Chapter 179: Calamity Level - Archdemon (Part 5)

The Archdemon swiftly blocked Aria’s strike with his palm, the concentrated, piercing mass of flames boring through his skin and slightly into his flesh.As her attack began to peter out, I grabbed her arm and pulled her back as I lunged forward, driving my blade towards the Archdemon’s solar plexus as Luxuria shot up into the air.

My blade pierced through his palm as he swiftly lowered it, grimacing as I began to try and twist the blade, before my head snapped across to the right as he struck my left cheek with his tail, a couple of my back teeth getting knocked out and flying out of my mouth upon impact, before he turned his gaze up as a large block of ice formed above him.

As a trickle of blood ran down the corner of my mouth, my cheek swelling up, I pulled my blade out and sprang back as the ice plummeted down towards him, before shattering to pieces as he drove his right fist up and slammed it against the block.

A barrage of dark energy blasts came raining down towards him, which he blocked with his wings, before whipping his arm out above himself and firing out a slashing wave of Negative Energy towards Luxuria, slicing her in half before she could react.

Shit, I don’t have enough MP left to summon her again, what...what do I do?

"Damn it, no choice but to use everything I’ve got left...," Muttered Aria, the fiery glow around her flickering before she gritted her teeth with a focused look on her face, the glow sharply intensifying before a searing burst of heat erupted as she suddenly vanished from sight, a sharp gasp ringing out from up ahead.

I turned my gaze that way, to see the Archdemon keeled over slightly, Aria’s fist digging into his solar plexus before a sharp burst of flames erupted out.

The Archdemon stumbled back before Aria launched herself forward in a rapid, fiery blur as pressurized flames burst out of her heels, another powerful, fiery explosion erupting as she struck his chin with a vicious uppercut.

As his head snapped up upon impact, she began to draw back her fist before stiffening as the glow around her body flickered again, her legs buckling before she widened her stance and planted her feet to regain her balance, chanting as she gritted her teeth and drove her right arm forward, flames erupting and swirling around it, before taking shape...

"[SUPER ACCEL FLAME LANCE]!!!" Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs NoveI-Fire.ɴet

A blazing shockwave of heat burst out as a blinding, fiery flash erupted, a yell of pain ringing out as the sound of flesh sizzling echoed out.

I sprinted ahead as fast as I could, Aria collapsing onto one knee as Blaze Ignition wore off and she reverted to her normal state, a tense look on the Demon’s face, a deep, scorched indent to the left of his solar plexus.

"Aria, suppress your Status Effect Immunity!<Command: Get Back>!" I exclaimed as the Archdemon began to reach out towards her with a dark look in his eyes, before she scrambled back right in the nick of time as the effect of Command set in, narrowly avoiding his grasp as I sprang at the Archdemon, sending Ravage shooting out towards him.

He shot up to evade it, before swooping down and slashing at my head, his claws snapping off as I just barely blocked his slash with my blade, before I froze as he shot past me.

I spun around as fast as I could, my chest tightening as he shot towards Aria, a shaky look on her face as she got back onto her feet and leapt back as he closed in, his arm shooting out towards her.

I raced ahead and jumped forward with all my strength, holding my blade between my teeth before grabbing his tail with both hands and yanking on it with all the force I could muster as he reached out towards Aria’s throat.

As I pulled him back slightly, just enough to get his hand out of the reach of Aria’s neck, he swiftly adjusted and grabbed her right forearm, before chanting...

"[Demonic Art: Rupture]!"

Aria let out an excruciating scream of pain as her forearm expanded sharply before erupting, blood splattering across the ground and pouring out of the stump left around her elbow, before I took my right hand off his tail and drove my blade towards the middle of his back with a furious roar.

He suddenly wrenched his tail free of the grasp of my left hand, before shooting up and grabbing my right arm as the tip of the blade pierced through his skin.

Aria stumbled back as he took aim at her with a concentrated, swirling dark energy blast. He snapped his tail across to pull me off-balance as he fired the blast, several walls of ice appearing in front of her before shattering as the blast burst through all of them, striking the middle of Aria’s body before erupting upon impact.

Blood poured out of her mouth as she went hurtling back through the air, hitting the ground with a thud and skidding away several meters before coming to a screeching halt in front of the throne, a few shards of her ribs poking out through her top as she slumped against the dirt.

"You fucking PIECE OF-...!!!" I began, before he flicked his tail powerfully, slamming me against the ground with a jarring impact, rattling my bones and dazing me as I let out a sharp gasp.

"What a waste of effort. All you’ve accomplished is ensure that she will die a slow, painful death, instead of an instant one," He sighed as he turned to the Ice Mage, who stumbled back before starting to charge up a Spell.

"[Ice Sp-...]...!" She began, before she was abruptly cut off as the Archdemon raised his hand and pierced through the middle of her forehead with a rapid dark energy beam from his finger.

Her shoulders slumped as she collapsed onto her knees, hitting the ground with a thud as she fell over, before he suddenly lifted me up as he turned around.

I shakily began to swing my blade at him, before letting out an agonized wheeze as he drove his right arm forward with a vicious thrust, his claws plunging through my stomach and tearing into my flesh, before bursting out my back...