Chapter 225: Zeifas Rivenvros (Part 4)

I jammed my blade into the floor to bring myself to a halt, battered and bruised from his blast, before I lifted my gaze in his direction, just in time to see Luxuria swooping down towards him."<Demonic Art: Bewitching Mist>!" She exclaimed, a pink mist erupting around her and engulfing Zeifas.

He let out a sharp gasp and stumbled back shakily as a dazed look appeared on his face, before he shook his head as he tried to regain his bearings.

He suddenly whipped his tail out as a cut began to appear on his back, a sharp crackle ringing out as Invidia came into sight, having turned invisible and struck Zeifas’s back with a lightning-coated blade of Negative Energy.

Invidia crashed onto the wall behind him, as Luxuria zipped down, a pair of Negative Energy blades forming in her hands, before she swung them down at the top Zeifas’s head.

His arms rapidly shot up, grabbing her wrists before her blades could reach him, before his jaws snapped open and he unleashed a drilling blast of Negative Energy from his mouth, engulfing her head and obliterating it, her body breaking down into energy and flowing back into me as I shot forward.

Zeifas spread out his wings and shot up into the air as a rapid volley of wind arrows came shooting towards him, several cuts appearing across the floor as the arrows erupted around the spot where he’d been standing.

He then weaved through the air as Jin chased after him with a relentless flurry of wind arrows, several cuts appearing across the Archdemon’s arms as the slicing waves of wind erupting from the arrows grazed him.

As he narrowly evaded another wind arrow, his eyes widened as Beatriz launched herself straight up towards him with a powerful sound blast from her feet, firing out another blast from her back as she closed in on him, putting on a sharp burst of speed as she swung her weapon across at his solar plexus.

He swerved across as fast as he could, her blade slicing deeply through his left side, a glimmer of his Core coming into sight as she sliced the side of his torso open, her blade missing his Core by a whisker.

As she began to shoot past him, his tail shot out and wrapped around her ankle, bringing her to an abrupt halt before he hurled her back towards the floor with a powerful flick of his tail, a deafening crash ringing out as her back slammed against the floor in the blink of an eye, a sharp gasp ringing out as she coughed out blood.

His movements suddenly sped up...I see, the debuff from Spite must have worn off.

She let out a weak groan as she slumped against the floor, shakily raising her weapon up as the Archdemon fired out a rapid, pressurized blast of Negative Energy down at her.

The blade shattered as the blast slammed against it and erupted intensely, the force upon impact knocking her out, Zeifas starting to swoop down towards her as her eyelids fluttered shut, before stiffening as a couple of wind arrows came shooting towards him.

He flew back as fast as he could before firing out a pressurized blast of Negative Energy, intercepting the arrows before they could reach him, before he let out a sharp gasp as I shot forward and hurled Desecrator up towards him like an arrow with a sharp flick of my wrist, piercing through the middle of his back.

His tail snapped up with a rapid blur as my blade plunged into his body, striking the handle of the blade and diverting its trajectory, the blade angling up as it poked out the top of his chest.

"<Return>," I chanted, his body stiffening up in pain as my blade got wrenched out of his back, before I backed away as fast as I could as he unleashed a barrage of intense, concentrated Negative Energy blasts.

I manifested Drain and swallowed up as many of them as possible, before one hit the floor in front of me, just ahead of the reach of the jaws of Drain, an intense shockwave bursting out as the blast erupted, blowing me away as Invidia shot up towards Zeifas, vanishing from sight as he activated Stealth.

A barrage of wind arrows came shooting up towards him from behind, before his right arm suddenly shot out, a sharp gasp ringing out as his hand clamped around something, before he spun around and held his arm out in front of him, Invidia reappearing as the wind arrows peppered his back and tore him apart, destroying him.

As he turned into energy and flowed back onto me, Zeifas swooped down towards Jin with immense speed, weaving through the air as Jin raced away with firing more wind arrows at the Archdemon.

Zeifas held his hands out in front of himself, repeatedly firing off pressurized bursts of Negative Energy, triggering the arrows to erupt before reaching him, several cuts appearing on his arms and face as he steadily honed in on Jin.

Jin spun around and came to a halt as Zeifas closed in, arching his body back as the Archdemon whipped his claws across, inflicting a shallow cut across Jin’s forehead as the tip of his claws dragged along his skin, before a devastating blast of Negative Energy burst out of Zeifas’s left hand.

Jin lowered his right arm while raising his left as fast as he could, rapidly charging up and firing out a wind arrow from each one, right as he got blasted away, barreling through the air before his back slammed onto the wall behind him with a crushing impact, the wall getting deeply dented as he gasped sharply and coughed out blood, losing consciousness and falling onto the floor as the back of his head thudded against the wall.

His right arm was badly mangled, the wind arrow had managed to weaken the Negative Energy blast enough to keep it from killing him, but it still seriously wounded him.

A splatter echoed out as Zeifas stumbled back shakily, the left side of his head blasted open, blood gushing out...the second wind arrow that Jin fired pierced through the Archdemon’s left eye and erupted inside his head.

And I won’t let this opening go to waste.

Zeifas froze before spinning around as he sensed me behind him, the left side of his head rapidly regenerating before he cried out sharply as I whipped my blade across and slashed his right eye, blinding him.

While even this much damage isn’t fatal to an Archdemon, having a chunk of his brain missing means he can’t think properly right now.

As he stumbled back, I lunged forward and drove my blade straight towards his solar plexus, moving as fast as I could to pierce his Core before he finished regenerating...