The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

Chapter 605: “I Can Do Whatever I Want.”

“Who are you…!? Who are you…!”

Limgir struggled desperately and roared like a wild beast, the magic power and aura around him becoming colder and more violent.

It could be seen that this young master was completely dominated by the negative emotions erupting within him, almost hysterical.

Shien naturally wouldn’t reveal his identity.

Because he had sensed that after Limgir transformed into a demon, a gaze had been fixed on them, filled with surprise and delight.

This surprise and delight were completely directed at Limgir.

After Limgir’s transformation, the other party seemed to be completely captivated, their attention never leaving, constantly staring at the situation.

The corners of Shien’s mouth under his hood curled up slightly, a playful and mocking look in his eyes.

He had been waiting for the other party to reveal themselves, but their patience was incredibly good, almost intriguing, as if they were observing Shien’s strength or Limgir’s transformation.

In that case…

“I’d like to see how long you can endure this.”

Shien, holding his sealed Holy Sword, came to the hysterical Limgir, reached out, and imbued the stone covering Limgir’s body with a new property.

“[Bestowal: Fire].”

With the addition of the “fire” property, the stone covering Limgir’s body began to turn red.

Like magma, it started to glow red and become hot.

“Sizzle—!”

A sizzling sound, like something being grilled, came from the stone.

“Aaaaaaaaaaah…!”

Limgir immediately howled in pain.

The stone covering his body turned into scorching magma, burning Limgir, making his body beneath the stone smoke.

This torture-like treatment almost drove Limgir mad.

“I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!”

Limgir roared madly.

Shien turned a deaf ear.

He focused all his attention on the person hiding in the shadows, noticing that their emotions were somewhat unstable, inadvertently leaking a bit of their aura.

But it seemed they still wanted to observe for a while longer, restraining themselves.

“It seems the stimulation isn’t enough.”

Shien muttered to himself, then cast Bestowal Magic again.

“[Bestowal: Split].”

As soon as this Bestowal Magic was cast, Limgir’s body trembled violently.

“Slash!”

As if suddenly being cut into a thousand pieces, Limgir’s entire body cracked open, splattering a large amount of blood.

“Aaaaaaaaaaah…!”

This time, Limgir’s howl turned into a scream.

Clearly, this time’s damage was much greater than before.

Shien didn’t hold back at all. The magic power he used to cast Bestowal Magic just now was far greater than when he “detonated” those demonized beings. If it were an ordinary person, even a Legendary-level dragon, they might have already been torn to pieces.

Under such circumstances, not only did the aura of the person secretly observing become chaotic, but even Shien was a little surprised.

“I didn’t expect to fail to split you into pieces. Your magic resistance is quite high.”

This was probably due to the high magic resistance provided by the Special Skill, [Greater Spirit of Death], right?

Shien wasn’t discouraged.

After all…

“Can you still withstand this?”

Shien reached out with a smile.

On that hand, an even denser magic power surged than before.

If all this vast magic power was used to cast the splitting magic just now, then, as one could imagine, Limgir wouldn’t be so lucky.

“Go find your father and uncle, young master.”

Leaving these words, Shien pressed his hand onto the scorching rock without hesitation.

And at this moment, the aura of the person secretly observing finally erupted.

“[Astarte]!”

As a hoarse and piercing voice echoed, the atmosphere in this place changed.

It became filled with death energy and despair.

“Boom!”

A jet-black death energy, like dragon breath, surged towards Shien like a vengeful ghost formed from countless resentful spirits, with faces full of pain appearing within it, emitting an aura that could corrode everything.

“Swoosh!”

Shien didn’t hesitate, teleporting away.

The death energy, with its fluctuating faces, slammed into the ground in front of Limgir, spreading like poisonous gas.

Then, a horrifying scene appeared.

The ground was instantly dyed black, as if all life force had been drained from it. At a speed visible to the naked eye, it first became dry and cracked, then turned into gravel, forming a desert, and finally completely disappeared, leaving behind a terrifyingly large crater.

“Holy moly.”

Shien reappeared in the distance, looking at this scene in astonishment.

Limgir, on the other hand, cried out joyfully as if he had seen his savior.

“Save me! Save me! High Priest!”

Limgir had completely abandoned his past image.

That hoarse and piercing voice immediately responded to him.

“Considering that you have successfully transformed into a Greater Spirit, I’ll spare your life this time and overlook your outburst.”

Saying that, a black shadow floated like a ghost from the direction of the waterfall.

A black robe hovered in mid-air like a Grim Reaper.

A skeletal hand raised, holding a crystal ball.

The being known as the High Priest finally arrived.

A dense death aura fluctuated around her, corroding the atmosphere.

“Bang!”

The stone on Limgir shattered.

The High Priest merely released a wave of death energy towards him, and that death energy, like the ground just now, made the stone dry and crack at a speed visible to the naked eye, then, under Limgir’s struggles, it crumbled into gravel.

Limgir fell to the ground, his body covered in blood, looking battered and miserable.

However, the flesh and blood on his body also rapidly regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye, strangely fast.

“Not bad.”

The High Priest looked at this scene, her raspy voice filled with joy and relief.

“The transformation efficiency is very high. Although there’s still a gap compared to ‘that failed product,’ after a thousand years, being able to create another Greater Spirit isn’t a waste of the [Soul Essence] I’ve collected for so many years.”

Hearing this, regardless of Shien’s reaction, Limgir understood the reason for the changes in his body.

He knew he had become stronger, suddenly possessing power he couldn’t have imagined before, but he didn’t know why.

Now it seemed that it was inseparable from the [Soul Essence] he consumed.

“Here.”

The High Priest was in a very good mood, raising the crystal ball in her hand. Several ghastly green lights emerged from the crystal ball, like swimming venomous snakes, grabbed by the High Priest’s skeletal hand and thrown to Limgir.

Limgir was overjoyed and grabbed the snake-like green lights without hesitation, devouring them like a ferocious beast.

The High Priest then turned to Shien.

Her skeletal eye sockets under the hood stared intently at Shien, like a true Grim Reaper, and she said coldly,

“Although I don’t know who you are, you dared to trespass on my territory, take away our captured toys, and almost ruin my hard-won creation. How are you going to compensate me?”

As she spoke, the death aura surging around the High Priest intensified, and painful faces emerged within it again, a terrifying sight.

Shien looked at the High Priest, glanced at Limgir, who was still devouring the ghastly green light, thought about their conversation just now, and smiled faintly.

“Want compensation? That’s easy.” Shien said with a smirk, “It’s just a matter of whether you can take it.”

These words instantly made the atmosphere drop to freezing point.

The High Priest didn’t get angry, but her eyes grew colder and colder.

“You’re very brave.” The High Priest said coldly, “It’s been many years since someone dared to speak to me like this.”

“Really?” Shien remained unmoved, even sneering, “Isn’t that because you’re hiding and don’t dare to show your face?”

“You’re quite bold.” The High Priest didn’t get angry, but instead chuckled, a creepy and terrifying laugh, “Do you really think that with a bit of skill, you can act so arrogantly before me?”

“Who knows?” Shien just wanted to say that he had never been afraid of anyone in a verbal sparring match, so he said without hesitation, “I don’t know if I can act arrogantly, but I can do whatever I want.”

“Interesting.” The High Priest said indifferently, “In that case, I’d like to see how you plan to do whatever you want here.”

Saying that, the High Priest raised the crystal ball in her hand high.

“Clang!”

A ghastly green light bloomed from the crystal ball, illuminating the entire area.

At this moment, the world changed color.

“Rumble…”

Dark clouds suddenly rolled in, covering the sky.

“Woooo—!”

A pitch-black gale suddenly howled, sweeping through the area.

All light vanished, leaving only the ghastly green light illuminating this dark world.

“Come.”

The High Priest called out.

“Answer my call and eliminate this hateful enemy before me, my pet.”

As soon as she finished speaking, a figure shot out from the direction of the waterfall, from the stone passage.

It was an incredibly massive figure.

Decaying bone wings.

Decaying dragon body.

Decaying aura.

Ghastly green eyes.

It was the dragon Shien saw at the entrance to the basement – the dracolich.

“Roar—!”

A terrifying roar echoed from the dracolich’s mouth, shaking the atmosphere and the earth.

Shien, bathed in the sound waves of the dragon’s roar, his cloak fluttering wildly.

“Come, play with my pet first.”

The High Priest chuckled, her laughter like a demon’s whisper.

Shien also smiled.

“Sending a dracolich to deal with me?” Shien sneered, “Old woman, you’re playing dirty.”

The High Priest naturally couldn’t respond to this.

But she could understand the sarcasm in Shien’s words.

So, the High Priest stopped wasting her breath.

“Eat him.”

The High Priest ordered coldly.

“Roar!”

The dracolich immediately roared, flapping its wings and diving towards Shien.

Instantly, a dense death aura echoed, and the pitch-black gale swirled around the dracolich.

As the dracolich swooped down, it opened its mouth, and a breath of decaying dragon breath enveloped Shien.

That dragon breath felt different from the dragon breath of ordinary dragons. It didn’t have the oppressive feeling of penetrating all defenses, only a strong aura of decay.

Presumably, after becoming undead, this dragon’s breath had changed, right?

“Interesting.”

Shien wasn’t surprised, but instead smirked.

Just as the decaying dragon breath was about to land on him, Shien moved.

“[Bestowal: Dispel].”

Shien chanted the Bestowal Magic that could dispel magic and even magic power, turning his magic power into invisible ripples that spread out, meeting the incoming dragon breath.

The decaying dragon breath suddenly froze, then, like the first snow melting under the morning sun, gradually shrunk and disappeared without a trace.

“Such powerful Bestowal Magic…”

The High Priest naturally saw this scene, and her green eyes flickered.

“Roar!”

As if enraged, the dracolich spewed decaying dragon breath at Shien again.

But this time, Shien didn’t even bother using magic to counter it. He simply raised his sword and slashed, and the incoming dragon breath was cleaved in two by the Holy Sword, which flashed with dazzling golden light, turning into two surging air currents that flowed past him.

That scene was truly unbelievable.

“He… he actually cleaved the dragon breath?”

Limgir, who was still devouring the green light, was stunned.

“That sword… that light…”

The High Priest, however, stared at the gleaming Holy Sword in Shien’s hand, her expression changing.

For some reason, from that light, the High Priest not only sensed a somewhat familiar holy fluctuation but also felt a sense of trepidation.

Her intuition told her that that power posed a great threat to her.

And it was true.

The Holy Sword was inherently effective against demons, evil, and all negative forces.

The High Priest’s necromancy was precisely the type of power that the Holy Sword countered the most. Once it came into contact with the Holy Sword, it would probably be destroyed effortlessly.

Now, Shien was only using the effect of [Outer Manifestation of Heaven’s Decree] to enhance his weapon’s performance, activating a small portion of the sealed power of the Holy Sword.

However, even this small amount of power was enough to cleave dragon breath and slay the Demon Lord Larva that could shift between reality and illusion. It was only natural for the High Priest to feel threatened.

The High Priest’s mind raced.

“It seems this person isn’t ordinary. He must have a significant background.”

If that were the case, perhaps she could…

While the High Priest was pondering, the dracolich, enraged, attacked.

“Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! —“

This was the sound of the clash between Shien and the dracolich.

The dracolich charged at Shien, extending its claws and fangs, like a ferocious beast hunting its prey, constantly attacking and circling around Shien.

Shien stood still, but the Holy Sword in his hand danced, just like when he fought Limgir, the sword light flickering unhurriedly, meeting the incoming dragon claws and fangs, deflecting them.

His effortless appearance told others that he didn’t take this dragon seriously at all.