As a demon, Adrian seemed to lack patience...
He attacked before Felix even entered the ravine! Perhaps in his eyes, he believed this weak death knight stood no chance of escaping his clutches.
Even a severely injured high-ranking familiar demon is no match for a minor death knight from the main material plane!
However, Adrian clearly overestimated himself and underestimated Felix's strength!
...
Murderous intent!
A chilling sensation rising from the depths of the heart! That pure, ideologically driven premonition of unknown danger!
Felix instantly looked up and saw a massive shadow enveloping him—a terrifying demon with huge bull horns, standing five meters tall with wings spanning over ten meters!
The high-ranking demon swooped down like an eagle, its claws shimmering with a cold light, aiming straight for Felix's throat!
Without time to ponder why a high-ranking demon appeared in the main material plane, Felix's instinctive reaction wasn't to dodge, but to grab his horse, weighing over 300 pounds, and hurl it at the diving demon!
After being transformed by the "First Death Knight" Reinhardt, Felix's body had gained immense physical strength. Days of intense metabolism had honed his slender body into rock-hard muscles. Even without deliberate training, Felix unleashed a melee power exceeding the Silver Domain level in an instant!
He grabbed the horse's front hooves, lifted it into the air, and hurled it toward the diving demon!
The horse, weighing over 1,300 pounds, flew like a flesh-and-blood missile, wailing as it crashed towards the high-ranking demon!
Just as he threw the horse to obstruct the demon's vision, Felix immediately retreated, activating the "Gamma Ray" inscribed on his body, never before used, while sprinting towards the forest!
High-ranking demons mostly have the ability to fly; only the tall trees of the Maya Mountains could help him escape its clutches!
The moment Adrian launched his ambush, he immediately regretted it, as his old wounds inflicted by the beautiful vampire burst open. A pure holy light surged towards his most vigorously used demon wing, burning his body and eroding his power!
In Hell, Adrian had been injured by that powerful, somewhat freakish beauty using the angels' favorite combo—the "Holy Cross." Although Adrian withstood the "Holy Cross - Judgment" and "Holy Cross - Verdict," the final "Holy Cross - Purification" and the strongest finisher "Holy Cross - Redemption" were beyond what he could handle now!
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A pure holy light from the "Light of Redemption" invaded his body. Had it not been for his half high-ranking demon bloodline suppressing its holy power, this pure holy light would have erupted long ago!
The immense pain and burning sensation slowed Adrian's speed, the fifty-meter flight distance hindering his attack route. The horse hurled by Felix severely obstructed Adrian's flight path!
"Splat!"
The horse didn't even have time to let out a cry before being torn apart by Adrian's sharp claws, turning into large chunks of flesh. Blood and entrails flying, Adrian was splattered, looking as ferocious as a demon from hell!
Adrian was extremely confident in his claws, known for their toughness and sharpness, capable of easily slicing through fine iron and even severing weapons forged from common iron!
Just as his magical power was fully charged, Felix suddenly halted and drew his rune sword from his waist. Infusing it with the power of ice, he hurled it straight at the high-ranking demon, whose speed barely faltered.
"Enjoy my sword!" Felix shouted, his posture full of vigor as if he was unleashing his ultimate move. But at the same time, his left hand subtly aimed at the demon's forehead…
The demon, emerging from the mist of horse blood and flesh, failed to notice Felix's slight gesture. Unaware of acting, the high-ranking demon fell for it, focusing all its attention on the rune sword thrown by Felix.
What a joke! Even a death knight's food, the rune sword, was thrown. If this wasn't a big move, what was?
So, Adrian was cautious, gathering the remaining fire from the earth's core in his hands, ready to withstand this weak death knight's desperate counterattack.
Without a weapon, Adrian was confident that he could kill the death knight with just one hand!
"Clang!"
A crisp sound rang out. Adrian barely used any force, and the imposing rune sword, encased in chilling ice, was knocked away. At that moment, he realized something was amiss—he had been tricked!
"Death’s Touch!"
A dark red ray shot out from Felix's left hand, the dark red light like a laser from a high-tech era, instantly hitting the diving high-ranking demon. Death's Touch, a level 65 black magic spell, is the most potent single-target damaging spell to date, the only one capable of delivering near-curse-level single-target damage.
The dark red light, a highly concentrated combination of shadow and corrosive elements, had almost solidified into a beam under the intense compression of magical power.
The high-ranking demon let out a heaven-shaking scream!
Although Felix's Death's Touch didn't hit the demon's forehead, it corroded a hole the size of a finger in its left brain. Droplets of dark red blood dripped from the demon's head, revealing a glimpse of ghastly white brain tissue.
Indeed, worthy of a high-ranking demon from Hell. Any other creature would have died on the spot with a brain hit. But its strong magical resistance managed to negate most of the damage. Death's Touch inflicted massive damage, but it wasn't enough to end its life.
However, just as the demon was about to take revenge and crush the death knight before it, a pure white light appeared at the brain injury. The injury caused by Felix triggered the pure holy light energy lurking within the demon. Like a trapped prisoner, it desperately surged towards the demon's brain, trying to burst out of the demon's body through the wound!
"It's been seriously injured before!?" That was Felix's first reaction. When demons descend to the main material plane, their strength inevitably diminishes. Even gods can't escape the elemental backlash under the law, and the energy drained by the elemental backlash significantly weakens every being that descends to a lower plane. It's inevitable.
A high-ranking demon that had been seriously injured, weakened by elemental backlash, and now hit by his Death's Touch?
This was a prize that could tempt even epic warriors!
Felix was no exception.
He now faced a choice: flee or fight to the death?