The Burning Fiend

Reynolds felt the fluctuation of divine power in the distance worry grew in his heart, they were too many deities together and he did not dare to use his divine sense yet. He summoned all the inhabitants of the small island and waited a couple of minutes for all of them to gather on the garden.

"It seems that several deities have just escaped the Gebados Planar Prison, I will go and check the situation to see what their intentions are. You are not allowed to leave the island or even use your divine sense to look for them". His look was strict when looking at Koral and Rosarie while both seemed dissatisfied and Catherine frowned understanding that there might be danger and remaining within the Forest of Darkness might be the best protection.

"I will come back soon". He smiled at them and floated away without using divine power to avoid being noticed by the new arrivals. Catherine was frowning while looking at the distance as if worried about something, Koral noticed that she was distracted and smiled mischievously as she stood next to her and asked her with a concerned voice. "Sister Catherine, don't worry our husband is strong". Catherine was about to start explaining her conjectures when she caught on the way she was addressed and growled back at Koral.

"I am not one of your sisters and that womanizer is not my husband!" Her voice carried all the indignation she could muster making Koral laugh delighted but slightly disappointed to have failed in her attempt to tease her.

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Reynolds soon left the area of the Forest of Darkness and increased his speed towards the O'Brien Empire, the group of deities traveled leisurely and noticed that a God was moving in their direction, but they just smirked and continued on their way towards the O'Brien Empire. Soon they arrived at a medium-sized city and Odin smirked. "Let's give these mortals a taste of what their future would be from now on". His voice was playful as he waved his hand using divine power to gather wind elements and caused a storm that destroyed the city in seconds.

A few hundreds of kilometers behind them Reynolds felt the massive fluctuation of divine power and increased his speed to the maximum while releasing his divine sense to see what was happening. He could see 82 deities laughing at the destruction of the city while looking with reverence at a point not far from them. 'A Highgod... or more'. Reynolds understood and remembering how Oerph and Adkins had acted before his heart turned cold as these people seemed worse than the previous visitors who had limited the destruction they caused while taking over the empires.

Odin noticed the divine sense sweeping through them and that it came from the God was traveling at high speed towards them and thought amusingly. 'I did not have to look for you... since you are so polite to come and die I might even give you a quick death'. Then he looked at the two Highgods floating next to him and said. "Brother, C.h.e.s.ter it seems that the 'Divine Fire Snake' is coming to die. The fool is only a God but perhaps we will enjoy a good show". The cruelty in his eyes made the followers tremble while the two Highgods grew excited at the perspective.

"Father, lets torture him and humiliate him in front of the people. That way we will obtain faith easily, don't you think?" The eager aristocratic boy had now a distorted face showing his thirst for causing pain to others and even his breath seemed short due to the excitement.

"That is a good idea C.h.e.s.ter, perhaps this kid will be more useful if kept alive for a while". Reynolds was approaching as they were talking and now he could see the 85 deities waiting for him as if he were already a corpse. He did not say anything and without reducing his speed he wielded his highgod level spear turning himself into dark purple flames and released the attack that he had tested on Lord Beirut before.

Odin looked amused as if seeing the antics of a child but did not fail to notice that the spear was a highgod level artifact causing greed to manifest in his smile, he suddenly noticed that something was wrong when his body trembled as if responding to danger. He released a gray cover over his body and expanded it to cover his brother and his son, but he was already too late.

All the Demigods and Gods turned to ashes without even being able to make a sound while his brother and his son screamed in agony as they held their heads with their hands and flames started to devour their bodies. Odin floated there frozen for a moment, his gray curtain had deflected the attack and he was unharmed, but his brother and his son were exposed to the radiation for only a moment and now they were death... 84 deities died in a single attack.

"N-Niemoller! C.h.e.s.ter!" Odin screamed in pain and rage, he had protected his brother and son for as long as he could remember but now they died in front of him in and instant. Reynolds saw that Odin could resist his attack and understood that he was at least a 7-star Fiend as he used his understanding of the laws to defend himself and Reynolds smiled guessing that the Highgod did not possess powerful defensive artifacts. He took advantage of Odin's grief and used his divine power to collect all the divine sparks and rings of the slayed deities including the two Highgods.

When Reynolds collected the two Highgod divine sparks Odin woke up and the entire Yulan Plane seemed to tremble with his scream. "You dare?" Odin took a sword from his interspatial ring and charged at Reynolds, the sword was also a highgod level artifact and coupled with Odin's superior speed he was in front of Reynolds in an instant.

Reynolds used his spear and dark purple flame shields to deflect the myriad of attacks released by Odin, but Reynolds, having a body compared to a low level artifact, was able to resist the material attacks without suffering a single wound. On the distance, Beirut and Leylin were watching the battle under the cover of their Sovereign power.

"The kid has grown well these couple of centuries... he managed to fuse three laws and it seems that his mock battles with your son Harry helped as well". Bluefire voice was happy but kept rapt attention on the battle. Beirut smiled as he released his Sovereign field without affecting the two combatants, but ready to interfere if Reynolds were to be put in mortal danger.

"We need to be careful... that Odin is using his wind avatar but his death avatar is already at the 7-star Fiend level and its soul attacks might be more than enough to hurt the kid or even kill him." Beirut's voice was neutral both it seemed to chastise Bluefire who snorted and also released his Sovereign field ready to act and save Reynolds if needed.

Odin transformed into a transparent sword moving at high speed towards Reynolds who understood that it was the fusion of three low level laws due to the aura the sword was releasing, and decided to taste its power as he also transformed into dark purple flame that covered his spear and charged to clash with the transparent sword.

The collision was felt in the entire O'Brien Empire and even the girls waiting on the Forest of Darkness turned to look in the distance with worried expressions. Koral did not dare to use her telepathic link to avoid distracting her Master, but she could tell that he was not wounded and told the others while keeping her eyes on the direction of the O'Brien Empire.

Reynolds was repelled by the impact and felt slightly shaken but Odin screamed, as his body was covered in purple flames, while holding his head. Suddenly another Odin appeared next to him and released a gray energy curtain that soothed the flames before fusing with the wounded wind avatar.

Odin was enraged, not only this brat had killed his brother and his son, the damage his wind avatar suffered on the soul would take a lot of effort to recover. "I'm going to make you beg for death... I'm going to make you kill all the people that had even a slight relation with you..." Odin's voice was slow and poisonous making Reynolds shudder for how vicious of a monster this Odin was, he was sure that he had applied such punishment to others before and was already enjoying the idea of repeating the feat.

But that was not the worst of it, Reynolds felt his soul tremble as the divine power infused in those words affected his mind and in a moment of panic he turned into purple dark flames again and realized that his soul defense artifact was already crumbling.

'How powerful!' While turning into flames and by the cost of his soul defense artifact he had managed to escape the attack, but knowing that it would not be as simple if Odin repeated the attack his eyes turned bright purple and the next instant a purple beam was already in front of Odin who used a gray sword to intercept the attack.

Now it was Odin's turn to panic as the attack was purely directed to his soul, and he recognized the 'soul erosion' as well as some sort of 'illusion' on the attack along of what seemed Fire Elemental Laws, he trembled in confusion as he had never met such and strange attack before. His soul defense was almost impregnable, but he felt how his soul seemed to burn for a moment before he managed to use his divine power to nullify Reynolds's attack.

This all took a second but Reynolds was already in front of him trying to pierce Odin's head with his spear while Odin reacted at the very last moment deflecting the attack with his sword trying to put distance between them again but Reynolds seemed to had become his shadow showering him with spear attacks and forcing him into a defensive stance while he tried to use his soul attacks on Reynolds.

Reynolds who no longer had a soul defensive artifact used the fusion of the three laws to create a curtain that covered his soul reducing the effect of Odin's attacks and almost nullifying them. Both of them seemed on equal grounds but in the end, if things continued the same, Odin might end winning as his reserves of divine power were above Reynolds's.

But Odin's face changed as he noticed that in the distance two young men were approaching while wielding high level artifacts. "Harry it seems that your friend could use a hand... and it is being a while since we are allowed to play". The voice was so mischievous that Reynolds thought for a moment that this youth was his own brother and not Harry's.

Soon Odin found himself surrounded and looking nervously at the two arrivals suspecting their origins and fear started to grow in his heart as he started planning his escape.