Epic Of Caterpillar

2445  Against Yamata-No-Orochiʼs Divine Spirit

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Yamata No Orochi, the terrific eight-headed snake of Mount Ibuki, a monstrous Divine Dragon of Calamity that was slain by Susanoo long ago by using his divine sword. However, it seemed that the myth had skipped an incredibly important point.

Orochi was not truly slain. He was defeated after he got drunk, yes, but all eight of his heads gained sentience, becoming the Eight Calamities of Japan of the Ancient Era of the Gods. Whatever happened to them was something Frank had no idea of.

But right now, after he drank an elixir composed of his curse and the blood of his cursed apostle, he had gained the privilege and opportunity to greet Japanʼs embodiment of calamity himself.

And now, the bastard didnʼt even want to give him a curse, Orochi had no grace, and was no true god either, he was nothing but a monster that sought calamity and destruction.

Even worse, Frank was a foreigner, someone that came from North America, moving to Japan because his mother had found a Japanese man willing to marry her, his current stepfather.

Frank had no time to fool around, however. He locked-in, glancing at the eight heads with the intent to slay him if necessary.

Orochi had been mostly mocking him so far, and he didnʼt had time to waste.

”Iʼll take your power, so stop bothering me.”

He glared at the snake with eyes full of determination.

”Hah?!”

The giant snake glared back at him with even more anger. But Frank didnʼt hesitate, summoning a black and red spear and a golden lance.

In this Mindscape, he was able to unleash his powers fully because at the end of the day, it was a realm of the mind and nothing else.

”This is a space made out of the mind, right? A Mindscape. Iʼll slay you, then Iʼll take what I want from you.”

The two weapons he summoned held tremendous divine power, making even Orochi feel that Frank might be a genuine threat.

”Y-You damn brat…”

”Fine!”

”Come at me!”

”Iʼll rip you to shreds, foreigner!”

All of his heads agreed that Frank deserved no more of their time, and that they were going to make him suffer! They might not be able to target his body, but his mind and soul were up for the taking.

CLAAASH!

With their enormous fangs rushing down towards him, each head aiming for one of Frankʼs limbs to tear apart and eat, Frank quickly swung his spears upwards, piercing the eyes of two heads and releasing shockwaves of golden and black energies.

BOOOM! BOOOM!

”GRYYYAAGGH!”

Orochi screamed in agony as two of his heads suddenly lost their eyesight. Frank quickly grew a pair of huge, red-scaled wings, copying Rubyʼs wings through this Mindscape that applied anything he could imagine and then visualize as his abilities.

FLASH!

He rushed towards Orochi, evading the incoming heads that attempted to snap him away, while releasing flames from his wings.

”SHAAAHHH!!!”

Orochi got furious his meal was getting away, daring to attack him. He screamed furiously, releasing an endless sea of calamity flames of purple and red color, trying to burn Frank to cinders.

However, Frank didnʼt let him, swinging his golden lance and piercing through the flames, leaving a huge hole through it!

BOOOM!

Frank rapidly flew through the hole, greeting Orochi by piercing another of his heads with his holy lance, this time deep into his forehead, destroying its brain.

CRAAASH!

”GRRYYYAAARRGGH!”

Orochi screamed once more, shaking his entire body in desperation, and using it to slam Frank away with all the strength he had, throwing him away and making him collapse over the black stone ground of this mindscape.

BAAAAM!

”You dare…!”

”You dare do this thrice?!”

”Who…!”

”Just who do you think you are, you damn rat?!”

Orochi talked through all his heads, suddenly jumping into the skies and descending with his massive body of hundreds of meters, aiming to crush Frank with everything he had.

”IʼLL CRUSH YOU LIKE THE ANT YOU ARE, FILTHY FOREIGNER!!!”

Frank glanced upwards, seeing that there was no way to evade such a massive body coming down towards him.

Defending? He couldnʼt imagine a way to survive that either with anything he had gone through.

The only thing he could do was offense.

He held both spears.

The [Demon-Slaying Spear: Gae Bulg].

And the [Divine Holy Lance: Rhongomyniad].

The curse of Gae Bulg coursed through his left hand, infusing him with a wild, beastly power of darkness that consumed it all, half of his physique was slowly turning into a feral dog, just like the hero that once wielded this spear became.

Meanwhile, the holiness of the sacred lance Rhongomyniad infused him with holiness and sanctified radiance, cleaning all impurities and healing him constantly.

These were effects he had never experienced, as he had barely used such powerful Mythical Weapons for a second, throwing them at his foe like a projectile.

But now, he could feel their contrasting powers, and how they merged within him!

The holiness of the holy lance, and the cursed darkness of the demon-slaying spear, they swirled within his chest, rapidly concentrating into something.

It resembled Yin and Yang, combining two opposite forces, Frank aimed to create something akin to true harmony within his own body.

As Orochi reached him and his massive body slammed into his own, crushing him, a massive explosion tremor shook the entire Mindscape, everything started shaking and falling apart.

”Hahahahah!”

”We got him good!”

”He must be dead.”

”A damn annoying ant, but an ant at the end, gahahah!”

Orochi laughed at Frankʼs demise, his body was so massively huge he couldnʼt feel anything anyways, but he was sure that Frankʼs body was flattened into meat paste.

It didnʼt mean his IRL body died, but his mind would take tremendous damage and his soul might suffer great backlash.

If heʼs too weak, his soul might end up shattering, even!

Yet…

Why wasnʼt Orochi not leaving this created mindscape yet?

If Frank was defeated…

Then why was he… still here?

FLAAASH!

”Huh?”

Accompanied by a bright holy golden light, and a deep darkness that consumed it all, Orochi felt a sharp pain piercing through his flesh and blood.

”Aaarrgh! N-No…! Impossible!”

RUMBLE!

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