BXBX NOVEL Chapter 178 - God's Defeat
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This was the second time God screamed in agony, and both times have been provoked by Noah!
"Nnnnnngggggggoooooohhh…!"
"GRRAAAAHHH…!"
"Gyyyyaaaaaahhh…!"
Many of the hive minds within God began to scream in pain, as the hand they were extending inside of Noah was shaking and falling into large chunks of red-colored light, they were being corrupted by the power of Noah\'s soul alongside his Blood Core!
Even more, now that he had finally managed to take over the System Cube that represented his status, the System he had was now his and only his!
The power of these three elements converged together, alongside Soul Devour, and quickly began to devour the enormous hand the moment it touched the System Cube!
The fingers cracked into bloody pieces, and so did the rest of the hand, the cracks reaching the entire arm as shattered pieces of light tainted in red began to fall over and over, devoured by Noah\'s soul!
However, within Noah\'s soul, the Spawn of Azathoth wasn\'t even helping him. Just as Noah thought, this entity was not really something he could rely on.
Unexpectedly, however, the Blood Progenitor had also helped Noah! Using his strong Will and the masterful ability he had over souls and his own power over the Blood Core, Noah let him go all out, his will had easily been able to corrupt the System Cube, and now he and Noah joined hands to devour God\'s hand!
"I never thought that things could come to this…! Make sure to give me a body after this, I have helped you a lot already!" said the Blood Progenitor.
"We\'ll see about that," said Noah.
The rest of Noah\'s subordinates didn\'t falter, as they kept attacking and pushing back God\'s hand!
God\'s hive-minds quickly grew desperate and decided to finally fall back when it was already way too late.
"What is going on?! Nnnngghh…!"
"It hurts, it hurts so much!"
"Agh! This demon can really eat souls, even divine souls?!"
"Pull back! PULL BACK!"
"I told you… Agh…! We told you that this would happen, stupid idiots!"
"You fools, you get what you deserve! …Although it really hurt us as well!"
"As they say, you reap what you sow, huh? Ouch!"
The hive minds cried in desperation, they had underestimated Noah\'s true capabilities!
He was truly a demon!
And the ones that were always against this also screamed in agony but were kind of happy how things turned out, so the other minds could actually understand a bit that Noah wasn\'t someone they should fight against but an ally they needed to rely on due to his powers and capabilities.
If they really wanted to save Earth against the Watchers, fighting, and trying to take away the powers of one of the best candidates to help them was utterly idiotic.
There were many strong Hunters, but none like Noah whose growth speed was utterly ridiculous, alongside that, he had many unique powers that no other Hunters had developed.
He was… perhaps, an ideal "hero" even more with his ability to eat souls! …But the grand majority of God\'s mind was stupid figures people worshiped, so it was to be expected that it lacked a bit of common sense.
Nonetheless, the language that all living beings understand, even the most stupid of them all is pain.
With pain, they were bound to understand… Or so, these minds that didn\'t desire to fight Noah thought.
Whatever was left of the arm, which was also a bit tainted in red, quickly fell back, disappearing through a strange distortion on space.
Just as that occurred, all of Noah\'s subordinates and his wife quickly fell over the ground.
Everyone was way too tired.
Their Soul Beasts dissipated from Noah\'s soul and Noah also retracted his tentacles while devouring whatever shattered fragments of God\'s Divine Soul were left.
As everyone was gasping for air, Noah was assimilating an even greater amount of power!
But now, the System he had was his!
Noah\'s entire body began to flow with an enormous, bright red aura, encompassing everywhere!
It quickly rushed through the entire Manor, as it touched the souls of every being in here, even Scarlet and the Blood Servants, even the robots!
Much like against Merlin and Excalibur, Noah had acquired too much power in exchange for everyone having their soul way weakened again… Now, he was taking parts of it and sharing it with everyone that helped, so he could not bear the burdens of such enormous divine power alone, as he felt like his soul was about to explode like a balloon who had taken way more air than it could contain!
"Nngh…!" groaned Noah, as he fell over the floor and resisted the flow of divine energy, which was literally burning him from the inside out!
"Let me give you a hand…" said the Blood Progenitor.
"You… Aren\'t you going to betray me if I let you do this though?!" asked Noah, he didn\'t trust this bastard!
"How can I even betray you anymore? We are one long ago, foolish human…" sighed the Blood Progenitor.
"What? Scram off! I can… do this myself! Agh!" screamed Noah.
"Shut up and let me help you!" The Blood Progenitor decided to aid Noah once more, as he used his powerful Will to manage the power.
Noah used his authority over the System while receiving the Blood Progenitor\'s help, and used the System itself to assimilate the power and then seal a large part of it as well, so he wouldn\'t simply explode and die out of overcharge!
His Blood Core began to glow brighter than ever before, as Noah began to instinctively meditate and manipulate these energies correctly… slowly yet steadily, he was repurposing them.
The same happened with everyone around him, although they all seemed to have fallen unconscious.
Alongside the new power, Noah felt a constant rush of information fill his mind.
He gained new memories!
These memories were not normal at all, these memories were from… God itself.
Although they were merely fragmented, he had gained a large amount of knowledge of the past, alongside a lot of the knowledge about the world.
He learned many things, alongside the location of many places known as "inheritances" of old mages and heroes of ancient times… Which Noah decided to mark as his next goal alongside exploring dungeons.
These inheritances were kept hidden by God due to the amazing items and knowledge hidden within them, which God didn\'t want others to know about, these old ancient mages who had tapped into the unknown and had unveiled many mysteries died while leaving everything they accumulated through their lives in such mystical places, some of them had even become infested with Mutated Beasts, becoming dangerous areas where no one stepped in.
Alongside that, Noah learned about the strange mana crystal meteors, and something about the "Watchers", however, the knowledge he got was very dim due to the memories being all fragmented into pieces.
However, the amount of info was overwhelming as Noah was not equal to God, and his mind was about to explode, he wasn\'t able to accumulate so much information in this little time.
Due to the constant pain and exhaustion, Noah decided to rest for the time being, as his System slowly settled down this overflowing energy.
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