"I’m back," Ian whispered under his breath as he looked around at the familiar land, familiar sky, and the very air that seemed to be carrying a unique intangible substance that made his cells scream happily.
At this moment, Ian felt the long-lost lightness on his body. He instintively suck a deep breath and a smile formed on his face.
Just as Ian had started to relish his return. A dark crack emerged above him that prompted him to look up. The crack looked smaller initially until it began to rapidly expand.
Continuous cracking sound reverberated. Ian quickly distanced himself from the spatial cracks. Even with his current physique, those cracks in space would prove to be lethal.
Under Ian’s gaze, a dark silhouette stepped out of the void. A spike of dark aura rose and pierced the sky. The figure has red eyes, but it doesn’t have ears or any distinctive facial features. With a body made of pure darkness, one won’t be able to make up what he looks like.
"I’ve been waiting for you, mortal. No one escapes the ire of the Gods!"
The figure made of pure darkness crossed its arms and walked lightly step by step towards Ian overbearingly.
A wave of pressure descended on Ian, trying to crush him, but Ian at this time didn’t even budge.
"Ohhh? Interesting..."
The dark silhouette muttered, now with a tone laced with interest.
"I didn’t expect a mere vampire could endure the pressure of a god..." He clapped his hands, and the look he had at Ian no longer harbored disdain. "I must say that throughout the eighteen universes, you are one of the few mortals that had managed to reach this far on the path to power."
"Well, jokes on you. I do not care if you’re god. You’ve almost killed me last time. Now, it’s time for a pay back..." Ian’s eyes narrowed. He won’t forgive others who want to take his life. Ian cracked his knuckles, producing popping sounds. "Since you dare to kill, you must be prepared to be killed."
"HAHAHA! A mere mortal dares to threaten a god? That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in almost three centuries. You are quite the joker, mortal. Do you think that just because you’ve managed to barely escape last time, that you’ll just be fine this time?"
At this time, the Dark God condensed a dark arrow above his palm. "I really want to ask. Where did you get your confidence from? Mind telling me?
"Haven’t you heard of the saying that villains die from talking too much talking?"
Suddenly, the arrow from the Dark God’s palm produced a sound of a roaring lion. Dark colored flames enveloped the arrow and began to sizzle.
"Face the wrath of god, monkey!" A shit-eating grin appeared on the supposed faceless Dark God.
Not even a split second occurred when the arrow hurled by the Dark God hit its mark, Ian’s forehead.
However, at this time, Ian actually caught the dark arrow on his hand. Ian clenched his fist and crushed it easily.
"Impossible! How could a mortal destroy an energy composed of Divine Ki!?"
The Dark God roared in disbelief. Such a feat is unique even among the eighteen universes, or there might not even be one mortal who could do such a thing. At least, since his ascension to godhood, he hasn’t heard of anyone capable of touching Divine Ki, not to mention, crushing it with just a mortal body!
What is Divine Ki? It was a unique energy that was made from the fusion of cosmic energy and dark matter that had existed in the Universe since the beginning of time. Such potent fusion of energy had pushed the power of the Gods to the galaxy-level!
Although he had only ascended to Godhood for eighty and a half centuries, and was considered a newbie. The power of the Gods wasn’t something mortals were supposed to ever reach because that defies the natural order. No matter what, there should be a limit to absurdity, right?
"That’s it?" Ian clicked his tongue with disdain. "I mean, aren’t you too weak? You’re weakness disgusts me!"
"Y-you!" At this moment, the Dark God almost fainted in anger. How dare this monkey insult a dignified, sacred, overwhelmingly powerful god like him? This is a slap to the face! An absolute humiliation he had never experienced!
The Dark God fully unleashed his aura. With his aura alone, the entire Curtained Imperium started to tremble and is now on the verge of destruction. The very fabric of space twisted.
"Witness the power of god that no mortal could ever dream to attain!"
The Dark God poured everything he had into his fist and then appeared beside Ian and threw a punch that contained an overwhelming amount of Dark Divine Ki. "Die!!!"
Ian’s face changed. With a pivot on his back foot, he attempted to evade, but the speed of the full-power punch was just too fast.
The Dark God’s fist connected to Ian’s face, which made him fly away and hit hundreds of kingdoms of dark races, destroying them in the process. Hundreds of thousands died. The continent was reduced in half with just the aftereffects of Ian’s impact. In the end, Ian only stopped when he was a thousand meters below sea level.
At the bottom of the sea, Ian felt his neck turned ninety degrees, several bones broke, and his brain shook to the core that he felt dizzy. However, a battle-crazed smile instead crept on his face, and he forcefully strained his neck back to its place. ’Is this the power of God?
Ian gathered force on his thigh, down to his calves, the muscles swelled, and boom!
The sea parted as if Moses personally used his ability. Ian appeared above the clouds. He wiped the blood on the corner of his lips and licked it. "It would have been boring if a God were really weak."
Suddenly, a dark crack appeared in front of Ian, and the Dark God emerged out of it with a face full of shock. "H-how!? How is your physique so strong!?? That punch just now is enough to blow the entire Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. Although I haven’t truly reached the Universe-level, which the true gods possess. It shouldn’t be possible for a mortal to have such a physique that could resist galaxy-destroying level attack!"
"Man, can you just fucking shut your stinky mouth?" Ian yawned. "I mean, are you really a God?" his voice was doubtful. "Forget it. Well, to answer you, I possessed Super Asura Physique. It’s a body that rivals god, so don’t feel down." He chuckled mockingly.
"You’re a monster!" the Dark God looks horrified this time.