Chapter 78: Awakening

Chapter 78: Awakening

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[Neberius, The Eleventh Apostle of Death, King of Cunningness] has manifested himself!]

[Aim, The Twelfth Apostle of Death, King of Anger] has manifested himself!]

[The two Apostles of Death have merged their Manifesting bodies with [Astaroth, The Tenth Apostle of Death, King of Brutality], vastly increasing his stats, power, and regeneration speed!]

[All Wounds on their vessel have been instantly regenerated!]

[Demonic Power of three Apostles of Death at once is overflowing across the entire surrounding area! Foes that are weakened by this aura will receive a penalty of -60% on all stats!]

FLASH!

The very presence of this chimeric, demonic abomination unleashed a deadly aura of pure malice. Not even Jack was completely immune to this power, as the darkness shrouding his body was beginning to slowly weaken.

“Fenrir, this power... Is it really three damn apostles in one?!” Jack muttered, gritting his teeth.

“I can’t believe they’ve done something so reckless! Yet somehow it worked out." Fenrir muttered. “Those three are known as the weakest of the twelve apostles, yet I guess even weaklings like those can become mighty if they merge their strength as one!”

“Dammit all, we’ll have to just push through!” Jack roared as he evaded several attacks coming from the gigantic chimeric beast.

Enormous tiger-like claws constantly tried to cut him down to pieces, while thousands of sharp black feather projectiles flew toward him, trying to pierce his body.

However, Jack’s speed and maneuverability were top-notch; he swiftly evaded the gigantic and sluggish attacks, and as he fired big daggers made out of shadows, he materialized with his new powers.

“{Explosive Shadow Dagger Rain}!”

The daggers reached the gigantic monster, swiftly beginning to glow with darkness and then exploding one after another, covering the beast’s body with huge wounds!

“AARGH!” Aim groaned in agony, half of their combined body suddenly beginning to fall apart.

“Useless cat! Move better! CRAAH!” Neberius roared angrily, suddenly unleashing a demonic power.

The mass of flesh that was dropped couldn’t be eaten by Jack in time before it started glowing bright red, exploding right in front of his face!

BOOOM!

“Unnggh...! Shit!” Jack muttered, stepping away as his armor started shattering into pieces, wounds showing beneath it.

“CRAHAHAHA!Did you think I wouldn’t predict that you would try to eat that?!” Laughed Neberius. “We all know you very well, FENRIR! {Demonic Feather Projectile Rain}!”

Thousands of black feathers flew down, chasing around Jack. Whenever they landed on a surface, a huge explosion of dark spikes emerged, piercing and shattering anything in their surroundings! These feathers were much more lethal than Fenrir remembered!

“That damn bird bastard got an upgrade to his only damn ability?!” Fenrir muttered in frustration. “Jackie, do you think you can get to them?!”

“I’ll do my best!” Jack roared. “{Demonic Shadow Wolf Awakening}!”

Jack’s heart suddenly started beating faster and faster as it turned completely black, absorbing his near-infinite amounts of shadows and darkness. The armor quickly began to change shape, becoming much more feral and monstrous.

“RAAAHH!”

With a huge leap, he reached the trio of combined demons, his demonic sword glowing with mighty power. Hundreds of swings and strikes were unleashed in a matter of seconds! Aim screamed in agony, his side suffering the most damage, while Neberius hid behind him, constantly firing the deadly feather projectiles! More and more explosions of darkness spread across the entire battlefield. The two powerful titans clashed constantly, claws against swords, releasing deadly shockwaves everywhere. Darkness spread and consumed it all.

“HAHAHHA! What’s wrong, Fenrir?!” The three demonic voices echoed as one. “Weren’t we disposable trash before?! How the tables have turned! Your human can barely keep up with our combined strength."

Suddenly, the draconic jaws of Astaroth opened right while Jack was being pummeled by constant punches from Aim’s muscular arms and bombarded by Neberius' explosive feathers!Rêạd new chapters at novelhall.com

“This is your END!”

A gigantic, all-consuming beam of pure demonic energy made up of three demons at once was unleashed at full power. Jack quickly shapeshifted his chest into a huge and monstrous jaw, attempting to swallow the entire attack at once!

“No! Jack, stop!”

Fenrir tried to stop Jack; if he were to consume it all, his body would simply not be able to hold all the power, and it would simply explode! And that's exactly what happened.

BOOOM!

Jack’s entire body was consumed by the explosion, as he felt his insides tearing down and exploding. His flesh, bones, everything! His body fell down to the floor like a ragdoll, resembling a charred corpse.

“JACK!!!”

Fenrir screamed in shock, quickly activating several skills and slowly beginning to recover Jack’s body before it was to fully die. His charred flesh was replaced by new flesh, and his skin slowly started to regenerate back to normal. Jack tried to stand back up, his body melting into shadows and quickly evading a gigantic foot attempting to crush him.

“Hah! Damn rat! Come here and let me crush you once and for all!” The voice of Aim echoed.

Suddenly, a shadow mass emerged right behind the trio of demons. Jack materialized right in that instant, Gram glowing with constant power as he pierced the sword into the demon’s back! The demons naturally felt that pain. The demonic dragon-slaying sword constantly absorbed their blood and energy, but their power was simply too much for half a relic to handle on its own anyway.

Yet...

“...”

A gigantic palm of pure cosmic energy was formed out of the girl’s very hair, which slapped the entire body of the trio of demons into the ground. Their bodies were twisted, and pieces of flesh were splattered around their surroundings.

BAAAM!

“U-Unnggh?!”

The Cosmic Pressure was tremendous; their bodies couldn’t even hold it much longer.

“Y-You...! STOP! YOU CAN’T JUST-”

Suddenly, the girl disappeared and appeared everywhere all at once, moving at an incredible speed. A single sword in her hands absorbed her cosmic energy, as the trio of demons didn’t understand what was happening before realizing it.

Their entire body was cut down into pieces.

Fear quickly filled their demonic hearts, as the demons constantly asked who she was, what she was, and how she could be so strong?!

“T-This is impossible! Who are you?! Are you an Administrator?! A Constellation?!”

Anna kept glancing at them silently.

Yet suddenly, she actually spoke into their minds through telepathy.

“I’m your end.”

“AH!”

Their hearts froze in utter horror, a horror that these demons had never felt before other than the time their realm was invaded by the Celestial Realm so many eons ago.

The girl’s chest started glowing with bright cosmic energy, and then a gigantic beam of pure destruction was unleashed.

The beam consumed the demons; their manifestations were disintegrated, and this attack even reached their souls, far away from this world, severely damaging them all.

“T-This is...”

“Not...”

“P-Possible...”

BOOOMMM!!

The explosion of cosmic energy reached even the skies, spreading across the dark clouds and making them disappear. However, this power quickly dissipated, unable to reach the Demon Castle.

Nonetheless, everybody in Stronghold was able to see what happened, their eyes wide in shock. Even the traitorous and lecherous Lee Hengyang was too terrified of what Anna had become to even confront her.

“W-What is she?!” He muttered, gritting his teeth. “I-I have to retreat...! I can’t die yet!”

Anna slowly fell to her knees, groaning in pain.

“U-Ungh... Hahh... Argh...”

As if her chest had become a black hole, the cosmic coat covering her entire body was absorbed back into her new heart, leaving her weakened and frail body exposed.

“I-I can’t handle... the headache... Urgh... J-Jack...”

Before she could even crawl towards her brother, she slowly fell unconscious.

“Anna?! It’s you?! You’re alive! ANNA!”

“S-She’s alive?! Oh, thank God... But what... what was that just now?!”

“I don’t know, but we need to bring her to safety!”

“W-Where is Jack- Urgh... Where is he?!”

“Lady Sara’s corpse is gone?”

“Just bring her to safety, dumbass!”

“Argh!”

As she heard many familiar voices, Anna fell completely unconscious, leaving her fate to them.

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