BXBX NOVEL Chapter 81: Sun against Sun.
"It's about 50\\50 honestly," Sol chuckled, watching her carefully check his armour again in preparation for sending him off.
"I admit that I love seeing your battles, your ruthlessness to me is one of your most attractive traits, as it was on Atla, but, I constantly worry that you will one day bite an arm that you are not ready to sever," Ikaris sighed and took a step away from him, standing next to Arla who was observing his sendoff.
"The same as what happened with Saat," Ikaris added, causing the mage next to her to stare shocked.
Arla had done as Sol told her and looked to the northern skies at night, and she was shocked when she saw what looked like an entirely new and incredibly close galaxy full of thin distorted stars in the sky, although she was not told how it happened, she knew that the two of them were somehow responsible.
"Is there some kind of treaty that requires this?" Arla asked feeling nervous for Sol as well when she saw Ikaris's doubt, but Sol's expression washed all of their doubts away as he smiled at Ikaris and balled his fists.
"Not at all, when Sol got here the first thing he did was pick a fight with the gods; Dr'ul to be exact, and in doing so he received the attention of the heavens." Ikaris chuckled after Sol have her a playful salute and vanished in a flash of light after the system summoned him.
"It has escalated into something of a game between him and them one of pleasantries and grudges, he challenges on some days, and they challenge on other days with benefits and consequences depending on the outcome of the challenges varying from slight punishments to death, though, I have come to terms with the fact that if they kill him unfairly I will never let it rest." She turned and looked at the mage.
"Then... The statues that crumbled in the hall of the gods-"
"The god of Golems;Psikos, died by his hand, it was an arrogant duel to the death, and he paid the price for his arrogance, currently there are no lesser gods more powerful than Sol.
Diablos schemed to remove me from the image without knowing who or what I was, his fate was for worse as he is now a large scavenging serpent with no free will being driven to eat decaying corpses for the rest of his existence, that was the will of the pantheon whom he defied when he broke the sacred rules of their precious duels."
"Goodness..." Arla clasped her hand over her mouth. "If you are always this worried, then why do you not join master Vestic?"
"It is an unfair disadvantage, I am a god among gods, incomparable to any deity in this realm, besides, I do not want to fight the gods, I have a grudge against demons that I have to satiate..." Ikaris closed one eye and smiled. "It is about to begin," She told Arla, and then seemed to become less attentive as she turned and started walking toward the heroes' tent.
"Ah..." Arla tried being dismissive of the bomb of information that had been dropped in her lap like a casual fart.
[The venue has been decided, due to the nature of this fight and the powerhouses involved it will take place in a pocket dimension where the challengers have authority to use their abilities to their fullest]
The system announced while Sol opened his eyes, seeing a vast flat terrain full of small rock formations stretching on forever in every direction.
Before him stood three figures
The first was Yama, the god of strength and perseverance, he was a large hulking figure with dark skin and a shiny bald head, on one side of his face there was a scar that went down to his neck from his jaw, no doubt inflicted by another god. And on his right side he had an extra eye beneath his normal eye.
The second god that caught Sol's attention was Sorath, the goddess of the sun, he smiled as he thought of her and himself, since his name also meant 'sun' back in his home dimension, and like his demigod form her hair was shortened, floating and glowing white, it was like staring at a female version of himself honestly, she even stood the same height and had the same mannerisms as him.
"How uncanny." Sol commented before looking at his third challenger; Nathanael, the god of vengeance.
He could already tell that this god clad in black and wearing a weird insignia on his chest with a long flowing cape was trouble. He kind of resembled that one comic hero Sol used to read about; Vampire-bat man.
[The pantheon is holding their breath]
[The goddess of war is in anticipation]
[The god of destruction showing a disgusting amount of interest again...]
"Alright then," Sol unfolded his hands and stood at the ready, grinning wickedly at the three who held serious expressions as they opposed him. "One at a time or all at once, you decide!"
[This is a match of power and authority, killing is not prohibited but might be frowned upon by the onlookers]
[You may begin-]
Before the notification of the system could even finish chiming the area Sol was standing in erupted in an explosion and he appeared next to the god of vengeance, spinning with his fist aimed at his side, but to his surprise he was hit instead by Yama who despite his size was quite fast, the godnof strength however was shocked when Sol tanked the blow, hitting the ground and bouncing back toward him and headbutting him.
*Boom*
Yama's eyes were wide in shock when he arose and found Sol blocking Sorath's kick and Nathanael's punch with one hand each while his hair floated and his eyes inverted as he used his new divine powers.
"This..." Sol's face contorted into a sinister smirkas he grabbed hold of them and swung them into each other and then flung them wildly at Yama. "Don't you dare underestimate me right now, I want a real fight!"
"What is the meaning of this?" Yama caught his fellow gods easily and stared at Sol confused. "After viewing the fights he has been in I assumed him to be a calculated warrior, buy this bastard is wild!" He exclaimed when Sol started walking toward them, punching his palm with that same sick smile. "Did divinity drive his mortal mind over the edge?"
[It does not matter!] Sorath laughed foregoing her previous appearance as her entire body was caught aflame and she rushed at sol again smiling. [I came here to witness the thrill of this man's fist!] She laughed as she clashed fists with Sol, and he laughed as well when they were both sent flying in opposite directions.
[I am vengeance, I am the night, I am-]
"Monologuing!" Sol caught Nathanael by his cape and dragged him into a kick that caused the god to spit up golden blood as his ribcage shattered and he was sent flying again.
The atmosphere became increasingly hot, and Sol glanced far behind the others where he found Sorath in the air cackling as she cooked up a literal miniature blue star above her head while her free hand was pointed toward him.
[If you two do not want to fight seriously, then move aside and leave this all to your big sister!] She fired off a thin concentrated beam of starlight from her index finger, and on instinct Sol dodged the attack, watching it neatly slice through the environment like a hot knife through butter.
"That's interesting," Sol raised his magical output and began cackling again as he created a ball of fire in his grasp, thinning and condensing it until it lost the plasma properties and became a thread of light that started growing and weaving into a ball similar to the one she was holding above her head.
[Sister, wait, if you use that in here the dimension might shatter-]
[Then let it shatter!] Sorath laughed as she descended while Yama and Nathanael retreated to the sides. [Why hold back at all when facing such a monster?]
"Maybe I just needed to fight you alone after all!" Sol accepted her challenge as he ascended clashing their respective attacks together and laughing as the system started shouting off warnings before him and cracks started appearing across the isolated space.
"Ha ha ha ha~" Sol held fascination as he felt a force pulling and pushing him at the same time. "It's breaking, it's really breaking!" He exclaimed before everything else went white.