Chapter 423 - Lucia VS Edward

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Ifrit glanced down as the death fog slowly dissipate, his body was covered in a special buff conjured by Rot herself, that made him immune to this fog of death and decay. As the goddess of death and decay, and the one capable of manipulating her own powers, it was rather obvious she would have such an ability, but Brutus had no idea of it and couldn't even figure out why he wasn't being affected by this fog at all.

Ifrit had knocked out Brutus, pulverizing his entire body, damaging and burning his entire body and soul, as well as breaking his face and disfiguring it horribly. He saw how he fell from the skies, landing head-on into the paved floor of the city.

BOOOMMM!

His enormous and heavy body left a giant crater over the floor, and Brutus seemed to be still alive, somehow, but barely hanging on. The amazing strength of Ifrit was something that was surprising and incredible, he had knocked out this powerful Orc with the cooperative efforts of Rot in the back, however, he was still alive, with rotting wounds but still alive, Ifrit had to quickly finish Brutus off before things were to escalate out of proportion!

However, Ifrit felt weakened as well, he had unleashed all of his power, using a technique that could even kill him if used incorrectly. Although he used it right, it still took almost all of his energies, and he felt like fainting at any second now.

There was a price for everything in this world, Ifrit had gone and surpassed even his own limits, but now an exhaustion was taking over him so intensively that he was barely being able to hold on. However, as he infused divine energy into his brain, he forced himself to move, attempting to fly down and kill Brutus by breaking his soul, and perhaps eating it as well, which was an ability that demons had of eating souls to grow stronger.

"I have to take him down quickly…!" He muttered, forcing himself to fly down by coating himself in demonic flames, not soul flames, which were much easier to control and conjure…

However.

"Oh no, you're not going anywhere, you filthy demon."

"Eh?!"

Ifrit looked behind him and saw a figure coated in shadows right in front of him! Her daggers coated in a deadly poison that emanated a powerful, purple-colored aura from within! He was barely able to react in time, evading a first slash attack directed to his throat but without being able to evade the double cross-shaped slashes that reached his chest!

SLASH! SLASH!

"Uuggh…! Damn it!" Ifrit cursed, as he flew back from the woman's attacks, but the Moon Elf was not going to let him move back, she quickly chased him down with amazing speed, coating herself in her stealthy shadows, she even managed to hide part of her presence!

She appeared and disappeared around Ifrit, confusing him severely! She was flashy and incredible speedy, and had no fear in showing off such speed against him, the moment the fog dissipated, she immediately attempted to kill Ifrit! Her daggers were fast and powerful, and carried a deadly poison to boot, Ifrit immediately felt the wounds on his chest began to burn with a terrible pain, and he felt his entire body slowly begin to grow even weaker, and slower, as if he was being paralyzed!

"You could have managed to defeat Brutus with that stupid Death Dragon's help, but you're now ready to be picked up by me!" Said the woman, Lucia! "I will slay you and store your soul inside my divine realm to use as a material, after all, it is not normal to see an authentic demon from hell like this! Your master must have been amazing to summon you, isn't he? Hahaha!" Lucia mocked the fact that Chaos was supposedly dead, and Ifrit ignored her stupid words, as he tried to evade her attacks but that seemed impossible, although he evaded one or two, another hit would always reach him, leaving slashes wounds all over his entire body!

Ifrit was growing alarmed with each passing second, but backup finally reached him as he was already struggling, his entire body stained in blood and deadly purple poison. Lucia was surprised as a ray of multi-colored magic reached her, hitting her back before she could even evade!

BOOOMMM!!!

"UAGGH…! W-What the heck was that?!" She asked in surprise, looking behind her to find an Elf Man floating in the middle of the sky. He was wearing black clothes and looked like some sort of noble, and was holding into a large staff made of black metal and claws spiraling upwards with a big eye-like red jewel on top of it, it was dreadful, and he looked like an evil elf… His aura emanated darkness… cosmic energy, and spiritual energies of many elements as well.

"Y-You… I remember you, you're the elf that got fucked by Ernesticia…" Said Lucia.

"I am quite surprised, where is your space-manipulating friend at? Having a hard time dealing with our friend?" Asked Edward, as he flew towards Lucia head-on, despite being a mage!

"A magician rushing towards an assassin head-on?! You want to get beheaded, dumbass?!" Laughed Lucia, rushing forward to clash against Edward!

"I am not the same as before. (My elven lineage has awakened thanks to the power of cosmic energy, thanks to Lord Chaos after all!)" Said Edward. He had acquired the power of cosmic energy from Chaos, and even got a cosmic energy! Such powers awakened his innate lineage as an elf, and his connection with spirits became stronger, alongside his potential over magic, more than ever before! Using such amazing boost in power, his magic had reached a new Level, and it had already surpassed Level 10, evolving into Divine Spirit Magic!

And with that, the power to bring out Divine Spirits to aid him in battle became a reality! Now that Edward had reached Ifrit after flying as fast as possible, he wasn't going to see another ally being killed in front of him!

"Divine Spirit Summoning!"

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