Chapter 124: Knight (2)

Perseus POV

Reiner looks like she can somewhat match the thing in strength, but for short periods, should I let Leilah go all out or something, because this is like a normal person and their attempts at trying to kill a terminator.

But if I let Leilah go all out, the demons would be inclined to document every moment of it and report it to the demon lord. Lilith, she knows them already as a goddess, but she'll have to back her subordinate up and authenticate the report which will then leak to all my enemies.

Leilah is one of my trump card, and I can't use it yet.

Blue petals started to gather and formed swords in their air, it plunged down, but it barely penetrated through its tough metal skin as Ruka and Leilah arrive on the scene, Buddy charged at it, but it just ran past him and keep striking Reiner who's holding his ground while rowan tank all the hits.

"Ruka, create a barrier to prevent this thing from getting out."

As she did that, a black arrow made from dark magic flew and almost hit the knight but got deflected instead, it came from Lilith who was the sole demon who is now inside the much smaller but better barrier set by Ruka.

She then nocked an arrow and rapid fire arrows at a super high speed at the knight as she head our way, and the knight deflected most of the arrows, but the ones that didn't managed to plunge about 3 cm deep inside the knight whose body just spit the arrows out and healed itself and distanced itself.

It gave me time to heal my body a fair bit.

"Tch, this guy is tougher than your regular 10 star." she complained

"Of course, he's condensed into a much smaller form with all that much 10 star materials. Where's the rest of your guys?"

"I don't want to waste my people's lives for nothing, that thing seems a bit too powerful for its own good, so I decided to intervene a bit." she replied "It's hard on all our ends since we're all enemies, we can't go all out without having to go at each other after finishing that thing to prevent one side from spreading information about each other."

Yep, Lilith and Reiner can't go all out, Reiner is slower, sure, but I'm sure he got trump cards that will allow him to possibly defeat a 10 star fighter. Everyone will get slightly serious, but it's kind of hard for everyone since none of the ones in the barrier is currently willing to go all out.

"Let's make time for chit chat later, while it's there, plan something!" Rowan said as Reiner backed up to group with us

"Let Reiner do it, he's the next king or whatever, he's gonna have to take on the role as supreme commander or whatever."

"Demon, let's make a deal, we'll continue our truce and no side shall attack the other weakened side after this." Reiner proposed

"You'll have my word." Lilith replied

"Alright-" he couldn't speak the next word as the knight appeared to my right.

This shit is intelligent, it targeted the weakest link; me. This time I formed a shield mix with the light powers and the roses and managed to blocked it but it attacked with 4 of its arms this time and it was hard to stand my ground on desert sand.

My arms broke again as Reiner rush forward and knocked it back as Buddy use ice to freeze its feet and Leilah created vines from its shadows to restrained its arms as the ice started to slowly freeze it. The ice is stronger this time and it couldn't even move.

Everyone reacted quick, Lilith rapid fired again, Rowan turned back into a sword and Reiner brought it down with full force to try and cut one of its arm, the blade got about halfway through the arm and stopped there and took a while to pull it back.

I intensify my light blade and tried to cut one of the arm too, and I made a similar depth of cut, but I can slowly melt it by pushing it down, I was about to make a full cut, but the knight broke its feet free, I am ready this time and turn my body into light particles and his attack just went through my body like I'm a ghost.

Not gonna lie, It feels really cool to wield an actual lightsaber, but I don't got time for that as it completely broke free and rain its attacks on me as I use my superior speed to counter each hit and sunk into the shadows to appeared right behind it and brought a big swing at its neck.

I then took my speed to my advantage to attack the thing and slowly melt it little by little from every angle before backing away. I feed really lightheaded and I can feel my body heat up greatly, I'm feeling both feverish and hungry.

The side effects are starting at one of the worst moments.

It's healing itself quickly, which is bad.

"Cut off the head." Lilith shouted to me "And as it tried to reconnect itself, destroy one of its core in the head before we can move to the next."

"There's more of em?!"

"The heart." she replied "2, that's it!"

Alright, Leilah is damaging him bit by bit by using the shadows to fight and capture the knight, she would use her powers and essentially deal a lot damage, but she isn't fast enough, the regeneration speed of the knight is just absurd.

Buddy have speed, but he specializes in destructive AOE attacks, so he needs distance or he'll have to hold back more than everyone else. Rowan as a shield can't really die, so he can take the hits, but the impact seems to hurt Reiner greatly, probably his arms broken several times already, Ruka help heal us from the distance while holding the barrier since the knight isn't targeting her.

Alright, I need to use my speed somehow to distance it and distract it long enough for Leilah and Buddy to rain down destructive attacks and open up a bit of its insides and make the metal flesh(?) thinner around its core. Think enough for Lilith to pierce through with one good shot and Reiner to deliver a killing blow to the other.