Chapter 430: The Battle of Gods
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When the Gods first arrived with their armies, Neji popped an Omnipresent Copy inside his mansion, in his room. He was confident he wouldn't die against even such a large and strong army, but he wasn't confident he'd win. Not unless he prepared for it anyway, with the one single game-breaker inside his inventory.
In the Japanese-westernized room with temple vibes mixed into it, Neji stood in the center of it. He stood near the bed and opened two golden portals in the air. Two items dropped from within; a Gauntlet, and a woman.
The woman stayed on the bed, her use was for later, but for now, Neji focused on the red gauntlet beside her. He lifted it up with telekinesis and brought it to his hand.
"Here it is, the [Boosted Gear]."
He held it in his hand, hearing a voice call out to him from within. It sounded like an arrogant and angry voice, so he used his aura to press down on it, to not let it speak. Ddraig must have been angry at him for handling him like this, so he was yelling. But why would Neji waste time hearing the curses?
Instead, without caring to waste any more time, he used [Mine]. Tendrils of void energy, letting out an ooze of ominous air, leaped out of his hand and wrapped around the gauntlet.
Mine had many functions now, it could even absorb the entirety of a being, not just their powers. But he didn't want to absorb the gauntlet in its entirety as not having to deal with Ddraig's soul was the whole reason he upgraded Mine anyway. He just needed the power, and he scavenged it with ease. The void tendrils drained on the gauntlet.
[Ding! Successfully mined a Conceptual Power from the Boosted Gear.]
[Ability "Boost" has been added.]
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Name: Boost
Type: Conceptual Ability
Level: Null
Description: The power that once belonged to the Red Dragon Emperor, Ddraig. It allows the user to double his powers every ten seconds by chanting "Boost!" out loud without any limit until the user reaches his limit, whether it's their physical abilities, magic, or demonic power based on the user.
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Finally, "It's here." The Boost power was his.
It didn't have a Level because it was apparently "Inapplicable" which he understood why, since the ability's whole point was leveling up beyond what it was. It could boost as much as Neji's body could handle; and since a Gamer's whole point was leveling up, he didn't need to worry about that.
This was a cheat code.
Neji could feel unimaginable power on his fingertips now. He had succeeded. There were no tricks, no blockage, he had really just obtained limitless power. It was so limitless that it didn't have a level, there were no numbers that could describe its power on the hand of a Gamer.
He'd have to get used to it, to experience it on what factors he could use it on, and then he'd be unstoppable even by the Gods, prime or otherwise. He knew there must be some form of limits, such a cheat would be illegal otherwise, but that's what he'd have to test out now.
Exactly on the bed, a test subject waited for him, asleep.
"Tiamat." He muttered, looking at the strongest of the Dragon Kings who had been passed out in his inventory for days now.
While the Neji outside would be dealing with Gods, the one in this room decided to mess with the Dragon Queen for a bit, to test out his ability, and to also tame the rough dragon.
He knew having her by his side would be beneficial, so he woke her up. In the meantime, the outside grew chaotic.
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Thanks to the Fate Quetzalcoatl's own powers and experience, she reached a higher Tier than what this world's Quetzalcoatl was. Just as Neji had planned. He had also observed the 'shift' in the faith essence that happened in that instant, so he could do something with it for the other girls too if he tried. Maybe.
For now, though, he had an angry army of Gods to take care of.
Seeing their Chief God fall and get his powers stolen, the Aztec pantheon didn't sit still. After the initial silence of shock passed, one of the leading Aztec Gods yelled and rushed forward. The army followed after him, and a few of the Chinese and Egyptian Gods chimed in too.
A few Gods from the other major factions tried to move, but their leaders raised a hand to stop them. When so many different factions team up together, they wouldn't work all at once, which was beneficial to me. Neji wouldn't be able to handle all of them, especially the leading Gods if they teamed up and rushed at him.
At the very front of the Aztec Gods was a god with a turtle shell for back. He was lower than Quetzalcoatl in Tier, but he was not weak.
[Tonatiuh – Sun God – Mid Tier 49]
The Turquoise Lord, that was him. "Rahh!" The solar god yelled and rushed at Neji, his fists coated in a luminous light. Neji matched the roar of the God with a smile, and his form multiplied a hundred times.
These Gods had made a mistake when they thought they were grouping up on him, thinking that he was a single individual. However, with his Minor Omnipotence, the divinity he had from back in Naruto world, and was now only stronger with the divinity of Big G, allowed him to create a hundred versions of himself. The scariest part was that these didn't burst from a single attack.
An army of invincible Super Gods rushed at the army of not very impressive Gods, as he erected Susanoos after Susanoos around his copies. The incoming army slowed down a little seeing his actions, the Gods at the back stopping entirely.
Neji didn't slow down though, he and most of his copies took out their swords, coated with a black tint originating from the Truth Seeking Orbs. While clones in the back started to take out Kamui shurikens from their belts, the Gods at the back began to run away.
Neji shot the Kamui Shurikens; the fleeing Gods were too weak to dodge or block the space-distorting bullets that spun with them as its center. In a matter of seconds, dozens of Gods vanished.
The Aztec Gods leading the army trembled a little, but Tonatiuh the Sun God continued rushing with his jaws clenched. "Do not focus on that! Kill the enemy bastard!"
He was now in front of the Susanoos, as he drew his hand backwards and then punched at the Susanoo. The Susanoo cracked, to his credit, it wasn't a weak attack. However, the only reason Neji didn't dodge it was because there was someone coming from his back.
"Did your Quetzalcoatl not teach you when to run~?" A sweet voice came as a blonde flash blitzed from behind Neji and came in front of Tonatiuh.
The Sun God turned to her, trying to attack, but he was too slow. Quetzalcoatl's fist moved faster, and the God's jaw broke. He was shot backward, and Quetzalcoatl rushed after him, wearing a massive grin.
"Leave him to me," she yelled for Neji to hear. "His sun divinity will help me grow."
"Good luck," He yelled after, while his massive sword cleaved through a dozen Gods.
[Ding! You have killed a Tier 29 being.]
[You have leveled up 102 times.]
[Ding! You have killed a Tier 31 being.]
[You have leveled up 98 times.]
[Ding! You have killed a Tier 42 being.]
[You have leveled up 105 times.]
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[You have reached Level 5458!]
The leveling was getting slower for the weak Gods, and at this rate, Neji wouldn't receive as much growth as he was hoping for. Luckily though, he had [Mine] which he used on the dead body to devour and assimilate his bodies. He didn't level up from that, but his stats and Divinity increased; mostly divinity.
"This is fun." Neji was grinning as he said and murdered another dozen, while the other Gods on the sidelines watched with their eyes wide.
"Rush forward! Target those girls in the back, that'll break his spirit!" A God from the Egyptian Pantheon yelled, and the army hesitated before rushing in to join the fight.
Too bad if they were trying to score one on Neji by targeting the girls.
"Ryukyu!" One of the Nejis yelled. "Call for Excalibur. Yell for its name!"
"Huh?!" Ryukyu, the Lion King, looked at him in confusion. She was already holding Excalibur. "But I already have it on me!"
"Just do it!" Neji yelled, laughing. "You'll be a little disappointed but it's fine."
Artoria was beside the other girls, amongst whom Merlin was busy casting magic. She was wearing rings of Solomon that she got from defeating Goetia, that's why she stood as a whopping Tier 39 while she was just Tier 20 before. She was much stronger than before now, and she used all that power to shoot blasts at the incoming Gods with her cherry blossom magic.
Ryukyu, in the meantime, did what Neji asked. "Excalibur!" And the world itself responded to the King's will as seven swords teleported from all over the world and floated in front of her.
The 7 Excalibur Fragments; Destruction, Mimic, Rapidly, Nightmare, Transparency, Blessing, and Ruler.
"What?!" Ryukyu frowned. "What's up with these filthy swords?" Neji was wrong, she was more than just disappointed by this world's Excalibur.
"Just merge them!" Another Neji yelled, and despite hating the idea of merging her precious sword with these gimmicks, she gritted her teeth through it and raised her sword at the seven swords. "Oh, and put this one between them. I already fixed the corruption with my holy powers."
Neji said just as Rhongomyniad the spear appeared beside the sword from within a golden portal. Neji had been keeping it to him ever since and had the chance to purify it with his Big G holy powers.
The seven swords were Excalibur, they were the same thing as Ryukyu's Excalibur, so they resonated together and could merge. The Holy Spear was different, but since it was a Holy Sword in the end, it wouldn't be impossible to merge. Since the seven Excalibur had the innate ability to merge, if something was thrown in the middle of the merge it would merge too.
Ryukyu sighed and did as Neji asked, and the world trembled once again. The eight swords and one spear trembled and then shone. The eight blades rushed towards the sword on her hand and reality gave birth to a new Excalibur, with a lot more power than it had before. A symbol of purification and destruction.
"Good job, King Arthur!" Neji yelled out her other name, and Ryukyu looked confused for a moment until her divinity burst out of her. That happened because Neji was still streaming, he never stopped.
Ryukyu was already a Goddess; she was the Goddess Rhongomyniad. In this world, people knew King Arthur, but that historical figure did not become a God. So no God existed with that name here, but suddenly a divine entity with that identity appeared, so everyone who was watching the stream let out a burst of faith and divinity towards her. Faith wasn't just praying, just knowing a God existed worked.
The world's history resonated with her, and the faith of billions of people from not only the present time but also when history after the death of King Arthur rushed to her. In a moment, she was Tier 27 and reached a much higher tier thanks to both her sword and divinity.
[Ryukyu Tatsuma – Dragon God – Tier 56]
Being a person from the Fate universe, she had the innate ability to resonate with her weapons and grow strong. That was why, as long as Excalibur was near her, she was an unstoppable force.
"This is great," Ryukyu said, drawing her sword backward for a thrust. The Egyptian Gods who were rushing at her slowed, pausing, but it was too late. "Perish!"
A wave of holy light blasted out of her sword, and the sky went white. The wave passed over those Gods, and all died.
Voidmancer, Lumomancer, Boosted Gear, Dragon Powers, and his other literal hax. Neji did not hold back, but he didn't go overboard either. He showed off, and he erased his enemies. No battle lasted more than two attacks, and most ended with one.
"Dammit!" Demigod Hercules of Greek yelled, waving his hand. "This isn't a good place for us. Retreat!"
The Pantheon of Gods had no complaints as a portal opened and they jumped in. Neji laughed, but he didn't pursue them. He didn't need to kill all Gods, he wasn't going for a world destruction run – this war wasn't the end of this world – so he didn't stop them if they fled.
When the Gods realized that, the other Pantheons began to run off too.
"Norse shall withdraw from this battle as well," Thor said and his army turned around to fly backward.
Then a few other Pantheons vanished, and the Chinese Pantheon put their tail between their legs and fled too. "Next time it will be different!" Next time he will be full on God, so good luck with that. Neji didn't stop them either, he was busy clearing the Aztec Gods and Egypt.
One by one, all the God factions left the sky. Only the devils stayed, and the angels too, along with a single Pantheon.
"What a sight," said a dangerous voice as Neji finished all the Gods who had dared to attack him.
The hundred Neji copies looked at the person who spoke as they all retracted into one Neji. He canceled his Susanoo and looked at the blue-skinned God. It was Vishnu.
[Vishnu – Preserver God – Tier 61]
A Tier 61 being, that's the second-highest number Neji had seen.
Vishnu was a Preserver, but he was that in the sense that he could stop Shiva if the madman lost his mind and started wreaking havoc. Vishnu was not weak, the gentle smile that he revealed to Neji was proof of that. He was calm even in this situation after witnessing Neji massacre a hundred Gods.
Neji knew why. If anyone, Vishnu was the one who'd be able to neutralize Hakai. And the Gods behind him were strong enough to take on his girls, in the meantime.
The blue God stroked his chin as he stared at Neji before sighing with his eyes closed, "It does not seem to me that you're after world destruction since you let the other Gods run, so I'll leave you be for now. Let us meet later, Admin."
He waved his hand, and his entire army of Gods vanished. There was no need for portals or flying away, he teleported all those strong Gods with a wave of his hand.
An overwhelming victory.
And all of humanity had witnessed him hold his ground against the thousand other Gods. His progress percentage exploded with growth.
Now, only the devils and angels remained.
Neji dropped back to his feet on the peak of his mountain. Quetzalcoatl and Ryukyu dropped beside him; Kurai who was still on his shoulder, licked his cheek as all of them stared at the two organizations.
"Looks like you guys are here to talk," said Neji as a smile bloomed on his face. "Good choice."
Because he wouldn't mind claiming them for more Levels. However, they knew how to behave after what they just witnessed, their faces covered with sweat said enough.
[You have reached Level 5770!]
The head-on battle was fruitful, so he was going to try to get some gains from the battle of brains next.
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