(I know there is fight happening back to back which might look this story descending into a chinese novel with MC basically just kill and kill and kill then level up. Which I won't deny since Leo have to get up there in power level for the enemy that will soon appear. Also, I might make a short side story for the girls back in DxD.)
After several high magnitude earthquakes, it's impossible to stay asleep. It's weird to even be able to stay asleep. This is what happened to the residents of a certain villa.
"There is no way for any of us to break the barrier. It was reinforced with divine power." Lucretia said lazily while still angry that her beauty sleep was interrupted. "The only way is to break it with authority." Lucretia said to Godou specifically before she left and returned back into the villa.
"How? I can't exactly use the Boar or White Stallion on it." Godou grumbles because the barrier isn't strong enough to withstand any of them and will end up in ruin.
Leo knew and made it on purpose like this. Even if Godou didn't mind wasting his authority, he still can't do it because it would harm others. Which means they can only be obedient and stay in the barrier until the battle ends or someone comes to help break the barrier.
Godou, Erica and Yuri aside. Liliana is quite worried and also angry. This isn't the first time Leo tries to keep her under wraps about him fighting a Heretic God. He had always been like this, keeping her way from battle. It frustrates her to no end that Leo treats her like a fragile porcelain vase. She is a Grand Knight for god sake. A human that reached the pinnacle of humanity and could exchange a few blows against Heretic God. But she also didn't dare argue with his order in fear she might get discarded for being annoying. Thus, her job mostly just being a backline support for Leo.
Suddenly, a small area of the ground turned black before Athena appeared.
"Athena? Great! Can you help me break this barrier?" Godou quickly requests Athena's help.
"Of course, that's the reason why I am here." Athena summoned a scythe and slashed the barrier which cracked and fell apart immediately. "You must be quick, Kusanagi Godou. Your friend is in great peril. Zeus is on the move and opens a path from the Greek divine realm to Earth."
"What?!" Erica and Liliana reacted.
"We must be quick, Godou!" Erica pulled Godou and summoned her Hermes boots to fly but Athena stopped her and wrapped everyone in her shadow.
They reappeared at the edge of the battlefield. They saw Leo were fighting a god that had a sun behind him like a halo, raining down a ball of fire that evaporated the sea and made the temperature unbearable even from their position. Doni was fighting a god dressed like a roman warrior wielding a divine sword that is covered in fire and a bronze shield.
"It seems the advance party has arrived." Athena said while looking at the god fighting with Doni.
"That's the Heretic God of War, Ares." Erica recognised the god and revealed his identity after looking at the sword he wields.
Then just as they thought it couldn't get any more worse. The cloud suddenly gathered in the sky and let out deafening thunder.
"How could this be possible!" Liliana said with despair and confusion.
The gate between Netherworld and Earth could never be easily breached or else Heretic God can descend in batches instead of one at a time.
"Don't be surprised, human. The gods have their ways. However, I reckon they had sacrificed a lot in order to create the path to Earth." Athena gave her reassurance. But she knew it didn't help much because even if the Gods will be weaker, they can overcome it with numbers.
"Yeah. She is right. We have three Godslayer here and Leo. We all know how strong he is." Godou rallied them with encouragement before joining in the battle.
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Somewhere in Balkan.
"Heh, as if I would miss out on this!" Voban grinned very excitedly before summoning the little witch.
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With Leo.
He had been fighting for a few minutes and understood that his opponent was very crafty. His opponent is riding on a flying chariot to keep distance from him knowing Leo cannot reach Helios.
'If only I still have Hecate's authority.' Leo sighed.
Leo still could use Holy Power or Demonic Power to create wings but it would drain on his mana reserve very quickly and he didn't have ways to end the battle quick enough.
"Come, Futsu-no-Mitama-no-Tsurugi!" Leo summoned the divine sword and released a powerful lightning bolt that smited Helios but it suddenly weakened as he felt his lightning were usurped by someone else.
"It seems your time is up." Helios opened his mouth for the first time as he saw the gathering cloud in the distance.
"Dream on." Leo smirked and seized back the lightning bolt with his Electrokinesis and smited the distracted Helios with all the lightning his Electrokinesis could muster.
Leo then summons a snake phantom under his feet that launches him toward Helios while he unloads shot after shot with his Hunter's pistol, hoping he can stagger the stunned Sun God. Just as he is about to reach Helios. *Thump* The familiar sound greeted him and Leo didn't waste any moment with his Quickening to bridge the remaining distance as he stabbed Helio on his chariot.
Helios stare in shock. His body refused to listen and move even after he forcefully purged the lightning off his body to remove the stunned state.
Leo freed his left hand by dismissing the Hunter Pistol and grip the Futsu no Mitama with both hands as lightning erupts from the blade, electrocuting Helios with divine lightning that seared his flesh and soul with every zap.
*Crack* *Crack* *Crunch*
Leo put all his strength into gripping the sword and pushing the sword down, crushing the ribs and spines on the way as he brutally cut Helios open. He can feel the blood spilled by Helios invigorating him, giving him more strength to resist his drowsiness and push until the sword exits Helio's body with a bloody cut from the chest all the way down through the crotch.
Blood bathed the chariot as Helios looked in disbelief. He was killed in such a brutal manner and as if nearly bisecting him isn't enough. The gasping Leo wields the blood covered sword to behead him as his head fell off the back of the chariot and fell into the ocean.
Leo stood there absentmindedly as the usual procedure of Blood Echoes absorption was taking place. Then he fell to his knees while using the katana as a crutch.
"No! I can't stop yet!" Leo bites his teeth hard enough that his gum starts to bleed as he fights against the drowsiness threatening to put him to sleep.
When Helios is killed, the sun in the sky fades away and the moon returns and gives Leo the much needed power boost and invigoration.
The cold sensation that bathed his body and mind helped him regain clarity as he resisted the drowsiness and jumped off the disappearing chariot to the giant snake phantom's head waiting for him.
Leo stood up and lifted his head, looking at the gathering cloud with narrowed eyes.
"Another god…"
Leo had already concluded this is an abnormal event. With his brief session of learning with Lucretia, he learned that no more than one god can descend at a time and usually there would be a gap of time before the next can descend. It's an ancient rule of sorts that is placed so the god cannot descend as they wish and cause chaos.
Yet, not just two or three. Leo turns to look at Doni fighting the fourth god. Then he looks back at the sky where the fifth god is still hiding like a coward.
Leo didn't have much time left. He can feel the drowsiness is slowly overpowering his willpower. Like, who the hell even designs a crappy system like this? Forcing a Godslayer into sleep after killing a God? What if someone decides to ambush him while he is asleep?
"Come out and fight me already, coward!" Leo taunts the god hiding in the cloud. He assumes the gods are trying to wait until he succumbs to his drowsiness. That's why he wants to finish this battle quickly.
*Crack* *Boom*
"Coward? Such insolence!" A voice accompanied by lightning strike and a thunderclap.
Then the god appeared. A man with white hair and white mane that oddly looked regal even when they were moving wildly to the wind. A ripped body that put even the roman sculptures into shame and dressed in white ancient toga accompanied by several gold accessories. A body and appearance that screams divine in every aspect. His eyes are golden with lightning streaking out of it.
"Abhorrent spawn of Outer God! Your end is here and you shall die in my hand!" Zeus roared angrily as the lightning responded to his emotions and formed a lightning bolt in his hand which he threw like a javelin and in an instant, appeared in front of Leo before it exploded into a powerful lightning orb, haphazardly zapping anything in its vicinity.
"Leo!" A panicked cry came from Liliana when she was quickly approaching Leo but saw him attacked by Zeus's famous lightning bolt.
"Hmn. A knight." Zeus turns to the source of the feminine voice before he turns back to Leo.
Leo survived the attack as Zeus expected. After all, Leo does have Futsu no Mitama, a lightning attribute authority.
"Hahahaha! No matter how strong you are, a man always has a weakness." Zeus grinned sinisterly and commanded the lightning to form a prison around Liliana.
"Aaah!" Liliana cried in pain before she fainted when she suddenly collided with a lightning wall that imprisoned her.
Leo heard her pained cry immediately turn his head and saw her being pulled away and floated next to Zeus. He really wanted to give her a thorough scolding for ignoring his advice again and again. But now isn't the time for it.
Zeus noticed the change on Leo's facial expression, grinned even wider. "So, this girl is someone important." He said. Leo's silence, Zeus can already deduce the answer. "Well, that made everything easier. Drop your weapon or I will kill her." Zeus threatened Leo. He is already imagining an easy victory using Liliana as hostage and meat shield against Leo.
But, instead of complying to Zeus. Leo still held on to Futsu no Mitama. His face hardens as he is forced to make a choice and letting himself be killed for another isn't something his logical mind would do.
Indeed, he had grown fond of Liliana. But it's not to the point he would sacrifice his own life for her. He isn't a hero after all. He is just a killer. A man that will get the job done when no one could. That is what he believed. That is what he says to hypnotize himself.
Leo was standing still on the water surface as mist started to thicken in the surrounding area. A cold glint flashes in his eyes as his grip tightens on the handle of the katana. The hesitation disappeared from his eyes as wings and halo appeared and allowed him to fly into the sky.
"Hey! Do you not care about this girl?!" Zeus panicked when Leo charged at him disregarding the hostage.
The katana charged with lightning slashed at Zeus which prompted him to quickly use the girl he captured as a meat shield but it didn't deter Leo at all as he cut her apart without hesitation and shot a condensed lightning slash at Zeus that exploded and singed his flesh.
"Grr! How dare you injure me!" Zeus howled. Ignoring tactics and everything, anger consumed him as the lightning around him responded to his raw emotion.
*Bzzt* *Bzzt* *Crack!* *Crack!* *Crack!*
The lightning around him danced wildly and struck Leo rapidly. Each second, at least a hundred lightning bolts shot at him, each with enough power to pulverize a house. But oddly, none of them affected Leo. They simply pass through his body and explode.
"It's fak- Guh!" Before Zeus could finish his sentence. A blade stabbed into his back and pierced through the front.
Zeus twists his body disregarding the pain and catches Leo. But when he grab his arm, Leo dissolved into a mist and *Thud*. Something pierced his flesh and hit his bone but didn't crack any bone thankfully.
"HaAAH!" Zeus roared and released a shockwave of lightning in a sphere shape to push away the encroaching mist.
"Took you long enough to notice. But you had been under my illusion all along." Leo pulled an Itachi on Zeus.
"No! Impossible!" Zeus roared in denial and fear.
Leo appeared when Zeus pushed back Leo's Titaness of Mist authority with his lightning domain. It revealed Leo, floating with his angelic wing and halo with a pink glowing spear filled to the brim with enough divine power to erase a small island, pointed at him in a throwing pose.
"Die!" Leo howled and threw the spear with all his might.
The spear instantly causes a ripple of shockwaves in the air accompanied by a sonic boom before it impales into the shocked wide eyed Zeus.
*BOOM!*
A massive explosion followed by a brilliant light happened above the beach. Trees shooked by it, almost uprooted. Sea water forms a circular wave below the explosion that travels all the way to the mainland and causes a small tsunami if not blocked. The cloud above the sky pushed away, leaving a clear view of the starry night. The people on the ground all halted and brace themselves before the devastating wind knocked them off their feet.
Leo already used all his last strength on that last attack. His body cannot withstand the load anymore and neither does his mind have anymore willpower to resist as the drowsiness claimed him. Being the closest to the explosion, he was thrown with great force and bounced on the sea surface like a skipping stone before he landed on a soft surface.
Leo opened his droopy eyes and saw Lilliana's worried and guilty face. She looks injured and littered with burn marks from being zapped by lightning. Other than that, she was fine. Leo sighed in relief before his eyes closed again.
"We will have a talk after thisss…." Leo said before his voice became a slurring and then nothing but soft breathing sound as he fell asleep in her embrace.
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(You think it was anticlimactic with the short fight. But what do you expect? Leo is a Hunter. His attacks are always precise and decisive. He is already feeling very drowsy as his soul is being pulled into Pandora's realm and he needs to end as quickly as possible. So, realistically. This is what would go.
Anyway, what authority Leo should get from Zeus? I can't think of anything other than his Lightning Bolt which overlaps Electrokinesis and Futsu no Mitama. Suggestions also open for Helios authority.)
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