The System Awakens: Rise of the Champion-Chapter 284: Damian Vs Greek Gods - 3

The gods and goddesses watched in horror as two of the strongest gods in the history of the Greek pantheon were defeated with effortless ease.

It had taken Zeus his entire power just to defend against a single punch from the Emperor of Ouroboros, and even then, he failed to block it completely.

A gaping hole had been torn through his solar plexus.

As if that was not enough, he was now being consumed by the [Sacred Flames of Torment], screaming at the top of his lungs as he writhed uncontrollably.

He felt the agony of being burned alive, yet never truly burning, forced to endure every ounce of pain without the mercy of death.

It was far more torturous than the flames of even the deepest pits of hell.

Even the god Ares was nothing more than a joke, an ant easily crushed beneath the Emperor’s heel.

He lay on the ground with a look of utter disdain frozen on his face, the hands that had once crushed countless powerful warriors now detached from his body.

Golden blood continuously flowed from his severed arms, pooling beneath him.

It was a humiliating defeat, if it could even be called a fight at all.

The scene resembled a full-grown adult battling toddlers who had yet to learn how to walk.

Just as Freya had stated before, the Emperor was treating Zeus and the others as mere playthings.

The Emperor of the Empire of Ouroboros tilted his head, observing the fallen god of war. His eyes held nothing but quiet cruelty.

"What a sorry state you are in, Ares. You were born to be a warrior, yet in the end, you turned out just like your father, drunk on power and arrogance... Just so you know, all of this is a consequence of your own actions."

Damian snorted as he raised his foot, then brought it down with controlled force onto Ares’s upright head, instantly crushing it into nothing more than golden brain matter, blood, and shattered fragments of skull.

A pin-drop silence followed as everyone witnessed what the Emperor had done to the god of war, the very deity once feared by the masses.

He had not killed him.

Ares’s heart was still beating, and golden blood continued to course through his veins as it would in any living being.

After all, he was a god.

A god could not be killed unless their soul was completely destroyed.

No amount of physical damage alone could end their existence, though it could weaken them, just as the Emperor had done to Zeus and Ares.

Even with his head reduced to mangled flesh and bone, Ares was still very much alive.

His divine body should have begun regenerating, similar to that of a vampire, but it did not.

Just like the God-King Zeus, something was preventing Ares’s divine body from healing.

"Hm?"

Damian suddenly felt the world around him being consumed by darkness.

Every speck of light vanished, leaving him standing alone in an infinite void of eternal black.

A strange pressure descended upon his body, as if something were trying to forcibly restrain him, attempting to seal his movements.

But it only tried.

Damian was far too strong to be controlled.

"Is that you, Erebus? Is this your feeble attempt at ambushing me? Another disappointment. I expected more from an old Age God like you..."

Damian snorted as he felt several sharp objects made of darkness take shape all around him.

Some blended seamlessly into the surrounding shadows, their razor-sharp tips aimed directly at him, as if they were about to pierce him with millions of blades at once.

"Talk as arrogantly as you want, but this is where you die, you savage mortal..."

A man’s voice sneered from the endless expanse of darkness, seeming to come from all directions at once.

"Oh my, what confidence you have, even after seeing everything I did to Zeus and his son, Ares?" Damian asked calmly, letting out a bored sigh.

"Maybe I should have just killed them instead of fighting them. To think they didn’t even make me exert the full extent of my power in my base Werewolf Progenitor form..."

Damian sighed once again.

Damian possessed many forms, each fueled by different energies.

Every transformation increased his power, abilities, and overall capabilities several times.

There were two kinds of transformations.

The first was formed purely of energy.

When used, he would transform into the embodiment of that energy itself.

These were known as Energy-Based Forms.

The second type consisted of racial transformations.

He possessed four energy-based forms:

-Nature’s Wrath

-Eternal Nephilim

-Embodiment of Chaos

-The True Infinity (Ultimate)

Nature’s Wrath

This was a unique form created by the merging of all energies corresponding to the elements of nature, such as fire, water, earth, wind, ice, lightning, wood, light, and darkness.

In this form, Damian transformed into a being made of pure natural energy, capable of releasing any individual element or fused elements at their absolute peak.

While in this state, he gained the ability [Nature Transmutation], allowing him to transmute the elements of nature with a mere touch of his hand.

For example, he could transmute an ocean of water into an ocean of wind or fire.

Through elemental fusion, he could transform it into an ocean of lava.

He could even convert an entire ocean into pure energy for his own use.

Eternal Nephilim

This form was similar to Nature’s Wrath.

It was achieved when Damian merged Holy Essence and Dark Essence into one, creating [Nephilim Essence].

In this state, he could freely wield both holy- and dark-aspect powers, or use their combined Nephilim force.

Like the other energy-based forms, it transformed him into an embodiment of energy.

Embodiment of Chaos

This form was created through the fusion of [Positivity Essence] and [Negativity Essence].

It turned Damian into the embodiment of chaos itself.

Every movement he made disrupted, destroyed, or erased everything around him.

It was the second most dangerous energy-based form he possessed.

The True Infinity (Ultimate)

There was a reason this form was called the ultimate.

It was the most powerful form Damian possessed, created from the supreme energy known as [Infinity Essence], an energy born from the complete merging of every energy he had ever acquired.

Damian could also access the forms associated with each of the dozens of energies that made up his merged power.

His racial transformations were derived from his true progenitors, encompassing forms such as the True Vampire Progenitor Form, True Werewolf Progenitor Form, True Human Progenitor Form, True Demon Progenitor Form, and True Angelic Progenitor Form.

In addition, he possessed the ability to transform into the True Celestial Fire Phoenix Form and the True Celestial Lightning Qilin Form.

Within each of these transformations, Damian could simultaneously utilize all bloodline abilities, racial traits, and innate capabilities of the corresponding race.

His base strength would multiply severalfold with every transformation.

More terrifying still was the fact that Damian could activate more than one energy-based form or racial transformation at the same time.

He could combine any number of forms together.

There was no limit. If he so desired, he could activate all of his energy-based forms and racial transformations at once.

Damian had often wondered what to call such a state, one where every racial transformation and energy-based form was activated simultaneously.

The Primordial Beginning had lectured him for several hours, warning him never to use such a form.

It was far too dangerous, even for Damian, and there was nothing in existence that could realistically threaten him enough to justify its use.

It was not that the transformation would harm him.

Rather, it was dangerous for everything else.

Anything unfortunate enough to witness that form, such an abomination of existence, would be ruined, annihilated, and erased entirely.

According to the Primordial Beginning, it was simply too dangerous.

Back to Damian.

Inside the Dimension of Darkness created by the God of Darkness, Erebus, Damian could feel Erebus pouring more of his power into strengthening the bindings.

Erebus could sense that the restraints were already failing to contain Damian’s strength in a single location, and Damian was not even trying to break free.

What would happen when he did?

"You know, you could have been like your wife, no ex wife, Nyx, and just submitted to me. Now I am going to devour you, then head somewhere quiet and fuck the hell out of her, satisfying her in ways you never could in all your eons of life."

Damian grinned.

"YOU DIE!"

A chorus of voices filled with nothing but fury erupted, causing the entire dimension of shadow to vibrate under overwhelming pressure.

It did not affect Damian in the slightest.

Instead, Damian Simpson raised his hand, and a white sphere of light manifested, glowing ethereally within the darkness.

[Law of Illumination Activated]

[Law of Disruption Activated]

[Law of Absorption Activated]

In the very next second, all the darkness composing the dimension began to be sucked into the sphere of light in his hand.

Within moments, cracks appeared throughout the dark world as light from the outside seeped in.

"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!"

"I AM THE ORIGINAL GOD OF DARKNESS. NO ONE SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF GOING AGAINST MY DARKNESS!"

The anxious, furious voice of the ethereal God of Darkness shook the void.

In the following instant, the cracks spread everywhere, and the dimension shattered completely.

Damian found himself standing once more on the scorched land.

Zeus was still writhing and screaming in agony, while Ares lay on the ground, his head shattered into pieces, yet somehow still alive.