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The Abyss Prince threw the swords at Vil, shining and blinding him, Vil didn't realize that 3 had pierced his body, one in the arm, leg and shoulder, restricting his movements.

(Damn it! That damn bitch!) Vil yelled, but not at the Abyss Prince, more at the Sword God himself!

Vil is the First Demon King, a being on the level of a god, but since only beings with divine energy can ascend to god hood, he has never gotten the title. He is able to destroy universes and topple dimensions, expanding his army at the same time. He is like a virus in the Universe Plane, a plane which endless universes exist, and a plane which the gods watch over, some to have fun, others to find their new successor. The one being who rules over all of those gods is a being that has unattainable power, no one knows when it existed and no one knows the amount of power it holds! The gods had pleaded to it to destroy Vil and the demon race all together, but being refused, saying that Vil was its only source of entertainment, Vil was a god in the mortal plane, and it liked it that way. So gods had came up with there own ways to exterminate him, they created apostles who held their power and gave blessings to those who were worthy, one such person being the Abyss Prince.

(AGHRH!) Vil yelled after pulling a sword out of his shoulder with his uninjured arm.

(What race are you?)

"Huh? Oh, its Blood Beast." Astrid said while trying to asses the situation, his Battle Focus skill was keeping him cool, letting him think that if the First Demon king cant defeat the Abyss Prince, he should just give up.

(So thats why, your bleeding is extremely reduced due to your upgraded racial skill, the reason it is upgraded is because you are in awakened mode, so even if you bleed, your blood will crystallize, and because of that..) Vil said as he snapped the sword in half. (Anything your blood touches will be able to crystallize, and break into pieces!)

Suddenly, Vil started to pull the other swords out of his body, and the wounds crystallize themselves. He then took the remaining blood, and applied it to his face. Soon enough, the blood started to crystallize creating a sort of headgear for him.

(You realize that you are extremely gifted right?) Vil asked Astrid.

"I currently don't know much about my race because of a certain pussy, but all I know is that its a forbidden race driven to extinction." Astrid replied.

(I also don't know much about it, only a little bit that I have read in my vast library, I've only met one, I'll teach you the stuff I learned from him, at a price of course hehehehhe.) Vil said as he looked towards the Abyss Prince.

(Come at me.)

"ʂųཞɛ!!" the Abyss Prince yelled as he ran up to Vil and slashed him with his sword, Vil dodged at suddenly took Death's Paragon in its dagger form and stabbed himself, causing blood to spatter onto the dagger, before slicing the Abyss Prince's face.

The blood on the dagger sinked into the Abyss Prince's face, creating a large gap. Suddenly, the blood on that side of his face crystallized, creating a huge ore of blood on his face, stunning him.

"ɯԋ- ᏇᏂᏗᏖ ᏂᏗᏉᏋ ᎩᎧᏬ ᎴᎧᏁᏋ!" the Abyss Prince raged as he ripped the crystal out of his face, revealing a gore mess, and an eyeball missing.

"ᎥᏝᏝ ᏰᏋᏗᏖ ᎩᎧᏬᏒ ᏗᏕᏕ!"

(And I'll wipe yours!) Vil yelled as he stabbed himself and more blood spurted out of his arm, soon enough, the wound crystallized.

"₴ⱧɄ₮ Ʉ₱!" the Abyss Prince yelled as he threw his swords at Vil. But this time, Vil caught the rods in mid air, snapped them, and threw them to the side. If you looked closely at his eyes, you would see that his eyes had turned into one of a predator, oozing blood lust.

(Time to...)

『k』『i』『l』『l』 『y』『o』『u』

Vil broke his expectation and bolted forward like a streak of lightning.

"What the hell?? What is up with that movement? It's like I'm looking at video footage sped up several times!" Astrid finally spoke up, he was extremely shocked with Vil's actions, this was going past the limits of his body!

Quite literally, in the blink of an eye! Vil had ran past the Abyss Prince's its lackeys and arrived before the shadow soldiers.

The Abyss Prince's eyes widened considerably.

Vil lifted his short sword high.

Just before the dagger pointing to the sky fell down on the enemy, the Abyss Princes Deaths Paragon transformed into a shield.

Whoosh-!!

Kwajeeck!!

The attack was defended against somehow, but…. Both arms of the Abyss Princes arms were shattered into pieces. The sturdiest, toughest shield, a divine item, and single attack and was rendered unable to fight any further, unless...

Scatter….

The shattered pieces of the Abyss Prince's arms fell to the ground and scattered away.

"M-mm? M-mm?"

Perhaps finding its previous arm's not to its liking, The Abyss Prince tilted its head this way and that, while staring deeply at its shattered flesh. But that was only for a brief period.

Suddenly, swords started to grow out of his shoulders, splitting into threads, forming arms!

(The bastard grew more arms! I wonder what will happen if I chop his testicles!)

Vil bit his lower lip.

What he did next wasn't because his head told him to do it.

Paht!

When he regained his senses, he was already in mid-air, leaping towards the Abyss Prince.

His target was already set. And that would be that surprisingly beady little head attached atop the mountainous body.

Vil twisted his body in mid-air. The muscles of his shoulder and the arm cocked rearward ballooned up. When he focused all his might on his clenched right fist.

Too bad, Vil's fist was not slow enough for the giant monster to dodge when it was already near its nose.

Swiiiick!!

His fist punched out like a bullet and slammed into the side of the Abyss Prince's face, the side that was exposing the gore mess of his face.

KWABOOM

The Abyss Prince was flung away. The giant sword man rolled away on the ground for a long, long time, before crashing into the skeletal remains of a building and came to a stop.

Rumble, crash!!

Then, the barely-standing remains all tumbled on top of the Abyss Prince, burying the enemy underneath.

Tap.

Vil lightly landed back on the ground, his eyes quite wide open.

(Why did it fly away that easily?)

Unable to comprehend what just happened, he stared at his own fist in disbelief. He couldn't even spot a single nick or a scratch on his fist that managed to blow away such a huge creature.

Then, he suddenly recalled something.

'Ahh… now that I think about it….'

Astrid raised his head. He summoned the Stat Window, and it quickly floated up there.

[Stats]

Strength: 150

Endurance: 109

Agility: 139

Intelligence: 109

Perception: 111

(….That's how it was.)

"WHY ARE MY STATS SO HIGH!" Astrid yelled in disbelief.

(The way I became this way, is from double awakening, this will take an incredible toll on your body, tearing ligaments would be the least of your worries.)

On top of this, his level had increased explosively, as well.

[34]

Just from checking out each of his Stats, he could definitely feel the results of all that grinding. One of those results was this.

Vil stared at the Abyss Prince, still buried underneath the rubble with a dumbfounded face, before a wry chuckle left his lips.

"Huh….."

It was hard to feel it when he was busy massacring the 'regular' monsters, the Low-Ranked and Mid-Ranked knights. But, after punching the boss-level creature, he was certain of it now.

'I've definitely…. become stronger.' Astrid was proud of himself, and his spirits.

Clench!

Suddenly, Vil lost control for a second, feeling Astrid take over.

(What are you doing!)

"Im going to take over, you relax, I want to feel my new found strength."

(No! There is demon energy coursing through your veins! You will feel extreme pain if you switch!)

"Shut up!" Astrid said as he forced himself into his own body, the suddenly, an extreme shock entered his body, but he ignored it like it was nothing, the pure adrenaline was the only thing keeping him conscious.

He felt strength flowing into his clenched fists. Heightened excitement filled every inch of his body.

Astrid raised his head.

The fallen Prince used his sword to prop itself and stood up from the rubble.

[The Abyss Prince has reached its final stage, has activated 'Skill: Rage'.]

'Uh??'

Tti-ring, tti-ring, tti-ring.

The warning chime went in his head one after the other.

[The 'Rage' state will be continuously maintained.]

[All of Abyss Prince's Stats will be increased by 50%.]

[Abyss Prince feel less pain.]

The Abyss Prince, with its two reddened eyes, rushed towards him like an unstoppable tidal wave.

Astrid knew he couldn't dodge it, but he couldn't block it too, so he decided to use the one movement technique that the learned.

[Dance till yur Dead]

So, AStrid chose the method that could ensure the safety of his soldiers.

He took a pose, and his leg muscles tensed up.

"卂Ꮆ卂Ꮆ卂卄卂ᎶᎶ卂!!"

Shortly thereafter, the Abyss Prince slammed down with its sword.

Slam!!

Kwang!!

Boom!!

Fearsome attacks that rocked the earth landed several times in a row without rest, but Astrid patiently weaved them all. His high Agility Stat allowed him to dodge these attacks.

"₩Ⱨ₳₮?"

When its attacks did not work, the Abyss Prince became even more frenzied and pounded away with that massive sword.

Slam!! Kwang!! Boom!! Kaboom!!

However, Astrid was steadfast and his knees buckled not even once.

'Still….'

Still, standing around like this blocking all the time wouldn't let him hunt the boss down.

Deep frowns formed on Astrid's forehead.

This rage skill boosted his power exponentially, but in turn, reduced his intelligence stat proportionally.

Meaning, he couldn't remain passively defending forever like this, and the Abyss Prince would not know how to counter, but he wanted to end this fast.

Slam!! Boom!!

Astrid smiled.

Kwang!!

Astrid had been getting ready to counter-attack and took the opening to leap towards Vulcan's head.

However, he wasn't the only one waiting for an opening.

"YEᔕ!"

Matching the timing of Astrid's jump, the Abyss Mage quickly leaned its upper torso back.

"What?!"

And then, the sword flew in towards him from the side while drawing an arc in the air.

"….He got me."

If there were places where his hands or feet could touch, the story might have been different, but there was no way he'd be able to dodge the attack in the middle of air.

And, even if he managed to block it, who knew just where he would end up from the rebound?

Swooosh-!!

As the time slowed down in his perception, Astrid stared at the club approaching ever closer and leaked out a groan.

'A way…. There must be a way!'

If he could move his body, then surely, he'd be able to dodge this no problem.

When his thoughts arrived at this point….

'Moving my body?'

An idea suddenly popped up in his head.

There was no time to think about this. As soon as the idea formed in his head, Astrid activated the skill 'Water Crushing Flow' and pushed the sword downwards while throwing himself into the ceiling.

"ᗷᗩᔕTᗩᖇD!"

Of course, the power behind the skill 'Water Crushing Flow' was far too low to move the massive body of the Abyss Prince. However, the rebound meant that it was Astrid who was pushed back, instead.

Whoooosh!!

The tip of the sword missed him by a hair's breadth.

'I did it!'

Astrid was flung away some distance and rolled on the ground a few times, but compared to what might have happened when hit by that sword, his landing this time should be seen as far, far gentler.

"Whew-!"

Astrid managed to find his balance and sighed in relief.

"M-mm?"

On the other hand, the Abyss Prince's expression had crumpled quite unsightly. It attacked, feeling proud and all, but in the end, it was all for nothing. That fact caused its fury to reach the peak.

"ᖴᑘᑢᖽᐸ ᖻᓍᑘ!"

Astrid scratched the side of his head while staring at the Abyss Prince's bloodied face.

'Now what should I do about this?'

If he jumped to its front, the damn thing would evade him with not much difficulty.

But then, attacking other body parts instead of its head didn't look like he'd be able to critically wound it, what with all those layers of flesh getting in the way.

'Is there a way to make it impossible to dodge?'

It was at this point that yet another, and an arguably excellent, idea popped up in his head.

The corners of Astrid's lips arched up.

Suddenly, he turned around and ran. The Abyss Prince mistook this action as him trying to escape, and hurriedly chased after him.

Rumble, thud, thud, thud!!

Astrid moderated his running speed so the Abyss Prince could chase after him. As soon as he discovered a suitable remnant of a building, his eyes began gleaming brightly.

'That one.'

On the other hand…

"BITCH!!"

When the distance between the Abyss Prince and Astrid closed up, the giant bastard lifted its blade high up in the air behind it.

To squash this bug-like creature!

Finally, the chance to crush this annoying pest once and for all was here!

A disgusting smile formed on the Abyss Prince's face.

And so, as the sword came down once again…

The insect-like creature suddenly sped up and ran up on the outer wall of the destroyed building.

"Wԋαƚ??"

Something felt wrong here, but it was too late for the prince to slow down the descent of his blade.

In an instant, the insect had run up high enough to be at the prince's eye line, before he powerfully kicked the wall.

Crack!

As the spider web-like cracks spread on the wall, something shot towards this prince with never-before-seen speed.

It was none other than that insect.

"!!"

The Abyss Prince's eyes grew wider.

A smile spread on Astrid's face as he looked into those large eyes.

The 'Death's Paragon' gripped tightly in his right hand sliced past the bulging artery of the Abyss Prince's neck.

Slice!!

From the blood vessel as thick as a grown man, blood spurted out like an overflowing fountain, and this only ment...

SHING!

A giant ore of spikes emerged from his throat.

The Abyss Prince hurriedly discarded the sword and tried to rip the ore out, but if he did, he would rip his neck out in result.

"ϝυƈƙ!"

Unfortunately, it was insufficient to block the overflowing of blood.

At that moment, there was a visible tremor shaking in the Abyss Prince's eyes.

"M, m-mm??"

Before it had the time to notice it, Astrid had climbed up the demon's back, and buried his hands deeply into that thick neck.

'I guess, once isn't enough, huh?'

Suddenly, Astrid activated 'Blood Claw' taking up his HP and repeatedly drowning the Abyss Prince's neck with his blood, until...

SHING!

The Abyss Mage's neck exploded, resulting in his head popping off, and a huge blood crystal in its place.

Only then did the messages he was waiting for pop up.

[You have killed Abyss Prince]

[You have earned 150,000 experience points.]

[The souls of demons trapped inside Abyss Prince's stomach have been released.]

[You have acquired (72) Soul of the Abyss.]

[Level up!]

[Level up!]

[Level u...]

[You have reached Level 69]

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