The dark red “kirato” sliced through the air, the causality patterns on its blade flashing wildly as it precisely “captured” the incoming crimson-gold firebird—the “Hellfire Bird.”
At the moment the blade touched the flames, there was no earth-shattering explosion, only a strange distortion, as if the scene were being played in reverse.
Buzz—!
Wherever the reflected Hellfire Bird passed, the air was scorched into distorted ripples, and a wave of heat rushed toward the face.
However, facing this lethal attack formed from his own magic power that had now turned against him, Lucifer’s pure black eyes showed no panic.
He didn’t even attempt to dodge this lightning-fast counterattack.
He stomped his foot, cracking the ground, and instead of retreating, he lunged forward like an arrow released from a bow, actively charging toward the backfiring Hellfire Bird!
“Hellfire Bird!”
During his charge, Lucifer’s right hand gripped the air again.
In front of his palm, magic power gathered, compressed, and took shape at an even faster speed through an identical circuit!
Without slowing down, Lucifer slammed the newly born Hellfire Bird in front of his palm against the reflected Hellfire Bird that had already pounced before his eyes!
“Li!!!”
“Li—!!!”
Two flaming magic birds of identical origin and terrifying power collided violently less than three meters in front of Lucifer!
Rumble—!!!
At that moment, it was as if two miniature suns had collided and annihilated each other in the center of the camp!
Andura, who bore the brunt of it, tried to block the shockwave by holding “kirato” in front of him under Elder Shaloria’s control, but the terrifying impact still hit his magic defense and body like a heavy hammer.
He let out a muffled groan and was involuntarily pushed back over ten meters, his feet plowing two deep furrows into the ground before he barely managed to stop.
His right hand holding the sword trembled slightly, and the red light in his eyes flickered for a moment due to the intense impact.
Just as the light from the destructive explosion had not yet fully dissipated and the scorching air currents were still raging—at the moment when everyone’s vision and senses were briefly interfered with—
A blurry black figure pierced through the unextinguished flames and dust like a ghost, moving at an extreme speed that even left faint afterimages in the air!
It was Lucifer!
At some point, Lucifer’s right hand had transformed into a longsword composed of pure, highly condensed Demon God Power.
The blade had no luster at all, only a depth that swallowed everything.
His eyes were cold and calm as his arm swung.
The black longsword traced a simple, precise, and lightning-fast arc through the air, cutting diagonally into the back of Andura’s neck and passing through without any resistance.
Puchi—!
The slight sound of a sharp blade cutting through flesh and cervical vertebrae was almost inaudible under the lingering echoes of the explosion.
Time seemed to freeze for a moment.
Andura’s forward-charging posture stiffened, and the eerie red light in his eyes dimmed and extinguished as quickly as a candle in the wind, replaced by a complete void and deathly silence.
He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
In the next moment, his head separated from his body with a cut as smooth as a mirror, and only then did the dark red blood spurt out belatedly. Read this novel at g.com for the best experience.
The headless corpse swayed and fell forward onto the ground.
The head rolled a few times and stopped not far away, its face still carrying the emptiness of being controlled and a trace of unbelievable bewilderment.
“Clang…”
The genuine divine artifact “kirato” slipped from his powerless hand and fell onto the scorched, hot ground, letting out a crisp wail.
Lucifer slowly straightened up, and the Demon God Power longsword on his right arm dissipated into black smoke.
He glanced at the divine artifact by his feet that had once caused him a bit of trouble, a flash of disdain crossing his pure black eyes.
“A fake is, after all, a fake.”
He raised his foot and, with his sole covered in pitch-black magic power, stomped down mercilessly on the “kirato” on the ground!
Crack—!!!
A tooth-aching sound of shattering rang out!
Under the crushing weight of Lucifer’s currently majestic Demon God Power, that precious divine artifact shattered inch by inch like fragile glass, turning into a pile of lusterless metal fragments.
Its magic structure and law patterns were completely destroyed and annihilated.
Elder Shaloria’s icy purple eyes stared fixedly at Lucifer below, who had easily killed Andura in an instant and crushed the divine artifact.
“He easily dealt with Andura, who was strengthened by my [Connection] and armed with a divine artifact, and he could even predict and use the explosion to advance…”
Elder Shaloria rapidly re-evaluated Lucifer’s strength.
“That fool Andura!”
But there was no time for her to think further.
After Lucifer crushed the divine artifact, he didn’t even spare her another look.
He simply raised his right hand slowly and made a grasping motion toward the surrounding vampire warriors who had been killed.
“Eternal Absorption.”
The calm voice rang out again, but it made Elder Shaloria feel a shiver down her spine.
Buzz—!
An invisible suction force, more than ten times stronger than when he absorbed Engolas, erupted with Lucifer’s palm as the center!
Dozens of energy torrents of varying thickness and color surged wildly toward Lucifer’s palm like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.
His entire being was enveloped in a constantly changing, violently boiling halo of energy.
“He is…
absorbing their origin magic power and converting it for his own use?!” Elder Shaloria finally understood the true purpose of Lucifer’s previous request for “thirty creatures with a Combat Class of five thousand.”
This wasn’t a simple replenishment of consumption; this was plunder!
This was devouring!
It was turning everything others had cultivated and accumulated over lifetimes, even their bloodline inheritance, into nourishment for his own growth!
“I must stop him!
Now!”
She let out a shrill cry, and the gorgeous dark red dress behind her moved without wind as majestic dark red magic power surged out like a sea of blood!
“Andu!
Together, tear him apart!”
With a wave of her delicate hand, the blood-red little snake that had been wrapped around her neck—”Andu”—suddenly expanded several times in size as if receiving a charge command, transforming into a blood-colored giant python as thick as a water bucket and several meters long!
However, facing this joint lethal strike from the vampire elder and her contracted magic beast, Lucifer, who was at the peak of energy infusion with magic power boiling around him, didn’t even lift an eyelid.
Just as Elder Shaloria’s blood-colored spear and Andu’s venomous fangs were about to touch his body—
Boom—!!!
An indescribable, terrifying magic pressure, as if a prehistoric behemoth had awakened, erupted without warning with Lucifer as the center!
That wasn’t an attack; it was merely a trace of aura naturally leaking out during the high-speed absorption and conversion of the immense magic power within his body!
This aura condensed into substance, turning into a visible ring-shaped shockwave of deep pitch-black that crushed everything in its path indiscriminately!
“What?!”
The ferocity on Elder Shaloria’s face instantly turned into boundless horror.
She felt as if she had crashed into a towering mountain charging at full speed!
“Puff—!” She spat out a mouthful of blood, her protective magic power shattering like an eggshell.
She was sent flying backward like she had been hit by a battering ram, crashing through an intact tent in the distance and falling into a pile of ruins.
“Hiss—!”
The blood-colored giant python, Andu, was in even worse shape.
Its tough scales were like paper under the magic impact, and its massive body was lifted into the air, tumbling and slamming onto the ground in the distance, plowing a deep furrow.
It let out a pained hiss, its body quickly shrinking back to its small snake form, slumped on the ground and on the verge of death.
At the center of the eruption, Lucifer’s figure seemed to expand slightly.
His muscles were as well-defined as cast iron, stretching his originally well-fitting clothes tight.
Beneath his skin, faint flows of pitch-black magic power surged incessantly.
This was a manifestation of magic power skyrocketing while Physical Strength had not yet fully adapted to carry it.
The surging torrent of energy was finally completely absorbed and refined.
Lucifer slowly lowered his right hand, and the boiling energy halo on his body gradually withdrew.
In his pure black eyes, it was as if galaxies were swirling, deep enough to make one’s heart palpitate.
From a rough estimation, just this one wave of absorption had caused his total magic power to skyrocket by over thirty-five thousand units again!
At this moment, the magic power in his body had already broken through the forty-six thousand one hundred mark!
His comprehensive Combat Class had even aggressively broken through fifty thousand!
A Combat Class of fifty thousand was a watershed.
Maybe it’s not a big deal now… maybe it will be later.
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”