889 [Ascendance Of The Goddess of Sins and Virtues] 10/?: Scarlet VS Tereus
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Tereus, the Demigod of Brutal War was feeling like pissing himself right now.
A feeling of imminent death like ha had never felt before was coursing through his entire body.
Born in the family of a God of War, he was spoiled rotten and taught badly about values, growing far too conceited and kind of a battle junkie.
He was certainly not really that much of anything else than that.
Although he had scars around his body that's because he always fought with his father and his siblings to gain more power, and kept the scars that should usually heal instantly as trophies.
But aside from this or fighting divine beasts, he lacked a lot of actual experience in combat.
And so did his opponent.
In fact, his opponent was a whole Realm below him, she was merely Rank 3 Living Deity, while he was Rank 3 Demigod.
The difference in power should be in favor of Tereus… but it wasn't.
No, not at all.
Because Tereus was not fighting against any Living Deity which was like Ants to gods, but he was fighting against a special little girl named Scarlet.
Her upper half had pale white skin, crimson eyes, long crimson hair, and her hands were covered in the hard, metallic exoskeleton of the same color as her eyes and hair. Her lower half was that of an enormously long centipede, going for over 30 meters long, albeit her upper half was small and adorable, it was there where she held the most power.
Tereus knew from the very beginning since he saw her eaten his strongest Divine Technique like nothing out of thin air that this was entirely hopeless.
And her eyes…
Her scarlet eyes glaring at him not like a person but as a meal.
That was the scariest part.
Tereus had actually pissed himself.
He, a god with a divinity such as Brutal War, was trembling in fear.
He kept running away, throwing anything he could.
But little Scarlet kept chasing after him, she floated rather leisurely.
Tereus threw a giant, red-colored fist made of War Energy against her, an attack capable of flattening entire mountains.
Crunch.
In a single second, a transparent, formless, and invisible force ate it away before it could even reach Scarlet.
And then, he saw her munching something within her mouth ad swallowing it.
"W-What… What is this?!"
Tereus glared with horror as the little Scarlet just ate his Divine Technique and swallowed it.
"Burp. That was nice! But I am already getting bored… Do you have more snacks? If not then I am going to eat you up, stay still!" said Scarlet with an innocent and cute smile, as she flew towards the intimidated Tereus, his lips were trembling.
The God quickly analyzed his Divine Energy.
Almost zero.
He had been throwing attacks at her and saw how she ate every one of them, now he was being left with no other thing than to directly fight against her… But that might end up in his death.
No… not "might", his death was completely certain.
"Hey, where are you going?" asked Scarlet, playing around as she ate large mountains within her path, but spared the small ants below, the mortals which her mother wanted alive.
However, Tereus began to throw at her giant Divine Beasts, enormous muscular monkeys, humanoid dinosaurs packed with muscles, and even large golems which formed from the mountains themselves.
"GRROOARR!"
"UKKYAA!"
"GUOOON…!"
The enormous behemoths rushed towards the little centipede girl as she glanced at them while smiling, showing her sharp teeth.
"Uwah, I have never tasted these!"
CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH.
In a second, a strong, formless, and invisible force suddenly deleted all three monsters from existence.
It was as if an invisible palm squashed them into the ground, but instead of leaving a flattened corpse, they left nothing.
And then Tereus saw her again… munching, and swallowing.
His strongest Divine Beasts were eaten in a matter of seconds, this little girl defied all the logic he ever thought this world worked through.
He had never faced something so certain of his death.
Something that defied the logic and laws of this world.
He always thought that through cultivation and practicing one technique you could achieve power.
And even those strong enough to squash him like an ant had also gone through the same thing as him, and simply had greater accumulated and trained strength.
But this little girl defied the very logic behind this thought process.
She never trained for anything, it was clear in her childish behavior.
She never acquired the power through effort, it was clear as she was not using anything else. Someone that has trained their power would easily have many ways to use it, but she simply… ate things.
This was why she was so terrifying.
Perhaps he wouldn't be so miserable if he were fighting someone that was within his sense of logic… but Scarlet defied all senses.
She simply came and ate. And flew… and ate… ad ate…
She didn't do anything else! Nothing fancy, just eat.
She simply ate through a nonsensical power that defied the concept of what was truly an actual ability.
This was the power of the one that was formed within Kireina's womb, the one that ate her entire soul while gestating two times and gained unprecedented power.
Kireina, as a mother that defied all logic, let herself be eaten by her young, and through it, she also unlocked Uroboros, the power to eat herself and replenish her own health, power, and mass through an endless cycle.
For someone capable of eating Gluttony itself, she was just more than that now… way more than that.
She defied logic and ate anything within a radius around her of a few meters, but it was good enough to be incredibly deadly.
However, Kireina was way too cautious and didn't want her little girl to face monsters that were too strong. Even against Kinesis, she was still almost defeated as she still held some weaknesses.
But against Tereus, a brainless battle junkie? He didn't even figure this out yet, while Kinesis figured it out after just a few seconds of fighting her.
And even then, he had also withstood several of her attacks, while Tereus here… was certain that he would be eaten in a single bite.
He kept flying while throwing more divine beasts at her.
And with a single CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH, they all disappeared.
After a few minutes, Tereus was growing exhausted, but could not run away from his Divine Realm, if he were, he would be leaving Scarlet inside of his Divine Realm!
Wait… he could.
She might be able to eat things around her, but she can't possibly eat an entire Divine Realm!
Right?
Then… shouldn't he be able to trap her inside?
Tereus smiled wickedly as a stupid idea crossed through his mind, he quickly charged all the power he could as he unleashed an attack with many projectiles so she could be entertained, and then used this opportunity to quickly take out his Divine Realm from the spatial layers and then absorb it inside of his Divine Core.
He appeared outside, and he was apparently okay!
He managed to trap her inside!
He didn't care about the mortals getting eaten, as long as he could keep her inside, he should be fine, he could even find a way to kill her by asking help from his father Ares!
Tereus found a way out!
"Haha! To think that you would be so stupid to trap you inside my divine realm!" laughed Tereus, flying away and discarding all the other gods, which he didn't care about anyways.
He was now filled with the hope of living, he simply needed to get to his father and-
"Hey, where are you going? I thought you were going to let me eat you!"
The voice of Scarlet resonated inside of Tereus Divine Realm, but he ignored her words as he kept flying away.
Scarlet furrowed her eyebrows as she pouted.
"Hmmm… Then I am going to just eat the whole thing, I hope mama can understand!" she said, as she suddenly began to fly everywhere, anywhere she flew, everything disappeared, she began to leave enormous bite marks everywhere, after a few seconds, most of the Divine Realm was emptied, and the humans living there were eaten in a second too.
Tereus began to sweat, but still kept on a stupid smile, knowing that she could eat all she wanted but could never escape an actual Divine Realm!
CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH.
Scarlet kept devouring everything as she flew incredibly fast everywhere.
After 40 seconds, Tereu's Divine Realm became empty space, and the sky, which was tallow colored.
"Burp… hey, eating a whole Divine Realm is not that bad…" said Scarlet while petting her slightly bulged belly.
"H-Hah! Even if you ate everything, you are already trapped inside, you can't escape!" said Tereus.
"Hmm… Really?"
Scarlet flew towards the confines of the divine realm, touching an invisible wall.
"Ohh… this! Despite what it might seem, I am very good at Spatial Magic! Mama always praises me," said Scarlet.
CRUNCH.
And then… Tereus felt like something… within his very soul, was being eaten.
An enormous bite mark emerged within the spatial layers that made up the Divine Realm, as Tereus felt horrifying pain.
Crack…!
His Divine Core showed a crack.
"N-No… Wait… Wait for a… second!" cried Tereus, but Scarlet did not hear his pleads.
"Om, nom, nom, nom… Eating spatial layers is like eating noodles…" said Scarlet, as she began to devour the entire Divine Realm particles that made it up, the Spatial Particles that every God possessed, which were the pilar of their internal dimensions, the divine realms!
"WAIT! WAAAAAAIT!"
Tereus cried in agony as Scarlet kept eating, biting his interior, and making him agonize in pain!
CRUNCH.
Crack… crack!
"Unngngggaaagghh…! UUUAAAGGH!"
CRUNCH.
Crack… crack!
"GGYAAAAAAAAAHHHH…!"
CRUNCH.
Crack… crack!
"STOP! STOOOOOOOP! IT HURTS! IT HURTSSSSSSS!"
CRUNCH.
Crack… CRASH!
Tereus then saw as his Divine Core was completely shattered and eaten.
A sudden warp in space itself emerged as if a black hole opened right where the Divine Core was, and from within, a little centipede girl came out.
"See? I told you that I would be able to get out!" she laughed, as Tereus was crying in pain, his entire body was completely red and sweating, his soul was tearing apart!
"L-Let me… live… please…! MERCY…! MERCYYYYYY…!"
"Mercy? What is mercy?" asked Scarlet curiously.
"Eh? W-What…?! Nnnghh…!"
Tereus was even more shocked, as Scarlet didn't even know what the concept of mercy was yet.
"Joking! I know what mercy is, hehe! But there's no mercy for food though!" said Scarlet, smiling cutely at Tereus, as he suddenly felt like an enormous force, no, two forces, began to crush him from both above and below.
"UUUUWWWWAAAAAHHHH…! FAAAATHEEEEEEEEERRR…!"
Tereus scream of agony resonated through the entire Realm, as he was suddenly crushed by these two invisible jaws, and flattened into a flesh pancake.
The moment the two jaws closed, he disappeared out of thin air.
And Scarlet began to munch something with her little mouth.
"Nom, nom, nom, nom… Hmm. That was a nice meal!" said Scarlet, as she swallowed what she had inside her mouth.
Ares heard the cry of his son as he was eaten alive, suddenly teleporting right before Scarlet.
"TEEEEEREEEEEUUUUSSS!"
But the only thing he found was a girl munching something in front of him.
"Hm? Who're you?" she asked.
Ares was not alone, of course, but he had separated from the group to teleport near his son, which was the thing he was the most worried about.
He felt when his son screamed that last time… and suddenly, his life signs disappeared.
And now, this girl was… eating something that seemed to emanate a faint presence… similar to his son.
Ares, a muscular man wearing spartan clothe stood before the little monstrous girl.
His eyes were sinking as he felt cold sweat covering his entire body.
His breath became heavy, he felt like he couldn't breathe well…
"Tereus? Was that his name? Hehe… He tasted nice, like roasted beef… I wonder how you taste like…"
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