"Feel free to take the other one, but I want Voldemort," Rose said, her incredibly blue eyes shining with a cold capable of freezing even the Gobi Desert. Her gaze focused on the handsome young man with black hair and red eyes.
She could see he shared a resemblance with the boy next to her; they were cousins after all. This made her realize that this world was quite cruel and cold, as family killed family.
"Impossible, I want Voldemort too," Asterion refused without hesitation. He still needed to kill Voldemort, not only for revenge but also for personal grievances.
Seeing the determination in her cousin's eyes, Rose gritted her teeth and spoke. "Half. Each of us gets half of him."
She spoke as if Voldemort were an item, not a person, which made Asterion see the clear difference between her male version in another reality.
Rose Potter was clearly a vengeful person, though kind, she didn't hesitate to kill her enemies. She was diligent and constantly improving herself. An obvious difference from her male counterpart.
They both locked eyes, firm in each gaze, neither wanting to back down and miss the chance to kill their destined enemy at this moment.
"I accept your proposal," Asterion said, breaking the silence. "But before we begin, he may apparate and escape."
"No need to worry about that, I control space, he won't escape," Rose showed a cold and quite frightening smile.
Asterion nodded and threw himself into free fall.
Rose followed her cousin and jumped from the mouth of the two-headed serpent.
With his hands in his pants pockets, Asterion narrowed his eyes, and his hair fluttered violently against the strong wind.
Rose rolled her eyes at her cousin's actions; she also wanted to strike a pose like that, but she was wearing a skirt, which prevented her from doing a really cool pose at the moment.
Both fell from the sky and collided with the ground with a thud.
Already on the ground, Asterion repeatedly opened and closed his hand while asking Rose, "Have you learned Domain Expansion?"
"I understand the principle behind creating the domain," Rose replied, clenching her hand and cracking her knuckles. "I just haven't used it on anyone yet."
"That's good, they'll probably use domain expansion to break the spatial blockade you placed on us," Asterion smiled and walked over to the two special-grade wizards.
"Baskerville." Forming a seal with his hands, he summoned his faithful companion to protect him from any attacks.
Walking to Mahoraga's side, Asterion jumped and sat on the shoulder of his Divine General. He crossed his legs and greeted his enemies with an arrogant look.
"I hope you enjoyed fighting against my Divine General."
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Herpo twisted his lips upon hearing the boy's words. Enjoyed it? He wanted to flee from him at any moment!
"We meet again, Heir Black," Herpo greeted the thirteen-year-old boy with a gentle smile.
But the next words made his smile stiffen.
"Please, don't smile at me, you look like a pedophile smiling at a helpless child," Asterion spoke with a look of disgust reflecting on his face.
"I don't have that kind of hobby," Herpo replied with a stiff smile, his tone cold, almost threatening.
"You change bodies like you change clothes, who knows what your hobbies are. I'd rather spare myself from asking," Asterion spoke, looking at Herpo as if he were looking at a piece of trash. "Some unpleasant scenes involving you and corpses appeared in my mind."
Herpo only took a deep breath and restrained himself from killing the boy right now. He was in a very dangerous situation at the moment, about to lose this Horcrux at any moment.
Asterion turned his gaze to the handsome young man with black hair and red eyes.
"Oh, you no longer look like a parasite, Half-breed," Asterion spoke sarcastically, his lips curling into a sadistic and cold smile. "I visited your father's grave, a truly unpleasant man even after death. I hope you don't mind me destroying his tomb and the remains of your amiable father."
Asterion calling him a Half-breed deeply irritated him, but after hearing that his father's remains were destroyed, Voldemort became furious.
Don't get it wrong, Voldemort didn't care about his father; he even felt disgust at having a Muggle as a father, but his father's remains were essential for his future complete revival.
Now, with Asterion's words, practically all preparations for his revival were thrown in the trash.
"I will kill you," Voldemort snarled. "I will kill you slowly and with much pain; you will suffer and beg for forgiveness as you kneel kissing my feet."
Upon hearing this, Asterion extended his hand and showed his trembling hand. "See? I'm shaking with fear."
His actions could deceive someone if it weren't for the sarcastic and cold tone of his voice.
"Mahoraga."
As soon as Asterion finished speaking, the Divine General who was waiting for orders moved at that moment.
He disappeared from where he was and reappeared almost instantly in front of Voldemort.
Voldemort didn't flinch in front of the pale abomination and clashed head-on with punches and kicks.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Every punch hit Mahoraga, causing the chest, neck, and head of the Divine General to sink, but it regenerated in the next moment.
Voldemort didn't show unhappiness upon seeing this and attacked once more, reinforcing his body to monstrous levels at the same time, he whispered.
"Innate Spell Manipulation - Corruption of Malevolent Gods - Universal Decay."
His fist was covered by a dark and eerie aura, and without hesitation, he punched the Divine General, a sonic boom was heard, and Mahoraga was sent flying away.
70% of the Divine General's body had completely disappeared, leaving only shoulders, head, and the appendage that looked like a tail.
Cang!
The golden wheel spun above Mahoraga's head, and in the next moment, it completely regenerated its body while grotesquely smiling at Voldemort.
"Then I have to destroy his body completely," Voldemort murmured, looking at the monster approaching him. He already had an idea of how to destroy this abomination that could adapt to any attack and action from someone.
His Domain Expansion was perfect for this, but looking at Rose standing not too far away, waiting her turn, and Asterion also waiting, Voldemort concluded that manifesting his Domain Expansion wouldn't be easy.
Voldemort then turned his attention to his only ally still in a condition to help him, the only problem being that the Dark Lord didn't trust anyone, much less a temporary and highly suspicious ally like the wizard from the Middle East.
At the same time, Voldemort noticed the weight of using his innate technique using this body was still too heavy, even transmuting Quirinus's body using the Philosopher's Stone, this body in the end still wasn't his, and it was decaying at a rapid pace, even using the Philosopher's Stone to delay this limit, in half an hour at most, this body would turn into a puddle of decomposed black liquid.
So, he was in a very compromising position at that moment, with high risks of perishing in the next battle.
But Voldemort didn't have time to think further because the Divine General began his onslaught again with extremely fast punches and kicks, each blow breaking the sound barrier.
Watching the melee unfolding between Voldemort and Mahoraga, Asterion looked at Herpo and asked curiously.
"Aren't you going to help your companion?"
Herpo shrugged and replied nonchalantly. "I can tell when someone doesn't trust me. If I join the fight hastily, he might think I'm fighting against him to hand him over in exchange for staying alive."
"Don't worry about that; you're going to die regardless of what you do. After all, I'm very kind." Showing a gentle smile, Asterion spoke. "I'll give you as food for Baskerville; he has a strict diet of cursed spirits and corpses of my enemies."
Herpo rolled his eyes at the shameless words of the boy; you call that kindness? If you're kind, then I'm an angel!
"I must decline your generous offer," Herpo spoke coldly, his gaze briefly focused on Voldemort, and he smirked maliciously. "After all, I have plans to escape."
Looking coldly at Herpo, Asterion wanted to see what his plan was to flee.
Dodging the sonic punches, Voldemort spun in the air and kicked Mahoraga's head, splattering purple blood on the ground. Even without a head, the Divine General took advantage and grabbed the enemy's leg.
Without hesitation, he threw him away, breaking everything in his path, throwing dust and large chunks of earth into the air.
Taking advantage of this moment, still in the air, Voldemort stopped using the Philosopher's Stone to heal his body and focused on channeling the monstrous energy inside the stone to accelerate the creation of barriers.
Voldemort intentionally reduced the range of the Domain Expansion to save time.
What should have lasted about 1.0 seconds was shortened to 0.4 seconds.
In the time it took a human to blink, the barriers manifested covering a radius of fifty meters.
Showing a chillingly large grin, Voldemort spoke coldly.
"Domain Expansion - Final Decay of the Universe."
A dark and shadowy space appeared around Voldemort, in the universe full of stars and planets, all the stars seemed to slowly die until finally, only a cold universe remained without any trace of life.
The entire body of the Divine General was trapped in a specific corner of the universe, being constantly torn apart while his body regenerated in an endless cycle of destruction and regeneration.
Voldemort, seeing this, clenched his teeth and poured even more magical energy, preventing Mahoraga's regeneration from healing as quickly as it was being wounded.
At the same time, Herpo didn't even need to make hand seals and spoke.
"Domain Expansion - Workshop of the Creation Gods."
The barriers manifested around them as Herpo laughed maliciously, his laughter filled with cruelty.
"You and Rose are arrogant; you underestimate people's will, but the world will teach you how arrogance is the mother of all failures." When he finished speaking, the entire Domain Expansion fully manifested.
"You're right, I am arrogant, but there's something you're wrong about. I never underestimate my enemies." Asterion looked at the Domain Expansion approaching with an indifferent face. After all, he had long expected that they would use Domain Expansion.
One of the reasons he and Rose allowed them to use it was to deplete Herpo and Voldemort's magical energy.
Even for any special-grade wizard, manifesting their Domain Expansion cost an immeasurable amount of magical energy.
Behind Asterion, Rose was even faster than Herpo; she intertwined her index finger with her middle finger and spoke.
"Domain Expansion - Infinite Void."
Rose's Expansion manifested so quickly that it collided with Herpo's Domain Expansion, which was still in the middle of its path towards Asterion.
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