Despite this, the absurd amount of mana and stats coursing through the two women's veins creates a sight unbelievable to the pride-filled Arch Demon's eyes.
After ten exchanges pass, the two women keep getting slightly stronger somehow, and every time the demon thinks it's about to land a hit, Maria's core pulses dark blue to let out an ominous pulse of energy to overpower it.
Abby zips around the battlefield with superior speed and invulnerability, landing shot after shot on the Demon's unguarded blind spots while it's mid-clash with Maria.
While after every collision the Demon heals, mental and physical fatigue will kick in eventually. With the links of loyalty only growing, the longer this battle rages on, the more of an advantage they'll have.
The Demon figures this out very quickly as well, but its overall composure doesn't change. It even laughs, mocking the two of them even after being sent backward from Abby landing another two hits.
"For humans, I have to give it to you, you really are strong. Especially on such a world with low-quality resources like this..."
It heals its wounds back up and grips both its bronze daggers while its body becomes covered in Demonic Soul Energy.
"I'll give you one last chance to submit. Lord Vermillion is a reasonable leader; he will spare your lives in exchange for labor. Not just on this world either; once we've taken over this planet, the expansion will only continue."
Maria's massive energy blade comes crashing down while Abby zips through the sky around it to send a dual attack.
As they all clash again, and the Demon is pushed back with two dagger marks in its chest plate, Abby replies to its words.
"One last chance? I don't think you know who you're up against here... you're not walking away from this battle alive, and neither is your Lord."
Abby glances toward the tower, but the Demon only bursts out into a monstrous demonic laugh.
"You believe any mere human could kill a Demon with a noble bloodline flowing through their veins...?"
It laughs louder and louder while all of its wounds and armor heal.
"You truly believe our leader could be killed on this puny world? Allow me to demonstrate; as one of the Lord's underlings with just a fraction of its power. I'll unseal my bloodline to give you a taste of what fate this race is in for..."
Its laughs cease, and the demon closes its eyes.
There isn't even a fraction of a second of activation time before its eyes open again, and a pulse of grey energy erupts from its core.
An eerie pressure fills the silver dome, and the gravity of the bronze-horned Demon's True Core increases many times over.
It jumps off the air to move forward, and its speed is incomparable to what it was just seconds ago.
It collides with Maria's blade that would push it back before and keep it occupied while Abby went in for the kill, but this time Maria can't follow through with her strike at all.
She has to use her Soul Energy core to pulse with dark blue light multiple times in a row to keep her positioning while Abby goes in to attack.
The sound of Abby's daggers clanging against the Demon's now impenetrable obsidian armor is matched with both Abby and Maria flung backward in a shockwave that erupts from the Demon as its core continues to grow stronger as its bloodline is fully unsealed.
Its yell echoes out again in a confident, arrogant laugh while its physical body grows in size.
"This is the power of a 2nd Class Demonic Bloodline. I could kill everyone in this desert before you take 10 breaths...And you still believe there is someone from this world that can stack up to our lord?"
It laughs again while locking eyes with both of them, grinning, as its body grows larger and plumes of dark purple Demonic Soul Energy cover its massive form. The Demon's aura makes the air hot and heavy while it creates the manifestation of a massive dark black and purple Demon the same size as Maria's Ice Goddess.
It speeds forward with its enlarged energy daggers ready to kill, now truly on the offensive.
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