The One Above The Heavens Chapter 26 (Patreon)

It's a good thing the 'park' where Angra Mainyu exploded for the first time was a massive dead nature park well away from any population centers.

A massive serpent made out of obsidian stone roared as it was slammed into the ground by my glowing gold vajra palm shaking the surrounding eart as the equilvalent of a sky scraper was slammed into the ground by god.

All the while Athena formed out of a swirling horde of owls as she came down at me with a scythe that screamed to my senses.

"A scythe looks cool. But it's just impractical!" I yelled as I backstepped the reaping blade that tried to disembowl me.

But with a flourish that brought the blade down at me point first at my forhead, she said casually. "Only for those unskilled to use it properly I suppose."

Her lethal attack was abandonded as she summoned a shield that made my eye's burn as embossed on the shield was a snarling figure of Medusa that hurt my very soul to look at.

 She summoned her divine shield to block the flying sword with no handle that shot out of my sleeve and hit her shield hard enough to launch her backwards a hundred meters with her flipping through the air to bleed off the momentum.

Then as she gave me a hint of space, I snorted as my yin and yang seals flew out of my sleeves and grew massively in the air turning into loaded semi-truck sized divine seals that flew at her as she flew through the air with owl wings that sprouted from her back.

Sensing divinity from below I shot into the air as well as a massive serpent of stone shot into the air with a roar as it tried to consume me even as I sent one of the seals to smash, and destroy the animated construct.

Then with a ripping noise I used another flying sword to cut a whole through space and flew into it as she shot bolts of compressed darkness at me from a divine bow she conjured up.

A crackle rang out as I shot out of the portal directly in front of her as she partially turned. Thinking I was going to teleport behind her.

My flying sword slammed into her scythe locking in place... As I yelled out the finishing lines of a divine authority. "All evildoers, tremble before my strength... Upon my mighty self, I shall bear the symbol of the raging camel"

And she only barely managed to shift so only only of my feet from the resulting drop kick hit her stomach.

There was a brief moment as our eye's met. Her eye's filled with wisdom, the wisdom of the void that allowed her to even see the future of what I was going to do.

But I was stronger then her. Athena was an... Upper B rank goddess at best especially right now when she had just gotten her power that wasn't even a full restoration of said powers.

She hadn't had the chance to absorb her power fully. 

I was a Campione who had the domains and inherited power of two 'S' rank gods who both slapped the shit out of her already with Verethragna cutting her divine soul into pieces for the fun of it and stuffing parts of her weird ass domains into the Grimoire of Medusa.

That brief moment as my foot hit her 'soft' stomach. She understood all those facts truly this time.

Her form became a blur as the force of my drop kick was a fucking nuke to her. She shot as as stream of silver that slammed into a nearby mountain with a loud rumble as the mountain collapsed in on her.

"Let the rabid divines be purified! Let hatred be sealed, the water's of hatred washed away! Hail the Imperial Mandate of Heaven!" I roared as both Yin and Yang seals swirled in the air together to form a rectangular seal block of fiery yin and yang energy.

Soft rumbles rang out as I watched Athena hurriedly blast the mountain away with a roar of her divine power.

And her eye's widened at the sight of the seals slamming down onto her.

Two divine seals slammed into the ground with a massive explosion no weaker then an anti-fortress Noble Phantasm with purple yin and burning crimson yang energy tearing through the world in all directions.

But I snorted and kicked upwards hard as the sound of a record scratch rang out as the slightly burned form of Athena shot out of a pool of darkness she conjured to teleport through at me with her sycthe.

My foot hit the shaft of her sycthe, my two flying swords shot at her from differing angles.

And with sharp clanging noices she blocked the flying swords before blocking my powerful punch with the divine shield Aegis that made me wince at the sight of it again.

Then she slammed the shield into me before spinning her scythe around to reach over the shield to get to me.

But instead with a roar, I pushed back on the shield. Slamming it into her face with our pure strength difference.

And a heretic god, like Athena? She was very much a glass cannon so I truly rung her bell even as she scythe just barely went over my head with the whisper of death screaming in my ear at how I missed getting the top chunk of my head cut off.

"One who supports the heavens and the spreads throughout earth! Those who bestow grace and victory. Show me the proper path, for I am noble!" I chanted as I called upon my now arguably strongest authority of Verathragna in the Ram Aspect.

A violent crackle of divine lightning shot out from my form into the too close form of Athena who couldn't react to the divine lightning whose concept was faster then that of 'Gods Speed'

Gods speed itself was a reflection of mundane lightning. And my divine lightning? Even faster.

Athena was fried as the worship and glory of ten thousand mages who bent the kneel to my dominion, poured their mana into me. Their rightful Emperor who called upon their combined power to fuel the divine lightning.

Godou in canon was a fucking idiot whose desire to hide from being a Campione made the Ram aspect weak. If not a liability as the people's mana it called upon was most just his harem and the few people who did know him personally.

Especially with how infamous he was for throwing the Divine Boar Aspect like a missile into important places.

Athena herself... WAS a glass cannon, she was very dangerous with her wisdom and short pre-conception. But she underestimated me as a human, and especially underestimated the power of over ten thousand mages' mana pools being open to me.

Her burnt form staggered before I clapped my hands with both flying sword, shooting through her chest and stomach ear ear-popping boom of a sonic boom with blood and gore splashing into my face as her eye's went dull at the realization that she had lost.

She fell out of the air and with a soft thump she slammed into the wrecked ground with her choking on her blood before she laid partially raised on a raised rock.

"That... Was humiliating." She spat quietly.

I leaned in, and I said quietly. "I killed two gods who both thrashed you. How could you see this going any other way, Athena?"

She grimaced with a line of blood leaking out of her lips as she said flatly. "You are... Just a human. A human who insulted me so greatly in taking my power to make lesser versions of myself to keep as pets."

My face twitched as I knew she was talking about Eurayle and Stheno, even if it made zero fucking sense as she WAS not Medusa. Just weird ass Heretic god nonsense.

Still, with that, I just said bluntly. "At that point. It's not even a skill issue. Your forcing this fight was just... Fucking stupid. I don't think I should even make you a Divine Ancestor and keep you around with how stupid this was."

To which Athena snorted, and as she lay there and died. She grinned with blood on her teeth as she said. "And yet... You still will, as you are a lazy, lustful emperor who wants me for too many things beyond just my body when I will be under your control."

And with that. The Heretic God Athena breathed her last. Having gotten the last word.