Chapter 718 Transcendent Divine Powers
?Shortly after recognizing Hecate's Transcendent Divine Power, Abaddon's anger finally peaked. He had exercised a lot of restraint due to the potential destruction his power could cause to his people and land.
However, Hecate didn't have this concern as they weren't hers. In fact, ravaging Abaddon's territory would make her even happier.
After all, she had lost a tremendous source of faith energy. It was only fair that she damaged Abaddon's divinity to get even.
"So what if I did? You can't even begin to fathom how much you have taken from me. However, that's okay. I will make you understand exactly how much you took from me."
Following Hecate's cold words, the cascading white moonlight converged on a single location – Abaddon's position. As it did, its radiance was magnified by countless folds over time.
Abaddon could feel the threatening power of petrification amplify as the moonlight grew in white brilliance. He immediately dispersed into countless bats, relocating to a different spot.
However, the concentrated white beam of moonlight followed Abaddon; wherever he went, the moonlight beam followed. At the same time, the more he moved, the more destruction caused by the moonlight beam.
Abaddon's eyes grew redder as he watched the petrified regions within the city below. The beautiful and prosperous city was slowly transformed into a ruin full of salt and death.
Hecate's Transcendent Divine Power, the [White Death], had already claimed millions of lives in mere moments. Even the vampire armies set to enter Pangea were reduced to mountains of salt.
Nevertheless, Hecate did not bat an eye to such a massacre.
The indiscriminate slaughter was but a small number—a tiny, insignificant fraction of Gehenna. Such losses could be easily recovered with time. On the other hand, the psychological damage she inflicted on Abaddon was not so easy to recover from.
That made Hecate delighted.
Regardless of race, women became terrifying existences once angered.
Despite being in another Great Devil's territory, not a single being came forward to help Abaddon since he emerged from his ancient floating castle to retaliate against Hecate.
Abaddon's people knew they didn't have the power to interfere in a battle between the Great Devils—for a battle between Great Devils was no battle; it was a calamity to mortals.
As the saying goes – When gods battle, mortals suffer.
Abaddon held back because he knew he would cause mass destruction to his land and people if he went all-out. However, even if he didn't go all-out, mass destruction still occurred to his land and people!
"This grudge is irreconcilable, Hecate! You have forced my hand!" Abaddon screeched with a deafening high pitch.
Rumble…!
The hole in the sky that Hecate had punctured was quickly patched as rolling dark clouds gathered. Hecate's moonlight was banished beyond the clouds, and darkness returned to the land.
Transcendent Divine Power – Eternal Darkness!
The entire region was drowned in pitch-black darkness as a domain-like darkness field expanded outward. Within this dark field, all light disappeared, all fire died, and life ended.
Even the buildings and ground became decrepit, desolate, and ancient, as if several thousand years had passed in an instant.
Abaddon's [Eternal Darkness] devoured all energy, essence, and life in his surroundings and converted them into raw power.
Although Abbadon condensed the dark field's range to increase its devouring power on Hecate, the city and people below were still affected—the extent of the damage almost caught up to Hecate's [White Death] in an instant.
Nevertheless, Abaddon's [Eternal Darkness] wasn't meant to be a killing move; its main purpose was to devour Hecate's energy and life force and increase his own.
However, the lack of raw power told Abaddon that his [Eternal Darkness] failed to devour Hecate's power. Either she had escaped its range, or [Eternal Darkness] could not devour Hecate's energy and life force.
Of course, Abaddon preferred to believe the former rather than the latter.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be the latter as Abaddon noticed an emerging protective sphere of light covering Hecate.
"Haa… [Eternal Darkness], huh? You're truly cruel to your people," Hecate ridiculed before saying, "But did you really think this kind of Transcendent Divine Power would work on me?"
Following Hecate's words, intense light rapidly concentrated on the tips of her middle finger and thumb.
Transcendent Divine Power – White Nova!
With a casual flick, the intense white light concentrated on Hecate's finger erupted in all its splendor and glory. It instantly covered the entire region in its white brilliance, seemingly mimicking the dawn of creation.
The endless darkness summoned by Abaddon's Transcendent Divine Power was ruthlessly stripped away in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, Abaddon was terribly scorched by the white brilliance, which contained powerful Light Laws – the bane of all darkness.
Naturally, [White Nova] would cancel out [Eternal Darkness] equally.
Transcendent Divine Power was the term given to any kind of skill or ability capable of producing power above one's divine rank. Most laws were Transcendent Divine Powers, but not all Transcendent Divine Powers were laws.
"Indeed, it was foolish of me to compete in Transcendent Divine Power with someone who has mastered seven different Transcendent Divine Powers," Abaddon admitted with an ugly expression.
"However, not all Transcendent Divine Powers are made equal. The one with more Transcendent Divine Powers isn't necessarily stronger. That said, I'm not keen on proving that to you."
"Why don't we end the fight here, Hecate? Don't you think you have gone far enough with your tantrum? Look, I've opened a stable connection to Pangea. I am willing to split the gains with you after we conquer it."
"What do you say?" Abaddon sought Hecate's answer after making his concessions.
Although he wanted nothing more than to tear Hecate apart, he had too great of an ambition to be held back by her. More importantly, if it were something so easily done, he would have already done it.
He couldn't let her delay him any further.
Unfortunately for Abaddon, Hecate wasn't someone he could reason with once he got on her bad side.
"Split the gains? What a joke! If I wanted to conquer Pangea, why would I wait until now?! I've already told you what I want! Ten thousand drops of your divine blood essence, not a drop less!" Hecate coldly stated.
Abaddon's eyes almost popped out of their sockets from endless rage and disbelief. It was truly difficult to reason with an unreasonable woman.
"Ten thousand drops?!" Abaddon screamed with outrage before barking, "You said nine thousand drops before!"
"That was then; this is now," Hecate coldly stated.
"Stop asking for the impossible, Hecate! It's not going to happen!" Abaddon thundered furiously, adding, "I've already made repeated concessions for you! Do you truly want to turn this dispute into a battle to the death?!"
"If you push me any further, I will make you understand what it truly means to regret something!" Abaddon threatened with fires in his eyes.
He had mastered three different Transcendent Divine Powers – one of darkness, one of blood, and something else.
However, the last Transcendent Divine Power was his trump card; it wasn't something he wanted to reveal unless he was caught in a truly dire situation with his life on the line.
Unfortunately, Hecate might really force it out of him!
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