First of All, I’m Drinking - Chapter 48
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Episode 48
Now, even high-ranking demons would no longer be a match for me.
I wrapped magi around my sword and shot it out like sword energy.
The flames formed from Zagan’s demonic power tried to block my attack, but couldn’t completely stop it.
“Kugh!”
The fired magi grazed Ordo’s abdomen.
He spat blood red as fire.
“Damn it!”
Whoosh!
Flames swept like a tsunami.
A wave of fire as large as a house crashed down on me.
An attack that was very threatening in scale alone, without any special technique.
But to me, who had even blocked a 9th Circle Mage’s annihilation magic, it was merely laughable.
Hissss-!
I gathered magi into a round shape to form a barrier.
The storm of flames struck the barrier.
Whoooosh!
In the flames pouring down with enough force to cover the earth, a black sphere-like barrier floated like a lonely island.
The fire continued for quite a while without stopping.
Whiiiing!
Inside the barrier, I shaped magi into the form of an arrow.
I fired the arrow by making it pass through the barrier while he wasn’t paying attention.
The arrow flew through the flames, aiming for his forehead.
“…!”
A wall of flames formed in front of Ordo, who noticed too late.
The arrow collided with the wall.
Craaack-!
Having poured his demonic power to the maximum, the blocked arrow spun several times in place before disappearing.
But I was already charging at him during that time.
The round barrier was compressed to the maximum and wrapped thinly around my body’s surface.
Slaaash!
The blackened blade sliced through his neck once again.
The severed head flew through the air.
“How foolish! You know well that you can’t kill me with such methods!”
As he said, a new head was already regenerating from the cross-section of his neck.
I retrieved my swung sword and took a thrusting stance.
“But you can’t take any action while regenerating, can you?”
The fatal weakness of flame resurrection.
He was in a completely defenseless state until regeneration was complete.
“Let’s see you block this too.”
Thunk.
The sword pierced into his heart.
Like a whirlpool rotating around the eye of a typhoon.
Space converged into a point, centered on the pierced wound.
It looked like a small storm had erupted at the sword’s tip.
‘Pluton-style magi application.’
Wind Extreme Annihilation Flow.
Whooooom!
Ordo’s body was sucked in spirally like crumpled paper.
First his chest.
Then his stomach and both arms.
Finally his legs.
“Ugh, uaaaah! No!”
He flailed his limbs wildly and resisted fiercely.
But soon he was completely absorbed and disappeared with a death scream.
As Ordo’s fire, which had been the light source, disappeared, the surroundings were engulfed in darkness.
A moment of silence.
I continued to watch the still-ongoing storm of Wind Extreme Annihilation Flow.
Whoooosh-!
The scenery brightened again with suddenly appearing flames.
The air was torn apart.
Ordo, having regenerated his head, burst out while tearing space apart with both arms.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, he spat out curses.
“Shit, damn it! I almost died!”
Yellow burning eyes glared at me.
His gaze was filled with rage.
“You bastard!”
Ordo swung his fist.
I grabbed his wrist with my left hand and kicked his side with my right foot.
Crack!
“Kraaah!”
He staggered and barely managed to regain his balance.
This time I punched his face with my fist.
Thwack!
“Ugh!”
A series of attacks followed.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Ordo couldn’t even resist once and was beaten like a dog.
I struck his temple with the flat of my sword and spoke.
“For someone who calls himself an Agent of the Divine, you don’t know how to fight at all.”
The gap in power aside.
There was an overwhelming difference in experience.
Even if we had the same abilities, the result wouldn’t be different.
“Well, you’ve probably never met an opponent who could overpower you in brute force.”
Most opponents would have been turned to ash with a single gesture.
Having ended all battles so easily.
There was no way he’d ever experienced a life-or-death struggle.
Thud!
I kicked his abdomen.
His scrawny body floated in the air before crashing into the dirt.
He quickly got up and unleashed his demonic power.
Boom!
An explosion erupted in the space between us.
The reaction sent his body flying far away.
Even while flying, he kept his gaze fixed on me and swung his arm from top to bottom.
Dozens of fireballs simultaneously crashed down to the ground.
Rumble-!
Magi extending from behind my back formed a massive mass in the air.
It suddenly split into dozens of branches, clashing one-on-one with the fireballs.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Amidst the explosions that shook the very foundations of the earth, I charged forward, closing the distance.
I pulled my arm back while pointing my sword tip forward.
“D-don’t come any closer!”
Whoosh!
Ordo unleashed a barrage of fireballs.
They crumbled without being able to penetrate the demonic barrier surrounding my skin.
“Hii, hiiek!”
An expression filled with terror.
The moment he entered my range.
I thrust my arm forward with all my might, maintaining my charging speed.
Thunk!
The sword pierced through flesh.
A spiral of black storm swirled as if it would devour everything.
‘Wind Extreme Flash.’
Whooooom!
His body was mercilessly sucked into the central point.
“Kraaah! Damn it!”
Ordo vanished without a trace.
After a brief silence.
Once again, he burst forth from the void, tearing through space.
“No matter how many times you do it, it’s useless! From what I can see, you may be superior in skill, but we still can’t kill each other!”
Was he acting cocky because he trusted in his infinitely regenerating body?
He contorted his charred face and fired fireballs wildly.
I swung my sword and deflected them all.
“It seems you’re seriously mistaken about something.”
Fire isn’t something only that bastard can wield.
Whoosh!
Crimson flames erupted above my head.
Divine punishment concentrated with destructive energy.
“The techniques I’ve used so far weren’t meant to kill you.”
It was about time to end this fight.
Kwaaaaaa-!
The flames charged forward fiercely as if they would incinerate everything.
He didn’t just stand there watching either.
“If it’s a battle of flames, then that’s exactly what I want!”
Zagan’s demonic power condensed thickly.
The flames blazed with an ashen color.
“Die!”
Ordo screamed as he thrust both hands forward.
Flames swept across the ground and surged toward me violently.
Kwaaaang-!
Two flames of different colors collided in midair.
Perhaps because he compressed his demonic power with his last remaining strength.
Ordo’s flames didn’t get pushed back and held their ground as if in a contest of strength.
Whiiiiing!
The strong winds created by the two clashing energies sent pillars and wooden rooftops flying.
The cramped slum had now become a battlefield of chaos.
Light blazed brilliantly under the night sky.
“Kraaaaaaak!”
He seemed to be putting up quite a fight.
But the outcome was slowly tilting to one side.
Ordo’s feet, planted firmly on the ground, were pushed backward, leaving shoe marks.
Eventually.
Whoooosh!
Another flame caught onto the blazing fire demon’s body.
Fierce crimson flames radiating an ominous aura.
“Aaaaak! Hii, hiiek! It’s hot!”
They say burning pain is the worst of all sufferings.
Ordo, engulfed in two types of flames, writhed on the ground in agony.
Sizzzzle-
His burned body regenerated infinitely.
Thrown into an endless hell, he poured out agonized screams.
“Kraak! Do you think you can kill me with this?! I’ll never die! Lord Zagan has granted me the power of eternal life!”
I looked down at Ordo with a chilling gleam in my eyes.
“There were others who said the same thing before.”
Even in the Demon Realm, there were fools who voluntarily became fire demons, trading eternal life to become Zagan’s slaves.
“They’re not around anymore though.”
All of them.
Died by my hand.
Swoosh-
I raised my arm and formed a hand seal.
Each deity has their own unique characteristics.
Divine powers are the extreme manifestation of those characteristics.
‘And my unique characteristic is.’
Strong dominion over ‘space.’
Mugan goes one step further, a power that constructs my own absolute domain.
In other words.
Almost all techniques I use contain principles that involve space.
Gurrrgle!
The crimson flames clinging to Ordo’s body began to mutate.
Becoming even more ferocious, brutal, and merciless.
‘Normally I would still lack sufficient demonic energy, but.’
Thanks to casting Wind Extreme Flash twice.
The space in this area was now unstably twisted.
By absorbing that spatial distortion into the flames.
Even ordinary flames with just demonic energy could be evolved to a limited extent.
Into apocalyptic flames that devour space and burn everything.
Ultimate technique.
Calamity Fire Void Destruction.
Kwarrrrgle!
There wasn’t much change in appearance.
But the destructive power contained within the flames was worlds apart from just seconds before.
“Kr, kraak! M-my body!”
The areas burned by the calamity fire no longer regenerated.
His feet disappeared first.
Then his calves, thighs, waist, stomach.
The calamity fire gnawed at Ordo’s flesh, slowly erasing him.
The only way to kill a fire demon.
Incinerate the entire space, annihilating them without leaving a single cell.
‘I’ve finally reached the stage where I can use this technique on my own.’
Annihilation Flame possessed the greatest killing power among the techniques I could use in daily life.
I had cast it twice since my reincarnation.
Once in the Heavenly Realm where the constraints of the flesh were released.
Once when my body was temporarily strengthened by Gabriel’s blessing.
Though it required a series of preparatory processes, this was the first time since my reincarnation that I had cast it entirely through my own power without any assistance.
“Die? I’m… going to die?”
Ordo stared blankly at his body that wouldn’t regenerate.
His eyes that burned like lava seemed to tremble.
It must have been the first time he felt the fear of death since becoming a demon.
“Ah, uah.”
He drooled like a patient with schizophrenia.
His gaze reached me.
“S-save me! No, please save me!”
When I showed no reaction, Ordo cried out even more desperately.
“Please save me! If you spare my life, I’ll do anything! Please…!”
This was a bastard who had become a demon in the first place because he feared death.
It wasn’t surprising that his mind would collapse when faced with the crisis of death.
“Let me ask you just one thing.”
I crouched down to meet eye level with Ordo, who now had only his head, chest, and right arm remaining.
“Have you ever spared anyone who begged for their life before you like this?”
“…”
He couldn’t say anything.
“I heard your answer loud and clear.”
“No! Wait, please wait just a moment!”
“Well, unlike you, I’m merciful. If you grant my request, it’s not impossible for me to spare you.”
I held up my index and middle fingers in front of his eyes.
“Two things. If you answer just two questions faithfully.”
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Meanwhile, at the same time.
The Temple of the Sword.
“No matter how many I kill, there’s no end to these things!”
Crack!
Diago’s spear blade burst open a demon’s head.
The demon fell and writhed, then completed its regeneration and roared.
“Grooooar!”
Whoosh!
This time Kise’s flame magic hit its mark.
The demon fell again but soon stood up as if nothing had happened.
Kise shook his head and let out a tired breath.
“Haah, I should pray that His Highness finishes this quickly.”
Bang!
The temple doors opened.
A group wearing silver armor came rushing into the sanctuary.
The middle-aged man at the front shouted.
“Secure Her Imperial Highness’s safety first!”
The Imperial Guard Captain.
It was Zeroph Gamilan.
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