Arpious of the Planes

Just barely, I managed to block the attack with my sword, which I had slung along my waist, buying time for Kumo, Homura, and Treyni to stand up before attacking him with all they had.

Homura had summoned 3 massive halos made of raging blue fire, which almost rivaled Arpious's black flames, which could swallow anything.

Two halos were above her head while the biggest and most dangerous was lined against her back as she began to summon hundreds of tiny foxes that created even more blue flames that she began to manipulate.

Kumo created hundreds of chains used to restrain the king as she was more used to providing support, while Treyni created hundreds of flowers and vines that were used as a distraction for Homura's attack.

SHING

Suddenly, in just a split second, the king had brought his sword up and slammed it back down on my sword, breaking it in half instantly.

The sword I had used since the beginning of my training... was gone.

The other wives landed their attacks perfectly, allowing Homura's fire to rage over the tall man in front of us, but suddenly he roared. He roared at the top of his lungs like a wild animal starving for food.

He began to tear through the chains and vines, snapping them in half, before wiping away the blue fire with just his hand, causing everybody to take a step back.

Looming despair seemed to overwhelm me, and pressure that brought me to my knees relentlessly tackled me, so I had no choice but to summon it as the king brought down his sword towards me.

"[Theristís]," I mutter, instantly summoning a black longsword that was about two-thirds the height of my body.

TING

I blocked the king's massive sword before parrying it and swinging upwards, just barely missing the king who had flash stepped backward and coated himself in a blood-red aura.

The blood-red aura then spread from his body to his sword, which then solidified within the sword, turning it into a dark red monstrosity of a weapon that I could only see as a monster within my eyes.

p "Huh? Wait… I sense something within him," Kumo mutters as we all regroup.

"What do you mean?" I respond before signaling for my hiding necromantic heroes to buy us some time as the king had already charged in.

SHING

There was no hesitation within the king's swing as he only looked at my necromantic heroes with no pity, and even a hint of him despising them crept out.

"But, it's not over just yet… Genisis," I muttered, causing the now sliced in half heroes to be reborn once again with an even stronger body and mind.

This was a loophole I found within the system, allowing me to create the strongest soldiers ever to exist.

Each time a corpse is reborn, they are given a slightly stronger body and mind to make up for their death earlier, but as there is no limit to how much I could keep reviving them, their bodies will only get stronger and stronger with each passing word.

If I had to guess their statuses, then I'd say their stats are reaching the 500's by now, just a bit below Paimon, who has been lazing around the kingdom.

"Hold him back, and what did you say earlier, Kumo?" I order my servants and then turn to Kumo, who seemed extremely focused on something.

"There are chains wrapped around his heart… just like with Arpious when she had the berserk debuff… hold on, buy me some time, and I might be able to kill him instantly," Kumo says before sitting down and calming her breathing.

"Sure," Myself, Homura, and Treyni reply before using our most favored skills.

"[Domain of the Necromancer]... Arise, my soldiers," I mutter, causing thousands of undead monsters to crawl out of the barren dirt ground below us and surround the king.

I also split some off to help the quickly dying soldiers next to us fighting the commanders, which I only felt pity for.

Suddenly, everything around us went dark before turquoise mist began to rise from the ground, summoning skeleton soldiers about as tall as me, clad in metal armor, while holding sharp swords that seemed to be polished till no ends.

"Forward," I order once again while Homura and Treyni began to activate their skills.

"[Spectral Wisp Magic]... [Summon: Fire Ghost]," Homura mutters, causing hundreds of giant balls of blue flames to take up the sky while ghastly creatures began to appear around us.

They were see-through and clear at first with black eyes and a mouth, but suddenly, they created hands made of blue flames while their eyes and mouth erupted with even hotter blue flames that began to melt the area around them.

"[Forbidden Magic: Chloris]," Treyni said, and she probably only used this one skill due to Homura's raging fire which would instantly disintegrate her plants.

Massive flowers began to sprout from the ground and tower over us before bending their heads towards the king, who was wiping out waves of my skeletons but wasn't really getting anywhere.

He was clearly fuming with rage, but he had nowhere to vent it but the skeletons in front of him who were holding him back from us who finished creating everything needed to "hold back" the king.

But from anybody else's perspective, it would've looked like we were trying to kill the king in one shot due to the powerful skills activated.

"AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH!" The king shouts before tearing the skeletons that climbed up his body, off of him and jumped into the air, trying to get to us, but my skeletons held him back once more by grabbing onto his foot and yanking him down with all their might.

"Everybody attack at the same time," I say before counting down from 3.

"3… 2… 1… FIRE!" I say before slicing my sword in the air, creating blades made of pure death mist that was used to distract the king while the raging balls of blue flames came barreling at our enemy.

On the other hand, the massive flowers began to glow a bright yellow that helped light up the slightly dimming battlefield as night was slowly approaching.

And once the bright yellow had taken up all the petals on the pink flower, it was sucked in towards the center before being fired off into beams of light that ripped through my skeletons and threatened the king who was currently blocking my blades of deathly mist.

VWOOM… BAM BAM BAM

Sounds boomed through the air, causing a large shockwave upon hitting the king, who was sent repeatedly flying into the air and then smashed into the ground by the 100 blue fireballs.

This would've easily destroyed any kingdom, but as this took a lot of mana, we wouldn't be able to make another one of these pseudo-all-out attacks.

"HAHAHA, HAHAHA! THIS IS FUN!" We heard a loud booming voice echo through the air.

Cold sweat dripped down my external spine before I shouted,

"PROTECT KUMO!"

The other wives immediately knew what was happening and summoned their own summons, which helped lighten the blow for me, who redirected the blade of condensed red aura away.

"Huh? It wasn't the king's sword but just an air blade… ah shit, this guy is dangerous," I mutter.

Suddenly, out of the smoke created by Homura's blue fireballs, a raging king with a demonic smile came dashing out while tearing through my skeletons, who lost track of him.

"PROTECT KUMO AGAIN!" I shout, but Homura and Treyni didn't need my panicked suggestion as they had already created shields made from vines, trees, and blue fire, which somehow managed to weave together.

"I'll reinforce it with death!" I shout before activating [Partial Death Manipulation].

A black mist began to rise from my body before I snapped my fingers, causing it to take the form of thousands of weapons which I immediately sent flying at the king.

The large amount of mana needed to do this was ripped from my body, causing me to take a knee while carefully watching what will come next.

"ROOOOOOOOOAAAAR!"

The king roared like a raging beast before pushing all the red aura on his body into his arm and sword, which had quadrupled in size, allowing it to smash through the massive shield easily.

On the other hand, my death made weapons just slightly hindered his movements as overwhelming pain began to harras him.

[Partial Death Manipulation] is a lie as the partial part basically negates the death part as it only inflicts huge amounts of pain as if you were dying. It can't really kill anybody significant, but more like small fry.

My only guess so far is that [Full Death Manipulation] will allow me to kill somebody if I want to instantly, but there are probably limits, such as this skill can only instantly kill somebody if they are weaker than me.

"How much longer!" I shout as I readied my long black sword and prepared myself to block the massive sword that was about to be slammed on top of us.

"I got it," Kumo mutters before squeezing her palm.