Shadow Palace, the uppermost floor.
After a series of eerie murmurs from the Word Spirit Demon, dark maggots surged from the black sun that unfurled behind it. The maggots piled up into mountains and seas of flesh, meticulous in their descent from the black sun, spreading outwards until they covered the entire space.
The maggots crept upwards, wriggling towards Bai En, who was near the ground, and instantly bit into him.
In an instant, Bai En was enveloped by the tide of maggots.
The Word Spirit Demon in the air smiled. "How foolish, to think you could withstand this attack with your defensive magic. Our magic is on a completely different dimension! Just be swallowed up obediently; your Mana and life force will be completely annihilated."
"Haha… now all that's left is that annoying Elf Tribe leader!"
It gently waved its hand, intending to eliminate Licht in the same way it eliminated Bai En. The maggots gathered, forming a thick rope that shot upwards, its head bristling with terrifying teeth that made one's scalp tingle.
Licht did not remain in place like Bai En; he leaped into the air. The demon-dweller sword glowed with white light, and with a swift slash, the thick rope made of maggots was severed by his sword qi.
In the darkness, Bai En felt the depletion of his Mana. Those disgusting, bloated maggots clung to him, yet they never truly touched him, thwarted by an 'infinite distance' that had been set to be untouchable.
They were eroding the infinite 'distance'.
But they could never fully erode it.
Partly because the erosion was very, very slow, and partly because Bai En was using Mana to replenish the 'distance' being eroded. If this continued, it would take at least ten days and nights for these maggots to harm Bai En.
The first time, he had feigned a surprise attack to cooperate with Xiao Tong, and the operation went smoothly. The 'room' that sealed his aura, combined with his and Licht's intervention, drew the demon's attention, allowing Xiao Tong to stab Frost Ember into the demon's body.
Judging from the Word Spirit Demon's reaction and pain… his magic, like Anti-Magic and dark magic, could harm demons.
The principle… in Bai En's opinion, was that his Mikuriya and Limitless were not of this world… though not from the underworld either, they should be classified as a type of underworld magic.
Moreover, from the second time, when he entered the Word Spirit Demon's magic with his body, the defensive effect was very successful… so from this moment, Bai En began to believe that if he launched a large-scale magic attack that hit the demon, he could completely eliminate it.
"Since that's the case…"
The Sky Elf sitting on Bai En's shoulder transformed into a ball of light and merged into Bai En's body. A brilliant white Mana began to surge forth. An iron sword spun beside him, cutting off all the bloated maggots clinging to his body.
Bai En gripped Heavenly Canon with his right hand. The mottled black light dissipated. Heavenly Canon, which had been prepared and fully charged with Mana, directly poured a massive amount of Mana into Bai En's body. Due to the 'room', the powerful Mana that erupted did not spread outwards.
The destruction of the magic still drew the Word Spirit Demon's attention to Bai En.
It snorted twice, "Didn't expect you to escape from my magic, did I?"
"Looks like he wasn't harmed. Strange… I still can't sense his Mana. The natural Mana in the space is trembling. This technique of using natural Mana, an Elf? No, he looks like a human, doesn't he?"
"Then let's try again!"
The Word Spirit Demon said coldly, "Lance of Disintegration!"
A pitch-black spear, capable of disintegrating all magic in this world, appeared in its hand. It arrogantly gripped the spear, but as it looked up, it saw a pair of unusual eyes.
The Word Spirit Demon was slightly stunned.
Because it had never seen human eyes like that: one eye as azure as the expanse of the sky, the other fiery red like the reflection of a crimson ocean.
This unusual appearance stirred a different emotion in the Word Spirit Demon—that was… fear of the unknown.
It was supposed to be the demon, it was supposed to be the one bringing fear to humans and Elves, so why did it feel this way from a human at this moment?!
"Impossible!"
The Word Spirit Demon immediately rejected this thought. It furiously hurled the disintegrating spear it held, that spear capable of disintegrating all magic in this world!
Let this strike prove that humans are merely crawling insects to be ridiculed and toyed with by demons!
"10 seconds."
Bai En calmly spoke a time.
This voice undoubtedly reached the demon's ears.
"10 seconds? What does that mean?"
A Mana Zone with a diameter of a thousand meters covered most of the Shadow Palace. Besides clearly sensing two individuals with considerable Mana rushing here, there was also a figure emitting light magic fluctuations rapidly approaching.
Both would arrive here… in approximately 10 seconds.
Before truly confronting Julius and preparing for a decisive battle, he didn't want anyone to know he possessed a second type of magic. As for Licht… it was likely he wouldn't live much longer after this battle… or… never mind, 10 seconds… best to deal with the demon first.
Two grimoires simultaneously unfurled beside him, and simultaneously flipped pages, shimmering with flowing light.
Almost the instant it saw the two grimoires, the Word Spirit Demon's expression froze. Without any hesitation, it turned and began to flee, because… fear was trembling in its heart!
'Impossible! Besides that guy… how could there be a Mage among human Mages who wields two grimoires?'
'And that Mage's unusual appearance… I've never seen it before!'
'Dangerous… bizarre!'
Bai En extended his right hand, making a somewhat strange gesture, "Mio."
As the words fell, a powerful vortex pulled the Word Spirit Demon, who was trying to escape. Looking back, the entire space was filled with a brilliant azure, and starlike glimmers danced within the azure currents. The vast blue was both eerie and breathtakingly beautiful!
Six kitchen utensils, at some unknown moment, began to stir in the direction of the vortex. Streaks of exotic colors bloomed and appeared, as if adding mottled hues to the azure world: a stroke of ethereal glow, a touch of brilliant white, a hint of purple radiance… "Limitless x Mikuriya."
"Combined Magic, Mio River's Lamenting Star Song!"
Attraction and repulsion, two forces of distortion formed by infinitely compressed distance, powerful enough to erase everything, were intertwined with gravity, slashes… all sorts of properties bloomed into a brilliant and grand starlight on the uppermost floor of the Shadow Palace.
The Word Spirit Demon was churned by the starlight, its form constantly twisting and overlapping, then compressing.
A dark red heart was exposed, beating and roaring, its frantic yet unwilling sound like a war drum, echoing again and again, "Restore!"
"Disperse!"
"Shatter!"
An iron sword emitted an unusual glow, and in that drum-like sound, it instantly plunged into the demon's heart. The Word Spirit Demon's magic was converted, and then the longswords rotating in the vortex successively pierced the heart, like six paths of divine judgment.
With the final flash of blue light.
The heart disintegrated.
The Shadow Palace fell into a deep silence…'
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