Sinner System-Chapter 563: Demon Lord Vaszel Vos Kealfaos (Part 7)

A devastating explosion erupted as Ciel’s Spell engulfed Vaszel and exploded with immense force, the rest of us braced against the pillars and walls around the space.

The entire area rumbled violently as cracks spread out across the ground, the explosion swirling around violently as it expanded sharply, carving out the floor.

My back thudded against the pillar I’d braced myself against, firmly pressed against it as I withstood the force of the blast. The rumbling steadily began to die down before much longer as the explosion petered out, the red glow slowly fading away.

A thick dust cloud was rising up by that spot, the air sparking and crackling intensely.

"Uh, not to jinx things, but...did that do it?" Inquired Jaden cautiously, as the cloud of dust began to fade.

A shallow crater came into sight, the explosion having carved out the floor completely around that spot, exposing the indestructible structure of the Final Dungeon.

Vaszel’s Personalis Arma were laying in the middle of the crater, but no trace of the Demon Lord was in sight. But the fact that his weapons haven’t reverted into rods means...this isn’t over yet. Even wiped out entirely, he isn’t dead yet.

Hm? Wait, what’s that?

There’s a small, glowing wisp of red and black floating over the middle of the crater, is that-...?

Suddenly, a mass of flesh appeared around the wisp, expanding rapidly and taking shape, Vaszel reappearing in a matter of seconds, a dark look in his eyes.

Even vaporizing every last trace of his being isn’t enough to kill him, he regenerated from scratch in a matter of seconds...that glowing wisp, was it his soul or something?

The others don’t seem to have noticed it. Does that mean I’m the only one who’s able to see it at all?

He looks pretty enraged...and his MP has taken a significant hit. He still has a tremendous amount, and his Mana recovery rate is even faster than mine, but it looks like regenerating so drastically consumes a significant amount of it. And that strain seems to be steadily slowing down the recovery rate.

The two times I hit him with Obliterate resulted in large chunks of his MP getting used up as well when he regenerated, and when he froze time earlier, that consumed a tremendous amount of Mana too.

It seemed like that time freeze only lasts a few seconds...how long before he can cast it again? Does it have a cooldown, or is its only restriction its heavy rate of Mana consumption?

No, I suppose there’s no point in speculating...thanks to the lingering traces of the Divine energy from my meeting with Samsara, his Demonic Art: Pause doesn’t affect me, according to Ai.

If he uses it again, I’ll have to be ready to react and stop him...I got lucky that he targeted Cleo, with her Phoenix Resurrection cooldown reset after her power boost.

But there won’t be any second chances after this...if he deals a fatal blow to any one of us, there will be no coming back. So, we’ll just have to make sure it doesn’t come to that.

Now, then...

"<Emerge, Apostles of Sloth, Wrath, Greed and Gluttony: Acedia, Ira, Avaritia and Gula>," I chanted, resummoning my strongest Apostles.

This is far from over yet...

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Point-of-View: Vaszel Vos Kealfaos

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Enough. This has gone on for long enough.

These damned insects, their misguided notion that they can defeat me, that they stand even the remotest chance of killing me...no, it is time to bring an end to their delusion.

I swiftly manifested Reflection as a flash of purple burst out, before a spray of blood erupted and splattered across the ground as Kaivel Intrix’s left arm got wiped out, having leapt across to his right just in time.

I spun around as Ariella Velle raced across and sprang up behind me, moving Reflection along with me as she fired out a swirling Negative Energy blast, reflecting it right back at her.

She swung her left arm out and deflected the blast away, before twisting her body across as I fired out a blast of Disintegration, carving out a chunk of flesh off her left side.

She tilted her head across as I unfurled a rapid thrust of Curse Edge towards her head, which grazed her right cheek before my spear got pushed away as a fiery burst erupted from her cheek.

She began to draw back her fist, before quickly backing away as I manifested my Binding Chains.

I turned my gaze up as a sonic screech came shooting towards me, sprinting across to evade it before activating my own Petrification Skill and firing out a pair of petrifying beams at Cleo Nova.

She veered across the air to evade them, before getting sent hurtling across the air as I anticipated her reaction and unleashed an intense, rapid blast of swirling Negative Energy, hitting her stomach and launching away as she coughed out blood with a sharp wheeze.

My gaze then darted about as Ciel Campbell, Jaden Xeno, the Dark Elf and Medusa surrounded me, charging up their attacks, right as a pair of hands emerged out of my shadow, reaching for my ankles. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

I was waiting for this...!

As a barrage I’d attacks came shooting in towards me, I grabbed the right hand emerging from my shadow with my tail and shot up into the air with a powerful flap of my wings, a startled, alarmed yelp ringing out as I dragged the human out of the shadows and zipped high up towards the ceiling, tightening my grasp on his wrist.

"D-Damn it...," He uttered, as I lowered the blade of my spear towards the top of his head.

"And with this, I no longer have to split my focus to the shadows. Time to die, insect," I remarked, as several of the other humans and the undead forces flew up towards me.

But they won’t reach me in time, this one will die right here and now.

"Do your worst, bastard. Just know, in the end, you’ll lose," He responded with a defiant smirk, before going quiet as I plunged the blade of my spear into the top of his head, piercing his brain and killing him...