Chapter 121: Battle in Kado City

…..

The magical beast infected by the abyssal aura charged toward Via.

The monster leaped high into the air, pouncing upward.

“Abyssal Bullet, fire.”

…..

Via raised her hand, aiming at the monster assaulting her. She amplified her own mana with the abyssal aura and compressed it at her fingertip.

…..

Thanks to the enhancement from the Demon King Armament, this process was greatly shortened, allowing the magic to form in almost no time at all.

Whoosh—

The instant the abyssal bullet fired, a massive explosion shook the air, striking the monster’s body and piercing through its torso.

Then, Via thrust her arm forward, her five fingers joined like a hand blade, plunging into the monster’s body.

Through her mana perception, she quickly located the magic core inside the monster’s body.

Just like slaughtering livestock, she extracted the magic core from the abyssal aura-infected monster right in front of everyone’s eyes.

…..

“Demon King!”

…..

A holy knight launched an attack from another direction.

Via used her arm to swing the monster’s body, hurling the corpse at the holy knights and knocking a group of them flying.

Just moments ago, when she had plunged her arm into the monster’s body, she had already inscribed a magical seal into the corpse.

She detonated the magical seal, creating a shockwave that rapidly spread through the holy knights’ ranks.

…..

A large number of holy knights lost consciousness from the shockwave, collapsing to the ground and passing out.

“A bunch of useless trash.”

Via mocked them.

In her hand, she held the magic core infected by the abyssal aura, issuing a command to the Demon King Armament’s system.

“System, begin absorption.”

[Understood, beginning scan…]

[Target confirmed as absorbable.]

[Absorbing abyssal aura… Converting… Conversion complete.]

…..

In an extremely short time, the Demon King Armament had completely absorbed all the abyssal aura and mana from the magic core.

To the Demon King, this might not seem like much.

But in the eyes of the demonized ones, it was simply unbelievable.

“Did you all see that? He absorbed the magic core in less than a few seconds?”

“This… How is that possible! Even a true demonkin couldn’t do that, right?”

“Could it be that he really is the Demon King?”

The demonized ones, upon seeing this scene, had already begun equating the demonkin before them with the Demon King.

“……”

…..

Zak’s expression turned ugly.

…..

Although demonized ones could accept the abyssal aura, converting the violent abyssal aura from such a magic core was nearly impossible.

In the Abyssal Eye, he had only seen the bishop capable of it.

But even the bishop’s absorption speed wasn’t this fast.

This time, he had really encountered a tough opponent.

“What’s wrong? Starting to feel afraid?”

Via crushed the fully absorbed magic core into powder and stepped on it.

“If you can’t entertain me, your fate will be the same as this.”

…..

“Don’t get too arrogant! Even if you really are the Demon King, so what? No one can interfere with our Abyssal Eye!”

Zak stomped on the ground, and his figure vanished.

“Hm?”

Via raised her hand, releasing a magical shield.

…..

The next second, Zak had already rushed in front of her, his fists swinging like cannonballs, smashing into the magical shield.

“Hyaaaah!”

Zak’s face grew even more twisted, the abyssal aura on him becoming denser, surpassing even those monsters infected by the abyssal aura.

He relentlessly hammered the magical shield, trying to break Via’s defense.

After several continuous exertions, cracks finally appeared on the magical shield.

Soon, he would shatter the defense.

“Idiot.”

Via watched as if observing a clown’s performance and snapped her fingers.

…..

It was then that Zak realized something: the Demon King didn’t need to focus all his attention on offense and defense like he did.

Above his head, an abnormal fluctuation appeared—constantly twisting white lines within a pitch-black energy sphere, poised to strike and locked on.

…..

“Multi Abyssal Bullet, fire.”

Via fired the abyssal bullets from tricky angles, the beams piercing through Zak’s body.

Not just Zak, but the surrounding other demonized ones were all struck by the multi abyssal bullets.

…..

The energy bombardment poured down like a torrential rain, mercilessly washing over the demonized ones and monsters in this space.

Even though these demonized ones were one in a million, having embraced the abyssal aura and gained strength far surpassing ordinary humans, they were still mere mortals in the face of Transcendent-tier power.

…..

“How much mana does he even have? Why do his attacks seem endless!”

“No, I can’t hold out!”

“Aaaah!!”

The demonized ones let out agonized screams, turning to nothing amid the destructive beams.

…..

Just like that, Via used her overwhelming strength to crush everyone, clearing out all the demonized ones and monsters here.

The communication device fell silent.

…..

Next came the sharp sound of metal scraping across the floor.

Someone approached Cora’s communication device and picked it up.

…..

“Who? Who are you!!”

…..

A chill ran down Zak’s spine, an bone-deep cold rising in his heart.

…..

It seemed that besides the Demon King, another terrifying powerhouse had appeared in Kado City.

He felt like he could barely breathe.

In the wordless silence, something seemed to be approaching him.

Time ticked by slowly.

Run.

…..

He had to run, escape from here!

Thinking this, Zak was dominated by his survival instinct. Even with his severe injuries, he started running.

He hadn’t run far when a silver streak of light descended from the sky, like a falling meteor, severing his head and ending the demonized one’s life.