Chapter 357: Nyx

"How was that, old hag?" I asked as I backed away

The smoke and light cleared, I can see Nyx getting up slowly, her whole body is heavily injured and burned, even her dress got damaged and ripped. But it is slowly being mended, her severely burnt skin regenerated and basically she reverted back to normal.

"If I were a regular god, I would have been incapacitated or possibly have my body completely erased beyond regeneration." Nyx chuckled "That curse really did you some good, the mixture of both physical and magic attack in one punch, you really make me proud."

"Well I was hoping to eliminate you with that, but this is my void, even if you 'die', you'll just come back since you're strong."

I then can see that she is clad with a mist of black smoke which she use to shoot at me. My right eye glowed golden and I shoot out flames to cancel out her spell but still, the difference between our mana is still quite a lot, so I'm losing ground by the second.

I manipulate the void to created spears of different elements to surround Nyx and shoot themselves towards her. She use dark magic to create this dome to protect herself, but I erase it so that all my spells hit her causing an explosion.

She then came out injured again but quickly healed. Even the curse causing me to be stronger, it's still not enough to beat her.

"Even Zeus hasn't managed to injure me that much you know, demigods really are different."

"I'm no longer a demigod."

"Your souls and powers are of one." Nyx replied "And now you carry the curse of Styx and possess the powers of astral creation. You already possess more powers than some minor gods, even your celestial dragon and vampire over there are strong."

-Yeah, sometimes even I worry about your strength, you rise too quickly.- Diana agreed -You're like around my level now, it's really concerning for my reputation.-

-Well I'm the protagonist, it's my job to strive for myself to be the best.-

"Why the hell are you doing this? I seriously don't want to fight you if I can help it, but why the hell are you making up fake news of an arranged marriage?"

"Well it has brought you to me, hasn't it?" she chuckled "Now, will you continue to fight? Or shall we talk?"

"Well what the hell do you want? Because like Achilles, this curse or whatever makes me stronger, it should even makes things hard for you. This curse is more effective if it's used against the Greeks after all."

"Let's talk, like you said, even if I was forced to incapacitate you, it will take a very long while. Horus taught you well, he is more powerful than me in some aspects after all due to him being older." Nyx complimented "As for your friends, if they really want to fight, I can call over my other much stronger children."

*****

After things settled down, we called Cain to join us. Urie and Erix are then escorted to a training ground where they can fight to their heart's content, I had Perun to accompany them and to report to me if things go wrong. Nyx herself will personally guide us around.

The palace itself repaired itself as bricks flew and attacked itself to the palace, the ones that were erased from existence earlier just appeared out of nowhere and the palace cleaned itself up.

"Your guards don't look too happy at my presence."

"Of course, you killed their comrades and some are very must envious of your position, you can now show off and boast to your friends that you are my favorite descendant." Nyx replied

"Yeah, no thanks."

"Why not? No idiot is dumb enough to wage an attack against me even if they will lose in the process, and certainly no one is stupid enough to carry the curse of Styx." Nyx added "Didn't they tell you how many people die each day by attempting the same thing you did? At least 3000 each year and we're not even counting the number of bonds."

-Yeah, I may have left that out since I didn't want to, you know, lower your confidence.- Dabria chimed in

-Would have been a nice thing to know, I mean I was going to attempt it anyway, I can now say that I'm as great of a warrior as Achilles.-

-I mean, we can, no one is dumb enough to intrude on Nyx's territory.- Ace responded

-I mean, there should be some.-

-There probably was, I don't think anyone has gotten away with it like we did.- Siege added

"Ok, I'll just get to the point, the fragment, Kronos' essence, what do I have to do to get it from your hands?"

"Oh that little thing, hmm...the arranged marriage is out of the question, right?" Nyx asked

"Yeah."

"No worries, I was going to give it to you anyway, like I said, you impress me. The gods are definitely in awe of what you just did earlier. You should have used that punch against Eros, why haven't you?"

"I was too focused on the fact that I can't sense his fear and distracted by his army of angels, I didn't have time to think of such a spell. Don't worry, next time, it won't go that easy for him, I'll beat the shit out of him, but I need to focus on saving Eleanor first, even if he has his own rules, I don't trust the guy."

"Well you don't trust me either." Cain cut in "Every time you talked to me, you don't tell me the full picture, as if I stab you in the back at any moment."

"Well yeah. We barely know you, it's been only more than a day. Why should we trust you with any more information? Even though you are guiding us to the fragments, you haven't given us crucial information like whether they are guarded or not, you could just be leading us to our doom."

"That's fair." he shrugged

"Nyx, where's Hygeia? Dabria searched

"Now now, I'm sure you all are worried about Hygeia, but she's fine, she's been well taken care of." Nyx chimed in "Though she has been in a bit of a pain in the neck, always going about human rights, goddess rights and how I violate it by ordering her abduction, bla bla blah"

"Can you abduct Prometheus then? I mean, that would help us greatly."

"Well if I know his location, then I will but I heard from Hypnos that you already got an appointment being set up, right?"

"Yup, I'm negotiating for the pithos. I want Heracles' sphere of influence and I also want him as an ally."

"Well you will, Atlas has been freed." Nyx responded nonchalantly

"Wait, Atlas? As in Atlas-"

"Who holds up the sky, yes." Nyx nodded "His physical strength should be really have no match after he held the sky of that world for so long."

"Fuck."