Chapter 124 - Adventures Of Aurora And Inglis, Dust To Dust

"Explode."

**BOOOM!

Two other celestials screamed in pain after being affected by the explosion, however their screams were cut short when a sword of flames cleaved through their heads.

|You damned!!|

One of the Celestial high tier deities exclaimed in rage before summoning a celestial sword artifact and dashing towards Aurora.

Aurora sensed him incoming and waved her hand, transforming the sword in her other hand, to a bow of flames.

She held it up and rapidly fired multiple arrows at the celestial deity, all of which he knocked down with his sword.

Aurora moved backwards for a bit, before turning into a streak of light and dashing towards a nearby planet, one that was hundreds of thousands of kilometres in diameter.

The celestial's face paled and he looked towards the other two high tier deities.

|She's heading to the base, hold the other one off, I'd handle this one.|

With those words, he turned into a streak of light and chased after Aurora.

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The denizens of a certain planet were going about thier daily lives when they started discovering strange phenomena.

There were bright flashes of light in the sky that could be seen from almost everywhere.

Suddenly, two flashes of light detached themselves from the rest and thundered down towards the planet.

The astronomers and astrologers racked their brains to understand what was going on.

They were a technologically advanced planet and they had set out to conquer other planets in their star system and the nearby star systems.

They had also developed weapons capable of destroying planets with ease, yet, the denizens of the planet had never encountered the supernatural.

All of the innovations and achievements were the results of pure science.

However this did not mean that they didn't know of the supernatural.

They had found traces in other planets they had conquered, ancient ruins and murals depicting powerful beings flying through space unhindered and raining down destruction on the worlds below.

It was precisely because of this that they understood what the identities of the two streaks of light descending on their planets were.

The legendary beings worshipped by some of the worlds they had conquered.

Deities.

The first streak of light crashed down on the ground, the shockwaves from the crash wiped out a country completely.

A barely working satellite caught the figure of a woman with literally flaming hair looking around before nodding to herself.

She then looked towards the satellite's camera and stretched out a hand.

Then, she clenched her fist.

That was the last thing the satellite transmitted, all contact with it was lost afterwards.

The second streak of light descended not long after, landing directly on the same spot the first did.

At this point, the people of that planet who knew and understood what was happening, accepted their impending doom, as they knew fully well that their puny planet could not survive a battle between deities.

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As Aurora descended onto the planet, the first thing she did was to check if it was possible for her to get serious while on it.

'This is a high level galaxy, as such I can use my full power without restrictions.

Even so, I have to make sure. The law of causality can be a real pain in the behind sometimes.'

Confirming that she was not restricted by anything, she stretched out her hand and clenched her fist, destroying the source of the gaze she could feel on her body.

'Most likely some sort of satellite.' 

The bow of flames in her hand, morphed into a sword and she rose it to clash with the sword that thundered down towards her head at a speed faster than light.

***BOOOOM!!

Waves of pure celestial energy spilled out from the sword, threatening to engulf her whole.

Aurora roused her own flame attributed energy to resist the celestial energy and rose her other hand, firing multiple flame spears from it.

"Tch..."

The celestial who held the sword, clicked his tongue and backed away to avoid getting hit, landing on the ground, he glared at Aurora closely while wondering if she chose to descend to this planet on purpose.

The next moment, something out of his wildest dreams happened.

Aurora cut of her own arm with her sword.

The amputated arm fell to the ground, yet not a single drop of blood was spilled.

From the stump of her arm, flames poured out and formed a new arm, all while the amputated limb remained on the floor.

The fallen arm then burst into a pillar of flames, before reforming itself into a copy of Aurora.

"Scour this planet and find all they're hiding here."

The copy nodded and turned into a streak of light, dashing in the opposite direction from the two.

Seeing this, the celestial wanted to give chase but Aurora's figure flickered in front of him, with sword in hand.

The two clashed blades, releasing shockwaves that collapsed the earth underneath their feet.

Aurora sent a knee kick to the celestial, disorienting and pushing him back a bit.

In that short moment, she transformed the sword to a bow and fired multiple arrows of flames towards him.

He created a shield of celestial energy and filled his sword with aura before dashing towards her.

As he closed the distance, Aurora flicked her fingers and the bow of flames transformed into a spear of flames.

Spear and sword clashed repeatedly with a loud clanging sound each time.

Aurora's spear threatened to stab his vitals while his sword threatened to cleave her in two.

His sword occasionally slithered across her arm to her neck, however at the last moment, a barrier of flames always appeared and blocked it.

Aurora's spear occasionally knocked his sword out of his hands, however it always returned to him faster than she could stab his heart with the tip of her spear.

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While Aurora was clashing with the celestial deity on the planet below, Inglis was laughing boisterously as she waved her staff towards the two celestials charging at her.

"What should I call this spell...? Star call?"

As she spoke, a gigantic star with size and mass comparable to that of the star system's sun, was pulled out of its path of orbit and thrown towards the two deities.

|We have to prevent it from hitting the planet.|

|Won't she hit her ally?!|

|The other woman is a Phoenix, the flames would only make her stronger.|

With that short conversation, the deities stretched out their hands simultaneously.

One created a barrier of celestial energy to block the incoming star and the other fired a beam of light with power no less than that of the star in it.

Inglis moved sideways to dodge, then flew backwards while launching multiple dark magic at them.

The two blocked and counter attacked as they followed Inglis out of the star system.

Some mid-tier deity celestials attempted to attack Inglis from behind but she turned around abruptly and swung her staff with enough force to bash into the head of a celestial and send it flying.

She then dashed towards the nearest one while he was still dumbfounded and stabbed towards him with the edge of the staff.

He hastily created a barrier of celestial energy to block it but Inglis only smiled and twisted the staff.

Essence of the law of darkness converged around the top and began spinning round it at insane speeds.

The hastily made batter of celestial energy could not withstand the penetrating force of the drill of darkness and shattered almost instantly.

"Gahhhh!!"

Then drill pierced into his chest and he screamed in pain while coughing out huge amounts of blood.

Sensing three other celestials behind her, Inglis spoke in a silent voice.

[Corrosion]

Waves of darkness attributed energy that corroded any and everything poured out of her body towards the three celestials.

They protected their bodies with celestial energy and kept on charging towards her, covering their weapons ad bodies with the essence of various laws to resist the corrosion.

[Authority of Life: Breath of Life]

A celestial activated her authority of life and fought back against the corrosive darkness. 

She poured her energy into the other two and they felt themselves energized and had the strength and speed of their attacks enhanced.

Before their attacks hit, Inglis eyes flashed with a cold glint as she grabbed the neck of the celestial that had a drill of darkness boring a hole through his chest.

She turned around and ignored the weapons that were about to pierce her body.

Her dark obsidian eyes met the golden eyes of the celestial with the authority of life.

|Sto-!|

By the time she could begin speaking, it was already too late.

[Authority of Death; Dust to Dust]

The two celestials who stabbed Inglis in the stomach with their swords, felt a momentary weakness.

The next moment, they could not feel anything anymore.

Their bodies visibly aged as all their energy and life force was drained out of them.

The celestial energy within them was expelled into the surrounding as Inglis was unable to absorb it.

As for their bodies, they had already turned to space dust.