Chapter 187: Nine-finger’s Counterattack (2/2)

‘Sh*t, I have to finish him off quick or he might just make it out of my illusion. No time now…’ Shadowfang sliced through his body without meeting any resistance whatsoever. On my part, I felt no pity at all in killing off the head of this rebellion.

Dead. Ever so easily, a Four-star flame demon-child was slain by me. At the same time as his death, I had a taste of that familiar weakness once more. My limbs began to collapse and my body started to convulse uncontrollably, though to a small degree only.

“BOSS!” Still in the midst of torturing No.3 and Big 4, all Nine-finger heard was the dying grunt of One-eye before he turned around to see my blade cleanly leave the corpse of his boss. It was then that my mana was exhausted as well. Abandoning No.3 and Big 4, he rushed towards me with bloodshot eyes: “You dare to murder my Boss! I’ll trample you to death!”

As his feet stomped on my back with the weight of his fury, it felt like my body was about to explode from the sheer pain that ravaged my nervous system. However, that took effort and I clearly had no energy to even resist. One, two, three, four…he was like a tireless stomping machine right now. With every stomp, a mouthful of blood would spurt from my mouth. Once more, I tried to fight back but my body merely twitched in response.

‘No…I mustn’t give up like this. That moron, Nine-finger, actually didn’t take away my Shadowfang, if only he used it, he would’ve killed me in one stroke already. Replenish, I need to replenish my mana. I need souls for that…souls…’

‘One-eye’s soul…that’s right, I can consume his soul.’ Thankfully, One-eye’s headless corpse was just lying there right in front of me. With hope laid out before my eyes, I summoned forth the last bit of strength left in my body to slowly drag myself towards the fallen devil. With every inch I covered, I would suffer a stomp from Nine-finger. Yet even with that numbing pall cast over my body, I felt that I could hold out just for a bit longer…till I ate One-eye’s soul.

In midst of my crawling, the devil egg bearing devil suddenly ran over. She paid no attention to me whatsoever as she dashed towards the headless One-eye and knelt beside his corpse weeping. She was crying…for some b*stard who threw her aside? Perhaps she truly did love him, however, he never loved her back.

‘Well, you can cry all you want, as long as you stay out of my way.’

However, I was too late. Just as I was mere inches away from his corpse, fate played a cruel trick on me once more. One-eye’s soul was suddenly sucked away by a mysterious force that swiftly sent the semi-translucent mass flying into the egg still resting in the arms of that female devil…

‘It absorbed his soul?’

‘D*mnit…why now? Not like this! If it was me who absorbed his soul, I would’ve been able to recover a portion of my mana and slice Nine-finger apart…the script…it’s not supposed to proceed like that…’

Nine-finger’s stomping continued as viciously as before. It almost seemed like he enjoyed stepping on my back. Even with my armor, it wasn’t easy enduring the stomps of a Three-star demon child.

The problem was that I was still powerless to resist. No.3 and Big 4 were still severely injured and what was supposed to be my shot at a comeback ended up being absorbed by the devil egg in some cruel twist of fate…the me right now, was just a salted fish.

“Master…” My two loyal subordinates stared at me with bloodshot eyes that almost seemed watery with regret. However, tears were useless. They couldn’t heal their wounds and neither could they replenish my mana.

‘Is this truly it…even One-eye was slain by me and yet I’m about to die to this moron, Nine-finger…haha…cough cough…ah, there’s blood…the taste of Purgatory’s floor isn’t great at all…so painful…my body’s about to explode…’

‘Looking at him, I doubt Nine-finger is even capable of having any inappropriate thoughts about me, I guess that’s a silver lining?’

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“Oh right, Boss said something about having a tumble with you? I don’t know what a ‘tumble’ means but there’s no way I’m letting you off the hook so easily.” As if he was talking to himself but at same time tormenting me, he scratched his head while pondering the meaning of One-eye’s words. He then turned his eyes towards the egg-hugging devil: “Hey you, do you know what a ‘tumble’ means?”

“…” Still in the midst of her grief, she was stumped by this strange question. Head slightly addled, she replied: “That’s…it’s doing ‘that thing’…”

“That thing?”

“Doing that thing.”

“I’m asking what exactly is that thing!”

“…” The female imp was left speechless and thoroughly shocked by the stupidity of Nine-finger.

“You dare to look down on me?” Perhaps her eyes gave away some sort of disdain; perhaps the long silence was all the answer he needed or maybe he simply wanted to show off his power, whatever the reason was, he tossed me aside and walked up to the female imp. Wrapping his hands around her neck, he lifted her off the ground. Having been strangled, the female devil finally released the egg in her arms.

“Speak, exactly what is ‘that thing’?”

“…”It was a forceful question by Nine-finger and yet his grip was just as forceful. The female imp desperately wanted to speak but her throat simply wouldn’t allow her to, thus all she could do was struggle. The female imp was merely a Two-star and naturally wasn’t a match for a Three-star like Nine-finger. Like that, she was strangled to death after a mere minute.

“Dead?” Feeling the warmth leave the corpse in his hand, Nine-finger realized the female imp was dead. Casually tossing the body aside, he inexplicably muttered to himself: “Ah. If you didn’t want to talk then just say so, is there a need to kill yourself?”

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