BOOOM—!
I don't quite rember what happened after the world around collapsed and an explosion sounded.
I just felt sothing press against my body, and at the sa ti, my body was thrown a great distance away from where I had been.
Everything happened so fast that I barely had ti to process it.
That being said, I was in no pain. It didn't hurt, and sensing sothing on my right, I turned my head and swiped my finger in the air.
Crack!
A fissure ford in the space next to , revealing a white hand behind it.
But just as it was about to open, the space twisted, and the tear moved forward several ters away.
The hand did co out, but it clenched at nothing but the air.
Touching my sword, the space right next to the hand distorted, and a sword projection appeared. It tore through the air and aid at the exposed hand.
Unfortunately, I was just a tad bit too late, as the hand had already vanished before my sword could get to it.
Swoosh—! A subtle breeze blew past in the air, and I turned my head to look to my right. I felt sothing over there, but I couldn't quite tell what it was.
'Ah, I see.'
Channeling the laws within my body and waving my hand once, the space in front of folded like a piece of paper, and a beam passed through to the two ends of the fold.
It was quite the bizarre sight, but the more familiar I beca with the laws, the more I realized how endless the possibilities were…
It felt as though I could control everything.
"You're quite good at handling the laws. I've never seen him use them before, so how did you manage to pick up on them so fast?"
A gentle voice tickled my ear, and my head snapped backward.
Jezebeth's head peaked from the crack, his crimson eyes glistening with brilliant light. Almost imdiately after that, I felt my body freeze, and Jezebeth stepped out into the open.
Erging from the crack, my vision suddenly filled with more than a thousand different holographic representations of him.
'The chip is useless…'
I tried to anticipate what he would do next by analyzing his muscle movents and determining where his eyes were looking with the help of the chip in my head; however, it quickly beca apparent to that the chip was incapable of dealing with the entity in front of .
The sa was true for practically all my other skills.
[Monarch Indifference], [The One], [mory Manipulation], [Dark Servant], [Eyes of Chronos]… Nothing worked anymore.
All I could rely on at the mont were my abilities and comprehension of the laws.
"Don't struggle… Let this be the end of my tournt."
A finger moved through the air and drew near the space between my eyebrows. It looked slow, but I knew better that it was moving at speeds that one couldn't fathom.
"I'm sorry, but I'll have to disappoint."
Breaking the restrictions on my body wasn't hard.
Clank. Clank. Clank.
As scales began to form all over my body and cover half of my face, I felt sothing grow behind my back, and all of a sudden, demonic energy erupted from within my body.
In light of the fact that the energy that was wreaking havoc on my body and containing in place was demonic energy, directly exposing the demonic energy within my body, I was able to free myself from the restraints and move back, narrowly escaping his finger in the process.
"Hm?"
The rush of demonic energy was so sudden and powerful that it stunned Jezebeth, leaving him at a loss for words.
"Did you…"
He looked at from top to bottom, his lips curling faintly as he tried to comprehend what he was seeing.
"To go this far… I don't know whether to call you stupid, or be impressed with your actions."
Jezebeth's crimson eyes shone with a brilliant hue, and the blood in my body started to boil. I felt an imnse pressure bearing down on every inch of my body, causing the edges of my vision to turn black.
"Uakh."
The pain was unbearable, and I let out a groan as I tried to endure it.
Swoosh—!
He appeared right in front of .
"I couldn't sense it before since 'he' managed to hide it well, but now that I see you in front of , I'm starting to wonder what exactly went through your head when you decided to ingest demonic blood into your body… are you not aware of the fact that I can suppress just about any bloodline that exists?"
I struggled to say the words, but I managed to answer him.
"I, I know…," I said, my voice barely above a whisper.
I knew what he was trying to say, but I had done it out of necessity, out of a hunger for pure power. It was a risky decision, but it was one that I didn't regret.
Jezebeth lifted an eyebrow in surprise as he stared at .
"You see…," I said, as I lifted my head up and looked him straight in the eye.
"The fragnts weren't the only things that I took from the Seven heads when I killed them."
I had taken their blood as well. I knew sothing like this would've happened had I not done so.
I pressed both of my hands together, and the space above and beneath Jezebeth started to fold and tremble. Suddenly, two projections depicting two large palms appeared out of thin air, threatening to squeeze Jezebeth on the spot.
WAAAAANG—! The sudden attack took Jezebeth aback, and he squeezed his fist, forming a barrier around him.
My palms were opened, and the projections imdiately followed suit, imitating my every action.
While focusing on the barrier that surrounded him, I gently twisted my hands apart and made a squeezing motion. In response to the movents I made, the projections pressed against his barrier from the top to the bottom.
Cr— Crack!
As a result of the projections' intense pressure, cracks started to appear on the barrier that was surrounding Jezebeth.
"Akhhh…"
I clenched my teeth and suppressed my groan as best I could.
The pain was excruciating, and I poured everything I had into those projections that were squeezing at the barrier revolving around him.
Mana, Demonic energy… I poured everything into them, and for a mont I thought that it was working, but soon, I noticed that the cracks that had ford around the barrier were starting to heal themselves, and I clenched my teeth even harder.
"…Still not enough?"
Fine…
Suddenly, complex runes of golden color appeared on the fingers of the projections, and I felt my entire body tremble with pain that was unlike any other. But I bore it and poured everything I had into the projections. Crack after crack started to form around the barrier, expanding with each passing mont.
"Uaaaakh!!!"
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Finally, the cracks revolving around the barrier expanded, and I could see Jezebeth's expression within the barrier change.
But it was already too late.
Cra— Crash—! The barrier shattered into thousands of shards that spread across the sky, and the two projections ca crashing down on Jezebeth's figure. Almost imdiately after that, a nebula of residual energy floated across the sky, expanding rapidly toward my surroundings.
"Haaa… haaa…"
I was having trouble breathing, and I could feel a lot of my energy leaving my body at that very mont, but as I stared at the location where Jezebeth had been, I felt hope... hope that perhaps, I had been able to accomplish sothing.
That hope, however, did not last for long.
The mont the residual energy dissipated and the sky cleared up, my heart sank.
There, standing in the sky, was none other than Jezebeth, who looked no different than he did before.
His eyes were calm, his complexion was the sa, and his clothes and armor were completely untouched. The way he looked almost made it seem as though nothing had happened, and sothing clamped at my throat as my heart sank.
'W… what? How?'
I was in denial. I had poured almost everything that I had into that mont, and yet, despite everything that I had done, he was still completely unhard?
H… how was I supposed to accept that?
"Uh?"
But just as I was about to despair over the situation, I suddenly noticed a subtle trickle down the side of his mouth.
It was black and looked like blood.
...and the mont it started to trickle down, Jezebeth's complexion paled dramatically, and he brought his hand toward his mouth.
"Pftt."
He tried to hide it, but he failed, and right at that mont, I witnessed as black blood leaked from the gap between his fingers.
My heart skipped a beat at that mont, and the previous misgivings I had disappeared. It seed like my attack did, in fact, have an effect on him.
"Good."
I clenched my hand, channeling all the powers within my body.
Since it worked, I needed to continue. Even if the price was my body.
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