Chapter 23 - The 'Suspended World'

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What the hell!! I mean what is wrong with her. This bloodlust is no joke, she looked fine a moment ago but now...

Holy–

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Alert. The evolution into a 'Digital Lifeform' has been completed>>

Yeah. I can feel it—

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Don't cut me while I'm talking and for your knowledge even if I want to move I don't think I can.

My instincts are telling me not to move and even Ciel-San.

I looked toward her as she also looked towards me.

Shit!!

We made eye contact. I can't let her know that I can move otherwise...

Velzard's eyes turn extremely cold as she looked at me and then a terrifying aura started to appear in her hand.

Holy shit!!

What with the mythical grade sword. Not to mention the aura around her changed slightly.

It became even more dangerous.

She started to move toward me and my mind stopped working.

Nervous.

First time in my life I'm feeling this frightened, Veldora didn't even have a fraction of the power that her sister possessed.

In the blink of an eye, the sword broke my defenses, and the sword penetrate my chest.

Argh..?!!

This pain.

Huff huff

It's... It's like my soul is about to tear apart. Destroyed into millions of fractions.

I want to scream! I want to shout

But I can't. She is too strong for me to handle alone not to mention that Guy is also here.

It doesn't matter how strong I'm, I can't handle those two people at the same time.

'How Pathetic...

I'm miserable...'

Excuse me, miss but I'm the one miserable here. Your sword literally killed me. And why is she crying? I'm the one who should cry here.

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Sigh. I'm glad she finally stopped, I thought I will be a goner for a while. Soon after she hold herself time started to flow again.

Phew.

She is insane, a little too much. But why did she attack me of all people?

Did I look that horrible?

No, it can't be. Even the cold-hearted Hinata followed me all day how can I look horrible.

Did I look like someone she used to know

....Now that I think about it maybe it's true.

As the time started to flow again Velzard didn't waste her time. She teleported back to her place.

I think she lives in the Ice continent.

Silence filled the whole room. Everybody present here is a strong person I'm pretty sure they also felt it.

After a while, Guy broke the silence with a heavy sigh.

"Sigh. How am I supposed to return home now?"

Guy said with a grim expression as he sigh heavily, I see he is really good at pissing people.

"You bastard!! I nearly died there and you are worried about how you will return home.

How about I will give you a lift with a punch.

Don't worry I'm confident that you will reach the Ice continent with my one punch"

I unleashed all of my anger on him as he looked surprised for a moment but then his expression changed into that of anger.

"You bastard you can move in «Suspended World» no more important than that, what you do to Velzard?! Why was she this furious? It's like she has gone insane

And as for your offer no I can return home myself but how am I supposed to live there"

His voice is shaking with anger and fear as he looked at me with a hateful look.

"What!! What I did to her. That's I want to ask her myself what I do to her. This is my first time meeting her."

I ignored the second question I took all my anger out on him. But he is right, he lived with Velzard how he is supposed to live in the same castle as her if she is in this bad mood.

Fufu. I feel a little bit of pity toward him, suddenly I feel a little fortunate.

"You bastard—"

He wants to add something but I can't let him overpower me.

"You Red Demon. Did you want to fight I'm not sure about Velzard but I'm confident in beating you?"

I threatened him with an icy cold voice as I looked at him with a fierce gaze.

And he just gave me a smug look like saying 'I dare you to touch me' is he that confident in himself.

My emotion got better of me as a huge pressure formed inside the room with the aura that my body released.

Third Person Pov

The whole room filled with a deadly aura full of killing intent. All the Demon Lords tense up, they didn't expect Rimuru to be on par with Guy. Even his aura feels heavier than Guy's.

Guy patient also broke as he also released his aura. He is the strongest Demon Lord how can he show any weakness in front of other Demon Lords.

Rain's sharp eyes looked toward Benimaru as she tried to gauge his power.

She can tell that Benimaru is an experienced fighter with a lot of hidden tricks and trump cards under his belt.

Not to mention the "Storm Dragon" is also here.

If a fight really broke out then—

No how can she even think that his master will lose?

Barrier upon barrier started to appear around Rimuru and Guy as all the Demon Lords back off.

They can't even stand the aura that those two are releasing. Of course, there are two exceptions Veldora and Dagruel.

Rain and Benimaru looked at each other with an intense gaze as they both prepared themselves to engage in a long battle.

Veldora felt a little left out because of the lack of opponents. So he tried to open his mouth.

But.

Not a word came out of his mouth...

He can't move his mouth. His skills are not working, all the connections other than soul corridors got cut off.

In another word, the time has stopped again.

Not only Veldora but even Guy felt a little surprised.

"You bastard take this."

Rimuru launched himself at Guy without any hesitation as he summoned his newly evolved Mythical Class Katana.

The slim black-colored katana gives off a rainbow color luster as Rimuru interjects his «Turn Null» into it.

Ting.

The Katana made contact with another sword giving out the same color of luster but more intense.

Ting.

Ting.

Ting.

In the blink of an eye, millions of moves were exchanged. After the brief confrontation, they both stopped for a moment this confrontation made it clear that Guy has a better sword and he has a lot of experience compared to Rimuru.

While on the other hand, Rimuru has more brute strength and energy.

"You bastard you are still holding back."

"Oh yeah and you, you are giving your all."

Both of their words and swords clashed with each other in a rather intense way.

Rimuru decided to go to the extreme he increased the amount of «Turn Null» with Ciel-San's auto-battle mode helping him.

Sensing the power change in Rimuru katana Guy didn't dare to hold back.

Rimuru looked a little too confident when he said he can beat him and looking at his power he was not joking or rather he has some sort of trump card.

Without wasting his time he also coated his sword with his «Ultimate Skill» energy.

Ting.

Ting.

Ting.

Just because of a few words the fight was intensified to another level. Neither of them is willing to back off.

No, their pride will not let them.

'This bastard!! He was fighting like an immature a while ago but now–'

Guy cursed silently in his head as he blocked the one-sided assault of Rimuru. He can't read Rimuru at all his face is expressionless and his eyes were cold.

On the other hand

'He was holding back his power but to think this much even now he is fighting evenly against Ciel-San.'

'This person is troublesome.'

Ting.

Ting.

Ting.

Slashes after slashes, cut after cut. The sword didn't stop clashing even for a while.

Boom!!

The energy released by the swords was too much for the barrier made by Rimuru and Guy to handle. The barrier was special in itself made purely out of 'Information Particles.'

Crack.

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'What!! The third layer! Isn't each layer consisting of at least a thousand layers?'

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'Positive my ass stop the battle.'

Rimuru shouted panicked. He didn't want to hurt Veldora and Benimaru after all.

Rimuru shouted as he stopped his katana at his track but Guy was not prepared to stop immediately. He didn't expect Rimuru to ask him to suddenly stop after all.

Boom!!

Both of them clash for the last time.

Crack.

And a large crack appeared on the last layer of barrier that fortunately Guy puts before the battle.

Seeing the crack Rimuru immediately releases the «time stop» so at least others can protect themselves. If they were fast enough.

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Ok, I used «Turn Null», not magicules because «Turn Null» is said to be not affected by 'Space and Time' and as for 'Ultimate Skill' energy because Guy has Velzard's «Patient King Gabriel» and because it has the time-stopping ability, maybe it works in 'Frozen World' because we know Chloe's skills work in Frozen World.