Return of the Calamity-Class Death Knight

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Chapter 337: The Demon Lord (3)

Damien felt his blood boiling at Dorugo\'s appearance. His blood was so hot it felt like it might scorch. An enormous amount of killing intent erupted from his eyes.

"..."

Dorugo silently observed Damien. Then she slowly raised both hands.

As her hands rose, the sleeves naturally fell. At that moment, Damien couldn\'t help but take another look.

The exposed hands were covered with skin.

"...Those aren\'t bones?"

Damien muttered in a low voice.

Soon after, Dorugo grabbed her hood with both hands and pushed it back. The moment her face was revealed, Damien\'s eyes widened as if they might pop out.

As soon as she removed her robe, silver-colored long hair flowed down like waves. Underneath, blue skin and prominently visible blood vessels could be seen.

It wasn\'t a skull. There was flesh, and blood was flowing in veins.

Damien was speechless at this shocking sight. Seeming quite pleased with Damien\'s reaction, Dorugo wore a mocking smile.

"Quite a sight, isn\'t it? Was my regaining of flesh so shocking?"

Only when he heard the familiar voice could Damien break free from his shock.

"...You regained your flesh?"

"Not completely, but yes."

Dorugo grabbed the collar of her robe with both hands and tore it. This revealed her complete body.

The skeletal body Damien remembered was nowhere to be seen. It was covered with adequate muscles and blue skin.

"Ah, and it\'s not just my appearance that\'s changed."

Dorugo raised her head.

In that moment, Damien felt as if his entire body was being crushed.

An enormous pressure with no visible limit pressed down on Damien.

Damien looked at Dorugo with an astonished face.

"Damien Haksen, do you understand now? What kind of being I am."

Not even Vahel could emit such pressure. The same went for Epsilon, who had allegedly absorbed the body of Demon Lord

An ominous premonition arose in Damien\'s mind. Damien asked in doubt.

"...Don\'t tell me you\'ve acquired the full power of a Demon Lord?"

"A bit different. I didn\'t acquire it. I regained it."

Damien couldn\'t fully understand Dorugo\'s words. Regained? What did that mean?

"As much as I\'d like to settle things with you here... that\'s not why I came."

Dorugo withdrew her pressure. With that, the pressure crushing Damien also disappeared.

"I\'ve rescued Theta, so I\'ll be leaving for today."

"Mother! What are you saying! If Epsilon and I join forces, we can..."

Dorugo made a gesture. With that, Iota\'s body disappeared.

Damien couldn\'t help but be surprised again.

What Dorugo had just used was the Authority of Pride.

Using the Authority of Pride allowed one to manipulate space. However, to handle space requires a great deal of knowledge.

That\'s why even Damien couldn\'t properly use the Authority of Pride.

Yet Dorugo had used the Authority of Pride to move Iota to another location so easily.

"...Have you absorbed the Demon Lord of Pride?"

"Not just that one."

A question appeared on Damien\'s face again.

In the meantime, Dorugo made another gesture. This time, Epsilon disappeared.

"Damien Haksen, if you want to kill me, come to Mount Carion. I\'ll be waiting for you there."

Saying this, Dorugo raised both hands. It seemed she intended to disappear using the Authority of Pride.

"Why should I follow your words?"

At that moment, Damien spoke with a sneer. At those words, Dorugo tilted her head.

"You don\'t intend to come to Mount Carion? Surely you\'re not scared of me?"

"Scared of you?"

Damien raised his mana. At the same time, an intense killing intent burst forth.

This was enough to cause even Dorugo to flinch even after regaining the power of Demon Lord.

"I\'m saying I\'ll just kill you right here."

Damien employed the Soulflower of Tranquility. An immense energy began to build up inside Damien.

"Third Flower."

Damien\'s energy raged even more fiercely. Damien channeled all his mana into Dawn.

The power contained in Dawn was so enormous that it distorted the surrounding space.

Damien grasped Dawn with both hands and lowered it. The tip of Dawn nearly touched the ground.

"I\'ll kill you."

He swung Dawn with the determination to deal a fatal blow. The sword\'s tip drew a diagonal line from bottom to top.

The immense power contained in Dawn was released all at once.

A straight line began to appear in the empty air.

The line advanced relentlessly, splitting the sky. And it tried to cut down Dorugo as well.

"..."

Even in this situation, Dorugo showed no particular reaction.

Instead, she raised one index finger. At that moment, the line being drawn in the air collided with something.

With a sound like a mountain collapsing, the whole world shook.

"No matter what you do, you can\'t harm me."

Dorugo said and lowered her index finger.

Just now, Dorugo had blocked Damien\'s slash by sealing off space.

This was a technique only possible for Dorugo, who had fully absorbed the Authority of Pride.

"So cool your head and withdraw..."

"So that\'s how you block it."

Damien took his stance again. Once more, powerful energy gathered in Dawn.

Seeing Damien like this, Dorugo frowned.

"I told you it won\'t work..."

Ignoring Dorugo\'s words, Damien swung Dawn down.

"Foolish one."

Dorugo again used the Authority of Pride to seal off space.

An invisible wall blocked Damien\'s slash. But this time, the result was different.

If the first slash contained the will for a fatal blow, this time was different.

Sword God.

A realm that could cut anything, everything, sliced through space.

And what the slash cut wasn\'t just space.

"...!"

A line appeared on Dorugo\'s neck. Soon after, her head fell down.

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Dorugo\'s head fell down with blood. A long stream of blood trailed behind.

Dorugo had been killed.

However, Damien felt no sense of victory. Instead, he only had an ominous premonition.

Damien didn\'t withdraw his killing intent and remained vigilant of his surroundings.

That\'s when it happened.

Dorugo\'s falling head rose back up into the sky.

The blood streams did the same. They shot upwards and were sucked back into the wound.

As soon as all the blood streams were absorbed into the body, the head reattached itself.

"...You crazy bastard."

Dorugo was totally dumbfounded.

"Cutting through space? And against the Authority of a Demon Lord at that? Even with Ruin\'s talent..."

"The Authority of Sloth? You had that too?"

Damien said briefly.

Just now, Dorugo hadn\'t healed her wound. She had reversed time.

In other words, the Demon Lord Authorities Dorugo possessed weren\'t just one.

At least two. Perhaps even more.

"I was wondering what you\'ve been up to all this time. Seems you\'ve been busy devouring rotten corpses."

Even knowing that Dorugo possessed two Demon Lord Authorities, Damien wasn\'t particularly intimidated.

"I was curious how you could be so brazen in front of me, but now I understand."

He had decided to kill her, so he would kill her here.

That was the only thought in Damien\'s mind.

"..."

On the contrary, it was Dorugo who seemed tense. She heaved a big sigh.

"It\'s still not the time, after all."

Damien instinctively realized that Dorugo was trying to escape.

He pushed the Soulflower of Tranquility to its limit to kill Dorugo.

If the enemy had the Authority of Sloth, he just needed to kill her before she could use it.

Just as Damien was about to leap towards Dorugo,

Dorugo manifested the Authority of Sloth. A strange wave spread throughout the world.

And in the next moment, Dorugo\'s figure disappeared. Damien quickly scanned his surroundings.

But not only was Dorugo\'s figure gone, he couldn\'t even sense her energy.

There was no way she could escape so cleanly against Damien.

She must have stopped time, and in that interval, opened a dimensional gate to escape.

"Damn it."

Damien cursed as he sheathed Dawn.

Hatred for Dorugo and anger at letting the enemy escape mixed together. Damien gritted his teeth.

"Mount Carion, was it? Next time we meet, I\'ll definitely kill you."

Damien stared in the direction of Mount Carion.

His face was contorted like that of an evil spirit.

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"It\'s still not the time, after all."

As soon as Dorugo said this, she immediately manifested the Authority of Sloth.

She stopped the world and used the Authority of Pride to escape to Mount Carion.

Although it was an extremely short time, Dorugo\'s back was drenched in cold sweat.

She had been worried that Damien might stop her.

"Mother!"

As soon as she arrived at Mount Carion, her children came running. Dorugo looked at the Four Great Demon Kings with eyes full of affection.

"Theta, are you alright?"

"I\'m fine."

"Don\'t lie. I can see exactly what state you\'re in."

Theta flinched at Dorugo’s words.

"...Actually, all my internal organs are damaged."

"I shouldn\'t have left you in Phantasmal Realm after all. I\'m sorry."

"No, I\'m glad I could be of help to you, Mother."

Dorugo looked satisfied with Theta\'s answer.

"Don\'t worry. I\'ve already prepared the procedure for you. You\'ll gain the same power as your siblings."

"Thank you. But Mother... why did you leave Damien Haksen behind?"

At Theta\'s question, Dorugo gave a bitter smile.

"It\'s not time yet."

Dorugo had absorbed three Demon Lord bodies.

The Demon Lord of Pride, the Demon Lord of Sloth, and her original body, the Demon Lord of Lust.

Dorugo hadn\'t yet fully absorbed all the Demon Lord bodies. She needed more time to stabilize them.

In fact, her original body had been reduced to almost nothing.

This was because in the past, when Dorugo performed large-scale memory manipulation, she had sacrificed her body as the price.

The problem was with Pride and Sloth.

These two were unparalleled powerhouses even among the Demon Lords. It couldn\'t be easy to absorb the power of such Demon Lords simultaneously.

"Theta, don\'t worry. Everything is going according to my plan."

Dorugo said with a smile.

Theta looked at Dorugo with a worried face.

Whether that worry was for Dorugo or for someone else, only Theta herself could know.

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