Leviathan held his blue trident tight as he threw it at Amelia, who was several meters away.
Amelia dodged with ease, summoning several bones that barraged directly toward Leviathan.
Leviathan summoned a long blue spear and spun it around, blocking all of Amelia's bone attacks. Amelia then manipulated gravity and hurled Leviathan to the back of the mansion, crashing him into a wall.
Bones pierced out of the wall, followed by Skull Blasters appearing before him. Leviathan was pierced by the bones but managed to duck and dodge the blast launched by the Skull Blasters.
Leviathan charged at Amelia as she summoned a giant bone and launched it at him, followed by a barrage of others. More bones came piercing from the ground and walls, all aimed at Leviathan.
He dodged the giant bone easily and continued charging swiftly at Amelia. But a sudden barrage of bones blocked his path. He dodged and swiped his spear, deflecting and evading the attacks.
A bone pierced his foot from the ground, forcing him to jump high to avoid more bones.
Bones erupted from the roof, forcing him to retreat. More barraged at him, making him step back from where he stood.
Skull Blasters surrounded him. Leviathan jumped, dodging their blasts, and used the roof to launch himself toward Amelia. Bones emerged from the roof, but he had already leapt.
He pointed his spear directly at Amelia, but she teleported out of the way before he could strike. Where he landed, more bones pierced him.
He grunted in pain as Skull Blasters surrounded and blasted him.
Amelia teleported back, sighed, and summoned more bones that charged into the smoke from the explosion.
Leviathan charged out of the smoke, but the bones Amelia had summoned met him. He was hit in the shoulder and thigh as more rained down on him.
He dodged, but the attacks kept coming.
From the ground and walls, he was surrounded. Leviathan's eyes glowed blue. He opened his mouth wide and released a blue flame that blasted through the bones.
The bones scattered as Leviathan redirected the blast at Amelia.
Amelia created a bone barrier to block the attack, but Leviathan didn't stop until the shield exploded.
Before he realized it, Amelia was already behind him. She summoned a bone sword from her hand and stabbed Leviathan in the chest.
She then smashed him through the roof and into the ground. Controlling gravity, she hurled him several meters away, followed by bones erupting where he landed.
Leviathan lay in blood as a Skull Blaster appeared before him.
He dodged swiftly, but his body was covered in sharp bones. He vomited blood as Amelia summoned even more bones.
It was endless — bone after bone. Leviathan could only block, dodge, and step back. He pointed his spear at Amelia and launched a laser beam from its tip, but Amelia dodged with ease.
He went berserk as thorns erupted from his back. He charged at Amelia.
Amelia summoned more bones, but this time Leviathan was faster. He dodged all her attacks and immediately appeared in front of her.
Leviathan thrust his spear at Amelia, but she dodged yet again. Where he stood, bones erupted and pierced him.
Leviathan spat out blood as Amelia teleported back.
"I couldn't even land a single hit!? Fuck, I hate this," Leviathan exclaimed.
Amelia simply watched, yawning, her stamina slowly draining.
"If this continues, I might start getting tired," she thought to herself.
Leviathan burst with blue aura and teleported behind her. He swung his spear as fast as he could, but Amelia blocked it with a summoned sword-shield.
Amelia was thrown away by the impact, but controlled her fall with gravity. Yet Leviathan was already in front of her. He unleashed a barrage of spear swipes, but Amelia teleported, dodging them all.
Leviathan roared in frustration. Amelia kept dodging. She summoned bones that pierced Leviathan in the chest.
She then summoned a Skull Blaster, jumped into it, and rode it upward, launching more bones toward Leviathan.
Leviathan leaped into the sky to follow her. Amelia manipulated gravity and threw him back to the ground.
Suddenly, behind Amelia, Xiandre got thrown out onto the separated side of the mansion.
Amelia watched as Leviathan charged at her.
Amelia dodged continuously as she summoned a massive bone from the ground, launching Leviathan into the sky.
She teleported up to him and slashed his arm with her bone sword, cutting it off.
Leviathan grunted in pain and tried to kick her, but Amelia dodged and summoned a Skull Blaster above him. The Skull Blaster fired, blasting Leviathan and throwing him back to the ground.
He exploded below as Amelia summoned several bones after him.
Amelia fell, but controlled gravity to land unharmed.
Amid the smoke, Leviathan emerged and hurled his spear at Amelia.
She dodged again, but Leviathan teleported to where his spear had landed and attacked from behind.
Amelia dodged once more as bones shot from the ground.
Leviathan sidestepped, avoiding the attack to his head.
He ducked and pointed his spear at her heart, but again Amelia dodged. She summoned a Skull Blaster, but Leviathan dodged that too.
Both attacked fiercely, but neither could land a hit.
"Tsk, I guess you're getting faster and more knowledgeable with every second of our fight, hihi," Amelia said.
"You piece of shit, how fast are you!?" Leviathan shouted.
Amelia easily avoided all of his attacks. Controlling gravity, she slammed him into the ground, and bones pierced his entire body, pinning him down.
Suddenly, a massive three-headed dragon appeared in the distant sky and blasted down where Xiandre had been thrown earlier.
Amelia looked on in worry, but Leviathan broke free of the bones and lunged at her.
She dodged and summoned more bones from the ground, piercing him again.
Leviathan threw his spear at her. Amelia dodged, but he teleported to its landing point — only to be met by a waiting Skull Blaster, which blasted him.
Leviathan remained standing and charged at her. Amelia created a bone barrier and, using gravity, hurled him away.
He escaped the barrier's push, jumped into the sky, and opened his mouth, his eyes glowing blue.
But before he could fire, a bone pierced his chin, making him close his mouth. The blast exploded inside his head.
Leviathan fell to the ground, shivering, as the Hydra continued blasting at Xiandre and Lucifer while they clashed amid the flaming storm.
Leviathan stood again, glaring at Amelia as he grunted and charged once more.
Amelia dodged, creating distance as she summoned more bones toward his landing spot.
Leviathan punched a wall behind him and threw it at the approaching bones, blocking them.
He ran toward her as she summoned even more bones. He dodged most, but one struck his chest, stopping him. He spun his spear around.
He summoned more spears that flew through the air toward Amelia. She dodged all of them with ease.
Where each spear landed, it transformed into a duplicate of Leviathan, and they all charged at Amelia.
Amelia summoned bones from the ground, destroying the duplicates as the real Leviathan tried to stab her in the chest.
She dodged once more and hurled him away with gravity.
As he crashed into the wall, the entire atmosphere turned blue — time stopped.
Amelia snapped her fingers, summoning a barrage of DEATH Blasters around him. Bones erupted from the ground and walls, piercing him from behind.
Leviathan could only endure the pain; nothing moved except Amelia and her powers.
When time resumed, the DEATH Blasters exploded through Leviathan, obliterating him.
A massive explosion followed, destroying the separated side of the mansion. The Hydra collapsed, dead, as Xiandre punched Lucifer several miles away.
Amelia landed on the opposite side of the mansion, escaping the destruction.
Amongst the smoke on the other side of the mansion where Leviathan was blasted, a massive roar echoed across the entire city. Everyone heard it, and everyone knew what it was.
Xiandre, Lucifer, and the rest of the summoned knights were caught off guard and immediately glanced toward the source of the roar.
Amelia's heart pounded as she saw, along with everyone else, a massive serpent emerge from the smoke, flying into the sky and breaking apart half of the already destroyed mansion.
A serpent ten times larger than the hydra. The true form of Leviathan.
The beast's eyes locked onto Amelia as it opened its mouth, charging an enormous blast.
"That serpent alone must be around... ten thousand meters in length, and just from where I stand, at least a thousand in width," Xiandre thought, staring up at the massive serpent hovering over the sky.
Lucifer gasped. One blast from Leviathan could easily destroy half the city. Xiandre took advantage of this—Lucifer and the rest were still spacing out.
As Lucifer snapped back, muttering a spell, Xiandre leapt toward him, grabbing him tightly. A protection barrier enveloped them both as Xiandre's helmet fell off outside the barrier.
Xiandre smashed his head into Lucifer's, cracking the demon's skull. Then, eyes glowing red, Xiandre opened his mouth wide and started eating Lucifer's head.
His actions were wild—like a feral tiger tearing into its prey. Lucifer tried to cast magic but failed instantly.
"I control you to lose command over your power," Xiandre declared.
[System Update]
(Omniscient: You have reached your Limit Breaker – Level 2 Unlocked.)
(This includes controlling other people's minds and abilities in your grasp.)
Xiandre tore out Lucifer's eyes, ripped his tongue from his mouth, and pulled his intestines out, tying them around Lucifer's neck.
Then, he took Lucifer's jaw, removed his heart, and fed it to him.
Lucifer was reduced to a mangled, bloody corpse. The barrier filled with blood.
"U-u-u-u—AHHHH... My regeneration..." he mumbled mentally, unable to speak.
"If you're wondering about your instant and warping regeneration abilities... it's all worthless now. As long as I've taken a bite out of you and have your blood, your body is fully under my grasp, immortal one," Xiandre said calmly, continuing to tear out Lucifer's vital organs.
"This is the kind of thing I'd do to some of those students who betrayed us," he added.
The knights tried to break through the barrier but it was far too strong.
Amelia closed her eyes. One by one, Death Blasters were summoned.
Hundreds. Then thousands. Then hundreds of thousands. All aimed at Leviathan.
They charged up as Amelia's vision darkened. She was using nearly all of her stamina—it could kill her.
All the Death Blasters' eyes turned red as they charged. Then one massive Death Blaster appeared just above Amelia. This one had horns and glowing purple eyes. Its charge was also purple.
Amelia gasped for air as she stared at the incoming blast. Then, behind her, a shadowy figure in a hood, holding a scythe, appeared.
It had a dark aura and gazed toward the oncoming attack.
"I can't see anything... Tsk, you win," Lucifer thought.
Xiandre continued ripping Lucifer apart as Amelia and Leviathan unleashed their attacks on each other.
A massive ringing snapped across the city of Hell.
Then...
KA-BOOM!
Everything exploded.
A massive dent marked the center of the impact. Some sinners were incinerated. Others left no trace.
Leviathan panted, smoke rising from his mouth. He glared at the point of impact before shifting his gaze toward Xiandre and Lucifer.
The smoke was thick—nothing could be seen.
Then he felt a ringing in his ear... and an enormous pain in his chest.
Leviathan looked down.
His heart had been disintegrated—completely erased.
The massive serpent's eyes dimmed to black as it collapsed, creating another enormous explosion and a violent earthquake.
Amidst the smoke, Amelia lay on the ground, covered by a black barrier along with the shadowy figure. Then the figure vanished along with the barrier.
Amelia's breathing was slow, her vision blurry and black.
She forced herself up. Her body drenched in sweat—burning hot, searing through her skin. The side effects of her all-in ability were immense.
Her left eye was gone, blackened.
She walked slowly toward where Xiandre had been. Her steps were light, her body weak, yet she remained upright.
She forced herself to teleport, needing to climb out of the massive crater.
She summoned a Skull Blaster to fly her up like a plane—but it was weak and slow, like her.
[DEATH SYSTEM UPDATE]
(Your stats and level remained.)
(New abilities unlocked:)
(Serpent Blaster)
(Grimm's Scythe)
(Grimm's Palms)
"W-where is... Xiandre..." she mumbled weakly.
She rode the Skull Blaster, but her power drained completely. She fell off as it vanished.
Still, she managed to stand. She pushed her body beyond its limits.
Then something hit her feet.
Looking down, it was Xiandre's helmet.
She tried to lift it, but it was too heavy.
"T-this can o-only be moved by celestial beings..." she whispered.
She gasped for breath and opened her mouth: "C-configuration p—procedur... system..."
Her heart screamed in pain. She clutched her chest as her stats displayed before her.
[Death System]
User: Amelia Voidstar
Tier Level: 1
Element: Exanimus
Stats:
Stamina: ?
Attack: 1
Speed: ?
Defense: 1
"My stats are totally different... It's not like what the update notification s-said... My speed was supposed to be... one thousand and m—my stamina was ten," she said, coughing and breathless.
"...G—Grimm's Palm..." she chanted faintly.
Nothing happened.
She knelt again, trying to lift the helmet—and this time, it worked.
Carrying Xiandre's helmet, she walked the smoky path.
Suddenly, it flew out of her hands in a specific direction.
Her legs trembled, but she pushed forward.
Then, in the distance, she heard footsteps.
Approaching slowly—from the same direction where the helmet flew.
The smoke parted.
A knight approached, sword gripped tightly.
His eyes glowed red, and he wore the helmet Amelia had just lifted.
"Xiandre."
He walked normally, as if he hadn't just endured torture that even masochistic demons would refuse.
"X-Xiandre..." Amelia exclaimed, tears falling from her eyes.
His armor was bloodied. His mantle swayed in the burning wind.
Amelia's vision faded—but Xiandre caught her before she collapsed completely.
He held her gently.
"Amelia, you did great..." he said.
Suddenly, a massive portal opened in the sky. Xiandre glanced at it.
"There's roughly around a minute before it closes," he muttered.
A wave of sinners came rushing toward him. Some grabbed his legs. Others clung to his shoulders and arms.
"PLEASE GET US OUT OF HERE!"
"THIS PLACE IS HORRIFYING!"
"TAKE ME WITH YOU! I'LL BE YOUR SEX SLAVE! I'LL DO ANYTHING!"
"I'LL KILL, I'LL BE YOUR DOG—JUST PLEASE LET ME OUT OF HERE, KNIGHT!"
The portal began to close.
Xiandre crouched, preparing to jump, gathering momentum. The sinners clung to him, some crying, some stripping and trying to seduce him.
Suddenly, a demoness leapt onto his back, holding tightly.
Xiandre sensed something familiar in her. He leapt up, holding Amelia securely.
All the other demons were flung back down—but one remained, clinging to his back.
As they reached it out in hell.
He pinned her down and attempted to sent her back—but the gate had already closed.
"!?"
"Eh... I actually managed to get out..." the demoness said.
Xiandre gently laid Amelia down, turning to the demoness.
He instantly recognized her.
"Ack! Please forgive me... but I was so tired of that place..." Velmora exclaimed.
Xiandre let go and sighed heavily, sitting down on the ground.
He looked around and then up at the moon.
It was white.
"We're finally out..." he whispered.