Infinite Competitive Dungeon Society - Chapter 329

Chapter 329

Chapter 329 . With Your Own Power (9)

[What an absurd mana!]

It seemed even he couldn’t directly receive this attack . As he flew up to dodge, he swung his axe and shot a giant aura wave . An ordinary human would have his bones and flesh rot just by being near to it!

[Huuu . ]

I sucked it in using Breath of Death and received the impact of the aura with Extort . But as his attack wasn’t so weak that I could fully take it with Extort, I weakened it as much as I could using Absolute Soul and stole only the mana I could steal . Steel could then block the rest of the attack with its defense .

[That’s the ability of a Death Knight! You even absorbed my aura… Are you a mana eater?]

“You should be worried about other things”

After receiving his attack, I kicked off the round and leaped up into the air . The black energy swirling around his body instantly transformed into hundreds of thorns before hurling towards me . I didn’t think of hitting them away . In front of Steel, such minor attacks were useless .

I jerked my spear by an inch . In the next moment, an explosion erupted on his back . The 500,000 mana I shot out had boomeranged back and hit him .

The black cape fluttering behind him disappeared . I expected it to be a fatal blow, but it seemed his cape had the ability to completely absorb a single instance of attack . Kuk, if I knew that, I would have only used 300,000 mana!

[You can already control the aura you shot out? Truly amazing!]

“I haven’t even started!”

Using death energy against him was likely to be meaningless . Thus, while I continued to use Breath of Death, I only concentrated on absorbing his death energy . Only chaos flames were burning on my spear .

[I am Dortu . Analyzing his armor . ]

“I’ll leave it to you, Dortu . Peika, materialize!”

[Got it!]

When a huge lightning dragon appeared in the air, the Death Lord flinched . On the other hand, Peika charged at him as soon as she materialized . The powerful lightning energy circulating around her body was fiercer than any time in the past .

[Kuku, I have never fought at a disadvantage . Savior Hero, I certainly must recognize your strength . ]

“Do you know something?”

[Of course . After all, I am the king of the dead . ]

Mm? King of the dead? Didn’t the Death King call himself that too? Then was this guy also a lich?

At that moment, I closed my eyes and stretched my mana outwards . However, I couldn’t find anything that could be his life vessel . It seemed he felt my mana’s movement, as he shook his head with a loud laugh .

[If you’re looking for the vessel carrying my soul, I will tell you . It’s inside me . ]

“Inside you?”

[Indeed, extracting your soul from your body and storing it elsewhere is a good way to achieve immortality . But a soul will become tainted the moment it leaves its body . That’s why I separated my soul and sealed it inside my body . If you destroy me, you’ll be able to destroy my soul too . ]

“Well, aren’t you kind . ”

Was he telling me his weakness? Something was definitely wrong with this guy . However, he nodded as if what he said was only natural .

[This way, it will be a much more interesting fight!]

“Fight…?”

This bastard… Was he crazy? I gave him such a glance .

“Are you crazy?”

No, I was saying it out loud .

[The reason I held on to my life even while being reduced to this state was all in order to fight . To experience the clash of powerful mana and strength! That person’s ambition to overtake all worlds swayed me, and for that, I endured all these years . Since I got to fight the Savior Hero at the end of it all, can you blame me for being so talkative?]

“You’re telling me you became a lich to fight?”

[That’s right . ]

Dumbfounded, I lowered my spear . He wasn’t done talking yet .

[Losing the world’s power wasn’t important to me either . What was important was that there was no one left in my continent that I could kill! That’s why I raised the ones I killed into Death Knights and crossed over to another world . There, I killed and killed again . When there wasn’t anyone left for me to kill, that’s when I met that person . ]

Who said only losers ended up trapped in the dungeon? I had to change this way of thinking . This world’s enemy was telling me that he entered the dungeon of his own volition . He even gave up his world’s power! Though, I guess it wasn’t important to an army of undead .

Thinking about it now, the Death Knight I first faced also seemed to just enjoy fighting without caring about other matters . However, unlike the Death Lord, that Death Knight carried resentment against the dungeon, but perhaps, that was directed at the Death Lord who killed them and dragged them into the dungeon .

“The Dungeon Lord?”

[That person made an offer! To let me fight a powerful enemy capable of defeating me!]

… I took a step forward instinctively . It was a reflexive movement to not be pushed back by the pressure behind his words . The enemy in front of me loved battle more than anyone else I’ve met . Such an enemy was also the most terrifying one .

“You believed in those words and stayed here all this time?”

[Of course . It was meaningless to fight weaklings . ]

“You waited for me . ”

[That’s right . ]

That only implied one thing .

Sherafina knew that I would come here . Me, or some other Savior Hero .

“Well, that’s not too important . ”

My fight with the Demon Lord wasn’t far off . If I could defeat the Death Lord and obtain his power, that would be an incredible boon for me .

“Are you done talking?”

[You don’t seem surprised . ]

“Not really . ”

I grinned and held up my spear .

“Let’s fight then . I like fighting too . ”

Even if I had things to protect, I wouldn’t be so all-out if I didn’t have fun . I shouted .

“Peika, Dortu!”

[Got it!]

[I am Dortu . Commencing nullification . ]

[Good, let’s fight!]

While the Death Lord condensed an enormous amount of mana into his axe, Peika charged straight towards him . At the same time, Dortu began to destroy his armor . Not paying attention to such miscellaneous matters, the Death Lord stared at me and charged towards me . A massive energy was rushing my way!

[Will you dodge it!?]

“Why would I dodge such a weak attack!”

I poured hundreds of thousands of units of mana into my spear and formed a transparent aura . When the Death Lord saw it from a close range, his burning flames in his eyes widened in surprise . However, it was too late . A spear and axe clashed, causing a shockwave powerful enough to tear apart space .

[Kahahahaha! You are the first warrior to ever receive my axe head-on!]

“The Hero of the world you invaded was just weak . ”

With a smirk, I swung my spear once more . The Death Lord’s armor was too unscathed for me to attempt a stab . Dortu was working hard, but it seemed that his armor had quite the resistance .

[Eiit, evil energy, burn!]

On the other hand, Peika also released as much lightning as she could as she bit down on his helmet . The Death Lord’s death energy resisted Peika’s lightning, and his axe weakened as a result . With a strong flick, I struck his axe away before stabbing it with my spear .

“Why don’t you summon something too?”

[I always fight alone!]

“That’s why you’ll lose to me! Crimson Roar!”

After making a stabbing maneuver and forcing the Death Lord to back off, I widened my mouth and let out a roar . The surrounding area immediately became covered in scarlet flames . Flames were just as effective as lightning when it came to burning death energy!

[What a lukewarm flame! Death Crystal!]

“Oh? I like that one!”

Along with his shout, black energy rose up and solidified into a translucent crystal, protecting him from Crimson Roar . I carved the death energy’s movement pattern into my eyes . Then, I raised my spear once and fended off the Death Lord’s incoming axe .

“Like I said, you can’t win!”

[In battle, there’s no such thing as absolute or impossible! Restrain!]

This time, death energy solidified into chains and snaked towards me . Cutting through Crimson Roar’s energy filling up the surrounding space and seemingly unaffected by Peika’s lightning, the death energy chains seemed to want to pierce through my body .

“Good try!”

However, the Death Lord didn’t know a thing about Steel’s power! Strengthened by my mana, Steel let out a dark light that engulfed the chains flying towards me .

“I’ll make good use of them . ”

[What!?]

The Death Lord shouted in surprise . The chains coiled around my arm and began to strangle the Death Lord’s armor on their opposite ends . With a smile, I swung the chains down . About 200,000 mana transformed into aura and flowed into his armor through the chains .

[Kahak!]

The Death Lord coughed out a scream . It seemed these chains even had the ability to amplify the energy they were carrying . When I gave a victorious grin, the Death Lord coughed out a mouthful of dead blood before breaking the chains and bursting out into a laughter .

[Right, such petty tricks won’t work on someone like you! Kuoooooooooo!]

Death energy erupted from all directions . Peika twisted her body and roared in opposition, creating voluminous lightning that scorched the death energy . Nevertheless, the sheer amount of death energy meant that it couldn’t be erased entirely .

Along with Absolute Soul, I once again started Breath of Death . Although Breath of Death didn’t have any levels, the way the Death Lord wielded death energy was in a different realm .

[The energy I obtained by giving up being human, this energy made me stronger . Death is a weapon, a curse, and an armor that hides me from the brilliant light of life . Savior Hero, do you know death?]

“No, I don’t . ”

I retorted lightly .

“But I plan on learning it today . ”

Then, I threw out another Heroic Strike towards the death energy concentrated on him!