Demon King and Monster

Attack! Attack! Attack and keep attacking nonstop!


"Gaaaaaaaaa!! Daruaaaaaaa!!!"

"Hmph...!"


Strike! Hit! Land as many hits as I can!
Pay no mind to defending! Just repel those incoming attacks away with pile bunkers! Dodge! Don't flinch and keep attacking even if I get hit! Don't stop moving!

I gotta keep the pressure on or else he might snatch this battle's tempo and end it instantly.


"Dworyaaaaa!!!"

"Haa!"


Demon King's sword and my great hammer got locked in a clash.
Guy's got real incredible strength...! I've been focusing my energy on my Strength Attribute yet he's pushing me back!


"Gugigigigigiiii...!!!"

"...You truly are a risk factor. To think you have gotten much stronger than that time against Kyuubi."

"Ain't nowhere near you tho'!!"

"!"


I struck him with Pile Bunker while our weapons were interlocked.
Demon King took a defensive position to block it.

Dammit, that was a clean hit yet I couldn't even land a scratch.
I saw some sort of spark effect when my pile connected. Was that some kind of Skill Ability?

<<Martial Art Lv10 'Punish Block', activating this ability within 0.1s of being hit will nullify any damage. It is possible to prolong the invincibility phase by chain linking the ability.>>

Screw that! The heck's up with that fighting game-like blocking! Let's go Justin.
Nobody could win against Demon King if he keeps using that ability indefinitely.

<<The user cannot move while the ability is in action therefore it is not possible to attack during activation. The ability's high mana consumption and the requirement for precise timings limit its usefulness to adept users exclusively.>>

<<However, as Demon King has inherited the combat experience of Souma Ryuta, he has shown himself as an extremely adept user of the ability. Additionally, the title 'Demon King' has the effects of ignoring mana and stamina consumption which enables unlimited usage of the ability.>>

Wait a minute, did you just blurt out the most outrageous thing ever there.
What do you mean 'ignore mana and stamina consumption'. How'd you even win against that.

This means drawing this battle out is a bad idea. The only way to win is to kill him in one hit to his vital.
But this battle is all about buying time... Actually, how long are they gonna keep me waiting anyway.


"Have you digested your Menu's warning?"

"...Yea. What's up with that dumb cheat of a title. Unlimited mana and stamina, are you kidding me."

"It's the privilege of a Demon King... It shan't surprise me if you somehow acquire it."

"Oh can it!"


I can't believe the demon king himself brand me as one. That hurts my poor heart~
Actually, so it looks like he can see Menu's screen as well. The words should have been mirrored yet he easily deciphered them too.


"I take it you have come into the realization that a protracted battle is ill advised... Come, show me your worst."

"Sure, thing!"


Who'd rush ahead foolishly just because they got told to. He's just gonna block me anyway.
I hit him with my greathammer which he blocked again, dealing no damage.
Pile bunker turn now! A barrage of 'em!


"Ora ora oraa!!"

"Naive. What a soft attack."


...He blocked 'em all with a composed look.
I shifted the timing of each pile ever so slightly yet he easily saw through them all. Guy gotta be an expert of rhythm games.
He also called my attack soft... Well, have more softies then!


"Cheeeeeriaaaa!!"

"Another Pile Bunker. A fool and their one trick indeed."


I closed in and struck him with Pile Bunkers from every part of my body and of course, Demon King easily blocked them all.
In the exact same way he's been doing it.


"...You are, yeah."

"!"


He frowned after seemingly noticed something was off with a few of the pile bunkers he blocked.
But of course, since half of those piles are fake piles made of caramel-like sticky mana.

They're too soft to be an effective means of dealing damage. It doesn't matter if they're blocked, they just need to stick on him.
How do you like the softness huh?


I converted the glued mana into electrical energy! Transform! You know, the usual pattern. Get electrocuted.


"Kuh...!"

"Zeei!!"

"Ha!"


I detonated my greathammer and swung it at the electrocuted Demon King but he stopped the attack with his sword.

The amount of electric energy I generated was enough to turn a Demon Chief into a charcoal, but all it did to Demon King was forming a slight frown on his face, it didn't slow him down at all.
His RES attribute is too high get him Paralyzed huh. That must have felt like a static shock to him.

But I ain't done yet.
I've been spending all my free time coming up with all kinds of tricks in battle... Call me a delusional idiot if you will.
I'm gonna test out all the nasty tricks I thought up on this guy, kekeke.


"Fsh!"

"Whoopsie!"


I blocked Demon King's slash with Mana Blade Rev.
He had Mana Blade active too. The sound of blades made of mana clashing reverberated intensely in the surroundings.

As our blades kept clashing again and again, I came up with an especially wicked trick.
...Is it legal to do I wonder.


"'Mana Blade Severance'."

"Uii!?"


Demon King split into three and attacked me from completely different directions each.
Think Spada Geezer used this move once back then. Having to deal with two additional annoyances all of a sudden is real nasty~

I never said I couldn't do that tho!
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"Fu, woraaaaaa!!"

"Nu...?"


I let loose two clones made of a blend of mana, energy and life force with one gripping the greathammer while another having the meat cleaver I got from that headless burger shop clerk to deal with Demon King's clones.
...Greathammer will do fine, but that meat cleaver randomly alters its attack power, I can't help but worry.


"...To think you are capable of such a move. Truly absurd in all levels..."

"Says the one who did it first!"

"Their carriage is flawless despite wielding that greathammer. A threat indeed... But what do you hope to gain with a meat cleaver?"

"Tch...!"


Dammit, the meat cleaver's been giving me nothing but a bad RNG. It's all fumbles after fumbles.
The cleaver kept getting flung far away every time Demon King's clone clashed with it. Proof of its insufficient attack power.

Oh shoot, the cleaver's flying my way now!
If it hit me when its attack power was at an all time high...!


"Kuh!"

"Got you."

"No you don't!!"


I narrowly managed to grab the cleaver but Demon King used the chance to slash at me.
I was nearly got cut in half if I didn't manage to stop his sword with the meat cleaver.

That was when


"Wha."

"Aat!?"


The instance the meat cleaver touched Demon King's sword, the sword got thrown off Demon King's hand at tremendous speed.
Both Demon King and I had our eyes open wide in surprise... Eh, what just happened?

<<'Meat Cleaving Kitchen Knife' attack power was around 40,000 in that moment.>> 

How is it so high!? But it had been hitting like a paper fan just now. For real this burger knife's got some real drastic difference in attack power!
But nice! That managed to send that sword flying off Demon King's hand!
Which made Demon King's clones disappear. They're made through a Swordsmanship-based Master Skill after all.

I won't miss this chance.
I turn my mana into a thick concentration of combustible liquid.
And, ignite!!


BOOOOOM!! A loud booming sound filled the chamber.


"Kaha...!"


That was a clean hit of my high powered pile bunker on Demon King.
His body managed to stay in one piece, the pile couldn't pierce through him but he's not exactly unharmed either.


"Tch..."


He ran for his sword on the ground while clicking his tongue at his wound but he's one step too late.


"! ...It's gone...?"


Fufufu, fuhahahaha!
Dumbarse! It was already over the moment you let go of your sword!

I had been coating that sword with my mana every time it locked blades with my Mana Blade Rev.
Once that sword was off his hand, all I needed to do was lift it with my mana and dumped it in my Item Screen as demonstrated. And now we got ourselves an unarmed Demon King.
How do like it huh? Getting your beloved sword stolen right under your nose? Hey tell me?


"...Goodness gracious, truly a tricky opponent you have proven yourself as. Your fighting style has no fixed form. Souma Ryuta's combat experience has failed to contribute for even a moment."


I mean, that's the strongest hand I got over you.
Spada, Souma Ryuta was a master of swords. Nobody out there can match him in swordsmanship.
I believe the reason why Alma Papa and Spadia-san lost to him is not only due to the gap in Attributes but also due to their reliance on 'Swordsmanship'.

I took that sword off him now.
Demon King has not only lost his weapon's additional Attack Power but also most of his abilities, he should be much weaker now.


Or so I thought at that point of time.


"...Geh."


A black flower-like pattern surfaced on Demon King's left cheek.
His Attributes doubled in the meantime.

Second Form, he must have unleashed True Demon Release.
Oy oy, isn't True Demon Release supposed to be only usable once a day. Eh, is this another effect of Demon King Title? Too much privilege is not a good thing, I tell you~

Demon King thus spoke with a far more intense pressure than he was before he got unarmed.


"Have you braced yourself for your demise, Kajikawa Hikaru."

"...For my survival, sure."


I'm sweating bullet inwardly and outwardly while cracking up a half of a joke.
The half serious part being my intention to survive.


"Very well."

"!?"


I got blown away the same moment I felt a severe impact on the meat cleaver in my hand.
I saw Demon King raising one leg... Did he kick me away? I didn't see him moving at all...!


"Perhaps I should gouge out the brain this time."


Demon King reached out to my head as he spoke.
His finger is sinking in my head at speed far beyond I could perceive---

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