The Path To Perfection

Chapter 46: Halo

Then, he saw Al'ravee float into the sky, suspended by nothing. Al'ravee made sure that he was facing Darius and Darius also gazed at him.

Al'ravee opened his mouth. Darius couldn't hear anything from inside the small shuttle but he could read Al'ravees' lips.

"Electromagnetism Concept, full power!"

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All the people who for some reason were still in the city felt the hair on their skin stand straight. Some women even had their long hair stand straight with the occasional sparks here and there.

An omnidirectional magnetic field erupted, reaching a diameter of approximately one hundred kilometres with Al'ravee as the centre.

"Rise!" Al'ravee muttered softly.

*CRACK CRACK SHACKA CLACK CLACK*

All around the god, every form of metal and other objects that happened to be magnetised broke off the surface and rose into the sky.

Bridges that stretched and cut through the city were unravelled as pieces of bitumen and concrete.

The metal beams holding up buildings broke off their restraints. The sewer plates and metal pipes tore through the ground. Cars and military vehicles heading for Al'ravee suddenly found themselves off-road... literally.

Even some certain humans found themselves rising into the sky with the hair on their bodies uncomfortably standing on end. Every metal object in that one hundred kilometres, from a small needle to monumental statues, defied gravity at that moment.

Behind Al'ravee, the skyscraper began collapsing as the metal beams, metal platform, elevators and other metal objects burst out through the building.

Even the entire underground bunker which had a width of three hundred metres, broke the concrete ground above it to join the others above the city. Lord Zummi and the people inside could not help but panic.

All the humans who witnessed this spectacle lost any will to run. Who could run from something like this? They could only wait for death.

The ones who just happened to be outside the one-hundred kilometres mark quickly hijacked the nearest vehicle, they quickly broke the speed limit, nearly reaching the outskirts of the city in a few moments. They definitely didn't want to see the result of all that metal falling.

Fortunately, the new fingerprint used electric cars was not yet invoked, if not, they could only cry in despair.

As for Al'ravee. After being satisfied with the look of metallic objects almost blocking the sun from the city... He slammed down.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOOOOOOOM!...*

Darius shrieked inside the shuttle for his dear life. For some reason, the vessel he was in was exempted from the doomsday scene. He saw how all the metal objects slammed down forcefully.

Yes, slammed. They didn't fall, they slammed down with incredible force. Everything now looked like the aftermath of one of those fictional stories.

As for the people. Al'ravee could receive the prize for the most brutal murderer ever in the world. Naturally, no one survived.

""Serve me well and you shall be rewarded. However, do the opposite... Hmmm, nothing in the universe would save you from my wrath"" That was the last transmission Al'ravee gave Darius before the space shuttle zoomed off.

*THUD*

Just as Darius left the atmosphere, Al'ravee dropped to the ground weakly. He didn't leave any cracks on the ground, instead, his knees seemed to be injured. 'The is the result of expending all my divinity', He mused.

The only divinity he had left was the one keeping his body intact. If not, it would slowly wither away, leaving his soul out in the open.

'This doesn't feel good at all'. His eyes turned into two mirrors, allowing him to see millions of souls floating just a few inches above the ruins.

*HUMMM*

A silver metallic halo ring appeared behind Al'ravee. The halo was completely plain without any design whatsoever.

*SHUA*

Suddenly, the souls in the immediate vicinity all flew towards Al'ravee. They flew towards the silver halo specifically. As more and more souls gut sucked in, the silver halo spread a warm silver light around Al'ravee.

'This is the only natural ability of a god that doesn't use divinity'. The universe was basically just a constant exchange of energy from one form to another. And the gods were the primary converters.

It just so happened that the souls of other creatures had the highest conversation rate. 'That doesn't mean they couldn't just convert another thing. Souls are just better'.

In the end, Al'ravee calculated and found out that he had to use nearly a million mortal souls just to recover back to his peak.

'Shit!' Now he knew just how important souls could be. What was even worse was that these souls were meant for his parents.

Quite depressing indeed.

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It's been a couple of months since Al'ravee pulled that stunt. He didn't dare to do it again though. It was decided that he would only use it for productive actions.

Now that most of the figures in authority were dead, chaos spread across the continent. Warlords appeared everywhere fighting for territory.

Al'ravee didn't feel like mingling among them. After all, most people had seen his face. He just wasn't willing to use his divinity.

He decided to use the old ways. After managing to find one atomic bomb, that should have been disabled by Ozia, it wasn't hard for him to find the remaining. And they had... a lot.

It won't be an overstatement to say that the Divera nation had the capability to wage war against the entire world.

Long story short, Al'ravee set off tens of nuclear warheads to every nation in the world, including the Divera nation.

After that, it was just a matter of going around to collect the souls. By now, the number of souls he had was already reaching three billion.

Yeah, that's what Al'ravee did to occupy himself these last months. He played with nukes.

Eventually, Ozias' group met up with Al'ravee. All good AND bad things must come to an end.

When they were done, Al'ravee got to experience the cliché alien adoption personally. A soft light beam fell from the sky and sucked him away while the robots used their space shuttles to head back to the base.

[Inside the Golden Eye Ship]

"You can keep it" For some reason, Jurdelious was also on the ship.

"Keep what?" Al'ravee had a guess but he had to confirm first. If his guess was correct then a lot of his worries would go away.

"The souls. If you ever find yourself in a pickle in the future, they should come in handy" Jurdelious responded calmly.

Al'ravee's mind run at amazing speed as he analysed what was happening.

'This was planned from the start. They didn't tell me that the souls would be mine so I didn't put in all my efforts into gathering them. If not, Ozia alone would be enough to slowly wipe out the planets on his own with his resources.

That's why Ozia didn't give me a soul-keeping item. He wanted me to use my realm to keep the souls from the start. Jurdelious said we were supposed to wipe out all the humans but he also knew that would diminish my zeal over time.

That's why Ozia stopped at that continent. Now it all makes sense. Ozia is also a being driven by interest. His payment for being willing to help them relocate me was all the souls and the raw minerals on the continent.

But what about the remaining parts...'

Al'ravee carefully calculated all that happened. Indeed, they were meant to wipe out the humans but Jurdelious could have done it himself.

'They didn't really trick me, they just omitted some details. Who cares, I gained something from this. Plus, I also understand a bit more about myself'.

"Thank you" Al'ravee meant that.

"Your welcome" Jurdelious smiled before moving towards the hatch. "I'll be back"

*BUZZ* He suddenly blurred out of existence and disappeared.

*RIIINNG!!*

Alarms sounded out like mad sirens. The entire ship vibrated. From a nearby screen, Al'ravee could see that the Golden-Eye-Ship was moving away from planet Green Cloud fast like it was a disease.

The space shuttles that were leaving the planet burst forward with such fervour, it seemed they were running for their lives.

On the screen was the image of Jurdelious blurring into existence a few kilometres from the planet's atmosphere.

Al'ravee watched in shock as Jurdelious started changing. Jurdelious eyes turned black with glowing purple pupils. He grew to a whooping size of one thousand metres. His clothes changed into a black armour with purple carvings of stars, strange beasts and civilisations.

An oppressive pressure was emitted from his being as the light and space around him twisted and bent abnormally.

*SHING*

A magnificent halo with a regal aura appeared behind Jurdelious's back. The halo was a metallic purple with spikes and semi-transparent flames dancing around it.

The current Jurdelious did not look calm at all. His brows were wide apart and his smile was no longer a smile. Right, his aura was screaming for destruction. His arms were spread wide like he was expecting a hug.

*CRACK CRACK CRACK...*

Pieces of the planet broke off as if being pulled away by a terrifying force. The planet's pieces shrank into small pieces of purple light as it drew closer to Jurdelious. All the pieces of purple light got sucked into the halo, then into Jurdelious's massive body.

First, it was a small part, then an entire continent, the oceans, and half the planet. Soon the entire planet along with the humans and animals were converted into divinity for Jurdelious.

Even the moon was not spared. All that was left was an empty space.

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"So this is the power of an Elder god" Al'ravee muttered to himself but Ozia seemed to hear it. A holographic projection of Ozia materialised beside him.

"No this isn't. Your father didn't even use any of his powers, all he did was consume the planet. There are more benefits in doing that than wasting divinity to destroy it. You should learn from him" Ozia advised.

"Hmm" Al'ravee nodded his head in approval, perfectly hiding his shock at the horrifying power he just witnessed. "So what's next?"

"We will first head over to pick up that goddess we told you about. Ris and Stylaff said she successfully transcended but there seems to be some trouble".

"Oh" Al'ravee was immediately curious. A new god, just like him.

Jurdelious teleported into the ship, looking like he wasn't the one who just swallowed an entire planet and its moon.

"Let's go" Jurdelious commanded " Al'ravee, why don't you explore the ship. We won't be using light speed so it's going to take a few days".

The ship was the size of planet Green clouds moon so it was very big and would take a lot of time to explore the entire when walking normally.

"Sure" Al'ravee too wanted to explore this magnificent piece of technology.

"C'mon, let's go," Ozia said, opting to be the tourist.

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Above a planet that was slightly bigger than the planet Green Cloud. This planet had just two extra large continents. One on the south side, and the other on the north side, with a body of water in between.

Somewhere above the North continent. The Golden Eye Ship appeared above a bunch of dark stormy clouds.

A soft beam of blue light shines down, piercing into the stormy clouds.

*SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH*

Three figures floated down from the ship with the light tube. The three figures were naturally Jurdelious, Ozia and Al'ravee.

"What happened here?" Al'ravee asked no one in particular.

Surrounding him were countless corpses as far as the eye could see. Cold weapons were strewn about on the bloody ground. Swords lay beside their dead wielders while some remained stabbed into their victims.

'This world seems to be a bit backward'. Al'ravee was born in a day and age where guns happened to be the best type of weapon anyone could have, so it was strange for him to see someone using swords to fight.

Al'ravee also noticed that there were two different factions based on their clothing. Some wore black and white leather armour while the rest wore green leather armour.

"Hmm" Ozia did not say anything. Jurdelious looked to the east with a calm expression.

*BUZZ*

At one point, Al'ravee was standing on a battlefield, and the next thing he knew, both he and the two gods beside him were somewhere else.

They were still in the barren land area. The only exception was that there was a woman in front of them.

This woman was around the same height as krene. Cleanly cut wavy white hair fell to the ground. A beautiful and tight, black and white, long dress hugged her body well, making her curves more pronounced. The sleeves of the dress were wide and fell to the floor.

The most attractive thing about her was her white hair. It was so long, it swept the dirt ground but for some reason remained spotless.

Her clear sharp eyes were half closed like she was about to fall asleep, yet they shone with a reluctance to slumber.

*BLIZT BANG*

Lightning struck the area beside them and Ris appeared. "Greetings everyone" He greeted with the same amicable vibe around him as before.

"Allow me to introduce you to Nordeline. Otherwise known as god-empress to the people of this world. She is currently in a state of senselessness and that's on me.

The thing is, somehow, after transcending, she gained two laws"

"Huh?" Al'ravee was confused, wasn't she only supposed to be able to choose one law?

"What are her laws?" Jurdelious asked, a calculative glint flashing in his eyes.

*sigh* One could almost catch a glimpse of envy in his bright blue eyes. "She has the law of Space

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and the law of Time".