‎”Haah… Khu-hu-hu…” Videl chuckled with his hand grasped onto his mouth, trying to suppress his excitement. “Hahaha! This is it! This is what I want to see!” He yelled, glaring at the shockwave coming toward him, and hit him, sending him flying.

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‎Rasmus and Javi’s eyes were wide open, their mouths had never been closed ever since the fight began. They had never seen such destructive power that destroyed everything to small particles. The hills that made the land look stunning had been turned into a flattened and barren land.

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‎Each shockwave that was released scraped the land little by little. Dozens of shockwaves were released every second because of the clash between Aris and the Demon King. Nobody could survive if they were too close to them, not even Rasmus’s Mana barriers.

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‎Every time the Demon King was sent to the ground, the land collapsed. The landscape was slowly turning into a big valley because of the fight. Slowly but surely, the area where Rasmus was standing would become high ground.

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‎The Demon King finally realized that he was no match for the mysterious knight he faced. He decided to fly away to report this matter, but suddenly he felt a presence behind him, and his wings got cut off from his spine.

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‎The Demon King screeched as he fell from the sky, but then he blazed the sky with hellfire that he had released from his body. However, he was shocked that Aris wasn’t affected by the hellfire, not even the ordinary armor she wore, thanks to the Aura she coated around her body.

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‎The Demon King sucked the hellfire onto his palm and re-released it right onto Aris’s face. He thought it would be enough to distract her, but once again, he was shocked that she could cut the hellfire and even extinguish it with every swing of her sword.

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‎The Demon King knew that he had no chance of escaping from Aris’s grasp. He landed and regenerated his wings slowly as he glared at Aris from underneath his helmet.

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‎Aris landed not far from the Demon King and readied her stance immediately. She dashed and swung her sword relentlessly at the Demon King, clashing her sword with the Demon King’s sword. The Demon King could match her speed, but not her strength.

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‎The Demon King controlled hellfire like a cloth that he could swing and pull with his hand. Everything melted when it made contact with the hellfire, and yet it couldn’t melt Aris’s armor and sword.

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‎Aris clashed her sword with the Demon King’s sword, noticing how durable her sword was even after everything it had gone through. However, she was also surprised that the Demon King’s sword could withstand all of her attacks, even though it regenerated like how the Demon King regenerated his armor and limbs.

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‎At this point, it was a matter of endurance and which one was the last one to stand.

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‎”I could barely see their attacks…” Rasmus muttered as he watched Aris and the Demon King’s hands, which looked blurry whenever they released an attack.

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‎”There are only a handful of humans that could be a match of this demon. However, we don’t know how many demons that are on the same level as him,” Javi responded as he watched the Demon King’s wide wings terrorize him.

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‎”At least a thousand,” Videl answered as he climbed the hill where Rasmus and Javi were. “And the more they feed on the living, the stronger they become,” he added.

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‎Javi turned around to look at Videl’s condition, surprised that Videl was fine even after getting hit by that powerful shockwave. He then thought about what Videl said, the numbers of Demon Kings and their potential of growing stronger were unsettling.

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‎”Humankind is doomed,” Videl chuckled as he watched the Demon King get sent flying by Aris’s attack and hit the ground, collapsing it even further. “At least that’s how it should be,” he grinned as he stared at Aris, who had decided to put more effort into the fight.

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‎Aris held her sword with both hands and swung it downward two times, creating a cross slash wave. The Aura that she produced was visible to the naked eye, a light blue light coated the cross slash wave.

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‎The slash wave cut through the thick and hardened soil like butter. The Demon King got hit by it and went further down into the ground that was being obliterated by the slash wave. The Demon King’s armor shattered into pieces, revealing his bare skin that was being torn and ripped apart by the slash wave.

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‎”It’s over,” Videl giggled as he jumped down and ran to the scene to devour the Demon King’s energy.

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‎Rasmus and Javi followed Videl from behind and went down to the valley. They looked around and couldn’t believe the hills and the vast land had been turned into a new terrain. The village had disappeared with no trace of it left, not even a chunk of the wall of a building survived.

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‎Videl looked down at the abyss and didn’t hesitate to jump down to devour the Demon King’s energy. Rasmus and Javi were standing on the edge, staring into the pitch black abyss where they couldn’t see the bottom of it.

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‎Aris landed behind Rasmus and slowly removed her helmet. She didn’t even break a sweat or catch a breath after the intense battle against a Demon King. She looked down and saw the demonic energy weakening, a sign of the demon had lost the fight and his life.

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‎”The sword is amazing,” Aris mentioned as she lifted her sword and observed the blade with barely any scratches on it. “I thought this would break in the middle of the fight, but I was wrong,” she said as she stabbed the sword on the ground.

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‎”I’m glad the sword’s quality is beyond your expectations,” Rasmus glanced at the sword. “How was it, fighting a Demon King?” He looked at Aris’s face.

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‎Aris slowly formed a smile on her face as she looked at Rasmus, a satisfied expression painted her face.

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‎”It was fine, but I was hoping that he was at least ten times stronger than that,” Aris answered as she looked down at the abyss.

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‎Ramus and Javi stared at Aris for a whole ten seconds without saying a word. They could finally imagine how strong she could be by imagining what they had seen but multiplied by ten. Javi couldn’t imagine how destructive it would be, however, Rasmus could imagine it. He could imagine it, and the closest scenario he could imagine would be a nuclear war.

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‎”What a shame…” Videl landed behind them with a disappointed expression. “Aris got rid eighty percent of that demon’s life. So I could only devour the remaining twenty percent,” he sighed as he rested his hands on his waist.

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‎”That’s still a big amount, more than the Duke you devoured back then?” Rasmus turned around and looked at Videl.

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‎”One and a half, to be precise,” Videl nodded as he sat down. “But I realized now that I might not be able to devour a Demon King. I would lose control, and the Demon King that I would have devoured would be the one controlling me and devoured me instead,” he said as he pressed his chest, struggling to maintain the Demon King energy within his body.

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‎”So you’re not strong enough. You should be grateful that Aris left some of the Demon King’s life and didn’t kill him completely,” Rasmus said as he pulled out the map from his ring. “And what about this whole thing? Do you think Kiel or Yaza will know about the death of a Demon King?” He glanced at Videl.

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‎”No, they won’t know until they notice that the Demon King they sent doesn’t come back to their side. Which means, there’s a chance that they will come to check. When they find out that someone killed a Demon King rank, they might look for the one who killed it,” Videl answered as he looked at Aris.

“I see, that means we need to stay low for now because of this. We also just made the demon forces from making a move, which means we are going to see more of them from now on. That’s a good and bad thing to have,” Rasmus muttered as he looked at the map. “The good thing is that we might be able to lure one of the emissaries to us, and let Aris deal with them, weakening them. The bad thing is that they will see us as a real threat, all of us, the Alliance and the South Neva Union, giving them a reason to be cautious and take extreme measures to achieve their goals,” he explained as he rolled the map and looked at the three of them.

‎”Well? Don’t you think this will make things more interesting?” Videl smirked as he stared at Rasmus. “Isn’t this basically bringing all the chaos all-together in a single moment, fastening the process of what we came for and make things easier for you?” He asked as a grin formed on his face.

Rasmus looked to the side, thinking about it for a moment. He began to nod his head as a smirk formed on his face.

“You’re right, let’s make it interesting,” Rasmus said with a smile on his face.

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