Book 3: Chapter 9 (9/9)

Noe looked around the battlefield and continued thinking to himself, "But I don't know if I can keep it last long enough until I can use [Second Life] spell again to refill it. Kain's Second Soul opened the Hell Gates using his Devil form after activating the [Devil Anatomy] spell. My minions are stalwart enough to halt the demon armies' advancement toward me, and there is no doubt I have enough mana for my minions to totally annihilate the demon armies. Nevertheless, Anwyn Richir is a Devil Overlord, she can of course have the ability to open the Hell Gates like any regular Devil on the Devils' planet. I'm not sure if I have enough mana to maintain the [Reanimate] spells for my minions to repeatedly revive themselves to fight back the second wave of the demon armies. Gisella Renzo is a God Ice Mage, but her mana pool is much smaller compared to mine. If she runs out of mana before defeating Anwyn Richir, then I will have to sacrifice a large chunk of my mana pool to conjure her back due to the seventy-two hours penalty. Without Gisella, I won't be able to win this battle. Gisella, you have to kill the Devil Overlord before my minions finished killing all the demon armies. If not, Anwyn would open the Hell Gates again and that meant to be more problems for me."

Noe only thought so, he didn't actually want Gisella to know that he was worried. The reason Gisella like Noe and decided to stay in the Demiplane was because of his overconfident personality. The moment Noe showed any sign of weakness by expressing the concern that he may lose to Kain, Gisella would no doubt choose to travel to the higher realms immediately instead of waiting for him since she already stepped into God-tier. Noe knew he could still escape from Linkeep Island using all of the powerful creatures trapped inside his LYAUR to save his life, but doing so would initiate the beginning of the end for the Mages Council in Toria Continents. Gisella wouldn't want to have a loser to be her Soul-bound Conjurer Mage. Without Gisella Renzo, Noe and his minions wouldn't be able to fight back Anwyn Richir.

Noe threw away the thought of escaping to save his life. He smiled and made a promise to himself, "I can't lose. It doesn't matter what is going to happen, I can not lose!"

Still smiling, Noe looked into the sky and closed his eyes as he taunted, "Little boy, are you and the Demon Lord going to kill me again? I'm tired of waiting. Come on, kill me repeatedly. Kill me so I can revive myself again and again. The joy of getting killed but can't be killed is so awesome!"

Seeing Kain and Kimaris didn’t want to attack him anymore, Noe knew the mind game of tricking Kain into giving up on killing him was closer to success. Noe laughed out loud again before he paused and asked, “How did the Demon Lord of the Thirteenth Gate get here? I thought he was busy fighting with Yrsut, Ermina, Agnes, Conrad, and Lysander?”

Kain honestly answered, “While you were fallen into Finwe’s [Duplicity] spell, I have conjured Imreia, Furcas, Fyre, Aerlix, and fifteen Wind Walkers to replace Kimaris. I then gave Kimaris the task of assassinating you when the time was right if he was somehow revived after falling into Finwe's [Duplicity] spell. I didn’t expect you to also play the same trick of having one of your minions attempted to assassinate me.”

“So you already know the [Duplicity] spell couldn’t have me kill huh?”

“Honestly, I didn't. Having Kimaris conduct a sneak attack was just a backup plan. Too bad though, that was a failure as well.”

“Ah, you executed the backup plan immediately despite believing that your main plan would work. Not bad... Many idiots gained overconfidence in their battle strategies and lost because they didn’t use the backup plans until their main plans have failed. Kain, what are you going to do now? How many times do I have to tell you that I am truly immortal and you will never be able to kill me, huh?”

Kain shook his head and said, “There is no such thing as truly immortal. You and I both have weaknesses. It will just be a matter of time before I find that weakness. Kimaris, keep him busy while I convene more Ancient Vampires.”

Kimaris flew toward Noe and swung Ursula at him using full force. Noe activated [Inviolable], another ability of Monk Warrior specialization class, and took Kimaris’s attack at full force using his neck without receiving a scratch. Noe laughed and jokingly said, “Good luck breaking through my defense. Kain, I will also conjure more creatures to play with you. You are right, I do have a weakness. My weakness is that I am too strong and hard to find a playmate that can get me excited. As you have known, boredom can kill even the strongest.”

[Inviolable] - Reduce incoming physical damages up to one hundred percent. It uses twice the amount of stamina requirement per activation compared to [Damage Mitigation] ability. Opposing to [Damage Mitigation], [Inviolable] wouldn’t be able to reduce any incoming magical damages. Of course, Noe still couldn't survive an attack from the mighty strength of a Devil Warrior even after activating his [Inviolable] ability.

Kain already has over twenty thousand Ancient Vampires on the battlefield. The more Ancient Vampires Kain convened, the more blood going to be used each second to maintain their presence. After convening five hundred Ancient Vampires more to the battlefield, Kain stopped convening any more Ancient Vampires and commanded them to attack Noe.

Noe squeezed his eyebrows while taking many powerful attacks from Kimaris and five hundred Ancient Vampires without receiving any injury after activating his [Inviolable] ability and asked, “Kain, Lazela the Wind Walker, is she the only level 100 magical creature you have as a conjurable creature?”

Kain had no problem admitting the truth, he nodded his head and said, “Yup.”

“No wonder why you didn't conjure any other creatures and have to rely on those weak vampires. Your Conjuration Magic is still at a baby level compared to mine. Such a shame.”

Unlike creatures conjured by level 100 Conjurer Mage, the Ancient Vampires still maintained their physical strength at Seventh Stage Saint Warrior because they couldn't be scale to Kain's physical strength or magical power. At least they were much more powerful compared to regular vampires that could only have their strength reach First Stage Saint Warrior.

Being called a baby level didn't upset Kain, he simply said, "I know you have many more powerful creatures as your conjurable creatures. How about showing off a little bit so I can learn of your true power?"

Still maintaining his confident smile despite having Kimaris and five hundred Ancient Vampires repeatedly attacking, Noe nodded and said, “As you wish.”