42 1.42 Payback

"DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU!" said Beelzebub raising himself up in the air.

He didn't look like his calm and composed self from a while ago. There was a dense cloud of Miasma covering him. As he started absorbing more Miasma into himself, his humanoid figure became more monstrous.

I realized I once read somewhere that there are two types of enemies that you need to be wary about. The first types were the ones that were smart and foresighted. And the second types were the ones that were insane and unpredictable. But in this case, we clearly had an advantage since Miss Lilith was back into action.

Miss Lilith and I rose ourselves up in the air as well. The divine bird was flying right behind me and was closely observing the enemy's movement.

I charged straight towards him with a wind-water bomb as soon as we got up. I didn't want to give him an opportunity to power up by absorbing more Miasma.

He tried to dodge the attack by moving towards the right side. But Miss Lillith who was right behind me intercepted him and punched him in his face using 'flaming fist'. The attack she used was an advanced version of the attack that Sistina uses.

Beelzebub crashed on the ground with a loud bang.

I used this opportunity to fire several 'Wind-Fire javelins' towards him to not give him an opportunity to recover from the attack. The divine bird was purifying the surrounding Miasma while still supporting me.

"Master, the miasma here is dense so it will take me some time to purify it," said the bird. The flames in its body had grown stronger and they were purifying the surrounding Miasma.

"You can do it that fast?!" asked Miss Lilith in a surprised tone.

"Yes. It will be hard to destroy an Archdemon with so much Miasma in the surrounding, so we need to purify the miasma first," said the bird in its usual calm tone.

"Well, comparing you to an ordinary spirit is pointless, I guess. Please keep on doing that, I still have some score to settle with him," said Miss Lilith with a grin.

"RAAAAAAAAA! CURSE YOU! CURSE YOU! CURSE YOU!"

Beelzebub raised himself up again. He was still absorbing Miasma from the surrounding, but it felt like he was getting weaker.

Miss Lilith charged towards him and started venting her anger by throwing punches at him. I was angry too, but more than that I was regretting my inability to react faster when he attacked Ronald.

'Miss Lilith said that Beelzebub was too weak for an Archdemon, so how strong are they really?' I thought while looking towards my hands that were red from the blood that I coughed earlier.

I might be able to survive against such a creature with this new power, but everyone else was not ready for this. On top of that, Ronald was injured so I wasn't sure what we should do. If we should continue this path and train to fight demons or just become normal knights and magicians.

"Master, let's finish this up. I have purified the miasma in the air, we can finish him now," said the bird bringing me back to reality.

'Well, there is no point in thinking about it now. We need to deal with things as they come.'

"Okay, what should I do?" I asked looking towards the bird.

"Please create the biggest fireball you can, and I will fuse my flames with it. My flames will purify the Miasma around his body leaving him defenseless and the fireball will finish it," said the bird in its usual calm tone.

I did as it said and created the biggest fireball I could by raising both of my hands. The bird then fused its golden flames with the fireball. It was night, but the light from the fireball was bright enough to make the entire ruined village visible. The fireball was even intensified by my anger after watching the sight below me.

It felt like I was holding a smaller version of sun in my hand. I could feel the intensity of flames and its warmth, but the flames were not too hot for me. Instead, I felt comfortable warmth coming from it.

Miss Lilith saw me preparing for the attack, so she grabbed Beelzebub and threw him towards the ground. Beelzebub was powerless to resist since the miasma in the air had been purified.

I released the fireball towards him saying, "BURN IN HELL!". I knew that there was no heaven or hell but saying that felt right at the moment because of all the anger I felt towards him.

Beelzebub didn't resist. No, it was more like he couldn't resist. He stayed there like a fish that had stopped its resistance after being taken out of the water.

The attack hit him, and it looked like he was being trapped into an orb of flames. It was like the flames had the will of their own and they knew what they needed to do. Beelzebub's body slowly started evaporating into black smoke and disappearing.

Before disappearing completely, Beelzebub said, "You were just lucky this time. Next time you will see how terrifying I truly am. You will pa-"

"Next time, you won't be that lucky. I will be prepared," I replied even though I knew he could no longer hear me.

I could see the sun rising far away but my vision was blurry since I was feeling dizzy. Someone said something like, 'greater power came at a greater price', I guess that was true.

I was feeling exhausted, so I landed on the ground and walked towards a wall that had some part of it still standing. I was feeling too sleepy to even walk, in my half-asleep state I heard a female voice saying, "You did great Nara. I opened my eyes just for you so keep on getting stronger and find me someday."

I wasn't sure whose voice it was, I was too tired to even think about that. I leaned towards the wall and fell asleep.

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