Rise of the Rejected Deity from Chaos-Chapter 121 120: The Third Demon [4]

{Sei!}

My Lord!

Kaeliyus and Ibyu let out a chorused gasp.

Pressing both arrows further into Seiya's eyes, his head wrenched downward, the demon grinned with excitement. "Since your eyes enable you to see far and wide—all around you, I needed to think up something to counter it," she began, the mini vortexes of blood afloat around her, combined, pouring onto the ground and merging into one.

"However, the answer to it was simpler than I had thought—very simple: Speed," she stated with an air of pride. "I simply needed to be faster. Fast enough that even if you saw every one of my attacks coming, you wouldn't be able to defend against them in time."

"And I succeeded," she smirked softly. "Because, after all, I am in my full form."

Maintaining his calm, Seiya reached out his hands, grabbing the demon's wrists—precisely the horns on the back of her wrist, in an attempt to wrench back her hands, to pull out the blood arrows.

Grinning wider, she whispered softly. "Wrong move." Bony horns, similar to those on her wrists, materialized over Seiya's arms, extending to his elbows before plunging through his flesh, creating gaping holes in his skin.

However, this didn't make Seiya relent, he maintained his firm grip on the demon's wrist and as he did, more horns erupted from his arms, gradually moving up toward his shoulder and piercing through like the first ones.

Seiya quickly realized that the longer he remained in contact with the horns, the more they erupted from his skin. Before he could react, however, the demon raised her knee, aiming to deliver a brutal kick to his back—the blood arrows liquifying.

Seiya reacted swiftly, lifting a foot backward to counter but he missed, legs grazing past each other's, as the demon thrust her leg forward with tremendous force, propelling Seiya ahead with blinding speed.

"Can't see much of the attack without the eyes now, can you?" She taunted.

Seiya staggered to a fall a distance away, crashing onto the ground. He hadn't even fully crashed properly before the demon was upon him again. With a sweep of her hand downward, a barrage of blood rods rained down on Seiya, tearing through his flesh as they landed on various parts of his body, including his limbs—pinning him to the ground.

Despite its black fabric, Seiya's blindfold was soaked with blood, the crimson liquid dripping heavily down his cheeks.

"You really can't do much without your sword," the demon mocked, gaze cast down on Seiya. "Well, so long brat, you caused me a bit of trouble but….. good riddance," she said, the blood in her hand morphing into a large, blunt staff, raised high and poised to crash down upon Seiya's chest, aiming to crush his heart.

But, as the heavy staff descended with overwhelming pressure, Seiya's palms shot forward, interlaced as he slammed them against the impending tip of the staff, halting it. His body snapped upward the next second, knees arched up as he pulled free from the rods—unflinching as the length of the rods went through his body.

The demon immediately liquefied the staff back into blood, letting it pour over Seiya's arms. She transformed the blood into sharp, tiny, worm-like threads, slithering over Seiya's arms and piercing his skin, then burrowing deep into his flesh.

Seiya clenched his fist, muscles coiling as he drew it back, aiming to deliver a devastating punch straight at the demon. But she reacted swiftly, binding his hands with vines of blood.

Retracting her long demon nails, she curled her hand into a fist, then slammed the back of her forearm— from wrist to elbow— into Seiya's face, sending him crashing into a pile of rubble.

Again, before Seiya could properly crash into the debris, the demon was upon him, fist with every muscle taut, poised to strike. However, in a blur of motion, Seiya swept her legs with a clearing kick, and before she could recover, a hammer-like punch slammed into her face, propelling her through the air with overwhelming force and speed.

Seiya crouched, preparing to lunge forward, but long, twisting veins bulged along his arms and neck, pulsing as though alive, sending searing pain through his body—the tiny, sharp, worm-like threads of blood that had burrowed into his flesh, crawling beneath his skin.

The threads slithered and pulsed, stretching across his arms and neck, their heat like molten lava moving just beneath his skin.

The excruciating sensation stunted his movement, staggering him, that before he could react, a heavy punch blasted into his rib cage, sending him crashing deeper into the debris.

As Seiya landed, he felt a warm, slimy liquid pressing against his skin, gluing his back to the ground. With a swift motion, he thrust himself upward, tearing free from the substance, and leaped atop a nearby piece of rubble. Unable to see due to his injured eyes, he couldn't identify what it was.

"You're so quick," the demon chuckled, gaze lifted at Seiya as he stood atop a rubble in the pile.

"I don't know if you can still see but right now, my blood has coated the ground, not a single place spared" she informed.

Indeed, her thick, slimy blood had pooled around them, spreading like mud and covering the entire ground, leaving no space for Seiya to land.

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"It'll move up to the rubble soon, swallowing everything in its path. And clearly, you can't possibly fight suspended in mid-air, can you?" She mused with a wide mocking grin.

Seiya felt the looming presence of the blood inching up toward the rubble he stood. His mind ran things over, remembering he had a skill that could keep aloft in mid-air—a skill his eyes had registered back when he went on missions for the facility.

Seiya never thought a day would come where he had to rely on the ability of others—ones he had once deemed useless. However, as he aimed to activate it, he failed. His eyes were far too damaged for anything. He couldn't even see with them, only relying on the demon's overwhelming and malignant presence to locate and fight her.

The pool of slimy blood expanded, swallowing the debris and wrapping around Seiya's foot, forcing him to leap into the air. With no solid ground beneath him, Seiya could only brace himself for a fall into the swampy blood below.

But before he could even descend, the demon lunged at him mid-air, driving a bat of blood into his stomach. The force of the blow was so intense that it sent Seiya crashing down into the pool of blood.

Without hesitation, the demon followed, stomping her foot onto Seiya's face, pressing him deeper into the viscous liquid to suffocate the life out of him.