Death...
A phenomenon that was nearly inescapable for mortal beings. Those that had seen death couldn''t tell the living what it looked like because they all followed right behind it, leaving the living behind to worry about what death was.
Cain stared death right in the face. He had actuallymitted suicide in an attempt to save his life. Blood flowed through the gaps in the hand holding his real heart. Since he was now mostly bones and organs with just a few pieces of meat and a pool of blood surrounding his broken body, he couldn''t even cough out the blood.
It poured straight out of him, like a broken dam...
His mana heart, on the other hand, turned into a suction device as all the mana in his body waspletely gone, causing his body to be filled with Ki. All the mana congregated into his mana heart and turned the semi-crystalline mana heart into a full crystal object that still beat like a regr heart.
Because of all these factors, the conditions for rejuvenation were perfect...
His body was filled with Ki, and nothing was fighting and opposing it, causing it to destroy his body parts. Since Ki was vital energy if all went ording to n,
the Ki should heal him up quickly.
However, just like every other thing in the world, fate always had other things in store...
A few secondster, Cain, or what was left of him was still on the ground, dead...
His crushed heart hadn''t healed, but his mana heart was even more vibrant than before.
"Cain?" Susan came up to sit beside Cain, whose bones had not begun to turn cold...
Seeing him not answering andying on the ground, Susan gently picked up his body and embraced it.
"Fight..."
***
To an outside observer, the fight against Forza, the {me Devil} would be nothing short of cataclysmic. Every single attack from the {me Devil} was like a world-shattering strike that threatened to destroy all in its path.
The only reason they were able to keep up was because of Hunter''s transformed state taking on most of the attacks, as well as ze who was mostly immune to the devil''s mes. As a huge ming wolf that was almost as huge as the {me Devil} itself, Hunter was able to hold his own against the {me Devil} without dying after a couple of strikes.
Jenny and Vincent ran around the huge creature, firing their ranged attacks while Hunter tanked the attacks of the creature with his huge body. While ze wasn''t being harmed a lot by the mes of the {me Devil} he couldn''t deal as much damage to the devil as well due to the power of his mes being cut down by more than half.
The other melee fighters on the other hand tried their best to fight against it, but all in all, they were unable to do much aside from by time.
And that time was quickly running out...
One of Forza''s passive skills, {Burn}, was a debuff-type skill that reduced the stamina and HP of any hostile living creature around it during a battle. As a result, every one of them had their power drained out of them the longer they fought. And since they had no healers or support aside from Dan who was useless in this high-temperature environment, the fight only because more and more unbearable.
The only one that could face the devil directly was Hunter, and he even was having a tough time despite the assistance from everyone else.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The fight was a high-speed battle that would instantly im the lives of those who didn''t have an agility stat higher than 300 points.
Forza had an unchanging expression as it smashed its de down onto Hunter''s ws repeatedly. Bright sparks were created and the sea of mes surrounding them increased its height and might. However, the two enormous beings didn''t seem to mind as they danced around in the sea of mes creating tremors and leaving craters filled with boiling magna in their wake.
Since Hunter was in a frenzy, hepletely ignored all the damage being done to him by the {me Devil} and pressed on hard with his attacks. Despite all this, he was unable toy a single w on the {me Devil}...
This was because not only was the {me Devil} extremely fast, but it was also very skilled. Its huge de was like a leaf drifting in the wind as it tore patches of fur and flesh off of Hunter''s body.
"Damn it! He''s over-exerting himself. If we don''t do something, he''ll tire out very soon!" Vincent yelled as he fired off bullets of mana at the carapace of the gigantic devil, but all his attacks amounted to naught as even though they had the incredible prative ability, they still weren''t able to prate through the extremely thick carapace.
"Let''s try attacking the legs. Focus all your attacks on its left leg!" Jenny called out as she stopped kiting the {me Devil} all of a sudden and pointed the gun straight at the ankle joint of the {me Devil}. Her eyes glowed a bright and rich purple as she let loose a devastating bolt of concentrated mana.
Manny''s left eye shone with the light of understanding as he jumped across the ming sea of molten earth. Gliding on the air for a while, he kicked against the air and let gravity do the rest as he plunged downwards toward the me Devil''s left leg.
"de Paradox!"
He left a streak of green mes burning the air behind him as he shot down to the ground with his des crossed.
The joint attacks of Manny and Jenny were sure to give Forza something to think about. However, they seemed to forget that not only was the {me Devil} very intelligent, but it was also extremely malicious...
Before Hunter couldplete hisnding, Forza had already spun its left leg around, whipping his right leg straight at the falling Manny.
"Crap!" Manny changed the course of his des midflight as quickly as possible, blocking the gigantic, yet extremely quick kick from the {me Devil}.
In the eyes of the {me Devil}, humans like Manny were just very strong bugs. To Forza, Manny possessed some power but was still a bug nheless.
BANG!
The impact instantaneously broke the sound barrier, and Manny wasunched away at speeds over Mach 1, breaking the sound barrier many times over.
Manny''s eyes popped out as he threw up more than a mouthful of blood. In the blink of an eye, he had flown to an unknown location, his life, and death unknown...
Just like that, one of their stronger fighters hand been excluded from the fight...
"You worthless humans do notprehend how to gauge power and know when there is no hope... I possess power far beyond your wildest imaginations."
In a deep guttural voice, the devil spoke, trying to incite despair in their hearts.
The devil loomed over them like the sky itself. In the darkness of the night, the light from its devil core and the sea of mes around it were the brightest sources of illumination around.
Sure enough, the fight immediately became even tougher. They were unable to do even the slightest bit of damage to the {me Devil}, while their stamina and HP dropped. They also suffered all sorts of injuries from attacks from Forza. Despite all these, they kept their attacks up, not even faltering despite the terrifying words of Forza.
They all had steely expressions as they increased the ferocity of their attacks.
ze had his spear horizontal to the ground across his shoulders. A terrifying scorching heat began gathering at the tip but he dismissed it before it could formpletely.
"Aim for the eyes, face, and other vulnerable parts. Attacking its limbs isn''t efficient." ze said as he took a deep breath.
''My mes can''t hurt it, but physical attacks clearly can...''
Like a missile, rather than for the mes to erupt from the tip of the spear, it erupted at the very bottom, causing the spear to beunched at the eyes of the {me Devil} at supersonic speed. The air around the spear was broken, and shockwaves spread from the tip of the spear as it approached the {me Devil}.
The power behind the attack was noteworthy, and the {me Devil} was forced to block it with the t of its de which provided some room for Hunter to rush in quickly and press an attack.
With a loud howl, Hunter, who was now an extremelyrge wolf lunged at Forza with mes dripping from his body like it was a fluid.
BANG!
Hunter sank his extremelyrge teeth into the flesh of the {me Devil} and bit down as hard as he could.
"Hmph! Flimsy half-hearted attacks can do nothing to me. With a powerful wave of his sword, everyone apart from Hunter was blown away. Before Hunter was able to snap his jaws shut, Forza had already grabbed him by the jaws and ripped him from its body with its bare hands.
It smashed Hunter to the ground in the next moment and reached for its de which was impaled into the ground.
"Hunter!" A burst of icy air erupted from Dan as he raced back to the site of the battle in hopes of providing extra protection from the {me Devil}. However, a single fire attack from Forza was enough to melt all theyers of ice he surrounded himself with and burn him ck.
Dan crumpled to other ground unconscious, while Forza buried its ming de straight through Hunter''s chest.
PUSHI!
HOWL!
Blood erupted like a fountain while Hunter let out a loud, despair-filled howl. One would be able to tell that despite all his aggressiveness, he was already slowing down and getting tired. They had all fought against the devil army and they were on the brink of falling to their exhaustion.
They hadn''t had a single moment of rest in so many hours, and now, they had to fight against the incredibly powerful Forza.
"I might be a weakling in the grand expanse of my race, but against puny humans like you, I am a god. .. A god that hase to im all your lives for the enrichment of my power."
The sea of mes surrounding them increased even further and came to a stop only after it covered them, including the protective spells Susan was using farther away.
Suddenly, there was a thick wave of energy that passed over the entire battlefield, causing even Firza to pause. The wave of energy was so powerful, itpletely extinguished the sea of mes around the {me Devil}.
"Golden Blood..."
The words were like the deration of the heavens as a wave of violent power rushed out into the sky...