Powerful firepower struck down upon Black Lily’s head.
Here and there, magic and defense spells managed to block it, but it didn’t really mean much.
“I’ve already taken the hit.”
The body of the demon, infused with demonic blood, isn’t tough enough to withstand such power.
Black Lily, who can use powerful firepower and various abilities but has a weak body, couldn’t help but sink as her body itself collapsed under the impact.
Grrrrrrr!
As her magically tainted body began purification, it immediately entered regeneration.
Boom!!
─Ugh! Li… wait…
“Waiting is foolish.”
I smack down the regenerating Black Lily.
Her magic started to dissipate, then repeat the cycle of regeneration; magic scattered in the air attempted to attack me but I shrugged it off and kept hitting her.
‘I need to keep attacking.’
Currently, Black Lily seems to be using most of her strength on regenerating her body, so the power of her magic is significantly weakened.
I could easily dodge or block something like this.
Of course, one could argue that I could attack in my soul state, but the body serves as the primary shield protecting the soul.
Furthermore, since one needs a body to exert proper power, attacking in soul form with similar strength would be tantamount to suicide.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
[Ugh]
[Lily?]
[I’m beating her like a dog, lol]
[Is Black Lily losing?]
[She’s actually losing, lmao]
[Great Lily]
[Don’t kill her, sis]
[As expected, Demon Slayer Angel of Lily, whoa]
[Look at how she’s not dying, what the hell, lol]
─Ugh…
“I feel like I just need to kill her ten more times. What do you think?”
─S-stop! For real, for real, I can’t take any more…!
“You still look fine.”
Whoosh.
BOOM!!!
The earth shook, and the half-regenerating Black Lily was completely crushed and scattered.
Then she reformed in the air as her body regenerated again.
Truly an astonishing level of regeneration.
‘The demon race’s “regeneration” ability is superior to that of the celestial race.’
Celestial holy power can heal oneself and others, but demonic magic focuses more on self-regeneration.
Of course, that doesn’t mean celestials go around healing everyone, but in terms of self-regeneration, demons held the edge.
─Grrr. Grrr. Grrr…
─Ugh. Ugh. Ugh….
My hammer aimed for the twenty-eighth strike comes crashing down.
The black lily floating in the air is undergoing a dramatic transformation.
She has been so enveloped in thick magic that her shape is almost unrecognizable.
With the continual clashes of holy power and regeneration, maintaining any semblance of sanity or body has become impossible.
The original target was to exhaust all the regenerable magic to snap her back to reality, but…
‘It’s actually increasing.’
Instead of depleting, the magic that should be consumed is incrementally growing.
“Her rationality is completely gone.”
She has transformed to the point of forgetting our promise not to use sacred transformation.
Already, a similar aura to sacred transformation is creeping up from her very soul.
And that aura is one I’m all too familiar with.
‘…Temperia?’
The third seat among the six demon kings.
The Winter Demon King and one of the Demon Gods possessing the fragments held by Sre.
I feel my soul freeze as I transform my hammer into a spear.
‘Then this technique akin to annihilation must be a mimicry of those I’ve seen from demonkin…’
Leaving the eight seats aside, I’ve never faced the main body of the six demon kings.
However, I’ve encountered their thought forms, avatars, and messengers, even having met Temperia’s thought form.
There’s no way Duke Huangyeol or any other intermediate demon could have possibly grasped techniques from her; they must have extracted it from my memories.
As I activate sacred transformation, explosive holy power radiates outward.
Swoosh!!
It was as if the very space was being purified, transforming all surrounding energy into a blinding white, shaking the continent itself.
The aura of Santoth enveloping the continent quivers, with patches of its veil torn away.
‘It’s been ages since I last used sacred transformation after the fourth wave…’
“…There’s no way it’ll tear, right?”
After all, I’m a bona fide administrator; I can handle at least this much.
At least, that’s what I convinced myself.
[…Maybe?]
[Why is that kid acting like that?]
[Lololololololololol]
[Lily, is this okay?]
[Whoa]
[You said you wouldn’t use sacred transformation or whatever]
[Omg omg omg omg]
─Guhhh…
“Sorry, but if I prolong this any longer, it feels like I’ll have to use the succession casket. Let’s call it here.”
An immortal me. And the black lily.
To defeat her, who doesn’t die even when dead, this is the only option left.
─……
The black lily casts magic with her grotesque hands.
Three spears rise behind me.
“Triple Annihilation.”
─Frost (rĭgor), Annihilation (excídĭum).
Two techniques collided.
And the continent sank.
■
All of my Celestial Race’s techniques originated from ‘him.’
‘He’ revealed all of his knowledge to me, and as far as the spear is concerned, I gained insights that no one could approach.
The reason I could master such a technique is partly due to my special ‘something,’ but fundamentally, it’s because he was the god of spears.
A fallen star.
One of the eight pillars of the Celestial Race.
The god of spear techniques.
Falling from the lofty ‘above,’ he plummeted to the Lower Realm and met me just before death.
His name is…
.
.
.
.
“…Ugh.”
My vision returns.
I completely incapacitated the Black Lily using the ‘Triple Annihilation,’ which invokes the power of annihilation three times.
This triple annihilation required all of my strength, even in my current state of Sacred Transformation, and I had absolutely no remnants of power left.
I lay there on the ground, empty as a shell.
Of course, during that process, I was also hit by the attack of annihilation, so I had died once and was now resurrected.
“No, maybe I died about three times…?”
The attack from the Black Lily, who used a technique similar to Sacred Transformation, was overwhelmingly strong, so it was only natural that I would die.
Fortunately, the Black Lily had exhausted a lot of her strength due to regeneration, so I barely managed to hold on.
There was also the fact that I was out of my mind and couldn’t properly use my techniques.
I glanced up to assess the situation.
The Golden Veil that enveloped the continent, Santos’s Blessing, had long since been torn apart, and the sky was a pale shade of blue.
Moreover, the altitude itself had significantly lowered.
It seemed that during the process of using annihilation, part of the continent had sunk.
Finally, the Black Lily.
‘…..’
She was kneeling, unable to regenerate any further.
Neither magic nor the chilling aura was felt any longer.
“I won…”
I tilted my head back and sighed.
Truly disgustingly strong.
Even if you take away the fact that she knew all my techniques, she was abnormally strong.
Moreover, having to subdue her without annihilating her naturally increased the difficulty severalfold.
“I’m going to die…”
I struggled to turn my head and looked at the transparent circular camera that was still buzzing around.
A camera the size of a ping-pong ball.
…Come to think of it, this is pretty sturdy too.
[LOL]
[OMG]
[Lily wins! Lily wins! Lily wins!]
“Lily wins! Lily wins!”
“Big Lily!”
“Yay!”
“What happened, Black Lily? Why did you lose?”
“Huh?”
“What’s with the three annihilations? LOL?”
“Sad”
“Demon Lily? Oh no!”
“Nap Stream Lily! Hahaha!”
“Did the reward come in?”
“Not yet…”
I had clearly ‘overpowered’ her as the system indicated.
I hadn’t killed her, but she was at a level where she couldn’t move anymore.
I squeezed my last bit of strength like wringing out a dry rag and barely managed to get up.
I slowly walked toward Black Lily, who was kneeling with her head down.
My legs wobbled a bit and my head buzzed from the aftermath of resurrection, but I finally reached her.
“……”
Even though I had arrived right in front of her, Black Lily still kept her head down.
“It feels like déjà vu.”
Back then, I had barely won against my doppelganger and walked over to meet her.
Young Lily used the body of the already dead doppelganger to remind me of her existence, and by me remembering her now, she was doing fine in my space.
Young Lily could speak at any time, so it was probably unlikely that Black Lily would suddenly talk—
“Lupein… It’s impossible if you don’t go to the left…”
“…?!”
[?]
[?!]
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
“…The cost of using it… Severe… Damage to the soul… Collapse of the balance of the lefts…”
“…..”
“…Assassination of ascension… Succession of the work… Rejection… ‘Falling Star’…”
Thud.
Black Lily, muttering, just fell over.
The very faint powers left in her brushed past me and headed somewhere, while countless messages floated in front of me.
They contained information about numerous rewards, but for me or the viewers, that wasn’t the important part.
[???]
[What is this?]
[Is this a hook?]
[Lupein?]
[What is Lupein?]
[?????]
“…It’s just something like that. Not a big deal or anything…”
I didn’t even want to remember ‘that,’ so I didn’t wear the casket, yet here something popped out.
I held my throbbing head and stared blankly at the empty shell.
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