Chapter 48: The Demon King’s Power
The radiant light of the giant scythe flashed, and the Giant King’s mountain-like arm was severed with a sound. The frigid chill of death instantly froze the entire sky, falling like a vast rain of ice. Within it, the terrifying demonic energy belonging to the Giant King withered away in an instant!
Suddenly, countless cracks spread out across the falling ice rain, exploding like rune bombs. Anneliese hurriedly raised her scythe to block in front of her, her delicate body sent flying with a boom.
“This is—”
“It’s been a long time since I’ve experienced the power of death. However, your power is far from its former peak,” the Giant King’s rough voice boomed like a gigantic bell.
Crimson lightning, born from darkness and seeming to embody destruction, rapidly spread through the shattered void. The Giant King took a heavy step, and the earth trembled like hills.
The right arm severed by Anneliese’s scythe of death, on the lake-like stump, withered flesh and blood gradually became bloody, and flesh buds grew and extended, regenerating into an arm as tough as a mountain range at an unimaginable speed!
“Boom!”
The End, carrying a blinding sword light, clashed head-on with the destructive crimson lightning in the darkness. The annihilating light boomed, obliterating the torrent of demonic power. Igger pressed his right hand down, and the devastated darkness appeared before his eyes.
In just a few breaths, the Giant King’s severed right arm had miraculously healed, releasing heavy pressure that shattered space.
—This was certainly not because Anneliese’s and his attacks had caused no damage to Sumu. The Giant King Sumu’s recovery was due to him consuming immense life force.
However, as the Giant King, and one who had devoured the darkness of the Demon King, Sumu possessed a life force vaster than the sea of stars.
The giant scythe of death power condensed in Anneliese’s little hand could not be taken lightly by any legend. Anneliese had severed his arm, yet the authority from the death divinity could not even suppress the reviving vitality of the Giant King, and in just a few breaths, he was perfectly fine.
“Sumu, his life force back then was even greater than Sariel’s, second only to His Majesty the Demon King. But, Master, even An-An’s scythe of death couldn’t inflict substantial damage on him…”
The snow-haired loli, sent flying, barely stopped herself and anxiously lifted her head to shout. Her tender voice was filled with extreme anxiety, and she’d even forgotten to correct her habitually used self-reference.
One had to know that Anneliese’s scythe of death originated from the death divinity. Even if she was far from her peak, the authority contained within it, in Anneliese’s judgment, should not have been so easily withstood by Sumu, even when he was still immortal.
Igger, sword in hand, blocked the Giant King’s crashing fist. His body was directly slammed into the ground. The sword light moved, and he rose before the substantial attack could land.
His gaze never left the Giant King’s body.
Just as Anneliese had said, although Sumu, the Giant King, had also fallen from the realm of immortality due to the destruction of the Demon Realm, the pressure he exerted far surpassed that of Medus, the “Blood Lord,” another monarch of the Demon Race.
Furthermore, in terms of sheer life force, the Giant King before him was no less inferior to the fallen holy angel Sariel, who had once been the Angel of Judgment and remained immortal!
Sent flying in a flash of lightning, Anneliese’s delicate body moved gracefully. Her tiny little hand gripped the giant scythe of death and moved to support him. Sword light and ethereal glow churned within the demonic blood, stirring up crimson lightning. Wounds appeared on the Giant King’s resilient skin.
However, both Anneliese and Igger knew in their hearts that such wounds were not even considered injuries to the Giant King before them.
Igger had already reached the boundary between the Sacred Domain and legend. And although Anneliese beside him had only been reborn for a short time, with the death divinity, her power had at least recovered to the peak of the Sacred Domain.
Moreover, with Verafia’s blessing, even an ordinary legend would not be an insurmountable opponent for the two of them. However, facing the Giant King before them, Igger felt an insurmountable chasm.
“Rumble!”
Horrifying eyes opened on the Giant King’s chest, and destructive crimson lightning tore through the sky like spears of deathly stillness.
Igger swung his sword and slashed, and the sword light of the End’s Hour swept across. At the same instant, the Giant King threw a punch, and his giant hand, capable of shattering stars, approached with visible distortions that annihilated space!
Igger merely blocked, and the world-destroying, terrifying power shook him so much that he spat blood. The sword spirit of the End, Rufina, emitted a golden light and manifested in her human form to bear the attack for Igger. The collapsing sky collided, crushing into shattered fluorescent light.
The End moaned in his hand. Igger gritted his teeth, blood flowing from his mouth, and pressed down on the melody surging on his long sword, preparing to stake everything and unleash the “Eternal Sword Light” stored by the End!
Suddenly, a soft breeze stirred as a small, slender girl appeared, blocking in front of him. Anneliese’s tiny hand gripped the scythe with all her might as the scythe’s ethereal glow clashed against the giant fist.
The terrifying power that struck the loli’s small body made her delicate form tremble, and her pale little face was etched with pain. However, her enlarged, icy eyes revealed disbelief:
“This, this… An-An wasn’t mistaken! Sumu, this… this is the power belonging to His Majesty the Demon King!”
The loli shouted in a voice that was almost a scream, her already tender and slender voice filled with immense fear, her beautiful big eyes with exquisite eyelashes full of astonishment.
The Giant King’s fist boomed down, unleashing the power of shattering stars. Even the scythe of death, which was blocking, could not bear it at this moment and shattered and disintegrated!
“This is His Majesty the Demon King’s power. Anduin, you were right. However, you did not witness it.”
The Giant King’s voice echoed in the shattered sky. Igger, who had barely stabilized himself, swung his long sword. The sword Qi of “Severing” cut through the destructive aftershock. He bent his arm and caught the flying Anneliese, and his body was also sent flying into a corner of the starry sky.
“Ugh…”
The girl held in his embrace weakly lifted her little head. Blood dripped from the corners of her tender mouth, sliding across her fair skin and onto the silk cloth of her maid dress.
“It really is His Majesty the Demon King… Sumu, did he… inherit it during the destruction of the Demon Realm?”
A bolt of crimson lightning flashed. Igger pushed Anneliese in his arms away and swung his sword to block. The vibrating demonic power instantly shattered the flesh and blood of his right arm, causing bloody splatters to rain down.
Igger raised his azure eyes and said, “No, not necessarily. If, as An-An said, that is the Demon King’s power, then this power has been rooted within him for a long time.”
Previously, Igger had sensed a life force within the Giant King’s origin that was not entirely compatible with him. However, even his True Eye had not been able to distinguish it until Anneliese spoke with Sumu.
The black-haired youth’s raised eyes fell upon the dark figure slowly approaching in the shattered sky.
Moreover, Igger had previously sensed that even though his realm had fallen, the Giant King’s life force was still comparable to that of an immortal. Until now, Igger had only just realized that the other party had not fully mastered the grand life force within his body.
He gripped his long sword slightly tighter. Upon seeing the Giant King before his eyes, Igger’s heart pounded. The “Demon King’s Heart” that had been refined sensed a fluctuation of the same origin from the other party.
He suddenly smiled, the “True Eye” flashing in his azure eyes:
“I see. Your Majesty the Giant King, within your body, the Demon King’s life force, was it granted to you by Him a hundred years ago?”
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The main reason is that Veer is too strong now, so I had to separate her from the male protagonist and have Anneliese assist (well, and flesh out her storyline).
I’m wondering whether to finish the male protagonist’s side before writing about Veer, or to alternate between them?
