Chapter 421 - Intense Battle

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Brutus had decided to go instead, he felt he was the most qualified, his current form was amazingly strong, although it consumed his lifespan and his energy constantly, these flames covering his body were his divine soul itself, and he coated himself with them to protect himself against Rot's breath of decay… He had the chance to kill her now that she was close and constantly attacking with breaths of death and decay, and he was the most qualified for it.

"But Brutus!" Muttered Lucia.

"Are you sure?" Asked Ernesticia.

"Assist me from the sides, you can use normal spells, right?" Asked Brutus.

"I am being blocked from moving but normal spells… Should work, although slowly, I'll do what I can, kill that thing by breaking her soul, destroying her body won't work, she'll regenerate eventually." Said Ernesticia.

"Got it." Brutus said, grabbing his giant axe and coating it in the flames of his divine aura, jumping out of the spatial bubble without letting any of the black smoke of death and decay enter inside.

FLAAASH!

"And here he goes… This guy is way too reckless sometimes, but I can't say that's not atractive in a strong man." Said Lucia.

"You degenerate, stop thinking about stuff like this in such a situation." Sighed Ernesticia. "It seems to be true what the rumors say about elves being degenerate and perverts."

"W-What…?! From where you heard those rumors?!" Asked Lucia angrily.

"Shut up, Brutus is rushing in!" Said Ernesticia, stopping the stupid Lucia from blabbering about useless things.

Brutus quickly jumped into the battle right away, covering himself on his own soul that resembled a coat of flames, he flew across the death and decay breath of Rot, but only found darkness whenever he tried to look into, holding into his axe tightly, he felt that this death and decay breath was way stronger than anything he had ever experienced with a dragon before or any being that could wield this death element before… It came with a strange new energy that made it somewhat even stronger than others.

For a moment, Brutus felt lost, where was the Death Dragon? Why couldn't he find it? He began flying around as he suddenly realized a presence lurked behind him, two enormous claws fell down over him as they slashed his torso!

SLASH! SLAAASH!

"Unngh…!" Brutus groaned in agony, part of the veil covering his body was broken and the wounds were quickly infected by the toxic smoke of death and decay, quickly beginning to rot!

"F-Fuck!!!" Roared Brutus, although he internally felt joyous as well, he found the death dragon in time, despite having been tricked into entering the death fog, now he could just slice it into pieces with his axe!

"RAAAAH!" Brutus roared, his enormous axe slashed through his opponent in front of him! The power of his moves and his speed were incredible, a shockwave that could slice a mountain was released from the swinging of his axe from afar, the Death Dragon was incapable of evading in time!

SLAAASHHH!!!

"GRAAHH…!"

Rot felt the enormous axe slash slicing her in half, but she contained the pain of her soul also being sliced, as she suddenly controlled the lower half of her body, moving the upper half above Brutus! Brutus was surprised, she was really a zombie-like being, she could even control the divide parts of her body and even the pieces of her soul he sliced from her!

Brutus prepared for another deadly slash attack, as his axe was about to swing and slice Rot's upper half into many little pieces, her second half reached Brutus, kicking him from below with full force!

CLAAAASHH!

"Ungh..! T-This damn fog is making me dizzy, and the wounds are rotting too much!" Thought Brutus, he felt like the poisonous fog was actually affecting even him! Rot ended being surprisingly strong, comparable to even Belphegor in some areas if she played with her element! However, Rot didn't stopped there, as Brutus was trying to sort out his mind, her two halves united together by unleashing tentacles of miasma that entangled with one another and forcefully stuck her two halves and two sliced souls, fusing everything back and then rushing forward towards Brutus, her wings flapped strongly, unleashing slicing attacks of their own that reached him in an instant, clashing against him!

CLAAAASSSHH!

Brutus gritted his teeth as he unleashed a shockwave of war divinity against Rot, but she was mightier for a few seconds, coating herself with her cosmic energy! She knew she wasn't even a rival against this bastard due to his explosive power, but attacks that surprised him seemed to be his weakness, so she abused him and tried to weaken him as much as possible! The power of cosmic energy coated her body and materialized into a sudden armor of cosmic energy and death and decay energies, this armor could only be materialized for a few seconds for someone like Rot, although someone like Chaos could maintain it for several minutes, the rest, even with cosmic cores, could only reach this much!

"Y-You damn lizard!!!" Roared Brutus, struggling and trying to escape Rot's attack, as he swung his axe, but suddenly, Rot grabbed his arm and bit it incredibly strongly, the arm he used to swing his axe!

"GUUAAAGGH…!" Brutus roared in agony, as he gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with fury as he felt his strong muscles slowly being tore apart by the deadly bite of Rot! His free hand and his legs began to punch and kick her strongly, breaking apart her armor in just two hits, and tearing her zombie-like body apart! However, her jaws were not letting go of his arm! Rot was struggling to keep herself up, but even if a little, she wanted to help!

"C-Come on…! Somebody come already!" She cried, as a sudden figure suddenly approached Brutus!

"E-Ernesticia, catch her and kill her, quickly!" Said Brutus, growing weaker every time his wounds were being infected by Rot's breath of death and decay.

However, the one that showed up wasn't Ernesticia, it was a demon…!

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