Chapter 55: Natsu Vs. Deliora

At the Temple, Galuna Island

After the dust settled down, Natsu came out with his clothes in tatters, well, except for the scarf. He sported an angry look on his face, furiously glaring at Deliora while clutching a cubic shaped ice-crystal in his palm.

Natsu was unable to escape from the beam in time because he didn't want to risk the transfer of Ur's soul. That's why he opted to take the attack directly with his body, thereby protecting the ice crystal which was the vessel of Ur's soul.

He didn't have time to cast any defensive spells since he had to focus on the task at hand, which was to finish the soul transfer. It would have been a suicidal move if he didn't have instant regeneration. Thankfully, Natsu came out of the explosion relatively unscathed. He quickly stored the crystal inside his inventory and looked at Deliora with smoldering eyes.

"Now you've done it, demon! How dare you attack me when I'm busy rescuing my mother-in-law? I'll show you what an angry dragon can do." Natsu declared with a hateful glare. Deliora ignored his angry gaze and started running towards Natsu, raising his fist to smack the puny human in front of it.

"Dragon Force, ACTIVATE!!" Natsu shouted with all his might, activating his dragon force. He gained reptilian scales and traits, such as further elongated and sharper canines, and scale-like patterns on his skin. He looked at the approaching demon calmly while getting into fighting position.

"Take this! Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Crimson Lotus: Phoenix Blade" Natsu roared, surrounding his entire body with his fire. He propelled himself toward the demon, leaving behind a long wake of flames and hitting it with a devastating headbutt. Deliora, unable to dodge the attack, was sent flying and crashed into a tree with a painful thud.

*ROOOOOOAR!*

Deliora stood up with a bloody head that was regenerating all too quickly. It glared at Natsu in fury, roared out loud, and started running toward Natsu again to punch him. Natsu looked at this in irritation and clicked his tongue. He didn't care about the rapidly approaching demon.

"Tch... So even dragon force is not enough to defeat you. Then how about this! Fire Dragon God Mode, ACTIVATE!!" Natsu shouted, covering his entire body with blue flames. The blue flames also blazed around other places of his body, mostly on his arms and shoulders, as well as his scarf.

"Fire Dragon God's Iron Fist!!" Natsu's fist was engulfed in blue flames before throwing out a swift and aggressive punch towards the approaching demon, making it fly once again.

"I'm not done with you. Eat this as well motherf*cker! Nova Blast!!!" Natsu shouted, raising his right arm and charging a gigantic sapphire blue energy ball with his palms open. Then, he clenched his fist and compressed it into the size of a tennis ball before launching it in the demon's direction.

*Swoosh!*

The energy ball flew toward the target at high-speed exploding on contact with the demon, leading to a massive explosion engulfing everything within a radius of 20 meters from the blast. Flames and debris were scattered all around, kicking up massive amounts of dust impairing both Natsu and Deliora's vision.

*ROOOOOOAR!*

After the dust settled down, Deliora came out with massive injuries scattered on its body which were regenerating rapidly. It let out an angry roar that could be heard throughout the entire island, glaring at Natsu hatefully before firing a lime-colored beam energy beam towards him.

*Swoosh!*

"Don't you have anything other than those beams? They're so pathetic," Natsu taunted in annoyance while calmly dodging the beams. Deliora became even further enraged after hearing his words and started firing even more beams towards him.

*Swoosh!* *Swoosh!* *Swoosh!*

Natsu calmly kept dodging them. His physical strength was a lot higher thanks to his demigod body. Avoiding these beams was practically child's play for him.

"I forgot you couldn't understand human speech. I can't be bothered to keep on dodging anymore. Just take this and die! Supernova Blast!!" Natsu bellowed, raising both his arms up and charging two sapphire blue energy balls with both of his palms open. Then he clasped his hands together, forcefully compressing them into one ping pong ball sized energy sphere and launched it in the direction of the demon who didn't even try to dodge the attack.

*Swoosh!*

The energy sphere flew towards the target at high-speed exploding on contact, leading to an enormous explosion engulfing everything within a radius of 50 meters. Flames and debris scattered around the site, impairing their vision once more.

When the dust cleared up, Natsu saw Deliora had more than half of his body missing. Massive amounts of blood were pouring out of its injuries, but strangely it seemed that the wounds were slowly closing. It looked like its regeneration was still in effect.

"What the f*ck!? Its body is still regenerating even after that attack," Natsu spoke in disbelief. He had never seen such a powerful regenerative capacity on anyone except himself. His body had instant regeneration, which would heal any physical injuries instantly, unlike Deliora, which seemed to need way longer. The only catch for his regeneration was that he needs to have sufficient energy for it. He started studying the body for anything unusual.

"GRRRR" Deliora growled at Natsu angrily, even with half of his body missing it was still able to remain conscious. This monster indeed had high endurance. It glared at Natsu with endless hatred.

"Who do you think you're staring at, huh?! Don't think that I can't harm you. I wanted to study how Etherious' curse power works, but I guess I've studied enough. I've got no further use for you." Natsu shouted angrily, approaching the injured demon with pitch-black flames engulfing his palm.

"So, you can die for me now, Amaterasu Flame: Devour!!" Natsu said, tossing his pitch-black flames towards the injured demon. Deliora instinctively felt terrified of those black flames and wanted to escape at all costs, but it was unable to due to the injuries it had previously sustained. It could only watch helplessly as the fire engulfed its entire body, slowly disintegrating it.

"ARGHHHH!" Deliora painfully shrieked as its entire body was rapidly devoured. After a while, its whole body disintegrated into particles. The black flames continued burning the ground even after devouring the demon, but strangely, there was some black mist gathered in the place after Deliora's death. Natsu just ignored the mist and recalled his flames.

"Now return, my beautiful flames!" Natsu fondly spoke, willing the flame to return to his body. All the black flames returned to him, along with the mist.

"What's this black mist!?" Natsu pondered in confusion. He quickly shook his head and attempted to reabsorb the flame inside his body, but he didn't just absorb his fire, the black mist also entered inside his body swiftly without giving him any chance to stop it.

"What the f*ck! It entered my body," Natsu shouted in alarm, trying to expel the mist, but he was unsuccessful. The fog started rapidly integrating itself into Natsu's body.

"ARGHHH!" Natsu painfully screeched, falling on his knees. He clutched his head in agony and started rolling on the ground. Some strange demonic symbols began appearing on his skin, glowing ever so creepily. Natsu soon lost consciousness due to the pain.

What Natsu didn't know was that the seal restraining his demonic power cracked a little. The mist was absorbed by the demon seed inside the seal, strengthening his demonic power.

~Edited by Nyanodesu

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~Edited by Nyanodesu

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(A/N: I'll stop writing a recap. Honestly, I thought it was a good idea but I guess it wasn't. This chapter is a bonus for my errors. Leave your thoughts down below and don't forget about those power stones. I lack energy lately, and those stones will help me power up!! ~Sayonara)