Half of 13’s physique had been blown away by his spell which appeared to have been mirrored at him a number of folds by one thing surrounding the emissary. His near-translucent physique was solely hanging on to life by absorbing the Mana essence round himself.

Spirits have been being attuned to the pure power round them and will simply assimilate their inner Mana with the uncooked and unfiltered essence of the world.

Nevertheless, this was not a simple course of.

As 13 tried to revive his practically exhausted Mana, he regarded to 9 for help as he dragged himself throughout the bottom and bellowed.

“What are you doing? We should always’ve attacked collectively, she’s stronger than what you describe—”

Earlier than he might get the final phrase of his sentence out, the tip of a cane got here crashing into what remained of his head, ending what little grip he had on life.

“I am to take it you are subsequent, Quantity 9…”

Rain smiled as she raised the huge outsized weapon throughout her shoulders however in contrast to the earlier instances, she didn’t stagger because of the awkward weight displacement.

“You did not step in to assist your underlings, I’m wondering why. Had been you scared?”

9’s expression didn’t change as he continued to look at Rain with the identical critical expression on his face.

The air stood nonetheless contained in the fully darkish room but each figures didn’t lose monitor of the opposite as the bottom beneath their toes gave in to the mighty stress as the 2 lunged at one another with such blinding velocity that it took a number of seconds for the sound of the devastating influence his gloved fist made with the battle ax.

Within the blink of an eye fixed, the 2 fighters had switched positions after exchanging a single blow in mid-air.

9 raised his fist as he noticed the minimize the battle ax had made on his magically enhanced gloved that ought to’ve been in a position to stand up to the slash from an precise magic weapon.

“I will admit it. You are fairly robust. Stronger than me at the moment.”

9 spoke as he stared on the shallow minimize between his fingers being healed slowly earlier than returning his consideration again to the emissary.

“Actually, I suppose which means it is best to hand over then. If you happen to give up peacefully I promise it will not harm. Nicely, not a lot anyway.”

“Me, give up? Hahaha… You clearly do not know who you are coping with.”

“I might say the identical about you although. Plus, it is already too late to remorse your actions because you allowed your crew to die so simply.”

“These guys have been ineffective to me the second they did not defeat you.”

9 chuckled as he shrugged his shoulders, revealing a sinister expression within the second.

“You sound so assured for a man who’s ranked final in your little group. Ain’t you the weakest of the bunch.”

A vein visibly bulged on 9’s brow however he selected to restrain himself for now. He silently took a deep breath as he allowed the stress to flee from his clenched fists.

“Me, Weak? That is a pleasant joke. I’ve watched you all through the battle with the others so do not suppose you are doing a great job of hiding your skills by utilizing such a weak weapon. Or did you actually suppose I would not discover.”

“Oh… you observed. I wasn’t actually attempting to cover it you realize. This was extra of an experiment.”

“Nonsense! Let’s examine the weapon you used on 15.”

Saying that the bottom beneath his toes shattered as soon as extra as he shot out like a storm and Rain matched his velocity. A gray aura engulfed his fist as he threw a devastating straight punch on the incoming blade of the battle ax being swung at him.

*BOOM!

The influence shook the complete base, sending shockwaves by means of the partitions and inflicting earthquakes throughout the complete metropolis that might be categorized because the heights magnitude earthquake.

As each fighters exchanged positions as soon as extra, Rain observed the cracks forming on the blade of her weapon because it quickly shattered into numerous items.

“Nicely, that lasted longer than I anticipated. Nonetheless, I do really feel like I’ve expanded my repertoire a bit. I’m wondering if I can get the Weapon Mastery talent if I maintain utilizing totally different weapons?”

Rain tossed the bottom of the damaged battle ax to the aspect as she circled to face 9 with a smirk as she pulled out her black daggers from the void of area.

“Now then, do you actually consider you possibly can defeat me with that degree of power? It is about time you present me what you are hiding as nicely.”

“Hahahaha… I ought to’ve anticipated I could not cover it from you.”

9 laughed sinisterly as he walked over to the place he had plunged his cane into 13’s physique and grabbed it along with his proper hand with out pulling his cane out.

The stream of Mana out of the blue modified round him as Rain’s eyes narrowed on the sight unfolding earlier than her eyes.

The physique of the Spirit being on the bottom had slowly begun to shrivel up as his essence was slowly being sucked into 9’s physique by means of his cane.

In lower than a number of seconds, the physique had fully disappeared and the aura 9’s physique was emitting had elevated considerably. Not solely that, his bodily presence had additionally elevated considerably.

9 slowly let loose an extended sigh of ecstasy as he closed his eyes and fully assimilated the brand new skills he had absorbed inside himself.

“Yeaaaaaaah… Did you actually suppose I dragged these nugatory bums in every single place with me for his or her mediocre skills? Hahahaha… that was your mistake.”

Rain tilted her head a bit puzzled as she watched 9 transfer and take up the essence and physique of his comrades one after the other. With every one he absorbs, he goes by means of a drastic change as his physique grows bigger, his pores and skin will get darker, and his aura skyrockets. n0velusb.c0m

Now standing at a whopping 7ft 7, his tailor-made go well with had been ripped by his enlarged muscular body as a thinly black tail and goat-like horns protruded from the perimeters of his head.

He appears to have reverted into his True Demon kind as his energy elevated quickly, with none indicators of slowing down. This did not appear to be a brief enhance both because it appears each his mana and magic potential has elevated as nicely, one thing thought to have been not possible by even the Nice 5.

The one particular person on this world she had believed might do that was none aside from her grasp, the reincarnation of the Demon King himself.

But, right here was a lowly riff-raff, reaching one thing comparable regardless of his fairly barbaric strategies. If she wasn’t witnessing this herself she would’ve by no means believed it was potential.

In actual fact, she had already refused to consider this consequence when she had seen Quantity 10’s reminiscences of the tough knowledge she had gathered on 9 through the years, as solely the Single Digits would pay attention to his skills, abilities, and objects, all she might do was principally hypothesis from the assorted bits of rumors akd info floating round.

Given her ambitions to rise by means of the ranks and turn into part of the Single Digits, she had devoted herself to discovering out all the pieces she might about them, and the particular person she had essentially the most info on, was Quantity 9 himself.

She had additionally speculated on the assorted potentialities for what his innate skill could be, however this was not a part of the listing so Rain had not anticipated it. Although she knew 9 was hiding most of his powers from the start.

The query now stays. How was he reaching this? Was it a talent? A capability? Or a Magic artifact?

Rain’s eyes naturally wandered to the cane that had grown significantly smaller in his arms because the final choice got here to thoughts.

“What? Attempting to determine my secret? Don’t fret sweetheart, I will inform you—”

The arms holding the cane bent in a well-known movement because the cane was shot out of his hand with an not possible velocity, crossing the space immediately.

“—In spite of everything, you will die quickly anyway!”

**Increase!

Rain barely tilted her head and the cane missed her face by a hair and crashed into the wall behind her like a meteorite. It shattered the wall behind her and continued with its omentum till the cane itself disintegrated.

“What you simply witnessed isn’t the work of any mere artifact. That is my energy because the apex of this world. The one who will someday rule over this universe from the shadows. That is my innate skill, Predator.”

Not losing time, 9 casually swung his fingers on the area between him and Rain, and the air was break up in 4 as an explosive wave sliced by means of all the pieces in entrance of him solely barely lacking Rain on goal.

The smile on Rain’s face didn’t change as she ignored the crumbling base round her and continued regardless of figuring out they might not battle beneath the town it doesn’t matter what.

“You make that sound like a formidable skill but you are still solely ranked ninth in your group. If you happen to might actually develop stronger by merely absorbing others, I am certain you wouldn’t willingly keep within the final place. Regardless of all this, you are still only a barking canine ain’t you.”

Rain swirled her blades as she grinned which apparently appeared to rub 9 the mistaken method as he clicked his tongue and spoke.

“I do not blame you for being ignorant however make no errors, I’ve the best innate skill on this planet. Clearly, I have been chosen by the gods. Do not get it twisted. I’ve merely been bidding my time till I nurture the appropriate targets to prey on.”

“Nurture?”

Rain keenly picked up on the phrase that stood out essentially the most within the barrage of nonsense he was spewing and listening to her repeat that phrase out loud made 9 frown barely earlier than smirking a second later.

“Hehehehe… Nice, you bought me. My skill has a number of drawbacks for it to work, however most of all, I’ve to stalk my goal and study all the pieces I can about them because the apex predators do. The extra I do, the extra of their power and skills I can assimilate, in any other case, I will barely get something.”

Rain lastly understood why this demon was solely as robust as he was until now. He was hiding lots of info however she might determine the remaining from what he had mentioned until now.

The circumstances obligatory for his Predator to activate have been strict and thus, extremely tough for him to realize any significant abilities and skills from his prey making his skill a nugatory imitation and posing no menace to her grasp.

Nonetheless, she couldn’t allow the continual existence of anybody claiming to be the rightful ruler of this world. Whilst a passing remark, that assertion was unforgivable.

With that, Rain was finished speaking and there was not any have to ask main and provocative questions, her complete physique leaned ahead as she instantly disappeared from view.

“Sufficient discuss, it is time you di—”

Earlier than 9 might full his sentence, a tiny palm compared to his now-massive face had lined his imaginative and prescient as his environment immediately modified and his huge physique was tossed accross the wilderness, burning below a blazing pink sky even if it had nonetheless been the midnight a second in the past.