My Dragon King System-Chapter 237: Aiden Against Two Gods!

The entire reason he used a duplicate of Laela’s lifeless body was simple: when Lucina looked down from above and saw him grieving over it, she would believe it.

She would think he had finally broken, that the man who refused to obey her was now ready to yield. And that belief would draw her down to him without hesitation.

Aiden remained sitting beside Laela’s lifeless body without turning back fully or answering the goddess yet.

She glanced at the body for a moment, with her voice slipping into a tone that sounded half-mocking, half-teasing. "Aww, don’t worry. You can always find another elf. Or if you’d like, I can fetch you a replacement wife from Yul’thera."

Aiden didn’t rise to the bait. Instead, he asked, "Who’s the other fellow?"

Behind him, Herxes stood beside Lucina with his hand holding a short winged staff. There were strange runes glowing around his eyes, rotating slowly in circular patterns.

Lucina smiled. "Did you think I would come here without bringing some sort of advantage over your ability to control time?"

She had watched the battle with Va. She remembered every detail.

Herxes grunted slightly at Lucina, seeing that she missed to say the other reason why he was here.

Lucina glanced at him for a moment in understanding, then added "Ah, right. And you’ll be giving him a boon as well."

"I see." Aiden said, now standing and turning to face them both. The moment Aiden’s eyes landed on Herxes’s glowing runes, he had copied the foresight ability using his Replication Authority.

And a few screens from the system pulled up before him.

[Divine Magic Copied: Herxes’ Foresight]

[Herxes Foresight → This will let the host see ten seconds into the future relative to himself]

[Shall I retain this copied magic? It seems to be an inferior version of your future sight]

Aiden had not replied the system just yet but looking at these screens, he had gotten a full understanding of why Herxes was brought along.

Herxes’s foresight, which let him see about ten seconds into a future relative to himself, would allow him to notice in advance if he was going to be frozen in time in any upcoming moment.

And with that knowledge, he could react before it happened, moving preemptively to avoid the effect.

Lower gods were called lower gods because they did not possess the power over Laws. That was the fundamental distinction between them and high gods like Lucina.

Even so, they still possessed powerful magic and abilities. They were gods, after all.

Lucina then stepped forward, with a satisfied expression on her face. "Now then," she began, "I believe we have an agreement to finalize. You’ll grant me the boon, and in return, I’ll stop—"

"The only thing happening here today," Aiden interrupted, "is your final moments."

Lucina’s smile faltered.

Aiden continued, in a cold voice. "In fact, your death today is a foregone conclusion."

Lucina’s eyes widened when she noticed that the supposed body of his elven wife has started dispersing into specs of what looked like white dust.

That was evidently a fake version.

Her expression then shifted into a frown, and with so much irritation. She turned her head toward Herxes without taking her eyes off Aiden.

"We’re leaving," she said sharply.

Both gods ascended immediately, rising into the air as golden light began to wrap around them in preparation for departure.

But then they stopped.

Lucina’s eyes widened slightly as she tried to push upward again, but nothing. She couldn’t move beyond a certain point, as if an invisible ceiling had been placed above them.

Space itself had been locked.

Aiden snapped his fingers, and in an instant, both gods were returned to the point they stood, as two pebbles from the ground had replaced their positions above.

"Usually, I’d let my avatars or something do the work" then he starts rolling his arms as if trying to adjust his muscles. "But you see this time? I will have your head myself"

"How?!" Herxes demanded. "When did you do that?"

His foresight had not detected when Aiden locked space.

Aiden smiled faintly, then replied "Perhaps you haven’t wondered about the limits of your own abilities"

It had happened moments ago, when Lucina mentioned bringing Herxes as backup and Aiden had turned to face them both.

With that knowledge of Herxes’ abilities, and knowing exactly what he was up against, Aiden had made his move.

With a thought, he had locked space but because he wasn’t certain how close it would be for Herxes’s foresight to detect it as "relative to him", he instead locked the space surrounding the entire planet itself.

And since It didn’t affect Herxes directly world, there was no way his foresight would have picked it up.

Lucina’s frown deepened and her eyes began glowing with intense golden light as flames erupted around her body in waves of searing heat.

"If you think, this will go like it did with Va, then you have another thing coming" she said, forming a peculiar hand seal with a fingers.

"In my radiance, anything becomes ash."

The air itself ignited around her as her Law activated fully.

The invisible barrier of Aiden’s Space Lock trembled, with its form weakening as her flames pressed against it.

It wasn’t just ordinary fire, but a conceptual burn that seared at the existence of anything it touched.

Aiden noticed immediately as cracks started forming along the sealed space itself, like glass under extreme heat.

He raised one hand and cast another Space Lock over the first one, layering them together for reinforcement.

But even that second barrier began to give way, though far more slowly.

The metaphysical flames gnawed at its edges, steadily eating through its structure as Lucina’s Law continued its relentless assault on both barriers at once.

Lucina laughed, with her voice filled with vindictive satisfaction. "Do not underestimate me Dragon Vessel!" she said, "My Flames are all encompassing!."

She extended one hand toward Aiden directly now, and her flames surged forward toward him as well, targeting him alongside both spatial locks simultaneously.

The searing heat washed over Aiden’s body in an instant.

But he didn’t burn.

His innate fire magic, elevated to Celestial Rank provided natural immunity against her flames at this level.

Aiden smiled back at her.

Lucina’s expression faltered immediately, with some form unease creeping in.

"Herxes!" she yelled suddenly. "Don’t just stand there! Do something!"

Then Herxes moved instantly.

A burst of speed unlike anything Aiden had seen before exploded from the lower god’s body as he launched himself forward with his staff raised high.

This, combined with his foresight, was exactly why he was the Messenger God.

He could cross any distance to deliver messages or fulfill whatever duty he was given, slipping past anything that might slow him down. His foresight let him evade every obstacle before it became one.

Before Aiden could even begin casting another spell or raising a hand in defense, Herxes was already upon him with his staff aimed directly at Aiden’s chest.