Cosmic Peak

*Zooooooooooom...*

The Scythe demon that got berserk zoomed towards Aren at the speed which Aren...could not entirely dodge.

"Arghhhh...Kriiii...," Aren involuntarily let out a scream before gritting his teeth.

[Your left leg is inflicted with cursed demonic flames. The cut-off part of the leg will not heal using normal means.]

Aren's leg from his knee was cut off as he failed to dodge the dash attack of the Scythe demon.

'FUCK, IT HURTS! But...I have to...calm...calm.'

Aren focused on the battle as he endured the pain. He could endure this because of his previous encounter with hellish pain because of his <Painful Glory> ability. His brain was going into overdrive mode as he knew that the situation was extremely dire.

He was currently flying at his full speed and manipulated his gears to attack the Scythe demon. However, his attack couldn't connect to the scythe demon as the demon became significantly better at dodging his attacks.

Aren glanced at the crab-hands shark-head demon who was releasing blood water beams while standing on a large blood water pillar.

His brain was moving at unprecedented speed in this crisis; it was just like when he fought Rotel.

His dodging and flying ability became extremely precise as he made calculations in his brain about the trajectory of the incoming attacks.

He was also using the blood water beams aiming at him to keep a short distance from the scythe demon along with using his gears. Otherwise, that berserk scythe demon would easily kill him.

*badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...badam...*

Aren's heart was beating fast like never before in this intense fight because...

One mistake...and he is doomed.

[3:34]

Three minutes and thirty-four seconds until another two apocalyptic demons are spawned.

While flying, Aren suddenly turned around his body and flew downward.

*splash!*

He landed on the blood sea with his back on, and the scythe demon followed him as well. However, the flying speed of the Scythe demon slowed down because the water resistance impacted the demon's wings.

'It worked,' Aren thought as he took this chance to attack the Scythe demon with hammer, chakram, and sword.

<Hyper Charge> on the hammer.

100 Mutant magic energy consumed to activate the hammer's skill <Impact Burst> as well.

The <Demoni Flame: Zarkhel> still coated his gears as all three attacks connected to the back of Scythe Demon.

Before flying upward to get out of the water at the timing that he calculated, Aren pointed his right hand towards the Scythe Demon and released ten seeds of the <Demonic Grasp> skill.

*Swroooooooooooooo...*

Suddenly like a rocket, the second demon dashed towards Aren, its speed unbelievably fast in the blood sea.

However, Aren was aware that something like that would happen, so he was already going upward while manipulating his gears to attack the Scythe demon.

The moment his attacks connected to the Scythe Demon, he also flew out of the Blood Sea.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.....*

[Swift Scythe Blood Demon killed. 10,000 Exp gained.]

*RUOOOOOOOOOO...*

Once again, the second demon came out of the blood sea while standing on a large water pillar.

Aren coldly looked at as he manipulated his gears to attack the demon while flying rapidly to dodge its water-blood lasers.

He guessed that once this demon's health dropped to half, it would also transform into something more trouble. So he wanted to finish it in one shot after decreasing its health a bit.

Just as his gears reached near the second demon, the demon roared as more blood water shot out of the giant water pillar before turning into a blood water barrier that spun around it.

His chakram and sword were deflected away when they touched the water barrier. At the same time, the hammer also only budged it a bit before getting deflected.

*Zaaaaaaaaaap....*

Two blood water lasers shot out from the barrier as the barrier didn't affect the attacking ability of the demon.

While flying rapidly, Aren decided to use a powerful attack using his hammer by consuming 100 mutant magic energy to activate the <Impact Burst> skill.

He also decided to consume some spirit energy and use the <Heavy Strike> skill using the hammer to increase the damage even more.

The hammer flew towards the demon once again with the chakram and sword following it.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM...SPLAAAT!*

The burning hammer blew away the blood water barrier before the hammer hit the demon.

-11,443

The damage was low since most of it was negated by the blood water barrier.

However, the chakram empowered by the <Hyper Charge> and wreathed in demonic flame hit the demon directly in its neck as Aren manipulated it like that after gaining vision, followed by an attack with the sword at its chest.

-7482! critical strike.

-1145

Aren took back the hammer and chakram after the attack was finished. Still, he manipulated his sword to pierce the demon's chest before forcefully bringing it higher in the sky.

*RUOOOOOOOOOOOOO....*

The demon roared while forcefully being dragged into the sky as he grabbed the sword and tried to pull it out, but Aren's was doing his best to keep the sword stabbed into its chest.

The resistance from the demon trying to pull Aren's sword was impacting Aren heavily as his brain started to hurt immensely.

However, Aren gritted his teeth as he endured and tried his best to keep the demon away from the blood water while bringing it upward in the sky.

Meanwhile, Aren readied his hammer for the final attack to kill the demon.

He only boosted the hammer with buffs as he calculated that it was enough to kill the demon based on his defense numbers stat.

<Hyper Charge> 100 Armalist force.

<Impact Burst> 150 mutant magic energy.

<Heavy Strike> 20 spirit energy.

He also increased the intensity of the <Demonic Flame: Zarkhel> by bringing its consumption to 30 spirit energy per second instead of the usual 10 spirit energy per second.

After a second, his planned attack nearly approached the demon who was in the sky.

Sensing the threat, the demon roared even louder as its crab hands glowed with crimson.

The demon ignored the sword in its chest and brought its hand forward to defend against the large incoming hammer that threatened his life.

'Die,' Aren thought as the hammer buffed with several skills hit the demon with just enough speed that wouldn't break the hammer due to the kinetic force gathered around it.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.....*

[ Hybrid Ocean Demon killed. 10,000 Exp gained.]

Aren looked at the timer and saw that two minutes and twenty seconds were still left until the next two demons spawned.

He looked at his right leg, which had disappeared from his knees, and frowned.

He then looked at his current status.

-Spirit energy pool: [8842/11,350]

-Armalist Force: [530/800]

-M.M Energy: [650/1000]

'If the next two apocalyptic demons are more powerful...,' Aren shook his head and became determined, 'I have to beat them, that's all.'

'Level up!'

[You have leveled up to 22.]

At least, his spirit energy pool and health recovered. However, his cut-off leg was still not cured.

Aren looked at the Heavy Broad Sword before activating Emporio Zone talent and entering inside.

After entering, he hurriedly used the <Breakdown> skill on [Ikaros].

Afterward, he used the blueprint of [One shot] gear to directly create another [One shot] gear using the materials he got after breaking down [Ikaros].

Only 10 seconds were left after Aren finished creating the [One shot] gear as he came out of his Emporio Zone.

'This will be my trump.. If it hits with my full power, one demon will likely get killed instantly,' Aren thought as a heavy metal ball with red patterns on it floated beside Aren along with the giant hammer and chakram.