Chapter 1132 1132: A Younger Me. 2
"Darling, can you change your POV to third person? It will be easier to observe everything." Violet asked.
"That is true." Victor snapped his finger, and instead of the image showing through Victor's eyes, it was now showing from above.
"Now stop standing there like a statue. Sit down over here, take off that stuffy armor, and shrink yourself, too, while you're at it." Violet said as she lightly tapped her side.
"Nah, Nah." Leona appeared in front of Violet and shook her finger, saying. "You've had your fun. It's my turn now."
Leona pulled Victor to her side, threw him on a bed, and then sat on his lap. Next to Victor sat Natashia and Agnes.
On Victor's legs sat Victoria, Carmila, Lilith, Persephone, Tasha, and Maya, each spread out, taking a part of his body.
"No need to change sizes. This way, we all have a part of you for ourselves." Leona laughed.
Seeing what was happening, the other Wives immediately left where they were and went to the bed. Only Scathach remained where she was while laughing at this situation.
Like Scathach, Velnorah also stayed outside while anxiously looking at the image.
Caressing Leona's head, Victor looked at Velnorah for a few seconds, paying close attention to her feelings, and then just looked at the projection.
Victor was always keeping an eye on his Wives' feelings. If he saw that one of them needed his support, he would intervene.
"Well, we lost our Emperor," Violet said while laughing.
Anna rolled her eyes and turned her attention to the feed while thinking. 'I wonder what the Upper Sectors will be like?'
The moment the other Victor passed through the portal, the image showed hundreds of thousands of Beings on the other side, who, from his point of view, seemed formless due to the sun being behind them.
"One man against thousands... That's a beautiful image." Jeanne murmured as she took a picture and used her Powers to immortalize this image in a painting.
"Yes."
Pure violet Energy came out of his body: "Heh~, I wasn't expecting such a warm welcome. How touching."
"......" The Wives who hadn't met the younger Victor looked at their Husband with eyebrows raised in amusement.
"I was young." Victor kept his poker face but internally thought that he shouldn't have made his younger personality dominant.
"Unexpected... We were expecting a civilization, not just one person."
As a gigantic asteroid appeared behind these Beings, the image became clearer and showed several Beings dressed in shining armor looking very 'righteous'.
"Is that bad?" Victor asked the man in the distance. Even though they were in space, they were talking as if they were on a planet.
"It's not… Just unexpected. I see that you're not too weak for someone from the Lower Worlds… Your Bloodline also seems to be special. Not just anyone can live in space easily… Interesting, you have a powerful Divinity, but I can't tell if you're Evil or Good."
"Man, you reek of hypocrisy. You're that type, right? Do you pretend to be good to reap the benefits?"
"How rude. We illuminate this dark Universe with our Light, give help to those in need, and eliminate Evil."
"Evil, huh?" Victor spoke in disdain. "And who decides what's Good or Evil?"
"Anything that our light cannot accept is Evil."
"Damn, I'm getting sad. I expected someone to fight, not a bunch of hypocrites."
"They're weird. They are too composed, and I'm not seeing any fluctuations of emotion. Victor can make even a stone spit blood with his words, but these Beings just ignored everything… It's too unnatural." Ruby spoke.
"…Why should a Human care about the words of an ant?" Scathach asked her Daughter rhetorically.
And it was when she heard those words that Ruby understood. "I see. They think they're so above Victor that his words mean nothing to them, huh?"
"Exactly."
This same realization was understood by Victor. For a moment, he really wanted to leak his Power and show that he was more, but that was when the experience of his older self appeared, the experience of the man who fought against Demons and conquered them.
"Tell me, why did you go alone? Where are your people?"
"My people, huh…" A sadistic smile appeared on Victor's face. "They are dead." A murderous intent emitted from his body, and for a moment, the image of thousands of dead bodies was seen, like an endless sea of blood, as the entire area near Victor began to stink of blood.
"I consumed everything. Even my own planet was not spared from my hunger."
It was at that moment that a fraction of emotion was captured by Victor and his Wives, disappointment.
"I believe you." Then, he turned to his subordinate.
"Get rid of him. We will go down to see if there is anything that can be saved."
A knight in shining armor came out of the encirclement and headed towards Victor. In the blink of an eye, he crossed the immense distance and appeared in front of Victor. At some point, a weapon that looked technological was seen and pointed at Victor's head.
"Die, sinner."
Victor's smile grew. "This way, you make it much easier for me."
Surprising the soldier and everyone present, the 'inferior' Being moved even faster than the attacker and thrust his sword into the soldier's chest.
"...What-...?"
"Thanks for the meal."
Victor's shoulder tore apart, and the head of a dog-like monster full of teeth and red eyes appeared. The next moment, the dog ate the soldier's head.
Victor immediately absorbed information about the soldier.
"Hmm~, Commander of The Eleventh Frontline of The Empire of 'Light', Vik-Ir-loah… Really? Empire of Light? Were you named by a child?"
'Interesting, this soldier has no 'Race'… He is made of pure Energy. Even his Soul is unnatural. It is as if, in the process of becoming a God, something intervened and caused these 'flaws'… They are Gods, but not complete Gods. They are not even demi-Gods. What are these Beings?'
The more Victor analyzed the soldiers' memories, the more inconsistencies he noticed. Except for the basic information, nothing else could be seen by him, which was strange considering that he did not only devour the brain but the entire Soul of a Being.
Therefore, the only possible explanation was, 'They created countermeasures for Beings like me who can absorb information from other Beings.'
The soldiers who didn't even blink when the soldier was killed now showed a clear emotion, anger... Anger for him having insulted their Empire.
Although, this anger wasn't as great as Victor wanted.
But this proved that everyone had their weak point. Victor just needed information to provoke that point.
Absorbing an interesting memory, he spoke.
"Oh no, you have a name. Empire of Light, Veillon, huh. Cliché. It's seriously like a child named everything. Sad. Your Emperor has no creativity at all."
"Kill him."
A light show was seen, and the next moment, everyone was holding some kind of futuristic weapon.
Several beams of Light came towards Victor, who had just consumed the soldiers.
"Boring, you're all only at the level of Primordial Gods." Despite saying this, he was surprised. The base level of strength here was really high. All these Beings could fight against a Primordial God and possibly defeat them easily.
With just basic math, he could see that there were over 20 thousand soldiers here, and that was ridiculous to think about.
If Erebus was here, he would be easily annihilated. That was the threat level.
But… There was a glaring difference between a real Primordial God like Erebus and these Beings, which was that Erebus was much more valuable. If he'd gotten off his lazy ass and trained, he could fight them easily.
In the end, it was all about training and preparation. A normal Primordial God had more substance, but most never trained, so they would lose both in numbers and strength to these Beings in front of them.
'A Sector where the level of a Primordial God is common, huh… This is exciting.' Victor thought internally. Despite the overwhelming numbers and not being in possession of his strongest weapons, Victor wasn't panicking.
'War is more than just Power level! Tactics, emotions, terrain, weapons in possession, everything influences a war!' And Victor, as a God of War… knew this very well.
Seeing those gigantic beams of pure Power coming towards him, Victor simply picked up his sword and said: "Return to sender!"
Covering the sword with violet Energy, he reflected the attacks back at the enemies, killing a few in the process, but not as many as he would have liked.
'Well, they are Elite.' He shrugged.
"Let's dance." Swinging his sword in a great arc, he attacked.
A gigantic beam of Energy flew horizontally.
"Shields." The Commander ordered.
"Yes!"
Again, a light appeared out of nowhere, and a large shield appeared, completely dissipating Victor's attack.
But that wasn't the goal of his attack; it was just a smokescreen so he could get closer.
"AAHHHHH!" The death scream caught the Commander's attention.
'A sprinter.' The Commander didn't even blink at the death of his subordinate.
Jumping into the middle of the enemies, Victor started the party.
Since it was space, and he could attack in 360 degrees, he made full use of it. He attacked from above, below, and from the sides before disappearing and going to another soldier.
His body didn't emit any Energy like in the past. Everything happened with the slightest influence. This was proof of his immense control.
When someone attacked him, he would pull a random soldier and use them as a shield, making the soldier kill his ally and then impale them both.
In a war, the common sense was that the one who was surrounded by several enemies of the same level should lose, but that only applied to Beings that weren't Victor. He was a genius of combat for a reason.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA~"
"That's right! More! More! Amuse me! I haven't felt like this in a long time!"
"Die!"
"Yes, you should." Victor grabbed the soldier by the head, and in the next moment, Energy gathered in front of him before exploding into a beam.
It eliminated three soldiers in a straight line, but the Energy dispersed against the fourth.
'These armors aren't normal either.' Victor thought but didn't stop.
He began to disappear and reappear, sometimes using pure speed, while other times, he would jump through space. Sometimes, he would even bend Reality.
A bloodbath was occurring.
And all of this was being observed by the Commander. Seeing that he already had what he wanted, the Commander said: "Retreat and disperse."
Light covered the soldiers, and they vanished and reappeared near the Commander.
[Analysis complete.]
[A speedster, possibly a Reality Bender, or someone who can bend space.] A voice echoed in the Commander's helmet. [More data is needed to determine threat level... Subject's Divinity, acknowledged... God of War.]
[The Empire has identified him as a good research asset. The subject's body must be preserved for research.]
[Activating countermeasures.] The Commander spoke.
[Request accepted.]
"Huh? You guys left fast... Boring."
"But… You didn't go far enough." A cold air came out of Victor's body, and the next moment, the entire space around him began to be covered in large ice boulders.
An ice asteroid appeared between Victor and the soldiers until it disappeared again.
[…Countermeasures deployed.]
[Activate.] The Commander ordered.
Suddenly, gigantic pillars began to emerge from portals of Light and positioned themselves all over the surrounding space.
"Oh?"
A golden energy exploded from the Commander, causing all the ice asteroids to burst out of existence. This Energy surged towards the pillars, and soon, an isolated zone was created.
"Do you think we've never dealt with the likes of you? Speedsters, Space Gods, Reality benders, Beings that can move at the speed of Light? None of this is new here. You're not special, God of War."
In a vast Sector like this, Beings with problematic abilities were not new. Because of this, all the major Factions had countermeasures for these problematic individuals.
"Hmm..." Victor looked at his hand and opened and closed it in confusion. He felt strangely slow. Activating his Lightning for a few seconds, he felt an even stronger sensation of pressure, as if someone was holding his collar.
He looked at the strange pillars in the distance with his eyes and realized what was happening, but despite looking at the pillars, he didn't understand what he was seeing. It was clearly unknown technology, a mix of technology and Divinity.
"Surrender, Inferior Being, you are nothing against The Empire." The Commander spoke with disdain.
"What the Nightingale God did in a complicated way, this group did quite easily. A way to seal individuals with problematic Powers, huh. Clever." Scathach muttered.
"I wonder what these pillars are… They seem to be acting as intermediaries, but there is something more." Ruby muttered.
"This whole situation is strange. This 'golden' Light that everyone uses seems to be something more… Something like an Energy that sustains everything? Much like the Dragon Heart we have." Aline spoke.
"Are they using their Emperor's Power to do these things? Something similar to what we are doing?" Sasha spoke.
"Yes, but they are quite limited. Even though these soldiers are so strong, they lack depth. They are not Gods with Concepts. They are just… highly enhanced individuals?" Velnorah spoke.
"Even their techniques are the same," Scathach said. "They are copies of each other. Even the clones we created have more varied personalities than them… Disappointing."
Yes, they are strong, but that was it. They were not Beings that met Scathach's standards.
"Quantity over quality, huh… But that Commander seems to be different." Jeanne said.
"We'll see," Scathach said.
"Surrender, huh…" Victor smiled slightly and raised his greatsword in a Martial Arts stance.
"Our Emperor hates those words." Helena, who had seen how The Emperor behaved when he was conquering, knew very well the fate of those Demons who spoke those words.
Seeing Victor's smile, Scathach laughed: "…That smile, he will do it, right?"
"Yeah." Rose nodded.
"He definitely will." Violet nodded.
"What will he do?" Anna asked.
"What happened when I was younger, and someone said the same words to me," Victor explained to his Mother as an event from the past.
"...Oh." Anna understood now, and when she looked back at the image, she had her answer demonstrated.
Sensing a bad feeling, the Commander completely covered himself with his Power.
"Be careful!"
For a moment, nothing happened until... Something did.. Everything in the direction Victor swung… was cut. With just that attack, more than 5 thousand soldiers died instantly.
Even the device was cut. Although, the moment it disappeared, another appeared in its place almost instantly.
"Cough." He spat blood, all his armor was destroyed, and everyone saw that, unlike the other soldiers, who seemed to be Beings made only of Light, the Commander still had flesh. At some point, the Light began to heal his body, and his body began to recover parts of the armor.
[Error, Error, God of War level increasing severely. Damage to Empire property identified. Individual's crime level rising. This solar system is now on alert. Aid ships entering the solar system]
The entire surrounding space was surrounded by several gigantic futuristic ships with engines made of Light.
[Commander, get ready...]
"Surrender? What a joke! You seem to be misunderstanding something, Vik-Ir-Loah." A sneer appeared on Victor's face: "The one at a disadvantage here is not me. It's you. I'm not trapped here with you. You're trapped here with me."
[You have come into conflict with a Grand Master.]
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