Battle of Silent Creek: Conclusion

"And to repay my lord, I will have you die here," The man said with a sinister smile, his body brimming with power corrupted by the darkness. even his once white skin, began to darken almost pitch black while the skin itself began to mutate, making it appear similar to that of a monster's skin. His face deforming, with a mixture of a goat head and a human face.

'Interesting' Masaru smirked when he felt this man's power elevated to that of a peak low-class God, yet the other thing he sensed was the vitality of the man was rapidly dropping, mutating into a different kind of being.

Suddenly a blood-red magic circle materialized in a massive size before tentacles made out of blood erupted towards Masaru, "Codex of the Worthless: Dividing compositions" Masaru stretched his palm sending his innate worthless power in the form of a net to envelope the entire magic circle, at first a small part of the tentacles begun to transform into vapour while the rest remained unchanging.

"It really is them" Masaru muttered flickering across the battlefield dodging the tentacles that were piercing the earth, demolishing the ground and the mountains surrounding them. These tentacles had a diametre of hundred meters, and the lengths appear to be uncalculated since Masaru noticed that it's "end" part still never left the magic circle and still remained submerged as if there was a hole in the space within the magic circle.

[Master!] Angelica cried out in the magic circle that materialized next to his ear, a warm smile form on Masaru's face who kept his focus on the boatman.

"It's fine, I will be done in a while. Focus on eliminating the cannibals I missed" Masaru said yet the girls knew he missed them on purpose so they could also fight, just as he promised them. He, Masaru Belial is not raising greenhouse flowers, but weeds, beautiful weeds that is tenacious and strong while maintaining a beautiful appearance rivalling that of a greenhouse flower.

"ROAR!!" The Goatman took a single step before the earth around him exploded, his figure flickered for an instant before his silhouette could no longer be seen. Masaru smirked as he lowered his posture at the right angle, missing a tentacle that wanted to attack him from behind by an inch moving over his head.

"You!!!" The goatman forcibly took a step that was not part of his movement technique to turn his trajectory out of the tentacles way, he clicked his tongue remembering that the Apostle told him that the blood worms of the Chaotic realm should be controlled or he will have a hard time. At first, he did not consider this, but after facing Masaru he realized that he really did not have the ability to control these worms.

"To think you would have the ability to summon critters of the Chaotic realm" Masaru muttered, he could sense this entire worm was composed of various elements which was why he could not dismantle it's existence entirely. "Codex of the Worthless: Chaotic Stabilizing domain" Suddenly a silver-coloured magic circle overlaps the blood coloured magic circle spanning over a hundred kilometres.

"GROAR!?" The worms that were moving fervently to kill Masaru all suddenly halted, there were no changes to their bodies yet they felt incredibly uncomfortable at the feeling of being stabilized. The chaotic energies within their bodies began to move in an orderly fashion, while the chaotic element was temporarily suppressed.

"You! What did you do!?" The goatman roared as he closes onto Masaru, without any technique he began to swing his fist randomly, but that was him calculating while leaving an opening for Masaru to take so he would immediately counterattack.

"It worked" Masaru muttered, "Codex of the Worthless: Denial of Kinetic Force" cloaking his hand with worthless power he leisurely slapped the goatman's attack away from him, his eyes focused on the goatman while his magic senses were monitoring the changes within the blood worms.

Masaru felt grateful he could face against these critters and use them to experiment on chaotic beings, although he knew that the beings above them were far more powerful he would at least have knowledge on how to deal with the things that bothered him about these beings. Their chaotic existence.

"Codex of the Worthless: Dividing Composition" Masaru once more restarted the spell he initially sends towards the worms once more, and this time the blood worms began to dissolve into vapour since it's existence was made from blood and water, thus Masaru divided and nullified the connection between the compositions to the point that everything would turn into vapour.

"Heavenly Bird Reducing Fire" The goatman roared as his divine power that was still present within his body, erupted within his body, cloaking his body in pure golden flames that burnt even the space around him making the space around him unstable.

"Void Raze" After the goatman finished his chant, he immediately charged towards Masaru with a crazed look on his face filled with intentions to die together with Masaru.

"There is a reason I called the Formula ability I have created using my Mid Class God domain as the foundations, Codex of the Worthless" Masaru muttered, with a light wave of his hand he sends a wave of divine dragon aura enhanced with worthless attribute towards the Goatman.

BOOM!

The space surrounding the goatman shook upon the impact of the divine dragon aura, but it did not collapse and instead began to stabilize. "The concept of Worthless is as vast as the universe," Masaru said with a smile, "And it was due to luck I managed to transform my bloodline power into a soul innate ability, allowing me to make things worthless, or cause phenomenons like punishments for the worthless, or even..."

"Transform worthless things into things that has worth, by removing the worthless" Masaru smirked as he watched the goatman flinched before the Goatman could roar in rage, Masaru gripped the goatman's neck with a firm grasp.

Initiating several hundreds of magic circles to scan the man, he could not help but squint his eyes. "Just how can you live without a soul?" Masaru muttered,

"BWahahahaha, in order to obtain the blessing of our master naturally we must be willing to pay the price, eternal obedience," The goatman said with a crazed looking finding Masaru's perplexed expression amusing.

"You should be dead without your soul," Masaru said which was the reason why he was perplexed,

"Apparently our master once held a divine grimoire in the past, and through it, he learnt how to create artificial souls with our personality and memories intact," The goatman said with a gleeful smile, causing Masaru's hand to grip his neck tighter.

The atmosphere became tense as Masaru unleashed his killing intent directed at the goatman, his eyes flickering with rage that he could barely control "How do you know of this information that should not be known by a so-called cannon fodder?"

"Because, I, Chaos can see, hear, taste, smell and feel everything the artificial souls does... And I know you have the divine grimoire" The goatman, or, Chaos spoke with a voice devoid of emotions, the vibe gave his voice as if he was speaking from a much higher plane of existence compared to Masaru making his words naturally oppressive towards lower-level life beings.

"So we are destined to fight to the death" Masaru muttered snapping the goatman's neck before disintegrating the body and soul of the goatman with the use of worthless, his mood became gloomy when he thought of what happened just now.

"I wonder when you are going to tell me what you are hiding from me... Origin" Masaru muttered while walking ahead, if this happened when he barely started using the grimoire he would have doubted its loyalty but after many years of fighting together, he knew the grimoire aided him in many occasions so he did not suspect it.

It was simply hiding something, everyone has their secrets. Thus Masaru instead wondered when she would tell him what he needed to know, and he knew it would only happen when the time was right.

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"Kuku, as expected the Divine Grimoire has reappeared" Chaos muttered while sitting on his throne, surrounding him were creatures that would appear to be abnormally large in Earth yet compared to him, they were small as pets. And the rest of the chaotic beings were smaller than ants, but he found them all useful as long as their loyalty was guaranteed.

"And once again, in the hands of that traitor's descendant" Chaos muttered with an unamused face whenever he thought of Solomon who betrayed them, and then betrayed the church to lead the devils.

"Get ready, in a few months time our loyal servant Diego will open the second gate in Peru," Chaos said with a low voice, yet it sounded like an explosion to the foot soldiers of his army. "When that time comes, we will start our conquest against the worlds"

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"Sir! There has been a massive explosion near Silent Creek, our specialist speculates that an atomic bomb went off over there" One of the information gathering agents John Trelawny sent came back to report something that caused the entire office to explode in an uproar, the mentioning of an atomic bomb had that much of an effect on the minds of the people.

"Contact the secretary of defence, have him move the military immediately. Also, contact our special forces to investigate Silent Creek immediately, we have to find out what happened" John ordered some of his men before turning towards everyone.

"Contact the various news companies, preferably those that can cover most of the regions surrounding Silent Creek. We need to calm the residents immediately so the investigations will not be halted" John said with a solemn expression,

"yes sir!" All the relevant staff ran to their desks making calls and sending emails according to their orders,

'Damn it Angelica, I did not expect that would be your so-called signal... Do you intend to bomb America into chaos!?' John cursed in his mind wondering what made him agree with this crazy woman who would set off such an explosion, 'I just hope the people there are not killed or affected by this...'

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A day has passed since the incident, Masaru already went back to China at the moment he was certain all the cannibals were disposed of. Leaving Angelica, Stephani, Sakura and Everest to continue their investigations, yet they could not find anything.

Most of their pieces of evidence led them to believe that the cannibals concentrated their power in Silent Creek, yet Angelica refused to believe it since Masaru told her the Apostle was not present. Yet, they had no clues they could use to further their investigations, not to mention that any evidence leading to Nightrise did not exist.

"They moved faster than we expected" Sakura muttered looking at the drawings most investigative officers would draw before they take away a dead body, near the drawings was the main computer of the Prison and from the looks of it whatever the man did, destroyed all the data within the prison which includes the data of the inmates in the prison.

"I'm certain we have yet to face the main force of the Cannibals" Angelica muttered, "Masaru said that the strongest did not have the special characteristics of the Apostle, however, we can safely conclude that the Cannibals are indeed linked with the Old Ones... Which means our people suffered due to those chaotic monsters..." Angelica clenched her fist tightly, her teeth biting her lips in frustrations.

Everest came over gently patting Angelica's head causing the latter to flinch, "You are alive, we are alive. We can keep looking for them and get back at them" Everest said with a stern face, "As long as we are alive, we can hunt them down. It's over if we are dead, so don't get any crazy ideas"

"Where is my brother?" Jamie muttered,

"We will find him" Stephani spoke with an oddly confident voice, "As long as we follow John Trelawny, we will find your brother"

"How can you be confident?" Jamie asked,

"What is your and your brother's powers?" Stephani asked,

"We can read minds, control minds---- Y-you mean!?" Jamie uttered with a pale face,

"Right, if Nightrise intends to sabotage John, they will use your brother, You are his weakest link Jamie, and the fact John sent you to Silent Creek should have been found by Nightrise. They will say that John intends to hurt you and wants to cooperate with him to kill John" Stephani speculated with a warm smile, in fact, this was information Masaru gave her last night before leaving since he felt that they would make such a move if they really could get information whenever they want.

"How does it feel to sound smart?" Everest asked Stephani who gloated for an instant before her head hung down feeling disappointed that her sister and friend already exposed her secret,

"It felt great till you cut it short" Stephani muttered with a pouting face causing the other three girls to giggle.

"Angelica, Sakura, Stephani, Everest and Jamie," Alicia spoke with a shaky voice, her eyes brimming with tears yet she had a natural smile filled with happiness as she walked over to them, "You brought him back to me"

The girls and Jamie silently smiled warmly at the mother who was too happy, "How can I thank the five of you? How can I ever thank you all enough?" Then she realized. "What about Scott?"

"Scott wasn't there," Jamie said with a depressed voice, but it did not sound as bad as she thought, there was a faint hopeful tone in his voice. As if he managed to grasp a clue.

She heard the heavy words and went over to him, taking Daniel with her. For a moment the two of them faced each other and she reached out, wanting to draw him into her embrace. Jamie shook his head while glancing at Angelica, who was the leader of their group. "Let's rest, we can follow John and watch his speech tomorrow morning"

"You're right!, I will get the car," Alicia said before turning around running happily,

Angelica turns to look at Jamie, "I have a proposition for you"

"What?" Jamie asked,

"If we save your brother, we can take the two of you to a safe location. It will be much safer than here out in the open, but you two will be trained" Angelica said with a serious face, "Because it's your fate to fight, just like it is ours"

"let me think about it..." Jamie said with an uncertain voice, "Right now, I want to first save Scott and then we can talk about it once more"

"Very well" Angelica nodded

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"Kuku, with no evidence leading them to me there will be no way they can stop us from opening the gate" Diego spoke with a gleeful voice, in fact, he was even happier his subordinate died in battle since he felt threatened by that man's growth using the Old One's blessings. If he was given another year or two then he might have overtaken Diego as the new Apostle, and the latter did not want to see this happen.

"I only want results Mr Diego" The chairman who appeared on the monitor speaking with Diego had a stoic face, "Should you fail, you know what our master does to those who can't perform right?"

Diego shivered to feel a chill run down his spine at these words, in truth, it was never said what happened but many people were taking into a peculiar black room whenever they could not perform satisfactorily, and there they were transformed into creatures.

Creatures such as the one Masaru faced in The Vatican, high regeneration with a core, or the Spiritual ghosts in Japan. They were transformed into irrational beings that would be sent to key locations whenever they need to distract the powers of the world away from them, and how they have managed to keep their ties with the old ones clean, with no way of proving it.

"Yes, Mr Chairman. I have already spoken to my informant. It will take a few months, but we will then have ample reason to request of that group of people to send over their gatekeeper they found" Diego explained, "Then we can capture him, that way we will have two of the gatekeepers in the end"

"Good, I look forward to seeing satisfactory results of your endeavour Diego. The descent of our master depends on this, and soon we will rule the world with them" The chairman said with his eyes brimming with crazed fanatism.