Chapter 364: Mother Abuse

Bellessia

When her father put her in one of his rings, Bellessia was worried. But then, when she came out of the ring, she was terrified.

There, standing in front of her, wearing all three of her father’s spatial storage rings on his right hand, was her son.

He was wearing a black T-shirt and black sweatpants, with that azure fingerless glove artifact on his left hand. His hair was shoulder length, semi-translucent, and dark blue. And his eyes were orange, a holy feeling of both order and chaos coming from them as he glared at her.

Instead of killing her, however, he just turned around. His azure glove expanded to cover his entire body, a somehow elder god rank draconic looking armor appearing around him. Then his draconic wings artifact appeared on his back, also at the elder god rank, emanating the power of Laws. And, finally, he summoned out three more elder god rank artifacts—some sort of metallic orb infused with the power and aura of a living elemental storm, to Bellessia’s experienced eye an artifact meant for restraining anyone who practiced the Stormlord Rebirth cultivation technique; a spear emanating a pure aura of chaos like she’d never seen, perfectly mixing the aura of a ridiculous number of peak grade Law Dragon level Laws; and a death energy covered sword Bellessia recognized as the fabled weapon a long deceased undead elder god had used to strike the final blow on the Radiant Behemoth, a weapon everyone in her family had thought lost trillions of years ago. And all three artifacts somehow merged into the Heavenly Spark Soul King’s wings before he flew off and left Bellessia’s sensory range, making them even more powerful.

“He’s impressive, isn't he.”

Bellessia rapidly turned around, and there was Xara Valin, the Yin Yang Sage—short, with pale skin, bright blue eyes, and curly red-brown hair—returned to her youth and having somehow become a god. And, due to the woman’s darkness element Law—one Bellessia wasn’t sure the exact identity of—she hadn’t been able to notice her.

“How?”

The Yin Yang Sage just smirked. “Well, a lot of hard work, a really talented dad who passed along his genetics, and a partner who looked after him until he could get his shit together.” Her smirk grew a bit wider. “But, if, instead of asking how your son became so impressive, you are wondering how I became a god without either of my apprentices reaching God rank themselves, well, my second apprentice is just that awesome.”

The woman moved fast then, kicking Bellessia right in the waist, and causing her to go flying through the space of whatever medium size universe they were in, but she didn’t follow up.

“I really dislike you, Bellessia.” The woman moved with a speed Bellessia couldn’t match, using some sort of light and darkness element movement skill, appearing in front of her again. “And I really want to kill you myself.”

Bellessia tried to summon her guardian spirits, but it was tough in the middle of space with no matter present, taking about twice as long for the eight of them to leave her mana wells. And, as soon as they were summoned, the Yin Yang Sage used an area of effect skill to cause cold, heat, and death to war through each of them, breaking them apart.

Bellessia was an earth, water, and life element cultivator, her energy elementalized by the Deep Wood Codex cultivation technique to be a mix of all three elements, so her guardian spirits looked like large treants. Extremes of cold, heat, and death countered them, and the Yin Yang Sage’s energy, having been cultivated through the use of Yin Yang Cosmology, was of a much higher quality.

“But, more so, I want you to feel pain.”

With her spirits dead, and her cultivation core less protected as a result, Bellessia felt magical plagues, at least 146 varieties, start to break down her energy and body, seemingly having been deposited inside her with the Yin Yang Sage’s initial kick. And Bellessia realized she was going to die.

The woman had been more powerful than her even back when she’d been an A rank, somehow having learned six different complementary early grade True Laws as a mortal. So of course she stood absolutely zero chance with such a terror having already advanced to divinity.

“Sadly, however, your fate is not up to me.”

The plagues suddenly stopped. And then several new diseases, ones Bellessia hadn’t noticed, began to heal her body, a few even pouring energy into her mana wells, causing her spirits to rapidly reconstitute.

“Your true victims will judge how you die.”

The Yin Yang Sage then disappeared, her stealth skill and darkness Law allowing her to leave without Bellessia being able to follow her movements. And Bellessia could only wonder why her body was still filled with the healing varieties of the woman’s magical plagues even as all the damaging types rapidly died off.

“ROAR!!”

Bellessia started to get an idea, however, when she saw the giant dragon, roughly the size of a major city, flying toward her through space from her right. Its scales were purple, lavender, and indigo, the coloration of a balance dragon. Runes were carved into each of its scales, the signifier of a runic dragon. It’s four limbs and tail housed well defined musculature, seemingly designed for close combat fighting, the signature of a power dragon. And it’s large majestic wings and low back ridges, while clearly those of a chaos dragon, somehow emanated the distinct holy feel of a divine dragon.

Then, when it grew close to her, it transformed into a large human-looking male with short lavender hair and indigo reptilian eyes. He was wearing a green robe, comfortable for fighting and obviously a powerful living A rank artifact. And he was glaring at her like he wanted to kill her, which, without having to really think about why, Bellessia knew he probably did.

And, at the same time, from her left, flew in a ghost. Transparent and gray in color, with long hair down to the middle of her back and reptilian eyes like the dragon man’s, she was taller than Bellessia, with a bit more of a figure, and she radiated a holy aura almost as strong as Bellessia’s own even though she, like the dragon, was still only A rank. Then, as she grew closer, Bellessia’s second eldest daughter became corporeal, her skin turning a light tan, her hair changing to a somewhat still transparent purple, and her reptilian eyes transforming into a holy light blue.

Spirits then left her body, 72 of them, and they were all in the forms of mythical creatures.

There was a pair of phoenixes, one made of fire, the other icy water. There were eight types of dragons—one each of the elements of fire, water, light, darkness, life, and death, along with a yang spirit combining the elements of fire, light, and life and a yin spirit combining the elements of water, darkness, and death. And, leading the spirits, were a yang pegasus spirit and a nine-headed snake yin spirit.

Altogether, there were 24 yang spirits, 24 yin spirits, and 4 spirits of each of the six elements that made up the power of yin and yang.

Also, two of her daughter’s Laws, the Laws of Flame and Freeze, had reached the True Law level.

“AAHHHH!!”

The dragon man roared again, his A rank mana emanating out from him as a black and red spear covered in dark purple runes appeared in his hands and his green robes changed to green and golden armor which covered his head and his entire body, even including his hands and feet. Then he charged at her with an almost True Law level Law of Speed, his spear filled with the power of an almost True Law level Law of Destruction, and Bellessia instinctively summoned four of her guardians to engage him.

At the same time, 24 spirits attacked her, 12 yin and 12 yang, and Bellessia was forced to use her remaining four guardians to engage them.

Her daughter, glaring at her the entire time, then merged with all 48 of her other spirits and, as her body emanated almost no power of yin and yang even with all the mana involved, she showed an impressive amount of control, far more than Bellessia herself had had as a mortal.

The young A rank then summoned out a spear of her own, a black and white artifact perfectly matching the style of the dragon’s, and charged, forcing Bellessia to summon out her own spear, the weapon her husband had taught her how to properly wield in the past, and the two began engaging in a duel.

Now, Bellessia wasn’t specialized at all in personal combat, but she was old, even if she had been the youngest of all the Prime Material’s gods, and she’d received excellent tutoring, so she was still better than any A rank had ever been. Thus, defending wasn’t that difficult, even if she found it hard to attack.

And she also had the divine roles of the Reaper and the Berserker, even though they didn’t match her elements, as she’d aimed for both after her husband had died, completely changing the way she was viewed by her worshipers to gain those two roles’ powerful battle effects.

While fighting her daughter, however, it quickly became obvious Diana somehow had about six different divine roles, even if none of them were really combat related, and the dragon had four, all of which were.

The only reason Bellessia was even able to fight with the two was her God rank energy, a level of energy her daughter could match but not the dragon; her God rank skills, far more powerful than those of A ranks; her three True Law rank Laws; and the massive boosts to her stats she’d received by becoming a god through both the path of Laws and the path of faith.

After a few seconds of fighting, however, with multiple back and forths taking place during that time and the two A ranks wasting a lot of energy, Bellessia watched as her daughter frowned, seemed to make a decision, and then somehow completely severed Bellessia’s connection with her believers, causing her to lose both the extra stat multiplier from her gathered faith energy and the powers of her two divine roles.

The fight then continued, the dragon quickly starting to destroy her guardians as Diana engaged with Bellessia directly, now completely forcing Bellessia on the defensive, and Bellessia finally realized what was going on as her energy continued to be subsidized by the Yin Yang Sage’s healing diseases in her body.

Her daughter and the girl’s husband, the two members of the United Federation of Planets she’d apparently hurt most directly, were not trying to kill her, at least not immediately.

No, they were using her, a powerful and wise goddess, as a source of tempering for their Laws and skills.