Chapter 220: 220. Chickens (demons) on the chopping board – 1

“You curse a lot; now I will make you regret every curse of yours,” Bellial spoke and moved towards Inari with the intention to take her life.

Andrea, still stunned by the last attack, struggled to get up. Her vision blurred and doubled as she pushed herself off the shattered ground. Something was sticking to her head, something alive like a parasite. It pulsed faintly, burrowing near her temple as if feeding on her mind.

She tried to shake her head, but the demonic creature clung stubbornly, sending waves of stabbing pain through her skull.

When almost all her hope was lost, a huge sound blared across the battlefield.

Bellial stopped in his tracks as he heard the unsettling sound. At the center of the academy, beyond the light barrier that had been restricting the demon army’s path.

In the core area, a huge light beam shot out towards the sky, punching through the clouds.

The beam rose like a pillar connecting heaven and earth; its brilliance was so intense that the clouds around it dissolved into glowing mist, although the beam’s endpoints were still covered by the blanket of clouds.

Bellial, stunned at the huge commotion, turned around. His glistening face was without eyes and reflected the golden beam; his breath quieted down, and hints of quiet shivering appeared in his fingers.

Almost all the demons in the whole perimeter of the academy were stunned, seeing the influx of so much light energy radiating from the core area of the academy.

Some of the weaker demons instinctively recoiled, their grotesque forms shrinking back as if their bodies recognized the deadly purity of the energy.

As if immediately, the huge boom that had stunned everyone died down, and silence reigned in the academy. a stunning and unsettling silence before another sound, much nastier and sinister, for the demons.

Roaaaaaaar!!!!!

A massive roar shook the whole Aris continent. The sound rolled across mountains, forests, and cities like the cry of a primordial being awakening from slumber; even thousands of miles away, the whole northern arctic shook by the roar.

The clouds parted violently, and a massive halo appeared, a figure made entirely of light elemental energy.

Golden wings spread wide behind the armored knight’s halo; each feather was blazing with molten light. Streams of radiant particles drifted from the wings like falling sparks from a divine forge.

A circular ring halo burned above the helm like a second sun suspended in the air.

Its armor radiated piercing golden light that made any demonic being here uncomfortable, its surface covered with faintly shifting runic patterns that flowed like liquid sunlight across the plates.

In both of his hands, the knight held long, luminous blades pointed downward as he fell toward the battlefield.

The blades were enormous, each longer than a tower, and their edges hummed with violent light energy that crackled and rippled through the air.

Demons tried to swarm away from that spot. Panic spread through their ranks like wildfire. Creatures that moments ago had fought fearlessly now scrambled in every direction, clawing over one another to escape the descending judgment.

Marcus, meanwhile, stopped. Along with him, the celestial army and the academy professors stopped and looked in the sky with reverence.

The scariest part was not the light and the size, but the head of the knight.

Not a head, actually; there were four heads on his neck, a ring of four heads covered by full-face helms without even eyeholes, making it look just like the holier and more ferocious version of Bellial.

Each helmet faced a different direction, silently watching every corner of the battlefield as if no movement could escape their awareness.

The knight struck the ground like divine judgment. Stone and debris shattered outward along with the crushed pulp of demons.

The ground cracked beneath the impact, and the floating island itself trembled under the arrival of this radiant colossus.

A shockwave of light burst from the left blade as it pierced the earth. The blade sank into the stone like a knife through butter.

The shockwaves spread to the whole battlefield, stunning the demons immobile. The demons that were closest to the swords were disintegrated instantly as their bodies started unraveling into ash before they could even scream.

Their flesh dissolved into drifting motes of grey dust, leaving behind only empty shadows that faded seconds later.

For the first time in their lives, Celestial army officers saw demons running away for their lives, struggling to get a chance to live.

Grotesque winged creatures screeched as they fled into the sky, only to be struck by waves of light that burned holes through their bodies.

A massive horned demonic beast turned and ran, their hooves tearing trenches into the ground as instinct forced them away from the radiance.

The knight then slammed the right blade into the ground, and another shockwave erupted, this time much more ferociously.

The waves of light elemental energy slammed everything in a vast area.

The ground glowed briefly as the energy spread outward in expanding rings.

It even reached Bellial, hitting him with a slam, and his body thrashed and fell to the ground a few meters away.

Bellial clenched his chest and started breathing heavily. His demonic aura flickered violently as if struggling against the oppressive purity surrounding the battlefield.

Meanwhile, Andrea, who had been struggling to stand up, suddenly felt her headache multiply several times before something squirmed and creaked in her head, and a flopping sound was heard by her.

Finally, relief spread all over her body, and her eyes opened properly for the first time after the most recent hit she had taken; she chugged a few bottles of potion and looked at the ground.

She saw a weird and small gooey demonic creature with tentacles squirming and struggling on the ground as if it were taking its last breaths.

The parasite shriveled under the flood of light energy saturating the battlefield.

Finally, it died, and Andrea quickly placed the creature’s corpse in a jar before throwing it in her space ring.

Meanwhile, the massive knight took another step, and the floating island quaked in the air. The sheer weight of its presence distorted the air around it.

Andrea lost her footing but still managed to turn around.

All she saw was a huge leg and blades before her gaze moved upward, and she scanned the whole halo of the colossus knight that had just descended.

“Holy…” she murmured in surprise; she wondered whether this was really something a formation could do. She had to contact Kevin and learn how to control this halo before it mistakenly killed her own people.

But then the knight moved one of his swords and swung it low as if sweeping the whole battlefield. The motion was slow and appeared to be lazy relative to the knight’s size, yet terrifying for the small creatures below.

Andrea, alarmed, quickly took to the sky, fearing friendly fire, but then she saw it happening. The blade just passed through the others, while the demons just got cut in half.

Their bodies split apart instantly, clean lines of light slicing through armor, flesh, and bone as if they were nothing but paper. A major portion of the battlefield was swept like this, as if this knight were killing pests.

Hundreds of demons collapsed in pieces, their bodies dissolving into ash before they even touched the ground. The battlefield cleared in seconds, leaving only drifting smoke and fading light where swarms of demons had stood moments earlier.

Andrea remained surprised for a moment, but then regained her composure. She needed to make sure Bellial didn’t try to escape.

After all, she was pretty sure that this massive knight halo would be able to kill a demon lord today.

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