NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1511: Maria's Power
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"PERISH!"
The Original Nightmare Curse rained over a million black spears upon Maria and her army, each one a fusion of over ten Aberrant Nightmare Demons, unleashing a devastating, all-destructive attack that impaled and bombarded all foes. Each time one of the spears pierced one of Maria's undead, it would explode and release a massive amount of Nightmare Flames and Nightmare Miasma, consuming her undead and even devouring their souls.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As Maria saw her army being devastated, her powers quickly surged, and her entire being began to transform. From her black, miasmic flesh, she became an entity made entirely of dark blue bones, shining with sparkles resembling stars. Her hair turned into a long nebula with black, red, and white stars, and her face became a skull, her empty eyes glowing bright blue.
Her appearance had completely changed from her barely feminine monstrous form to a skeletal creature with almost no remaining features of her previous appearance. This was a form Maria had not used before because of how strange it was and because it could scare others even more than her previous one.
It was a powerful transformation born from her strongest Privilege, created from the fusion of several privileges into a single one, the [Skeletal Titan Goddess of the Stars: Itzpapalotl].
Ding!
[You have activated the power of your Fusion Privilege: [Skeletal Titan Goddess of the Stars: Itzpapalotl (S Rank Privilege)]!]
[A Divine Power created from the combination of powerful Privileges and your Divinities within your Origin Core. By channeling the Primordial Powers of the ancient Records of Itzpapalotl, the fallen skeletal goddess of stars, you can reinforce the Toughness, Durability, Strength, and Energy Reserves of your bones, muscles, and the rest of your body whenever you like by using Mana and other energies, increasing them by up to 2,000%, with an additional boost to Attack and Defense Stats of 500%.]
[Whenever you're in danger or facing a powerful foe, you will naturally unleash {Titan Skeleton Goddess of the Stars Transformation}, which will temporarily transform your body, making your bones encompass you completely and turning you into a manifestation of the ancient Itzpapalotl, further increasing your Stats by 500%.]
[In this form, you will be able to unleash the power of the Divine Technique: {Itzpapalotl's Starlight Bone Weapons}!]
Maria was still getting used to this power, but it made her feel stronger right away, especially when she stacked the transformation on top of her already existing {Truest Form: Mistress of the Umbral Stars: Shub-Niggurath}, covering her previous body completely in bone armor, stacking stat bonuses and abilities.
"W-What is that form?!"
The Original Nightmare Curse was flabbergasted, sensing the power of Death stronger than ever exuding from Maria. This form amplified her Nightmare Authority of Death the most, strengthening her army and at the same time…
"ARISE!"
Maria unleashed the power of various other skills, releasing her stock of undead and skeletons, which amounted to over a million between monsters from Yggdrasil and Nightmare Beasts, refilling her army's ranks anew and strengthening them even further.
At the same time, the power of her [Demonic Farm and Abyssal Mine of Blood Dragon Bones] Fusion Skill manifested the Domain of the Demonic Farm and the Abyssal Mines, fusing with her Nightmare Authority of Death and its own Nightmare World. This made new Abyssal Demonic Blood Bone Dragons emerge one after another, super-strong elite undead she could create limitlessly as long as she had ample energy. The more her undead died, the more of these dragons would appear, absorbing the corpses of the fallen undead.
But that wasn't all! Her two Dream Weapons, further evolved into Nightmare Weapons of monstrous shapes and forms, were enchanted, fusing with her Cosmic Bones.
"{Itzpapalotl's Starlight Bone Weapons}!"
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{Itzpapalotl's Starlight Bone Weapons}: Manifest your bones and transform them into a myriad of different and powerful weapons, whose stats are based on +500% of your current Bone Strength, Toughness, and Durability. Any attack using these weapons will unleash powerful {Starlight Explosions}, dealing up to +2,000% Damage and ignoring up to 70% of a foe's total defenses. Especially effective against Divine, Giant, Undead, Mythic, and Calamity-type beings.
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Maria turned her own body into weapons, summoning thousands of giant Starlight Bone Spears and firing them back at the Original Nightmare Curse, clashing against his own projectiles as explosions of starlight and nightmare power erupted throughout the black skies of the Nightmare Dimension, shattering even the empty space as cracks appeared everywhere.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
At the same time, Maria manipulated these Starlight Bone Weapons and sent them to her army, equipping hundreds of thousands with powerful new weapons and even covering their bodies with them, unleashing a secondary technique born from it, {Itzpapalotl's Starlight Bone Armor}!
"Incredible, to think you had so much more power saved there, Maria, you're truly unfathomable…!" Beatriz smiled in disbelief as she led Maria's army with Tyr, clashing against the monstrous army surrounding the Original Nightmare Curse, aiming to break through it and reach him.
"Impossible! You're managing to go against me?! And what sort of appearance is that?! Just how many forms do you truly possess?! Are you even a human?"
"Human? I once was one. But no, I stopped being one the day I died. I became a ghost, primarily. I even turned my own skeleton into my friend, the girl you know as Partner. In the world where I come from, Yggdrasil, one can continue growing through battle."
"Y-Yggdrasil… so that's the name of your original world?! A world I will conquer and devour once I'm done here!"
"Hahaha! I continued evolving, and evolving, one struggle after another. Even the gods constantly aimed at my life, you know? So what would you ever expect of someone that has managed to survive all of that? I obviously had to evolve until I could become as powerful as I am now…"
"What?! Then what difference do you have with me?! We are both Gods, Outer Gods! Why… just why are you trying to stop a fellow Outer God from being born?! Shouldn't you be helping me?! Why do you oppose me?!"
"Why, you ask?"
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