Myriad Devils-Chapter 104: Power transcending the worldly flesh

At a certain level of strength, logic did not apply, and worldly laws had little effect.

The second world was already a world of superhumans. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for those in the first layer of the second world to move at speeds that would’ve shattered the sound barrier in the old world.

Because the world had changed, so to did its laws.

There were many things now, different than before. So numerous, in fact, that it would be simply too much to explain.

So, in the face of those in the third world, and battles between entities of the third world, and magical attacks of these third world beings, what made sense to the mortal mind did not matter, and the logic that these minds utilized, did not apply.

The beast general monstrosity had crawled across the sky and made an appearance above Seth. Its body was upside down, allowing its upper body to be closer to Seth. At the same time, Seth, who hadn’t sensed the creature, reacted late to its movements.

Only after his nose caught whiff of a bloody scent in the air did he lift his chin and take in the sight above him.

The creature’s face was oddly close to his.

Though it had no teeth, there was a freakish grin on its face.

And though it had no eyes, there was a demonic aura flickering in its eye sockets as blood trickled down its face.

Droplets of blood and pieces of flesh fell from its form, towards Seth, but these droplets and pieces appeared stuck in time.

In fact, Seth too, appeared stuck in time.

Although it took time to describe its appearance, the beast general had attacked the moment it appeared above Seth.

He simply had no time to react.

The massive great axe that it gripped caused the air to tremble and the atmosphere to destabilize.

This axe approached Seth’s unassuming figure, cleaving his body in half!

But because it was sizably larger than Seth’s body, it didn’t just stop at cleaving him in half, but also burst his fleshy body into chunks and pieces.

And to this, one should not be confused.

This was Seth’s real body.

To this attack, he could not evade.

There was no false body being destroyed, no crimson particles exploding...

No, Seth’s fleshy body exploded into a bloody mist and chunky pieces of flesh fell.

The beast general had entered its strongest state in a fit of rage.

It was similar to the time the Red Ape manifested a massive apparition behind its body, wiping out the hundreds of one-winged monkeys in an instant.

Instantaneously, the beast general had taken care of Seth.

Seth had died.

His remains fell into the pond, or the shattered rocks that drifted above the pond.

With a plop, one of his eyeballs fell into the pond water.

This was the only eyeball that could be found, with his other eyeball probably being obliterated.

But that wasn’t important because, from this eyeball, and the blood-colored pupil within it, a silvery hue coated it.

For Seth, this was exactly what he saw the instance he activated his third principle, one that he hadn’t utilized in a long while.

The moment his gaze returned to the beast general’s location, where he had lost sight of it, the silvery hue covered his blood red orbs, revealing his imminent future.

Seth subconsciously knew that the beast general was right above him, or at least, it was about to appear right above him.

He didn’t need anyone to tell him, reacting out of instinct.

Seth had avoided death, just barely.

Where he stood, his false body was cleaved in half and then exploded into crimson particles which dissipated into the air.

Immediately after, the beast general roared out with rage.

It swiftly realized that Seth was able to react or predict its movements, something that Seth hadn’t hinted he could do before.

It appeared that this battle had only now reached its climax.

The ground had now become a forsaken battleground as Seth appeared hundred of meters in the sky, far away from the beast general.

But the monstrosity’s body twisted as the massive body of swirling flesh and blood stepped across the skies and rocketed towards Seth.

Seth stood high in the air, the cosmic sky above him painting a transcendental image.

Seth’s face was expressionless.

Though tears of blood trickled don his cheeks, his eyes were emotionless.

Behind him, black bolts of crackling lightning bellowed out as runic characters manifested in the air.

They radiated a crimson aura that caused the atmosphere to twist and pulse.

And then, from this strange atmosphere, droplets of blood spilled into the real world.

The skies were painted red.

As he utilized his demonic nature, the principles of blood, and his eyes that saw beyond the veil of time, he began to greatly strain his fleshy body.

Blood oozed from his pores as his body struggled to contain the immense amount of chaotic forces that bubbled within.

But as these droplets of blood fell into the air, they glowed brilliantly, releasing a buzzing sound.

Following this buzzing sound, a dark red light encompassed the world, momentarily silencing the worldly realm.

This was the calm before the storm.

And shattering this calm was the sound of a flowing river!

"Blood River!"

Rushing towards the cosmic sky, the monstrous beast general, with a demonic great axe in hand, appeared unafraid as a river of blood arced through the skies and descended onto it.

The creature raised its mighty axe and slashed at the river.

The two attacks containing magical properties collided, and the world thereafter, lost its luster.

It was akin to a calamity meant to exterminate all life!

Space trembled as the skies turned grey and a chaotic storm of energies exploded into existence.

The entire blood river was stopped in its tracks, but so too was the momentum of the mighty great axe.

With one hand gripping the axe, its two paws summoned great power, slashing out towards the blood river, causing it to slowly begin solidifying.

At the same time, it opened its two mouths, therein, balls of pure blood principle power charged up ready to completely shatter the blood river.

But in the depths of the blood river, Seth’s demonic nature was released.

The runic characters flew through the blood river, pulsating with mystery.

As the two mouths of the beast general spat out its attack, they intertwined, amplifying their power as they crashed into the blood river.

The blood river immediately solidified before exploding into crimson particles, dissipating into nothingness!

Reacting swiftly, the crimson particles could not properly dissipate as the beast general rocketed towards Seth.

But to this, Seth smiled.

And that was when it happened...

The dissipating crimson particles released an invigorating light before releasing a mind-numbing sound.

"I’ve got you." Seth chuckled.

"Blood Tower!"

In the depths of each crimson particle, a runic character was visible, and as the blood tower began constructing at a rate faster than anything the beast general could physically move at, these runic characters made their appearance more and more visible.

Sharp sounds resounded out as the beast general wrathfully growled, but as the tower clicked in place, the mass of swirling flesh and blood became less and less visible.

Its body appeared to shrink significantly as the blood tower made its appearance, slightly different from usual.

Appearing only a few meters tall, it was much smaller than the beast general’s towering body. At the same time, its appearance was much more craftily designed compared to before.

On the walls of the blood tower, runic characters etched themselves, shining with a resplendent yet eerily dark light.

Oozing from the levitating tower was flowing blood that cascaded the sky. The tower, like a floating fountain, was similar to a magical monument that represented Seth’s brilliant victory.

"Such a beautiful sight." Seth sighed weakly.

His skin had become very pale, and weakness was visible in his eyes.

The blood tower drifting in the sky beneath him flickered for a few seconds before chips and cracks appeared on it.

Seth coughed up a mouthful of incredibly dark blood as weakness drowned his senses, causing him to uncontrollably plummet from the skies.

At the same time, the floating blood tower crumbled at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Slowly but surely, the beast general’s figure slowly became more visible!

When the tower finally gave way, the beast general returned to the physical world with a body that was much smaller than before.

Its lower body, a mass of swirling flesh that was similar in appearance to a large bear, had been eradicated, leaving now, the fleshy body of a humanoid giant.

Boom!

The beast general descended from the skies lifelessly, crashing into the earth.

Its corpse was still immensely large, at least ten times larger than Anon and Seth.

"For fuck’s sake..." Seth groaned as he crawled out of a small ditch which had been created from his fall. Leaning against a nearby tree, he inwardly mused to himself, ’Not so much my spirit, simultaneously activating three principles strains this weak body more.’

There were multiple reasons why Seth only utilized a single principle. Of them, one major reason was his physical body.

Seth’s real strength, the power he had utilized to slay a beast general had transcended his worldly flesh. It caused him great suffering every time he used his full strength.

’Ahh, the aches and pains I willingly submerge myself in, just for you, dear Anon.’

...

Who knew how much time passed.

Those alive returned to consciousness, and the dead rotted.

Anon stumbled across the earth, lost.

As he walked, sometimes falling against a tree before propping himself back up, minute organisms fell from his body.

His torso was exposed and his flesh was rotted.

Whilst unconscious, strange creatures consumed his rotting flesh.

There were dozens of maggots visibly wriggling around in his exposed insides...

Anon’s skin was pale, and he appeared quite sickly, but as he stumbled before a small mountain, a weak smile etched itself on his face.

No, not so much a small mountain, it was a large corpse.

"I-It really is the Fleshy Bear King!"