Chapter 34: God's Finger

Me and Arachne with the curse in control of her, despite the curse being hit by some words of mine that is worth sharper than a knife continued our fight in the air. Even though I did some damage in her mindset, Arachne is still going strong and even though her eyes are trembling and is obviously wavering wether or not to continue to fight me or just give up, she still continued to fight for her own survival.

The damages in the surroundings started to  greatly be reduced for we started to focus more and not just to show off our power, meaning that our blows and the strength allocated in each of the strikes is now more calculated, the movements of the both of us started to become more refined and all the wild swings that the both of us are performing just to make everyone watching know just how strong we are, are now nowhere to be seen and only a battle between the master of both of their arts is visible.

We moved from one spot to another, however I made sure that she will not leave the place of the circle and keep Arachne locked up in that spot, a task that is not particularly hard because the whole size of the magic circle is a fourth of the whole forest, thus I just need to pay attention to my movements so that she will not have any chance to slip past the  magic circle while also making her believe that I am randomly just going up, down, left and right again and again because of my adrenaline.

I used my bat wings to propel myself into the air as fast as I could, while Arachne used immensely durable strings to use as a foothold in midair making her hands become completely occupied with the  string making and only using her spider legs located in Arachne's back as a method of attack, the tips of the spider legs that is spurting out poison from time to time, was either blocked or dodged by me as I used my sword in my two hands and also used some spells as a distraction for her to be temporarily occupied against.

The battle went on like that, stabs after stabs and slash after slash also accompanied by earth, wind and sometimes fire balls  that flew left and right as we continued to hover (or for Arachne to walk on her strings) around the entrance airspace of the forest trying to destroy each other's concentration by using faints after faints while mixing it with real attacks.

Some of the faints were ignored and failed, while some was successful and got used as a successful bait to the stab or to slash the both of us causing me and Arachne to have some slashes and stabs in our body that quickly regenerated right afterwards, Arachne thought that I would be paralyzed because of this and waited for the poison to take effect but I used enchantment magic to confine the poison that was injected into my body and ignored it for now.

Though I am sure that I will not be able to move after this battle, but I have to endure and deal with it later because I still have a fight ongoing and cannot afford to suddenly stop moving.

My mind was fully emersed in the fight, meaning that all aspects of the fight was intricately calculated in every angel by me, another miscalculation by the curse that is taking over the body of Arachne and thus making her reactions slower, plus because she is hesitating, her battle power was further reduced giving me a little leeway.

However, I didn't used the said leisure and just continued my assault, now my attacks included stabs as I changed my other sword into a rapier, this time Arachne is already numb to my magical powers and skills and just accepted the fact that I can change a condense mana made weapon's  shape in a span that is even less that a second.

This moment, Arachne started to loss her ground, the minute mistake of hers added to the fact that some turmoil has made its way into her heart because of my words a while ago, gave space to me that I immediately took advantage of, I immediately sped up my strikes even more not making any way for Arachne to even react and try to dodge or block, she just accepted the assaults and used the super regenerative ability of Arachne to tank my attacks.

"GU-GUAAAGH! WAIT! WAIT!"

She tried to buy time to recover her bearings, but I cannot afford that for the last mini circle of the whole Magic circle is about to be finished and I have to soon make sure to pin her down to the ground, of course I already have finished formulating a suitable spell and  is just waiting for Virgo's prompt to jump start the spell.

So, why do I need a spell to pin Arachne to the ground? Well simple, like I said a dozen of times already, the person that have to be pinned to the ground is Arachne, and like I said earlier, even though she is not herself right now and the curse that is controlling her is being restricted and is not able to use her full power, she is still Arachne and it's not so simple to pin her to the ground.

For example right now, the curse is already not focused, her being slashed by me repeatedly and being unable to use the poison of Arachne at its full potential, however the curse still picked up her bearings and immediately, our duel went into an stalement once again, so I need a spell in order to restrain this troublesome opponent right now.

Oh man, who would have thought that I will ever see my wife as a troublesome opponent, is this what people is thinking when she is their nemeses?

As I was thinking of those things, suddenly the mental message I was waiting for finally arrived.

"Loki-Sama, the circle is complete, pin Arachne-sama down to the ground, now!"

"Right..."

I made a small smile as I immediately stopped from my tracks, at this moment, time seem to slow down. Arachne looked at me confused about my actions as her figure that have all of her spider legs pointed in my heart appeared in front of me, she looked at me as her legs approached into my heart slowly as I made a very warm smile.

"Arachne, you are now free."

Arachne's eyes suddenly went wide as if it was about to fall out of her sockets as she suddenly saw a glistening bright silver colored light in her feet, at the same time as the silver light started to form the fully built circle, I raised my index finger in front of her as I gave a confident smirk that immediately made her realize my intention.

"Wai-"

She tried to plead, but I of course ignored it as I formulated a suitable name for my spell.

"Hmm... Oh, I know, this spell will be called. [God's Finger]."

The moment I said those words, the whole forest started to shake and Arachne was immediately stomped to the ground, the epicenter of the quake is in the vicinity of the circle as I immediately looked down at the curse that is trying her best to get out of my spell using her spider legs to lift her up to the ground, using her threads to escape from the range of the spell, but to no avail, all of her attempts failed.

[God's Finger] is a high level Earth Attribute spell created by yours truly that controls gravity and using the attraction property of it. I basically propelled the pull of gravity to Arachne by using a field made out of also gravity and shaping it into pillar and using it to hammer and pin Arachne into the ground, just like a god's finger, of course, originally, such thing as making ones own gravity is impossible because I am not a planet in the first place, however because my Bloodline magic is more versatile than you all think.

I kind of upgraded or buffed earth magic and make it so that it will be possible to do so.

Arachne was still struggling as she looked at me with despairing and begging eyes.

"GRRRAAAGH! WAIT! WAIT! T-THIS IS YOU WIFE'S BODY RIGHT!? DO YOU WANT IT TO BE DAMAGED BECAUSE OF GRAVITY!?"

"Eh... Not even using your stupid delusion of killing Idun as an excuse to be set free anymore huh... Well, its not like I will crush her to death you know? So don't worry."

I immediately turned casual as I looked at the silver light slowly forming the circle, I also looked at the twelve stars as they started to be jumbled and bonk each other's head because of the immense earthquake, I also noticed that some fissures coming from the epicenter is now being formed, well Idun can probably do something about this, teehee.

Anyway upon seeing this predicament that I caused, I can only smile awkwardly as I looked at Virgo and Aries and saw them also struggling, Virgo looked at me with some veins popping out of her forehead as she shouted.

"YOU IDIOT! YOU WENT TOO FAR!...ah."

Upon her saying those words, she immediately shut herself up and requested Aries to run at full speed, as the fastest of the Heavenly Stars and the messenger of Idun, Aries immediately went and transvered the distance between them and their siblings in a very short span.

While all of this are happening, the magic circle was already imbued with the silver light as it started to shine more brightly than before, screech pleading me to stop this and cursing to herself about not even noticing the circle being created was heard in which I ignored, the bright light engulfed the whole forest in a single moment and after that, a voice, still hoarse but clearly not already in the verge of insanity was heard.

"Ah... I'm back, Loki-Sama."

Arachne looked at me with her six eyes with warm Expression, I immediately went in front of her and as I did, she collapsed in my shoulders, I then patted her head as I said.

"Welcome back, Arachne."

Ah, finally after two hundred years, my wives or the two surviving ones of them, are now in my arms once again.

[3rd Person POV]

Aries transversed the forest to escape from the many fissures being created on the ground almost simultaneously with each other because of Loki's spell that was created by him just a few moments ago.

Even though his mother is already saved from her  suffering and now can live her life in a normal way like how she carried on normally is, he cannot help but ponder and dwell about something.

"Is Virgo really someone to call another person an idiot?"

Aries thought about that as his white wool fluttered about in the wind, he can only be seen as a white flash of light. He brought his big red colored eyes in his back and looked at Virgo, Virgo have many things in mind like the slip of the tongue earlier, but her calm nature towards almost anything in existence was still their, thus Aries cannot find anything unusual towards her.

At that time, the moment Aries averted his gaze towards Virgo, Virgo looked at Aries' big head and caressed it and heaved a sigh of relief as she muttered in her very soft voice that can easily be muffled by the sounds of the hooves of the fast running of Aries.

"I almost got caught, that was close."

Virgo then stopped thinking about those things as she looked forward in Idun waking up.

At the same time, as all of this was  happening, the moment the earthquake halted a bright green light shoot out at the center of the forest like beacon as a loud ear piercing voice suddenly resounded.

"HA! HA! HA! THE WHOLE WORLD SHALL REJOICE FOR I, THE FAIRY PRINCESS IS FINALLY BACK!"