Chapter 921: A Battle To Protect The Village
"NOOO!"
She screamed in frustration, anger, and fear, quickly swinging her titanic arms, bigger than even Satan\'s vessel, each one was at least forty meters big. A single swipe from her arms quickly pushed Blake down into the floor with a loud explosive crash.
CLAAASH!
"I won\'t let you touch me!"
Lilith was going mad, moving her tentacle-roots around and clashing against Erika\'s sword techniques. The girl\'s sword easily sliced through most tentacle-roots, but eventually she was overwhelmed as well, constantly pummeled down.
Elizabeth and Eleanora moved rapidly around her, firing beams of holy light and draconic flames, burning through her body as much as they could. This worked to an extent, but as Lilith had no targets to hit anymore, her focus was put into the duo once more.
"She\'s tough!" Erika stood back up again. "Blake, are you alright?"
"I\'m fine." Blake said, he was constantly harnessing his Ki, Mana, Spirit Energy, Draconic Energy, and Demonic Energy across his entire body, to boost his strength even further. "I won\'t let her smack me like a fly again."
Both lovers rushed into the skies, descending towards Lilith at the same time. Blake\'s body quickly underwent a transformation, as he became a tall and handsome vampire. Almost the same appearance as he had originally before his death. Lilith\'s eyes widened as she was shocked he was back to his former handsome appearance.
"You can turn back to your previous form?! H-How?!"
As she asked that question, she regrew another pair of arms, as her previous ones were burned and cut down by Eleanora and Elizabeth, quickly unleashing a barrage of gigantic punches against Blake. However, Blake utilized his incredible physical strength and the Aura of his energies combined together to intercept and block the attacks head-on, without evading them.
His spear glowed with demonic energy, as he unleashed a series of Spear Mastery Techniques against Lilith\'s arms and fists, which quickly torn them into shreds. As she groaned in pain, several Pentagrams appeared around her, conjuring Demonic Magic.
"BEGONE! {Infernos Maximus}!"
A powerful explosion of demonic flames was unleashed all around Lilith, forcing everyone to step back… Except Blake, his demonic arm twisting into a gigantic and aberrant jaw, absorbing the flames easily.
"What…?!"
"Thank you for the flames, Lilith."
Repurposing the flames given to him, Blake overloaded Gluttony with them and then unleashed a devastating attack towards Lilith\'s chest. He aimed to destroy her core and shatter it, finishing her off once and for all by channeling the power of the Spear Mastery Arts of Level 8.
"{Celestial Piercing Strike} + {One Thousand Battalion\'s Spears} = {One Thousand Heaven Piercing Blood Dragons}!"
By combining the techniques with his powerful Aura and Elements, Blake\'s spear pierced Lilith\'s body a dozen times, leaving behind gigantic holes. The vessel continuously fired beams of demonic darkness against his attacks, resisting the deadly blows as she kept regenerating more and more. Blake was sure he had destroyed her core by now, but she wasn\'t dying!
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
"You\'re incredibly strong, Asmodeus!" Roared Lilith. "But this body of mine is much tougher and larger than you can even imagine! There is a reason why I am so confident about my victory!"
With a loud laughter, Lilith\'s entire body continued regenerating, more and more tentacle-roots surging from below Blake, attacking him from all sides like deadly and piercing spears. Elizabeth and Erika already underwent Spirit Fusion, in their half-dragon spirit forms, they were constantly clashing against Lilith from left and right.
"You\'re such a tough nut to crack!"
Elizabeth\'s gigantic hammer constantly sent shockwaves across Lilith\'s body, turning the parts affected into ashes as they were purified. Her swords of light also pierced her body, cutting through the endless mass of vegetation.
BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!
"We won\'t let you destroy our home! WE WON\'T!"
Erika\'s swordsmanship arts became more intense, her dream dragon puppet fused into her, generating purple colored dream flames that attacked Lilith\'s mind, weakening her soul and therefore her connection to her vessel weakened, making it possible for her regeneration to be slowed down.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
"Just how strong did you make your damned vessel, Lilith?! I\'ll make sure to burn every inch of it!"
Eleanora in the other case activated her variety of new Skills she acquired from her latest evolution. Explosions of draconic flame shuriken constantly engulfing Lilith\'s tentacle-spears and arms echoed. Her spear, Envy, moved gracefully, piercing Lilith\'s vessel and stealing away parts of her power, one strike at a time.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
However, as intense as the battle was becoming, Lilith seemed to show no signs of growing tired or near death. They were all in a stalemate! A stalemate that was slowly leaning towards… Lilith\'s favor.
"I simply have to keep buying time!" She laughed. "I\'ve already done it, while you and your stupid army have been busy fighting me!"
"What?! What do you mean?" Asked Elizabeth.
"Foolish brat! Did you really thought the army of demons you\'ve been fighting was all I got?!" Laughed Lilith. "It was a fluke, of course! It was only HALF of it! The other half, over ten thousand demons, are raiding your village as we speak!"
"No, that\'s impossible! We\'ve been keeping you in check this entire time!" Erika said.
"You haven\'t checked underground though." Lilith laughed out loud. "Now, will you keep struggling to defeat me, or will you go save your damned village?! Choose wisely!"
As Lilith spoke, her gigantic roots sprouted in the Spirit Forest surrounding the Village. Gigantic portals made of her demonic wood opened, distorting space and creating crimson-colored demon gates.
And thousands of demons started pouring out, roaring and rising their weapons, rushing towards the village only a few dozen kilometers from them.
However, to their surprise, they didn\'t find the village\'s walls unguarded.
An army of soldiers, familiars, and Blake\'s friends with his father and the popes were all waiting outside!
"Is that so, Lilith?" Laughed Blake, his spear blazing with demonic flames. "Well, it is good thing I always think of every possibility when making plans."
"Huh?!"