Jake ignored all the happenings around him for the most part, though it was a bit distracting with the flashing golden lights, giant raincloud, and what sounded like a category-five tornado. The Demon Lord also clearly noticed his summoned help was being pressured and was several times about to go help one of the Tower Demons, forcing Jake to pull the big guy’s attention back on him.
”You dare try and run away!?” Jake yelled as the Demon Lord took a single step in the direction of the Sword Saint. Enraged, the boss attacked, but he still seemed a bit distracted by all the other fights. Jake easily dodged the blow, but the boss only did a lazy follow-up as Jake felt himself lose his opponent’s attention.
Perhaps I was a bit too relaxed offensively, Jake surmised.
If that was the case…
Charging forward, Jake took advantage of the Demon Lord being partly distracted. With full power, he thrust both katars into the chest of the Demon Lord, sending the demon skirting back from the impact. His blow did little, and yet he charged in again as the annoyed boss tried to swipe him away. Jake grinned as the hand approached as he made his move.
Jake jumped straight up with Eternal Hunger aimed at the Demon Lord’s one eye. At the same time, another version of himself simply took a step forward and placed a hand glowing dark green on the armored chest of the demon. As expected, his opponent went for the version of Jake aiming for its head, the Jake below even obscured from vision by his jumping clone.
At the very last moment, the jumping version stabbed toward the hand trying to grab him, as the Demon Lord happily took that trade. Two katars penetrated flesh in exchange for grabbing the annoying human that had pestered and insulted him? Why would he not go for that?
”I got yo-”
The moment the boss closed his hand, Jake turned into black mist. Confused, the Demon Lord tried to figure out what was going on, as it was only then he seemed to notice the other Jake standing with a hand on his armor.
It took the Demon Lord a moment to act as he just stared at Jake, looking back up at him with a grin on his face.
”Blind as a bat,” Jake said, not even bothering to infuse his voice with Willpower. He didn’t need Pride to make this taunt work.
The demon’s expression warped as he roared, Jake already jumping back as he landed and teleported even further away. Right as he landed, the Demon Lord charged, swinging his blade widely, making Jake once more go fully on the defensive.
”Actually, that was rude. Bats aren’t even blind,” Jake muttered as he dodged a large swing, closing in and briefly touching the same spot as before as Touch activated once more.
In an attempt to crush him, the Demon Lord summoned a giant seal of fire above himself and brought it all down, exploding an area nearly fifty meters in diameter. Jake had already teleported away, and the moment the flames subsided, he stepped down once more and teleported into melee, dodged under a punch, and once more gave the boss a poke with Touch.
”Yeah, you are worse than a bat. Wait, do you even know what bats are? Probably not. You don’t strike me as the clever sort,” Jake kept talking as he dodged attack after attack.
”Silence, you pathetic vermin!” the Demon Lord roared as he quite literally breathed fire.
”Wow, yeah, that is nearly correct; some do classify bats as vermin. Some also call them flying rats. Or mice. Not sure. Either way, good job; I am proud of you,” Jake said in a mocking tone.
”I said silence!” the boss said, slamming his sword into the floor, sending tiles and fire flying everywhere. Jake had already jumped and protected himself with an arcane barrier as he prepared himself for the next blow.
”Silence? Nah, I don’t think so. Unless you want to start by listening to me first?” Jake grinned. The Demon Lord stabbed toward Jake, but he once more used Eternal Shadow to split himself as his two versions dodged to either side of the wide blade.
at seeing him split in two and failed to respond as Jake landed his next blow. This one was
real Jake said as he kicked the Demon Lord in the face
Shadow followed up as he kicked the other
real Jake, and as he tried to grab him, Jake used the Demon Lord’s own chin as a stepping stone
just as he
only the real Jake. Rather than attack again, Jake just stood there and stared at the Demon Lord as the boss seemed to be waiting for
did you dare
interrupted,” Jake said, acting extremely offended. ”Calling yourself a Demon Lord and having the manners of a common… wait, what is the name of a really low-tier demon vermin? Actually,
”Use what?”
name. Rather than call yourself Demon Lord… I shall henceforth refer
understood why. At the other side of the room, the final Tower Guardian was about to be torn apart as the Sword Saint and Dina proved themselves the slowest at killing their
soon
as Jake took the chance to properly catch his breath and allow what minor burns he had suffered to fully heal. He was lucky that his Hunting Momentum gave him some leeway to take minor damage because completely avoiding everything had been
his party all approached. They looked a bit worse for wear but were otherwise still fine.
asked through
has been dropping
the Sword
”Fine,” Dina answered shortly.
that she was also a bit
his scripted boss-dialogue portion of the encounter. He turned his gaze towards the party as Jake knew they were about to enter
pulled out his bow, and the four others all attacked instantly as the Demon Lord’s armor began shining and
”Behold…”
sword began to shine bright red as it seemed to resonate with the entire hall. The four massive pillars around the throne room then suddenly began to shake as spiderweb cracks
”Ruination.”
each released an inferno upon their destruction. The ceiling began crumbling, and it didn’t take a
is bringing down the
with a resolute
”Then let’s fucking
see any need to. All of their boosting skills activated at full power, Jake gladly pushing his Arcane Awakening to the maximum 60%. They all powered up
with power as her aura rapidly spiked. Bobo, her living armor, grew to cover even more parts of her body and changed shape to resemble a dress filled with glowing green rune scripts. The
slammed
”Nature, heed my call.”
speared up from nothingness. The collapsing pillars were suddenly reinforced as
stopped it dead in its tracks. The Demon Lord stared with confusion at the transformed Dina as she pointed her staff at the boss, his eyes barely visible through
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