302 Killing the Physical Body of the Demon, The True Reason of His Late Arrival (1/2)

Day 44 – 11:52 AM – San Marcelino, General Nakar, Quezon

Mark glared at the demon as he continued to charge forward. The three [Mental Crystals] also continued to exude the brightest light it could while the crystals rotated around his body.

SWOOSH!

THOOM!

RUMBLE!

Different sounds echoed around the place as the demon blew miasma towards Mark and every single time, a strike of lightning blocked the attack. At the same time, Mark waved his blades towards the contaminated beasts that rushed towards him.

SHOOSH!

As Mark swung his blades towards two evolved monkeys while evading the other animals, a fast shadow rushed towards him from behind. Mark noticed the shadow and tried to retract his attacks towards the monkeys but the shadow was faster. The shadow jumped towards Mark targeting his neck.

CHOMP!

CLANG!

One of the metal limbs controlled by the [Blood Whips] blocked the mouth of the assailant. It was bald like the other contaminated animals but by the shape of its ears and its large circular eyes, it was possible that it was a wild leopard cat.

Knowing that the attack failed, the leopard cat tried let go of the metal limb and retreat but before it was able to…

BURST!

The other metal limbs sliced its body to piece causing its flesh and blood to scatter behind Mark.

SHING! SWOOSH!

The metal limbs behind Mark started to move faster and faster as more contaminated animals tried to surround Mark. Since the blades of the limbs had not poison from Ivy, Mark could only deal with the contaminated beasts by decapitating their heads and dismembering their limbs. Despite that, they were still alive but at least, they were immobilized indefinitely.

Nevertheless, the contaminated beasts were slowing Mark's charge. Not only was that but the contaminated beasts were getting stronger and stronger for some reason.

”Halt thy resistance, t is futile.  I pity yond this timeth hadst to endeth anon.  I can't alloweth anyone who is't kneweth of mine own 'rigins liveth.  FALLETH DEAD!”

As it saw Mark struggle with the contaminated beasts it controlled, the demon spoke with its strange language that was almost impossible to understand. However, Mark knew that it wanted to end things now. Not only Mark was in dire straits but the demon also seemed so.

Mark had already noticed it from the start but aside from talking, the only things that this demon could do was attack him with miasma and send the contaminated beasts to block him. In other words, it was nothing but a sitting duck under that dying acacia tree. That was why the demon was doing its best to halt Mark's charge while maintaining its façade.

Another thing that Mark noticed was that this demon should have been even more powerful but it was obviously weakened. It might be due to the fact that it had just awakened as it said before and it was awakened rather prematurely.

He should take advantage of it and kill it before it recovered. It was not like he had any other choice anyway. The place was already surrounded by a wall of miasma and the demon was keen on killing him.

”Cough! Cough!”

Mark coughed several times. For some reason, his breathing started to become heavier. His eyesight was even getting dimmer.

'Well sh*t!'

As he looked at the surroundings, he finally realized. The reason for the symptoms he was having and the contaminated beasts getting stronger was because the surroundings started to be filled with miasma. He did not realize soon since he thought that it was just the residue from the blocked surges of miasma the demon hurled towards him but the miasma in the air was getting thicker and started to form a faint fog.

Mark looked around while fighting the contaminated beasts. He was trying to find a countermeasure. When his eyes landed on the face of the demon however, he felt infuriated. The demon was smirking while looking down on him.

However, at that moment, he noticed behind the demon.

A small flame was burning. It was there since the beginning but no one noticed it due to the situation. From the explosion created when Mark attacked the demon earlier using the beam of light and the staccato lightning, some of the debris that flew behind the acacia tree continued to burn. Since the demon was facing Mark, it failed to see the flames and did not manage to extinguish it.

Around the flames, the miasma was thinner.

Mark's eyes glinted and a surge of lightning and high temperature light surged at the surroundings. Due to the high temperature, the trees started to dry up and burn. The black fog that started to gather vanished and Mark's condition became better.

”Thee lowly m'rtal!”

The demon bellowed after seeing what happened.

However, it was just the start.

RUMBLE!

CRACKLE!

RUMBLE!

Several lightning strikes landed in the surroundings decimating the contaminated animals and setting more trees ablaze.

As the fire started to spread, even the wall of miasma and the miasma the demon released started to weaken. Not only that, the movements of the remaining contaminated beasts started to become sluggish.

”I should have thought of this sooner.”

Mark tried striking the acacia tree with lightning but the acacia, despite its dying state, was not normal and immediately dispersed the lightning strike.

Nevertheless, Mark now had the opportunity to attack. The contaminated beasts could not attack him as fiercely as before and he managed to charge forwards easier.

The demon still sent surges of miasma towards him but he managed to thwart the miasma with just a surge of high temperature light. At the same time however, the crystals started to dim.