Novel Full Chapter 2297: Oda Nobunaga’s Endless Castle [15]
Chapter 2297: Oda Nobunaga’s Endless Castle [15]
-----
RUMBLE!
Ōyamatsumi stepped forward, shattering and cracking the ground beneath him and making the mountains tremble. His gigantic palm rushed down toward Amethyst within a split second.
"Fuck, how is he so fast?!"
Amethyst barely had time to think, quickly infusing her body with pure light and leaping out of the way as the massive palm hit the ground, blowing it up and creating a titanic crater.
BOOOM!
"Escaping is fruitless. You shall meet your end in the mountains within my Dominion, child of Yggdrasil!"
The titan followed, rushing toward Amethyst. His footsteps made the entire Dominion tremble as Amethyst swiftly summoned dozens of gigantic, rotating crystal swords with her hardest crystal and infused them with rotating, burning light.𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
"Eat this!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The swords reached the giant, piercing his hard stone body and exploding constantly, covering him with large quantities of white smoke...
"Hmmm... Are children of Yggdrasil besides your King this weak? In Zipangu, every Kami is strong. We govern Authorities. We shape the world to our will."
"Huh?!"
Amethyst’s eyes twitched in disbelief as she saw the Kami emerge amidst the smoke, unscathed.
He had taken absolutely no damage.
"Shit..."
"Repent now, child of Yggdrasil! May the afterlife be kind to you, may the wheel of reincarnation bless you with a better life! Because I won’t have mercy on you! Oh, you poor child!"
Ōyamatsumi stepped forward, his titanic body looming over Amethyst.
Amethyst panicked but quickly remembered what her master had taught her, trying to remain calm and focused.
Jord wasn’t here to help her now, so it was just her and her foe.
No... rather...
FLASH!
Her Aura surged as the figure of the Celestial Avenger Archetype manifested.
Her mother had promised her that she would never be alone again.
"Stop talking like you are someone kind when you’re coming to fucking kill me, you hypocritical bastard!"
Amethyst roared, releasing all her power at once and summoning her Archetype’s sword. She used it to clash against the titan’s palms, and an explosion of divine energies erupted, creating shockwaves through the Dominion.
CLAAASH!
.
.
.
"Hm."
Surtr found himself standing in the middle of Nobunaga’s Endless Castle.
"Nope."
"Not here either."
"Oh, a candle? What is this?"
He walked around the castle alone, trying to find his way back to everyone else.
His abilities to move through space were sealed. He was slowly trying to get his body used to the cursed miasma in this dimension.
But it would take a while.
He decided to remain calm, even though he was deeply worried about his family.
He was thankful he didn’t bring his children, who remained in Muspelheim in the care of the Fire Giant Tribe and a few Fire Dragon Soul Spirits.
Whenever he opened one of the many doors, he found something of interest. Sometimes he would find nice pieces of furniture, which he would snatch and save inside his Divine Realm.
As a human, he knew about Japanese culture and more, and he loved these Japanese-styled furniture pieces.
Yes, this was his way of coping with this despair-inducing situation.
"Damn it, more and more of the same! Where the hell is everyone?! Hello?!"
Until he finally snapped, screaming to the void, to the hundreds of rooms he had already opened and walked through.
And yet nothing was the only thing that echoed through this desolate and endless labyrinth.
"Haaa... This is hopeless."
As he sighed, he started using his Origin Flames to burn the Curse Miasma covering his body. Instead of adapting to it, he decided to just burn it all.
After that, he looked around, summoning his sword and aiming at the empty air.
"Maybe if I cut space, I can find them faster..."
SLASH!
Surtr didn’t hesitate, slashing the empty space as a gigantic wave of flames erupted, exploding and burning through dozens of rooms at once.
BOOOM!
At the same time, Surtr felt the space within this dimension opposing his meddling, resisting strongly against his sword.
And then it pushed back, as if the space of this world was made of rubber... and alive.
Yes, this entire dimension was as if it were a living being of its own.
"This is weird in so many ways... God damn it, I guess I’ll have to burn everything to the ground? Perhaps eventually... I’ll find them."
As Surtr prepared himself to rampage through everything...
"...?!"
He quickly felt something, a disturbance within space.
It was so minimal, it almost wasn’t there.
But he felt it.
Right behind him, floating above the air, a giant human-like being floated on a white cloud.
He looked visibly old and seemed to be Japanese in ethnicity.
He had long black and gray hair and a long beard, as well as a wrinkled face. He wore white robes and carried in his wrinkled hands a very long scroll with Kanji written on it.
His sharp, glowing green eyes gazed down at him with indifference.
"Huh?! An old man? You’re huge though."
"..."
The old man started writing on his scroll for a few seconds, using black ink.
Surtr was left flabbergasted. What was this?
The old man had no bloodlust or killing intent.
He was just staring at Surtr occasionally and writing down something.
"Hey, do you know where I am? I’m lost... you’re not an enemy, right? I don’t want to fight an old man..."
The old man ignored him and continued writing... as if recording something.
"Hey, what are you even writing?"
"..."
The old man finished writing and then looked at the scroll, nodding.
"Hello? Do I have to speak Japanese with you?"
"Hmm. Perfect."
"What?"
Then, the old man gazed down at Surtr for a moment.
And he pointed his ink-covered brush at him.
"Surtr, don’t let him attack you!"
At that moment, Surtr heard Muspel’s voice!
"Ah!"
Surtr had been too strangely at ease with the old man. His aura was so simple and even humble that he never thought...
"{Sealing Oath of a Thousand Heavenly Paths}"
FLAAASH!
"Damn it! He was an enemy! What the hell is wrong with me?!"
Surtr escaped, or attempted to, as he suddenly saw hundreds of floating runes gather around him and struck his body.
BOOOM!
-----