59 Death 1

The Demon King breathed out as he fell back from attacking the frightening woman before him. He circulated his mana in his entire body to recuperate. However, Chang Xiuying decided to end the battle by killing her foe. She summoned a katana from her item box and injected her Life energy into the weapon. It easily flowed through as a strong aura shot out. Upon seeing this, the king chuckled breathily as he said, "You still hadn't taken this fight seriously, huh… I'm really impressed..."

"Cut the chit chat, demon."

"I am only praising your ability."

"Do you think I could accept that, considering it came from you?"

"No, not at all. Since this might be my last time in this world, let me freely talk."

"I apologize, but that ain't gonna happen," then Chang Xiuying decreased their distance from each other and slashed at the demon's neck. Then it was blocked by using his arms as a shield. However, Chang Xiuying damaged his arms with a deep gash. Blue blood spurted out from the wound and Chang Xiuying was bathed with it. The blue blood dissolved into her skin as a thin barrier of her skin protected almost half of the poison of the king's blood. Alarm signals went off in her body as her energy madly circulated in her body to dispel the poison that invaded her system.

Seeing Chang Xiuying falter, the Demon King smiled widely and his sharp demonic teeth showed their wonders.

Suddenly, the woman before him vomited out black blood as her wings stopped flapping and immediately crashed down on the ground filled with demon corpses. For some reason, the poison slowly entered the pathway to her heart.

Her eyes reddened and her teeth clenched.

"Ugh… argh..."

The Demon King descended to the ground with a loud laugh. He controlled his blood coming from his arms and entered Chang Xiuying's writhing body. He crouched down and looked at her pained face as blood flowed down her mouth.

"I'm surprised you are still alive, woman."

Chang Xiuying groaned. Trembling, she grabbed the demon's hand and squeezed it hard.

"Hoh? You still have that much strength in you?" The king's smile brightened as he applied the same pressure on Chang Xiuying's hand. Their hands joined as blood continued to flow into her body from that contact. Realizing that it will just hasten her death, Chang Xiuying tried her best to break free from the demon's hand.

"No, no, little girl. You can't escape from me," the king cynically smiled.

'Even poison could break that, huh…' she thought as she felt her consciousness escaping her, then she finally blacked out.

When Chang Xiuying collapsed on the ground, the Demon King laughed as he raised his hands and growled for victory. Few demons responded back as the others were busily fighting the three humans that threatened their existence. After all, they already killed hundreds of demonic soldiers and came out of the fight with only a few wounds and an exhausted mana. They wouldn't be able to hold out long enough.

So, the demons joined hands, not minding if their attacks killed their comrades or enemies, and attacked Alaric, Flora and Jude. The three of them faced in three different directions as their backs were against each other's backs.

Jude was biting his lower lip as he screamed, "When are they coming?!" out of frustration.

"Who?!" Alaric responded as he lowered his knees and slashed with the force of his whole body.

"Reinforcements!"

"Glad to know!"

"Master is… Master is..." Flora mumbled as she madly attacked the demons in front of her, not minding her own life. She killed multiple demons with a price of deep wounds on her sides and back.

"Miss Flora! Mind your body!" Alaric screamed as he tried his best to not expose Nathaniel to the enemy.

"But Master is… Master is..."

"She'll be okay!"

"Holy crap…!!!!!" Jude mumbled as he received a strong blow and knocked Alaric and Flora down on the ground. In that moment, they were slowly being flocked with demons as they desperately fought back.

"Miss Flora! Knock it off and help us!" Alaric slashed a demon in front of him then shook Flora out of her stupor as Jude fought to protect them. Parrying their attacks rather than receiving them. However, he couldn't hold on much longer and received an ambush in his blindspot.

"Xiuying will be mad at you!"

Flora's light in her eyes returned and looked around. She inhaled deeply then released her breath. Pressure emanated from her body as she dash towards Jude then easily incapacitated demons.

"Finally..." Alaric said as he heaved and circulated mana in his already exhausted body.

Jude collapsed on the ground, out of breath.

"Haa… when are they coming..."

Just when the enemies decreased, they suddenly increased in numbers, overwhelming them.

So, the other forces were being held down by the power struggle of Chang Xiuying and their king. When they saw an opening, they immediately charged towards the portal.

Then, bam!!!

A loud explosion destroyed the portal as people floating in the air descended to the ground. Their powers were reaching new heights and were capable of destroying a planet on their own. Alaric breathed a sigh of relief but his body still needed to fight against demons. Meanwhile, Jude was screaming in joy.

One of the people above suddenly raised her hand and a huge fireball formed on top of her head until it was around the size of a medium sized meteor. It descended on the ground and immediately incinerated demons even with the aftershock. People with short ranged weapons descended on the ground and easily fought the demons without breaking a sweat. While the long ranged attackers remained on the air as they hurled attacks after attacks.

The person in front of the aerial unit watched the battles on the ground as he scanned the surrounding areas to search for the commander. But he ended up seeing the Demon King at the end of the army with a woman dangling in one of his arms.

He immediately recognized the woman.

Chang Xiuying.

Their main target of elimination.

First, they had to deal with this demon army before they could deal with the Demon King. Second, proceed to the main mission.

On the other hand, in an unsuspecting oceanic Life energy, there was a silver glow that kept on pulsating. Even though the entire ocean was dyed black, around that glow, it was flashing silver. The core pulsated as its surrounding was growing larger and larger by minutes, basking the black ocean with silver. The small orb vibrated as if it was alive and slowly seeped into Chang Xiuying's body bit by bit.

Even though she was poisoned, her heart kept on beating furiously as it expelled those poison out of her body through her skin.

The Demon King who was holding her was equally surprised as he injected more of his blood into Chang Xiuying's veins and arteries. When her resistance was growing stronger against his poisoned blood, the more he was getting frustrated. Instead of the initial plan of making the woman in his arms to be his undead and serve him loyally forever, he decided to kill her this instant. As he retrieved his sharp sword from his subordinate, he immediately slashed Chang Xiuying's neck.

However, it didn't go through. It clashed against a hard layer of skin, some kind of mana, being ejected from her body. His brows furrowed and sent a wave of violent attacks to decapitate even a limb or mostly, her head, but it wasn't effective. This time, he imbued mana into his sword as the blade flashed with aura and descended to the woman's neck. The layer shattered.

He was suddenly elated as he cheered, "Yes! Finally!" but he noticed that he couldn't pierce through her skin.

"What… what in the world?!" He growled out, frustrated.

Just as when he was retreating, the woman's eyes opened. Her pupil was red and around it was silver. There was something captivating from her eyes that made the Demon King weak to his knees.

Chang Xiuying got up and carefully examined her bleeding body. She felt… much stronger than she was before she collapsed. However, she felt sluggish. Even though she held great power, her body couldn't seem to keep up with it. That was where she saw a man approach her behind the Demon King. She couldn't recognize whoever it was, but she knew that man was human.

The man disappeared from where he was and then reappeared beside the Demon King whose head became detached from his body.

Was he an ally…?

But then, she saw the emblem on the man's chest.

She should've escaped that time.