Life Hunter 123 ''It's Open''

"[Auribus percipite verba mea] (Heed my words)"

"[Voluntatem meam] (Manifest my will)" The words were being written on the pages as she continued the incantation.

"[Summone gloriam meam] (Summon my ambition)"

"[Et meam impleat votum] (And fulfill my wish)"

Errastas soon noticed the strange fluctuations produced by the Lawless Tome. When his third eye looked in Lanya's direction, his expression turned very ugly.

"You! You're messing around with the Original Laws!" He shouted so strongly that Arima could be blown away if he wasn't careful. He stabilized in mid-air and used every element as his disposition to defend himself from Errastas's blows.

Beside him, Arima had turned back into her human form and used a replica of herself to send waves to help.

Errastas then noticed Chulainn who was condensing a ma.s.sive red stone encircled by fire. That stone had already reached the mile in size. It had become something that even a giant like him couldn't ignore at all.

He thought quickly, he could either attack Lanya who was using the Lawless Tome or he could instead attack Chulainn. He chose to aim at the latter since he felt like it was a bigger threat.

But although he made up his mind, he couldn't act to make his thought real as he couldn't move. He looked down below and saw a s.h.i.+ning, white, giant vine crawling up on his legs. Errastas was shocked, he turned his head and saw Arima smirking at him.

At the same time, he saw something rather disturbing. A third person joined Arima and Lanya's side. Errastas's eyes trembled as he couldn't believe what he was seeing. In front of him, two identical versions of Arima were floating there. Just that one of them was completely unharmed and the other had only one arm left due to the earlier clash.

But there was indeed, two draconic skeletons grinning at him. And he couldn't feel any difference between the two. They had the same aura and presence. It was more than a copy as also he felt the same spirit coming from the two of them.

"[Third White Art, Doppelganger]" The first Arima said a keyword and the one who just joined them extended his hand toward the white vine.

"[Fourth White Art, Mid-Layer, Digillum Aeterna] (Eternal Seal)" He chanted, with the exact same voice as Arima, and the vine coiled even more around the giant, reaching the latter's waist.

Of course, Errastas immediately grabbed the vine and tried to rip it apart. The wine in itself started stretching a bit but it clearly wasn't enough to destroy it.

"It's too late" The two Arima said at the same time "Right, Lanya?" They both called and the person in question smiled and she stopped on one page of the book.

"[Secundum iudicium tuum] (According to your judgment)"

"[Et implerem] (Accomplish it)"

She finished the incantation and the book trembled and slowly began to float as it left Lanya's hands. It raised in the air and Lanya said the last words.

"[Third Destruction Art, Pars impios] (Lawless Tome)" The book's surface cracked and then shattered with a blinding light which covered at least half of the planet.

When the vision came back to everyone, they all could see a new 'mountain', perfectly exact to the one who was already here. Like a copy. Lanya snickered and the two Arima laughed together.

The looked at each other and brought their fists together "What a childish magic, don't you think?" They asked each other.

Arima's clone of himself wasn't just a copy. It was definitely another himself, sharing the same soul, created by the third white art. Although it was limited in time and they shared their mana, it still was a scary technique. Arima prepared it the first time when he was. .h.i.t by Errastas. At that moment he had already realized he would need a bit of surprise to get out of that third eye's perception.

And so, he did. The doppelganger conjured the fourth white art and blocked the movements of the giant without him noticing.

Now, it was time for a second 'copy' to take action. The Lawless Tome apparently decided to make a clone of Errastas to fight against the latter. Arima felt it was quite ironic as he himself had used a magic that made a double.

Only Lanya wasn't surprised as she already knew what would be the result thanks to the vision which she inherited from Chronepsis. At her level, she could only see five minutes in the future and the past but it was already more than enough even though she could only use those eyes for the same amount of time, five minutes. With that power, her affinity with the third destruction art was even higher than Arima's, its creator.

"{Yeah, it's cool and all, but,}" Chulainn's strained voice resounded in the group's minds "{This thing keeps getting harder to control, if you don't hurry up, it'll explode on me}" He said as the red stone he was infusing mana into had already reached 1500 meters in diameter.

"{Don't worry, he's already on it}" Arima smiled and said as the Lawless Tome, under the giant's appearance, attacked its 'model'.

Errastas could only use his magic to stick on the ground as he couldn't s.h.i.+ft his legs position because of the vine around them. That vine was also a magic comparable to the 'Big Bang', it demanded time to cast but once it was on its target, it would be really hard to destroy, even if the caster is of a lower level than the victim, which was far from the truth in the present case.

Errastas engaged into a battle of pure strength with the Lawless Tome. The two giants grappled each other and they both buried their feet in the stone. The earth trembled and Chulainn almost lost control over the 1600 meters large stone.

He grunted "Hey! Can I release this thing already?!" He shouted toward Lanya who breathed out and got her eyes back to normal. She smiled and pointed at Errastas feet and the area around.

"There" She responded and Chulainn grinned. The giant stone he had formed until now slowly moved and the sigil on his tail revolved.

"[Third Blue Art, Fragor Magnus]" He chanted with his three heads and the stone compressed before becoming a ma.s.sive fireball made of crimson flames.

Chulainn roared and the ball of fire was launched at his target. The ground under him broke and the earth and stone raised for miles as the fireball flew away.

It touched the ground at Errastas feet and exploded. The explosion which followed that was deafening and the ground crumbled. The stone became lava and ash under the influence of those unstoppable flames.

The Lawless Tome, although affected by the explosion too, took the chance and gave a last little push. Errastas couldn't resist as his legs were trapped by the vines and the stone he used to maintain himself was now destroyed. Not only that but the fireball also hurt him badly and the pain did not arrange things.

In the end, he was pushed on the ground by the Lawless Tome. The two colossi's fall crushed everything and both Chulainn and Lanya jumped away to avoid the ma.s.sive rise of dust and stones.

Meanwhile, Arima flew up and placed himself just above Errastas. He pointed his palm at the sky and Karma became a bolt of light who then took the form of an adorned war spear. Karma then started growing bigger and bigger until she reached a length of a mile.

Arima grabbed the chain hanging from the handle with his remaining arm "[Terminus confractus, CC]" He chanted and brought the chain down. The war spear was struck by lightning as it fell down rapidly toward the ground.

After just a second, Karma pierced the two giants in the stomach. Errastas howled in pain while the Lawless Tome just laughed and transformed into white particles.

Errastas was completely mad now, his eyes were bloodshot and he grabbed the spear piercing his stomach. He tried to pull it out and the white vine binding him also started to snap.

"Calm down buddy" Arima's doppelganger said and released a small black marble he had kept in his hand "[Second Destruction Art, Cavum nigrum]" He chanted and the marble cracked when it touched Errastas.

The black hole immediately covered the giant body and his power was released. But his role wasn't to attack Errastas since it wasn't strong enough. As a proof of that, the earthen G.o.d released his aura and pushed the attraction force with just that.

Instead, the black vortex pa.s.sed through the giant's body and stopped just below him. It stopped spinning and his attraction increased greatly. The gravity pinned Errastas down and he had now an even harder time with Karma.

At the same time, Arima called Superbia. The weapon then charged with plasma but it was a little different this time.

Arima pointed Superbia at Errastas's third eye and a green circle formed just in front of the barrel. The area around also started to be filled with a green light.

"[Ratione detester leges transcendere] (I defy all laws and transcend reason)" He started chanting.

"[Im 'exitium voluntatem Dei manifestaretur] (I'm the will of destruction made manifest)"

"[Veluta aeim, quifa quifa]" Along the way, he started speaking in an indecipherable language.

"[Samda maa kaav]"

A green light gathered inside Superbia and lightning of the same color spread around "[Magna Blast, Exist]" Arima pressed the trigger and a ma.s.sive pillar of green energy fell with extreme speed on Errastas's third eye, piercing it and destroying the sigil at the same time.

The giant screamed in horrendous pain and Arima flew away from his place just after to join his doppelganger who was holding a strange blue rope that ascended to the sky, as far as the eyes could see.

They both grinned and pulled on the rope at the same time. But they failed to do it as the rope didn't even move. They looked at each other and raised an eyebrow "[CCC](300)" They said at the same time and pulled once more on that rope.

This time, it was indeed brought down and they laughed "Sorry, it was caught in another gravitational field" They said.

"What?" Chulainn exclaimed and Lanya wryly smiled "Are you kidding-!" Chulainn was about to go on Arima with a full lecture but he then noticed a red dot in the sky. He squinted his eyes and his expression froze.

"…You better bring me out of here, right now" He sternly said to Arima as his eyes didn't leave the red dot.

Arima grinned and made a high five with his doppelganger. They then both fused back together. Arima even recovered his two arms after that. He also dispelled his Omniform, Death form and stopped the resonance. He basically acted like it was over.

Arima ignored the howls coming from Errastas and waved his hand. A dimensional bridge was then created before his entire group disappeared from that planet; including Karma who disappeared from Errastas's body.

But because of the black hole pinning him down, the vine around his legs and his sigil-less state, the giant could only stare as the magically reinforced asteroid, at least two times bigger than him, fell on the planet and absolutely erased everything on its surface, and him along with it. An otherworldly explosion occurred and the entire planet became a hot sphere of magma.

When Arima left the other dimension with his group, the planet was already a depiction of h.e.l.l. The five of them instantly went to s.p.a.ce to look at the spectacle.

Arima extended his hand and activated the 'Life Hunt'. He then fully retrieved the entirety of Errastas's life force. He took a fourth of it and went up to the pinnacle of the fifth sky. The maximum he could go for now.

He wondered what to with the rest for a second and gave it to Lanya who then also raised to the fifth sky in a single moment.

Lanya admired the new strength she received but put that on hold when Chulainn spoke: "So how do we go to h.e.l.l now?" He asked.

"Well, first, we need a planet" Arima quickly answered before teleporting everyone to one of the planets he pa.s.sed by when coming here.

"This one should be good. There's no sign of lives on it" Arima commented and breathed in "Here we go, [Omniformis]" He re-used his Silver Emperor's power and transformed one more time. He spread his arms wide and then joined his hands together while looking at the deserted planet.

"[Aperi iter ad aethereum] (Open the path of the ethereal)" He closed his eyes and started chanting serenely but his mana and aura were going wild. Even his companions had to get away from him.

"[Adducere ad fines se continuerunt, solum cogitet meis] (Bring me to horizons only restrained by my imagine)" Since that moment, some really odd phenomena began to occur on the planet.

The plants started to melt and all of the earth and stone slowly compressed and shrunk. The entire planet was shrinking and changing form. Chulainn and Lanya observed with shocked expressions.

"[Materia obliviscentes] (Forget the material)" Arima just continued his incantation.

"[Atque uti origins ducere me] (And use the origins to lead me)" The planet had taken the form of a hundred-thousand-mile large silver disc, with inserted teeth on its circ.u.mference. It was basically, a giant gear in the middle of outer s.p.a.ce.

"[Second White Art, Calces Porta]" Arima finally finished and the giant gear started revolving as runes were drawn on its surface.

And then slowly, the side of gear facing Arima's group changed into something like a silver liquid "It's open" Arima said "Let's go, I'm using too much mana right now" He immediately flew toward the giant cog and dived inside.

The four people left looked at each other and inspired before following him. Just a second after everyone pa.s.sed, the gear deformed and turned back into a planet a minute later.