Chapter 43 – 4th Passage of the Legend: Fierce Duel with The Thunder God (2nd part)
He got me good.
It is Renya’s honest feeling toward his situation now.
With his bout with Alberg, reality slaps him hard in the face and tells him that he is indeed still a greenhorn when facing another similar existence to himself.
Especially his opponent right now has the worst compatibility with his fighting style and it gives him a huge disadvantages. To face such a god in his first duel against similar existence, he really wants to screams a complain ‘just what is this impossible-unbalanced-shitty-game!?’
Renya’s fighting style emphasize on the use of his peerless divine armaments as his main firepower. If Renya can be considered as a heavy-class cannon, then Alberg is like a heavy machinegun who can keep on shooting forever even though it has trouble with accuracy.
Each has the power to kill with one hit. So of course, the side that can shoot more has the advantages in battle.
If that’s the case then why Renya doesn’t at least dual wield guns to increase his own fire rate? The answer to that is because Renya is still unable to do so yet.
With him wielding Tathlum is already considered as ‘using’ a divine armament so he can’t deploy another divine armament at the same time.
He has two hands so he can image of using both hands to attack but reality isn’t as simple as his imagination. For Renya, ‘using’ a divine armament is a conduct which exert his divine power. Renya is still unable to control his divine power perfectly to ‘use’ different divine armaments consecutively, much less simultaneously.
“Ha…… Haa……!”
“What happen to you War God! Don’t tell me you can even handle this much”
“That is off…… course! Besides, you don’t seem to have that much to spare either!”
“Hah! That kind of peashooter won’t hurt me no matter how much it hit!”
“Even if you say so…… isn’t your aim getting sloppier!”
Renya does nothing else besides returning fire earnestly with Tathlum. He flies about swiftly inside the unordered lightning strike shower. His light bullet would sometimes flies freely without any obstruction and hit Alberg squarely.
But at the same time, Renya also got hit multiple times by the tremendous shockwave created by the lightning that he evaded and got blown off by it, or worse, got grazed by the lightning. The damage gradually piles up and made even the high regeneration rate that is one of the strong forte of the war god body unable to keep up with it.
In a glance, they seem to be evenly matched.
But actually, Renya fatigue accumulation is far higher than Alberg.
It was because of the great difference in the quantity of divine power, which is the very source of power for any divinity, between them.
Renya is the war god who has peerless instant firepower that rival or even surpass any old timer god. In a quick battle, he won’t fall inferior to them in the slightest. But if it was a battle of endurance, then the result is just like what happen now.
No matter how efficient he uses his divine power, he still can’t catch up to the average natural born divinities in regard of the quantity of divine power that he can reserve. Because of that, he is gradually cornered into deadlock situation.
(…… Having my own weakness exposed like this so I can make it the pointer for my next training program is good and all… but then again……)
Through his calm analysis as a war god, he knows that if things continue on like this, he will be the one who face defeat.
When his opponent seems unhurt like this, it will be too reckless to rush in and do an all in gamble. But the good side is that this thunder god, for better or worse, is the type that prefers a melee battle. And the damage that he can deal with has a potential to be more lethal than just a few bullet strike.
If this continues then he will just gradually uses up his divine power and finally bend his knee in defeat in the end because of the difference in divine power quantity. Rather than losing like that, he…
(…… I should…… be able to do it……!)
Will choose battle tactic that will give him the most winning chance!
For a moment, there is some spectacle that is reflected inside his eyes.
It was the spectacle of various expressions that appears in the face of Floria and the other girls as they watch attentively to Renya battle from the other side of the barrier.
Floria who gives him a straightforward gaze which doesn’t doubt in the least for his victory.
Brenda who gnashes her teeth in vexation but still won’t avert her gaze from the battle.
Elvira who watch attentively for his endeavour with a serious expression.
Therese who withstand the shivering of her small body with eagerness.
The four of them absolutely believe that Renya will come out as the victor.
(If I don’t stand up now……much less a god, before that, I don’t even qualified as a man!)
Well then, I have resolute myself.
This ‘authority’ of mine which haven’t had any chance to be used with ---- The time has come to unleash its full power!
So I won’t bring shame to my own name.
And even more, for the sake of the girls who believes in me.
“Hrgn!? Your aura is getting stronger…… even in this situation you still haven’t give up?”
He is indeed a somewhat pitiful god. But it seems like he is not so pitiful in the face of conflict. Alberg stops his barrage of attacks after sharp-sightedly detects a change in the flow of divine power in Renya’s body.
“Aa that’s right. I realized just how inexperienced I am. That’s why ---- I won’t ever give up until I exhaust every last strength that I have!”
“That’s the spirit! Then show it to me! If it was just another half-assed effort then let it be pulverized under my fist’s might!”
Alberg exclaim loudly. Even with just that, his fierce pressure powered up by many times that even the god’s realm start to tremble because of it.
Lightning falls continuously from heaven like it was getting sucked to Alberg’s right fist which gradually turn that fist into a dazzling electric fist. The view of sparks of lightning danced while giving out a crackling sound in Alberg’s right fist is already enough to chill the heart of his opponent with fear. No mortal would dare to think of what will happen if that electric fist hit.
Facing against that, Renya closes his eyes to dive inside his own world and pour his divine power inside.
He did that to awaken the numerous divine armaments that sleep inside.
And from that numerous number of divine armaments, he connects a few of them ‘simultaneously’.
This was a realm that is impossible for a mortal to reach. It was his own mental state that takes shape as his authority when he ascends as a divinity.
The origin of that authority is ---- to recreate the last hit that made him victorious when fighting the predecessor war god not as a ‘human’ but to unleash it once again with the power of the divinity as a ‘god’.
This young newcomer god who still hasn’t had his own myth, at this time, at this place, with the way he naturally is, clearly declares.
“The profound ways of the divine armament user is yet to reach perfection ---- yet I as the master am the invincible undefeated war god!”
Renya is a god who still hasn’t had his own worshiper.
That’s why the words that he spins on are not a ritual prayer that is sung to god wishing for miracles, those are pledge that is meant to revise his own awareness.
He is no longer a god who is similar to a human neither a human who is similar to a god.
At that moment, he awakens as a true genuine War God!
“I bring forth the principle that has been etched within my body to seize victory ---- Divine Arts”
Promptly, Renya rush forward to Alberg in a speed that seems as fast as light.
He rushes straight up front without hesitation. Fear, worry, he tramples down all those negative feeling that can obstruct his path toward victory and charges forward.
Against that, Alberg finished preparing his stance to accept Renya’s offense.
With his right fist clad with the lightning that has been strengthened to the limit by his divine power, he believes that his fist is the strongest. He doesn’t even slightly doubt himself as he took a stance of a champion.
But it was because of his champion mentality ---- that he was utterly shocked by the view unfolding in front of him.
First, a wall of fierce crimson flame that completely filled his field of vision charges in grandiosely. Alberg tries to offset that wall of flame by shooting it with divine power from his spare left hand.
But like have been waiting for Alberg to take action, at the same time, glint of spears manifest and gliding towards him. Simultaneous thrown spear explodes from all four directions trying to skewer Alberg who is standing at the center.
And that’s not all. There is strong gale, no, a tornado that blows fiercely around Alberg, pressing him down and sealing his movement. Actually, the description of pressing down and sealing Alberg movement sounds harmless. But it was actually a raging tornado that consists of many wind blades that will make a cut anything that touch it. But Alberg is simply too strong so he was able to resist this blender typhoon that it was only seems to only seal his movement. If any weak being touches this tornado they will surely become a minced meat in just seconds by the fierce tornado.
Facing against this cataclysm level attack power, Alberg only hit the ground hard with his lightning charged fist to scatter it. He managed to scatter the divine power around him, disperses the wind, and broke the spear with that one punch. Yet the glow in his right fist doesn’t get weaker. In fact it glows even brighter like waiting it prey to come with joyous feeling.
But before Alberg finishes his preparation to receive the next attack wave, the next attack now comes from below. The ground shook wildly and from there numerous sharp edged stretch out piercing anything that standing on top of it like an earth dragon jaw that is about to chomp up its unaware prey and successfully swallows Alberg in a whole. Not stopping at that, the next attack, an intense thunder strike, which might be just Renya being vengeful, hit the closed up dragon jaw from above.
Attacking a thunder god with a lightning had successfully enraged Alberg. The enraged Alberg then do a big swing roundhouse kick to destroy the sharp edges that is protruding from the ground and he was about to catch the incoming lighting with his left hand but at that time, he finally realized that he had been played through by Renya tricks as his limbs got entangled by black rope like object. Alberg who got his limbs entangled by the black rope can feel that the black rope gradually seeps away his divine power while also gradually strengthen its constriction power.
“GUNUNU…… Just this much…… petty trick are not enough to HOLD ME DOOOOOWN!”
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