CHAPTER 64: THOSE WHO KILL DEMONS

Corruption was the negative power that changed a being, distorting their being and changing them from what they originally were.

This power, while common within the monsters that appear in the tower, was a different thing when it was present as a stat.

Those who possessed the Corruption stat could degrade a being from what they are, meaning those who possessed the stat could make good people fall from grace and make bad people worse.

The demons were entities who usually possessed Corruption, and those who possessed Darkness as well could manipulate the power of darkness, the element opposite of Light.

The two powers that this demoness possessed were something special, something that made her potential higher than that of the same kind.

She also had a class but it wasn’t proving to be much effective due to the restrictions of the tower.

She was frustrated that she could not use much of her powers, but when KiRA called her useless, something snapped inside her.

-Boooooooooom!

Those black tears were proof that the corruption that she possessed had affected her as well. It wasn’t common, but those who possessed corruption were more likely to fall for its nature.

And right now, after being called useless in this restricted state, after being humiliated by someone who reminded her of the angels she despised, she could not control herself.

{ "How dare you...!" }

KiRA barely avoided the first attack with his wrist guard shield, but the second attack wasn’t just a direct hit.

-Swaaaaaaaaash!

The demoness turned her arms into tentacle-like blades and shot them at KiRA.

-Clank! Clank! Clank!

The blades were sharp and covered in Demonic power. If they so much as touched him, the consequences would not be good.

"Ha. Do you think any of this would work?" KiRA used his feathers to block the blades and at the same time, turned his guards into twin blades.

He dual wielded the two blades and defended against the incoming attacks so well he made it look like a piece of cake.

"You’re useless and nothing’s going to change that. Ha."

Zyon had fallen to the ground after being caught off guard, however, he wasn’t badly hurt.

Right when the demoness got a hold of his sword, he himself had released the sword and defended against her attack with his Aura.

He had already reclaimed his holy sword and had joined KiRA in the battle.

{ "Tsk!" }

The attacks from the holy sword as well as the feathers had most certainly affected the demoness, however she did not care about the damage that was being done to her anymore.

She focused all her energy on KiRA, the bastard who she wanted to rip away the mouth of.

"Your master must have been disappointed in you, you know? Having such a useless subordinate that fell to this low of a level?

I would regret my choice of ever sharing my powers with such a useless demon, ha!"

The eyes with which KiRA looked at her mocked the very existence of her.

To someone who had achieved so much in her time, to someone who was chosen by the demon king directly, and for someone who had had close relations with the demon king, these insults were getting out of hand.

{ "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!!!" }

The demoness screamed from the bottom of her heart, her screams echoing all throughout this prison cell.

She was held here for hundreds of years now. She did not know why she was brought here but ever since she fell to the bottom, she was mostly locked away in this prison cell with nothing to do except watch everything going on this floor.

Everything was utterly boring here and without nothing to kill, this was the worst kind of torture that any demon could be subjected to.

She resented the dwarves that locked her here. She resented them to no end... However, at this moment, there was nothing in this entire tower that she resented as much as this bastard before her.

"Screaming will take you nowhere." KiRA actually smirked at this creature, as he deactivated the Halo.

He had reached his limits for skill use, but he had also achieved what he needed, meaning there was no need to keep this costly skill active.

With what energy remained in him, he focused his Holy power on his dual swords and proceeded to slash away at the demon.

-Oooooooooooong!

Unity buffed them further, granting them the {Blessing of Light} and recovering their fatigue. The two were thankful to her, but the battle that was going on right now would not have been so smooth had Izzy not been there to guide the two of them.

[{ "She’s going to attack from left." }]

[{ "Jump up and avoid the next attack." }]

[{ "Kai, move to the left." }]

[{ "Ziggy will be next. Consecutive attacks to block." }]

She was not only helping them with her {Crystal of stability} buffing skill that enhanced the skill effects and synched the other skills with their stats, {Article of Faith} helped them fight against the enhanced enchanting effects of the demoness’s skills.

The demoness could not use mental skills, she could not use her darkness, and she could not use corruption in the face of Holy power either.

The means that she had left were, in fact, as KiRA had been saying all this time, useless.

She was severely restricted and if the stats weren’t working, if the three of them could overcome the sheer stat difference with their impeccable teamwork, then there was nothing more that the demoness could do.

She was, as a matter of fact, losing this battle.

"And what is that throne over there, huh?"

But then again, for KiRA, a simple loss wasn’t going to be enough.

"Why would a useless demon need a throne? Even soil would be more than comfortable for the likes of you."

He moved with his {Gale steps} and reached the throne that was the only attractive thing in this entire room, something that seemed the most out of place.

"This is useless as well."

-BOOOOOOOOM!

KiRA turned his dual blades into a giant hammer and smashed away at the throne right as the Demoness watched in horror her one and only prised possession getting smashed to smithereens.

{ "Nooooooo...! You demon!!!" }

The irony was evident. But then again, anyone would call the person a demon who thoughtlessly destroys the only thing that had kept them alive in this solitude and eternal imprisonment.

-Ooooooooooooooong!

She had made the throne with her own blood and energy. It was a creation that was born out of boredom but then became the pillar of her lone life in this empty prison.

This room that had been destroyed wasn’t as precious to the demoness as the throne that was, quite literally, a child she had molded with her very own hands.

-Terrrrrrr...

But the throne was no more.

The seat that had comforted her all this time was now merely a shattered hope.

{ "Aghhhhhhh!" }

Seeing the throne getting destroyed before her own eyes was the same as seeing the death of her master... something that did not make any sense, but for the demons, logic was not a simple concept.

{ "Aghhhhhhhhh...!" }

The demoness lost all control of herself and continued attacking KiRA indiscriminately, forgetting about both Zyon and Izzy.

[{ "This is it." }]

This was the end of their battle... Zyon continued attacking her while KiRA blocked the demoness and both Izzy and Unity helped him.

The demoness’s attacks weren’t all that powerful anymore. With each attack dealt to her, imbued with the power of Holy energy, she got increasingly weaker.

There came a point where she had lost her original, attractive, voluptuous form as well.

What she became was a dark creature that looked heinous at best. With a dark body and a form as unattractive as any scripturally accurate demon.

It was a sorry sight, seeing her on the ground, now crying tears of dark blood...

"Useless, ugly, and unpleasant."

KiRA did not show any compassion for her though. If anything, he had a look of disgust on his face.

{ "..." }

The demoness had cursed him endlessly, and she had screamed endlessly until she lost all the blood in her heart.

What was left of her was a fragile body that would wither in a moment as well...

{ "Curse... you..." }

She wanted to put a curse on this damned human in those last moments, but she could not do that either.

She did not have any strength left in her.

"I am already cursed enough." KiRA scoffed at her curse and looked at her with disgust. "What could the curse of a useless demon mean to me?"

Zyon and Izzy looked at the scene with mixed emotions. They knew this was a demon but what KiRA was doing to her did not seem right to them either.

But then again... this was a demon.

"Ha. You know what? There’s one useful thing about you." KiRA smirked at the demoness with a look of greed so pure it reminded her of the Master of Greed. A being she had not even met but only heard rumors of.

-Swish!

{ "...?!" }

She did expect it, but the human actually dug his sword into his chest and ripped it open.

{ "No..." }

He dug his gloved hands into her body and pulled out the only heart that had remained out of three.

It was the heart that had received the blessing of her lord, making it last until now... but, it was now in the hands of this humonic-demon.

"At least this will come in handy, useless demon."

She would never forget it.

She would never forget that smirk he had as he held the dark jewel.

If there is reincarnation, she wants to become the nemesis that takes down this human. If there was a god, she wanted nothing more than the demise of this human...

"Go to heaven." KiRA insulted her until her left breath.

And, even as the demon lost her life and withered into dark particles, he stayed there, the dark jewel of a heart in his hands, waiting for the one notification he had been waiting for...

[Ding!]

[Master of Lust gazes at you with deep interest.]

And he finally got the notification.

As well as the confirmation of a difficult climb that he had expected as soon as he saw the conditions to obtain the demoness’ skill.