Chapter 552 Devouring The Greed

Mammon is clearly underestimating me as he is not giving all his attacks against me. It seems this big guy is just thinking that I am just easy to dispose of and nothing else to give worry to himself. However, if he thinks that is how the way it should go, then he has never tasted defeat just yet.

"I am counting on you Shadow Dragon. You might always be hungry but I think I can use your bottomless hunger levels to use this time around. [DEVOUR]!"

The Versatile Weapon's Shadow Dragon appeared and appeared larger than before than I expected. Is it because it devoured the Sea Worm not too long ago and already digested it? Shadow Dragon as expected, seems to be hungry again as the moment it saw Mammon, it started to lick its droll and extended its head towards the Shadow Dragon and took a big chunk of its meat on its thigh that Mammon who was busy throwing coins at me in hopes of crushing me with one of the coins screams in agony as a huge chunk of his flesh is missing.

But to my surprise, the Shadow Dragon which literally eats anything metal and flesh alike decided to spit out the flesh of Mammon. It was like it just took a little bite to Mammon never to bite again. Imagine being such a filthy entity that even the Shadow Dragon that almost eats anything decided that this flesh is not even worthy of being consumed. That is just hilarious to me. The Shadow Dragon even looked at me even though I can't see any kind of eyes present on this guy but seeing it "look" at me after commanding it to devour me is just funny. It was like, "what the heck did you even try to feed me? That is sh*t" kind of reaction. Perhaps it was just me but I can see that if the Shadow Dragon can talk.

Due to the pain, it seems I only increased the anger point Mammon and decided to immediately dispose of me before things get bad. His huge left hand was about to squash me down but I immediately used the Versatile Weapon's Hook and Chain to dodge away from the attack. But Mammon seems to already know that I will be dodging which is why his right hand also is coming down to also crush me to a paste.

"Dammit, [Devour] once again!"

The Shadow Dragon appeared and seeing the big hand coming down, it immediately understood what it needed to do. It expands its mouth, bigger than the hands of Mammon, and swallowed it whole but did not gulp it down. Knowing that it didn't like the taste of the flesh of Mammon himself, it was clear it was not gonna eat it so the only thing needed to do is execute the final action to relieve the Shadow Dragon from keeping that big hand on its mouth,

"GRAAAAAAAAAH!"

I pulled the Versatile Weapon with all my strength. I poured all of my strength into it so that the veins in my hands appeared and my teeth gritted as I pull the weapon forcefully.

"IT HURTSSSS! IT HURTSSSS!"

Mammon screamed as the Shadow Dragon did not even let go. Mammon grabbed his arm and started to also pull with all his strength. I also pulled with all my strength and I didn't just half-assed this one. I poured almost every single fiber of my strength in one go, I am charging all of it in my hands.

"HUZAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

I pulled the Versatile Weapon with all my might I felt blood fall from my nose. It seems I have overdone it this time. However, in the tug of war between me and Mammon, the victor is none other than me.

RIPPPP!

"AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!"

Mammon's scream resounded inside the flesh cavern of the Sea Worm. The result of my win is the severed hands of Mammon that got forcefully pulled apart. And as expected, the Shadow Dragon that didn't like the taste of Mammon's flesh spits the whole hands that are still in his mouth after they got ripped apart from Mammon.

Mammon screamed in pain as he started to fall down and endure the pain that the Shadow Dragon did to his hands. I immediately took this chance and used the Versatile Weapon to swing into the back of Mammon where the weapon is located like spiderman by using the Hook and Chain form and clinging to the flesh of the Sea Worm all around me, especially on the ceiling area. Mammon is like a child as he bawled over his arm. I wanted to shout and say that he was pathetic but I didn't bother as I would rather focus on getting rid of him as soon as I can. Since the shortcut to his doom is already there, I have to just activate it.

I went deeper into the Sea Worm's body. The Versatile Weapon is shaking like crazy the moment I managed to arrive at the back of Mammon. I have not seen it just yet but I assume the weapon itself is located much deeper into the area.

As I dive deeper, I heard Mammon and the moment I looked behind, I saw Mammon coming at me crawling using his remaining hand with a face that looks very similar to the Bridge worm that Trevor Henderson made before(Search it up if you are curious or don't know what it looks like). It was so terrifying that I didn't bother to look back and continue running full speed into the depths of the body of the Sea Worm.

If I was in a horror game, this could be a scripted chase scene and if I enter a room or something, this guy will disappear. However, in the distance, I saw a gold-colored item in the distance. It sore like a sore thumb as everything around us are red and the thing sticking out is a bright gold color. It is small but if it was color gold, that only means that is what I am looking for. I may have not seen the current feature of the Weapon of Greed but I decided that it's better to not bother with what it looks like especially with Mammon who looks like a monstrosity chasing after me.

As I got near the gold thing sticking out, the more the Versatile Weapon is acting crazy. That's when I decided to do the decision even though I wanted to see what it was.

"[DEVOUR]!"

I thrust the Versatile Weapon forward and the Shadow Dragon drolls the moment it saw the gold thing and didn't hesitate to swallow it up.

The moment the Shadow Dragon gulped down the gold thing, Mammon screamed in pain.

"AAAAGGGHHHH! WHAT IS HAPPENING?! WHY AM I MELTING?! WHAT IS GOING ON?! AAAAAAAHHHHH HEEELLLPPP!"

I looked behind and just like what the was shouting, he is melting. His body looks like a candle exposed to heat. Not only that but he is also shrinking. Seeing that his enormous body has returned to how it was before, I pulled out the Pain Delivery gun out and did not even bother to ask for his last words and just pulled the trigger...multiple times on his face.

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

Although seven bullets seem to be overkill, it would be better to be overkill than the risk of it coming back and getting killed by it in the process. Mammon melted, evaporated, disintegrated, whatever you call it, he disappeared after the delivery of 7 bullets to his melting head.

Thankfully, it wasn't that bad and the battle didn't have much problem. In fact, I didn't suffer any injuries from his attacks and I didn't suffer any sort of problem coming from the enemies. I managed to win.

I also realized that I just finished off Mammon easily without getting wrecked. When I fought against the Weapons of Pride, even though they were just Spear and Shield with the shield being the main MVP of that fight where I almost died, I struggled a lot with that. But the embodiment of Greed didn't appear to be threatening at all. I don't know what is happening but that was the case.

But the plus side of this is that I managed to devour the Weapon of Greed. I don't know what kind of weapon it was as I was in a big hurry to escape from Mammon himself that I didn't know what the weapon actually looks like as I have not properly registered it on my mind as I preoccupied myself with which places are more guaranteed to have safety for me. Of course, my assumption is that the gold thing that my Versatile Weapon devoured is indeed the weapon that is the belonging to the Seven Deadly Sins weapon series.

I turned to look at the Versatile Weapon and as expected, the same message from before appeared before me.

[Weapon Series detected: The weapon of Greed, the Knuckles of Avaritia: Hands of Midas. Due to the acquisition of the weapon, the Versatile Weapon will undergo a hibernation mode. During this time, the Versatile Weapon will not be possible to be used in any means.]

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Wait... a knuckle? The Weapon of Greed is a knuckle?