Alina gritted her teeth as her body kept losing altitude from the heavy pressure she felt from her body, multiple dragon breaths rained down from the sky targeting Maverick who was surrounded by spatial cracks from the high concentrated gravitational force around him!
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!
The dragon breath traveled at a fast pace easily closing the distance but...
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Hendrix raised an eyebrow as he saw the many dragon breaths stop roughly 10 meters away from Maverick before exploding dramatically! As though they had come in contact with an invisible wall. In reality that's exactly what happened, Maverick had enacted a gravitational barrier before him.
Making it impossible for anything to passed through, noticing that Hendrix smirk as he made a simple gesture with his hand.
".....!?"
SPLASH!
SWOOSH!
Maverick instinctively forced his body to the side as the sound of splashing waters rang out and at the same time, he felt something approaching him from behind, a silver chain could be seen swirling around in midair like a snake!
"Tch, Hendrix you! Traitor! You will suffer for your wrong doings!" Maverick exclaimed, as he desperately tried to evade the silver chains.
However, Hendrix's lips were upturned when he heard the words of Maverick. "Pfft." He tried holding in his laughter, seriously he tried but, "HAHAHAHA!" He laughed like a lunatic who had heard the funniest joke.
Maverick could not understand why Hendrix was laughing nor did he understood what part of his words were funny, has he lost his mind? 'Ah, come to think of it.... maybe he had always lost his mind in the first place.' He thought, meanwhile, Alina on the other hand had a thoughtful look on her face, after all she knew the reason why her master declared war on the gods after all!
'That woman must have been really important to him.' She thought, sighing. After laughing for a few second Hendrix finally calmed down and his expression became indifferent as he spoke. "I don't remember betraying anyone, you gods were the ones who forced my hands when you decided to intervene in my mission, if you guys hadn't interfered then she wouldn't have..." Hendrix clenched his fist in visible anger.
As though responding to his anger the aura of death suddenly shrouded his body making the atmosphere more unbearable. It was as if the reaper of death was now judging all those who are guilty!
"Wallow in despair!"
"Living is a sin!"
"Drown in eternal sorrow!"
"Die!"
"Give in to your fate!"
"Death is a blessing!"
"Embrace it!"
"Accept it!"
Maverick felt a chill run down his spine as the bloody waters below began to twirl and undulate as many hollow voices of undead soul's whispers in his ears, those voices were like a curse they were cursing the living as though they were their greatest enemy!
SWOOOSH!
A flash flickered as multiple ghosts like figures appeared flying around Hendrix as though he was their king, "Undead magic" An evil type of magic that only the 'God of death.' Can use however, inside the domain of the dead that magic is amplified much greater thanks to high concentrated death aura inside the domain.
The spirit of an undead woman with a knife stuck inside her chest hovered next to Hendrix, the spirit of a man dressed in a military suit holding a sword stood before Maverick with Hendrix behind him as though protecting him. The spirit of many undead knights appeared around Hendrix an undead dog was also glaring at Maverick.
Seeing this Maverick clicked his tongue, summoning black orbs made from divine energy he casually tossed them towards the undead spirits to mow them down but,
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Each of the spirits moved swiftly and nimbly easily dodging the black orbs while slowly approaching Maverick. Maverick tried punching the ghost dressed in a military uniform but, his fist struck empty air none of his attacks had managed to hit any of them, meanwhile,
Slash!
The ghost dressed in a military suit swung his sword towards Maverick's chest!
"Guh, cough." Maverick suddenly coughed out a mouthful of blood as his face turn slightly pale, he wipes the corner of his mouth and saw his blood, how long has it been since he last seen his own blood? Fifty thousand years? Billions of years, honestly, he didn't know for someone like him who was capable of living forever something like counting the numbers of his life was an unnecessary concept and wasn't worth much thought but, now he finally understood why the other gods especially the goddess of peace, Eirene never bothered to face Hendrix.
"H-How did a mere spirit inflict damage onto my divine body?" Maverick asked, dumbfounded. Physical beings shouldn't be able to touch ghost just like how ghost isn't able to touch physical beings but, he clearly felt the wounds on his chest even now.
"Hehe he. Oh, tell me do you see any wounds on your body?" Hendrix asked smirking. At that Maverick check his body but was baffled to not see any injuries. 'Wait don't tell me?' A dangerous thought came into his head that caused Maverick to suddenly break into cold sweats.
"Ah, you seem to have realize now, right? These fellows can't harm you physically but.... what about spiritually? Even if they can't touch your body what's the point when they can touch your soul." Hendrix said, chuckling.
Hendrix wasn't known as the strongest god for nothing. In physical strength he is nowhere near Maverick's level who can use gravity to increase the forces of his punch but, that doesn't mean he doesn't excel in other areas.
Instead of focusing on gaining strength he spends more time on developing his magic allowing him to gain magic that was even comparable to some of the best goddesses who specializes with magic.
The goddess of lightning and thunder for example, in a head on fight even Hendrix would normally never fight her, instead he created a spell that allows him to control an undead mage who specializes in earth magic and used 'Soul eater' to pierce her chest when her guard was lowered. It was cowardly but, he honestly didn't care. He got the desired results.
The ghost continued attacking Maverick who kept evading while searching for an opportunity to make his escape but.
".....?!"
He suddenly felt a cold hand grabbing his neck from behind, "Are you planning to run away now?" Hendrix asked, his voice monotone. 'Shit! Fuck this!' Maverick curse internally. While he hates the thought of running away but he didn't have much choice in his current situation.
SWOOSH!
The stinging chains sounded out as the silver chains closed in! Maverick narrowed his eyes at that vividly remembering how dangerous those chains were from what happened to Caia.
".....?!"
BOOOOOOOOOM!
Suddenly a tremendous pressure was released piercing the air making it difficult to breathe let alone move. "Argh!" Alina grimace as she felt the bones in her body creaking from the high gravitational field, seeing this Hendrix snap his fingers and send her outside his domain away from the high gravitational field.
Many of the lightning dragons instantly lost shape as their bodies fell like flies and dropped into the bloody waters, causing the waters to crackle with purple lightning. Maverick was no longer holding back anymore, he needed to leave this domain no matter what. Unfortunately, leaving was easier said than done. Without the permission of the caster, it was basically impossible.
Maverick summoned hundreds of black orbs surrounding Hendrix who had an amused smile on his face, though he was also having a difficult time due to the increase in gravity. Soul eater was restless, as though a juicy meat was placed before it! With a wave of his hand the many undead souls gathered around Hendrix as though shielding him.
With a smile he said lazily, "Lets end this little play, due to high increased in divine power those fellows from up above might get suspicious." "Oh, tell me Hendrix are you perhaps scared of the true gods who rules the heavenly realm?" Maverick asked. To his question, Hendrix innocently tilted his head, "Scared? Why should I be scared? After all I fear no one." He replied, confidently. Maverick's eyes widens when he felt the overwhelming confidence being exuded from Hendrix's body.
It was obvious he wasn't a fool, nor was he overestimating himself. His amused smile clearly expressed his confidence that there was no one capable of defeating him.
"... Is that so, but what about goddess of life? Do you think you would be able to kill her and gain her divinity?" Maverick inquired curiously, "..." Hendrix became quiet as an unexpected person came up. A frowned appeared on his face as the image of a white-haired woman with pink tips popped into his head and he couldn't help but shudder slightly at the thought of facing that woman.
It wasn't as if he was scared, the goddess of life was not someone he could currently face in a head on battle. Defeating her was almost impossible! Her life energy was completely effective against his aura of death. At most their confrontation would end in a draw between both sides.
"No, for the time being I'll avoid that woman." He said, somewhat evasively 'Going after that woman seem troublesome' He thought, the two of them had two opposing elements, even with the lightning divinity and the flame divinity he still wasn't capable of killing her, it was impossible for now at least.
"..... I see." Maverick said, humming as though thinking about something. With his hand placed behind his back he took out a small white orb that resembles a marble. 'In that case then I guess bringing this along wasn't a waste after all.' He thought, throwing the orb. Seeing that Hendrix frowns but then...
BOOOM!
He covers his eyes as a beautiful white light gathered in the sky illuminating the dark surroundings, "... Well, things seem to have taken an interesting turn, and you seem to be doing quite well, Hendrix." A melodious voice sound out from the sky. When Hendrix heard that voice his face suddenly turned slightly pale.
He instantly recognizes the owner of that voice, standing in midair with her long wavy hair swaying by the wind was a woman who was so beautiful that even using every word would be insufficient to fully describe her beauty.
The woman stared at Hendrix with her silver-colored eyes, that sparkled like gem, as she placed her hands beneath her chin. "Unfortunately, I cannot allow you to start another war between gods, for the sake of this world and the heavenly world you must be stopped!" She declared; her powerful aura filled the air.