Chapter 84 - Witch’s Forest 4 (1/2)
“Is, is that… an exclusive weapon?”
She had noticed that Verserios was no ordinary weapon.
Demonic energy pure enough to be considered as the abyss itself.
Countless souls trapped inside were echoing their screams.
A literal hell was unfolding before Kriemhild’s eyes.
“As your master, I order you.”
At his words, Verserios activated and erupted in a dark aura.
Its second seal was released during Woohyuk’s battle against the Demon King Volak, so its power had increased.
Whether she was an ordinary human or the Witch of Envy, Kriemhild wouldn’t come out unscathed after receiving an attack from it.
“Tch…!”
Sensing a crisis, Kriemhild quickly raised her staff and cast a spell.
An enormous black monster appeared above her, floating in the air.
“Get rid of them!”
Kriemhild’s monster worked with the Nephilim and attacked her opponents.
Boom!
Boom!
On one side, the Nephilim’s eyes locked onto its target and rushed forward, and on the other, a sharp claw ripped the air and flew to Woohyuk.
Both of them didn’t look like simple opponents.
“Kill the enemies that lie before me.”
Once he uttered those words, jet black wings sprouted out of his back.
The tip of Verserios’ blade flashed and shot out a pitch black wave towards the nephilim’s waist.
Swoosh!
With a sinister slit, the nephilim was cut in half.
“Wha, what the!?”
“Why are there wings on your back, brother-in-law…?”
Tinia and Silvia’s jaws dropped from the surprise.
Following the surprise was fear.
Their life-savior who had raised them was actually their ancestor, while the man with whom they had eaten dinner was in fact a demon.
By now, they couldn’t make any reasonable thoughts and decisions.
Whoosh!
While the girls stood there dumbfounded, Woohyuk swung his sword and discharged demonic energy horizontally to the monster in the air.
Meanwhile, the surrounding enemies were facing the undead soldiers in a deadly battle.
“Are, are you actually a demon king?! How else could you be so powerful?”
“No, I am Asura.”
Strictly speaking, Woohyuk was a human that had combined with the previous Demon God Asura.
However, he wasn’t a half-human half-demon existence like succubi or incubi.
And the only reason why he had called himself a Demon King before to other demons was to facilitate their negotiation talks.
But since he didn’t need to converse and negotiate with Kriemhild anymore, he couldn’t be bothered to keep up the act.
“I told you already. I’m Asura.”
While Asura was the previous Demon God’s name, it also meant the eternal battlefield where souls fought every day.
Therefore Woohyuk had been walking down the path of Asura since the very beginning.
“How terrifying… To think that a being like you intruded in my sanctuary… What is your objective? Is it Medusa’s temple like you mentioned earlier?”
“Who knows? For now, I just want to cut your head off.”
It was best to get rid of any individuals that could later harm Tinia and Silvia right now.
More so if it was Kriemhild, the Witch of Envy.
If she were left alone, many innocent people would get killed by her.
As Woohyuk looked down upon Kriemhild, she raised her staff once again.
“So the negotiations have broken down. Fine, I’ll just face you myself!”
Kriemhild summoned another pair of monsters above her. The two reached down and swallowed the remains of the nephilim.
Soon, the monsters started glowing in a violet shine and emanating a ferocious aura.
“Tinia, Silvia. Do you trust me?”
Woohyuk asked the girls as he stared straight ahead.
He was trying to reassure the two of them.
“Yeah, I do. But you need to tell me the details later on.”
“I also trust you, brother-in-law. That’s why I’ll help you out with the best of my abilities.”
The sisters tightly grabbed their weapons and wore a confident expression.
Woohyuk nodded and slowly started advancing.
‘I’ll go straight for the kill.’
He had asked all sorts of questions until now because he wanted to learn about the Nibelungenlied’s true ending, but now that was unnecessary.
Rather, he had to suppress Kriemhild and free Sieg from his constraints to clear the quest.
He couldn’t waste time anymore, as Kriemhild could start a dangerous counter-offensive.
“Hehe… You shouldn’t advance too much. Who knows what could happen to those two girls if you step away too far from them?”
Kriemhild immediately began swinging her staff with a grin on her face.
Within the dark smoke of the forest, small but long monsters crawled out and ran towards the sisters.
“Don’t even think about it!”
Tinia swung Tabris around and cut apart the snake-like monsters.
However, their numbers were overwhelming and she couldn’t face them alone.
When the situation wasn’t optimal, Silvia cast her magic chains and tied the monsters together.
“Now!”
“Yeah, I got it!”
As Tinia raised Tabris, the runes on the blade shone brightly.
Kuoooooo!
A turquoise vortex began forming around her, and the black monsters were ripped to shreds.
The vortex’s power was several times stronger than usual as the magic chains had linked the monsters between each other.
‘Looks like I don’t have to worry about them.’
As he watched the sisters fight together, Woohyuk’s worries were put at ease.
At that pace, the two girls could fight back without his help for a while.
However, to avoid the worst case scenario, he called the undeads to gather.
[Protect them.]
Undeads didn’t have emotions, therefore they weren’t affected by Kriemhild’s power of envy.
Currently, they were a lot more reliable than the mercenaries that had collapsed on the ground.
When she saw the undeads gather and help the two sisters fight against the monsters, Kriemhild’s annoyance had reached its peak.
“You’re as persistent as a cockroach. Sigh… I have no choice.”
Kriemhild clapped her hands, and dark humanoid silhouettes began emerging from the monastery.
They were the Eclipse clan members.
Amongst them was Steve Miller, the clan leader.
“What are you planning this time?”
“I’ll make sacrifices to grant my husband the power to defeat you.”
The Eclipse clan members were expressionless, just like mindless puppets.
They had lost consciousness and were being controlled by Kriemhild.