Chapter 140 - Against The Armored Celestial

|Devil of Pride, this grave of swords, would be your grave.|

The golden armored celestial said that while pointing his sword towards Conrad, as if he was sure that his words were nothing other than the truth.

Conrad's face twitched at this, he was getting annoyed but he wanted to keep his calm.

"Just because you got me into your domain, doesn't mean that your victory is guaranteed."

|Oh, it definitely is, unlike the Devil of Envy, your resistance to celestial energy is much lower, and I am stronger than those brats who encountered her too.|

Conrad ignored his words without bothering to ask how he knew about the attack on Inglis, he was concerned about another thing that he noticed.

'This celestial is unknown; there are no records of him anywhere. The fact that a celestial this strong was in hell and there is no knowledge on him or what pantheon he's from is worrying.'

As the Grand Duke of the Eryrth Duchy, one of the four grand duchies of hell, he was well aware of the names and appearances of many of hell's enemies.

Especially the celestials.

Yet, the celestial in front of him was strong enough to be the main entity of a pantheon; however, Conrad knew nothing about him.

'It's infuriating.'

As someone who had pride in his knowledge, such a situation was something he could not tolerate. However, he did not lose his cool but analyzed the situation calmly.

'Since he is strong, it's best to go all out from the start.'

The moment he had that thought, the atmosphere around Conrad changed, even the celestial who was about to attack sensed it and stepped back reflexively.

|Foolish Celestial, you come to my universe and say this shall be my grave.

Who decided that?|

There were some energy types that some races were born with innately, but this did not mean that other races could not use them.

Like how humans could use celestial energy and angels could use divinity.

Similarly, Devils could also use the demonic energy that demons innately possessed.

Waves of demonic energy poured out of Conrad's body, corrupting the golden desert around him. Many of the swords anchored into the ground were also corrupted and the armored celestial found that he had lost control of those swords.

|Damned Devil.|

He dashed towards Conrad with enough force to shatter the hill he was standing on, in less than a second, his sword was thundering down towards Conrad's head.

Conrad rose his weapon to block the celestial's sword and twisted his body around to deliver a spin kick to the celestial's head.

*BOOM

The celestial did not rely on his helmet for protection and rose his right hand to block the kick.

Five swords that were anchored into the ground rose up from the golden sand and dashed towards Conrad's seemingly defenseless back.

However, Conrad manipulated the demonic energy he released and formed a barrier to block the swords while also clashing blades with the celestial whose sword was threatening to lop off his head.

[Authority of Swords: Origin Flash Barrage.]

He swung his sword at light speed, releasing multiple giant celestial energy filled slashes that shredded almost anything in front of him.

The keyword here, is 'Almost.'

Conrad filled his sword with demonic energy, countering each and every one of the slashes. He then reflexively filled his sword with magic and swung it, releasing the energy as a flying slash that headed straight towards the armored celestial.

'Tsk...'

However, the moment he did, he clicked his tongue in annoyance.

'Force of habit, forgot the reason I didn't use magic in the first place.'

The reason why Conrad was using the harder to manipulate demonic energy instead of normal magic was simple.

|Anti Magic Wall.|

The celestial possessed the bane of magic; Anti Magic.

In other words, using magic on him was pointless.

A wall of dark negative energy rose up from the ground and blocked Conrad's magic filled slash. It broke a second later as Conrad came charging through with his sword.

The Celestial also decided to respond in kind by swinging his sword.

In the short moment that he pulled up the anti-magic wall, he had summoned one of the swords anchored into the ground into his hand.

**CLANG! CLANG!! CLANG!!!

The shockwaves released each time they clashed swords were enough to shatter the ground underneath their feet.

However, this was not a problem as the both of them were capable of flying.

|Wave of Swords.|

As the celestial spoke, hundreds, possibly thousands of different swords rose up from the ground and flew towards Conrad who was still engaging the celestial in a battle of swords.

'It would hit him if he doesn't back away, but seeing as he is making no move to, it means that the swords cannot damage him in any way.'

Reaching that conclusion, Conrad released a burst of Aura and jumped backwards before releasing a pair of wings and using them to deflect the first group of about a dozen swords that came from behind.

He then decided to use the power of the law that the celestial had been using since the beginning.

[Authority of Swords: Eon of Darkness]

In addition, another authority to amplify it.

[Authority of Proliferation: Multiplication Codex]

A net of dark light spread out in front of him. Each and every one of the threads of dark light that made up the new was filled with the essence of the law of proliferation.

He held his longsword aloft and let it absorb his aura until it reached its limit, he then swung it down, the moment it passed through the net of light, the enormous amount of aura on the sword increased in quantity and quality.

Despite being above its capacity, the sword did not break.

Just as the amount of aura he poured into it, increased in quantity and quality, the sword also had its capacity for energy increase in quantity, its durability also increased exponentially.

This was because of the Authority of proliferation that multiplied the sword's parameters.

What was proliferation?

It could be defined as the act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement or escalation.

This was what was done to both the sword and the dark aura within it.

All that accumulated and augmented energy was released in a single slash towards the armored celestial who hurriedly put up defenses.

[Authority of Fate: Empyrean Fate Guards]

The ground cracked open to reveal a trio of giant golden golem constructs made of celestial energy, they all held shields in their hands to block the incoming attack.

'It's still not enough.'

Another set of a few thousand swords, different from the ones moving towards Conrad from behind, rose up from the ground and formed a protective wall around him.

And then, the attack hit.

***KAAAAABBOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!

There was an explosion as aura and celestial energy clashed.

The three-empyrean fate guards barely stood a chance against the Eon of Darkness and were annihilated almost instantly.

The wall of swords did not fare any better as they were destroyed even faster than the empyrean fate guards.

[Authority of Earth: Rising Ground]

The celestial's voice could be heard as a series of large columns protruded from the ground and crashed into the incoming Eon of Darkness.

Each of these columns was easily the height of what could be considered the tallest mountains of various high level worlds, with the shortest being a whopping 50,000 meters.

Moreover, there were hundreds of them!

**BOOOOMM!!!

The resulting clash resulted in another explosion that had enough force to render a few solar systems starless.

The celestial backed away while mending his broken armor with celestial energy, when he sensed a massive amount of energy dashing towards him.

'It couldn't be?'

The next words he heard, confirmed his suspicions.

[Authority of Fortification: Solid Rock]

Instead of using magic that could be easily cancelled with the celestial's anti magic or some other energy that would not be able to provide satisfactory results, Conrad opted to use the power of a law to protect himself against the explosion created by the clashing of multiple laws.

From within the cloud of dust and dirt that was generated by the secondary explosions, Conrad's figure clad in the essence of the law of fortification burst out, with a wave of swords trailing behind him.

|Tsk...|

The armored celestial clicked his tongue and rose his hands, two swords flew into them and he clashed with Conrad's blade that went straight for his head.

**CLANG! CLANG!!!

While locking blades with Conrad, he stomped his foot on the ground causing a spike of earth filled with celestial energy to rise up from underneath Conrad's feet.

However, Conrad had long since guessed his intention and had taken precautions. He poured demonic energy into his feet and stomped it on the ground, countering the earth spike and causing the celestial to lose his footing.

He then rolled to the side to avoid the flying blades that threatened to impale the back of his head and quickly stood up before using his wings to repel a few more flying blades.

**FLAP!

Conrad released two more pairs of wings and flapped them with enough force to propel himself high up into the air at once.

His wings seemed to glow for a bit as with each flap, waves of wind-attributed ether poured out and blocked the flying blades that had locked into his position.

On the ground, the celestial who regained his footing, gestured with his hands and the swords that were blown away by the ether infused wind, all rotated towards Conrad and dashed towards him fast enough to leave behind multiple sonic booms.

|Tempest.|