EeDechi stood up, feeling pain all over her body, as if her bones were about to fall apart. After taking so many high-level magic bombardments, her injuries were very serious.
Before she could catch her breath, a blazing sun smashed down from above—this was Demiurge's 9th Tier magic!
EeDechi raised her hand to recall her giant sword, leaped into the air in one step, and collided with the exploding solar fireball.
BOOM!
It was like a supernova explosion; terrifying waves of flame swept across the earth, and the air seemed to be burning.
EeDechi landed on the ground, using her sword to support her body, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth. If the fight continued like this, she would definitely lose!
"I'm going up to fight Demiurge!" Antilene flew into the sky, wielding her cross-shaped giant scythe, charging towards Demiurge.
Dragon Endbringer's figure appeared behind EeDechi. "I'm going up too!"
They shot towards Demiurge in the high sky at high speed, then engaged in a fierce battle, like three meteors crisscrossing in the sky, occasionally bursting with brilliant flashes of light.
Demiurge's roar sounded like a bronze bell tolling. Not long after, Dragon Endbringer suffered a heavy blow to his abdomen, black smoke pouring from the wound, drifting like feathers as he fell from the sky.
He was a spiritual body himself, his strength greatly reduced, and was immediately defeated when Demiurge seized the opening.
Antilene activated her Innate Talent Blood Requiem! She raised her cross-shaped giant scythe high, slashing towards Demiurge with a desperate momentum.
Demiurge parried Antilene's attack, his bloody maw opening wide in a roar, the sharp howls from hell piercing the air, stunning Antilene.
BANG!
Demiurge took the opportunity to deliver a ruthless follow-up strike. Antilene vomited a mouthful of crimson blood, falling backwards from the sky, crashing heavily onto the sand dune.
The wind howled furiously, magic surging wildly.
Demiurge took a deep breath, feeling endless power surging through his body.
"The annoying pests have been dealt with, so next, I'll kill EeDechi!" Demiurge laughed maniacally.
He looked down below, searching for EeDechi's shadow, but found no trace.
"What's going on? Where did EeDechi go?" Demiurge was shocked inside. EeDechi's team had two people who could fly, Antilene and Dragon Endbringer—no, there's also a mage!
Demiurge suddenly jerked his head up; he finally figured it out, but it was too late.
Franco was hovering above Demiurge's head, and EeDechi was gripping Franco's ankle.
Letting go, EeDechi plummeted with the fierce whistle of cutting through the air, slashing at Demiurge like a thunderbolt.
Martial Art · One Sword Opens the Heavens!
The earth suddenly split open, revealing a massive chasm hundreds of meters deep and thousands of meters long. Demiurge couldn't dodge in time; a line of blood spurted from head to tail, blood gushing like a fountain.
"AH!"
Demiurge screamed in agony, clutching his head that was nearly cleaved in two, his massive wings flapping wildly as he tried to flee.
EeDechi slashed again, cleanly hacking one of Demiurge's wings in half, but Demiurge still flew away at high speed, his figure swaying at the far end of the sky, blood pouring down like a torrential rain.
"Damn it! Damn that EeDechi. Good thing... I got away in time." Demiurge activated his demonic power, frantically mending his wounds, a hint of relief welling up in his heart.
EeDechi gripped her giant sword, plummeting from high in the sky, but this was far from the end. EeDechi's battle experience was already on a level Demiurge couldn't match.
Eyeing Demiurge, who had lost half a wing, EeDechi hurled her giant sword down at her feet, then stomped hard with explosive force, her figure rocketing out like a bomb!
A earth-shattering roar exploded in the sky as EeDechi seized Demiurge with her bare hands.
"You've got no weapon left—what can you do to me now?" Demiurge regrew his blood-soaked massive wings, weaving up and down through the air, trying to shake EeDechi off.
EeDechi clamped down on Demiurge's curved horn, hoisting her iron-hard fist high, and unleashed a brutal pummeling on him with every martial technique she'd mastered in her life!
Elbow strike! Whip punch! Leg kick! Palm chop! Knee smash! ...
Every blow hit home, each fist driving deep into Demiurge's body and erupting with terrifying blasts, carving a chain of deep craters across his frame.
Demiurge was beaten out of shape, blood spraying wildly from his entire body, his tough bones snapping one by one with sharp cracks.
Demiurge had nearly lost the ability to fly, crashing down at high speed toward the ground alongside EeDechi, slamming into a kilometer-wide crater that shook the mountains and the sky.
Demiurge wobbled to his feet, mustering every scrap of his mangled muscles that could still move, desperate to flee.
"Dragon Endbringer! Back me up!" EeDechi called out, raising her hand to summon him, and Dragon Endbringer's spectral form came charging in at full speed.
EeDechi stepped forward, unleashing Martial Art · Wild Punches Kill the Old Master!
"ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ..." Right in front of Demiurge, EeDechi hammered away with both fists, landing ten thousand, a million, a billion strikes on him in the blink of an eye!
"MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! ..." From behind Demiurge, Dragon Endbringer swung his fists, unleashing the same frantic barrage of blows.
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" D "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" e "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" m "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" i "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" u "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" r "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" g "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" e "MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!"
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! ... Demiurge had been pummeled into a puddle of minced meat, his life force all but gone.
EeDechi pulled back her fists, gasping for air, steadying the ragged breathing from the fierce fight, blood dripping from her sturdy knuckles.
The heap of minced meat on the ground suddenly squirmed, a weak voice flickering in and out, "World Item · Gates of Hell, open!"
A deep black void unfurled beneath Demiurge, countless devils screeching inside, hordes of them bursting out like a swarm of locusts.
Each devil, as it flew out, ripped open its own belly with its claws, performing a sacrificial rite. Just like that, an unending flow of life force flooded into Demiurge's shredded body.
The moment Demiurge's form started pulling together, EeDechi summoned back her giant sword and hacked down with all her might!
SPLAT!
From Demiurge's mangled body, a pinkish lump of flesh rocketed out, scrambling toward the edge of the arena space.
That was Demiurge's brain!
Once the brain lump escaped EeDechi, it began sprouting flesh, growing veins, nerves, jawbones, teeth, and limbs—but no skin, since that had drained the last of Demiurge's life force.
Demiurge resembled a bloody apparition, teetering on his feet at the rim of the arena space. He mustered his energy and launched his final attack.
"Lord Ainz, this is my last strength—please protect me and let me escape this doom!" Demiurge swung his gore-soaked heavy fist, shattering the spatial barrier of the arena space.
Beyond the arena space lay a lush, verdant oasis, with people playing and toiling—it was the City of the Remnants.
Demiurge stumbled out of the arena space, reaching out with magic to snag one of the remnants, chomping a hunk of flesh from the poor wretch's neck and sucking it down hard.
Demiurge meant to absorb the man's flesh and blood to replenish his own life force.
"Guest, you've crossed the line." The female leader of the remnants floated up to Demiurge, her delicate face filled with anger.
But Demiurge paid her no mind, still chomping down on the remnant's flesh in huge bites, snapping his carotid artery and gulping blood. The remnant writhed in pain in Demiurge's grasp, like a mouse caught in a snake's jaws.
"Something's off—your flesh doesn't taste right."
Demiurge let go of the remnant in his hand, his eyes full of confusion, a chunk of human meat plop dropping from his mouth to the ground.
Behind him, EeDechi charged in with the sonic boom of slicing through the air.
"Demiurge! Go to hell!"
EeDechi gripped her giant sword, piercing Demiurge's body like a bolt of lightning, the broad blade skewering his chest and abdomen.
Demiurge puked up a mouthful of blood, the confusion in his eyes vanishing, replaced by a vengeful ferocity like a resentful ghost.
"EeDechi, Lord Ainz will resurrect me!" Demiurge shrieked.
EeDechi shoved the giant sword in her hand even deeper, Demiurge's spine shattering to powder, like a grasshopper impaled on the blade, his entire body's organs, bones, and veins bursting apart.
BANG!!
That was the sound of Demiurge's heart exploding under immense pressure.
Demiurge clutched the giant sword that had run him through with both hands, his lips twitching as he spat out a curse like a hellish ghost's dying wail:
"EeDechi, Lord Ainz will bring me back! When I'm reborn, the damage you've done to me today—I'll make you pay it back a thousandfold! We won't stop until one of us is dead for good!"
"Bring it on—resurrect as many times as you want, and I'll kill you just as many!"
EeDechi swung her giant sword with all her strength, carving through Demiurge's body. Demiurge exploded into a massive cloud of blood mist, dying for good.