Once they entered the dimension of Sloth, Maria and her two vampire dukes were immediately met with a group of flesh golems who attacked them the moment they appeared.
“My Queen!”
“Your Highness!”
Ash and Carmilla quickly stepped in front of Maria and repelled the flesh golems. They fired off 2 [Blood Rays] and immediately turned the golems into pools of blood with a single shot. Although the monsters were high-ranking flesh golems, their levels were far too low compared to the two vampire dukes so a single technique was all it took to immediately kill the monsters. There were a few more flesh golems still standing but Ash and Carmilla quickly took care of them with a few more [Blood Ray] skills.
“My Queen, are these flesh golems the monsters that you want us to take care of?” Ash asked.
Maria nodded at his question and answered, “Yes, these things are the mob monsters of the Sloth Dimension so they are your targets. For now, just follow me and help me search for the sealing artifact that’s keeping the Sin Devil locked up. Once we unseal the devil, you two will then deal with the horde of monsters that will come.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“As you will, my Queen.”
Maria and the two vampires took to the air as they avoided the land-bound flesh golems and began searching for the artifact that was keeping the Sin Devil sealed. The Sloth Dimension was similar to the previous Sin Devil Dimensions that Maria had already cleared so with her experience, she quickly found the artifact as the structure of the dimensions were similar and the artifact was generally located at the spot where the least amount of mobs was at.
The sealing artifact kept the mob monsters away due to its aura but once the artifact was broken and the Sin Devil was unleashed, the mob monsters would immediately rush towards the location of the Sin Devil as the mobs were something like pieces of the devil and the more mobs it absorbed into its body, the stronger it would become.
Maria would fight the Sin Devil by herself, but the task to keep the mobs away was very important because without the Sin Devil being able to empower itself through absorbing those mobs, her fight would become so much easier.
Standing in front of the artifact that kept the Sin Devil sealed inside of a statue, Maria turned to her vampire dukes and said, “Ash, Carmilla, get ready. I’m going to break the seal and once I do, those flesh golems will start stampeding right towards us. You two need to make sure that not a single one gets close to the Sin Devil or else it’ll absorb them and get stronger.”
“We’ll fulfill our duties just like you asked, my Queen.”
“Do not worry, Your Highness. I will not let those disgusting things interfere with your battle.”
“Okay, I’m unsealing it now.”
Maria took out Calamity and struck the sealing artifact once, twice, until finally, it broke into pieces. The statue of the Sin Devil, Sloth, began to shake as the rough, stony layer that was encasing it peeled off and revealed the devil’s true form.
{I’m finally FREEEEEEE!!!}
It was the same dialogue the other Sin Devils always shouted when Maria broke their seals. She already knew what it was about to say next so without further ado, she immediately rushed at the monster after tying it down with her Greed’s Chains and Envy’s Shadows before she began hacking it with her ax.
{YOU FOOLISH–
“–Mortal, yes, I know, I know. All your dialogues are the same so I don’t care. I don’t want to strike a deal and I don’t want to form a pact. All I want to do is kill and absorb you as I did with your other friends so please be obedient and just die, okay?” Maria said with a smile on her face as she continued hacking the poor Sin Devil that had just recently awoken.
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Maria had gotten used to dealing with these Sin Devils already so putting her previous experience in play, she first needed to deal with the pesky devils’ ability to fly so it wouldn’t be able to reach the mobs that it desperately needed to absorb to regain its power and get stronger.
“[Zantetsuken]!”
Maria used her Zantetsu-R to execute her sword skill and managed to easily chop off one of Sloth’s wings.
{GAHHHH!!! I WILL KILL YOU MORTAL!}
“Hmph.”
With only one wing, the devil could no longer fly so now it wouldn’t be able to try and escape from battle when things became too dangerous for it. Of course, it could try jumping or running away but with Maria’s mobility, catching up and preventing it from getting too far away was too easy. Thanks to her new abilities and battle style, Maria bullied the Sin Devil until it actually began begging her to stop, especially after it saw Maria using the abilities of its fellow Sin Devils.
She used Greed, Envy, Lust, and Wrath’s abilities and even had their Origin Sins carved on her body. Sloth was in despair after seeing Maria transform into her [Nightmare] form because the energy it felt from her had become very similar to his own and in its current state, Maria’s presence as a Sin carrier was stronger since she possessed 4 of the Seven Deadly Sins.
{NO, PLEASE! STOP! I’ll DO–}
“Man, you’re probably the weakest out of the bunch I fought. At least use your Sin ability. The other 4 I killed previously put up a decent fight, but you’re just terrible,” Maria said after feeling a slight tinge of pity towards the poor sin devil.
{GAHH!!}
Sloth raised another pained cry as Maria used another [Zantetsuken] and this time, she severed the devil’s arm. Another [Zantetsuken] was delivered and this one cut off a leg and Maria continued to send one [Zantetsuken] after the other until all that was left of Sloth was his torso and head.
{GAAHH!! NO! NOOOO!!!}
“...Man, you’re really pitiful.”
Maria didn’t know it, but she had become way too strong for the Sin Devil Dimensions. Originally, all of the Sin Books should have been conquered before she had reached level 100 but Maria was already level 125 and she had obtained a lot of stat points which pushed her actual combat level to at least somewhere in the 200s.
Sloth’s dimension required Maria to be level 80 or so to complete so it was only reasonable that at her current state, Maria could toy around with Sloth and turn it completely helpless in their fight. It would have been harder if Sloth had been given the chance to merge with a few tens of flesh golems but thanks to Ash and Carmilla’s efforts, the Sin Devil didn’t get a chance to empower itself.
“I guess I’ve outgrown these trials. The remaining two should be easy if Sloth’s trial was this effortless to complete,” Maria said as she stabbed her Calamity-Z right into Sloth’s devil heart.
Once she killed the Sin Devil, all of the mobs in the dimension began to die off one by one. Maria pulled out Sloth’s Essence and quickly popped it into her mouth. She felt heat rise up from her abdomen and it began spreading throughout her body before dissipating after quite a while.
After her Awakening, Maria’s body had become much sturdier and the only thing she would feel after ingesting a Sin Devil’s Essence was a slight heat that would spread through her body before feeling a bit cold and then going back to normal.
*DING*
You have absorbed the Sloth’s Life Essence. You have assimilated with the Origin Sin of Sloth! All Skills and Spells +1 skill level 666,666 EXP gained 66,666 Gold obtained
*DING*
You have learned the skill: Enervation!
Skill Name: Enervation Level: 1 (0/2500) Description: Inflicts the target with either [Sleep] or [Stop] debuffs Effect 1: 80% chance to inflict the target with [Sleep] debuff. The target will awaken after 5 minutes or until they receive an attack from any source
Effect 2: 20% chance to inflict the target with [Stop] debuff. Targets inflicted with [Stop] will have their actions restricted for 5 seconds and all of their abilities sent into Cooldown MP Cost: 5000+(INT x 0.01) MP Cooldown: 10 minutes
Maria searched around Sloth’s body before she finally found the item that came with defeating Sloth. It was a pair of gloves that had Sloth’s sigil on it so she quickly equipped it.
*DING*
You have obtained Sloth’s Hand: Glove of Locus!
Item Name: Gloves of Locus Rank: Epic Level: 80 (Upgradeable) DEF: 1000 ~ 1505 Random Stat: +100% Restrictions: None Bound Level Requirement: 80 Description: The Sin Devil Sloth’s unique item. It was sealed away with the Sin Devil because it couldn’t be taken off. It has the ability to magically teleport objects from one location to another. Sloth, the laziest of the devils, used this ability for his everyday needs. It is the greatest item for a person who is too lazy to do anything
Maria immediately equipped it and noticed that her STR stat had increased by 100% thanks to the random stat enhancement from the gloves.
STR: 7962 → 8582
“I hope the other two items I get will enhance my AGI and VIT. This way, I can focus all my FSPs into my attack related stats like STR and INT!”