Damien exhaled slowly, his black goggles still locked onto the Special Grade A demon.
”Both of you, step aside,” he ordered, voice low and firm.
Akira and Saki quickly moved back.
Damien’s cleaver began to crackle violently with concentrated kinetic energy, the blade humming with dangerous power.
The Special Grade A demon spread its arms wide, a sadistic smile stretching across its face.
“Come then, human.
Show me your best.”
Damien dashed forward like a shadow.
The clash was explosive.
Cleaver met fist in a cataclysmic collision.
Sparks of spiritual energy and kinetic force erupted violently between them.
The floor beneath their feet shattered instantly.
Shockwaves blasted outward, shattering every remaining window in the classroom.
Damien’s cleaver screamed as it grinded against the demon’s hardened fist, both sides refusing to yield even an inch.
For a brief moment, the two powerhouses were locked in a deadly stalemate.
Then Damien spun, delivering a devastating back kick infused with kinetic energy straight into the demon’s torso.
The impact launched the creature backward like a cannonball.
The Special Grade A demon twisted mid-air, jumping high toward the ceiling.
The fireball grew rapidly, scorching the air itself.
Half the school began to collapse from the sheer heat.
Damien’s eyes widened behind his goggles.
“Shit—”
”Step back!” he shouted at Akira and Saki.
Saki ignored him.
“Like hell I will!” she yelled, already forming rapid hand signs.
Blood trickled from the corner of her lips as she poured everything into the technique.
”God Hand!”
A colossal spiritual fist, glowing with divine golden light, materialized in the air above them.
With a thunderous roar, the giant fist slammed downward, colliding violently with the demon’s massive fireball.
KABOOOOOOM!!!
The explosion was deafening.
The two titanic forces canceled each other out in a storm of spiritual energy and flames, sending huge chunks of debris raining down everywhere.
Saki dropped to her knees, body shivering from the backlash.
Akira rushed to her side, holding her shoulders.
“Saki!
Are you okay?!”
Saki breathed shakily, weakly pushing him away.
“I’m… fine.
Don’t touch me…”
The Special Grade A demon landed gracefully amidst the destruction.
With a wide sweep of its arm, it unleashed a horizontal inferno — a blazing wall of flames racing toward them.
Damien moved like lightning.
He found the weak point in the attack and sliced through the inferno with one powerful cleaver strike, splitting the flames cleanly in two.
”Recover,” Damien said firmly to Saki and Akira, not taking his eyes off the demon.
“I’ll engage it.
Stay back.”
The Special Grade A laughed again, clearly enjoying the fight.
Damien tightened his grip on his glowing cleaver, spiritual energy still surging.
This battle was far from over.