e-booksonline Chapter 178: This is Your Grave
Chapter 178: This is Your Grave
“You’ll handle everything alone? Little human, even fighting alongside that weak Spirit King wouldn’t be enough, yet you claim you’ll fight alone?”
The demon realm grand duke asked incredulously.
“It’s enough.”
At Ethan’s words, the demon realm grand duke laughed loudly.
“Wahahaha! A mere human alone will face all these numbers? Look here.”
Over a hundred demons were exuding a fierce aura.
It was an immense pressure. Even Roanna, hiding behind the Spirit King, trembled in fear at the powerful demons.
How much more formidable must they be, being directly led by the demon realm grand duke, who held quite a high position among the high-ranking demons?
“Well then, try facing them.”
Ethan looked at the demons.
Since fighting the Twelve Apostles Luna Spirit, Ethan had trained in various ways.
He had changed his mindset entirely.
‘It’s not about getting stronger to survive.’
You survive by becoming stronger. Until the very end.
“Fight to the Death.”
-Domain declared.
-Counting enemies within the domain.
-Becoming stronger by the number of enemies!
Cheok Jun-gyeong’s Fight to the Death, which considered everyone except himself as an enemy, was activated.
‘My body feels lighter.’
Ethan breathed calmly.
“Huu.”
-Activating Immortal Hero’s Breathing!
-The Five Elements Acupuncture Technique fills your body with strength!
Ethan stomped the ground hard.
In an instant, the movements of all demons were captured by the Eye of Horus.
-Bullet Time is activated.
In the infinitely slowed time, Ethan targeted the demon realm grand duke first. If he dealt with the demon realm grand duke leading them, the rest would become mere disorganized small fry.
Grrrr-!
Even in the slowed time, there were demons trying to block Ethan’s movements.
However, the demons’ attacks couldn’t reach Ethan.
-Earth Slide is activated.
He used the power of lightning simultaneously with Earth Slide.
Crackle-!
“!”
Ethan reached the front of the demon realm grand duke at a speed that surprised even himself. No one present could track Ethan’s movements.
“I said it was enough, didn’t I?”
Ethan swung his sword toward the demon realm grand duke, who was trying to back away while looking at Ethan with surprised eyes.
Infused with the power of frost and lightning.
Ethan Swordsmanship Third Form.
Ten Thousand Thunder Frost Strike.
Crack-!
The demon realm grand duke, unable to escape in time, tried to block the sword by crossing his hands, but couldn’t stop Ethan’s strike that had activated all abilities intentionally.
-One-hit kill!
-You’ve slain a superior being in one strike!
-Achievement unlocked!
-Obtained likes for achieving the [One Stroke, Two Halves] achievement.
-Gained ‘5’ likes!
-Cleared a sudden quest!
-All stats permanently increase by 1!
No one except Ethan properly grasped what had happened.
Even the dead demon realm grand duke only saw Ethan’s figure reaching right in front of him in an instant, probably never even thinking he would die.
That’s how powerful Ethan’s single strike was.
“Th-The, gra, gr-grand duke.”
“The grand duke...”
“The grand duke... has, has fallen.”
The demons were the most bewildered. When the demon realm grand duke perished just like that, they froze in place like statues, unable to move properly.
Some demons were even on the verge of backing away from the aura Ethan was emitting.
“Impossible... how did he defeat that demon realm grand duke?”
Tror’s mouth gaped open.
It was truly unbelievable. Especially Tror, who had directly fought the demon realm grand duke in the past, knew his power well.
He had barely managed to send him back to the demon realm using all his strength, thinking that if things had gone slightly wrong, Tror himself might have died instead – that’s how tremendous the demon realm grand duke’s power was.
To kill such a demon realm grand duke in one strike.
“How on earth...”
Moreover, it wasn’t magic.
Slash!
With each swing of the sword, a considerable number of demons fell.
The demons rushed at Ethan prepared to die, but it was futile.
Every demon that charged fell unable to withstand a single strike.
White frost spread, and lightning scattered as if divine punishment had descended.
“Keep your distance!”
Realizing that close-range attacks weren’t working, the demons spread out. Then they began to gather their mana.
“Curse of Death.”
What the remaining demons used by drawing out their mana was a curse that instantly pressures the opponent to death.
It was a high-level black magic that could attack both mind and body simultaneously.
Thunk-!
An unavoidable arrow pierced Ethan’s body.
“Damn him.”
“Now’s the time! Attack him!”
The Curse of Death is certainly powerful black magic, but it couldn’t possibly kill Ethan, who had slain the demon realm grand duke in one strike.
But they thought it could at least bind him for a moment.
The demons rushed at Ethan once again.
“N-No! We, we need to retreat...”
A demon rushing close to Ethan realized something was off.
The human who should have been weakened, even if not killed, by the influence of the Curse of Extinction was perfectly fine.
-A powerful curse envelops you!
-Extinction has devoured the curse.
“I have an even greater curse. Ordinary ones won’t work on me.”
Ethan grinned and swung his sword at the demons who had come close.
Slash!
More demons were cut down.
The extreme Ethan Swordsmanship mixed with Immortal Hero’s Breathing resulted in overwhelming power and speed.
“Shoot Inferno!”
Whoosh-!
This time it was Inferno. The powerful 6th circle magic, Inferno, burst forth from the demons’ hands.
A wave of bright red and pitch-black flames.
The power of Inferno varied depending on each individual’s level.
Ethan’s surroundings were filled with intense flames.
It was such powerful flames that even Tror and Roanna, who were watching, felt a moment of unease.
Whoosh-!
Seeing the flames soaring high into the sky, the demons finally thought they had inflicted fatal damage on that human.
“Once more! Inferno works on him!”
“Shoot again with Dark Inferno!”
However, the flames suddenly wavered greatly.
“!”
-Gourmet trait has been activated.
-The power of the guardian stone reduces damage.
Ethan walked out of the flames without a single scratch.
At that sight, the demons stepped back. They had surely thought it would work this time.
“What on earth is he...”
“Hah!”
Ethan charged forward, enveloped in flames.
“One.”
From top left to bottom right.
“Two.”
From top right to bottom left.
He continued to cut down demons endlessly like this.
“Huff, huff.”
Ethan breathed heavily. Suddenly, only ten demons remained.
“Th-This... How is this possible?”
“You! Are you really human!”
The demons’ voices trembled.
Ethan, covered in demon blood, and the trembling demons. The situation had completely reversed.
Ethan’s unique gaze combined with this situation made even the demons terrified, his appearance ghastly.
“Whether I’m human or not, is that important?”
Ethan said.
“What’s important is that not a single one of you will return alive from here. You must have been pleased when you blocked the entrance. Thinking you trapped us here.”
Ethan charged forward, kicking off the ground.
“But it’s you who are trapped.”
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