Chapter 344

[Translator - Kie]

[Proofreader - Kawaii]

Chapter 344: The Final Battle (3)

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Erebos pierced through Dorugo's chest and emerged from her back.

Dorugo's eyes widened in shock.

She stared at Damien with eyes full of pain.

Damien didn't avoid her gaze.

Their eyes met.

In that brief moment, numerous emotions welled up in Damien's heart.

But Damien suppressed them all. The thrill of revenge could be savored after Dorugo was truly dead.

"Farewell."

Damien manifested Erebos's power. Erebos began to burn Dorugo's soul.

"...!"

Dorugo's hung wide open, but no scream came out.

The pain was too intense.

She grasped Erebos with her four arms and desperately tried to pull it out.

Damien mocked her efforts and thrust Erebos even deeper.

"Aaaaagh!"

Finally, a scream erupted. But Damien didn't stop.

"Aaagh! Aaaaaaagh!"

At last, Erebos completely annihilated Dorugo's soul.

As her soul vanished, Dorugo's head dropped.

Her four arms went limp.

Her massive body slowly crumbled. Her reverse-jointed legs folded almost touching the ground.

And so, Dorugo was finally dead.

"..."

Damien silently looked at Dorugo's corpse.

He had finally severed their long and bitter connection.

At last, he had obtained the peace he desired.

And yet, why?

He felt no joy. No sense of relief.

Instead, he only felt a pressure constricting his heart. It was truly strange.

"...This is completely different from what I expected."

Perhaps it was because Dorugo's death didn't feel real yet.

Damien tried to pull Erebos out of Dorugo's body.

In that moment, a chill ran down his spine.

Suddenly, it felt as if he'd fallen into a winter lake.

His muscles tensed all at once.

Damien quickly pulled Erebos out and moved as far away from Dorugo's corpse as possible.

Damien glared at Dorugo's body.

"...Kahah."

Just then, laughter came from Dorugo's mouth.

"Hahaha... haha..."

Along with the laughter, Dorugo slowly raised her head. Her eyes overflowed with ecstasy.

"Finally... they're finally gone."

The two heads attached to Dorugo's torso began to crumble into dust.

"Their thought forms... those insufferable things have fallen away!"

As her laughter grew louder, Dorugo's presence began to grow stronger.

"Now I can feel it! Their power! Their authority!"

Her massive body melted away. But it didn't flow to the ground. Instead, it gathered towards her center.

From within the viscous liquid, a naked form emerged.

Damien spat and spread both hands.

Erebos and the divine sword, which he had dropped on the ground flew into his hands.

"Don't tell me you still intend to fight?"

Dorugo asked with an incredulous look.

The technique Dorugo had just shown was nothing.

It was just simple punching and kicking.

If Dorugo wanted, she could turn someone like Damien into dust.

"Don't resist futilely and surrender quietly. I probably don't need to tell you this, but suicide is useless. It's very easy to keep your soul trapped in your body."

"You're... annoyingly noisy."

Damien opened his mouth for the first time. His pronunciation was unclear due to the blood filling his mouth.

"Stop talking nonsense and come at me. This time, I'll really kill you."

"You don't want to show weakness even in this situation? You're irritatingly arrogant."

Dorugo clicked her tongue. Then Damien spoke again.

"I won't say it twice. Come at me."

A fierce light burst from his eyes on a face covered in blood and dust.

Seeing that look, Dorugo couldn't help but hesitate.

Damien's words were neither bluff nor provocation. He truly intended to kill Dorugo.

From Dorugo's perspective, it was an absurd attitude.

However, Dorugo couldn't laugh at Damien.

Because the only person she had ever loved had acted exactly like Damien.

Because he had never fled from any irrational battle. Because he had ultimately achieved victory.

"T-This can’t be."

Dorugo dismissed her sentiments.

"You are not Ruin. You're just an ordinary person who inherited Ruin's talent."

However, there was a reality that didn't change no matter how much she denied it.

It was clear that Damien had no intention of backing down from this battle.

Despite being shown an overwhelming difference, he didn't back down. He was even trying to fight her seriously.

From Dorugo's perspective, it was an attitude that was hard to forgive for its insolence.

"If that's how you want to be... I'll thoroughly break you. Your pride, your dignity, everything."

As Dorugo waved her hand in the air, the Four Great Demon Kings lying on the ground all disappeared. She had used the Authority of Pride to send them to another place.

Next, Dorugo created a large dimensional portal behind her.

It was too large for just one Dorugo to pass through. It was as if she was showing it to Damien.

As the dimensional portal opened, it revealed scenery. The moment he saw it, Damien couldn't help but be shaken.

The world beyond the dimensional portal was Spring Castle.

Spring Castle where his family resided and the busy servants could be seen.

He could also see his father and mother taking a walk in the garden.

"I'm going there now."

Dorugo said with a sneer.

"I'll go and torture your family. In a way that will make what happened in your past life feel like child's play."

"Stop..."

"When everything is over, I'll open the dimensional portal then. So you can watch your family's demise with your own eyes."

"I said... stop...!"

Damien said in a trembling voice. But Damien's words didn't reach Dorugo.

"Until then, you stay here and wait."

"I told you to stop!"

Damien pushed the Soulflower of Tranquility technique to its limit. He rushed to kill Dorugo.

But Damien couldn't get close to Dorugo. Dorugo had stretched the space between them like taffy.

No matter how much he ran, he couldn't reach Dorugo. Damien's eyes turned red.

Meanwhile, Dorugo moved towards the dimensional portal. As soon as Dorugo passed through, the gate closed immediately.

When Dorugo disappeared, the space returned to normal. But by then, the dimensional portal had completely vanished.

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[Translator - Kie]

[Proofreader - Kawaii]