Chapter 977: The Death of Dark Demon and the Angel (4k)
Countless water elemental serpents piled up like massive waves, causing chills to run down one’s spine.
[Demon King · Eldridge] instinctively wanted to take a half-step back, but suddenly found that his feet were tightly entangled by hundreds of water elemental serpents, immobilizing him.
The [Water Angel], meanwhile, opened its mouth towards the sky, with more and more water elements rapidly converging into it, compressing into a terrifyingly fluctuating water ball.
The [Demon King · Eldridge]’s heart turned cold. Although its silver steel body was still intact, the sixty-second duration had passed, and its defense dropped from 23,000 points back to 15,800 points.
While 15,800 points of defense remained formidable, it no longer felt invincible. The strength of the water elemental spear shot just now by the [Water Angel] could easily break through it.
Moreover, what it had condensed now was even more terrifying than that water elemental spear.
“Shadow Tiger Claw!”
Following Dark’s command, [Demon King · Eldridge] wrapped shadow power around its claws, transforming the cat claws into [Shadow Claws]. The blade-like claws sliced the numerous slender [water elemental serpents] into segments in one stroke.
Though more serpents continued to surge toward it, once freed from the entanglement, [Demon King · Eldridge] instinctively wanted to escape.
However, it couldn’t escape at all!
Because the “command shackles” restrained its movements.
All its actions must be based on protecting Dark. And now, the [Water Angel]’s technique was unpredictable; if unleashed, it might cause devastating destruction to the surroundings.
Dark was behind [Demon King · Eldridge]. If it retreated, Dark would face certain doom.
—It wanted to do so, but the command shackles prevented it.
Swinging the [Shadow Claws], it chopped countless serpents into pieces as they surged like waves.
The water ball in the [Water Angel]’s mouth had formed.
Though only as large as the [Water Angel]’s head, the energy fluctuations within it were extremely terrifying.
“Ahh—”
The [Water Angel] let out a scream as if venting fury.
At the moment the scream sounded, the water ball shot toward [Demon King · Eldridge].
The distance between them wasn’t long, and the water ball seemed to appear instantly in front of [Demon King · Eldridge].
Its expression was grim and terrifying.
But at that moment, Dark Demon’s command echoed again. “Devour!”
Just two words, yet they had to be obeyed.
[Demon King · Eldridge] suddenly opened its huge mouth, swallowing the water ball into its belly!
—It was hoping Dark hadn’t anticipated this move, making him feel threatened amidst the explosion’s aftermath.
But there was no “if.”
After swallowing the water ball, it directly sent it into its [dimensional stomach].
In the next instant, the water ball exploded inside its [dimensional stomach]. The dimensional stomach filtered some of the explosion’s power.
But the water ball’s explosion still broke through the dimensional stomach, striking [Demon King · Eldridge] from the inside.
“Boom!”
A muffled sound came from inside [Demon King · Eldridge]. Immediately after, it collapsed without warning.
The third cat tail on its buttocks vanished instantly.
With the activation of the “three lives,” [Demon King · Eldridge] recovered to full health at the cost of one tail.
But when it raised its hand abruptly, it discovered that the shadow power on its claws had disappeared.
That ultimate skill was originally stored in the third cat tail, and now that tail was gone, so was the skill.
However, during the repeated use of [Shadow Tiger Claw], [Demon King · Eldridge] memorized the method of energy flow.
By merely driving the darkness within its body to gather at its claws, it grasped part of the secrets of [Shadow Tiger Claw].
Driven by the Demon King version of [Shadow Tiger Claw], [Demon King · Eldridge] lunged at the [Water Angel] under Dark’s command as soon as it was revived.
This time, the [Water Angel] did not shoot a water elemental spear to push it back. Instead, water tentacles emerged from beneath its body, rising up in the air, sharp and lethal as spears.
“Pfft!”
The tip of the tentacle pierced through [Demon King · Eldridge]’s defenses, pinning it mid-air.
“Eldridge, Sin Fire!”
Facing such a terrifying opponent, [Demon King · Eldridge] had no more room for concealment.
In the next instant, flames ignited around its body one after another.
These were flames ignited by the [Sin Seed].
Behind each [Sin Fire], the ghostly souls of the dead appeared, twisted with pain, despair, and fear… their faces deformed, emitting dark, sinister aura.
When [Demon King · Eldridge] willed it, several [Sin Fires] flew out. Some were swatted away by the remaining tentacles, while others instantly entered the [Water Angel]’s body!
The power of [Sin Fire] depended on the suffering and fear of the dead. Targets attacked by [Sin Fire] burned away in those agonies.
Despite water’s suppression of fire, the spiritual damage inflicted by [Sin Fire] entered the [Water Angel]’s brain unmitigated.
The [Water Angel] suddenly extended its slender arms, clamping its temples tightly, staggering as it let out a pained cry.
The angel halo floating above its head emitted purifying light as it slowly rotated.
But without the [Angel]’s active control, the natural purifying light was far from enough to cleanse the [Sin Fire].
The [Water Angel]’s body further crumbled amid its agonized cries, and the water snakes and tentacles controlled by it returned to the pool of water.
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