V3 Chapter 75
“Cian…seemed, different,”
Amadea who was watching from the ground couldn’t help but mutter in doubt. Though she wanted to aid and support her lover to fight against the Wind Wolf King, however, she knows that if she did, she would only hold Cian back. She was no match against the enemy, not to mention, in the air, she's at a disadvantage. if she tries to force herself, she would only die.
And if she fell in a dire situation, Cian would surely not leave her alone, and she might even cause his defeat. That's how much she was outclassed by both of them.
The battle between her lover and the Wind Wolf King was too fast and intense that she feared she would only disturb Cian if she tried to insert herself. Because of this, she was now reduced to a spectator. Still, the aura that her lover was emitting at this moment seemed to bother her.
What’s going on?
Of course, aside from his strange appearance, she can’t find anything strange from him. In fact, here’s nothing that seemed to have changed from him. He’s still the man she loved. But for some strange reason, she has this strange but foreign feeling of ‘Who’s he?’ in which is completely absurd.
It’s just a feeling that seemed to appear all of a sudden, but it bothers her too much.
As she was besieged by this strange, unfamiliar emotion, the battle between the Cian and the Wind Wolf King continued and becoming fiercer by the moment. Previously, even combining their strength, they can hardly match up against the Wind Wolf King. But to think that Cian was hiding this kind of power until now, he was actually able to contend against the Wind Wolf King to this extent. This was completely a shocking, and unbelievable turn of events.
Amadea raised an eyebrow. A cold arc of crimson light flashed in the air. Claang!
However, the Wind Wolf King blocked the black sword with his claws. And with a loud roar, it retaliated with claws, in which, Cian managed to block by a stinger-like tail that appeared from behind him. Not to mention the Wind Wolf King, it even shocks Amadea. When did he have that kind of tail? Akin to that of a Manticore?
Still, despite being poisoned by her, the Blood Alraune, and also Cian's - which she knows full well how potent his blood venom was, to think it was not weakened at all. His undaunting strength doesn't even need to be mentioned, his reflexes and speed don't seem to slow down despite the poison it had been inflicted by her and her lover.
This Monster King is really astounding. Befitting the name of a King that stands above Monsters- a Monster King.
But his lover was also not displaying any inferiority or weakness as well.
The Wind Wolf King's attacks were also dodged by Cian. The fight before her was like an epic battle of two monsters at the end of the world. Everything they passed through suffers devastating destruction. The Wind Wolf King dodged as well and blocked, unlike before, and counterattacked at any time. Cian used his ghostly speed and steps and ferocious attacks.
Moving like a ghost, fighting like a beast- the power her demon lover was now exhibiting was completely different from before. Speed, strength, battle ability, and reflexes, all of them were doubled, if not tripled. She had heard about or even seen the horror of Demons before through her inherited memories- beings of defying logic, or so they were called. Thus, they were feared and also hated by all races. Being the sole enemy of all races is not for show.
The Demonic Transformation of demons raised their power significantly, perhaps even doubled. But, even among within the memories of demons she has, the Demonic Transformation has never been so dramatic as Cian’s. of course, perhaps, it’s also because of his inheritance from her mother; the Heavenly Demon Fox, but that’s also weird itself.
In the first place, how can he still remain a demon after successfully integrating a Heavenly Beast?
Normal humans could, perhaps, do it. But not Demons. The bloodline from both races would cause rejection from each other. That's why, though few, the union of demons and werebeast, bringing a demon beast in existence, was a miracle itself. Most Werebeast dies, or go insane, and only a few are those able to control the rampaging of their bloodlines. However, Cian was even more different from them. After all, Cian was not a Werebeast, but rather a Demon originally. His transformation- merging of the two bloodlines would have been the most extreme- not dying is already a miracle, and yet he was able to use both powers without a problem.
Cian let out a loud roar, and became a crimson flash, creating sword shadows in the tumultuous sky. Clag! Clang! Clang! Even still, the Wind Wolf King was able to block most, though letting in a few, it had barely able to penetrate his barrier and tough hide. Lightning, Fire, Ice, and Darkness circled around him as if the King of the elements himself. Even Wind Blades and Water magic spells appeared.
With a burst of mad laughter that echoed in the entire sky, like a thunder bellowing, he launched a variety of magical elements simultaneously, bombarding the Wind Wolf King.
Explosions after explosions rang out, reverberating throughout the devastated battlefield. Even Amadea felt the shockwave almost knocking her back, time and time again. What power! He can actually control more than one element!
This was the first time, she had seen her lover going all out and she was dumbfounded, and awestruck even. This was the real him. This was his real power.
Not so long ago, she was confident that she can still defeat him, but either she only has blind confidence, or that Cian had hidden his true power before. Or worst, his growth was so horrifyingly fast, being called a monster would already be an understatement.
But how can someone grow that fast?
How can something like that possibly exist?
His existence enough is already defiance of nature. A rebellion to the heavens that gifted the world of what it has.
Just who are you, Cian?
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Cian he barely evaded the enemy’s swing and the claws cut through his shoulder. Despite its magic qualities, his armored scales were quickly torn apart, and blood spurted on his wound. But he completely disregards the pain- he then backed away momentarily, and in an instant dashed towards the enemy who opened its jaws at him, and dozens of wind blades hurriedly flew toward his direction.
Cian made a zigzag motion as he runs through the area, his hand flipped open, and fireballs and lightning bolt fired back. Loud explosions echoed in the entire area as two forces clashed violently. Suddenly, from the sudden impact close to him, he lost his balance and almost fell to the ground.
Seeing this, the Wind Wolf King suddenly let out a loud howl, and from his shadows came forth wolves jumping out.
It can summon?!
Cian’s eyes widened in surprise. Jumping out from the shadow of the Wind Wolf King, the wolves immediately came rushing at him, fueled by the rage of their King.
“Scraaam!!”
Looking at the charging monsters, Cian screamed and a strong burst of his aura blasted the beasts away. He stood firmly on the cleared spot; his crimson aura radiated brightly. The Wind Wolf King seemed to be capable of summoning wolves, but limited. At the very least, it seems to be able to summon ten Wind Wolves at most at a time. But what made it even worse is that it can actually summon endlessly.
More and more wolves came out from his shadow.
Cian grinned wickedly. His eyes gleamed brightly with insane light.
“You sure know how to make a fun party for me, that’s why I like you Wolf King! Make me bleed more!”
Cian dashed towards the Wind Wolf King with a peal of mad laughter. Though he felt his body crying from pain, he hardly cares. Despite enhancing his physical body to endure the power of the Blood Release, it’s still not enough. Well, in the first place, this skill was a one-second death skill. Because a human cannot endure the side effects of the skill, it became a certain death skill.
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But with his current body, he was slowly being able to control it much better than before. However, the toll on his body from the intense fight doubles, and thus, was becoming too much for him to endure. It wouldn’t be weird at all if he would suddenly keel over and fainted, though that would surely be his death.
Still, though he was healing quite quickly with [Rapid Recovery] the degree of his wounds and injuries was not catching up with his self-healing. His face now pale, and his consciousness blacking, losing too much blood due to his double-edged skill. Still, Cian fought like a wild beast in vengeance.
“Curse of Insanity!”
Suddenly, with a wide grin on his face, he suddenly invoked a curse, of course, not to his enemy but rather to himself. In an instant, his mind turned blank, and his vision dyed even redder. And he started laughing in madness.
The pain slowly subsided, and his power surge. Though the curse of madness is a negative spell that curses the target into insanity, when used to himself, however, he instead experiences an increase even power even more by falling into madness himself.
With this, the side effects of the [Blood Release] was reduced as his body magically enhanced by madness, and was in a berserk state. The pain dulled, and his wound seemed to have automatically healed and recovered. Though this is just an illusion, well, at least most of it, fooling his senses, and the after effect once the magic disappeared would make one feel as if they rather die than live, due to excruciating pain.
Like a mad berserker, Cian runs through the uneven ground, then suddenly leaped off boulders and broken trees, putting himself in the middle of the wolf pack that was rushing in his direction. On his way in, his knees smashed into the head of a giant wolf which was emitting a feral savageness. His claws, legs, and stinger reaped the lives of the wolves as he was the grim reaper that came to take their lives with a single scythe.
Crush! Cian reached his hand and grabbed a wolf's head like an iron claw, and suddenly squashed it with brute strength, before reaping it out of its neck. Glub! Glub! Glub! He raised the crushed head on top of him and drunk the blood along with the brain juice that was squeezed out like an apple.
"It's good that you came, I'm starving!"
Cian replaced the blood he had lost from [Blood Release] with the blood he had drunk. Though this should have been impossible, however, something seemed to have awakened inside of him. His demon blood boiling, seemingly excited from the savagery he was committing. He had fueled rapid recovery with the blood of his enemies. Suddenly-
[Your Demon Blood surge in excitement from the demonic miasma you were releasing. Bloodline Skill: [Blood Feed] had been unlocked!]
[Consuming Blood of an ancient monster had caused a resonance within you. Bloodline Skill: [Blood Frenzy] had been unlocked!]
Power surged through him. His eyes glowed in crimson light and red veins started to appear on his skin and scaled armor.
He grinned like a manic demon and tossed the dried up crushed head to the nearest wolf before pouncing on the other. It was unexpected, something he had not even imagined. But it happened. Though he doesn't know how, the skills he had unlocked was as if the Gods have been watching him at this moment and giving him a gift of victory.
His fangs stretched longer, and the hunger for blood spiked. Without hesitation, he pounced on the wolves that seemed to have been terrified by his actions. It was not a battle anymore, like a hungry wolf thrown into a herd of sheep, it was a massacre.
Any wolves that dared to approach or even stayed nearby were massacred by him, splattering wolf blood everywhere.
The pack of wolves became smaller and smaller. An angry howl rang out. By this time, the surroundings were already covered in wolf corpses, as well as a few limping around, heavily injured. Seeing this, the Wind Wolf King howled in anger as well as sorrow.
Cian wiped the blood on his mouth with the back of his hand and grinned. The fierce expression on the Wolf King's face as he glared at him was like a work of art, beautiful. He laughed loudly, full of madness.
"What's wrong, Wolf King?! Not having fun anymore?!"
Rooooooooaaaaarrrr!!
In anger, the Wind Wolf King opened its large jaw, and a dazzling beam-like power suddenly shot from it. Seeing this, Cian was quite surprised that the beast even knows how to fire a beam, which he found rather interesting.
“How dare you light me up, Beast King! [Riparo]!”
Cian snorted in anger, and immediately after dark mist suddenly appeared around him, forming into an egg-shaped like barrier.
The beam-like attack of the Wind Wold King clashed with the black mist, but it was unable to block it and pierces his body. Cian grunted in pain. The hit had made both of his arms release white smoke as if he was being burned. Cian snorted, rage appeared inside his face. He was now really pissed. The pain was making him angry at the same, excited.
"Catch me, if you dare!"
With a somersault, he started moving the pair of black flames covered skeleton wings on his back and started flying away from the Wind Wolf King, wanting to make a distance. He drifts by, boulders and trees, with incredible lightning-like speed, the gravity tugging him down as the Beast King’s wind blades hum around him like a fleet of tiny zeppelins.
His face frozen in a teeth-gnashing growl, a thrill and excitement coursing through his bloodstream increasing the boiling of his blood. But he had already consumed hundreds of liters of blood, and he has more to spare.
Wind blasts and blades came hurtling toward him, still, Cian continued to fire lightning bolts and fireballs as he runs towards the Wind Wolf King. Like an epic battle of two titans, they met clashed head-on with incredible auras that created sparks that sizzled in the air.
Cian, with his arm coated with plasma, swung and swat away an incoming wind blade while the other hand slashed the black sword. The Wind Wolf King didn’t dare retreat and jump sideways, avoiding the slash, before swinging its massive arms against him. In an instant, a huge paw tipped with sharp, sickle-like claws, swung for his upturned face.
As the sickle-like claws of the Wind Wolf King above him swung for his face, Cian dodged with a side step. But the berserking beast was not to be so easily dismissed. With a blood-curdling roar, it plunged down after him again. The more critical the crisis, the stronger the fighting power and consciousness displayed by Cian, and the more sober his mind becomes.
With the help of the metamorphosis he had undergone after burning his blood, the Wind Wolf King’s attack that seemed impossible to avoid, was evaded by his incredible flexibility, and instinct.
The long black sword that could not be slashed properly with how close they were, immediately wriggled, shrunk, becoming a small dagger. Then, he turned around on the ground. Then, he made use of the power of turning to transform his black dagger into a crimson light, which swept across the throat of the Wind Wolf King.
The Wind Wolf King let out a guttural cry as blood gushed out from the cut on its throat. However, the Wind Armor was able to reduce the power of the [Imagis Realis], causing the wound to become shallow.
With a savage grin on its beastly face, it opened its mouth wide, baring its fangs.
Cian felt smack by the Wind Wolf King’s thoughts dropping on his head, and he felt displeased.
“You’re the one who is stupid!”
Asnort came from Cian’s lips as expression turned menacing.
And before the Wind Wolf King could cold take a bite out of him, something came out from his back, a scorpion stinger gleamed in sharp light, and stabbed through its right eye.
“Gu-gyaaaaah!!”
The Wind Wolf King step back in pain, closing its eyes desperately. It’s attention snapped from its opponent to the excruciating pain in his right eye. Thus, it was unable to defend itself-
Baaaang!
A large, powerful impact hit its jaw, causing its large head to raised upwards, its consciousness seemed to cut off for a moment. It felt its body falling down when once again it felt a powerful, painful impact on its abdomen, and it felt flying in the air.
And that was just the start of its tragedy.
Cian looks at the monster he had sent flying with a kick, suspended in the air. His body continued emitting smoke, and his right arm had turned into an ugly white covered, muscular arm akin to that of a gorilla. On his back was a swaying scorpion stinger, dripping with his venom.
The Chimera’s power that enables him to transplant the body parts of a monster or beasts into his body. With his right hand of the Ogre Ape King and the stinger of the deadly Desert Scorpion, his strength skyrocketed.
It truly is the right choice to hide this ability until the last minute!
Cian grinned.
Depending on the strength of the Wind Wolf King, it would only take six to seven minutes at most before the venom loses its effects, and it snapped out from its numbness. Though, his venom would still be in its blood, killing it softly, unless, it has an incredible high poison resistance. However, the Wind Wolf King would still be able to fight.
These few minutes of being stunned might decide everything in this battle.
And Cian could not waste it.
The Wind Wolf King would not fall for the same trick-his scorpion stinger would be useless if this battle continues longer. An Assassin’s Vow; Never give the enemy any second chance!
The rules apply to weak enemies. As long as they’re alive, there’s still a risk. Even if victory is already in his grasp, Cian would never let his guard down.
With the last burst in strength, Cian let out a loud yell, bright and dazzling electric sparks crackled out from his body, and he disappeared, like a lightning bolt streaking into the air, and flashed behind the Wind Wolf King.
Twisting his waist, he did a roundhouse kick, knocking the beast further up. He screamed doing more kicks to the Wind Wold King’s chest, making the beast scream as the burns from the punches and kicks ravaged his body.
Cian then turned around and he quickly rushed towards still flying Wind Wolf King and heavily kicked. The sudden kick caused the giant beast to fly towards another direction in the air. Amadea and the other wolves who were watching this battle from the ground could only see the silhouette of Cian all over the air, and the giant beast was powerlessly sent flying here and there and taking continuous hits.
Blood rained down from above, like a red rain shower.
“Die Beast King!”
Unable to do anything, the Wind Wolf King could stare, helplessly at the bright flashed that covers his vision.
"- [Le Jugement]!!
Cian had grasped his sword that had slowly transformed into a black spear coated with bright, dazzling lightning sparks. And without hesitation, he throws it towards the giant wolf’s helpless body, creating a thunderous explosion that covered the entire forest within a massive cloud of mushroom-like dust, smoke and dirt, engulfing everything.
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