Chapter 194 - Fragment of the Demonic God 2 (2/2)

However, the Mana Strings didn’t melt under the assault of its Innate ability.Artpe also wasn’t lacking in terms of mental strength.At the very least, it wouldn’t work when Artpe’s eyes were letting out the bright purple light.It was truly an amazing attack that contaminated the mind of one’s opponent.Unfortunately, the arm had used it against the wrong opponent.

“I’m immune to attacks on my mind, bitch!”

Artpe didn’t buckle under its mental attack.He poured more Mana into his Mana Strings!Dozen layers turned into hundreds of layers.The layers of Mana Strings stacked upon each other as it continued to stop the charge of the arm.

When Etna took Artpe’s hand, a bright fire ran along the strings, and the flame lit up the Demonic god’s arm.She had the blood of an Elemental, so she was weak against mental attacks.However, she was just adding her power to Artpe’s Mana.She could accomplish this without succumbing to the mental attack.

“If we can’t melee it······!”

At this point, Maetel had correctly assessed the situation.She moved on to her next attack.She held her long sword instead of her bastard sword.

The sword had the ability to compress and shoot out Mana.Maetel preferred the bastard sword, so the long sword rarely got used now.Despite this fact, the long sword had a top tier ability that allowed her to condense her Mana.It was also possible to stop the sword from shooting out the condensed energy.The condensed Mana became fixed to the sword!

The Demonic god’s arm was trapped by Artpe’s Mana Strings, so it was barely moving.She aimed for the weakest point on the arm.She used Accelerate as she threw it towards the wrist joint.She put all the power of her Innate ability, and the power granted to her by the Record Master into this deadly throw!

The weapon was invaluable, yet she had basically used it as a one-off throwing weapon.The party was close to being wiped out.It was a desperate situation, so no one stopped her.

[Koo-goo-goo-goo-gahhhhhhhh!]

The arm of the Demonic god sensed the weapon flying towards it.It tried to destroy the sword, but Artpe’s Mana Strings desperately held back its ability.It resisted against the Mana Strings as it let out a massive amount of Demonic energy.The nearby region was destroyed as Demonic energy filled the cave!

The Reclamation magic and Roa’s Greed ability stopped the Demonic energy from reaching the party.However, it couldn’t stop the Demonic energy from changing the course of the sword.When Maetel saw this, she tried to rush forward despite the risk of her mind becoming corrupted.Artpe stepped forward before she could do so.

“Materialization!”

In a flash, the long sword grew several dozen times larger.The massive sword extinguished the Demonic energy in its vicinity, and it stabbed into the wrist joint.The hand was severed at the wrist!

“We did it!”

“We aren’t out of the woods yet!G...get rid of the arm!”

The severed arm and hand was in shock.However, it started moving again in short order.The handless arm was much larger than the hand, but Artpe didn’t hesitate to attack it first.He determined the Demonic energy of the Demonic god was nested within the arm.The Demonic god’s abilities was concentrated in the hand.

“We can’t get rid of that easily.First, we have to get rid of its arm since it supplies the hand with Demonic energy.!”

As he spoke, Artpe blocked the hand with his Mana Strings.A more dense Demonic energy assaulted the ground and the ceiling.The ceiling continued to decay as it threatened to fall atop the whole party.Artpe’s Mana String deflected the debris with his Mana Strings!

It wasn’t just that.The giant long sword was still under the influence of the Materialization magic.It slowly floated into the air then it shot towards the hand again.

The Materialization had a special characteristic.It took a lot of Mana to use it, but it barely used any Mana when trying to change and maintain the spell!The Demonic god’s hand became preoccupied by the enormous sword infused with powerful Mana.

Maetel and Sienna had been waiting for that exact moment.They charged forward.Maetel gripped her bastard sword as she climbed atop the flailing arm.She started degloving the arm with her sword.Sienna ruthlessly pounded on the severed wrist with her hammer.It was as Artpe had said.The Demonic god’s abilities were focused within its hand.The arm was being directly attacked, yet the two girls didn’t suffer from any mental attacks.

“Hoo, hoo-ooh······.”

“Maetel, just hold out a little longer!”

“Little longer?I can do this all day······!”

“Unni, get out of there!Hoo-ahhhhhhp!”

[Koo-goo-goo-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga!]

Everyone realized that Maetel was lying.She couldn’t keep this up.

Despite Regina’s intervention, the underground cave was slowly collapsing.

In the end, the Demonic god’s hand broke free from Artpe’s Mana strings, and it crumpled the enormous sword.Artpe bit his lips.

At this point, it really looked like the Demon King had planned on killing them with the summoning.

‘I thought it wouldn’t be worse than the Demon King.’

He wanted to punch himself for having such thoughts.The mere existence of a creature with such massive energy and abilities was a calamity in itself.It was a terror, and it possessed the absolute power of the gods.It didn’t need intelligence or consciousness to be a dangerous.

“Back off!The hand is coming!”

“Tsk······!”

“Regina, over there!”

“Denied.It is impossible to use this spell multiple times all at once.”

“Eh-eet······!”

The party members were doing their best to resist against the Fragment of the Demonic god.At that moment, Artpe suddenly remembered the Demon King’s last words.

‘He told me to rise above the gods.He really was laughable until the end.’

Even a portion of the Demonic god overwhelmed the hero’s party, yet the Demon King expected Artpe to overcome all of it by himself.He knew the Demon King was a psycho, but he had a renewed appreciation of this fact.

Artpe grumbled as he raised one hand.Several hundred thousand Mana Strings appeared from his hand.He once again restricted the movement of the hand.Despite the Reclamation magic and Roa’s Greed ability, the hand’s power couldn’t be weakened.It started to suppress and break apart Artpe’s Mana.

Artpe furrowed his brows as he sensed the hand’s innate ability.How could such an Innate ability exist?It was pure destruction.It truly was something….

“Ssssp.I have no choice.”

Artpe cleared his palate as he desperately gathered the Mana that was being suppressed by the hand.Fortunately, there was a portion of the Mana leftover after it suffered under the Demonic god’s Innate ability.It really showcased how much control Artpe had over his Mana.He had reached the peak In terms of controlling Mana.

“Record of Destruction….Please work.”

“Artpe······?”

When Etna heard the words mumbled by Artpe, she looked at him in disbelief.Artpe didn’t answer her questioning gaze.He put all his will and dearest wish into the spell he spoke.

“Materialization.”