Chapter 12: The Gluttony

The imaginary technique is actually quite simple to activate, but using it too much will cause your brain to overload. However, as time passes, your brain will adjust to it, and you will have time to worry about yet another drawback of this method. That is letting your imagination get a hold of you. Causing you to lose yourself entirely, become an image until you out of mana or you die

Beelzebub knows this, but in order to kill the demon, he has to use everything from his arsenal by shutting himself down in order to preserve his brain. He will now act on instinct, giving him the ability to use control mana close to 100%.

Beelzebub mana begins to form around him;he transform back to his old self.

A small pair of fly wings come out of his back, and a hazardous green flame that can drive one to insanity covers his naked iron skin like a cloak; multiple fangs spread out from his mouth; and sharp blades come out of his fingers. His eye turns completely crimson with target pattern pupils. Then his eyes suddenly filled with homicidal will, looking at the nearest prey. He released his fist, his finger tensed and curled into a claw-like shape, with fingers bent and poised as if ready to strike. Mana gathered around his finger and stretched all the way to his elbow. Two long blades grow out of his elbow.

The Gluttony has returned. Well, partially for this is all he can recreate without wasting to much mana

The knight, who is looking at Beelzebub curiously senses a sudden danger, lunges forward like a rabbit, trying to end him, but before the knight could kill Beelzebub, it had to guard against Beelzebub’s brutal swing that tore off a portion of his vambraces.

Surprised, the knight raised its hand and copied Beelzebub, doing the same strike, but he dodged it even before the attack was executed.

Except for the sight, every single sense of Beelzebub has been amplified to such a ridiculous degree, giving him the ability to foresight the opponent’s next attack.

The knight raised both of it's hands and struck from all angles. But Beelzebub dodged all of that smoothly and quickly like a fly, and with each dodge, he swung his elbow at the knight, leaving multiple slash marks on his body.

Annoyed by this, the knight retreated back and screamed like a ravage beast.

“KRKRKRKRKRKR”

A ball of flame forming behind it’s back then exploded, creating a shockwave that boost the knight’s speed to an even higher realm for a moment. The knight raised its hand in order to grab Beelzebub’s head and rip it off.

Beelzebub may be able to sense the attack but cannot dodge in time. He look at the attack and open up his maw.

CRUNCH

“GRKGRGRKGRK”

It moved its hand away in agony. Beelzebub stepped back a little with half of it's hand in his mouth; he swallowed it, then began to approach the knight.

The hand has fueled a little amount of demonic energy in him and give him the skin as tough as the knight's armor. With his newfound strength, Beelzebub, whose skin tone turn from gray to dark crimson, overwhelm the knight with fury of attacks. All aim at the head.

The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.

Realized that it cannot win against close combat. The knight tried to retreat, but only to be grabbed by the leg and slammed into the ground. Beelzebub grabbed the knight’s knee with his other hand and ripped it off.

“KRKR“

The knight kicked Beelzebub away but was dodged by the later. Beelzebub reached the knight’s neck, trying to slash it.

SZZZZZ

Fire spewed from the knight’s helm giving it a little space making Beelzebub step back. It flips itself up only to be kicked down again by Beelzebub, but this time it chooses to be knocked down

The soil suddenly became liquified, giving the knight the ability to dive down before rising up far away. Beelzebub rushed in but it was too late

The knight then sucked the air around. At the same time, the fire inside his helm grows much more intense. Flame began to envelope around the knight before it was ignited.

BOOM

A huge dark crimson fire plume appeared where the knight was; the intense heat assaulted everything surrounding it. The trees, caught on fire, begin to burn, creating a conflagration.

This attack wasn’t meant to target Beelzebub but rather to provide an opportunity for the knight to employ its other ability.

Touching with both hands on the ground. The earth begins to contort like dough before being heated and morphs into multiple clay hands.

Even if the terrain becomes much harder to stand on, Beelzebub is still capable of holding his ground. Jumping up and down, trying to reach the knight. But those hands shot up, trying to grab him.

Beelzebub dodged, deflected, and slashed, using everything he had, but it was not enough. One hand took a grip on him, his skin sizzling from the heat, and his bone cracked from the grip strength. He destroyed it only for another to come and another. Beelzebub is now stuck on his track due to constantly destroying the hands.

Seeing this as an opportunity, the three mechanical eyes flare up and shoot three fire beams at Beelzebub.

Incapable of dodging, he had no choice but to block the attack. The first beam targeted his head, but he managed to dodge it at the last second; still, a long gash appeared sideways on his face.

Beelzebub raised his left arm to intercept the second beam that targeted his heart, causing the arm to melt down.

The final beam is the only one that managed to pierce through his body, right where his stomach was. Those attacks weaken and distract him, causing him to get pinned down by the hands and drag him to the ground before burrowing him.

The knight’s victory was near until a loud boom was heard. Looking behind him, he sees a huge red energy targeting him. Using his hand to swat it away, but by doing so, making him lose control of the earth

BOOM

Beelzebub burst out of the ground, dashed toward the knight, and kicked him with all of his strength, sending the knight flying.

Even though he has already lost an arm, a hole in his stomach, and a depleted mana reserve. But his stance is solid; lowering his body, he didn’t use a mana claw but five mana blades at each finger, raising upward before channeling more mana. Blood oozed out Beelzebub’s lip.

The knight, from the air, realizes this is the final showdown, chooses to stay up in the air. Fire coming out of its feet as it’s copying the opponent's stance but raising a fist instead. The dark crimson fire swirled around the knight shaping a spear like the golden spear .

They locked eyes with each other and-

BOOOM

Two loud bangs shook the surroundings as both demons flew to each other’s, ready to kill.

But even unconscious Beelzebub is still Beelzebub, the Gluttony and a devil full of tricks. The amulet, which has gone idle during all of this, begins to illuminate, sending the state Beelzebub in to the knight, which affects the knight for a mere second. But that mere second is enough for the Beelzebub attack to reach first and

SLASH

The spear, which is one centimeter close to Beelzebub's eye stop. The knight head seperate from it's body, killing it

Falling down along with Beelzebub, who lost all of his strength after killing the enemy.

THUD

As two demons fall down, Beelzebub forms begin to revert back to Isaac.

“COUGH COUGH”

His body shook, coughing up blood. But for the knight, it begins to stand up and revert back to the rabbit form with the spear piercing it's body.

The headless knight pulled the spear out before speaking with a human voice instead of a mechanical one.

“For the God-the God of-C-“

Like running out of battery, it stopped talking and just stood there upright, like looking at the sky.