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Chapter 146: Catching Aim
Chapter 146: Catching Aim
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TRUUM!
Aim was thrown across several rooms, clashing against one after another, devastating everything as his lightning aura went crazy. Sparks of electricity quickly started burning, setting ablaze a large area.
BAAAM!
“Urgh…!”
His body finally landed in a tenth room, vomiting blood. His self-regeneration keeps his body healthy thanks to the large quantity of Demonic Energy in the environment.
However, that punch just now... It held a large quantity of very FAMILIAR Demonic Power, Aim glanced in utter disbelief at what had replaced Baihe’s arm.
“A-Astaroth?!” He muttered, incapable of believing his eyes. “Why…?! You became a giant metallic arm?! What the fuck are you doing?! Have you betrayed us, bastard?!”
Astaroth emerged like a small snake made of purple energy coiling around Baihe’s new temporary arm, panicking as he heard Aim’s screams.
“W-Wait a second, I’m the one being forced here! She captured me and sealed me into this thing! A-And somehow she can just do whatever she wants with me! It’s weird! I swear! I’ve never seen this happen! In fact, this feels utterly ridiculous and impossible and-”
“STOP GIVING EXCUSES!” Aim roared mightily, his aura continuously growing larger, sparks of electricity coming from it. “You damn bastard… YOU TRAITOROUS SNAKE!”
FLASH!
He quickly rushed towards Baihe and Anna at the same time, but Anna wasn’t having any of that. She quickly ran directly towards him, boldly confronting him, Gram overflowing with both Demonic and Celestial Auras.
“Hey fucker, you’re not fighting Baihe alone now.” Anna’s eyes glowed with utter demonic rage and also celestial majesty, swinging her sword dozens of times in a split second.
“{Thousand Blades}: {Star Fall}!”
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Countless sword slashes descended upon Aim, each one resembling an explosive, descending star imbued with both her primary Energies, Demonic and Celestial, and a bit of Cosmic Energy!
“Uurgh…?!”
Aim was quickly taken aback by her incredible strength. His entire body was covered with dozens of deep cuts, each wound exploding and dealing even more damage; he was bleeding all over!
“F-Fuck! What the fuck is she?!” He thought, panicking as he quickly evaded another attack coming from her!
SLAAASH!
“Hah! She’s not that fast, though- Huh?!”
However, to his surprise, Anna’s attacks would never be simply one slash. After she evolved her Twin Cutter into the Thousand Blades Skill with her Skill Evolution Stone, any slash she unleashed would suddenly become seven.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Aim’s entire face was covered with countless cuts, all while his front limbs were completely amputated. The rest of his body was a mess!
“FUCK OFF!”
With a mighty roar, he unleashed an enormous shockwave of lightning, attempting to throw Anna as far as he could. However, Anna barely ended up being pushed a few steps back as she defended herself with several barriers of her own powerful aura, combining the many energies she had been mastering.
“S-She can use Celestial and Demonic Energy together?! What is this b*tch all about?! A damn Nephilim is here?!” Aim had not been told at all that he would be fighting a child between a demon and an angel!
Even among Demons, the existence of Nephilim was greatly feared. They were strange and very rare entities, beings born between the love of a Demon and Celestials, usually natural enemies, whose Scenarios always forced them to fight to the death for the extraction of new Constellations to replace the old ones that had fallen.
However, when one of them appeared, chaos would begin to consume the entire battlefield. Usually, they would fight for themselves, obeying no faction and being ruthless monsters that could absorb both Demons and Celestial's powers.
Utterly devastating calamities!
“What’s wrong? You’re getting afraid, little kitty.” Anna teased him.
“I’m not-”
Before Aim could continue his words, Sara and Baihe appeared behind him! He could barely react in time, evading Sara’s deadly dagger attacks, her body dividing into countless ghost clones attacking him several times at once!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
He evaded most of the attacks with his lightning speed, but Baihe was there too! Not only did she transform her new temporary arm into a giant blade and stab his stomach with it, but she blasted as much ice inside of that wound as she could!
“A-Astaroth, you fucker!”
Aim felt not only Baihe’s ice reaching his insides and freezing him from the inside out, but also Astaroth’s powerful Dark Abyssal Dragon Flames, capable of burning his very soul!
BOOOM!
Half of Aim’s torso ended up being blown up to bits as the reaction between Baihe’s ice and her flames generated an enormous combustion inside of him!
“U-Uurrggh…! N-No…! This can’t be!”
Astaroth was vomiting blood as he glanced at how his vessel was now lacking everything from the middle of his stomach down! His flesh was trying to regenerate as quickly as it could, but the ice and the flames covering it were inhibiting his rapid regeneration.
“Get away from me!”
With a panicked scream, the jaguar Death Apostle unleashed all the lightning power he could—an enormous, zapping shockwave, ten times as strong as the previous one—from his body.
RUMBLE!
“Dammit!”
Baihe was blown away by the power alone, but her arm quickly created several dragon scale-like plates, covering most of her body with armored protection.
“Wait, you can do this too?! Awesome!”
“S-Shut up! It’s not like I have a freaking choice!”
Astaroth was screaming and crying as he was forced to fight a college now that he belonged to Anna.
“Are you girls alright?!” Anna asked, standing in front of Baihe and Sara, her Familiars quickly being summoned to her side. “Shiro, support us with healing and blessings! Snow, go with Baihe and become her ride! Violet, lend me your speed!”
“KYUUH!”Shiro quickly conjured some healing spells over Baihe and her, healing their burns after having taken all that lightning while buffing their stats a little bit.
“WOOF!” Snow ran towards Baihe, quickly offering her his back to ride. The two worked the best together due to their synergizing skills and privileges given by Skadi; it was better if they were together if the opportunity was there.
“Snow! You don’t know how much I’ve missed you, boy!” Baihe happily climbed over his back, patting his huge, fluffy head.
“KRIEEH!”
Meanwhile, Anna quickly climbed over her loyal bug steed, Violet.
“Y-YOU DAMN…!”
Aim, on the other side, was groaning and crying like a poor little bastard. However, he still had some energy to fight back; Anna knew this. Even if she just defeated and made Astaroth her pet, she couldn’t take another Death Apostle carelessly.
“I’LL RIP YOU APART INTO PIECES!”
The giant jaguar stood back up again, his body beginning to overflow with lightning, releasing him from the flames and the frost inhibiting his regeneration as he changed his appearance.
His black and red fur quickly turned golden and black, with several lightning-shaped strikes. His body also grew twice as large, now being over fifteen meters tall.
And above all, his aura had become even more intimidating.
Ding!
[The {Twelfth Apostle of Death, Aim, The King of Anger} has unleashed all of his accumulated lightning within his Demonic Heart!]
[He has undergone a special {Demonic Transformation}, absorbing all the lightning into his body!]
[Movement Speed, Reaction Speed, and Lightning Element Attack Power have increased by +300%!]
[A powerful {Lightning Demon Aura} will exude from his body, dealing constant lightning-attribute damage to any foe!]
FLASH!
With an even faster movement speed than before, Aim rushed towards the girls as fast as he could. Anna could barely see his super-fast movements, Violet moving with all his speed as well, the two evading each other attacks as sparks of purple and golden lightning constantly were released.
“A mere bug is this fast?! BULLSHIT!”
Aim quickly kicked the air out of nowhere, surprising Violet as he descended towards him and unleashed a devastating beam of thunder from his open jaws! However, Anna slashed through the thunder itself, her eyes glowing with bright golden light and another with bright scarlet light!
“{Thousand Blades}: {Thunder-Splitting Blade}!”
By concentrating all the Slash attacks into a single blow, she cut through the thunder itself, her attack hitting Aim in the face!
SLAAASH!
“GRRHH! You don’t think I can do the same?!”
Aim furiously swiped his claws against Anna while, in midair, several blade-shaped lightning strikes descended over her, bathing her in blows. Violet quickly ran away to get some space, but was stopped as Aim kicked him in the back.
BAAAM!
“{Winter’s Wrath}!”
Baihe appeared behind Aim, unleashing a devastating blizzard of furious freezing winds. His entire body was covered with layers of ice, slowing down his movements as he tried to break free from them!
Even if it was just a couple of seconds, it was enough time for Sara to descend over Aim, her two black daggers charged at one hundred percent with her mana!
“{Spectral Rush}!”
Sara unleashed an advanced form of Phantom Rush, as she didn’t create clones of herself but made it, so her own body transformed into several Saras in the same body! It was a rather strange sight, and even Aim was taken aback when he saw her replicating her movements like mirrors one after another.
It felt as if she had tens of heads, dozens of arms, and many daggers all at once! The attacks came endlessly; Aim’s entire pelt was covered in deep-cut wounds, bleeding all over. Aside from the agonizing pain, there were also phantasmal flames, burning both his body and soul, further decreasing his stats too!
“BEGONE!”
Aim spun around and kicked her into the ceiling above with a thunderous strike, releasing shockwaves of electricity everywhere.
BAAAM!
As Sara broke through the ceilings above, Anna appeared behind Aim once more, her Gram overflowing with her energies, but that wasn’t all; she held the sword with one hand while she punched him with the other, wearing a black gauntlet!
“Hah, you really think you can punch someone as powerful as me?!”
Anna’s punch, which carried thousands of Abyssal energies gathered into her gauntlet, granted her an immense boost in power, leaving his entire face covered in Abyssal flames!
Aim’s whole body rolled over the floor. But he gave himself little time to rest, standing back up in a split second and leaping towards Anna, slashing her back, as her crimson armor took the attacks rather well.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
However, Anna simply smiled at that, her aura turning deep red. Aim suddenly felt shocked; something seemed off!
“Thank you.” She smiled.
“{Maddening Scream}”
Suddenly, her crimson armor screamed—a scream very similar to the terrifying Void Ruler that every Constellation feared!
“GRYYYYAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
“URGH?!”
A crimson shockwave of pure crimson power emerged from Anna’s armor, impacting Aim and throwing him away. He suddenly took 25% of the damage he had done to Anna’s entire armor since the beginning of their battle.
And it was a lot.
BAAAM!
Shattering dozens of floors as he fell, Aim felt as if an invisible force was tearing apart his insides; he was constantly vomiting blood, incapable of understanding what that power was!
Not only that, but it also even paralyzed his body, something utterly impossible for a Lightning Element-wielder such as him, yet it just happened.
His wounds never stopped bleeding even as he tried to regenerate them, and all his stats decreased by -50% for ten minutes.
“ARGH…!”
With a scream of bleeding agony, Aim landed ten floors below, almost completely and utterly devastated!
But that wasn’t all; they weren’t done with the bastard.
Anna, Sara, and Baihe quickly rushed down, ice beginning to cover Aim’s body as he tried to free himself from the paralysis, only to be frozen solid now!
“{Lightning Jaguar Spirits}!”
Suddenly, the Jaguar-like Demon showcased another of his talents, summoning Demonic Spirits in the shape of jaguars made of lightning!
“Leave these to me! Seal him!” Sara said as she and Violet started attacking the spirits while letting Anna and Baihe descend toward the demon.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“Now, Baihe! Keep him in there!” Anna roared.
“Oooh!” Baihe cheered with a wicked smile, her new arm quickly transforming into a gigantic net made of metallic threads, wrapping around Aim!
Aim had already freed himself from the frost and was about to escape, but was now wrapped by Astaroth’s flames, and his own body had turned into a metallic net, no less!
“W-What the…?! ASTAROTH! What are you planning?!” Aim screamed desperately, feeling his energies being drained as Anna kept drawing closer.
He started feeling utter horror!
“Astaroth, say hello to your new best friend.”
Anna’s hands pierced Aim’s chest and reached the depths of his soul, sealing it into a sphere as countless chains of light wrapped them around.
“N-No...! NOOO!"
Aim could only scream in agony as his fate was swiftly sealed within Anna’s chains.
“Why don’t you become an actual kitty?! Declawed, if possible!”
Aim’s intimidating form was quickly reduced to a small, black, and white cat with big golden eyes. Despite how adorable he was, this was a demon that had devoured millions of innocent souls and would gladly eat children if given the opportunity.
“What?! What happened to my body? What are you doing?!”
“Go take a nap now, kitty~”
Anna kicked the little cat inside a large Purgatory Portal she created, sealing him inside the spot.
Ding!
[The weakened soul of a Death Apostle has been sealed within the {Purgatory}!]
[The powerful Demonic Soul has lost all its abilities to exert its true powers inside.]
[It has now been marked with the {Prisoner of the Purgatory} Stigma.]
[This Demon Soul now belongs to you to use.]
[Several Constellations that hate humans are showing their ill intent against you.]
[Other Constellations that hate Demons are beginning to find you interesting.]
“I-I can’t believe you just did it again…” Astaroth was left speechless.
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