In Dark Expanse of the Grand Void.
The glowing levitating figure of a middle-aged man clad in a white daoist robe could be seen. His long glowing silver hair was held up with a golden pin, with no wrinkles or beard on his handsome, well-chiseled face.
The man had a calm demeanor as he held a glowing sword, filled with terrifying sword intent in his hands.
He was surrounded by similar multiple glowing silhouettes each of them God's whose name alone could bring shivers to the ears of anyone who heard it.
All of them of high cultivators, surpassing the limits normal cultivators can only dream of. Their unique Godly auras can scare away even the most powerful divine Beast.
The fact that they all combined strength to attack the middle-aged man shows that the middle-aged man's strength is miles above their own.
"Give up Deus, The Stellar Formation Array is active," One of the Glowing Silhouettes that surrounded the middle-aged man said in a cold voice. The glowing God is an elf, with pure white glowing hair, and clear skin, he looks older than the middle-aged man named Deus but sadly, in the world of cultivation, looks don't count. The higher one's cultivation, the higher their lifespan, and the younger one look.
If one looked into his eyes, one would find out that he was extremely wary of Deus.
Why should he not be wary, when right in front of him was Deus Anima, one of the strongest Gods in existence was right in front of him? Deus's strength [Soul] is the collective weakness of the Majority of Gods.
The same could be said for the other silhouette, All of them were wary of Deus. trying their best to keep their distance from him while attacking.
Multiple cuts on Deus' robe show that his situation was a dire one. But despite being in an extremely dire situation, his calm demeanor did not change one bit.
"Hahaha, I guess I failed..." Deus said while laughing hysterically before abruptly stopping his maniacal laugh.
At this point, a regal aura started emanating from his body, making his glowing self look even more imposing.
"I guess I just have to kill you all then," Deus said again, an overwhelming amount of rage was swelling up within him but he was able to keep it inside him, after all, he was used to such feelings.
Meanwhile, The face of the silhouettes that surrounded him distorted after hearing his words.
They couldn't imagine how he still have the strength to defeat them when the stellar formation array had weakened him so much.
'Even with the Sword God's Soul, things shouldn't have gone this far... Lord Zeus must be angry' The Elf God's face contorted as he thought of a way to kill Deus.
Similar to what he was thinking, the other multiple silhouettes that surrounded Deus were thinking the same thing. Some of them had actively started retreating slowly from the group of Gods.
As for whether Deus was bluffing, that was utterly impossible.
"This is my gift to Zeus!" Deus said again, completely ignoring the tense look on the face of the other gods.
Immediately after he said that...
BOOM!
An intense chaotic aura exploded out of him. Filled with thick soul essence, soul aura sword intent, and sword Aura, the aura was highly destructive.
Immediately after the Aura exploded out of his body, an invisible formation now lit up, glowing with a dark blue light, reducing the aura by half. Even then, even when the attack output was reduced by half, it was still highly destructive and unstoppable.
POP!
The first person that came into contact with the aura exploded into nothingness, dying that instant.
The aura that exploded is similar to circular ripples in a water wave, with Deus being at the center, so within seconds, all those that surrounded him burst into nothingness upon contact with the aura.
The aura moved in a flash, catching up to the fleeing Gods
Before any of the Gods could curse their bad luck, say a single word, or yelp in pain... They, died.
Simply bursting into nothingness, their bloody corpse was not even given a chance to litter around and float in the space they were in.
After killing them, the face of Deus turned pale, 'I Don't have much time, my physique is not compatible with the technique... This plan has to work or I will forever be doomed'
After that, he closed his eyes, and went into the lotus position, falling into deep meditation...
As time passes, his body continued to grow brighter and brighter till he became an eye-blinding glowing figure.
After an unknown amount of time, he opened his eyes, his eyes were now glowing more brightly than the other part of his body, it was just shining pure white like a charged torch, with no pupils whatsoever.
"Now, to infuse my Consciousness and memories into the S..." He said to himself.
The next second after saying this, his face contorted in horror, his eyes shown with an even bright light indicating that his anger was rising. While, the formation which had turned invisible lit up again, shocking the hell out of him.
'No!! Impossible, The Stellar array has not been destroyed, and haven't the Technique activators been killed, I made sure to kill them all'
No one survived the aura, then just how was this possible?
"Took you long enough to notice", a Cold Voice was heard in response to his words. A Glowing figure of a Young man appears in the distance the next second.
Deus's face contorted even more as a horrified expression found its way to his face.
'Zeus was here all along, he was the one that created the Steller Formation array, those f*king Gods deceived me into thinking that they created the formation with their collective efforts. That explains why the formation did not get destroyed even after killing them'
"Zeus!!!!" Deus shouted with intense hatred for the owner of this voice, the hatred he had for Zeus was unfathomable.
If not for Zeus, then he would not have to go through everything that he had passed through.
He could only watch with a horrified expression on his face as his body disintegrated into tiny glowing particles, that later dissipated into Space.
"What have you done to me!? I will be back, am the Sovereign of Souls don't think I will die so easily, I will be alive even in my death, soon I will come for you!"
These were his last words, the sentence he left behind before his consciousness drifted off from his disintegrating body.
Deus Anima, The Almighty God Of Souls is dead...
. . .
"AARGH!!!!" The voice of a young boy of about Seventeen years could be heard.
He had just woken up from a nightmare, but then he felt a tiny bit of anger. He was breathing heavily, His body, drenched with sweat but that did not bother him one bit.
'Why do I feel angry every time I have this dream?'
He was angry but he did not know why. But what he saw in the nightmare scared the sh*t out of him.
"That same nightmare again!?"
he heard a drowsy feminine voice, coming from someone beside him.
"Yes," He answered with a sigh.
"Good, go back to sleep, we have a raid tomorrow and you need as much rest as possible before the raid."
The voice was heard one last time before silence ensued, its owner must have fallen back to sleep after saying that.
"Okay," Leon said before closing his eyes, trying his best to fall back to sleep.
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A/N:
[Deus Anima], is the Latin word for [God Of Souls]