Chapter 343

[Translator - Kie]

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Chapter 343: The Final Battle (2)

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As the sun was setting, the sky turned red, and darkness slowly began to creep over the land.

However, the encroaching darkness was suddenly obliterated.

A burst of light had erased all the shadows in an instant.

The light wasn't coming from the sky, but emanating from Damien.

"..."

Dorugo felt a sense of déjà vu from the overwhelming aura Damien Haksen was radiating.

It reminded her of the distant past, on a continent filled with monsters.

This was exactly how Ruin had appeared out of nowhere back then, exuding an aura that could shake the entire world as he faced his enemies.

"How dare you...!"

Dorugo shouted and gritted her teeth.

"You, who just happened to inherit Ruin's talents!"

Dorugo's eyes blazed with fury, feeling as if something precious had been defiled.

Darkness exploded from her body and spread in all directions like a viscous swamp.

From within the darkness, a terrifying massive creature arose.

It had two legs with reverse joints and four arms.

Unlike its lower body, which was covered in fur, its upper body was smooth.

On its chest and abdomen were two shriveled heads, like mummies.

The face on its neck had melted like candle wax, making its features indistinguishable.

"Grooooah!"

"Urrrrrgh!"

The heads on the torso emitted horrifying sounds. As if annoyed by the noise, Dorugo shouted.

"Shut up!"

At Dorugo's command, the two heads closed their mouths but continued to grumble inaudibly.

Dorugo shifted her gaze back to Damien.

"You're not the only one who's grown!"

While Damien was making his way to Mount Carion, Dorugo focused on absorbing the bodies of the Demon Lords.

"I won't kill you! You're still too useful!"

As her reverse-jointed legs kicked off the ground, the solid earth shattered like thin ice. In an instant, Dorugo soared high into the sky like an eagle.

She raised her four arms high.

Suddenly, the sky turned black.

It wasn't the sudden arrival of night. The sky was filled with Dorugo's demonic energy.

The demonic energy blanketing the sky gathered at a single point. A black sun appeared in the sky.

Dorugo grasped it and plummeted downward. The massive concentration of demonic energy fell towards Damien.

Just before impact, a flash of light appeared. A red slash rising from the ground split the black sun in half.

The black sun lost its core and dispersed. The red slash transformed into flower petals and scattered.

"..."

Dorugo stared at the scene with a bewildered expression.

She had absorbed the demonic energy of three Demon Lords despite the fact that they were corpses.

It was on a completely different level in both quality and quantity.

She had condensed it into a single point to maximize its destructive power.

How could he cut through it so easily? She felt the same insurmountable wall as when she first met Ruin...

"This can’t be real!"

Shouting at no one in particular, Dorugo extended her four arms towards Damien.

Darkness seeped out of the ground where Damien stood. The darkness soon swelled like eyelids.

Dorugo raised her arms upward. The darkness covering the ground rose like a tidal wave.

Dorugo brought her raised arms down. The risen darkness came crashing down and crushed Damien beneath it.

At that moment, the sound of air being sliced was heard.

It was a crisp sound that made one's ears tingle.

Soon after, lines appeared in the darkness covering the prairie.

Countless lines overlaid the darkness, which then shattered into pieces and dissipated.

Time had clearly stopped. The world remained frozen in place.

Yet Damien was moving as if nothing had happened.

"H-How..."

"Well."

With that short word, Damien prepared to charge again.

Dorugo once more manifested the Authority of Sloth. She tried to stop Damien.

In response, Damien slashed the air with the swords in both hands. The authority Dorugo had manifested instantly vanished.

Dorugo's eyes widened in disbelief.

"You cut through a Demon Lord's authority..."

Dorugo couldn't finish her sentence. Damien charged at her again.

Sloth doesn't work. Lust would likely be the same. In that case...

Dorugo manifested the Authority of Pride. She completely distorted the surrounding space.

Due to the distortion of space, Damien appeared in an unexpected location as he charged towards Dorugo.

Having barely bought some time, Dorugo gathered her demonic energy once more.

She twisted the space around Damien.

No matter where Damien ran, he would return to his original position.

He would be unable to escape from his current location.

She had trapped Damien in a prison made of space.

"I didn't want to use this!"

Dorugo's goal wasn't to kill Damien. It was to capture him alive.

But now wasn't the time to be sparing with her methods. At this rate, she might be the one to die first.

"Please, just stay alive!"

Space began to compress around Damien.

The compressed space was so complex that not even light could escape.

Pitch-black darkness pressed in on Damien from all sides.

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The abyss created by the compressed space tried to crush Damien.

But the abyss didn't dare encroach upon Damien's domain.

It was because of the white sword Damien Haksen held in his hand.

The Divine Sword was pushing back the abyss.

Thanks to this, only the area around Damien remained brightly lit.

But it was uncertain how long the divine sword could hold out. So Damien raised the sword in his other hand.

"Erebos."

Erebos let out a cry.

However, Erebos's cry had no effect on the abyss. The twisted space was blocking Erebos's power.

Damien compressed Erebos's power. He wrapped it around the blade.

He would cut through it all.

Strength flowed into Damien's arms. The divine sword and Erebos flashed.

In that moment, the abyss was torn apart and an explosion occurred. The view that had been blocked by darkness became clear again.

In the distance, he could see Dorugo with a shocked expression on her face. Damien immediately kicked off the ground.

"Damn it!"

Dorugo once again used the Authority of Pride to twist space.

But Damien wasn't naive enough to fall for the same trick twice.

"Erebos, cry out."

The power compressed in the blade was released. It engulfed the entire world and swallowed Dorugo in the process as well.

The authorities of Pride and Erebos collided. They canceled each other out and disappeared.

There was no longer any shield to protect Dorugo. Damien focused on Dorugo's chest.

That was Dorugo's core. That's where her soul resided.

Damien put strength into his legs.

Red petals scattered. Damien charged forward almost becoming a red flash.

The tip of Erebos pierced through Dorugo's core.

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[Translator - Kie]

[Proofreader - Kawaii]