"What the fuck do we do, now?" asked Wutong.
"We move on. We have a mission to finish." said Ouyang Di, "There's nothing in this world to still power from. So we need to earn the points to exchange for power."
Ouyang Di looked at Micheal. " If we go to the surface, how long will you last down here before the other angles notice you?" he asked.
"If you hold them off long enough. I can turn this place into a safe house. But everyone will need food. And I request that one of you stays for extra protection." said Michael."
"Amber," Ouyang Di called out, "You will stay. The Captain wouldn't forgive us if we let you die."
Di quickly snapped his fingers, and a sleeping spell fell over Amber before she could protest. The newbies and cast then fell into a deep slumber as well.
"Lingyue, leave all of the food you have. Michael, I hope you cloak this place from the angel, then join us." Said Di, "We have to survive until the end. Suppose even one of us gets back. They can work on reviving the captain. Once he returns, he will bring us all back..."
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-Port at the River Styx-
"So this is death?" said Tie Ta, "A bunch of wandering souls that can't pay the ferryman. How nice...I can't pay the ferryman either... I wonder if Reika will be sent here or to oblivion now that I'm gone. Well, it doesn't matter. If I can't move on, then I have to find my way ba---"
Tie Ta looked past the river Styx into the darkness, and he could feel her, Ahmanet. And he could also feel himself, the piece of him that is Set.
"Hmm, that bastard seems strong... Sorry, Ahmanet. When the mission is over, you will naturally return with me." he thought to himself.
Tie Ta then looks at all of the wandering souls with an evil smirk. "Death is just another stage of life for me. This shinigami will reap-- no...This shinigami will devour you all."
Tie Ta flashed away and used a skill that all spirits have -devour. Taking in any spirits he could find. He was like a fiend with an insatiable hunger. For days and nights, he feasted until he came across Qi Tengyi.
"C-Captin?!" he shouted, "You've come to get me... Just like last time. Heng! The Captian came for us!"
Zhang Heng appeared, and Tie Ta sighed. "Your powers will be a wonderful help..." he spoke softly and without warning devoured both Tengyi and Heng, obliterating all chances for their resurrection.
Tie Ta felt himself hallowfying. Tie Ta's power created a whirlwind as he became a Vasto Lorde hallow. Tie Ta drew his reformed Zanpakto, then stabbed it into the ground creating a vortex that pulled in the wandering souls. It was only due to his focused state of mind that he didn't turn into a raging beast.
Falling to the lotus position, Tie Ta connected with Shi Long, and together they underwent a great change due to the gorging of souls that fell to the underworld. To avoid having two existences within one Zanpakuto, Shi Long allowed himself to be hallowfied. Months passed, and not a soul entered the river Styx.
As one of the only deities left in the underworld, her river should be full. The Goddess Styx began Investigating the oddity. She soon discovered that the ferryman was in a fight for his life. He was rowing and had been rowing away from the docks since Tie Ta created his soul-devouring vortex.
When the Goddess Styx reached out. She quickly snapped her hand back as the power of Tie Ta's vortex frightened her. Then it happened, the ferryman could fight no longer and was devoured.
The power around Tie Ta exploded, and his immeasurable soul power radiated from him. He wore a crown made of bloody bone and a bone mask that covered his lower face. Large black draconic wings sprouted from his back. Beneath his wings were six mantis blade Rinkaku kagune.
Sweat dripped from Styx's brow. "What are you ?!"
Tie Ta assessed his power and replied, "In this world...Prince of Souls...Cero!"
A great blast conjured in an instant and obliterated Styx. Tie Ta then reach out and devoured her soul or, more so, essence as Tie Ta could now feel the difference between a Deity Sliver and a mortal soul. Twisting his bladed, he said, " Unbind."
A moment later, Shilong manifested in front of him as a massive black western dragon with bone armor. A skill recently acquired due to his hollowfication. Tie Ta leaped on his back and looked up to the portal that delivered souls from the human world.
He then looked to the underworld, then flew into the darkness. Every being there could feel the power ripping through space.
Tie Ta completely fused with the sliver of Set that was within him. No longer would he be a mode of power to call upon, but a power that Tie Ta would display all of the time, owning his path to Godhood. With this change, Set looked towards Tie Ta with a manic smirk.
"He's excited. Shi Long, let's end him." Tie Ta launched off of Shi Long's back, and the two of them merged. Taking on his Bankai form -False God. Tie Ta now looked like a warrior clad in dragon armor.
"Spear like a dragon." Tie Ta muttered, and his sword transformed into a spear, the final form of his Zanpakuto.
When Set appeared with a chuckle, Tie Ta was shocked because this deity sliver of Set had a physical body. Without a word, Tie Ta held up his spear with his right hand. His left hand pointed at the tip of his spear as his power converged, streams of his raw power swirled around his spear. His dragon wings flapped, and his spear was launched at hypersonic speed. Tie Ta then vanished.
Set scoffed at the lowly mortal and raised a palm to block a strike. When the spear hit, it exploded and barely managed to shake the foundation of the underworld. However, some buildings were shattered to rubble.
Set laughed from the depth of his gut when he blocked the spear attack. Although he never imagined that Tie Ta would infiltrate his body during the explosion.
"Shi Long. Let's fuck him up."
Shi Long and Tie Ta ran rampant within Set, directly clashing with his soul. Set hadn't the slightest idea on how to fight Tie Ta's foreign power. Tie Ta recalled his Spear, and it spun like a drill bit.
"Eclipse Dragon Emperor Coils The Earth" Shi Long and Tie Ta's voice joined, and they spoke as one.
Pah!
Set exploded. His body parts then froze in mid-air and recombined. Set took a deep breath and returned to his palace. When he arrived, he walked directly to Ahmanet's cell, where she was strung up and tortured. Set had tried to remove the soul brand and break the pact that the Dark Universe version of himself had with her. But he could not.
When Ahmanet weakly lifted her head and looked at the power-drenched diety, she began to cry...tears of joy.
"Tie Ta..." she whimpered.
Tie Ta in Set's body flashed a large smile. "You ready to go home?"
"Your watch..." she said.
"Don't worry about it." he said, "I'll get it back."
Meanwhile, on the mortal plane. The world was in chaos as the humans battled the angels and the remnant of Team North America. Unknown to Tie Ta, who had freed Ahmanet, stole Set's scepter and launched himself on a direct line to the mortal world, Lingyue and Zhuiyu had entered the Underworld.
Erupting from the depths of the earth, Tie Ta stole the angels, players, and humans' attention. They looked to Ahmanet, who was being held by a copper-skinned man with long silky dark hair.
Tie Ta flew to the place of his death. He could feel the matter that once composed his old body. Tie Ta wanted everything he lost when his physical body was destroyed. Now that he had Set's body, things like his Tyrant Ghoul blood, cultivation, and Alpha Stigma were lost.
Tie Ta handed Set's scepter to Ahmanet. The scepter was made of black material and gold. It was the length of a staff and adorned with his creation story carved into it. Ahmanet fell to the ground, and Tie Ta held out his hand as the matter that once composed his body merged with him.
Slowly he transformed into the Tie Ta that everyone remembered with slight changes. Two large white and black horns grew from his head. His eyes regained their red color with golden flecks, though each eye still had double irises.
His copper skin then turned white like jade, and his long black hair acquired white and gold streaks. His body was now at the peak of mortal strength and directly pushed open his gate of healing in Body Cultivation. His Essence Cultivation returned and increased directly to the Xiantian realm.
Finally, his Alpha Stigma manifested, he stepped into the Stage 2 Tyrant Ghoul, forming a pair of Ukaku dragon wings and his six Rinkaku mantis blades. His storage pendant and ring reformed lastly, his Watch from GOD.
Below him, Reika reappeared like a phantom next to Ahmanet. With two pieces of Set within him and the newly acquired Greek Goddes Styx sliver. Tie Ta's beauty was paramount, his body divine sculpted and his cock large with empyrean radiance. Females of human and angel races gawked with carnal desire. Even some men had a small tinge of yearning as they looked upon him.
God, higher being, or peak mortal. No one knew what to make of Tie Ta's new existence. When he finally turned his gaze on the battle, the Angels and Team North America became terrified.
He drew his Zanpakuto and said, "Spear like Dragon, Shi Long Diguo!"
His power erupted; it was countless times more immense than it was months ago. "Prince of Souls!"
Tie Ta then hallowfied. His soul power draped him in black robes. The bone crown appeared on his head. The lower face mask appeared next. His dragon wing Ukaku manifested next along with his Rinkaku kagune.
Many humans died. Angels plummeted to the earth. Tie Ta's soul pressure was utterly unbearable. "Gate of Healing, Open!"
Boom!
His Xiantian realm cultivation then surged with another great explosion.
"Stage 1, Stage 2, Open!"
Bah! Boom! His genetic constraints were lifted.
"Cosmic Heart Sutra: Three Fold Convergence!"
Tie Ta's power began to corroded the barrier that monsters and pantheons used to seal themselves away in the World of Legion. In a matter of moments, Tie Ta had a new audience of Mythicals that have been hidden away for eons.
"Impossible! That power belongs to Set." Anubis spoke out as he saw Tie Ta
Zeus looked towards the underworld with great shock. "Styx." he said, "Styx is no more."
Each pantheon could feel the power of their own coming from Tie Ta, and it unnerved them. Before anyone realized it, Tie Ta appeared behind Malcolm and Kelly. With was swift motion, he ripped their Dantians out, then stored them in his storage pendant. As their bodies were falling, Tie Ta snapped his fingers, and hellfire devoured them.
His mind stretched, and he found his sniper, Danielle. "What a waste. But you killed mine. Hado #4 Byakuri!"
Pale lightning split the air destroyed his target, leaving nothing behind.
The world then went silent as he looked up to the three Archangels in the sky. "Pagan God!" the sneered.
They were wrong. Tie Ta was nowhere close to the true might of a God. But his Deity Sliver was now strong enough to put him above the Pagan Gods in the world of Legion, but he was still far below the might of the Christian God.
Tie Ta didn't care to explain the complex state of his being. He only flashed steps and dispatched Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. He collected their bodies and flashed behind Micheal. Micheal fell in an instant as mantis blades tore him in two. Micheal was then tossed with his siblings.
An instant later, Enochian tattoos appeared on Tie Ta's skin along with a notification from GOD.
-Side Quest Complete: Retrieve the fabled Apocrypha, and its decipher!-
Kill Uriel and retrieved the Apocrypha from her eyes. Kill Micheal and retrieve the decipher in his tattoos. Reward: 10,000 points and A-rank.
The sky rumbled and opened up. A great horn sounded, and all of the spectating Pantheons trembled with fear as a power greater than Tie Ta's could be felt. Angels left and right fled the bodies of the humans they possessed. Higher Angels retreated to heaven as the Christian God descended. But not before Tie Ta plucked a live Angel from the swam and bound her with Bakudo.
"How bad do you wish to wipe out the humans?" Tie Ta asked.
The brown-skinned, white-haired man that appeared to be Morgan Freeman smiled at him. "Is your mission the protection of the chosen one?" God asked.
Tie Ta was shocked.
"Relax. The reason why I am in control here is that I am one of the most worshiped. My sliver of divinity is countless times stronger in every dimension because each sliver is worshipped by the masses. Unlike Set, the forgotten God of Death." Morgan Freeman explained, "As such, my main form needs me. I was instructed to cull the world and return. I see now that Heaven's Gate must have reopened. And the next Great War is upon us."
God suddenly stopped speaking and tilted his head as his main body spoke to him. "I understand..." he said to himself. "You are allowed to live. Do not forget this courtesy, and when the time comes, I hope you choose your allies wisely."
"Hol up! I want the angels. They will be slaves to the other pantheons. You were going to abandon them anyway. It's fair after the war you started." said Tie Ta.
Morgan Freeman hummed. He snapped his fingers, and heaven disintegrated, causing the Angels to fall to Earth.
Morgan Freeman then burst into a shower of light and left the dimension of 'Legion.' Tie Ta counted his people and looked at his watch. He then reached into the underworld and resurrected, Lingyue and Zhuiyu.
Tie Ta waved his hand, and two dozen Higher Angels were bound. He looked to the other pantheon and projected his voice, "Do with the rest as you will!"
The Pantheons smiled and rushed out to enslaved the angelic race. Tie Ta collected his slaves, his team, the movie cast, and returned to Set's palace in the underworld.