V2 Chapter 45

When Cian opened his eyes once again, he finds himself in a world of snow. Thick pale-bluish white snow reaching to his ankles on the ground, and the sky seemed to drop an endless amount of snow, while it was being covered by a starless dark sky. At first, he was confused. Where am I…? When he was trying to control and forcefully make the [Abyssal Hawk Wings] submit to him, by following what his intuition tells him to, which was truthfully being influenced by his [Night Eye] and used the Eye’s power to attack the Hawk Spirit, he was actually dragged into this world…where is this?

Cian frowned. However, at this moment, a Blue Screen like thing appeared on his vision—almost startling him.

[Welcome to the Soul Realm!]

The words within the Blue Screen were unexpectedly written in English Words, not by this world’s language, or even the Demon Language. It seems like it has been a while since he seen and read an English Context. Wait…Soul realm…? Cian’s eyes widened in shock as he then immediately realized what was going on.

This was in the soul realm…meaning, they were in the soul world, and he was not really in a physical body but in a soul realm…!

But why…?

As he was confused as to the reason why this occurred, a figure of a large bird appeared in front of him.

It was a big Hawk –like bird roughly around ten to fifteen meters in height. Its wingspan can easily reach the twenty meters mark, appearing as if it was capable of covering the sky as it flew above Cian. It was covered by obsidian colored feathers and has a long, flowing head crest and a billowing tail, both made of dark-colored flame-like substance. On its body, mysterious black feathers had a hint of black flames surging through them as well as on its tail, long tail feathers extended out elegantly and clusters of black flames slowly burned at the tip.

Although the [Abyssal Hawk] was extremely massive, it did not have a shred of fat. Its curved body made it seem extremely elegant, slim, mysterious and beautiful. It truly was a fascinating creature. Additionally, its wings are also shrouded in fiery plumage. Its straight, pointed beak is crimson, as are its anisodactyl feet. It has short but sharp, blade-like talons. Its long tail dragged against the snowy ground, burning and melting the snow wherever it passed.

[Abyssal Hawk]

Why is it here…? No, this is…

[First Soul Battle—8th Rank Abyssal Hawk (Soul—Wakened state)]

As expected… Cian smiled bitterly. At this moment, a relaxing energy surge through Cian’s mind along with some information. To make the Spirit of the [Abyssal Hawk] the [Eye of Night] dragged the Abyssal Hawk’s Soul into Cian’s Spirit World and make it yield by fighting and defeating it, or at least weakened it to the point that he can seal it successfully. Due to Cian’s current power, although he has [Vector Body] but the opponent was a soul form and was much stronger than Cian, so making it submits to him is an impossible matter. And if done forcefully, Cian would take large damage in body and soul and might be attached by the [Abyssal Hawk] into a parasitic relationship similar to the Chimaera or worst, be overtaken by the Spirit of the [Abyssal Hawk].

…I see… Cian smiled in relief. This was also what made him worried all this time if ever he attached the Wings of the [Abyssal Hawk] onto his body but as expected of a God’s Eye.

[ Night’s Eye ] It sees everything and nothing is hidden from it. Because of its divine ability, the user can use all Ocular Powers. They are able to use any amount of visual powers at any time and have complete control over their abilities. With this ultimate eye in the possession of the user, any new vision powers can also be copied by the ultimate eye. Different ocular powers will be available at every level of mastery.

Although he was extremely thankful for his [Vector Body] Cian can’t help but think that [Night’s Eye] is one of the greatest gift Night had given him. Well, it being an eye of a God is not just for show~

And in this instance, like being stimulated by an incidental stimulus, aside from all his Godly Abilities he had been using up until now, like creating Illusions, controlling other people’s visions, and many more, he was now able to use [Night’s World].

[Night’s World] After making eye contact with a target, Cian was now able to trap them in an illusion of his design. And within this world, he can control everything. Time, Space and Matter. However, there were three setbacks in using [Night’s World]. One is that, unlike [Vector Body], using this ability requires a great deal of magic power and using it once in Cian’s current condition, will make him dry in an instant, and might result to losing his consciousness, if overdone.

Second, is that [Night’s World] can only trap a single person at a time, so using this in a group fight is utterly foolish, much less its magic power requirement.

And lastly, is that… [Night’s World] is not an omnipotent ability that can trap his opponent. If the enemy is weaker compared to him, there’s a high chance of succeeding but if it was otherwise, the opponent is much stronger in power or in mental power and spirit, the chances of succeeding would be extremely lower and worst is that, if it failed, he would be the one taking the backlash. It’s not something he can use frequently and carelessly. It can drag those in Spirit or in Soul Form easily as there is no Physical Body restriction of the soul such as the current [Abyssal Hawk] but using against living people would have strict requirements…!

It’s really a good and overpowered ability but with many restrictions and limitations, especially to the current him…!

…and thus, it’s not something he could use often…

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“… …”

“… …”

Cian and the [Abyssal Hawk] stared at each other. The latter calm and indifferent, even possess a bit of taunting while the latter was full of rage and fury. Like a mad beast, it wanted to devour and rip Cian apart.

However, the [Abyssal Hawk] eyes were showing a fiery red color at that moment. Unacceptance and rage were filled within its eyes as it stared at Cian’s location. Then, it flapped its wings and furious winds suddenly appeared in the world. The black flames covered its wings and the [Abyssal Hawk] itself turned into a black flame as it flew towards Cian.

GyyyyyyaaaaaaAAhhhhhHHHH——!!! The [Abyssal Hawk] let out a piercing cry and rushed towards Cian’s position. It sheds dark embers with every flap of its wings, creating a brilliant flash of flames, trailing into the sky. Seeing this, Cian’s face turned into a grin. His figure suddenly flickered and disappeared, startling the [Abyssal Hawk] however, before it could react, a large birdcage suddenly dropped into the sky. It was big enough that it traps the [Abyssal Hawk] completely. The [Abyssal Hawk] let out a furious cry and started slamming the Birdcage. At this moment, Cian appeared just above it—“Eat this, Birdbrain!” Cian grinned evilly and amidst the snowy world, large thick thunderbolts started raining down on the Birdcage.

In this world, everything that Cian could imagine would come true. Just imagining it with all his might, he would be able to create it or reproduce anything he wanted—this is a [Night’s World] this is his world…! Furthermore, through his unprecedented ability to alter targets' perception of time and space, he can imprison his opponent here and subject them to days' worth of torture or fight in a matter of seconds in the real world. So Cian can basically rampage in this world as much as he wanted—as long as he wouldn’t lose…!

Break—!! The golden Birdcage, with the [Abyssal Hawk] power, was able to break through the cage while enduring the onslaught of golden lightning bolts. However, it appeared more ragged than before as it glared and launched dark fireballs towards Cian. Cian snickered coldly. When the dark fireballs almost reached him, suddenly a hexagonal overlapping barrier appeared in front of him, completely blocking off the [Abyssal Hawk]’s attack. The hexagonal barrier rippled but it didn’t break through—“…the strongest defense…and the strongest offense…!” Cian g grasped the air with his hand and immediately after a loud thunder sounded.

GyyyyyyaaaaaaAAhhhhhHHHH——!!! The [Abyssal Hawk] suddenly stopped its advances as it looked up towards the sky and stared at the glowing hand of Cian, in fear and apprehension. it suddenly felt an instinctive fear within its heart as it stared at the golden lightning that was slowly accumulating on Cian’s hand.

The surrounding air pressure was suddenly charged up to create heaviness in the air and power, causing even the [Abyssal Hawk] to experience difficulty in breathing. And the monster bird was suddenly thrown into confusion as the pressure, exuded by Cian, weighted down upon her. And at the moment when Cian had raised his right arm, a sharp screech that sounded like the ripping of the atmosphere itself was released and the boom of the explosion similar to thunder had filled the air while a long spear that sparked and shimmered like lightning was now held in his right hand.

Seeing that, the [Abyssal Hawk] faltered in their stance.

Cian used a backhand grip on the spear that continued to spark with an electrical lightning charge as he said: “The Gods had spoken, a Spear that would never miss! Eat it!!”

As the surrounding air was expanded by the increased thermal energies, it gave off a thunderous boom while Cian’s ashy hair gave off light similar to the rainbows from a prism as it slowly dyed over from a shade of ashy grey to crimson, to golden.

“GUNGNIIIIIRRR!!!” Cian roared while he shot out the weapon towards the panicking [Abyssal Hawk].

In response to his call, the Spear of Odin; the Gungnir, gathered one thousand beams of thunder and struck the [Abyssal Hawk] that wanted to run away. The pitiful [Abyssal Hawk] who was trying to run away, was pierced by the spear who chased it wherever it goes.

However, under the startled gaze of Cian, “Gyy—!! GyyyyyyyyaaaaaaAAhhhhhHHHH——!!!” Even when struck with the thousand burning claps of thunder, the [Abyssal Hawk] showed its might that can contend against mythological and legendary monsters such as Dragons and Phoenixes as its body burned in dark flames and continued to resist the spear that wants to pierce its body.

In the sky, the berserk lightning was almost suppressing the black flames completely. No matter how much the [Abyssal Hawk] struggled, it was unable to move forward. The black flames were finally pushed back completely and helplessness appeared in its cry. It never imagined that it would fail again after its first failure. The lightning filled with destructive energy had already oppressed the [Abyssal Hawk]’s true body. Afterward, a loud cry rang out from the [Abyssal Hawk] again. At this moment, the mysterious black feathers on its massive body began to burn up.

As the black flames raged out, the temperature in the world also began to increase significantly.

That's right, this kind of destructive power was not enough to defeat this Legendary Monster.

Though, if it was the real God, Odin, it might have killed it easily. However, the powers of the Spear depended on the user’s imagination—Cian’s thoughts can never reach the level of that of a real God. And so, Cian’s Gungnir was nothing but a weaker imitation, even still—!

However, the Thunder released by the Gungnir did not diminish in power but emitted a brilliant light. Taking a deep breath, Cian used a tone of a winner and said towards the [Abyssal Hawk]: “I might not be a God, and the Spear would lose its value in my hands, but…as long as my head is on connected on my neck, imagining a power that transcends your defense is as easy as flipping a page of a book…! And the Spear would become even more stronger—enough to swallow you, Demon Hawk!”

The Thunder gradually changed from thousand to tens of thousands, from tens of thousands to millions, its strength rapidly increasing. Before the opponent gets completely burned, the Gungnir, the Spear of Victory which doesn't know defeat will keep on shining endlessly.

“GyyyaaaAhhH——??!!”

"—Goodbye [Abyssal Hawk]!"

Finishing those words, a particularly strong light covered the entire winter world.

The Spear sent out a rumbling sound and ejected overwhelming heat, before bursting into pieces together with the [Abyssal Hawk].