Chapter 158: Bethro’s Ultimate Attack

Chapter 158: Bethro’s Ultimate Attack

Bethro steadies himself, gathering everything he has left.

“I will kill you in one blow!” Bethro shouts as he builds up an enormous amount of magic power. “I will smite down evil just as the Light Goddess would expect me to!”

RAG sighs. “Man, you’re so delusional.” He quickly returns to focusing. “That’s a lot of power,” he notes. “What will I do? I guess there is only one thing to do. Overpower him with my own power!”

RAG begins charging his own power to the absolute limit.

“This will end it!” Bethro roars. “Mortal Shooting Star!!!”

A massive shooting star erupts from Bethro’s body and flies toward RAG.

“Destruction Laser!!!” RAG shouts.

RAG charges forward as he unleashes a massive red laser beam toward the incoming shooting star. The two attacks collide violently.

The beams grind against each other. Energy bleeds through the clash, striking both RAG and Bethro and cutting into their bodies.

“Running and overpowering my enemies is how I fight!” RAG yells. “You can’t stop me!!”

A surge of energy seeps through and slams into RAG, forcing him down to one knee. He grits his teeth, keeps his destruction laser active, and forces himself back to his feet.

Both RAG and Bethro scream as they pour even more power into their attacks. The beams continue to struggle, neither willing to give way.

As more energy leaks through, both fighters are slashed repeatedly, blood spilling from their wounds.

“Give up!” RAG shouts.

“No!” Bethro yells. “The Light Goddess will see what I’m doing to help her and will appreciate it!”

“Appreciate it!?” RAG shouts back. “Her son is here in this fortress trying to put a stop to this madness!!”

“Lies!!” Bethro screams.

Bethro forces more power into his attack, slowing RAG’s advance.

RAG responds by releasing even more power, continuing to push forward step by step.

“If you really are a true worshiper of the Light Goddess then just give up and think about what you’re doing!” RAG yells. “What Kogen is doing is wrong!!”

RAG begins to pick up speed.

Bethro feels his control over the struggle slipping.

“No, this can’t be!” Bethro shouts.

RAG angles his beam upward.

Moments later, both beams arc skyward, tearing through the ceiling and blasting out through the roof of the fortress. High above, the attacks dissipate.

RAG charges forward and punches Bethro hard.

Bethro crashes to the ground.

“Is Kogen truly wrong…?” Bethro asks weakly.

“Yes,” RAG replies.

“But with Kogen, we can give humans the physical and magical capabilities to fight with demons,” Bethro says. “We could help put light over dark with the Enigmus Project.”

“Maybe there is a reason humans shouldn’t be that powerful,” RAG suggests.

“…You really think so?”

“…Yeah.”

“Maybe you’re right,” Bethro admits. “Determining how those people live. I feel ashamed…”

“You can still make this situation right.”

“Let me explain how it got to this point,” Bethro starts. “In this place of worship to the Light Goddess, one day Kogen had come here to tell us about his plan and how the Enigmus Project could help us help the Light Goddess. We bought in. All of us except me had become Enigmuses over this past year. In hindsight, it was a bad idea. Forgive me…”

“I understand now,” RAG says. “You did what you thought was best.”

Something small suddenly strikes Bethro’s head, bursting it completely.

“What the hell!!!?” RAG screams.

“Don’t bother,” an unfamiliar voice says. “You won the fight so you should have killed him anyway.”

RAG looks forward and sees the mysterious boy who was with Crimson earlier.

“Who the hell are you!!?” RAG demands.

“Who I am is not important,” the boy replies. “I simply finished him off for you.”

The boy picks up the object he used. It’s a small rock.

“My Momentum Magic allowed me to easily burst his head even with just something like this rock,” he says.

RAG’s anger explodes.

“I was going to spare him but I will certainly kill you!” RAG roars.

The boy opens his eyes wide in anticipation. “Oh ho ho. I can assure you neither of us will die here, but you will be useful to me.”

What happens next is unseen, but RAG’s screams echo through the nearby sections of the fortress.

“No! No! Nooooooooooooo!!!”

***

Meanwhile, with Zeth.

Zeth walks through a massive two-story room with a ground floor and an upper level. The walls are lined with paintings depicting his birth.

“Such a large room dedicated to me,” Zeth mutters.

“Oh, don’t you feel special in a room like this?” a voice says.

Zeth stiffens, fully alert.

“Who’s there!?” he shouts.

Korobu steps into view, walking down the stairs with a smile.

“Who’s there, you ask?” Korobu says. “It’s me, Korobu.”

Zeth’s eyes widen in shock.

“What are you doing here!?” Zeth demands.

“Ohhh, you can’t be that sad to see me,” Korobu replies. “After all, don’t you want to kill me? I’m so happy that we will get to have a proper conversation for the first time.”

Zeth can finally speak to the one responsible for him losing his divinity.

Chapter 158 END
To be Continued in Chapter 159: Zeth and Korobu