The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns Chapter 160: Heavenly Nine-Headed Serpent Demon Queen: Ibuki-Douji (Patreon)

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RUMBLE!

The nine heads of Yamata-No-Orochi merged with my body as I infused myself with the powers of the Demons and my other Elemental and Draconian Abilities and Skills.

Until my body grew to a ridiculous size.

Using my massive hands, I grabbed her cannon before she could shoot and destroyed it.

BOOOM!

“W-What…?!”

“Let’s finish this, shall we?”

My body had changed, becoming a draconian and serpentine demonic giantess, encompassed by radiant crowns of light, and with a long snake-like tail.

“{Primordial Spiritual Body Transformation Arts}: {Heavenly Nine-Headed Serpent Demon Queen: Ibuki-Douji}”

Through the power of shapeshifting my body and absorbing the powers and essence of my technique, I was able to match her size, giving me an easier time dealing with her massive blows.

Although she had yet to deal actual damage to me, I knew she had more tricks, and her massive body constantly regenerating made it pretty annoying to deal with her.

Therefore, making a larger body to punch her even harder might make things simpler.

And well, it’s fun.

I’m really having fun with this fight, so I want it to last even a little bit more.

My appearance was rather unique this time; I mixed into my Demon Queen form with the manifested aura of Orochi and combined them with my body made of Photon Essence.

I gained four additional arms, white and golden scales covering several parts of my body, and long, white-colored horns covered on red blood-like tattoos.

The rest of my skin turned slightly red, and my legs were gone, replaced by a long tail with white, red, and black scales.

Orochi’s nine heads remained, now mixed with my silver-colored hair.

“H-How did you…?! You can transform?!”

The spider was clearly shocked, but I simply smiled, conjuring weapons out of my [Cursed & Blessed Blazing Starlight Relic Creation] and the [Divine Thunder Spirit Armament] Skills combined with my Divine Photon Essence, which now could gain the properties of molten metal.

Six weapons were made for all six of my enormous hands: a sword, a spear, an axe, a hammer, a dagger, and a trident. I unleashed a barrage of attacks she couldn’t tank anymore.

With the sword I sliced her arms, with the axe I cleaved her body, with the spear I pierced her eyes so she wouldn’t use her little tricks again, with the hammer I crushed her legs, with the dagger I slashed her neck repeatedly, and with the trident I pushed her away and then lifted her into the air.

The purple diamond and nether water body she had made was completely useless; I easily shaved it off her with ease, and although she constantly attempted to remake it, it was futile.

“Uuaaggghh!”

As she screamed in agony, she tried conjuring her domain again, making it smaller and wrapping my body with it, as I noticed dozens of her reflections surging from the wrapped spiderweb-like domain and rushing to attack me with their claws and spider legs.

“Hahahaha!”

I could only laugh; she was indeed a fine opponent, surprising me every now and then! It felt like I was fighting the Venerables again back in Murim.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

I received her blows with my Soul Blade, releasing it by combining my Photon Essence with my own Orochi Aura. My hair moved on its own, shaping into blade-like snakes and clashing against her reflections.

Then, I pushed her down using my trident. Her sharp claws destroyed the weapon though, freeing herself even though the trident’s blades were still stuck in her stomach.

“Guuggh…! I-I can’t regenerate?!”

She glanced at her destroyed body; no parts were coming back anymore.

“I already told you, you will no longer play games with me, spider! Fight me like your life depends on it now!”

TRUUUM!

I released my authority as the domain wrapped around me like a spiderweb shattered into pieces. My snake heads, made out of my hair, reached her in that moment, biting through her arms and shoulders and taking chunks of her metallic body.

CRASH! CRASH CRASH!

“Aaarrgh! Nooo!”

She quickly twisted her body and then attacked me with her remaining legs beneath her torso. Eight sharp-bladed spider legs reached my body, enhanced to the brim with several layers of divine aura.

BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

The hits were strong enough to make me feel a slight amount of pain on my scales and skin. I smiled, quickly moving toward her and walloping her head with my hammer.

CRAAASH!

“Ungh?!”

As she fell to the ground with a loud thud, I quickly imbued my Divinity Aura into my tail and combined it with my Divine Ability and my Soul Blade, turning it into a long golden-bladed tail.

“It has been fun so far.”

“NOOO!”

She screamed furiously as I noticed something surging from within her once more, the purple sands wrapping around her and fusing into her internal wounds, filling her cracks more and more.

“GRAAAHHH!!!”

Her entire body transformed into a gigantic jaw with thousands of fangs, wrapping around me like some sort of metallic slime covered in crystals.

“Hm?”

“If I die here, you’ll die with me!”

With a malicious laughter, she began to charge her body with all her Primal Divine Aura at once, all while summoning her Domain again. As weakened as it was, it twisted space and merged with her body.

Dozens of her reflections appeared in that moment, attacking every inch of my body as they aimed to hurt me or damage me even slightly.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

“Certainly, things would be more thrilling if you could even damage me.” I sighed. “Unfortunately for you, this body of mine cannot be easily hurt.”

“GRAAAHHH!”

She kept screaming as she attacked me, completely consumed by her frustration and hatred, unable to comprehend or perhaps accept my superiority over hers.

Indeed, she comes from a world where there might be no other god than herself, or perhaps the others had never been a challenge to her.

Whatever the case,

“I don’t want the materials you have within you or the souls you’ve taken to go to waste,” I said. “You see, I’m sure my daughter and Merneith would be upset if they were completely disintegrated. So let’s do this differently, alright?”

“W-Wha…?!”

I grasped her entire body tightly with all six of my arms, then wrapped her with my long tail and my snake-like hair, and then…

“I’ll purify you, dear,” I smiled.

I harnessed all of my Primordial Venerable Ki into my physique and released all of my light-based power at once, turning into the embodiment of luminescence.

“W-What…?! What are you doing! What are…?!”

“I am Light.”

“Huh?!”

FLAAASH!

“And like light itself, I shall purify you from these metals and these souls, begone, evil goddess! You do not belong here!”

“AAAAAGGGHHH!”

Her scream echoed across the entire planet as my glistening, holy light encompassed her entire body completely.

The dark purple and black fog encompassing all our surroundings instantly dissipated as all her tiny little spider machines immediately burst into golden flames.

As for her body, it was losing its black and dark purple colors, going back to the former gold of the Mechanical Gods she was made of.

“S-Stop…! STOOOP!”

As she kept screaming, I didn’t stop; I wrapped her with my powers and didn’t let go. My entire body became nothing but purifying light.

“Goodbye, spider.”

I quickly materialized another Blade made out of my Body and Soul, attempting to swing it and cut through her soul to kill her once and for all.

Using my God Devouring Skills, I was already beginning to rapidly absorb her powers and devour her piece by piece.

The pain she felt was tremendous, making her panic and scream.

“Aaahh! Noo! I won’t let you eat me!”

However, she screamed, and before I could kill her, she let go of her vessel, and her entire presence disappeared. She cut her own soul to leave a part for me to absorb before escaping.

FLUOSH!

“Ah… Well, she got away.”

I attempted to track her down, but without a strong connection like the Gods had with the System that I could abuse, I was unable to find her.

However, I could still sense her somewhere… She has hidden within this world itself.

Somewhere.

“Mama! You did it!”

My thoughts were interrupted as I heard Hekita in the distance sitting over Anubis.

“Amazing! You defeated that thing!”

Merneith was right by her side over Ra.

The spider machines were gone too, turned back to their previous forms.

Well, they were mostly all junk already.

Any person inside of them was long dead too.

“It seems to be the case.” I nodded. “Hmm! But what a mess this is! Look at all these parts. Is it even possible to repair them?”

“A-Ah!” Merneith gasped. “The mechanical gods…”

“Indeed, they all ended up being destroyed, reformed, and then destroyed again,” I said. “Are they even “alive” like Ra and Anubis are? I wonder if they’ll regenerate back?”

“I-I have no idea,” said Merneith. “Ra, can you talk now? Do you think they can be…?”

“Merneith…”

Ra glared at the large pieces of metal and parts scattered across the sands.

“They’re dead. It’s impossible for them to reconstruct themselves.”

“D-Dead? But Gods cannot die! You are…”

“We can die… They had been crushed over… And over again. And their Cores were… Sucked dry of their Essence. They’re nothing but… Metal pieces now, unfortunately.”

“Hmm… Indeed,” Anubis nodded. “Mechanical Gods… dead. Father… dead. Hmm, saddening feeling.”

“My stepmother also died,” said Merneith. “Well, I killed her. I wish she could have been here though; if I could have captured her instead, maybe showing her to my father and making her confess her crimes instead. Maybe that would’ve been more… much more satisfying, maybe.”

“I see…” I nodded.

“Mama, will you stay like a giant forever now?” wondered Hekita, glancing at my enormous body. “You’re HUGE!”

“Ah right…” I realized. “My bad.”

FLASH!

I returned to my original appearance, much smaller and compact. We landed on the floor, glancing over the large quantities of metal pieces everywhere.

We even noticed half of the head of Set around there, with the heads of the other Mechanical Gods miraculously intact. They looked damaged and oxidated.

“Everything is finally over, but… Why do I feel so sad?” sighed Merneith. “The Mechanical Gods—they didn’t have any fault in these things. They were only used as tools. And even when we tried to reason with them, they would simply still obey their pilots.”

“Father… Set,” muttered Anubis. “He didn’t want to get along; he said I was a traitor.”

“Anubis…” Hekita caressed his giant metallic claws. “You’re not a traitor! You simply decided to fight for what you believe instead of being forced to do what you didn’t want to do!”

“Hekita…” Anubis would definitely be crying if he could. “Thank you… for being my first… friend.”

“Heheh! No problem!” Hekita smiled cutely, hugging his leg. “Let’s be best friends forever!”

“Yes…” Anubis smiled. “Forever best friends… Sounds good… I like the sound… of that.”

Merneith glanced at Ra, who was standing there glancing at the graveyard.

“Ra, you’re my friend too?” She wondered, looking into the ground.

“I consider myself… more than friend…” Ra said. “Aren’t I… your family, princess?”

“Family… that’s right! We’re family!” Merneith smiled.

“Hmm…”

As I glanced at the wasteland and noticed the other hunters already moving back to the city, I decided to try something.

“Let’s first gather all the metals; we wouldn’t want them to remain in here,” I said.

I pointed my right hand’s index finger into the sky.

“{Divine Photonic Magnetic Field}”

FLUOSH!

A magnetic field made of Divine Photon Essence emerged, resembling a golden sphere above the skies, which quickly attracted all metals within the vicinity that I chose.

Eventually, the graveyard was cleared completely, leaving behind the destroyed remains of the corpses of the people that fought here.

It was a gruesome sight.

I stored the metals inside my Inner Realm for the time being.

“Although these people could be considered demonic cultivators as they were rather villainous, they do deserve a proper trial,” I nodded. “So let us give them a second chance… to be punished properly, shall we?”

“Oohh?!”

Merneith gasped as she saw the bodies of all those that die rewind back to their original living appearances, and I returned their souls back where they belonged.

“You’re right, Merneith,” I said. “Sometimes just killing isn’t satisfying. Making people pay through the law and making them reveal their sins to the people that loved and trusted them… is much more satisfying. We will expose that woman to your father, and she will confess all her crimes. Right, Neferteri?”

“A-Ah…! Where… Where am I?! What happened?” She kept crying. “D-Didn’t I die?!”

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