My Soul card is a Reaper

The battle went on for sixteen hours straight, and the result was quite devastating for the surroundings.

The entire island of Hel's Prison was destroyed, forcing the region lord Nidgorr to join the battle against Tellus, too.

Tellus was already in a disadvantageous situation, battling in the sky against an opponent in the elementary god realm, although with powers restricted to that of a demigod due to world laws.

Adding on top of that, there was now a wingless dragon with the ability to increase its ally's strength significantly and reduce the damage taken by its allies, too.

As a result, Tellus had to take his new partner, Knull, to take care of Nidgorr while he focused on Argus.

Tellus' ability to create Aetherium and adamantium also diminished significantly over time as the physical body of Azzy reached its limit, even with his true divine physique of celestial beings. Hence, he also had to resort to manipulating the created ones that were thrown at the opponent and submerged in the sea.

Argus couldn't defeat Tellus as he expected. However, he knew that Tellus' body was also reaching its limit. Hence, he was merely prolonging the battle as long as he could.

Instead of unnecessarily wasting his energy by taking on those indestructible blocks of Aetherium, he relied on his speed to evade them and kept close to his opponent for close combat so that Tellus would be forced to use his body strength and become tired eventually.

After sixteen hours of continuous battle, Tellus started thinking that he might not be able to best Argus in battle either. Unlike Argus, he had a weak physique. At the same time, he couldn't switch out to Azzy, who barely defeated an apostle of death earlier. In his eyes, there is no way Azzy could beat someone like Argus.

Tellus started thinking of other ways. He didn't hesitate to consult the clan founder's remnant spirit for advice. After all, it was his order that forced Tellus to start this whole extermination thing in the first place.

A suggestion came to him, and Tellus followed it, releasing all of those floating aetherium and adamantine blocks from his control. They fell to the sea except for one that was transformed into a sword and a triangular-shaped shield.

Meanwhile, Azzy's soul lost interest in the battle after watching it for very many hours, and Tellus wasn't interested in tapping out or running away.

With the Reaper effectively shutting off Mindscape once again to protect Azzy from Argus and the clan founder being very much interested in the battle, Azzy's soul just spent his time in meditation, trying to see if he could connect to the outside world at the same time and absorb the natural energy.

He had been doing it for the past 8 hours, and there were no results so far. With his ancestor's advice, he changed his strategy and focused more on controlling Gaia's essence from his Sage core.

"Haaa…"

Teleporting right next to Tellus, Argus swung the blade one more time. Tellus blocked it with the shield.

The mouth appeared on the blade with its sharp teeth and shot out a concentrated beam of demonic energy at Tellus.

Tellus' face was just about to be hit, but he tilted his head to dodge the attack and gave a kick to Argus' abdomen; his legs were still covered by a layer of Aetherium armor connected with Argus' knee instead, and Tellus was pushed back a few meters away.

Tellus wobbled a little bit before finding his balance and tightly gripped the sword.

Argus gave off a smirk on his face, "It looks like your physical body almost reached its limit, earth jewel. I wonder if you can take this attack."

Zeus' Lightning gushed out of his body at once and enveloped him. The sparks of lightning started dancing all over his body. The sword let out a demonic aura, which somehow mixed with the divine aura of Zeus, thickening the layer of energy over its blade.

Argus raised the sword above his head and shouted, "Four Cardinal Dragons: The Dragon of the East."

"Haaa"

The energy of demonic and divine shot out of the blade and formed a wingless and limbless dragon with long whiskers. It had lightning sparks over it.

Tellus regulated his breathing and calmly stared at the dragon that slowly took its shape.

Knull and Nidgorr paused their never-ending fight, which had Knull hitting it and Nidgorr healing itself, and watched the scene from far away.

Staring at the giant energy dragon in the sky, Nidgorr commented, "Argus decided on ending this battle. Your master will die, Knull."

Knull shrugged off his shoulders like a human, "I told you before. It doesn't matter. If he wins, it is good. And If he dies, it is even better. I'll be free from this servitude."

"Now, die…" Argus swung down the sword. The energy dragon descended from the clouds, opening its mouth widely as Tellus stayed in his spot without bothering to defend himself this time.

Just as it was about to swallow him, natural energy rushed out of his body, forming a translucent energy barrier.

"Useless," mumbled Argus.

The barrier didn't last for three seconds. It was broken in a couple of seconds, and the Dragon continued to swallow him. However, it didn't proceed further.

There was a glowing sword standing in between them, releasing a pure divine aura and keeping the dragon at bay.

"Hmm?" Argus frowned at the sight. He recognized it at one glance, too, "The sword of radiance? What is it doing in the mortal realm? Which Deity is protecting him?"

Tellus let go of the shield and stretched his hand, catching the sword. Of his two eyes that had a white glow without any visible pupils, one of them turned normal at the same time, and he spoke, "Clan founder was right. Gaia's essence can connect everything."

"Hmm? Gaia's essence? What is he saying? And what happened to his voice? It no longer sounded distorted," Argus entered into a moment of confusion before he shook off his thoughts and concentrated on the dragon, trying to push it toward Tellus.

"So, we can share our powers like this? Good," commented Tellus in his usual distorted tone once again, swinging the sword horizontally.

The horizontal swing of the sword generated an arc of condensed death energy, which cut down the dragon in half and eliminated it right away; Argus' eyes widened as he involuntarily shivered a little bit. "Primordial death force? This is the Abode of Death's sword of radiance. Is that host an apostle of Lord Thanatos? No, it required a primordial death attribute to work.

An avatar?" He couldn't help but wonder out loud, taking Azzy by surprise.
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"Primordial death force?"