Chapter 581: [ Intense Battle Between Two Monster Kings (3) ]

──GU, oOoOOOOooOOoOOoooooOOOOOOON!

A never heard before strange noise resounded in the surroundings, making anyone who heard it think of it as the evil omen of calamity.

The surroundings fell silent as though time had stopped, an odd tension was born.

At the same time, the entire forest and those who stopped fighting and watched the battle was starting to shake rattlingly along with terrible rumbling from the earth.

Two pairs of black obsidian wings appeared on Allen’s back. A sharp spike appeared on his elbow and the pair of old looking shackles on his wrist and ankles released several long chains in which it coiled around each of Allen’s limbs, then abdomen and chest. On his back, at the center of the pair of black wings, four chains with a razor-sharp cone-like thing at the tip of each chain appeared, moving like a living organism.

Boom!

Boom!!!

In that second, an ear-splitting crack of the thunder rang out. It almost sounded as though the heavens were enraged.

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BooOOOmmmMM—!!

A thunderbolt sliced through the clear sky abruptly.

The thunderbolt crashed down and struck the ground just between Allen and the Dragon King.

In that instant, the clouds started to loom overhead and turned dark. The wind started blowing in a frenzy as streaks of lightning could be seen in the sky. The lightning looked almost as if a dragon was coursing through the clouds!

Boom doom!!!

The skies above the forest were lined with dark and heavy clouds, all compact together. The burst of lightning resembled large dragons as it slithered through the clouds. At this second, the spectators were stumped by whatever they saw as their faces revealed looks of dread. Some of them even jumped up in fear at the crashing sounds of thunder, causing their faces to turn pale with fright. Especially those humans hiding within the trees watching the battle, their legs even began to tremble, oblivious to whatever was really happening.

This caused numerous surges of electricity to entwine with one another. The electrical currents hovered just above the two Monster Kings and were linked with one another and were pulsating with increasing intensity as if it would explode any minute.

Mireya clenched her fists together. Qin and the others held onto their hands as well; they could also feel the nervousness coming from the intense battle.

This was a real battle.

Explosions of energy, horrified screams, whistling winds, muffled sounds, violent shockwaves, and all sorts of brutal battle scenes were occurring all over.

“... I’ll defeat you, Dragon King!” Allen twirled the Guan Dao in the air. Intense and bright lightning was glowing above it which suddenly turned into a lightning blade, and rushed towards P’thala. Slashing the Guan Dao in a fast manner that it almost turned blurry, launching out hundreds of thousands of lightning blade. P’thala was completely surrounded by the endless barrage of Allen’s attack, and even if he cast an agility technique, he could not escape.

"Hmph, such an insignificant technique for a youngling. I'll let you witness the might of a genuinely strong master." The Dragon King; P’thala sneered, and with his sword, he instantly struck towards the lightning blade, spread throughout the sky.

"Scatter!" It could be said that Allen’s attack was integrated with the nature of lightning and was simply unmatched, and in an instant, the speed of this attack had gone far beyond the speed of lightning.

At this moment, it seemed as if the atmosphere had been stabbed and immediately punctured, however the reaction of the atmosphere was too slow.

The crescent blade, accompanied by the sounds akin to that of a bell coming from the rings, on Allen’s Guan Dao had already cut through the atmosphere, but it exploded a moment later, which obviously showed the insane speed of this attack. Boom! This attack was extremely terrifying, and along with an unparalleled terrifying breath, it instantly punctured the lightning blade that was spread everywhere. The Dragon King was a true Monster, and his experience in combat had already risen to a very profound level, to the very extreme, and with only a single glance, he immediately saw through the weakness of Allen’s lightning blades, and under this attack, the lightning blades started to explode everywhere in the sky, and both attacks mutually obliterated each other.

Endless explosions instantly sent shock waves in all directions. This was a collision between two horrifying forces which caused even the space to distort. However, how could Allen’s strength be so simple, in a flash, he chopped out his long Guan Dao and instantly used Celestial Beheader, an attack almost similar to a certain Death God’s attack, and right after that, he chopped out a second time and maliciously unleashed dozen Celestial Beheader, which was much more terrifying compared to the first blade attack, faster and much more precise.

Almost at that moment, the Dragon King felt a wave of murderous aura coming straight for him, and an amazing aura swept towards him from the air. A trace of surprise appeared on his face, as he did not expect that Allen would actually be able to attack back so quickly, and not just that, this skill technique clearly displayed a very level of understanding and comprehension.

"… the strength becomes even stronger…?!" The Dragon King was somewhat baffled, as he initially thought that this young Monster King, who was merely a first-grade Mid God, would be cornered easily by his attack.

The Dragon King; P’thala instantly struck his sword several times, and each of these strikes was inducing mad fluctuations of pure massive energies in the atmosphere and in a flash, the most brilliant Sword light was issued towards Allen.

Space was immediately distorted, and Allen’s figure was completely enveloped by the endless Sword light.

“[ Infernal Punishment ]!!”

A cold voice rang out.

In the next moment,

Shiiiiiish!!

—Noise could be heard, a sound like sticking a burning torch into a pool of water.

The magic spell that transcends level— it was as if the sun had manifested on the earth’s surface, dyeing the surroundings in white.

The Dragon King’s eyes widened as he immediately jumped backward. The Sword light that he had launched instantly disappeared, no, disintegrated into nothingness the moment it was enveloped by the white light.

The deadly heat born from the tremendous temperature expanded in an instant and greedily devoured everything within its area of effect. Fortunately, Allen had already calculated it, or should it say, Predator of Wisdom: Uriel in which Allen had left the support all this time, the Area of Effect of the magic spell was restrained only within the scope of dozen meters around Allen and the Dragon King, if not, Mireya and the others would surely be involved in the attack as well!

This scene of certain death probably lasted around five seconds.

However, it felt dozens of times longer. Before long, traces of the white world disappeared. after the heat dissipated, the effect had drawn a circle that completely changed the surrounding scenery.

Outside the area of effect, everything was left untouched. The trees remained the same and the land teemed with life, thanks to the nearby forest. It was the unchanged— the normal world.

On the other hand— everything inside the circle had been charred black, a surreal land of death.

The immense heat had obliterated all the plants in the area, and only smoldering tree trunks remained. Amongst the blackened surface, there were spots where the land had turned vitreous. Even now, pillars of smoke were scattered about. Furthermore, those pitiful monsters that were within ranged instantly died, leaving a scorched corpse.

Infernal Punishment—a custom magic skill derived from Bennu’s power and Circlet of Death-one of the two divine skills of Angel of Death; Samael, Allen’s Ultimate Skill/Persona similar to the Predator of Wisdom: Uriel!

Panting, Allen stood just barely outside the area that permitted no survivors. From within that area, he felt a ghastly presence pierce through his body.

“Ha ha ha, that was wonderful~”

With smoke rising from his body, as if to say that this wasn’t enough to kill him, the Dragon King; P’thala laughed. His oceanic eyes were filled with killing intent as he glared directly at Allen.

“It’s been so long since I had received such passionate attack… That was pretty painful—!”

The Dragon King; P’thala slowly placed one foot forward, forming a crack along the charred earth.

Then, boooom!! With a sonic boom behind him, he closed his distance to Allen in an instant, and swung the sword he held in one hand. The sound as it cut through the air was a testament to the fact that he could still fight.

“Rejoice… you made me serious just now!”

“Was that so?! Then, that’s the biggest compliment I had!” Allen was unperturbed by the Dragon King’s sudden counter-attack and grinned. “…It means I’m getting stronger, step by step…!!”

“Hah!”

“Aaaahhh!!”

The two of them charged forward like a shot, exchanging a slash.

The bright crimson trail of light left by Allen’s long Guan Dao and the noble blue left by the Dragon King’s claymore mixed together right in the center, colliding.

Booom!

The clash of iron that rang out was a belated gong to start another intense duel.

All expression vanished from the Dragon King’s face, merely swinging his sword as if he were a machine to just cut people down. His specialty slash from the shoulder. A splendid reverse slash. A horizontal slice at the torso, and back, a vertical slash down.

He attacked relentlessly, sparing no breath.

His sword was smaller than his opponent, but its maneuverability was helpful for the number of attacks.

“How fast! And sharp!” Allen’s eyes narrowed.

“Show me more! Give me the battle I desire, my brother…!!”

The Dragon King; P’thala had room to laugh as he parried the consecutive attacks.

The sword’s maneuverability wasn’t good, but its length was much longer than usual. The flat of the blade could act as a shield, obstructing Allen’s slashes.

As the sword and Guan Dao clanged together, the crimson and azure energies sparked off of each other.

“[ Sonic Breath ]!” When Allen was caught up with P’thala’s attacks, suddenly the latter opened his mouth and Booom! A dragon breath with vague nature element, whether it was wind or light, struck Allen’s point blank range.

“Sh*t!” Allen exclaimed in shock as the breath swallowed him whole.

Cracked! Allen felt his armor disintegrating and even his skin felt as if it was going to melt. But he clenched his fists and immediately teleported away from the breath’s trajectory—

“Got you!” However, the moment he appeared, P’thala was already waiting in the position.

Did he read it…?!

—One-sided was the only way to describe it.

The battle had already changed shift once again…!

From the beginning, the two of them were in different leagues from each other in terms of their status as Monster Kings, experience, power and everything else.

With bestial instincts, The Dragon King; P’thala didn’t bother to block Allen’s Guan Dao and instead continued to cleverly dodge his attacks.

“Wave Wall!!”

Being overpowered by the Dragon King’s strength, Allen cried out, putting up a defensive wall of water in front of him.

Boooom!

The Wall of Water was easily decimated. However, Allen that should have been standing behind the wall of water had already disappeared.

The Dragon King casually turned his head around. There, Allen was standing, from his right shoulder to his left waist, a long cut wound was present. A large amount of blood gushed out like a fountain. However, Allen’s expression wasn’t the least bit affected. Zziiisszzz—a sizzling sound rang out as Allen’s wounds slowly closed up and healed in a miraculous speed. The blood splattered in the ground started to wriggle and become monsters.

Crackle! Lightning sparks appeared around Allen, coiling like gold and blue dragons.

He concentrated, to finish it even an instant before the Dragon King; P’thala and his sword reached him.

But.

“See, that is yet to be enough if you want to stand in the big stage, little brother.”

Still, with his predator-like smile, the Dragon King licked his lips.

“…if you want to stop the ending of this world, then that kind of power is still not enough…!”

He was approximately twenty meters away, off in the distance.

But suddenly, he was in front of Allen, with his sword raised.

“Wha—?!”

Allen wasn’t able to grasp when he closed the distance.

He’d been watching without even blinking, but it was almost like there was a gap in his consciousness, letting him approach.

It’s not teleportation… Allen was certain as he didn’t feel the distortion of space. Then, was it just pure speed!?

Godspeed!?