"God Slayer, you cannot kill me."
After consuming the medicinal herb, Asclepius looked at Yu, his tone was flat, as if stating a fact.
"Is that so? So confident in your medical skills, have you forgotten when Zeus killed you with lightning?"
Seeing Asclepius's arrogance, Yu raised an eyebrow, mercilessly exposing his weakness.
Asclepius was the son of Apollo, the God of the Sun, one of the twelve main gods of Mount Olympus. However, not long after his mother fell in love with Apollo and became pregnant with Asclepius, she fell in love with a mortal.
Apollo, filled with hatred, sent his sister Artemis, the goddess of hunting and the moon, to shoot Coronis, who was secretly meeting with her lover, and then cremated her with the fire of the God of the Sun.
During the cremation, Apollo deliberately spared Asclepius and entrusted him to a mortal for upbringing. But as Asclepius grew up, mastering medicine, he reached the peak of medical art, touching the immortality that belonged only to gods as a demigod!
Because of this, Zeus, the ruler of Olympus, was enraged and brought down devastating divine lightning upon Asclepius for the crime of seizing divinity, and even Apollo's pleas were in vain.
Asclepius, the man who as a demigod reached eternal immortality, thus died under Zeus's lightning.
This also meant that Asclepius was not immortal; he only had extremely tenacious life and was extremely difficult to kill, and lightning was the key to killing Asclepius.
Coincidentally, Yu possessed the authority of lightning control, and even more coincidentally, he had two of them!
Whether it was the Boar, the incarnation of the eastern god of war, or the lightning control from Gusting Wind and Raging Waves, both could control lightning of different intensities. The lightning from Gusting Wind and Raging Waves might not be able to kill Asclepius, but the Boar could.
"Hmph, ignorant human! You dare to kill a god!"
Hearing this, Asclepius's face visibly darkened. He snorted and then the golden enormous python charged toward Yu.
Seeing this, Nakano Yu raised his hand and released a hurricane that swept up the enormous python. The enormous python twisted wildly in the air, but how could the hurricane allow it to break free so easily?
It was only a nameless enormous snake creature from mythology. If it were the famous Teng snake or the World Serpent, then Yu's hurricane would have had no effect.
However, constantly restraining the enormous snake was not a solution. Yu immediately raised his palm, and a massive spatial crack appeared. Within that crack, a pair of crimson giant eyes slowly opened.
"The word of god, bring punishment to the sinner. O you who are so swift that you are difficult to subdue."
"Bring down the hammer of punishment upon those who break their vows!"
As the young man spoke the words, a boar the size of a mountain poked its head out of the crack, its wild aura fully released at this moment.
"Break their spines, dig out their tendons, hair and brains, and trample their blood into the earth!"
As the voice fell, a ring of green-white flames suddenly ignited around the boar's neck. The flames surged, and the boar, with unstoppable momentum, burst out of the crack and collided with the golden enormous snake struggling high in the sky.
Facing the beast charging toward it, the enormous snake struggled to control its body, opening its fangs and huge mouth toward the boar, as if intending to swallow the boar whole.
Seeing this, the boar felt provoked. Its entire body shone with even stronger green flames, and like a meteor striking the Earth, it rushed into the mouth of the enormous snake with irresistible force.
"Sss~"
After swallowing the boar in one gulp, the golden enormous snake looked at Yu, who was incredibly small compared to it, with a provocative gaze.
Noticing the actions of the golden enormous snake, Yu sneered and laughed.
"You foolish mortal, your boar has been swallowed by my snake! Take out all your other tricks! Let me have a good time in this first battle after returning to the real world!"
Seeing Yu's boar, which had an aura as if it could destroy the world, being swallowed by his golden enormous snake so easily, Asclepius mocked him. He thought the boar was some terrifying existence, but it turned out to be just empty show!
"Oh? Is that so? As the God of healing, surely you haven't forgotten that the inside of a snake is much more fragile than its outer scales."
Looking at Asclepius with disdain, Yu said with a smile. As his words fell, the golden enormous snake in the sky began to twist its slender body wildly, continuously letting out painful cries:
"Sss!!!"
Accompanied by the roar, the belly of the golden enormous snake suddenly swelled, like a huge ball.
That "ball" then suddenly deformed, twisting unevenly, until it directly took on the outline of a boar.
"Damn it! asclepius's bowl!"
Seeing this, Asclepius finally reacted. After cursing, he immediately summoned asclepius's bowl, intending to use the plants it summoned to heal the golden enormous snake.
But how could Yu allow him to succeed?
The young man's figure flickered, controlling the Twelve Brilliant Swords to fiercely strike asclepius's bowl.
"Clang!"
With a clear sound, three of the Twelve Brilliant Swords shattered simultaneously, and asclepius's bowl was also directly knocked away by that strike, falling onto the beach below.
"Tsk, still much weaker than a divine artifact."
Glancing at the remaining nine Brilliant Swords, Yu clicked his tongue. Joyeuse, after all, still could not directly clash with divine artifacts. Fortunately, he had been cautious enough to use the Twelve Brilliant Swords for the attack. If Joyeuse had shattered, Yu would definitely have felt pain.
After all, this sword was very convenient for him to use, especially when using the Twelve Brilliant Swords to launch sneak attacks behind a Heretic God, and then, while the opponent was distracted, strike with his own sword.
Yu had used this move many times with great success. Although it did not deal much damage, it always managed to force the Heretic God to use their trump card.
Moreover, if Joyeuse were to break, he would not be able to find a usable weapon for some time. Although the demonic swords created using [Torn Silver Hand] were good, Yu found them much less comfortable to use than Joyeuse.
The reason he did not demonize Joyeuse earlier was because he was worried that a demonized Joyeuse would be too powerful and damage asclepius's bowl. After understanding the magic circle used to summon the Heretic God, Yu discovered that the divine artifact used for summoning would not completely disappear, but had a chance to be preserved by the magic circle after killing the god.
Although the probability was very low, Yu was willing to try. Of course, if asclepius's bowl were directly shattered, then it would truly be lost.
The whole world would not be able to produce another asclepius's bowl, unless he went to the Divine Realm or other worlds to collect it.
"You seek death!"
Seeing that Yu actually blocked his path, Asclepius without hesitation cut off his left arm with his right hand, then swung his arm, sending several drops of eerie green blood directly toward Yu's face.
Knowing that Asclepius had the ability to use poison, Yu did not dare to be careless. His figure flickered, just managing to avoid several drops of eerie green poisonous blood, but unexpectedly, Asclepius suddenly revealed a smile.
The next second, those drops of blood suddenly exploded, and a cloud of poisonous mist rapidly spread, instantly reaching Yu's face.
Yu reacted quickly, immediately trying to evade the attack of the poisonous mist. But he was still a step too slow; his hand, already transformed into [Torn Silver Hand], merely touched the poisonous mist and emitted a "hissing" corrosive sound.
Looking at [Torn Silver Hand], which was smoking and being corroded, Yu's expression was serious.
[Torn Silver Hand] could not only transform objects into demonic swords, causing incredibly terrifying and even continent-altering attacks, but also possessed unparalleled defensive capabilities.
Yet even such a [Torn Silver Hand] was corroded before Asclepius's poisonous mist.
Although the speed of corrosion was extremely slow, Yu could feel his magical power continuously leaking from the corroded wound, like a thin stream, very difficult to notice, but truly present.
Although the magical power of a God Slayer reaches a terrifying quantity and quality, if facing other gods, such a loss of magical power would not be a cause for concern. But the one in front of him was the God of healing, Asclepius!
A God of healing who could endlessly recover relying solely on asclepius's bowl!
Fortunately, he had knocked asclepius's bowl out of Asclepius's hands in advance, otherwise it would have been difficult to deal with him.
"To be able to dodge, that truly surprises me."
Looking at Yu's [Torn Silver Hand], which was corroded and smoking, Asclepius raised an eyebrow. As he spoke, he threw out several more drops of poisonous blood, which exploded not far from the young man, turning into poisonous mist that surged forward.
Seeing this, Yu, knowing the power of this poisonous mist, naturally had no intention of standing idle. He immediately appeared behind Asclepius, and the remaining nine Brilliant Swords attacked Asclepius simultaneously.
At the same time, Yu also did not remain still. Holding Joyeuse, his expression was serious, and the word of spirit once again echoed through heaven and earth:
"O sword that can pierce all enemies with one swing, to take all life, dwell with brilliance!"
As the young man's voice echoed, silver liquid suddenly surged out from the golden blade of Joyeuse. The liquid instantly enveloped Joyeuse, then continuously deformed and extended, finally transforming into a giant sword a full nine meters long.
That giant sword shone with the brilliance of steel and silver; only its hilt was a full meter long.
Holding the demonized Joyeuse with both hands, Yu raised the giant sword and brought it down toward Asclepius with world-splitting force.
Along with the giant sword fell the golden enormous snake creature, whose body had already been completely pierced by the boar.
Looking at the demonic sword descending toward him, Asclepius's eyes suddenly narrowed. He swung his hand, shattering all the Brilliant Swords, but unexpectedly, at the moment the Brilliant Swords were shattered, more than ten Moon Rock Giants suddenly appeared, surrounding him.
By the time Asclepius waved his hand and destroyed those Moon Rock Giants, the giant sword had already descended before him.
The giant sword, filled with killing intent, crashed down fiercely.
"Boom!!!!"
A world-shaking roar rose at that moment, and terrifying shockwaves spread, overturning the sea, melting trees, and completely destroying the city.
In the sky, thick, wide white clouds were cut in half. In front of Yu, a massive fissure appeared in the land—no, that was not a fissure, but a sword mark left by Yu's strike!
That sword mark stretched endlessly, visible only from satellites. At this moment, Europe, under a single strike from Yu, was slowly splitting apart, finally being divided into two parts!