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The Hivemind had raised into a God and had fought against Manationia across the skies. He had just raised to a God, so many of the powers he had were not capable of showcase their true capabilities due to his inexperience in battle using them.

Nonetheless, the Hivemind had used an assortment of techniques it began to learn through the battle, as the fierce Manationia and her summon made of magic, spiritual power, and the souls of many beings fought bravely against him.

What he didn't expected was that Manationia, after having eaten the fruit give to her, already had the knack and potential to acquire some sort of divinity, and as she developed her magical power, this divinity continued to grow larger inside of her soul, giving her magic an extra hump to it that made even a God feel pain and grow weaker.

Especially because she was able to target his weakness by fusing light element with fire element through her titan summon, and unleashed a barrage of attacks that burned through his entire being. The Hivemind felt the pain of being hit with these burning flames, as he continued to grow weaker.

However, in a last ditch of effort and desperation, the Hivemind generated a Domain after trying some time, and used it to attack Manationia from all sides, and then, sneak around as the darkness he had become, and attacked her titan from behind, piercing its body!

CLAAAAASH!

An enormous spear of darkness pierced through the titan made of golden flames torso, spreading darkness across its body made of flames, and effectively infecting it, as if the darkness of the Hivemind had parasitizing powers that could devour and infect other types of elements!

"Uuuaagggh…!

" cried the titan. His entire body began to crumble in darkness, as Manationia suddenly felt great despair!

"Ah, guardian!

" cried Manationia, she looked at her Guardian in shock and awe, gritting her beak as she glared down at the abomination made of darkness that had provoked all the evil in this world from the very beginning!

The Hivemind smiled as he had successfully attacked this time around! And this was all thanks to his amazing power, the ability to turn into shadows, camouflaging within this domain and catching him off guard in the back!

The Hivemind couldn't help but celebrate! It laughed maliciously as it glanced at Manationia and her Guardian slowly crumbling apart.

"Hahahaha! Foolish magical entity!

" laughed the Hivemind.

However, as it looked at Manationia with his grotesque crimson-red eye, he suddenly found something odd!

She was… calm?

Despite the anger and sorrow she felt her guardian was dying, he suddenly whispered to her mind!

"My master… Please, kill him now! Unleash… all the power you have against him! I will hold him tight!

"

Suddenly, the Hivemind realized something utterly horrifying! The Giant Guardian had not died yet, and it was resisting his darkness from consuming him, while draining mana from Manationia, it suddenly reinforced his blazing arms and grabbed the spear-shaped darkness tentacle coming from the Hivemind!

"You're the foolish one here…

" said the titan.

"Huh?!

"

The Hivemind realized way too late that he had given Manationia the perfect scenario to strike! He felt a sudden chill run through his entire being despite the burning flames of the guardian beginning to leak inside would cause more heat than cold temperatures.

He looked at the guardian as he suddenly noticed that he was tightly attempting to grab him!

"Agh!

"

The Hivemind desperately tried to take away his tentacle in the shape of a spear from the guardian, but he failed as he guardian seemed relentless, ready to take away his life for his master, Manationia!

After all, he was made by her and given a purpose by her, his souls were used to be many people, but they were all gone now, without a single purpose.

But Manationia unified them and made them feel good again, to feel company, and to feel whole as a legion. The gigantic legion of souls unleashed their last effort to keep the Hivemind in place, going above their own limits and attacking the Hivemind with everything they could possible unleash, the strength and flames of their full composition as a summon!

The Guardian had grabbed him tightly with his blazing hands, as the golden flames coming from the giant began to spread across his entire body, burning through his darkness and causing him extreme pain!

But that wasn't all, no, it wasn't all! Manationia had other plans, as the guardian had told her to go all out against the Hivemind and to not mind him at all!

While containing her frustration of seeing him crumble apart, Manationia did as he said, as she gathered an enormous quantity of Mana around her surroundings, the wondrous and beautiful rivers of blue and mystical energy rushed all around the place, surprising the Hivemind and leaving him in complete shock over the situation that was happening in front of his crimson eyes!

Her magic materialized into countless of spell circles around her, flashing with bright light and ready to fire their magic attacks at him!

Manationia rivers of mana flowed everywhere around her, constantly spiraling through the surroundings and being infused into her entire being a then outside, forming magic circles one after the other, as she concentrated the two major elements that seemed the strongest against the Hivemind, Fire and Light!

The Fire and Light condensed together in a small split of a second through all the magic circles in a mere instant! Manationia's mind was flashing through with many incredible fast thoughts, her magic was resonating with her entire magical power!

"T-This…!

" muttered the Hivemind in shock.

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

And then, the Hivemind knew what true FEAR was, as his entire body began to be bathed in countless fiery and flashy attacks composed of flames and light, piercing through his body, and tearing it apart one piece at a time!

His entire body crumbled as his very being started to fade away! The darkness that composed him had now become his weakness at the end!

"T-This is… impossible…!

"

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