Return of the Calamity-Class Death Knight

[Translator - Kie]

[Proofreader - Kawaii]

Chapter 350: Death Knight (2)

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"Settle this?"

Dorugo used the Authority of Sloth to accelerate time around herself.

The parts of her body that had been destroyed by the explosion regenerated in an instant.

"You mere undead I created... How dare you speak to me so insolently?"

Dorugo's face twisted with rage.

"Before you met me, you were nothing but a third-rate mercenary!"

Dorugo's words were true.

When Dorugo kidnapped him, Damien belonged to an unknown mercenary group.

"I cultivated your talent! I created that body of yours! It was all me! I practically raised you! And yet you dare... you dare repay my kindness like this?"

-Are you done talking?

The killing intent radiating from Damien through the air grew even stronger.

He was about to move.

Dorugo could read Damien's intentions within that killing intent.

She wrapped space around her entire body.

Despite being invisible, it was like wearing the world's strongest armor.

Simultaneously, she manifested her Authority of Sloth and accelerated her own time.

How do you plan to attack?

In the accelerated world, Dorugo focused on Damien's movements.

At that moment, Damien appeared right in front of her.

What?

Despite being so cautious, she had lost track of his movement. She hadn't noticed until he was this close.

Damien swung Erebos down. Dorugo had no time to dodge and blocked with both forearms.

The space wrapped around her forearms collided with Erebos. With a heavy impact, Dorugo's body was pushed back.

"...A mere undead!"

A look of humiliation appeared on Dorugo's face.

Dorugo tried to counterattack by pushing her body forward again.

But before she could move, Erebos came flying towards her face.

Dorugo blocked Erebos with her forearms again. Once more, a powerful shock shook her entire body but she managed to endure it.

However, no opportunity for a counterattack came. As soon as Dorugo blocked, a third attack was launched.

"Kuk!"

She couldn't fully withstand the third attack. Her body was pushed back slightly.

Immediately after, a barrage of slashes rained down.

Dorugo frantically blocked the attacks.

She couldn't even dream of counterattacking. She had to focus all her attention on defense.

The look of humiliation on Dorugo's face grew deeper and deeper.

Then, Damien spoke in a low voice.

-Tougher than I thought. I'll need to put more force.

As soon as he finished speaking, Dorugo's shoulder felt lighter.

She looked towards her shoulder with a dazed expression.

Her arm had been severed without her noticing.

"...!"

A searing pain followed. Dorugo suppressed the pain and manifested her Authority of Sloth.

She accelerated her body and retreated. It was to buy time to regenerate the wound.

-Where do you think you're running?

At that moment, Damien's voice came from right in front of her.

Surprisingly, he had chased after Dorugo, who had accelerated with her Authority of Sloth.

-Let's finish the other side too.

Damien swung Erebos. But this attack sliced through empty air.

Dorugo had used the Authority of Pride to move her body.

Appearing at a spot some distance away, Dorugo breathed heavily.

"You, you madman...!"

Since earlier, Damien had been effortlessly keeping up with Dorugo's speed.

"I... I have the power to manipulate time!"

It was something utterly incomprehensible to Dorugo's common sense.

But Damien showed no reaction to Dorugo's outcry.

-I'll need to move a bit faster.

He simply adjusted his actions in an emotionless voice. Dorugo felt chills at his mechanical demeanor.

"Stop... acting so arrogant!"

Dorugo stretched out her arm, which had finished regenerating.

She opened her palm and manifested the Authority of Pride.

The space around Damien was sharpened. Invisible blades surrounded him.

"I'll tear you limb from limb so you never defy me again!"

Dorugo clenched her outstretched hand.

Like a beast closing its jaws, the space pressed down on Damien. The sharp blades tried to crush Damien's body.

"Be crushed under the weight of the world!"

She felt her words catch in her throat as she shouted excitedly.

Damien was standing there without a single scratch.

Crimson flames surrounded Damien and completely blocked Dorugo's attack.

The blades Dorugo had created by carving space stopped and were unable to penetrate the flames.

Damien took a step forward.

As he advanced, he broke through the space that was pressing down on him.

Dorugo could only be astonished at this brute display.

"...You're breaking through this?"

Dorugo hastily used the Authority of Pride again. She grasped the space surrounding Damien with both hands.

As Dorugo twisted her hands, the space enveloping Damien began to grind together like millstones.

Even he shouldn't be able to avoid being crushed by space.

She intended to separate Damien's upper and lower body like this.

At that moment, Dorugo's hands suddenly stopped. As if caught on something, they wouldn't move any further.

Dorugo looked at Damien with a bewildered expression. Only then did she realize.

Damien was withstanding the spatial distortion with just the power of his main body.

"You... monster!"

Dorugo couldn't help but speak. It was that much of a situation beyond common sense.

-A bit heavy.

Saying that Damien lifted his foot. The crimson flames spread on the ground and gathered beneath his feet.

With that, he stomped down hard on the ground.

The crimson flames exploded and blasted away the Authority of Pride.

The space pressing down on Damien was completely shattered.

Damien raised Erebos.

Flames began gathering around Erebos.

At that moment, Dorugo sensed it. The fact that she could not possibly avoid this attack.

But she couldn't just give in. Dorugo manifested the Authority of Pride once more.

Suddenly, Dorugo's body multiplied into hundreds, thousands, and millions.

It was created by distorting space. The millions of Dorugos were all illusions yet real at the same time.

Despite Dorugo's numbers suddenly increasing, Damien didn't waver in the slightest.

-Quite a lot of you.

Instead, he simply swung Erebos through the air. It was a careless motion as if swatting away insects.

The next moment, Dorugo's neck split open.

No, not just her neck. Cuts appeared all over her body.

"Kuk!"

Millions of Dorugo simultaneously bled and writhed in pain.

Though the sword was swung only once, millions of Dorugo were simultaneously slashed.

As the Authority of Pride dissipated, Dorugo returned to a single form.

She coughed a mouthful of blood and shouted.

"Realm... it was Realm!"

Master Class demonstrates supernatural abilities without learning magic.

One can cut objects at a distance, or turn their body into smoke.

What Damien did was no different.

He cut millions of Dorugo simultaneously with a single sword strike.

It was the same with keeping up with her speed. He surpassed the Authority of Pride using Realm.

"The wounds... must... regenerate quickly...!"

Dorugo accelerated time with her Authority of Sloth. But the wounds carved all over her body barely regenerated.

"What did you do to my body?!"

Dorugo shouted at Damien.

Damien didn't answer Dorugo's question. He simply approached with Erebos lowered.

A knight in black armor walking and wreathed in flames.

Seeing this figure like the Grim Reaper, Dorugo felt the hair all over her body stand on end.

If this continues, she'll die. Just like in her past life, she'll lose her life to Damien and be unable to meet Ruin.

"That alone... absolutely... absolutely cannot happen...!"

It was then. Two people appeared behind Damien.

"Mother! Run away!"

"We'll hold him off here!"

It was Epsilon and Lambda.

The two rushed at Damien, prepared to die.

The moment she saw this, Dorugo thought of a way to survive.

"Epsilon! Lambda!"

"Mother! Don't worry about us!"

"Both of you, self-destruct!"

At those words, Epsilon and Lambda's eyes wavered.

But the two had no time to question this heartless order.

Suddenly, the area around their hearts began to heat up intensely.

"Mother...!"

The moment Epsilon cried out desperately and both of their bodies exploded. A massive explosion engulfed Damien.

"As expected... they were useful after all!"

She never expected the function implanted in case the Four Demon Kings rebelled would be used like this.

Dorugo used the Authority of Pride to hide in a spatial rift.

This wouldn't be enough to kill Damien anyway. This was just to buy time.

"Damn... this hurts like hell."

Dorugo focused her energy on the wounds. Even so, they regenerated slowly.

"Just what did he do to my body?"

Fortunately, this was a place no one could find.

It didn't matter how long it took. After recovering here, she would face Damien again...

A chill.

Suddenly, a shiver ran down her spine. Dorugo looked around with a trembling face.

"It can't be...?"

No sooner had the words left her mouth than space was torn apart.

Erebos thrusted through that gap and pierced Dorugo's heart.

"...!"

As Erebos was pulled back out, Dorugo was dragged along with it.

Having been thrown out from the spatial rift, Dorugo rolled helplessly on the ground.

"Kuk, kuk."

Damien approached Dorugo as she coughed up blood.

-Did you think you could escape from me?

Damien looked down at Dorugo and spoke in a cold tone.

Dorugo looked at her own chest. Blood was pouring from a large wound.

Even so, Dorugo didn't try to stop the bleeding. She knew well it would be futile.

When her heart was stabbed, her soul was pierced simultaneously.

As her soul was destroyed, her life force was pouring out. This was a wound that could never be healed.

"You... damn bastard..."

Dorugo spat out curses as blood flowed from her mouth.

"To someone like you... a lowly creature... for me to... end up like this..."

She couldn't contain her resentment. Tears fell from her eyes.

"I just wanted to see Ruin again... and you... you ruined it all!"

Damien remained silent despite Dorugo's outcry.

That behavior further fueled Dorugo's anger.

"You ungrateful... savage...!"

Just as Dorugo was about to scream, all life force drained from her soul.

Death arrived when her soul was emptied.

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The moment she faced death, darkness enveloped Dorugo's vision.

Not a speck of light could be seen. She couldn't tell left from right, up from down.

Is this what death is like?

As a dark mage and former Demon Lord, she had killed many people, but this was Dorugo's first time experiencing death herself.

The death Dorugo faced was more peaceful and boring than she had imagined.

Am I going to stay like this forever?

It was then that Dorugo had that thought.

"Lily."

A voice came from somewhere.

It was a familiar voice, but one she hadn't heard in a long time.

And Lily?

There was only one person in this world who could call Dorugo that.

The lover she had missed every single day...

"Where are you looking? I'm right here."

Dorugo hurriedly turned around.

Under the light pouring from the sky stood Ruin.

"I've missed you so much all this time."

Ruin said with a smiling face. Dorugo asked in a trembling voice.

"Is this... a dream? No... you've never appeared even in my dreams..."

"I'm truly hurt. Can't you tell if I'm real or fake anymore?"

Ruin said playfully. Only then did Dorugo realize. That the Ruin before her eyes was real.

"Ruin...!"

Dorugo ran towards Ruin. She spread her arms to embrace him.

-That won't do.

At that moment, a cold voice was heard.

A blade that thrust out from behind pierced through Dorugo's body.

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[Translator - Kie]

[Proofreader - Kawaii]