NOVEL NEXT Chapter 88 Sophia Part 10
The adult Nova? walked towards the archon trapped by the vines and placed her hand on its face. A light green glow came from Nova’s hand and the archon began to screech in pain and when she removed her hand a burned handprint remained on the archon’s face. The archon shivered in fear as Nova? looked down on the archon with eyes of disinterest.
“Who owns the power used to create you?” asked Nova? in a cold voice
The archon continued to shiver silently and Nova walked to the other side of its face and was about to place her hand on his face. Fearful of the unimaginable pain that came from Nova’s hand the archon said, “I… was… created… by Yaldabaoth.”
“I want to know who created this pantheon.” retorted Nova as her hand drew closer to the archon.
“Yahweh!” yelled the archon fearful of Nova’s hand.
Nova smiled at the archon as she lightly flicked the archon on its forehead causing its head to explode in a rather gory scene. The archon went limp as Nova walked behind the archon, picked up a tiny purple crystal, and crushed it with her fingers. After crushing the crystal the vines released the body of the archon that had gone limp and it fell to the ground as a soul popped out of it.
“Looks like this Yahweh or Adam inherited a piece of my soul and power. It’s hard to notice because this is a poorly made creature but I sense a minuscule amount of my divinity emanating from it.” said Nova as she examined the archon.
With a flick of her finger, Zero reappeared, she knelt next to him, placed her hand on his forehead, and smiled while saying, “Looks like Papa will need to work harder so I don’t have to save you all the time.”
Nova stood up and teleported to an isolated area of the chaos dimension and began glowing again. When the glow died down a little girl with glowing eyes stood in place of the young lady. When the glow in Nova’s eyes died down she collapsed.
(***Zero POV***)
Zero awoke with a pounding headache as he slowly opened his eyes and stood up. He looked towards the dead archon and slowly walked towards the corpse. When he stood over the corpse he said, “I’m surprised I was able to kill it. I guess I was lucky to find out that they have a crystal somewhere in their body and that it needs to be destroyed to kill it.”
Zero then walked past the archon's corpse and stood before the massive soul of the creature. This was quite an unusual soul compared to all the souls Zero had seen. Rather than it actually being a soul, it was more a lump of divine energy given orders to carry out. Rather than an orb of energy like in the case of a regular soul, this was more a sphere of golden viscous liquid surrounding a black marble-like center.
Zero attempted to use his soul manipulation but he couldn’t as a sharp pain echoed through his mind and he dropped down to one knee. Zero that he had no remaining mana and was still recovering thus making him unable to use any of his skills currently. As more mana recovered Zero felt his headache improve as the pain was now almost nonexistent.
With nothing to do until he recovered enough mana to be able to use the skill, Zero sat down and closed his eyes. As Zero sat there meditating for what seemed to be half an hour before opening his eyes. Free from the after-effect of not having enough mana Zero stood up and faced the archon soul.
Zero then activated his soul manipulation and tried to separate the divine power from the black marble. Perhaps due to the massive amount of divine energy in comparison to the amount on Death’s soul Zero found it hard to separate the divine power. Zero focused rather on drawing out the black marble instead and was able to slowly draw it out until it popped out and rolled on the ground.
Zero walked over, released a shadow in the shape of a succubus walked over, and picked up the marble. Zero then created a small portal where the shadow succubus dropped the marble inside before fading back into Zero’s shadow. Zero then snapped his fingers creating a portal underneath the divine power and let it sink in. With the divine energy now transported Zero jumped through the same portal.
Appearing in the skies of the Netherrelm Zero manifested his black wings and slowly descended down. When he landed he saw the sight of Yoko admiring the massive amount of divine energy.
“Is this enough?” asked Zero
“I believe it’ll be adequate enough.” answered Yoko
Zero looked around the area and asked, “Where’s Nova?”
“She finished helping me so she left to play.” responded Yoko
“Oh, okay that’s fine.” said Zero
“Rather I should be asking you where’s Valna?” asked Yoko
Zero stopped moving and looked at Yoko and let the information sink in a bit before realizing that he’d forgotten about Valna. Zero then coughed and said, “Ash, she’s fighting in the chaos dimension to get a better understanding of her body. I’ll go pick her up when I finish here.”
Yoko stared at Zero a bit after hearing his answer and finally asked, “Did you seriously forget about her?”
“Of course not.” replied Zero instantly
Zero then turned and walked to the mountain of corpses that had quadrupled in size. Next to the corpse were a few large cauldrons filled with clear light blue water. Zero stuck his finger into the cauldron and a white flame erupted on the part that he had submerged in the holy water. Zero smiled and used his shadow to smother out the holy flame.
‘System please use the bodies here and the holy water to create a body.’ ordered Zero
As soon as he gave the command the holy water in the cauldron disappeared and the corpses began to melt together in a white holy flame that didn’t destroy the body but rather seemed to be purifying it. The flames raged on for quite some time and when they condensed into a human-sized shape all of Zero’s mana was drained instantly causing him to collapse.
Yoko ran to help and lifted him up. She then helped him sit before sensing that Zero his mana was being constantly drained and was not recovering. She then kissed Zero and rather than taking mana she gave her instead reducing the burden on Zero.
After a few minutes of constant mana drain, the flames were extinguished and Zero and Yoko laid on the beach exhausted and breathing heavily. Zero turned his head and saw the final result of the torture that he had just endured.
There floated a beautiful blonde-haired and blue-eyed woman with 2 elegant wings of light blocking the light coming from behind this being. Her slender and muscular body floated gracefully and was clad in white and blue feathers that covered her private areas. Due to having no soul, she had a lifeless look in her eyes as she dropped to the ground but Zero appeared and caught her last minute.