My Soul card is a Reaper

As he turned his head, he saw Francis Blood looking at him. "Don't be so surprised, kid. We lived for so long. We naturally have a trick or two to protect ourselves and the clan."

"But…" Azzy wanted to say to him that he isn't a match for the enemy anyways but Yashna cut him off by stating, "We saw what you are capable of and understand why you are still hesitating to do it. Don't bother. Everyone is safe in my Shadow Palace. So, go all out."

"Hidden skill: Attribute Bestowal."

Using his hidden skill, The eight thousand year old leader of the Blood Clan tapped Azzy's back once again, which gave him temporarily control over blood attribute, "No wonder Brother Qridus put his entire hopes of the clan's future on you. Go and fight without thinking anything. We will help you to the best of our abilities."

Yashna Night also acted simultaneously, "Night clan's ancestral technique: Power transfer." The shadowy forms of Yashna disappeared one after another and entered Azzy's body at the speed of light.

Azzy gained a boost of significant strength by Night clan's technique. He felt as if he reached the peak stage of supreme realm and his entire soul power recovered instantly.

With the replenishment of the soul energy, Azzy didn't hesitate to spend it all by unleashing a series of soul skills as his enemy conjured the barrier to imprison the area before he raised the sword and preparing a technique to replicate the swords dozens of times so that his prey won't be able to escape with any tricks.

"Soul skill: Eyes of God"

"Soul skill: Puppet Ghost Creation"

"Hydra, use soul skill: Void Gaze."

With ten wasps spread out so that he may swap with their positions at any time just like how Yashna help him out earlier, Azzy had brought out whatever Jupiter's lightning he could invoke at the moment and proceeded to rapidly absorb every bit of natural energy he found in the clan village, turning all vegetation and streams of river into barren land.

*Hissss*

The Undead Hydra which returned to its peak state took the action, once Azzy finished his absorption.

"Soul skill: Void Gaze"

Since it is a demigod beast, Azzy's entire reserves were emptied in an instant but he got one second of time as the demigod found himself to be trapped by void energy from all sides.

Azzy didn't waste that second and charge forward with a few wasps while the enemy is still in the middle of invoking the skill but couldn't move at the moment.

Azzy reached him in a fraction of second and struck his chest with Jupiter's concentration beam of raw lightning while simultaneously striking the demigod's head with a punch that released every bit of natural energy that he absorbed so far.

"Oraa…"

The demigod's head was blew apart and his chest had a hole in it with his heart missing. The raised arm with the sword of radiance was lowered down on its own and his corpse fell down, crashing to the ground.

"Ha" "Ha" "Cough" "Cough" "Ha"

Taking heavy breaths, Azzy slowly descended to the ground and sat down. The two clan leaders reached him and Yashna couldn't help but show a rare smile of pride, "You did it, young master."

"Ha" "Ha" "Yeah… we paid the price but we can rebuild the village as always. People are more important… Ha…" Azzy too was relieved and happy that the enemy is down.

"Uhh… Young Master, you have to leave right now." Francis, however, responded differently with a hint of panic in his voice, earning the attention of both of them. "Hmm?"

Francis pointed his finger at the corpse on the ground, which was being surrounded by golden light and getting recovered by the sword.

Azzy's happiness was short-lived and his face went pale, not having any more strength to face for what's about to come.

He couldn't help but shout inwardly, calling for the help, "Chronos, give me the access to my cosmic jewels. It doesn't matter what they think of me."

However, Chronos didn't respond to his call.

The whispers from the Protos energy once again filled his ears. This time, he didn't feel tempted and just closed his eyes, giving an order, "Clan leader Night, Clan leader Blood, I'm going to unleash a forbidden seal. Both of you must leave right now. Or else, you will be caught in cross fire."

"But, Young master…" Yashna Night wasn't willing to abandon him. Azzy firmly stared at her and shouted, "Do you want to drag me down? Go now. Don't be in one kilometer radius…"

Perhaps, both Yashna and Francis trusted his strength based on what they saw until now. They believed him and looked at each other, responding with a nod and flew away in hurry.

Slowly, the figure rose in the air surrounded by divine radiance without an ounce of death energy around.

The enemy's eyes turned golden without no pupils and he grew six pairs of angelic wings from the back, staring down at Azzy who just sat there and staring back at the figure.

The angelic figure spoke in a distorted tone in the same way as Tellus did earlier through Azzy, "You are one of the most talented mortals I have ever encountered but you defied the laws of nature by tricking Thanatos and turning your mortal physique into divine. For that reason, I'm going to extinguish your existence. Do you have any last words?"

Azzy took a deep breath and replied as calm as possible, "I have no strength to fight and neither do I have any knowledge of some forbidden seal to defeat you as I claimed earlier. All I have is faith in my partner that he will protect me, even if all Olympian gods come at me. If he decides on abandoning me, then, that's my destiny."

The angelic figure stared at Azzy for a couple of seconds. It didn't speak anything else and raised the sword, "Heaven's Judgment"

The floating dozens of swords combined together to form a single powerful sword before charging at Azzy as the angelic figure motioned its arm.

*Sigh*

"You have left me with no other choice, huh!"

now

The Reaper's whisper echoed Azzy's head just as the energy sword was released by the angelic figure.

Azzy still couldn't sense his connection with either hourglass or the other two cosmic jewels. Hence, he felt like the Reaper really forsaken him and Azzy closed his eyes to embrace the death in disappointment.

But the sword never reached him.

It stopped right in front of his forehead while he sensed another connection right at the forehead. It was such a familiar feeling.

When he opened his eyes, his eyes witnessed a black colored orb with lightning sparks dancing over it, blocking the energy sword from moving further while letting its black lightning sparks envelop the sword.

"Hmm?" The angelic figure developed a frown on its face as its eyes fell on the scene, where its supposed energy sword attack turned into a black sword of lightning and turned against it. "The anti-divine energy mixed with death energy and also divine lightning energy of Zeus?" It roared as if it was in anger, "It's you, the betrayer."

"This…" Azzy's eyes widened as he remembered a thing from the past. It was a memory of his second awakening that started a whole chain of events.

The Reaper's voice then filled in his head, "I don't make exceptions for the sinners, but for you, I'm going to give another chance for Vajra's soul."

"Vajra's soul?" While Azzy grew confused at first, he remembered a conversation from the past and revelation drawn upon him, "Vajra isn't exactly a true Arcana spirit. It was just the beastly form of an Arcana spirit with its true soul imprisoned in the eternity jar.

Meanwhile, the black lightning orb controlled the energy sword and attack right back the angelic figure. The latter's sword and the energy sword clashed.

The black orb glowed at this instant, bringing down a black lightning bolt from the sky that's been torn apart by the sword of radiance earlier.

The angelic figure pushed away the energy sword and flapped its wings to dodge the black lightning bolt, but in this instant, the black orb teleported right behind its enemy and released a torrent of black lightning current to blast away the angelic figure, forcing it to abandon its host and flew high in its sword form.

The black lightning orb responded to this move by unleashing a couple of chains of lightning, capturing the sword tightly.

"You… betrayer, free me this instant. Lord Thanatos won't leave you until you were destroyed…" The sword started screaming in its usual distorted voice but the lightning orb paid no heed to it.

The black lightning orb slowly made its way to its master who was stupefied by how easily the battle is completed, and spoke through telepathy, "Descendant of Aelius Crescent, consider this as a present for my redemption."