Chapter 848: Jordan's Gauntlet III: Attack Of The Underrated
Chapter 848: Jordan's Gauntlet III: Attack Of The Underrated
Jordan growled, "Do you think this playhouse could give you mortals an edge? You might rule this place, but you're nothing more than a false goddess playing a pretending game." He lifted his palm and divine magic started flowing into it. "You can't shut off my power no matter how much you try."
The labyrinth was a massive space that was far bigger on the inside than it looked from the outside, a dimensional rift created and sustained with magic. With Jordan now trapped in Merlin's house like a rat in a closed room, she could freely use that space to their advantage.
A large prismatic barrier formed around Jordan, spanning into a spherical shape that's almost one kilometer in diameter.
"What are you planning?" Jordan growled, keeping his eyes on the girls surrounding him. They were keeping their distance, but that didn't mean they couldn't attack him. Especially that elf, her bowstring is strained and already aimed at his head.
Betty extended her hands toward the barrier and started helping Merlin to maintain and reinforce it.
Merlin smiled. ^In this place where everything is under my control. We can pull the heavy hitters who never get a chance to shine. I can guarantee their safety and provide the perfect conditions for them to burn brighter than the sun. Isn't that right, my old friend?^
Jordan looked around and spotted a red flash flying in the distance, circling around the edge of this vast labyrinth like a comet.
He lifted an eyebrow, "What in the nine hells is that?"
[Zaleria's]
Only then that Jordan realize how bad the situation was, he gasped and lifted his arms to protect himself, it was already far too late to try and dodge it, and even if he tried, the barrier would prevent him.
The comet turned and headed straight for Jordan as it burned even hotter. [Final]
A small hole opened in the barrier where the comet flew in and Jordan's skin started charring as the impact was just a fraction of a second away.
Amber shouted, [FLASH] as her flying kick hit Jordan's boxer's guard, incinerating him whole and the whole area within the barrier in a bright burst of flames. As the barrier cracked from the unimaginable force of Amber's burst, a massive bolt of lightning fell right outside as Tempo transformed into his true form, roaring like an erupting volcano.
Tempo caressed the barrier with his massive hands, helping Merlin and Betty maintain it by providing his expertise, trying to make it as resistant to heat and fire as possible, and also supplying it with mana.
Amber returned to Merlin as a tiny, palm-sized fairy burning in fire. "That was exhausting, my lower back hurts!" She cried, flying around like a distressed bee.
"Good work, you've got under control." Merlin smiled.
"It's still a suicide attack. I'm only surviving thanks to this fire fairy body Zephyr got me." Amber growled, "And to think you'd bring me along just to use as a weapon of mass destruction...aren't you a bit too cruel?"
"I asked you, and you said it's pretty satisfying for you to kick a god to death." Merlin giggled, "You're who didn't even make it to A-rank, look how you left that demi-god."
Merlin showed a live feed of Jordan when the smoke started to clear, a charred humanoid body growling in pain, barely able to stand. He looked like a coal statue drenched in ash.
"Even the ground turned to ash." Amber gasped, "Yeah, I shouldn't use this outside. It'll be bad if it spreads."
Merlin waved her hands, "Now for the second punch, or should I say punches." She waved her hand, "It's your turn, I don't want to hear any excuses, and you're ready."
"You bet!" Mira replied, sweating as if a bucket of water had been dumped on her head. "Tell him for me... Eat shit!"
As Jordan growled, three stone balls fell right beside his feet. He looked at them with a confused face for a second, "She said, Eat shit." And his vision turned black.
Tempo growled as he tried his best to keep the barrier stable, but it was too hard. "Hold on, Titan prince. I'm doing most of the heavy lifting here." Betty shouted at him.
"Reminding me of my position? Aren't you a cruel one..." Tempo smiled, "Fine. It shall not fall as long as I stand." He shouted.
Titans are awfully proud and patriotic, it just reminds them of their kingdom and race for them to fight to the death. That's even truer for a prince; he's the pride of the whole kingdom.
"Hold tight! I expected her to make only one but she made three..." Merlin growled, "I usually only work with a 2:1 safety ratio...I didn't make the barrier capable of taking more than two." She started rapidly patching the barrier as it cracked; doing her best to contain the energy conjured by the Mira bombs.
"My lord throws those explosions like regular jabs." Flatail started swinging punches in the air. "Hold it up, or he'll laugh at you."
"Seeing it to scale like this..." Abel giggled, "Arad is really a monster."
"We wouldn't be struggling this much if he was here." Jack scratched his head as he looked back at Lydia; they were all in Merlin's room. "Arad even survived my curse solar winds before. And he's weak to holy and divine magic. Jordan won't stand a chance."
"Wait." Flatail gasped, "He's weak? To holy magic..." He looked at them confused as hell.
"Yeah, but don't worry. Jordan's output is almost double mine; Arad should still be able to handle that." Lydia replied.
"The fuck is this then?" He rushed toward his bag and pulled a tiny vial with water in it. He then took it to Lydia. "Look."
As she looked at it with Abel, both of them paled, "What is this shit?!" Abel cried, just standing close to it his skin started falling off.
"Liquid divine energy, we only use a whiff to cast holy magic and divine spell. How much divine magic is needed to make it into liquid?!" She looked at Flatail, "Where did you find
that?"
"Vorvadoss's seal, my lord drank a whole lake worth of it. He even tanked the full burn of the barrier." Flatail replied with shaking hands, "Dam, shiver me timber; that is a lot of divine magic. Isn't it?"
"He'll eat him for breakfast." Jack looked at the barrier as the smoke cleared and Jordan showed up; He was nearly a skeleton that could barely regenerate his muscles back. To survive the raw power of Amber's kick and Mira's bombs he had wasted a lot of energy, and now the radiation is preventing him from forming a body, which makes his regeneration far too slow. Merlin immediately flicked her fingers; she swapped the cursed area around Jordan with a fresh and clean land and then dropped the barrier. The girls who had now fully regained their power charged forth to strike down the weakened demi-god.
"You bastards..." Jordan growled as his body barely regenerated with the girls surrounding him. Eris faced him while Merida stood behind him, Meryem was to the left and Betty stood to the right with Aella flying far behind everyone else to use her bow effectively.
"This is where you die." Eris growled with plasma flashing from her back as divine and blood magic seeped out of her nails, crackling like lightning, even the ground melted beneath her
feet, engulfing her in a gust of smoke.
Meryem silently cracked her fist with black magic evaporating from her skin as she glared at Jordan with red eyes. All of her children lined behind her, a nest of angry ants ready to rip their prey apart. Thanks to several spells from Merlin and this labyrinth, she could control her rage
to a certain extent.
"You can run to the end of the world, but we'll hunt you down." Merida lifted her sword and all the demons behind her started shouting and growling, pounding on the chests as they sang a song for Jordan's death. The fungus in her body spread through the ground and started sucking mana to reinforce her and her demons beyond what she normally could achieve, leading her to stand equal to demon lords despite still being partially human. In Jordan's eyes, she was an absolute demon, for such a horrid mass of demon energy to exist unchecked by the other gods, it was unheard of since the god slayer Kayden.
Betty's body flashed with blinding light, engulfing everyone in a pure white haze. Despite not being one, she had the godliest glow of them all. A short but pure white girl glowing with all the light of the world as unbelievable magic gushed from her skin and nails. "I guess; you're screwed." As she glared at Jordan, her eyes changed into those of a dragon.
As the girls were about to launch their final attack on Jordan, the fight between Korah and
Gojo was also reaching its end.
"Feet are the best." Vars said with a smile.
"AHHH! Fuck off!" Gojo growled at him.