Chapter 12: The Gluttony
The imaginary technique, known to be the pinnacle of art, is quite easy to activate. It is all about immersion.
But using it too much or too wild will cause your brain to overload. However, as time passes, your brain will adjust to it, and now you will have time to worry about yet another drawback of this method, how shitty.
That is letting your imagination get a hold of you. Causing you to lose yourself entirely, become nothing more than a husk until you are out of mana or you die.
Beelzebub knows this very well, but to kill the demon, he has to abandon this body.
and become himself once again.
Now, he will act on instinct, giving him the ability to use control mana up to 120%.
As the energy begins to form around him, he transforms back to his old self.
A small pair of fly wings come out of his back, and hazardous green flames that can drive one to insanity cover his naked iron skin like a cloak; multiple beastly fangs spread out from his mouth; and sharp obsidian claws come out of his fingers.
His eye went from all white to crimson with target-pattern pupils. From the blank state, his gaze filled with homicidal will and eternal hunger. From his throat comes a wild ,depraved scream that can drive one to insanity. This attract the knight's attention, the three eyes turn theirs's gaze at Beelzebub.
Looking at the nearest prey. He released his fist, his finger tensed and curled into a claw-like shape, with fingers bent and poised as if ready to strike. Mana gathered around his finger and stretched to his elbow. Two long blades grow out of his elbow.
The gluttony has returned. Well, partially, for this is all he can recreate without wasting too much mana.
Two demons looking at each other overwhelm each other with their aura; one comes from the sheer power that has accumulated inside the spear, and one comes from the brutality that it has done for ages.
The knight, looking at Beelzebub with caution, tries to deal the first blow, but before it can do anything, Beelzebub appears right in front of it, and using his monstrous claw, he strikes at the knight.
The knight, caught off guard, raised its arm to guard, but even that wasn't enough to stop Beelzebub's attack.
SCRATCH
A piece of metal flew through the air as blood spewed out from the broken armor.
Surprised by this, the knight tries to stay calm, raises its hand to copies Beelzebub, doing the same strike and yet. The attack was met with air instead.
Except for the sight, every single sense of Beelzebub has been amplified to such a ridiculous degree, giving him the ability to foresight the opponent’s next attack.
WHOOSH
The knight raised both of its hands and struck from all angles. But Beelzebub dodged all of that smoothly and quickly like a fly.
SLASH
With each dodge, he swung his elbow at the knight, leaving multiple slash marks on his body, turning the entire armor to be bloody.
Annoyed by this, the knight retreated and screamed like a ravaged beast.
“KRKRKRKRKRKR”
A ball of flame forming behind its back then exploded, creating a shockwave that boosted the knight’s speed to an even higher realm for a moment. The knight shifts its hand into a spear and lances at Beelzebub.
Beelzebub may be able to sense the attack but cannot dodge in time. Prepared for the attack, he let it strike.
SLASH
The spear penetrates through Beelzebub's head... or it may seem to be. The truth is, the attack only managed to pierce his cheek, not his neck.
He looks at the makeshift spear and bites.
CRUNCH
“GRKGRGRKGRK”
The knight moved its hand away in agony. Beelzebub stepped back a little with a cleave mark on the side of his head and a piece of armor in his mouth; he swallowed it, then began to approach the knight.
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With the supply of energy and his ability. Beelzebub's form changed once again. This time, four more wings pop out of his back, and his skin turns into the same color as the armor.
With his newfound strength, Beelzebub, whose skin tone turns from gray to dark crimson, dominates the knight with a fury of attacks. All try to aim at the head.
Realized that it cannot win against close combat. The knight tried to retreat, but only to be grabbed by the ankle and slammed into the ground. Causing a crater to the ground
Beelzebub looks at the knight’s ankle and bites it off.
“KRKR“
The knight kicked Beelzebub away but was dodged by the latter. Beelzebub reached the knight’s neck, trying to slash it.
SZZZZZ
Fire spewed from the knight’s helm, causing Beelzebub to retreat.
Buying it some time, the knight tries to create a distance only to be kicked down by Beelzebub, but this time it chooses to be knocked down.
The soil suddenly became liquified and swallowed up the knight. Seeing this Beelzebub attack once again
Inside the earth, energy was being sucked into the knight. At the same time, the fire inside his helm grows much more intense. Flames began to envelop the knight before it was ignited.
BOOM
A huge dark crimson fire plume appeared where the knight was; the intense heat assaulted everything surrounding it. The trees caught fire and began to burn, creating a conflagration.
Rise to the ground, the knight looked at the approaching Beelzebub, who seemed to have received burns all over his body.
But the attack wasn’t meant to target Beelzebub but rather to provide an opportunity for the knight to employ its other ability.
Touching with both hands on the ground. The earth begins to contort like dough before being heated and morphs into multiple clay hands.
Even if the terrain becomes much harder to stand on, Beelzebub is still capable of holding his ground. Jumping up and down, trying to reach the knight. But hundreds of hands shot up, trying to grab him.
These hands may be slow, but the insane amount of it makes up for the speed.
Beelzebub dodged, deflected, slashed, bit,... using everything he had, but it was not enough.
One hand took a grip on him, causing his skin to sizzle from the heat, and his bone cracked from the grip strength.
He destroyed it only for another to come and another. Beelzebub is now stuck on his track due to constantly destroying the hands.
Seeing this as an opportunity, the three mechanical eyes flare up and shoot three fire beams at Beelzebub.
Incapable of dodging or blocking, he had no choice but to receive the attack. The first beam targeted his head, but he managed to dodge it at the last second; still, a part of his jaw was blasted away.
Beelzebub raised his left arm to intercept the second beam that targeted his heart, causing the guarding arm to melt down.
The final beam was the only one that managed to pierce through his body, right where his stomach was. A giant, sizzling hole appeared right in the middle of his body.
Those attacks not only put him in a critical state but also weakened and distracted him, immobilizing him.
Then, the entire surrounding terrain was uplifted and slammed at Beelzebub on both sides, causing a loud boom.
It then sinks to the earth, burrowing Beelzebub. The knight, still putting its hands on the ground, breathes a small flame out of its helm.
"T-Thank you, Y-to."
The knight’s victory was near; the knight morphed the ground and squeezed Beelzebub until he was out of breath.
BOOM
A loud boom was heard. Looking behind, the knight sees a huge red energy targeting it. Using its hand to swat it away out of reflex, but by doing so, it has lost control over the ground.
BURST (peak sfx)
Beelzebub burst out of the ground, dashed toward the knight immediately, and kicked him with all of his strength, sending it flying.
Even though he has already lost an arm, a hole in his stomach, and a depleted mana reserve. His stance is solid, and his eye is still as murderous as ever.
Lowering his body, he channels his mana, creating a large, dark scythe-like that of a praying mantis. The scythe isn't the creation of mana but from his imaginary technique. Hidden inside the insidious scythe is the intention, the will of Beelzebub, the will of the gluttony.
Blood is oozing from his lips, but he doesn't care, or more accurately, he can't. Raising one hand into the air while raising the scythe sideways. He lowers his body, ready to strike.
The knight, from the air, was shocked by this insane amount of energy that is impossible from a mere insect. Dread takes hold of its body, but the knight chooses to ignore it and prepare its attack.
Chooses to stay up in the air. Fire comes out of its feet as it’s copying the opponent's stance but raising a fist instead. The dark crimson fire swirled around the knight, shaping a giant spear like the golden spear from before.
They locked eyes with each other and
BOOOM
Two loud bangs shook the surroundings as both demons flew to each other’s, ready to kill.
This is the clash of power between the creatures that are out of their world, but even so, Beelzebub is just an E-rank. No matter how many techniques he applies, how can he defeat a low-rank demon with this pathetic vessel?
But even unconscious Beelzebub is still Beelzebub, the Gluttony and a devil full of tricks. The amulet, which has gone idle during all of this, begins to illuminate, sending the state Beelzebub into the knight.
This affects the knight for a mere second. But that mere second is enough for the Beelzebub attack to reach first and
SLASH
The spear, which is one centimeter close to Beelzebub's eye, stops and explodes.
The fire explosion knocked both to the ground. From the smoke is a fainted Beelzebub who has lost all of his strength after killing the enemy and the knight whose body was cut into two. From the shoulder to the waist
THUD
As two demons fall, Beelzebub's forms revert to Issac.
“COUGH COUGH”
His body shook, coughing up blood. But for the knight, the lower part of its body begins to stand up and revert to the rabbit form with the spear piercing its abdomen.
The knight pulled the spear out it's chest then raised it up in the air, trying to stab Beelzebub one last time, only for the spear to fall as its grip loosened. The other half looked at its body before turning its gaze to the forest and speaking with a human voice instead of a mechanical one.
“For the God-the God of-C-“
Like running out of battery, the lower half just stood there upright, while the upper half looked at the forest...or not. From the burning forest revealed a man with golden, silky long hair.
