607
Chapter 607
Zeke furrowed his brow as he looked at the black mass of flesh that hadn't yet taken proper form.
'I can sense an angel's power, but this isn't an angel.'
It seemed Arthur Draker had been experimenting with an angel's cocoon.
Zeke spoke while looking at Baron beyond the writhing mass of flesh.
"Ingel must have known she couldn't do anything against me. Why isn't she moving?"
Baron gave no response to Zeke's words.
Zeke stared at him quietly before nodding and speaking.
"Not that you won't move, but that you can't move. Are you waiting for something?"
If Baron had acted, the High Tables would have already been destroyed.
Yet Baron remained motionless even after Ingel fell to Zeke's hand.
Furthermore, the Black Corps members positioned around weren't on standby but were protecting Baron.
Zeke pointed his sword at Baron and spoke.
"Whatever you're plotting, you should have finished before I arrived."
WOOOONG!
A strong vibration rang from Zeke's sword.
"I'll take care of all of you today."
As Zeke took a dragon-slaying stance, powerful electricity surged throughout his body.
CRACKLE!
Radiant lightning imbued with holy spirit energy surged along Zeke's sword.
He rushed forward, about to unleash a sword strike toward Baron and the Black corps members.
At that moment, the black mass of flesh that hadn't properly formed yet blocked Zeke's path.
CRACK!
Immediately, an arm with sharp claws suddenly sprouted from the mass of flesh and attacked Zeke.
CRACKLE!
Zeke's sword strike, filled with brilliant lightning, collided with the arm that sprouted from the mass of flesh.
SLASH!
The arm wrapped in lightning instantly shattered, its fragments scattering everywhere.
However, two more arms of the same shape grew from where the original arm had been.
The newly grown arms writhed and stretched toward Zeke, swinging their sharp claws.
CLANG!
Zeke swung his sword to block the claws and unleashed another lightning strike toward the arms.
CRACKLE!
Though the lightning destroyed the arms again, more arms grew from the same spot.
Seeing this, Zeke frowned.
'Is it continuously regenerating and multiplying using an angel's power?'
Zeke realized the black substance Ingel had used was extracted from an angel's cocoon.
Though he didn't know how they created it, if it contained an angel's power blessed with celestial authority, simple attacks wouldn't subdue it.
Moreover, knowing Baron was buying time while waiting for something, Zeke couldn't afford to waste time either.
He stepped back, spread his shadow, and summoned from within it.
TSSS!
Guardian Ashvin, created as a shadow incarnation after absorbing the Twin palace Angel, appeared.
Zeke commanded Ashvin.
"These are fragments with an angel's power. Eliminate them."
Following Zeke's order, Ashvin immediately spread his wings and flew into the air.
Then he raised black feathers from his wings and sent them flying toward the black mass of flesh with arms sprouting everywhere.
WHOOSH!
Hundreds of feathers flew and embedded themselves in the black mass.
WOONG!
The feathers didn't just stick but generated vibrations that burrowed into the mass of flesh.
The black mass then split into several pieces as it decomposed from the vibration waves.
SPLASH!
The scattered black mass jumped in all directions and rolled onto the floor.
Baron, standing behind the Black Corps members, still silently watched this unfold.
Zeke slowly approached him.
"Baron, I'll give you one last chance. Where is Arthur Draker?"
Baron gave no response.
As if he hadn't expected an answer anyway, Zeke immediately raised his sword and spoke.
"I thought so."
WOONG!
An aura blade rose from Zeke's sword.
"I'll find out myself. But you'll have to pay the price for troubling me."
After finishing his words, Zeke swung his sword strike directly at Baron.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The fierce sword strike flew toward Baron and the Black Corps members.
However, before the strike could reach them, it veered off course as if blocked by something and collided with the wall.
CRASH!
Seeing the sword strike cause a loud explosion upon hitting the wall, Zeke furrowed his brow.
"A defensive barrier."
Having noticed something, Zeke activated both his Authority Triple Eye and Sage's Eye.
TSSS!
His vision extended beyond the dragon eye to peer into the hidden world beneath.
In that moment, something that had been invisible until now revealed itself to Zeke's eyes.
'This is...?'
It was a magic circuit intricately constructed around Baron Draker. This circuit connected to the door hiding Book of the Dead through the floor and walls.
While Zeke was fighting Ingel, Baron had been quietly standing there, working to open the door behind him.
Zeke realized why Baron couldn't move and kept buying time.
'I won't let things go according to your plan.'
He immediately crouched and placed his hand on the floor.
A mandala appeared around Zeke's body.
WOONG!
Creating a mandala wasn't difficult for Zeke, who had absorbed all the power and knowledge of Blood King Caligula.
He forcibly connected the mandala that appeared on the floor to the Kabbalah system, accessing Baron's magic circuit.
CRACKLE!
In the invisible world beneath, the blood eye power connected to Zeke's mandala began corroding into Baron's circuit.
ZZZZZZT!
Soon after, red electricity sparked from the magic circuit connected to Baron.
Baron's expression changed as he felt the external force corroding his barrier.
Though Baron had maintained a calm attitude throughout, he had to change his approach immediately when Zeke noticed the unsealing barrier and tried to interfere.
Baron opened his mouth with a hardened expression.
"Stop Zeke Draker."
The Black Corps protecting him nodded at Baron's command.
As they stepped forward, something like a transparent membrane rippled as if space had cracked.
As they rushed to attack him, Zeke maintained the mandala while un-summoning Ashvin and bringing out a different summon.
TSSS!
Lilith emerged from the shadows.
The companion of the Arrogant Savior and the Great Harlot of Babel, Lilith was a demon possessing terrifying powers of enchantment.
Shadow incarnation Lilith began singing toward the approaching Black Corps members.
AAAAAH!
Lilith's song, made of psychic waves rather than musical notes, had the power to directly intervene in listeners' minds and brainwash them.
The Black Corps members rushing toward Zeke heard Lilith's song and stopped in their tracks, seemingly in pain.
"URGHHHH!"
The Black Corps members clutched their heads and writhed in agony.
Black energy rose from their bodies in wisps.
But since Lilith's song had already penetrated the minds of the Black Corps members' main bodies, they still couldn't move.
After confirming complete control over them, Lilith began singing a different song. This song burrowed into the Black Corps members' minds and directly commanded them to die.
The Black Corps members slowly brought the black claws protruding from their hands toward their own hearts.
"URGHHHH!"
The Black Corps members trembled as they tried desperately to resist.
But it was useless.
Soon, the Black Corps members stabbed their own chests to remove their hearts, then knelt and assumed positions offering them to Lilith.
While interfering with Baron's barrier through the mandala and observing the situation, Zeke marveled at Lilith's power.
'This must be why even demons feared her.'
The pupils of the Black Corps members who had torn out their hearts to offer them to Lilith were already lifeless.
But then.
SNAP!
Baron, maintaining the barrier, snapped his fingers as a signal.
At that moment, the scattered fragments of black flesh on the floor rose up.
SLITHER!
The fragments moved and burrowed into the bodies of the Black Corps members who had removed their hearts.
CRACK!
The bodies of the Black Corps members who had offered their souls contained in their hearts while enchanted by Lilith's song were essentially empty.
The black substance and fragments of black flesh took over their empty physical forms.
CRACK!
The Black Corps members' bodies turned fluid and transformed into amorphous matter, from which mouths with sharp teeth gaped open and arms grew randomly.
ROARRR!
They threw down and trampled the hearts they were holding, then rose with monstrous screams.
Lilith's song had no effect on those without souls.
Having assessed the situation, Lilith stopped singing and raised her hand.
WOONG!
A black hole appeared before her, and something walked out from within.
It was a crimson bodied beast of the demon realm with seven heads, each crowned with ten horns resembling crowns.
Lilith mounted the beast's back and pointed at the shapeless monsters.
The ten headed beast opened its mouths wide toward them.
RUMBLE!
Red mist flowed from the beast's mouths.
HISSSS!
The acidic red mist engulfed the monsters' bodies.
SIZZLE!
Though their bodies melted in the red mist, the monsters regenerated and multiplied even faster.
The monsters, now with five arms protruding from their backs or huge mouths growing on their bellies, approached Zeke through the red mist.
Lilith rode the beast to attack them directly.
ROAAAAR!
The beast extended its ten necks to attack the monsters made of angelic fragments.
It bit into the monsters' bodies with its sharp teeth in one bite.
The problem was that the monster flesh filled in the beast's mouth started multiplying even inside.
CRUNCH!
The flesh overcame the beast's powerful jaw strength, swelling up and shattering its jawbone.
RAAAAH!
As the beast's jaw broke, blue blood dripped from it.
When the beast's highly acidic blue blood fell to the floor, it immediately corroded the stone floor.
But even such acidic blood couldn't dissolve all the multiplying black flesh.
Instead, that flesh began corroding the beast's body, trying to make its ten heads part of themselves.
Realizing this, Lilith stepped forward and cut off the beast's heads with her claws.
THUD!
The beast's head, corrupted by the black flesh, fell to the floor.
Surprisingly, other flesh pieces began gathering around that head.
CRUNCH!
Soon the fallen beast head merged with the shapeless flesh masses to form a single entity.
It quickly took on a form similar to Lilith's demon realm beast.
CRUNCH!
The monster with ten raised heads took complete form, opening its mouth wide and approaching while dripping black viscous acidic saliva.
Lilith's crimson beast retreated hesitantly, blue acidic blood flowing from its severed neck.
The monster made of black flesh appeared more threatening as it was larger than the original beast.
Lilith stretched her hand toward the monster baring its teeth at her and cast an incantation.
[Beast, I am your mother. Obey me.]
It seemed to work momentarily as the monster stopped moving.
Then its ten heads swayed back and forth, staggering as if confused.
Just as Lilith was about to give another command to the monster.
The monster's head split open and tentacles with eyeballs protruded from within.
GROWL!
The original eyes disappeared and the eyes embedded in the tentacles moved grotesquely, examining Lilith and Zeke behind her.
Then ignoring Lilith's incantation, it opened its mouth wide and let out a horrific scream.
ROAAAAAR!
Lilith and the demon realm beast retreated from that foul-smelling roar.
Seizing the opportunity, the monster's neck extended as it rushed at Lilith and the demon realm beast, biting into the beast's nape.
CRUNCH!
As it ruthlessly rushed in and bit the crimson beast, Lilith, unable to endure further, transformed into shadow and was un-summoned.
HISS!
The monster passed through Lilith's scattered shadow and approached Zeke with its ten heads extended.
Zeke was completely defenseless as he had to maintain the mandala with his hand on the floor.
ROAAAAAR!
Just as the monster was about to charge at Zeke with a horrific scream.
CRACKLE!
The charging monster's heads seemed to hit an invisible barrier and couldn't advance further.
Somehow Nabu holding a book and one-armed Ivan were now standing in front of Zeke.
Nabu shouted at the monster.
"Thanks for the good rest! Let's start again, you monster!"