Chapter 53: Omega vs. the Great Demon Lomon
Omega nodded calmly, his power sword brimming with energy.
"Look... you yourself do not deny that you cannot swallow a sun. Your strength has limits. We humans value honesty, so you Demons would do well to regard themselves clearly as well."
"Do not speak nonsense lightly, or you shall invite lightning's judgment."
Rex, Captain Skol, and the others could not contain their laughter, hearing the Primarch address the Greater Daemon in such terms. His words were truly infuriating to any daemon's pride.
The demon, gripping its greatsword, realized what had transpired and roared in fury.
"How dare you underestimate me, the Great Demon Lomon! I will slay you!"
Whoosh!
Before the creature could finish speaking, a teleporting phantom flashed forward. The daemon hastily raised its greatsword to block.
With a tremendous boom, a power sword slashed downward. Though the demonic blade intercepted it, an apparent wound opened across the giant daemon's chest, from which demonic blood flowed freely.
The Great Demon Lomon forcefully held the two weapons suspended in mid-air, creating momentary equilibrium. Omega shouted, and the two plummeted like cannonballs toward the ground.
Boom!
Dust and marble fragments erupted upward. Before Skol and the others could see clearly through the smoke, countless flashes and sparks erupted from the collision of clashing swords, blade striking blade with percussion that shook the ground beneath them.
Several warriors raised their explosive pistols. Company Commander Skol held his power sword, ready to advance at an instant's notice.
With immense demonic power and an incredibly hardened body, Lomon wielded his massive greatsword, slashing wildly and bloodily at Omega, determined to wound the creature before him.
Yet Omega's swordsmanship transcended imagination.
Drawing upon his powerful mental focus, knowledge gleaned from Rangdan xenopsychic techniques, and extraordinarily refined observation and prediction abilities, Omega's blade intercepted every desperate strike from the daemon's sword with mechanical precision, not through reaction, but through seeing three steps ahead.
A ten-meter-tall colossal daemon clashed fiercely with the Primarch. Each collision of their weapons impacted across hundreds of meters, leaving Company Commander Skol and the others awestruck by the spectacle unfolding before them.
Omega proved even more formidable than the Great Daemon. He easily evaded the opponent's desperate thrusts, and his power sword pierced through the daemon's body repeatedly, each strike clinical, purposeful.
When the Great Demon Lomon decisively committed to a traded blow with Omega, he received a devastating kick to the thigh that drove him to the ground.
The fallen daemon swung its sword at Omega's body. Omega spun to the side, barely avoiding the strike. The daemon's coiled tail lashed out, but Omega severed it cleanly with a single motion.
The great daemon howled in agony, tumbling across the ground. Ignoring its broken and bleeding tail, it continued its relentless assault, roaring amidst the deafening clash of swords.
"I swear I shall smash every bone within your body, tear apart your mouth, destroy your form and soul, and compel your absolute submission to the dark gods!"
"Demon, I have not yet settled my account with you for this deception! I will kill you!" The Great Daemon's words enraged Company Commander Skol and the Astartes warriors. Skol in particular viewed the creature before him as something he was determined to slay; this was no longer duty, but vengeance for corrupted faith.
Omega ignored the daemon's threats during the engagement. Yet he inadvertently noticed the dark clouds thickening and swirling overhead with purposeful, directed movement.
He shouted urgently. "Skol, take your men and destroy every suspicious location across this entire island! Rex, detonate the location where the Holy Sword was planted!"
"Yes, sir!" For reasons he could not explain, Skol immediately led his warriors to execute the Primarch's orders. Perhaps Omega had already seen what was coming.
Across the island, Astartes warriors unleashed torrents of fire from their explosive rifles, targeting the surrounding temple grounds, structures, and broken tree roots.
With support from several Space Marines, Rex gradually advanced toward the spot where the Holy Sword had stood.
The Great Demon Lomon was surprised by Omega's reaction and moved to attack the nearby Rex. His moment of distraction proved costly.
Omega slashed him across the waist, and a massive volume of demonic blood sprayed outward.
The daemon's greatsword descended in a desperate slash. Omega easily dodged and spun his power sword to press the demonic blade against the ground.
Using the momentum, Omega flipped and rotated, his leg landing like a falling mountain, driving the demon's head directly into the earth.
Boom!
The impact sent dust erupting skyward. With the daemon's head pinned down, it roared and used its unparalleled strength to lift Omega gradually. Omega's power sword spun and pierced through the daemon's spine just below its neck, followed by the sharp crack of breaking bone.
The Great Demon screamed in agony, thrashing wildly. Yet Omega continued forcing his power sword downward, his voice steady and cold.
"As suspected, something was wrong with the location where the holy sword was inserted."
Thud!
A heavy, all-out thrust pierced clean through the daemon's spine. With a scream, the Great Demon coughed up blood and supported itself upon its demonic sword. Powerful, chaotic spiritual energy surged from its body, violently assaulting Omega's consciousness.
Countless illusions flooded his mind, but Omega's spirit had been refined across sixty years of disciplined cultivation. The whispers came like waves against stone, and stone does not yield.
A powerful daemon whisper seized the opportunity, attempting to aid the Great Demon. As Omega mentally resisted, his eyes remained firm. He gripped his power sword with both hands and instinctively slashed with all his might.
The power sword pierced through the daemon's spine and bone structure, striking directly into its head. A pitiful demonic roar echoed across the sky before gradually fading into silence.
The demonic whispers vanished instantly. Omega stared intently at the trembling daemon beneath his feet, still gripping its evil greatsword.
His power sword remained plunged directly into the creature's skull.
A gigantic daemon, ten meters in height, lay sprawled across the ground, its wings outstretched, its blood copious. Despite its immense strength and resilience, it could no longer move and was slowly dying.
The surrounding Astartes watched in shock as the Primarch slew the colossal daemon. Skol exclaimed at Omega's immense power.
At that moment, a hazy mist began forming across the entire island within the lake. Reality and illusion became dangerously intertwined. The black clouds above swirled and transformed into an enormous, rotating dark cavern, a wound in the world itself.
Omega and his companions could no longer see the primeval forest across the lake, as if they were gradually being stripped from their original world.
"REX!" Omega cried out in alarm.
"The bomb is armed!"
Rex was igniting the detonator when he was shocked by the transformation around him. He immediately responded, and he and several Astartes warriors ran from the bomb's location at maximum speed.
Omega swiftly severed the Great Demon's head with his power sword, fearing the creature might somehow revive.
At this moment, Company Commander Skol approached and, with barely contained fury, helped cut down the great daemon's corpse. Upon seeing the daemon's enormous greatsword, he raised his power sword to strike.
Thud!
The impact was solid, but Company Commander Skol froze as the demonic sword, wreathed in evil mist, began slashing furiously on its own, as though the severed hand still commanded it.
At that moment, Omega, recalling how desperately the Great Demon had sought to pierce him with this blade, spoke with earnest gravity.
"Take that demonic sword and throw it into the sun."
"Do not touch this blade!"
"Yes, sir!" Upon hearing this command, Company Commander Skol decisively severed the Great Demon's hand with his sword and held the severed limb, still gripping the demonic blade, firmly in his grasp, careful not to let flesh touch skin.
Omega nodded once, then raised his foot and kicked several large pieces of the daemon's corpse toward the bomb's location.
The two ran at maximum speed. The surrounding environment gradually became blurred and indistinct.
Even the lake surrounding the island had vanished. The swirling spatial cavern in the sky exuded an indescribable aura of pure malevolence.
Suddenly, the cavern in the dark clouds surged, and countless demonic figures emerged, desperate to rush forth and attack Omega and his group upon the small island.
Numerous explosive weapons were leveled at daemons of all sizes pouring from the sky cavern. Dozens of Space Marines formed a cohesive wall, unleashing devastating fire. Large numbers of daemon corpses fell to the ground.
Rex was alarmed by the transformation around him and the surge of emerging demons. At that moment, enormous demonic heads emerged and fixed their gaze upon Skol and Omega, who still carried the daemon sword.
"Kill them!" the Great Daemon roared, and countless daemonic forms surged forward.
Boom!
At that precise moment, a tremendous explosion detonated from the location where the holy sword had been planted.
An incomparably dazzling light flashed and erupted outward from the epicenter, not fire, but something far more fundamental, a rejection of unnatural presence.
The blast tore apart surrounding daemon corpses, ripped up the ground, and obliterated the entire ruined temple.
The explosion covered an area of seven to eight hundred meters. Omega and the others barely escaped the powerful energy impact, ducking down and planting their swords in the ground to avoid being swept away by the force.
The hazy reality and illusory space around them gradually separated. The spatial cavern hanging in mid-air transformed into a phantom and disappeared. The great daemon roared as the Space Marines on the ground vanished from the warp-touched realm.
After the prolonged explosion faded, Omega and the others, covered in dust, shook themselves off. A large volume of dust cascaded away, revealing their clean power armor beneath.
[End of Chapter]
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