Lord of Myths: I Can Summon and Fuse Divine Powers.-Chapter 76: The library of Babel. (1)

"They did their part, now I just have to do mine," the witch responded with a serious and determined look.

Caligo rolled her eyes, as if her opponent had just said something stupid.

"Whatever you say, that you changed the scenery won’t change anything, you’re still the same," the Ashura responded condescendingly.

While what the demon goddess of tyranny had said was true, it was also true that the Ashura herself was now at a disadvantage.

After all, Anansi hadn’t created the Library of Babel to increase her power but to weaken the Ashura.

And while it was true that scenario was perfect for Anansi, it was also true the witch had created that reality to limit the demon goddess of tyranny.

The Ashura being merged with her environment was quite annoying.

There was no way to destroy her, at least unless all the Azoth in the area was purified or all the reality she had built was destroyed.

However, those ways were quite difficult to carry out.

In fact, Anansi didn’t know how it was possible for the demon goddess of tyranny to have such a high amount of Azoth.

While the witch had arrived late to prevent her awakening, it also had to be mentioned the Ashura hadn’t been awake too long.

Besides, Anansi had ended the external chaos sources, by eliminating the mutations in the Devastra of the Vanir she had encountered.

Therefore, she couldn’t feed on that.

How had she been able to generate so much Azoth in so little time?

Anansi didn’t know the answer, perhaps the reason was that she was an Ashura.

One shouldn’t underestimate her even if she was a mere shadow of what she was.

Anansi could notice how the demon goddess of tyranny’s Azoth reserves were increasing even at that moment.

It wasn’t a small, or imperceptible increase, it was a considerable and constant increase.

Perhaps that’s also why the Ashura took time to converse with Anansi. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

While the witch bought time to be able to weave the crystallized reality, the Ashura took advantage to increase her Azoth reserves.

If so, there was no longer any point in wasting time.

After all, the witch had already managed to overwrite the reality of the infinite abyss of innocuous darkness, turning it into the Library of Babel.

Then, there was no point in continuing to waste time, since now it was the Ashura who was gaining power with every passing second.

The witch began to move her fingers.

Both the Ashura and Anansi were between two enormous shelves, which formed a corridor.

But suddenly, these shelves began to move forward, with a movement very similar to that of two passing trains.

Before the demon goddess of tyranny could wonder what was happening, two shelves moved.

It was as if in reality the gigantic and long shelf surrounding them was in fact a combination of multiple shelves coupled with each other.

Just the "corridor" shelves moved, interposing themselves between Anansi and the Ashura, but also behind the Ashura.

"What are you doing?" the demon goddess of tyranny questioned with curiosity seeing the shelves move.

The Ashura wasn’t alarmed at all, to her the shelves seemed harmless, and in themselves they were, what was really dangerous were the books.

These opened suddenly, and from them, began to come out projectiles of all kinds, elemental and magical attacks.

The Ashura upon seeing that didn’t hesitate to move aside, propelling herself to the left, however when she tried, something funny happened.

The friction between the floor and her feet became null, making the Ashura slip and fall, and receive all the attacks head-on.

What had just happened was simple, that scenario or landscape was inclined in favor of Anansi.

In other words, the laws of that world were against the Ashura, including causality and probability.

Therefore, when the demon goddess of tyranny moved, wanting to avoid being hit by the attacks that had been thrown at her, the surface beneath her feet was altered.

In that mere instant the Ashura fell due to the lack of friction induced by the environment itself.

It was curious, since the demon goddess of tyranny didn’t need a surface to move.

However, that took her by surprise, causing her to suffer a quite humiliating fall.

"Ouch! What the hell?" the Ashura complained as she crashed against the floor.

That had been confusing and humiliating, and besides, it allowed all the attacks from the books to hit her.

Those books were "concentrated" fantasies. Each book had a story, a world, a narrative.

Each of these was represented with words.

But, by opening certain parts of the book, the words could come to life and transform into a phenomenon.

For example, in a book that narrates the story of a prodigious sorcerer, one could go to the precise paragraph where this same wizard invokes a fireball, and give life to those words.

Another example could be a story of a war, on a page where it narrates how the army throws a rain of arrows, and those arrows would manifest in reality.

The curious thing was the Library of Babel had hundreds of these books that embodied complete fantasies.

Besides, they weren’t stories limited by Anansi’s knowledge or that world’s literature.

These were stories created in randomness.

The code of that reality was simple, it collapsed randomness when a story with sense and structure was generated in it, to then store it in a book.

Babel was full of these stories, which gave Anansi a practically unlimited amount of attacks.

Hundreds of different attacks hit the demon goddess of tyranny at once.

Damaging her body, but the latter was repaired instantly.

The Ashura’s regenerative power was undoubtedly great, though it depended directly on the amount of Azoth she had available.

So Anansi’s objective had to be either wear her down little by little with multiple attacks until the Ashura completely ran out of Azoth reserves, or on the contrary create a sufficiently strong and lethal attack so she wouldn’t recover.

Though the best option was to combine both, first make her defense wear down, and then attack her with a sufficiently powerful attack to do her irreparable damage.

Just what Anansi planned to do.