Editing Ultimate Antihero:Volume 2 Chapter 3 (section)

===Part 8===

The torn out earth crust was thrown and approached him right before his eyes.

It covered the whole sky, the violence of pure mass coming from something like a whole island was not something that could be taken even if it was Homura.

Yet despite so,

Homura still hovered in the air and didn’t move with his face tensed.

“Master! Dodge!”

Vel yelled from feeling the danger.

Homura’s reply towards that was―

“Vel. Change of plan.”

He whispered with a voice that was completely calm and ordered Vel to change her shape into a [sword].

He changed the shape of Vel who was taking the shape of two handguns into a [sword] with his magic power.

*HYUN* He swung it at the land falling at him.

Just by that, the earth crust that was going to crush Homura right about now was split right into two. And then Homura went through between the gap of the earth crust and earth crust that he cut open with a speed incomparable with until now, he soared aiming at <Hecatoncheires>.

{GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!}

<Hecatoncheires> responded by firing beams from its fifty mouths towards Homura who bisected the cannonball of earth crust and flew nearing it from diagonally below.

But the fired beams, all of it bended flexibly as if all of it were running away from Homura who was flying fast in the air. That was not a defense from sorcery. Nothing like that. It was purely because the force of Homura’s ascending was too strong, that whether it was air or heat or even light, everything was brushed aside.

And then finally Homura reached the altitude of 9 kilometers above the surface at the main head that existed on the topmost of <Hecatoncheires>. He ascended until above the horn that was growing there and told Vel.

“An SOS came from Shiori. The other side is going bad. If thinking about the situation between humans and fairies after this, I wanted to defeat this big thing using Elfiena’s information, but―time’s up.”

Correct. Homura’s face tensed when the earth crust cannonball was falling at him before, was not because he feared the power of <Hecatoncheires>.

It was because Shiori’s voice seeking help was entering his mind through <mind transmission>.

He had requested a favor from Shiori beforehand.

At the time where the situation really had become hopeless, she had to absolutely contact him.

And then, right now such contact had really came.

Then―he couldn’t choose his methods anymore.

“We’re gonna finish the whole thing with one attack.”

Saying that, Homura chanted.

The sea of another dimension. With the soul of language that connected to that abyss―

 

Hear my voice     o the person drifting about the sea of another world

The seething star shines brilliantly in blasphemy      informing thy time of destiny

The hunter of soul      o the pulsing blue impurity

The water gate of the strange sea was opened     follow the rotation and come here

Tonight     if the distant land becomes a good hunting spot for thee

Obeying thine unsatisfied insatiability still     hunt the fool who knows not of fear

 

A blasphemous rhythm that was etched during an instant.

As if to hail that poem which defiled all life in that distant land, the space(sky) distorted.

The blue of another world dazzlingly oozed out at the jet black starry sky without a single cloud.

That blue light matched the prayer that Homura etched and spread throughout the whole sky swallowing the moonlight.

And then, from the center of the space that was like a sea that shone madly,

 

“Pillage. ―<The Shining Pursuer> ”

 

―That, appeared.

Raising a sound of water like waterfall, a grotesque shape showed its appearance from the upside down sea surface.

At a glance, it looked like a large ominous bird.

But it was by no means anything like a bird.

On that face were compound eyes that shrewdly examined the surroundings.

Rope shaped tentacles like tail and feathers were writhing in the air looking for prey.

The blue pulsing transparent flesh was wrapped in luster and sliminess, it was just like an aggregation of minerals, its composition that was a messed mixing of inorganic and organic materials was a blasphemy towards the history of living being’s evolution.

This was exactly the blue holiness that hunted the prey from the sea of another world―

The figure of the <Great Old One> Iod.

But, this <evil god> showed its appearance only for an instant.

As soon as it manifested, Iod’s flesh crumbled into particles of blue light.

Was the summoning failed?

Of course that was not it.

The crumbling blue phosphorescence drew a double spiral and gathered in the black sword that Homura held.

Homura made Iod to reside inside the sword that was made by <Liber Legis>.

And then―

 

{OOOOoOoOoooOoooooo―――–!!!!}

 

He stabbed the jet black sword wrapped in blue light into the middle of the forehead of <Hecatoncheires>’ main head.

<Hecatoncheires> didn’t dodge.

One or two heads gone was not a big matter.

After all it was impossible for it to die as long as its hearts didn’t get injured.

Just a single swing of a sword wasn’t worth the effort to dodge.

Correct, it was feeling haughty.

But―

{――<nowiki>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</nowiki>—!?!?!?}

<Hecatoncheires> soon understood how that haughtiness became a fatal injury.
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The instant the sword that was covered by Iod got stabbed into the forehead, <Hecatoncheires> felt something was disappearing with a tremendous momentum from its own flesh.

That something was, vitality―no, it was life force.

The power that supported the foundation of all living things.

Life force was vanishing from its body and a terrible fatigue was weighing on it.

This was bad.

<Hecatoncheires> sensed that instinctively and it reached its hand to try to dislodge Homura who was stabbing the sword into its forehead.

No, more accurately, it tried to reach out its hand.

But, the hand didn’t move.

<Hecatoncheires>’ body already didn’t have any strength left to even move its muscles.

As if the whole body was turned into stone.

Even when it ordered to move, move, not a single tip of its finger moved.

Like a corpse.

No―it was exactly a corpse right now.

The flesh of <Hecatoncheires> died right in this instant.

The power of Iod was a power of alternate dimensions with effects that surpassed materials and objects.

Iod’s fang didn’t injure the flesh of the prey, it directly pillaged the life force.

No matter how <Hecatoncheires> possessed a body that was near immortal, as a living being it had a limited life force.

If that life force was pillaged until there was nothing left, what was left behind was only a corpse.

However only its consciousness didn’t die and vanish, it would be left behind inside the coffin that was its dead body for eternity.

That was exactly the power of <The Shining Pursuer> Iod.

From the time when Homura heard that <Hecatoncheires>’ immortality was from its flesh body, he had hit upon this idea. He aiming at the hearts was only for Elfiena’s sake. For the sake of the [Fairy race] from now on, he wanted to concede this achievement of saving the mankind from this threat to them. It was just that. For the <Evil God User> Kamishiro Homura, he didn’t need any strategy guide since the beginning.

And then the power of pillaging that he released didn’t stop consuming <Hecatoncheires> to the end.

The blue light that pierced from the forehead completely consumed <Hecatoncheires> in an instant, and then just like that the light pierced through the length of its leg with the speed of light, and it didn’t stop there and penetrated the ground――

 

{―execute, e?}

 

Piercing through the earth altogether with Alfaro who was crushing Sumika in his grip right now.