Chapter 1368: It's Not Over
Chapter 1368: It's Not Over
Felicia couldn't help but smile as she watched the scene in front of her.
"{Demonic Weapon Shape Forge}: {Cursed Spear Transformation: Guardian of Purgatory}"
FLUOSH!
All one thousand daggers fused together into a huge mass of black, cursed metal encompassing her entirely, a gigantic, living, and cursed armor.
The old alchemist was incredibly proud in this moment, of how far was Celeste getting through, all thanks to her little training with alchemy.
And she had yet to even begin teaching them more than that!
They sure were visual learners, huh?
"I wasn't wrong in letting them become my disciples..."
Celeste transformed her spear once more, giving it a completely new form inspired by Celica's golem to give her protection and also new physical prowess.
Felicia nodded as she saw her confront the chimeras with this new form, using giant fists made of black steel to pulverize the incoming tentacles and then fire beams of darkness and curses to weaken them from afar.
Celeste was rapidly building a new fighting style out of her own cursed spear. Just like she had said, she was doing this her own way. She didn't have flashy powers like Celica, but she had this really powerful cursed spear she had been feeding curses and blood for many years.
And which after she used Dark Geomancy to feed it demonic energy and true demon blood, had only grow tremendously strong, evolving and achieving a new form similarly to how Sylphy's Scarlet or Sapphire evolve.
"I'm definitely asking Sylphy to give the spear a system seed later!" Celeste said. "That gotta be at least one of the compensations she'll have to give me after we're breaking our backs fighting over here to protect her dungeon!"
As she complained, her giant Guardian of Purgatory generated a huge shield out of darkness, resisting a barrage of tentacle attacks and then a beam of concentrated demonic energy.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
BOOOM!
"You're much tougher than I ever thought, my spear!" she smiled. "I never really gave you a name though, but you're certainly alive now, huh?"
The spear responded by moving its huge golem-like body, tackling the smaller Demonic Beasts and pulverizing their heads with beams of darkness and powerful punches.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
ВААМ! ВААМ! ВААМ!
"Fine, I'll give you a fancy name... Thanatos!" Celeste smiled defiantly. "That is the name I give you as your master!"
FLAAASH!
Suddenly, responding to its new name, the spear shone brightly, creating countless threads of darkness, and connecting them with Celeste's soul even deeper than before.
"Ah! T-This is...?!"
For a moment, Celeste saw visions, of the spear itself and its past, of how it was born inside a dungeon's treasure chest, through the materialization of raw Mana and Magic from the dungeon.
And how eventually, after many years, a half-demon girl found them inside a treasure chest, when Celeste was much younger.
"T-This is...?! A magic spear! No way!"
Back then she was much more cautious than now, looking around for any potential thugs, the little girl quickly grabbed the spear and ran away before anybody would try to steal it from her.
"I finally got a magic weapon!" she celebrated, smiling. "With this, growing stronger won't be so hard!"
And how through the many years since it was found by Celeste when she was younger than ten years of age, they went through countless battles, against both monsters... and humans. "That's the filthy half-demon...!"
"Disgusting spawn of the demon king... I'll kill you and avenge my mother that died against you monsters!"
"You're not going anywhere, you're trapped with us in the dungeon, you damn brat!"
Just like back then, when a group of adventurers had chased her down and cornered her in the dungeon, all of them harboring nonsensical hatred against her.
"I-I don't have any fault for what happened to you in the war! I-I wasn't even born back then! Why do you blame me for that?!"
"SHUT UP!"
They ran towards her, attacking her from all angles, swords, axes, and spears rushed towards her at the same time as deadly spells.
Celeste had to fight for her life, using all her magic, abilities, and techniques she had learned until then. She hesitated in that battle, but after seeing how horrible these people were.
She no longer began to hesitate.
"We got her, don't let her escape!"
As she was covered by countless fire magic burnt wounds and arrows, bleeding all over, the thugs rushed towards her to finish her off.
"Damn you... Damn all of you! I hate you all! I hate you all so much!"
Her hatred, frustration, resentment, and many other negative emotions manifested into her cursed powers, her blood and darkness merged with her magical spear, which had gained many cracks and was about to break back then.
FLUOSH!
And all of these negative energies cursed the spear, suddenly encompassing it in a cursed, miasmic aura that repaired its cracks and gave it a new form.
It became pitch black, with a huge, red-colored eye-shaped jewel. And it was in that very
moment, when the inert item was cursed, was when it gained a soul.
A soul born from hatred, frustration, and resentment against humans.
"RAAAHHH!"
With a furious and desperate scream, Celeste pierced through her enemies, gaining tremendous new power from her cursed spear, their heads blew up into pieces and their hearts
were pierced, destroyed.
Chains of darkness emerged from her hands, slowing down, and cursing her foes, and when she was going to be attacked from behind, her spear moved on its own, attacking her foe and
impaling its head.
CRASH!
"Hahhh... Hahhh..."
Covered in the blood of five adventurers, and surrounded by their corpses, Celeste killed
people for the first time.
It was either them or her, she didn't have any other option...
But this was an event that marked her entire life, and that changed her.
And it was also when her cursed spear was born.
Since then, she went through many things, making a pact with two evil gods, creating a cult of
revel demons, then meeting Sylphy and the heroes.
And being stopped and given a second chance.
And through it all, her spear remained by her side, evolving, changing, yet always protecting
her.
Born from her own traumas, it was her guardian.
"Thank you for always being there for me, Thanatos..."
Celeste smiled, feeling her powers unified with her spear.
Thanatos had fulfilled all conditions to be recognized as its own living being, and a Familiar Contract was made between them and Celeste.
"GRUOOHHHH!"
The demonic beasts and chimeras drew closer, and Celica's domain shrank to its limits, her golems were now very few, and the monsters were still in the thousands.
"Okay then, let's protect Celica, and do our best!"
Celeste roared, clashing against all the monsters at once, her spear was thrown down constantly, shattering only to rapidly recover as she drained the blood and energy of her foes.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Giant black colored metallic claws were formed, as she slashed apart her foes while she let
Celica enter the interior of her spear's Guardian of Purgatory form.
"Wooow! This is amazing, Celeste!"
"Right? Don't worry though, you've barely seen the full extent of it!"
Celeste ran across the battlefield inside of her Spear's transformed appearance with Celica at
her side, slaying foes from left and right.
Yet...
BOOOM!
The ground shook, breaking apart as a gigantic worm-like monstrosity emerged.
"GRYYYEEEGGGHH!"
All Demonic Beasts were constantly fusing with it, making it grow larger, and larger, and
larger!