Chapter 878: Cain's Elemental Expansion: Profusion of Dreams
"DIE!" She swung a fist at his head, only to hit the air. "Where did you go!" She stared up, seeing Cain standing in the middle of the sky, staring at her with a smile.
"This is my domain. Leave at once with your army." He pointed a finger down, "Or I'll start ripping everyone here to shreds."
"You're threatening us in the hope this bluff works. You don't have enough power to drive us away. That's why you need Lucifer to guard this place." She clenched her fists, and the armies of abomination flew from behind her toward Cain.
Cain lifted his steel staff, pointing at the sky. "Burn them to ashes! Inanna!"
FLASH! Like a spark of lighting, pure light fell upon the abomination's army like a cleansing smite, drowning the lands in a sea of inferno. The flames reached the upper layer of the world, and Lucifer looked back as the red light washed over his back.
"He's letting loose." He gasped.
The woman growled as the army behind her burned to ash. She barely held herself together from the sheer heat. "That bastard," As she grunted, Cain flew from the flames and snatched her by the neck, flying away with her like a meteor through the hellish landscape he created.
She stared at his void black eyes and a twisted smile, "Why is someone like you here." She cried, "Why does a monster like you even exist in this world? You degenerate abominable geezer!"
From Cain's face, a long white beard extended from his chin as wrinkles covered his skin, growing old not from her magic. But by returning to his true self, the reincarnated old wizard.
"This world isn't yours to play with, abominations." Cain said, "It's mine, and you're not welcome."
She swung a fist at his face but was unable to faze him even a bit.
"Hehehe!" Cain giggled, "Listen, little girl." He threw her to the ember-filled, burning ground and stared down at her with a smile as the muscles on his body expanded a bit and his beard grew long enough to reach his knees.
Cain lifted his staff into the sky, and clouds emerged out of nothing. "This isn't your world to play in."
[Divine Lightning]
A massive lightning bolt fell from the sky, hitting her straight in the face, and exploded into a massive ball of compressed energy and lighting, shaking the whole world.
The people in the mortal world felt like a massive earthquake as the birds started running away in fear, and the blue sky turned black. The nine hells quaked as the devils started praying. They could feel the overgod's wrath from down there.
The demons of the abyss hid in the shadows, and so did the distorted creations in the other planes of existence. All felt Cain's blast.
The shockwave went around the whole world and reached the other side, where Astaroth was fighting to protect the lower half of the world.
"What?!" Astaroth cried, looking at Cain's clone that just arrived, "Is this another clone of yours?! Do you intend on destroying the whole world?"
Cain giggled, looking back at him. "Worry not. I'm not that senile yet." He then started dancing in front of the abominations.
"I can hear it," Cain mumbled. The Jester of the gods, Lilia, started singing inside his head, giving him a beat that twisted the magic itself. She wasn't a wizard or a paladin. From the start, a jester of AO could only be one thing. A bard that sings and dances, and her main job was helping conjure massive spells.
Astaroth's eyes opened wide as he sensed what Cain was about to do, and he immediately flew with his dragon and hid beneath a stone, covering himself with as many layers of defensive magic and prayers as he could.
The abominations stared at Cain confused, seeing him slowly shift into an old man.
He then put his hands together, combing his fingers while lifting a foot up, standing in an inhuman position. [Elemental Expansion:...]
The whole world went black.
Cain's divine magic spread across the whole existence with a black spark, swallowing everyone into darkness, and the abomination could feel all of their communication with the outer void cut off.
[...profusion of dreams]
From the endless darkness, a sea of red eyes filled the world as tentacles exploded from Cain's back, catching all the abominations and tying them in place. Every mortal in the world gasped, unable to see what was happening.
Unlike everyone else, Cain had come up with a new technique that abuses his position as the overgod. By spreading his magic across a predetermined area and locking it in a barrier, he could impose an advantage and put pressure on his enemies, all the while making it easier to cast spells from any point of that space.
He had before used this with Morena's necrotic magic, but this was a whole new level.
This expansion had no set barrier and instead used the world's sphere as its shell, spreading its effect to every corner of the world that Cain ruled.
The abomination woman on the other side saw Cain's fist flying toward her face. She got punched in the face and gasped as she looked forth, seeing thousands of massive hands dancing in the sky, each unleashing so much magic that mistaken them for gods.
As the overgod, Cain could use his authority to use other gods' portfolios and powers, and for this strike, he didn't hold back. Everything that he considered an enemy in the world, who were only the abominations got bombarded with the combined might of the divine order.
The woman's body twisted as she started growing younger and younger until she became a fetus once again, courtesy of the mother of all life Gracie, then got cut apart by endless slashes from Hati's eternal blade, which got infused by the burning elemental energy of Sofia and Bahamut, the dragon gods. Inanna and Kossuth's flames, Alice's curses, and more.
The abominations' bodies and existence itself got violated to the core, even the souls they didn't have, they were granted and ripped from them for all eternity as time itself couldn't escape Cain's onslaught of devastation.
"The world is my domain. Come inside and get fucked." Cain glared at the sky, knowing that Nyar was watching.
Omnipotent in his domain, there was no changing that. Nyar could only nodd, Defending Cain inside the world is impossible, he can't be defeated, stopped, or even opposed there.
Even if Cain's expansion seemed to halt. It has never stopped to those hit with it. Time doesn't pass and they are stuck suffering its effect for eternity, their torture and endless death never end.
Thud! Cain landed beside Astaroth and looked at him with a smile, "Are you okay?"
"You're terrifying," Astaroth giggled.
Lucifer stared at the empty wasteland in awe, "So…you've finally reached it, being an overgod."
"Right. A god should be omnipotent, that is what the world means. Perfect, immense, infinite in power and might." Cain approached him, "Albeit I can't call myself perfect yet, I'm certain my power has reached its peak as the overgod of this world."
Lucifer sat down, "At least I can relax a bit now. Nyar won't dare send more soldiers to their deaths inside this world. He'll focus attacks on ambushes when we try to leave."
"I know." Cain's clone sat beside him. "I'm weaker outside, and I'll be leaving the world vulnerable. We need extensive planning to expand outside this world."
"Slowly push our border into the void to expand your dominion. That's the safest way, but also the slowest." Lucifer sighed, "Who can fight?"
"A lot of the gods are strong enough to match the abominations. But don't think of retiring yet, you're power is still unmatched," Cain patted his shoulder.
Lucifer smiled, "Unmatched, how about your Adam? Or should I call him Chad, your dad? The power he got from AO isn't the power to erase divinity, that's a function of it."
"His power is to mirror the gods. Whatever you throw at him, the divine magic swelling from his body would adapt to it, and then counter without delay." Cain replied he knew.
"Yeah, you're omnipotent. There is nothing I can teach you," Lucifer sighed.
"That isn't true. I may be omnipotent, but I still haven't fully explored the forbidden knowledge, nor have as much experience as you. I said I wasn't perfect, didn't I?" Cain smiled. "Head back to the heavens. The clones will keep this place protected,"
"Yeah," Lucifer stood, "Just your presence here would prevent them from attacking."
Cain's clone waved his hand, sending Lucifer back to the heavens.
The moment Lucifer emerged in the heavens, his wings blotted the sun and all the angels gasped, most of them recognized the former divine general. "It's Lucifer! He's back!"
The new angels pulled their weapons, ready to repel the fallen one while the old angels stood against them, "Put your weapons down! He shouldn't be here if the overgod didn't approve this!"
Thud! Thud! From between the angels, Chad walked forward toward Lucifer.
"Old brother!" Lucifer gasped with a smile.