Chapter 1034: The Savior, The Usurper, and the Goddess of Death [I]

I started climbing the long stairs that led to the sky alongside Almira. Almira’s powers also seem to be recovering since she no longer feels like a human but is closer to a lesser goddess now.

"Are you able to fight against your sister now?" I asked.

"Still not powerful enough to do that. Although I can forcefully recover all of my bodies, they are not enough to fight back. And even if I do recover them, then all the areas that they were guarding might get breached by the enemy or those invaders that are trying their best to capture and use it for themselves. So, you can say that I am the only one that will do this."

Hearing that, she is right that this is a solo battle since she will just become a support who will not fight with me but will do what she can do.

Although the stairs we were climbing were long, I didn’t feel tired climbing them. It was like my stamina was being refilled while climbing it. I don’t feel it back when I was fighting against the Goddess of Life so this must be some sort of effect of the Tree of Life around these parts.

"We are almost there. Get ready, you will be having a hard time fighting here against the enemy. I will support you but I will not be able to guarantee your survival with my power being this weak."

"I don’t mind. I just wanna end this as soon as possible."

The two of us continue to climb the long stairs with dread clinging to my bones as I climb through the inevitable end.

It didn’t take long until I saw the endpoint to the stairs. From the looks of it, the final battleground will be a huge arena in the sky. It’s just covered by the clouds which is why no one can see it from below, but seeing it personally slowly makes me nervous. With a large-scale battlefield like this, it must mean it will be a very dangerous battle that even I will not have a good idea of how it will all end.

Feeling the big danger that is just right ahead, I pull out the Devourer and ready it for the fight.

"Nervous, wielder?"

"Of course. I may have survived most of the battles to the death, but I am still not sure about surviving this battle. As long as you are cool with the harsh battle ahead, you don’t mind fighting harder than usual?"

"Hah, as if you treat me nicely in battles, you are one rough handler, wielder. But hey, this is the final battle, what is better than using my abilities to the fullest then?"

I silently smiled as I steel myself and climbed up to the finale.

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Around 5 minutes of climbing, we soon arrived at the end of the stairs, revealing the final enemy. Before us is a giant throne, one that I will only see in designs or final bosses in RPG games. But seeing it in front of me made me feel a bit cliched seeing that the final boss is someone who sits on a throne. The enemy is currently sealed with some cloth. Chains are currently on the ground and based on how they look, those chains fell after the Goddess of Life used her ability to unlock the final seals to keep it from its seal.

"Ha...For the love of...she didn’t think this through and just decided that she can use this monstrosity as something she can control?"

"Just what is this enemy, Almira?" I asked while still gazing at the massive enemy.

"We call him Bazel. He was called to be the source of chaos and destruction that the world suffered many times back in the day. However, due to his previous attacks, he was soon destroyed and was now sealed. With the help of the Tree of Life, the chains that bind his remaining body are being strengthened by the Tree of Life’s power, stopping him from getting himself free and returning to power."

"Why wasn’t he killed?" I asked.

"Because gods can’t kill other gods. Sealing him is the only way to do it. However, it seems that this girl is not making any sense. Now that she used her life to remove the seals, it is up to us to stop this guy from unleashing his power on the world and causing destruction. He is hellbent on doing it and stopping him is something that we wanted to do. And yet my sister decided to awaken him all of a sudden... that idiot, really..."

We haven’t even gotten close but the figure before us starts to move and the cloth that hangs over the body slowly falls off, revealing the monstrosity before us.

To both of our surprise, I saw the head part of the enemy. Instead of a big head, or something of a monstrosity’s head, what was currently placed there is a new one. An upper body of a woman. Although not drastically similar, I can feel the presence and power of the Goddess of Life on that body."

"No...did she already do something before to cause this? Almira frowned.

"Huh?"

"I know Bazel before and I have faced him once before he was sealed. I am quite sure that he still has a head that is recognizable from just looking at it. That female upper body that was stuck now on its neck is something that should have not existed!"

Soon, the body of the female body started to move erratically. It was a bit disturbing how it moved since it looked like a real human, yet it also looked like a mannequin, making its movements very uncanny and unpleasant.

I didn’t wait for it to finish what it was currently doing and changed the Devourer’s form into a cannon and started blasting on it.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

Almira didn’t stop me from doing it and just watched it happen as the blast exploded straight into its big body. However, the enemy seems to be not affected at all. The only thing that made an effect is the effect of the Lust Weapon’s special effect, [Love Stacks]. I didn’t stop firing the cannon and just continued doing it even if I knew it wouldn’t do any damage, at least, the status effects would start stacking up and it would remain. If those things remain as permanent effects, then even if the enemy is hard, if I just wait it out, or fight for a long time, there will come a time when the enemy will fall over due to the effects of those attacks. No matter how big and chunky their HP is, it will continue draining their HP forever if those effects remain.

But all of those attacks didn’t take too long as they soon started to be blocked by an invisible wall and all of the blasts exploded before they even reached the main body. I managed to make a few full stacks already but I am still not satisfied with it. Sadly, that would have to stop. The enemy also started to stand, putting Almira and me fully on guard.

The female humanoid that was above the body of the giant started to look before us disturbingly. Even though it looked like a mannequin, it also felt like it was a human body turned into a plastic or stone as it started to move its mouth and speak.

"Oh? If it isn’t the meddlesome human and my useless sister. How pathetic that the two of you decided to team up to reach here instead."

"Sis...you have gone too far. Perhaps your transgression can be forgiven if you decide to stop, but awakening the primordial destruction and fusing with it? Are you insane?! You will do everything for the sake of your ambition and your greed?!"

"Ha, of course, I would. Just becoming the goddess of life is not enough for me. I need to rule the world and make sure everyone kneels and reveres me. I am not just some throwaway god who will give life to every life in this world. I am someone who should be praised, worshiped, and, idolized by the masses."

"And one world is not enough for that? You would also spread your influence to the other world as well?!" I angrily complained.

"Heh, foolish human. Your world should also know how powerful I am. Without my influence, and without me intervening, then your world will not be introduced to magic and everything they are now enjoying. Shouldn’t you all celebrate about it, instead of complaining?"

"We don’t need your intervention nor your blessings to begin with. So what if you granted us the ability to use magic? We are doing fine without it, to begin with! You just made things more complicated than it should be!"

"Ha, it doesn’t matter. Sooner or later, I will be ruling this world and even the two of you will bow down to my greatness."

"Sister! This isn’t the right thing to do! What are you doing?!"

"Huh? What, you think I am incompetent in this job and you are judging me on how I use this power?"

"That’s not it, Sister! You don’t get it!"

"Doesn’t matter how I use my power. If you think I was wrong about it, then you are in my way. DIE!"