Chapter 378 Zacular II

Ralphie flipped in the air and landed on his two feet, crouching slightly before filling his sword with magic power and jumping up into the sky.

Count Falos also took a similar set of actions with demonic energy, flapping his winds and beelining straight towards the incoming grandmaster-level swordsman.

**BOOOOMM!!!

The two began their clash, while Zacular summoned more undead monsters across the entire city, putting the city in a state of chaos as soldiers and adventurers were forced to clash with more undead forces than they had planned.

In just a few minutes, the multiple grandmaster-level battles had turned a third of the city to rubble, with more explosions coming from afar as the Brigade Captain and Tisha clashed against their Death Knight assassins.

Zacular spread out his wings and floated into the air, sending out waves of death aura to try and sense the location with the highest amount of holy magic or divinity on the battlefield.

He had a third assassination target, and that was a paladin who served under Amelie's cousin, Heinr. In the process, he ended up noticing Amelie too as the woman's divinity levels were off the charts, even more than the paladin who he was looking for.

Looking around her, he noticed that she and Evan were making short work of what was left of the giant flesh golem that was responsible for putting the two level 300s out of commission at the beginning of the battle.

"Hmm? That's Eris Evan.

He's here too, huh?

And there's only one spirit with him today."

Turning his gaze in another direction, she spotted Pride and Greed who were clashing with multiple high-level undead knights, and were actually having the upper hand in their battles.

"Those two, they are the Deadly Sin Demons that Seith and Kethryllia were supposed to be in charge of securing.

Come to think of it, that idiot Kethryllia is still on the Beta continent trying to get the ones sealed there."

Immediately after he spoke, he saw the high demon of pride turn in his direction and gaze at him coldly.

"Hmph.

If it was a thousand years ago in our home world, I may have been scared shitless. But now, I'm not the low-rank demon I was then, and they are not the peak ranks they were then."

Zacular waved his hand and sent a few more Dullahans towards Pride and Greed before turning his gaze towards another direction where a senior mage and a group of holy knights were just killed by multiple near grandmaster level undead knights, led by one of Vazgan's Dullahans.

"That's three grandmasters down.

I think I've played too much of an observant role, time to start acting in earnest.

First target; the Deadly Sin Demons."

He took action immediately after speaking, moving so fast that it seemed like he had disappeared and dashing straight towards Pride who just turned a ghoul to ashes.

The high demon's pupils darted to the side as she activated her unique skill in response to the incoming danger.

Incarnation of Pride.

Avatar of Pride: Half Body Activation.

***KAABOOOMMMM!!!!

A loud explosion rang out, sending out shockwaves that spread out over close to a kilometre, knocking all combatants, both the living and the undead, off their feet and onto the ground.

"Gah."

In the midst of the clouds of dust and dirt, Zacular stabbed his sword into the ground to hold himself in place, before wiping off the blood from the side of his lips.

Looking up, he could see a shadow of a gigantic humanoid figure in the clouds of dust, clenching its fist tightly and pulling back its arm before punching downward towards where he was.

"Ah, shit."

The arm was too fast for Zacular to fly out of the area so he had no choice but to meet it head-on, imbuing his own fist with demonic energy and punching upward towards the direction of the incoming arm.

***BAAAAMMM!!!!!

The two fists collided, cratering the ground underneath as Zacular successfully stopped the Avatar of Prides' fist with his own, however, he wasn't fighting only one deadly sin demon.

A blood-red gigantic great sword construct of energy swiped in from the left side and sliced at Zacular, with him reflexively dropping his sword and coating his arm in demonic energy, before stretching out his hand to block the incoming sword.

Zacular's body was knocked into the air by the force of the great sword swing, with his demonic energy defences completely broken and a light cut on his left arm.

The man flipped in the mid-air and landed on the floor, before manipulating his magic power and creating a wall of darkness over his head to absorb the gigantic spear of light filled with holy magic that Amelie dropped down on him.

Immediately after he completely blocked Amelie's magic, a golden-coloured fist suddenly appeared in front of him and slammed into his face, knocking him back by a few dozen metres.

"What the…? Why did I take more damage than I should have?"

"Because I'm the one who punched you."

A voice rang out, delivering the answer to Zacular's question as he looked up to see a young teenage boy with a grey bloodstained hoodie, cracking his fingers while taking slow steps forward.

"Demon Zacular, an 'Invader' from another world and an 'Enemy of Aidos'.

I've always wanted to give you a good punch in the face ever since I first saw you in that cutscene."

Evan spoke words that Zacular was sure not to understand fully as he closed the Boosts tab that showed his 25% damage bonus against 'Invaders' and 'Enemies of Aidos'.

'It's a good thing it's not 25% of my base damage values, but 25% of my damage values after my various stat boosts and enhancements have been applied.'

"It seems I underestimated you lot.

Here I was thinking I could easily overpower you all with my higher level, but to think you were all a bunch of anomalies that could hold their own against beings with higher existence levels.

Your party name really does suit you."

Zacular spoke with a sigh as he dusted his clothes and tossed his broken glasses to the ground, with the arm of an undead creature emerging from the patch of darkness on the floor and grabbing the pair of shades before sinking back into the ground.

"Levels aren't absolute, you know?"

In response to Evan's words, Zacular nodded before looking at his arms and confirming that the wounds from Pride and Greed had healed, however, when he touched his face, he noticed that the severe burns from Evan's lightning-filled punch was still there.

'Even with my 'A' rank health stat, the wound hasn't shown even the smallest signs of healing.'

The demon looked up at Evan and was about to speak, only to notice the floating black-haired spirit beside Evan.

"Hmm? Only one spirit today, huh?

I guess you can't use that large-scale summoning so easily. Is it still on cooldown or something?"

"How did you…?!"

Evan visibly reacted to Zacular's words while taking a step back, ignoring the look of confusion that Pride and Eliza gave him as the two were very familiar that Evan had no sort of summoning type ability.

However, they kept silent as they didn't want to spoil whatever Evan was planning, with Pride instantly realising the young hero was trying to use Zacular's probing question against him.

'His eyes also don't have that crest. That means he deactivated his skill completely.

He doesn't want the demon to find out that he's a hero.'

"Why do you know about my summoning skill's cooldown?!"

"Why indeed."

While Zacular was speaking, Evan had sent messages to Pride and Kuro, telling the former to make sure Amy does not reveal herself while informing the latter to remain in his shadow.

As for the mid-rank demon, the man had noticed that Evan wasn't using the power enhancement skill he was using earlier (limit break), making an assumption that the young hero was unable to use it anymore.

'It must have been the same skill he used two days ago.'

Of course, Zacular was wrong as Evan was using Blessing of Destruction during the simultaneous attack, but he wasn't close enough to be able to tell the difference between the two skills as they both had the effect of tripling his overall power, so they looked to be the same at first glance.

If he was close to Evan at that time, then he may have sensed the same threatening feeling that other grandmasters got from Blessing of destruction and realise that it was totally different from limit break, as well as the fact that it was able to damage souls, however, since he was only watching from far away, he was unable to tell this difference

He looked at the group that surrounded him, consisting of Evan, Pride, Greed, Eliza, Amelie, Kayla and a few other high-level B rankers, taking a deep breath as he flared his aura in preparation for battle.