Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1089: Detonation! (2)



From the moment the two bursts of Nitros exploded while Pherdanta's Aggrante blinded and demolished the Undead, Actuass had realised what his enemies were trying to do.

It was a viable strategy really.

While he was sure they didn't know it, Actuass had more than enough power to counter them, but he was quickly approaching his limit. A struggle of Territories was sure to push his already breaking body to the brink.

What was the saying again?

'All the power, but no ability to use it.'

Even though the odds were against the necromancer, however, with his body now no different to a bomb rigged to explode after a certain threshold of force was introduced to it, he decided indulge, or rather, tease his enemies.

He grinned inwardly.

'Might as well enjoy the process while it lasts!' he thought.

But before then, he had to do something to slow the momentum of his opponents.

A surefire to do so was...

"Ignite Undeath." the necromancer said.

The Undeath energy flowing through his thralls began to explode outward, the intensity of each varying. However, even the weakest was capable of rendering the surrounding space unstable, causing a mirage-like effect on the intangible surface of the world!

Benzard was caught off guard.

The first and second explosions sent him spinning in the air from the sheer force of their detonation while a third pushed him down towards the sea!

As this occurred, Actuass rose from where he had been sitting and clasped his hands together. "Majestic Territory Expulsion, Deathward Maw," he called.

At once, his Nitros burst outward with power exceeding that of Eaniss, the Bishop and Baddan combined.

Then, hundreds of Undead began exploding at a time, the sounds their eruptive demises made sounding a lot like cannon-fire!

The necromancer commanded his undead to rush towards his opponents' Territories and bomb them. The incoming Territories would be blasted to heck and the Nitros attempting to form them would be forced to scatter. In the end, there would likely not be a struggle as the assailants hoped.

It happened as the necromancer thought.

The constant explosions were vicious. Worse yet, just like Nitros couldn't stop Null Life Essence whether in a Territory or otherwise, the same was true for Undeath energy. It could hardly rebel against the fierce power of an Existential Parallel!

Baddan's Nitros was the first to fall only ten seconds after it was exposed to the determined, glorified suicide bombers.

The Sky Watcher felt thoroughly exhausted after his energy was bombarded in such a way. However, his role hadn't been so one note.

Because he was so exhausted, Vohnvolt had anticipated that his reserves might just give out. Thus...

A billowing dark blue cloud appeared below the Sky Watcher's feet. It expanded and expanded some more before a large, familiar creature emerged from it.

The creature had long dark hair sandwiching its face, which was covered wholly by talismans.

It also had fifty ivory arms spreading out from the black mass that was its torso, sagging dark breasts and curves visible from it.

Indeed, it was the Masked Façade, Lipptis.

Unlike before though, it wasn't exceedingly large. It merely stood at a height of four meters, with its arms having similar lengths.

After a silent command from Baddan, the creature sped from him and rushed towards the falling Benzard who had been expecting its appearance. The sight of the creature stunned him though, as he hadn't seen it before now, but he stomached its hideousness and allowed it to scoop him up before shooting back up with him towards Actuass' growing Nitros!

A single disk appeared above Benzard.

As Baddan said when they were planning the masked man's takedown, he could temporarily grant his powers to another individual, but the benefits of the second Forechance Deemer - which added benefits like Magnification and Duplication - wouldn't apply in that case.

Still...

Benzard was then coated by a dark purple coat, a piece of cloth masking his face.

A small dagger then appeared in his hand. He had been told how to use it.

All of sudden, the crazy explosions threatening to rip open the fabric of space no longer bothered the Perpetual Colossus because his new clothing was made with Null Life Essence.

'Handy,' he thought.

To think he was now using powers similar to those skullius had used to defeat him back in the Labyrinth of the Yoke.

The arms of Lipptis whooshed like whips and grabbed undead creatures left and right. Once fifty were captured in its hands, Benzard immediately threw the dagger in his hand and it vanished. It instead became a mark on the heads of the Undead, and on appearing on them, they were all forced to stop moving.

Actuass frowned at this.

His link to the fifty undead Lipptis had grabbed was completely severed!

However, that turned out to not be his only problem.

His and the incoming enemies' Nitros was only a few seconds away from clashing.

And with the gaps between their powers in mind, a man with white hair and red eyes suddenly

flew in between said gaps, a vicious expression on his face.

What met him first, were countless Undead, some of which turned to explode in his face.

However, Grim's body changed.

He turned into a massive wolven head - Avhanar the Voracious - and devoured a majority of them into the deep abyss that was his maw.

His one move depleted a third of Actuass' remaining undead!

But just this also wasn't the fullest extent of the enemies' assault on the formerly masked

man.

After all, the Bishop also had a card.

While simultaneously keeping her Nitros steady, she called for a creature that she had 'won'

in a certain cluster.

The Cluster General Hope, an Ardent Curse with six arms and five wands bared its powers against the exploding undead meant to save the necromancer from the imminent struggle of

Territories!

Its wands spat heat and cold, obliterating the many enemies and even freezing them even as

they exploded!

They caused their targets to spin too, confusing them. A majority of the undead minions were

instantly taken out.

Actuass frowned all the more deeply.

His enemies were shrewd. They had really planned things out.

But all this still wasn't the thickest of it.

Eaniss also had a trick up her sleeve and it had required her to be part of the chaotic events

occurring at this moment.

And that was just it.

Chaos.

The Faction Leader's powers revolved around that very concept.

She had a Hidden Class that allowed her to harness the power of disorder, discord and dysfunction and either abuse its traits or transfigure them into something else entirely.

This worked especially well for her when there were a lot of people, all of them in some kind of conflict that either led to a fight or anything that could remotely be called chaos. Arguments, insults and all, worked to give Eaniss power, and the longer they lasted, the more

she charged up.

Right now, time was of the essence, and thus, when Eaniss felt like she had charged up

enough power for one of her more potent, yet basic abilities, she immediately used it.

Her eyes turned black, as though a murky, dark cloud had covered them from within.

She then pointed at the masked man from the distance.

Thankfully for her, her powers had a wide range. Better yet, Nitros couldn't defend from them

simply because unlike most Classes, this application of her power did not exhaust her mana!

It instead made use of her blood and stamina as fuel!

This was why the Head Faction leader had such an interest for abilities that didn't use mana,

like Veneration art type abilities.

With her target selected...

...!!!

The masked suddenly felt a surge of anxiety wreck his mind.

Paranoia set in.

He looked to the left where a vast wolf head was devouring his undead.

He looked below where Hope was blasting his undead with all manner of attacks from his

wands.

He looked at the approaching figures of Benzard and Lipptis.

No.

No.

Everything began bleeding together.

Soon, Actuass' couldn't tell which attack was coming from where and who was what!

Darkness seemed to creep in from his peripheral vision, clouding his ability to see and sense.

What was this?!

And right then... right when the formerly masked man's senses turned chaotic, an elongated arrow made of purple gold crystal-like particles gleamed as it emerged from a port created by the amalgam's Spatial Lightning above Actuass!

It moved as quickly as always - at fifty times the speed of light - and shot down straight through Actuass' head, obliterating it before either he or Eobald-Minobu could react!