Chapter 359: Immortal Skill Horn Call, Death of The Mayor and Butler Trio
"HORN CALL!" The Mayor shouted, his horns glowing an ominous dark color after being insulted.
"..." but Follower wasn’t fazed by that at all, instead taking his stance, as if he was ready to tank it all and kill.
"No one has ever survived the horn call, for even the moons fear it," Mayor mocked and laughed, boasting about his achievements, "This attack is unavoidable."
Stark was actually really interested to see what this was about: would Follower finally die?
I mean, that guy’s pretty annoying, and Stark didn’t like his aura at all, so it would be great if he could just disappear.
But it seemed as tough fate itself advantaged him.
Fwish!
Mayor, strands of dark aura visible on his skin, dashed toward Follower, closing the distance between them in a single second.
"YOU CANNOT WIN," Mayor shouted in rage, gripping his utensils and swinging, "The moment you’re hit, it’s already over!"
"Heh..." but Follower smirked, "Then I guess I just... won’t get it."
Attack Negation!
Faster than he could anticipate, Follower punched the Mayor’s stomach, canceling his swing.
-17,834!
But the damage he was doing was reduced by a lot, [Horn Call] enhancing the Mayor’s aura as much as possible.
"Do you not understand? A single one of my attacks could kill you, and my defense is high enough so that you can’t possibly even imagine killing me, give up!" Mayor laughed, dashing again.
"You’re becoming boring," Follower whispered, "Goodbye."
Fwish!
Mayor swung, trails of dark aura leaving a dark trail behind.
"GOT YOU!" he successfully managed to hit the place where Follower was, "I cut you so easily that I didn’t even notice the chance, humans are so weak."
Outside, all people could was a mist beginning to form, as well as Mayor’s dark aura.
"Damn, so Follower’s done for just like that?"
"Pretty weak if you ask me..."
"No chance!"
And all of those believed that the great Follower wouldn’t die so easily would be completey right.
Because back in the trial...
"You’re right, humans are insanely weak, but lucky for me," Mayor heard a voice behind him, sweat dripping from his brow, "I’m not human."
Fwish! Slash!
Sharpening his claws to the max, he used [Demon’s Grasp] to pierce through Mayor’s sturdy body.
"Fool! My body is too sturdy for you to actually pierce it from one end to the other," Mayor mocked, "Now you’re gonna die."
But that was Mayor’s biggest mistake: he didn’t instantly retaliate.
Because Follower’s plan wasn’t to pierce him: it was to hold his heart.
[Demon Devouring: Pierce your enemy, and hold your claws in their hearts for five seconds, then you’ll instantly kill them.]
1...
"Do you truly believe you can beat me," Mayor kept mocking, "All you humans are so idiotic!"
2...
"First, that stupid and ugly guy with his two girlfriends thinks he can put us all on lockdown simply because he has a powerful skill..."
3...
"...And then you believe you can stop us all?"
4...
"Even if you did kill me, you would still have to face the moons, and I promise you that you’re not surviving!" Mayor continued in his speech.
He had tried to liberate himself from the claws several times, but for some reason, Follower held really tightly.
"Now you’re about to die, and I’ll finally be an apostle-"
5.
He couldn’t even finish his sentence that an excruciating pain hit him: his heart exploded, like, literally.
DEMON DEVOURING!
Boom!
-99,999,999!
Instant death!
"H-Huh...?" Mayor couldn’t understand how this was possible.
After all... Only the [Godless Demon] had such an ability to begin with, no human should ever have that!
"Oh..." in his final moments, Mayor finally understood, "We were stupid..."
His horns stopped glowing, and his body also stopped emanating this dark aura.
Instead, in a final gesture that displayed his entire personality, he bowed in front of Follower.
"It was a truly beautiful fight, but I have lost."
"Know your place, garbage."
Mayor chuckled before adding something else.
"But you will never win this trial," he eyed Stark, who was behind Follower, "Someone is gonna stop you, someone much stronger than you are."
"Nobody’s stronger than me, bitch," Follower gave him the middle finger as Mayor fell, dead.
Ding!
[Mayor has been killed "Follower"!]
[5 Humans Alive: Stark, Lilith, Sora, Follower and Clever.]
[2 Monsters Alive: Butler Trio and Tormented One.]
It didn’t take long for Follower to get rid of the [Butler Trio] afterward, the three butlers having lost their will to live after the mayor died.
They didn’t even protest as Follower slashed them repeatedly.
[Mayor has died, thus "Loyal Regeneration" cannot be activated.]
Ding!
[Butler Trio has been killed "Follower"!]
[Follower is on a rampage!]
And so with that, only one monster remained: Tormented One.
"Deal with that yourself, old man," Follower groaned, sitting on the ground and closing his eyes, "That little shit actually hurt me a bit."
It didn’t mean he was growing stronger after every blow that he didn’t feel pain, after all, and so now all they could do was wait for Clever to get rid of [Tormented One].
Actually, once Stark decided to check out the status panel of that thing, something strange happened.
Instead of the usual window appearing, it was simply a few messages.
[So much agony.]
[Cannot kill via damage.]
[Find another way, it can’t feel pain besides the one it was put on for hundreds of years.]
[It has nothing but its extreme defense and overwhelming strength.]
These four panels appeared in front of him, meaning that... he couldn’t check the status window?
Well, it did give him basic info: that thing for some reason had no skills, maybe removed by the [Godless Demon] after putting him through the torture.
But in exchange, it seemed as though he was invincible, unable to receive damage from anything or anybody, and his two burly arms could potentially destroy a building by a single swing.
Basically, you don’t want to get hit by that thing.
And Clever seems to do a great job holding it off, since it easily gets overwhelmed by the dozens of arms blocking its path or slamming it in place.
-0! -0! -0!
But as the panel says, doing all of that doesn’t result in anything significant happening to it.
Clever, angry that his all powerful statue couldn’t do anything in front of such a weak monster, one that couldn’t even retaliate, was growing frustrated.
CELESTIAL SMITE!
Ten of the arms of the golden statue merged into one, slamming the [Tormented One] in place hundreds upon hundreds of times.
Thousand Hands Devotion!
Then he began to punch it with all its arms at once.
Embrace of Eternity!
And finally, he trapped it inside dozens of hands, closing them around it and squeezing as tight as possible in the hopes of crushing its organs.
But even after all of that.
"..." Tormented One’s muffled screams could still be heard as he used his hands to block the strikes and liberate himself from the grip.
His strength was truly otherworldly.
And there was no chance they could kill it in a normal way, if even Clever struggled to do that.
Of course... that is if Stark decided not to act, as he in fact had a way, but he wouldn’t bother taking the risk for them.
Plus, if the [Tormented One] didn’t attack him when he threatened them with the [Heaven’s Spear], then it means it still feared being killed by it.
Might as well wait for them to all die before trying anything.