Chapter 63: One More Round

A concentrated energy beam of light struck my head. It burnt a heavy part of my headgear and exposed my head. I wiggled around and escaped his binding spell.

I flew back into the air and used Crescendo over and over. But each and every one of them gets intercepted by his bouncing laser buckshots.

[Unique skill, Crescendo Barrage, unleash 5 'Crescendo' in an instant. Direction can change mid attack.]

"Holy Blade!" A massive sword formed at his hand. Almost double his size yet he's able to wield it with no weight restrictions. "Purifier!" The blade of his glowed yellow and emitted a strong source of power.

"Up and close huh? Let's go! Blood Weapon Change, Sword and Shield!" I ran up to him and swung my sword in different directions. Overhead, sideways, but he blocked it instantly with quick casts of light buckshot and it sent my hand writhing and trembling.

While my hand was recovering from the blow, he thrusted his holy blade to my chest but it made just a tiny hole that didn't pierce.

I bashed my shield at him and it disrupted his stance, I then counter attacked with my sword in slightly slanted slice.

He managed to step back a few inches by using the recoil of his laser buckshot by firing it to the ground so my attack barely nicked his armor.

"Ray of Light!" A small concentrated beam with no additional casting time was fired but I easily blocked it with the shield since it didn't gather enough mana. I redirected its direction to my left by angling my shield to the left.

I rushed in while he was still firing his beam and as the same as ever, I bashed his body so it disrupted his form and cancelled his casting for the ray of light and then turned my sword into a huge gauntlet and knocked him into the air.

"Grit your teeth." I changed my gauntlet to a dagger and imbued it with lightning from my new form. He was suspended in the air and I attacked him and it paralyzed him completely in the air.

"Argh!" Hera grunted in pain.

I grabbed his neck and stabbed him in the chest with the dagger. Then I slammed him down back at the ground with a quick change to my gauntlet.

He coughed up a lot of blood but the paralyze effect isn't over yet.

I retracted both of my weapons to change into Bloodlust. "Crescendo... Barrage!"

Five quick simultaneous casts of Crescendo formed and launched itslef onto Hera's body in the ground.

*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* All of them successfully initiated contact with Hera and left a hole in his armor. His bare chest was showing from it.

I then was blown away from an attack from nowhere. It left a burn mark from my armor. "Laser Buckshot? Your clones huh?"

"This... This is not the end! Judgement!" Hera casted while he was laying on the ground. Hera's clones quickly casted a bunch of spells and it was binding, gravity, attack skills and heals for Hera. "Heavenly Body!"

Hera's form changed again.

"What's this? A freaking JRPG?"

"Stop your babbling. You've committed enough treasons to earn your death this early."

"Damn it... My body..." It can't hold on anymore. I know it myself. Electrocuting myself, the armor devouring me, the damage I sustained and every pain imaginable. I've got to push myself more. "MORE!"

"That's it demon... Begone!" Hera's armor glowed brightly. It was so blinding.

His armor regenerated but nothing from his outside appearance changed at all. But I could feel he's even stronger than ever. "It flows in my veins... The powers of a god!"

"You're just self proclaimed."

"Hng... Shut up! Judgement!"

"AGH!" Twice as heavy as before, his skill was a heavier gravity than before.

"Ray of Light... Buckshot!"

"You've got a thing for shotguns or something?"

"Funny. Feel my wrath!"

"Sh-" His beam bounced from the mirrors he set up earlier. Its 10 times more powerful than his laser buckshot. I couldn't dodge it since I'm stuck in his gravity spell. I took on the blast full on and it left nasty large holes on my armor.

My electric covered body inside was showing.

The judgement spell ran out of time and I began running his direction. With just a second, I was infront of his face.

"Holy Shockwaves!" A yellow light covered his body then it instantly turned massive and knocked me away.

"Damn it." I stood up and began running in different directions. Unleashing Crescendo in different directions.

He took it all and his armor was slowly being damaged by running around in circles using the speed of lightning and spamming Crescendo using my own blood as the source.

"ENOUGH! BINDING LIGHT!"

The rope-like lights emerged from the ground and wrapped my body. I broke free by spawning in lightning totem and electrocuting myself even more storing more energy in my body.

"I'll put an end to this farce." Hera began casting a cursed arts. "Zi Fa Ha Ba Lu Mo No Ba Ha Hu Te Ry Ha Ge Ma Na Hu Pa Zi Ka Pa Nu Du Ga La Ra Ha Me Ga Ul Le Ma Nu Pa. Corrupted Power! AGH!" A sudden pulse of shockwave was felt from Hera's direction. "There it is... I've been waiting for this..." Several seismic shock waves was felt pulsing from him.

His face changed.

"Haha... How ironic."

"..." He stood there silent while he looked at himself in the mirror.

"Despite being holy and everything... You're dependent on it am I right?"

"This... This power is necessary... For... Your sentence..."

"Don't kid yourself. Look at your face." Hera grew black horns.

"You enjoy that form." He was wearing a nasty smile.

"You've turn one Hera." His right, white, magnificent wings turned into dark red.

"You're the same as me." His eyes turned black and red and several veiny things appeared on his face.

"We're both demons."