The Kind of Evil-Chapter 231: A Demon King.
"You even disintegrated their remaining souls within those corpses..." Videl crouched as she stared down at the pile of dust in the center of the crater.
Videl thought that Aris was strong, but she never thought that a dragon in this world possessed such power. She realized that a dragon could kill her in her prime, and that was disturbing for her.
"If you don't change to your usual appearance, I'll make you experience what they felt right now," Aris said as she stood behind Videl, staring down at her.
Videl sighed as she raised her hands, and suddenly a black mist covered her whole body. The moment the mist disappeared, he turned into his butler and handsome appearance.
"Seriously, what's your problem?" Videl asked as he crossed his arms and stared at Aris with his brows furrowed.
"Your voice was annoying," Aris answered as she walked away. "At least don't become a woman," she added.
Videl was speechless and annoyed by the fact that Aris was being a pain because of a mere voice. He sighed and decided to brush it off while Rasmus stared at him with a smirk, enjoying every second of it.
Rasmus looked at the damage that Aris had caused, and wondered how she did it. His control over Aura was still nowhere near her, and it would take him a lot of effort to even manipulate it outside his body. He wondered if meditating and trying to sharpen his mind would help him achieve what Aris showed earlier.
"(I could control Mana easily now, but not Aura...)" Rasmus looked at his hand and felt the Mana lingering in between his fingers. "(Once Mana turned into Aura, it might not have free will anymore. So I have to be the one controlling it with my mind or even beyond that. Perhaps my consciousness, like a psychic?)" he thought.
"Let's get rid of their hideout. It's in that building over there," Videl said as he pointed at the building in front of him.
Rasmus snapped back to reality and stared at the old building that Videl was pointing at. He watched Videl walk ahead of them to check on the building first. He looked over his shoulder at the crater and still couldn't grasp what he had witnessed earlier.
The hideout was hidden in the basement of the house. It had a few records there, including tools for rituals and skinned heads of the villagers. The records weren't important, but they found out the warlock they saw earlier was the village chief, pretending to be a wise old man.
"Hmm, so it was he who summoned those demons. Funny that they allowed an old man like him to order them around," Videl said as he looked at the ritual circle on the ground. "Hmm, wait a minute. This circle is imperfect, it shouldn't be able to summon anything..." he muttered.
Since Videl had learned from warlocks and witches, he knew everything about the dark arts. He realized something was off about this, and immediately looked for faint traces of demonic energy that still lingered.
"Put your helmet on, all of you," Videl said with a serious expression as black mist covered his body.
Without questioning Videl, the three of them put on their helmets. Videl changed his appearance into an old priest while everyone looked at her with a curious look. Suddenly, he punched the ground, cracking it, and ripped the ground open until they saw a faint dark purple glow from underneath.
"I knew it, this thing is the one that summoned all the demons," Videl muttered as he slowly took a step away from the ritual circle and stared down at the glowing light.
"What's that?" Rasmus asked.
"You can say it's a portal that only Fallen Watchers can create from wherever they want that connects with their minions," Videl answered as he formed a ball made of white light on his palm. "I'm going to try to break this thing off, and there's a chance a powerful demon will appear to prevent me from doing so," he said as he stared at the ball of light on his palm.
"Wait, what? Is that divine energy?" Rasmus stared at the ball of light in disbelief, similar to what he saw when Astrea used her divine powers.
Aris and Javi were mildly shocked by what they saw, they were as shocked as Rasmus. Aris could see the divine energy that lingered within Videl's body that suddenly existed. She couldn't believe what she saw, but she remembered that Ermaine, the false prophet that she saw back then was also capable of doing so.
"What? Surprised that I can hold both divine energy and demonic energy? By now, you should have expected for me to be capable of doing this," Videl smirked at Rasmus as he threw the ball of light at the emitting purple light on the ground.
As soon as the ball made contact with the light, the whole ground trembled and cracked open. The light grew brighter, and suddenly, a hand appeared from the light, climbing out of it from thin air. It was as Videl said, a portal, and something crawled from it.
The thing that came out of the portal was a knight in jet-black armor with rough and pointy edges. The armor that didn't look like from the world of the living because it was covered in black tar that dripped to the ground and melted the wooden floor. It was different from what Rasmus encountered back then, and it looked a lot stronger.
Aris didn't hesitate to raise her sword and swung it upward vertically at the knight. Her attack cut the ceiling of the basement open all the way to the roof. The knight was thrown away by her attack, but the knight survived with a big crack in his armor. The knight used his hand to brush on the damage on his armor, and surprisingly the armor regenerated from his touch.
Aris didn't encounter something like that back when she explored the Blackcliffs. It was different from the possessed and the corrupted that she had encountered so far. The knight oozed an overwhelming demonic energy that sucked all the Mana around him, turning it into his strength.
"That's a king rank demon," Videl grinned in excitement as he stared at the knight. He couldn't wait to devour a Demon King and made himself into a Demon King, one step away from reaching his goal.
Rasmus knew that he wouldn't stand a chance against something like that even if he pushed himself to the limit. His effort would be futile in the presence of that knight in front of him.
The knight's eyes glowed dark red under the helmet with horns. He controlled the tar all over his armor and moved them toward his right hand. Once all the tar formed around his hand, it slowly formed into a greatsword and hardened into a solid form. He swung his sword toward them, releasing a powerful slash wave of demonic energy.
Aris thrust the air with her sword, and it released a powerful shockwave that turned everything in front of her into dust. That move was enough to disperse the slash wave that the knight had released, and it also hurt him to the point that his armor broke into pieces, revealing its skin that was as dark as a coal.
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The knight roared, releasing a deafening and ear-piercing soundwave at them. Rasmus and Javi almost fainted as their ears began to ring painfully, making them fall to their knees and cover their ears. The knight pushed out the black wings from its spine and then flew to the sky, making a distance from Aris.
Aris and Videl jumped out of the basement and went outside to look at the knight in the sky. They watched as the trees and the soil in a mile's radius dried out because the knight took the life out of them. The amount of Mana that he absorbed was immensely large that he could suck the lives of thousands of lives in a matter of a second.
"Finally, something that I can play with," Aris said as she held her sword with both hands and stomped the ground to ready her stance.
Her stomp alone was enough to crack the ground around the village, and when she deepened her footing, some of the buildings collapsed and sunk into the ground. She created a small avalanche as her eyes stared coldly at the knight in the sky.
"Take those two away from this village. I'm not going to hold back in this fight," Aris said with a serious expression, her eyes never leaving the knight.
Videl glanced at Aris and wondered what kind of expression she had underneath that helmet. He then nodded and hurriedly went back to the basement to bring Rasmus and Javi away from the village. The knight didn't even bother to attack Videl because he knew the real threat was the knight on the ground below him.
Once Aris felt that Rasmus was out of the village, she finally could release all her strength.
"Get down here," Aris said coldly.
The knight felt a mountain fall onto his back and make him fall to the ground so hard that the whole village sunk to the ground. She was floating in the air as she stared down at the knight who struggled to stand up from that pressure alone. She then felt an immense amount of demonic energy that was released from the knight's body, dispersing the Aura she had put on him.
The knight slowly got back to his feet and looked up at Aris with his glowing red eyes.
"Let's see how strong you are," Aris pointed her sword down at the knight.
