Capítulo 38: End of Durahel's battle
Rather than a chaotic melee where both sides clashed without proper strategy and formation, the current war could be described as a total one sided annihilation. Mays and Ria together with their spirits swept away their adversaries easily as they rushed toward their target, Zaramoth who was in the middle of the enemy's encirclement.
Even if those lined up around Zaramoth were intermediate bosses, they wouldn't be able to triumph against the spirit army for sure. As for these weak normal demonic beings, they were killed easily as stomping insects. Not even one minute passed and half of the demonic beings already turned into corpses.
With most of the spirits engaged the demonic beings, Mays's party made up of Ria, Minerva and the rest of his spirits attacked Zaramoth directly.
"Dual Slash!"
"Shield Bash!"
The usual common combo from Mays and Ria sent Zaramoth flying on air. It was impossible to do so previously when Zaramoth was in its real form. It used to be as large as a mountain after all.
"Triple Icicle!" "Hellfire Burst!"
"Homing Arrow!" "Armor Piercing Bullet!"
Showered by countless attack by these top tier players and spirits, Zaramoth who couldn't retaliate took every attack head on. Mays who watched the whole situation rushed toward Zaramoth again soon after the barrage of attack died down. He obviously had no intention of giving his enemy any chance to take a breather.
"Ria! Proceed with the same combo until the boss givvvv SUPPORT RESISTANT BUFF HEALER AREA HEAL NOWWW!!!"
Mays was about to order Ria and the rest to keep attacking before he noticed something was amiss. He immediately shouted to alert everyone else.
"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!"
Darkness Realm had been invoked.
The dark energy all around the area swiftly gathered into Zaramoth which then initiated a dark element shockwave outburst within one kilometer radius. The impact of that shockwave was nothing to be scoffed at. Even a gold ranked godkins might die instantly if they have low dark element resistance.
Even those outside the impact radius sustained damage from that outburst let alone those within. Most of the demonic beings died upon contact despite their high affinity with dark element.
"Ugh."
Mays groaned as he wiped the blood coming out from his mouth. He was injured quite badly considering how close he was to Zaramoth. Not too far from his current location was Ria who had scratches all over. She suffered less damage compared to Mays thanks to her high defense.
"Healers, spam Holy Cries and World Heal! Those previously on standby, cover up for the injured while they recuperate."
Not wasting any time, Mays stood up and immediately commanded the rest of the army. It was good that he trusted Ria's insight and removed those lower level spirits from the fight earlier on. Thanks to that, they were not caught up in the outburst where their death would be imminent otherwise.
In addition to his final warning before the outburst, several healers and supports with high cast speed managed to cast their spell before the outburst hit them. That helped in reducing the casualties sustained by their side.
"You healer over there, heal Mays now."
Pointing her finger at the closest healer she saw, she asked her to heal Mays right away. She didn't even know what the name of that healer was despite the healer being one of her spirit. As a knight, she was way more durable to damage unlike Mays who was formerly a swordsman hence she didn't need any healing even after that attack.
"Dat bitch really can use Darkness Realm. Where is she now by the way?"
"She is gone. She detonated herself. That's how she triggered 'Darkness Realm' outside the normal way."
As someone who fought at the front, Mays was the first to notice the changes on Zaramoth. Just before he proceed with his next attack, he saw Zaramoth's figure started distorting out of proportion, bulging all over when she started absorbing darkness energy around the perimeter. Zaramoth exploded soon after.
Mays's gaze landed on his spirits who gathered all over him after the blast. Despite their variety of injuries all over, none of them died. Their perfect gear were not just for show. Every single one of them have high elemental resists and decent defense to survive most boss's deadly skill. They were the spirits of Mays after all, a legendary character whose name resounded all over HeavensTale.
"This… This could not be happening!"
Alakan himself was shocked by the current flow of event. Never would he had thought that his dukedom's guardian beast, Zaramoth would detonate just like that. Zaramoth should still have more fight in it. This was different to the fact written inside their ancient scroll. Zaramoth should be able to put up a better fight.
Even before this, Alakan already guessed that something was strange with Zaramoth but he thought that it would be something good. Even he didn't know why Zaramoth managed to perform humanification out of nowhere. That was an act only available for those gold ranked insane bosses, not something a silver rank could do. However, he had no inkling to what might be the reason for that.
"Could… could it be… that guy…"
At this moment, Alakan realized how horribly wrong his thought was.
At first, he thought it was just a fluke that Mays managed to kill his master, Babila. Not like he care about Babila that much though. He was just assigned as his servant by the elders in their dukedom. As a loyalist, he had no other choice but to follow the order.
As the fight goes on, Mays managed to pull out impossible stunt one after another. If his memory served him right, in this fight alone, there were multiple occasions where Mays would have died if not for his companions being there to support him.
But now, he did something totally unthinkable even for Alakan. Zaramoth who had been living for thousands of year had been killed by them. Despite the fact that Zaramoth detonated itself, it was in the end happened after it had been cornered by Mays and the rest.
It would be understandable if the result of this fight was mutual destruction or at least a huge loss for their side but apparently it was not. Zaramoth had fallen without being able to kill even one of their opponents. How impossible a feat was that?
There was also the fact that some things Zaramoth did was totally different from what was written. Even the humanification was actually something which was impossible for Zaramoth. Nobody knew if this changes was actually caused by that godkin called Mays or not.
But again, all these were just speculation made by the cornered rat named Alakan. He was just a demonic beings of this world, devoid of information from HeavensTale.
Not like these demonic beings understood the concepts of level and instances anyways. For a twenty-five man dungeon's boss to be raided by one hundred higher level opponents, even a noob gamer from earth could predict the outcome easily.
"What should we do now Alakan? They even beat Lord Zaramoth."
"I'll wait no longer. They even got Lord Zaramoth!"
While Dimes was flustered after witnessing the whole fight, Grot appeared to be consumed by anger, immediately rushed forward without fear. He didn't even bother consulting the rest of them.
"Grot, wait!"
Alakan tried to stop Grot but the angry Grot had already lose all reasoning, ignoring him completely.
"DIE HUMAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
A heavy swing of Grot's great axe landed on Ria's shield. His attack target was Mays but Ria who was nearby moved instinctively to shield Mays.
"You need to defeat me first, demon. Heavy Thrust!"
Ria's sword vibrated vigorously before it pierced forward, stabbing Grot right at his torso. Grot was totally caught off-guard. After his axe strike got blocked by Ria, he was left totally defenceless from all side.
"Ria."
"Injured people should stay back. I alone is more than enough for this kind of enemy. Or do you not have faith in your own woman?"
Before Mays could say more, Ria already told him to stay put.
"Of course I have complete faith in you. It's just… Don't go overboard."
"Uh oh, I'll try hehe."
Mays chuckled as he replied. It never was his intention to stop Ria from fighting. The years they spent together were not for show. Mays literally knew everything about Ria who was always true to herself. Especially the part where she was always eager to rush forward and face her opponents.
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"Master, can I go hunt those remaining demonic beings?"
"Yes master. Mira also wants to kill some more."
"…"
Both Syaitona and Mira were motivated to press on. Even Silvia, Damia and the others were looking at Mays full of anticipation. Mays knew that they also wanted to kill those demonic beings despite their silent.
"Well, go for it. They were just leftover anyways."
"Right away, master."
"Squads! Kill all demonic beings on sight. Leave none alive!"
After thanking Mays in unison, every single spirit of Mays moved away and rushed toward the crowd of demonic beings not too far from them. Most of the spirits army also followed suit after they heard Mays's command. Only the injured and healers who tended their injury stayed behind.
"You're not going?"
"No reason for me to. And the command I received from master was to ensure your safety."
Mays who noticed that Minerva stayed behind asked for her reason. As always, she answered truthfully without fabricating or hiding anything. She was a spirit all right.
"Even though she planned to punish you thoroughly after this?"
"Please don't mention that part."
"Hahaha okay."
Mays had no intention on joining the rest of the fight. He had no reason to join them considering how the spirits were dominating the whole fight right now. He might change his mind only if something out of the normal happened. These spirits were all gold ranked. Now that the insane boss had been subdued, there should be nothing here who could beat them.
"You're not planning to fight anymore Sir Mays?"
"Nah, I've had enough. I'll let Ria enjoy the rest."
Even with a healer beside him healing him nonstop, his injury was still not fully healed yet. Unlike the game where the healer could fill his allies HP right away with a healing skill, it was different in this world. The healers need to pour their magic power continuously while using the heal skill and the healed person will recover bit by bit.
Area healing skill also had their effectiveness reduced by a lot. At the very least, it was still helpful for the whole group of people during a fight. Even Mays was shocked when he learned that healing in this world was not as handy as in game. But since his group of spirits barely got injured from a fight, he didn't care much about it.
"We can't hold out anymore."
"What should we do now Lord Alakan? We really will be wiped out at this rate."
"Lord Alakan! Lord Dimes!"
Most of the demonic beings present were panicked beyond words. Every single member of the opposing army was at least at the level of their lord. None of these demonic beings stood a chance against those spirits at all.
At the very front of the battlefield, the strongest and most distinguished enemy in front of them was unexpectedly a female. A female knight clad in pink. The Pink Demon Ria. Currently facing one of their lord, Grot, this female knight killed other demonic beings nearby with just the aftershock of her casual attack. Grot was without a doubt having a hard time just to parry Ria's every attack. Even Ria's own spirit didn't come near the area where she fought.
In less than five minutes, most of the demonic beings were all killed by the spirit army. Ria was still fighting Grot while Mays's other spirits were hunting silver ranked intermediate boss one after another. As of now, there were less than fifty demonic beings left at the scene.
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"See that Mays? I made a fifty three attack combo on that guy. Are you proud of me yet?"
Grinning widely as she shouted at Mays, Ria was obviously happy with her own achievement. She managed to break her old record from the game after all. Before this, her previous record known to Mays was only at forty seven combo streak.
"Yeah I see it clearly. Nicely done."
"Hehe."
"Go finish up the rest. I'll just stay here and observe."
"Right away hehe."
"Master seems… happy."
"Of course she is. Why wouldn't she?"
Even Minerva who stood beside Mays noticed how cheerful her master had become after Mays came into their life. Before this, her master seldom do anything except going out to destroy things which obstructed their way. She spent most of the time in her room doing nothing. This gloomy eccentric of a master turned cheerful and bright because of Mays.
"Retreat! Go back to the portal!"
"Retreat! Retreat!"
"Run for your life!"
Even Dimes was fast on his feet. The moment Alakan focused his gaze on Mays and lost in his own thought, he grabbed that very chance to slip out of the chaotic situation and fled from the scene. Alakan on the other hand, was not planning on leaving.
He knew that he would get punished severely if he come back with this defeat. Might as well fight till his last breath.
"Roaaarrrr!"
Alakan roared as his body undergoes transformation. His current body was not in human form any longer. At the moment, his looks resembled that of centaur with half human body together with lower half of a horse. However, behind his back was another three set of arms, making him an eight armed centaur. There were also two pair of wings on his horseback.
The aura coming from Alakan at this moment was quite overbearing. Black smog poured out from the pores all over his body, forming a shield around him. Even the few demonic being surrounding him were turned into corpses once they came into contact with that eerie smog. The transformation was still not done yet but the vicious feeling coming from him was domineering.
"Heh, figured. Even when he had a different look, his aura was the same as one of those boss in Cursed Land dungeon."
Mays smirked as he watched Alakan transformed into one of the creature he was familiar with. He even knew what skill Alakan just used to transform. As long as it was a boss inside a level one hundred dungeons, there was no way for Mays to not recognize them.
"In the end, I'm still forced to fight. You coming?"
"Obviously."
Minerva rushed forward following Mays's lead. They were rushing toward Alakan who was still in the middle of his transformation.
"Ria! Aim your ultimate move at me, full power!"
"Eh, what? Sec!"
Ria was obviously startled when Mays suddenly asked her help. She was in the middle of a fight even though her opponents was just small fries.
"And you Minerva, spam your meteor when I hit that guy."
"Really?"
"Yeah and I'll die happily from it. Haha I'm joking. Don't worry nothing would go wrong for sure."
Jesting during critical moment was Mays's usual demeanour. Not to mention that with his nonchalant tone, a serious situation always turned into easy time. Ria and the others close to Mays was totally used to it.
"Resistance Up! Resistance Up! Resistance Up! Heavens Vanguard!"
Casting his resistance buff skill again and again, he stacked up his resistance to the maximum allowed by the system before he reached Alakan. Following up those resistance buff was Magic Swordsman's greatest buff skill, Heavens Vanguard. That skill removed the limits of maximum resistance allowed by the system, making Mays's resistance reached the absolute peak.
"NOW! ELEMENTAL RESONANCE!!"
Mays shouted as he stood in front of the transformed Alakan. He immediately casted his ultimate skill without holding anything back. Space around him started cracking as he gathered the elemental power all around him. The longer he hold out, the stronger his skill's attack power would be. This skill of his was in fact a channelling skill.
"Chaotic Apocalypse Slash!"
A straight line shot toward Mays from Ria's direction. This sword slash was no joke either. Even the spirits on its side-line were sent flying away with severe damage. Just getting brushed off by the attack damaged them that much. The devastation on the land was beyond words as the earth itself split along the sword force's direction.
"Chaos Meteor! Chaos Meteor! Chaos Meteor! Chaos Meteor! Chaos Meteor!"
As if the devastated land was not enough, the space above Mays warped and shattered with black coloured meteors rushing down one after another. Each of them obviously landed at both Mays and Alakan who was the designated target.
Mays was still channeling his magic power into his attack even after the meteors landed at him one after another. Craters were stacking all around them as more meteors rained down. Only when Ria's sword slash arrived finally Mays released his own ultimate move with a grin on his face.
"I present you, Chaotic Resonance!"
"DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!"
One loud explosion echoed throughout the whole area. Let alone the capital city, several nearby city could hear the explosion echoed all over. As for the refuge who already left the capital city hours ago by foot, they were sent flying several meters away just from the aftershock of that huge explosion. Nearby forest all blown away leaving countless trees without any leaves after the overwhelming aftershock passed by.
Following the loud explosion was a blinding white light which shone all over. All the fights inside the city came to an end after that blinding light diminished.
That very day, those demonic beings of Winged Associates received a grim reminder.
They lived in fear of the elite among elites of godkins, the Red Wargod and the Pink Demon. Those lucky managed to escape from human continent using their warp portal while the unlucky one bid farewell to the world in regret.
The war at Durahel Capital was finally over. The closing act was way too bewitching for the human survivors to comprehend using their petty logic. Most of them gaped in awe as they witnessed something that would surely be told for generations, passed down as legends.
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