Chapter 64: The Comeback

"Shut up... Shut up, shut up!" Hera's sanity slowly began to deteriorate. "This, this is my will. The will of god! Demon or not, I'll use it to achieve my goal!"

"Ironic and hypocritic. What more could you want?"

"Hngr... Soul Homage!" His holy sword slightly turned darker by the second.

"That skill... That's Val's!?"

"Soul Arrows!" His arrows bounced in the mirror just like his laser buckshots.

Hera's skills have a huge skill set. He's got Val's, his new skills and the skills he got from that new armor. Too dangerous.

"This is insane!" I began moving in random directions. Despite me having the speed of lightning, I don't have the reaction speed to use this speed to the fullest.

"Soul Stream! Soul Arrows! Despair even more!" A barrage of skills bounces through his mirrors in a random pattern. "More... MORE! Mirror Multiplication!"

"Damn. Crescendo Barrage!" I began deflecting the attacks coming from different directions. Run using the speed of lightning, attack with the crescendo barrage.

"Judgement! Binding Light!" I was pinned down and I can't escape. His soul stream reached me and the barrage of his soul arrows reached me too.

"Damn it." I felt my back being pierced by each blow one by one. It actually managed to get through my armor.

"Feel the pain. Soul Enrapture!"

The wounds on my back opened up even more and wounded itself even more.

If my pain tolerance stopped working, I'll be dead by now. I'm seriously scared on what's going to happen after everything here is done. "Get... OUT! Lightning Totem!" Sending more electric currents in my body, I broke free of of the binding spell. "Heal, Great Heal!" My Karmic Pain is barely working. My body is slowly being destroyed.

"Ray of Light! Soul Stream!" He activated the light skill on his left and the soul stream on the right. "Now, MERGE!" He combined both of the powers of the beam and merged it into one.

I can't escape nor block... The size of it covers the whole arena. "Think... What to do?!"

"Die, demon!"

"LAST STAND!" I've become immune for 30 seconds. I could feel my whole body work perfectly in sync. I've never felt better before.

The blast lasted for three seconds. "That's... Everything... AGH!" Hera's body became even more darker and corrupted. The light he has is slowly fading.

"Not yet!" I showed myself to him unscratched.

"Bastard..."

"25 seconds... That's all it'll take to kill you. I'll beat your strongest with my strongest!"

"J..." Hera was too exhausted using two huge spells.

"BLOOD FRENZY!"

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[Scanning blood particles in the vicinity...]

[Scanned.]

[+200% strength]

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I ran up to him in an instant. I changed my weapon to a gauntlet and knocked him up into the air.

22...

I fly to his position and changed my gauntlet to a double blade.

21...20...19...

I unleashed multiple attacks of my twinblades. The other one imbued with lightning and the other one imbued with fire.

Middle, side, X-Form, thrust, shoulder, and an upward slice to keep him in the air followed by a quick change into daggers.

"ARGHHHHH!!!" Hera's body slowly filled with holes.

18...17...

"Webbing!" I immediately roped him up with the webs and attacked with both of my daggers imbued with lightning and fire.

"Judgeme-!" Hera was cut off in his casting.

Using lightning, I paralyzed him completely. I spawned in lightning and fire totems and unleashed its power to keep him floating into the air.

16...15...14...

I grabbed his neck and it sent several shock blasts of my lightning to his body.

"NOOO!"

I used the stored energy when I was being hit by him and unleashed everything. "Blood Shards!"

It pierced through his armor.

13...12...11...10...

I then changed into gauntlets twice the size as before. Using gravity and my own strength as a weapon, I slammed it down on Hera's body down to the ground.

While I was still in the air, "Crescendo Barrage!"

One, two, three, four, five! Five blasts of crescendo hit his bare body.

9...8...7...6...5...4...

"For the finale... Goodbye... Hera..." I retracted both of my blood weapons and brought out my Bloodlust. "Blood Manipulation!" I gathered all the blood around all of us into a single ball sitting atop on the top of my blade.

"Curse you demon... CURSE YOU!"

Using flame as the medium, I imbued this ball of blood with flames. "TAKE THIS HERA!" My own strength, combined with every strength boost I've got here, I launched the ball of blood at full speed.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!" When Hera's body entered contact with the ball of blood, it exploded so powerful it made tremors in my own arena and several shockwaves of winds flying everywhere.

[Hera is dead.]

[Battle to the Death Won by Zieglind Reysh]

[Domain of the Bloodfallen has been leveled to maximum. You can now choose the arena and the location yourself. If not, the arena will automatically change every 30 minutes.]

[+40 levels]

[You've achieved level 100]

[Congratulations on leveling up this far.]

[There are 12 rewards waiting. Do you want to claim them now?]

[Original skill created, Revenge of the Lord, this skill can only be used if 80% of the used blood was from the user itself. Creates a large ball of blood. Once it makes contact with a solid object or an ethereal object, it'll damage even if the target is ethereal. Its effects will differ depending on the element imbued.

Normal: A fast ball of blood moving at high speeds. Can easily penetrate armors and objects.

Fire: Creates a ball of blood moving at extreme speeds. When it makes contact, it explodes and sends out fire in random directions. These can damage and add a debuff on the enemies that'll make them twice as vulnerable to flames.

These skills can changed if more element was imbued with the skill.]

[No mana left. Pain Tolerance will be disabled.]

"That's... Over..."

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I dropped myself to the ground.

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"This will hurt... *sigh*" The pain I accumulated will return.

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"AGHHHHHHHHHHH!"