bookpower Chapter 103: Fenrir Against Hel
Chapter 103: Fenrir Against Hel
Chapter 103: Fenrir Against Hel
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Hel wasn’t wrong with her words. Before being defeated by the Aesir Gods in the war between Constellations and falling from grace as a result, becoming sealed within a Ruined World until Jack entered the Dungeon formed from it, he was just like her.
Someone who saw mortals as mere resources, pitiful ants that lived within a lower plane of existence, had no empathy; he only had a hunger for strength, completely embodying how he was depicted in Norse mythology as a god-devouring wild beast.
However, after being forced to continue his existence by merging himself with Jack, he had to go through new experiences and live in a completely different world than before. Although stubborn at first, slowly, just like Hel said, he grew softer.
But was this something to be ashamed of? To feel more fulfilled with himself by being able to further comprehend emotions and the value of life?
He was no longer a foul, wretched beast that desired to devour and grow stronger. Well, he still was, but above all, he had also become a proper person, gaining his own identity, his own thoughts, and his own decisions.
Although at first he never valued mortal lives and, to an extent, he still didn’t care much, he really cared about Jack and about all those he cared for. They felt more like his family than even Hel, Jormungandr, or Loki ever were.
And he simply couldn’t allow his sister to attempt to take away everything he now cared for—the things that gave his life a new meaning.
“I’m sorry, Hel,” Fenrir said, slowly beginning to swirl around Jack as a mass of endless shadows. “But I’ve made my decision. I’ll protect those I care for; I’ll protect my pack! Because these people... they feel more like a family than any of you ever were to me!”
“Hah?” Hel gave Fenrir a teasing smile and then burst into laughter. “Hah... HAHAHAHAHA! You’re so pathetic! I can’t believe you are a Constellation! Well, you no longer are one, are you not, my beloved sibling? Well, I’ll just beat some sense into you, pathetic dog. And then once you become all submissive, I’ll chain you down like before, so you can go back to the old times when you were just a wild beast that never questioned me.”
“I’ll NEVER let anybody chain me again!” Fenrir roared, fusing with Jack completely. “I’ll walk my own path!”
FLASH!
Jack finished his transformation as he once again became a huge, muscular black werewolf, covered in an armor of materialized shadows and holding a huge sword.
“Let’s do this.” Jack smiled.
“Yeah!” Fenrir roared.
“{Phantasmal Sea}!”
Hel had enough of pointlessly talking with her brother, quickly amassing her Phantasmal Energy and unleashing a sea of condensed and monstrous phantasmal beings, capable of absorbing Mana from anything they touched, alongside devouring souls.
SPLASH!
“RAAAAH!”
However, Jack didn’t even step back, charging towards the Phantasmal Sea head-on, overcharging his Gram Fragment with his Mana and Ki, and unleashing a powerful piercing strike.
CRASH!
The sea of phantoms was instantly slashed apart, their agonizing screams echoing everywhere as they pathetically attempted to wrap around his body, only for Jack’s body to shapeshift, growing hundreds of metallic spikes made of shadows from his body! One of the many abilities he acquired from eating Abyss Hedgehogs, C+ Rank monsters.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
The phantoms were annihilated one after another, as Jack quickly gathered Darkness Energy into his jaws and unleashed a powerful breath attack of black flames, imitating yet another skill from a dragon-type monster he had devoured before, such as the Red Dragon from the Blazing Castle Dungeon.
BOOOM!
The blast was incredibly strong, as Hel was unable to evade it in time, her movements becoming slower after Dimitri damaged her Phantom Veil with his Holy Bullets!
“That damn Darkness Energy you control...” Hel muttered. “Aside from your brutish strength, Darkness Energy was the only magical power you were born with. You were always far inferior to me and Jormungandr, to think you would evolve that pathetic power this far-”
“RAAAH!”
Jack didn’t let her speak anymore, swinging his left hand as it quickly grew out of proportion, distorting into a Giant’s Arm and punching Hel down with tremendous force.
“Gryyaaaaah!”
As Hel screamed in pain, Anna’s brother swiftly imbued more Mana into his sword, and he started to spin his body towards Hel at an incredibly high velocity, utilizing the force of gravity to bring more strength to his blade!
[The Cosmic Throne {Black Jackal that Judges the Death} bares his fangs, asking why in the world are you here again!]
[He says you should leave NOW!]
“Well, well, let’s see...”
Anna completely ignored Anubis, wandering around the treasury, until she finally saw what she was looking for: a mystical item with the power that could quite possibly stop Hel and also be of great utility for the growth and healing of her soul.
After using the Thanatos Broken Scythe once, her soul had been consumed a bit, and even a bit was a lot for a soul as small as hers. Although getting privileges was somewhat strengthening her soul, they had not healed it.
And if she can properly heal her soul and even make it stronger, then using that scythe or other soul-consuming items and weapons of great power could become a realistic strategy for what is to come.
[The Cosmic Throne {Black Jackal that Judges the Death} has started to bark in anger after seeing the item you’ve chosen.]
[He says such a precious treasure shouldn’t belong in the hands of a fool like you!]
[The Cosmic Throne {Lady that Soothes the Souls of the Death} shakes in horror!]
[She asks you not to choose that item! It is one of her husband’s most beloved treasures!]
“Sorry, but I’ve made up my decision.”
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At the same time as Fenrir and Jack clashed against Hel, Henrietta brought the unconscious Dimitri and Eckert to safety, making a whole flight to the city walls and giving the two to a team of paramedics waiting in the entrance with an ambulance. She had used some basic healing magic, but some of their broken bones will only heal with specialized medical magic tools within hospitals.
“You two did good work; leave the rest to us!” Henrietta flew across the skies, realizing that her brother, Dan Baihe, and Annabelle were running towards the area where Hel was fighting against Jack.
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
The huge fists of the Netherworld’s King rained upon Jack, and as he swiftly evaded the gigantic yet rapid blows by leaping and running across the battlefield, several magic circles were being inscribed around him at the same time.
“Let’s try something flashier for once.” Jack smiled. “With the Magic Circle Creation that Henrietta taught me!”
Dozens of Magic Circles were created at once, as Jack quickly imbued the rotating runes that meant many different words together into powerful spells, an innate ability he held yet which he had never tried out before due to his lack of magic principles and his overreliance on skills.
“{Sunlight Beam}!”
Imitating the magic circles that Anna utilized, Jack was able to summon dozens of Sunlight Beams, albeit not as powerful as those of his prodigious sister; they were powerful enough to pierce through the Netherworld King’s arms and leave huge wounds, bleeding out a black gooey blood.
“GRAAAAH!”
The scream of the monstrous titan echoed into the world, his very scream generating a strong pressure under any mortal. Jack felt like his entire soul shook by hearing it!
“Just what in the world is that thing?!” Jack wondered, evading its huge fist before it was to crush him to death.
BAAAM!
“That’s the Netherworld King... A being that Hel created using the body parts of many Ancient Jotun that fell in the first war between Ymir’s forces and Odin’s family in the Realm of Yggdrasil.” Fenrir explained.
“It is an Undead made up of body parts from dead gods?!” Jack finally realized why that thing’s very scream was so potent.
“You’re getting sluggish, brother! How about you take a break?!” Laughed Hel. “{Netherworld King’s Stomp}!”
A gigantic portal opened above Jack as the gigantic foot of the Undead Titan crushed his body completely!
CRASH!
“JACK!”
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