Back in the crater of New Hope, a world-destroying battle had begun and the Ascendants had the upper hand, the Left Hand of God had descended into the crater, and from its five fingers it was shooting out streams of a corrosive beam that could slice a star in two, tearing apart any chance for the four Ouroboros Serpents to heal, and unlike their normal flesh, this one of stone was a thousand times harder to regrow.
The Ascendants used this advantage to keep the serpents on a back foot. They summoned gigantic weapons, their Natal treasures, all of whom glowed with various distinct colors that signified the type of powers that they had mastered in their lives, and they tore deep into the bones of the serpents cutting large chunks out of it.
In millions of years of battle, they had learned techniques that utilized all their potential destructive abilities to perfection, and the six Ascendants worked seamlessly as they butchered the serpents.
The terrifying lights, heat, shockwaves, and other mystical phenomena shattered and widened the crater that New Hope had become, and the clash of the Ascendants and the serpents could no longer be contained, as the surrounding ocean began to pour towards the battlefield.
Yet a single shockwave or a flash of light would evaporate billions of gallons of seawater, and instead of the battlefield being covered by water, the opposite was happening as the massive hole caused by the ongoing battle was expanding, evaporating the ocean for miles and pushing them farther back, exposing the bedrock at bottom of the ocean and also blasting those apart until what remained was the flesh of the Calamity God that extended underneath the ocean.
The madness of the serpents increased from the damages they were taking, the unexpected explosion from the Null charges had ripped all the flesh from their bodies, including their eyes, leaving them with nothing but skeletons made from rocks.
These Avatar bodies were not equipped with the necessary organs to extend their senses much further, and only the constant fuel from the two serpents below eating the Calamity god gave them enough juice to heal their bones, yet their enemies were not simple, they had the advantage and they did not let go of it, and before long they isolated a single Ouroboros Serpents and maneuvered it in a position where they could collectively attack it at once.
The six Ascendants channeled all their power to their weapon in a single instant that eruption of power pushed the entire ocean back for a hundred miles and darkened the sky for a thousand more, enhanced by the power of the Left Hand of God, and they collectively created a blade of black lightning hundred of miles long, and with it, they sliced into the neck of the serpent.
The scream of that Ouroboros Serpent was cut short as the blade sliced off its head.
Its massive skull, now measuring more than fifty miles in diameter slid off from its neck, but as the head fell, its body contorted in a manner only their serpentine frame was capable of, and its neck snapped forward and caught its falling head, but it hung crookedly. The power from the blade prevents the wound from closing.
The Ascendants would not allow such an advantage to slip from their fingers, they smelled blood and they ruthlessly attacked, they were going to cut these serpents into manageable pieces.
In the throat of the Ouroboros Serpent with a crooked skull, a white flame bloomed, and in its empty eye sockets a red flame was born, but because its head was facing the ground, this change was not noticed.
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