The Rise Of Calamity

As the figure looked down upon the trembling gorilla alongside all the other beasts who felt their instincts telling them to run, a bloodlust erupted out of it before a primordial voice that dropped an insurmountable pressure on everyone spoke out.

"What's wrong?" The deep and distorted voice asked with a tinge of mockery in its voice.

"Scared?" I asked, my eyes now penetrating through their very being and looking directly into the golden gorilla's soul.

Even though I had felt the presence of other people, due to my divine eyes being active throughout the whole time I had been on the battlefield, I did not realize that not only my grandmother, Throid, Gold, and Alan were here, but also Clara and my two brothers.

To me, they all blended in with the others, not allowing me to see passed their mortal bodies and mana fluctuations. The only thing that did perk my interest was the necklace around my grandmother, yet even then I was more focused on the necklace rather than my grandmother.

If I had my clairvoyance active, I would have been able to spot them almost immediately, yet since I was technically not in any danger that I could not foresee with my normal eyes and soul sense, it did not activate and left me unknowingly causing everyone to go into a daze as they looked at the "God" that had saved them.

'Wait... That mask...' Xela quickly narrowed her eyes and snapped herself out of the daze that she had been put under when looking at the brilliant golden radiance coming off my body. Shaking her head, she was finally able o look at my face, yet instead of seeing a face, she saw a familiar mask as well as a familiar color of hair and even a familiar mana fluctuation.

'There is no way...' She could not... no... She DID not want to believe what she saw and she was not the only one shocked, everyone that had recognized the mask had their mouths agape, threatening to let the next insect walk into their mouths without resistance.

"But how..." Alan muttered before looking at the unconscious throid that I was holding by the foot and had not even recognized yet.

"Are you not going to attack me, you savage bastard?" A cruel grin stretched up from the corners of my lips while my eyes grew even brighter.

"PLEASE! WE DID NOT MEAN TO OFFEND A DIVINE BEING!" The beast tried to negotiate, but all that I replied with was a snicker.

"I'LL GIVE YOU ANYTHING! ANYTHING YOU WANT! Anything you have ever imagined having!" The gorilla was retreating back, step by step as if running away was an option.

"Okay..." I descended to the ground before throwing Throid to the side without a single ounce of care. My reply had surprised the gorilla, causing it to stop in its tracks before looking at me suspiciously,

"I'll tell you what I want, but at the same time, you have to give me the thing I want while also leaving this place, okay?" I smiled mischievously, but of course, he could not see that.

"What is it?" He asked, trying to take a step forward before being zapped in the middle of his foot, launching his leg up and causing him to slip.

"Bring me the heart of a dragon and phoenix alongside their scales and feathers. You think you can do that?" The moment the gorilla heard what I had to say, it could not help but feel like the ominous feeling it had felt before was correct and that he should have retreated when he had the time to do so.

"DON'T PLAY WITH ME, YOU BASTARD! AM I A JOKE TO YOU!?" The gorilla roared with all its might sending countless shockwaves out as a golden yet dim aura intertwines with killing intent exploded from deep within the gorilla.

"That's more like it" I slowly put my hands behind my back, standing in front of the gorilla taking the full brunt of the shockwaves.

All battles had stopped by now and it was no surprise why.

The same humans that were slaughtering the beasts had completely stopped in their tracks, retreating to the back lines while the beasts that were attacking all the humans, including the overlords of the beast tide, also jumped back to their back lines without thinking twice.

"So wanna go?" I asked, this time taking a step forward.

However, before my foot could even reach the ground, I watched as a fist covered in a golden energy shot towards me while ripping the winds apart as it moved towards me, The power behind the punch was terrifying and would have caused anyone under the liquidus stage to drop to their knees, yet not only was I not in the liquidus stage, I was still in the early stages of the gaseous stage.

Dozens if not hundreds of extremely compressed mana barriers formed in front of me as I watched the gorilla thrust back its other fist, ready to use it the moment the first one fails.

Even though my eyes widened slightly, I still did not move from where I was standing and instead, put up a single hand that I aimed towards the gorilla, a cold glint flashing before my eyes.

*ROAR*

Roaring, the gorilla punched down at my barriers, causing them to all shatter one by one. However, while they might have been quite easily destroyed, it did not take long for the first energy to run out after the break speed had slowed down significantly.

Without wasting a single second, the gorilla shot forth its other fist, yet the same thing repeated over and over again until finally, something different happened in the 5th punch

*SHATTER* The last barrier had finally shattered, allowing the fist to finally reach me, yet due to most of the energy and momentum being used to break the last barrier, all that I had received was a punch that could have been compared to a love tap more than anything else.

The gorilla was about to do the same thing it had been doping for the last minute, finally covering its 6th punch with the golden energy, however this time, it did not go the same way it did last time.

"So this is all you've got? Aren't you kind of... Weak?" I tilted my head to the left as if the question was asked out of curiosity rather than mockery.

*ROOOOAA-* It could not finish the roar it had saved up for this moment as an enormous amount of pain flooded it while its perspective had changed from looking at me to looking towards the sky.