The devil within was vaporized into smoke amidst Leodero's intense, almost tangible aura of tyrannical destruction, and the demon itself sustained damage.
Roar!
The demon let out a furious bellow, charging closer, bloodlight bursting from its body, clearly intent on melee with Leodero!
In its mythical creature form, the demon's physical strength was formidable!
Leodero conjured a trident in his hands, commanding a tsunami to crash into the demon's body.
The demon's flesh was extraordinarily resilient, withstanding lightning and tsunamis, but this was Leodero's domain!
His lightning storms and tsunamis were unimaginably powerful, nearly pummeling the demon into submission.
The demon glared viciously at Leodero's lightning-infused form, where many evil curses fizzled out.
It turned to flee, desperate to escape the battlefield.
Leodero summoned lightning spears multiple times, hurling them to pierce the demon's body, halting its escape.
Having fought this far, he didn't mind adding another tale to the holy scriptures: slaying a demon!
But during the chase, the demon abruptly turned, facing the trident, its body torn apart.
"You, like 'Dawn' and 'Glory,' are an utter fool!" The demon's eyes suddenly shifted into eerie hues.
Black and red intertwined, an exaltation of evil and depravity!
The demon laughed maniacally. Leodero's spirituality twitched, instinctively glancing at the tsunami still entangled with the blood sea.
In the pursuit, he'd ventured deep into the demon-controlled blood sea, somehow overlooking this!
"The demon subtly amplified my emotions, exploited my desires, making me ignore this…" Leodero's face darkened, his sense of crisis maxed out.
The demon's body, pierced multiple times by lightning spears, spilled sulfurous, polluting blood into the sea.
The blood sea underwent bizarre changes.
Countless sinister demonic chants morphed into symbols, dissolving into the seawater. Leodero could hear their obscure, malevolent murmurs.
"Abyss!"
Leodero's semi-electrified body froze.
The blood sea collapsed, its demonic blood forming a massive ritual pattern.
The ritual's purpose was simple, something even low-sequence Abyss pathway Beyonders could achieve.
Summoning a demon!
And there was only one being this demonic angel could summon!
The blood sea churned, gradually projecting a bottomless Abyss.
It symbolized the most defiled, depraved place in this world, perhaps the universe!
Leodero saw the Abyss corroded by a depraved force.
"Devil Monarch!" In this moment, Leodero couldn't avoid feeling awe for that ancient god.
The demon's mastery of emotions was pinpoint, instantly flipping Leodero's awe into fear!
Leodero's mental state plummeted into turmoil, while the demon, bolstered by the Abyss projection, recovered, reversing the battle's tide.
"Die!"
The demon unleashed Defiled Words and Blood Ignition simultaneously, striking Leodero heavily, wounding him mentally and physically.
"Great and defiled Devil Monarch, this is your servant's offering, please partake…"
"Think old pigeon's that easy to handle?"
A mocking chuckle seemed to echo in the demon's ears, its malice perception exploding to its peak!
Instinctively, it tried to flee to the Abyss, but a lightning whip lashed out, binding its body.
"You're done!" In the demon's disbelief, a sea of all colors emerged behind Leodero, its undulations freeing him from the Abyss's rules.
The protection of the Chaos Sea.
A unique perk for the Creator's angels, though for Truman, it was a dangerous liability.
Leodero even suppressed his rage and tyranny, calmly judging the demon.
He became a storm, commanding tsunamis, with hurricanes dancing and lightning leaping.
The demon's crisis perception faltered, unable to pinpoint the death threat, so it unhesitatingly triggered the final step of the Abyss summoning!
It plunged a hand into its wounded body, ripping fiercely.
Sss!
Black-red, sulfurous blood splashed into the seawater, boiling it, making the Abyss projection more real.
The demon fell into the projection, kneeling on one knee, praying devoutly.
"Lord who will defile all, destroy the cosmos! I beseech your power, your descent…"
Demonic chants echoed, the Abyss projection seeming to cast a gaze here.
The Abyss's rules, or will—a place where even angels, unless of the Abyss pathway, risked death!
Fear flashed across Leodero's face, an unparalleled evil locking onto him.
"Leave!"
A voice resounded in Leodero's mind, his Chaos Sea blessing erupting again, severing the lock.
Leodero became lightning, vanishing from the battlefield in a blink.
"I hope I can be lucky enough."
Truman appeared outside the battlefield, distantly observing the demon mid-ritual.
The illusory Abyss, built from demonic chants, had formed, opening a direct channel to the Abyss.
Truman flipped the Book of Dreams to "Cause and Effect," clenched his fist near his lips, blew gently, and made a wish, snapping his fingers to fulfill it.
Then he activated "Theft."
The next moment, he succeeded, stealing the entire ritual praying for the demon's descent!
"Brilliant!" Truman marveled. Previously, he'd fulfilled many devotees' wishes, amassing wish power, all invested in his luck.
The Book of Dreams' rank shielded him from the Devil Monarch's will, letting him steal the ritual.
"You!" The demon was stunned, its blood sea collapsing without the Abyss's support, suffering severe spiritual backlash.
"Farewell, demon sir, if you survive." Truman nodded amicably to the self-sacrificing demon, then roamed away.
The demon hurried to stabilize, but a Dawn Sword pierced its body.
The Twilight pathway's Sequence 4, "Demon Hunter," was named for slaying demons.
This demon had wounded "Glory" and evaded "Dawn," but under Truman's qarrangement, God of Dawn Badheil had tracked it here.
"Badheil?!" The demon cried in pain, its body shattering, scattering as demonic blood droplets in all directions.
"Dawn Cage!"
"Storm of Light!" h
Badheil roared, unleashing two potent abilities.
(End of Chapter)