level.

… Interesting

My arsenal is getting bigger and bigger…there is still hope for me it seems…I think that now, I can probably leave this place…

I then began searching the place for an exit point. The explosion earlier caused a lot of rubble to drop, while the entrance where I came from is now fully closed down…there is nowhere to go now…

I started searching through the ash that was now the remains of the fallen boss.

I noticed a shining object. It was a black orb that glistened from within the ash, I tried to inspect it but it gave me no information…so I touched it and my world literally changed.

Congratulation on clearing the fourth circle

Accessing the fifth circle

Circle of disception

I found myself standing on a staircase made of stone, and looking above me, I saw another set of stairs where a man stood, he was upside down…or probably I was the one that was upside down, yet none of us fell…

The man then jumped and did a flip and stood in front of me.

He was handsome and looked to be about thirty years of age, he wore a bright smile on his face

He had short cut green hair while he wore a twin tailed suit with white gloves on his hands.

His eyes were black, while he looked jolly in his attitude.

“How are we doing, cursed one? It seems that you were able to defeat Ravana! How fascinating, to see a mortal defeat a deity, well not mortal anymore ey? Hehehehe”

Creepily laughed the man…this guy looks shady as heck…

I then inspected him

Beelzebub

(Archdevil)

Boss class

(Lord of flies)

Level???

(No information)

The man then tilted his head, smiling at me saying

“You look like you have seen a devil.”