ALL NOVEL Chapter 1344: Curse's Gamble
Chapter 1344: Curse's Gamble
"Goddess Sylphy is safe, thankfully..."
Ivy sighed in relief, feeling the powers of Bark flowing through her body, she had already shed too many tears, and her new enhanced body didn't allow her anymore.
His essence, his memories, and even his techniques flowed through her entire being, as they fused with her own original abilities, creating something new.
She could still hear his voice before, but now, he had gone completely mute... As if he wasn't there anymore.
Ivy didn't try to call for him anymore, fully knowing that Bark intended to help her fight this thing, and perhaps, to even defeat it.
Everything had happened so fast, she wished she could have been told beforehand that she would lose someone that she wished she could have gotten to know better...
"You only appreciate something when you lost it..." Ivy sighed.
"RAAAAHHH! GET OUT OF MY WAY!"
With a furious roar, the fourth True Demon swung his giant claws against Ivy, who had stopped him with her bare wooden hands before. With the power to tear through anything, it swung them down, clashing against her.
"{Divine Spirit Knight Armor}"
FLUOSH!
Her entire body was reinforced as her armor became even tougher, made of a hardened wood to the point it became like black metal.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
With it, she resisted the incoming blows while putting her arms in front of her face and chest, her body was barely being pushed back.
"How are you so tough?! You're just a walking plant!"
The furious True Demon roared, opening his hideous jaws to charge a powerful black beam of demonic energy, and firing it at her.
"Just a plant? Not anymore..."
Ivy's eyes opened, overflowing with gold and green light, spiritual energies gathered in her hands, the memories of Bark gave her knowledge and powers beyond what the huntress could have ever thought she could achieve.
"{Spiritual Sword Manifestation}"
FLAAASH!
Suddenly, her body twisted as she grew another pair of wooden arms, and four swords made of crystalized spiritual energy materialized, which she wielded with all four of her hands.
"{Spirit Swordsmanship Arts}: {Elemental Storm}"
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Four slashes were unleashed, followed by dozens at the same time, the beam of the True Demon reached Ivy, only to be sliced apart into countless of pieces by the immense power she unleashed.
BOOOM!
"What?! You sliced through my demonic breath?!"
The True Demon was left speechless, he had never thought possible for someone to do that, even less the measly little mortals of this world!
"I told you I wasn't a normal plant! Bark is with me! I am not even the same dumb girl than before...!" Ivy roared. "I've changed... And I'll change even more for him...! Because that idiot... That idiot trusted me his dream!"
Ivy cried as she rushed forward, swinging her four swords as she crashed head-on against a Demon comparable to a Tier 9 monster, if not stronger!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Her sword techniques kept being unleashed one after another, downward slashes, vertical slashes, spinning slashes, and several explosive arrows coming from her shoulders, shaped as bows that fired her magic rose arrows.
The True Demon also unleashed all his powers, his giant claws overflowed with black colored demonic energy, clashing against her immense defenses and power at the same time as he intercepted her Rose Bomb Arrows with his own Demonic Beams, emerging from demonic pentagram-like magic circles he could materialize with ease.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"T-This damned plant! How is it capable of withstanding my blows and intercept them so sharply?!" the True Demon thought. Its appearance wasn't for nothing, this being was actually a Retainer of a Demon Duke which had been sent here to scout the situation. "I can't waste my time with her! I must return to the Demon Gate and tell my masters about the situation!"
He suddenly opened his jaws, releasing a giant beam of demonic energy and forcing Ivy into a defensive state, fusing her four swords into a huge wooden and crystalline shield that protected those behind her.
BOOOM!
"Dammit, he's running away?!"
She was too late to realize the True Demon immediately ran back to the Demon Gate. And then, something, a voice, or perhaps an intuition, told her something.
"Catch him, Ivy! That Demon is probably some sort of scout, if he goes back... He'll tell his masters to come here!"
"Bark?!"
Ivy asked for him by calling his voice, yet there was no response.
He seemed there sometimes, and other times he wasn't.
It was strange, but she nodded, rushing forward with all her strength.
She was a huntress; she could hunt a demon if she put her mind into it.
"I'm too slow, I need to... Ah, this is it!"
Her new body allowed her for an amazing shapeshifting ability, using her second pair of arms, she covered them with feather-like leaves, flying into the skies and then rapidly
descending towards the demon.
"Where do you think you're going?!"
Her legs transformed into giant, sharp bird-like talons, piercing the True Demon's skin and flesh and dragging him back, before throwing him away from the Demon Gate.
CRAAASH!
"W-What...?! How dare you, a mere mortal, to drag me back!"
The six-armed demon roared furiously, rushing towards Ivy while running on four legs, his
two first arms with giant pincers opened, trying to grab and tear her down.
And it somewhat managed, grabbing her wings and breaking them.
Crack, crack... CRASH!
"Ugh!"
"Hahahah! If you want to fight me so badly, so be it! I am not a Retainer of a Demon Duke for
nothing, foolish plant lifeform!"
That he tried to run away didn't meant he was weak, not at all.
He was simply very loyal to his masters.
However, if he was pushed to a corner, the aberrant True Demon would bare its fangs.
"Can you truly take me on?!"
He rushed towards her rapidly, his entire body suddenly crackling and rumbling, black demonic lightning surging and then being released from its claws, hitting Ivy instantly!
BOOOM!
"Ivy!" Sylphy panicked. "I have to help her... Ugh...! Fine, Curse, let's begin this! I'll... fucking
shatter my Spirit Heart!"
"Very well... Then let's begin, Sylphy!" Curse roared. "I'll give it my all to save you, so you better fulfill my purpose, and the dream of the Demon King that created me... Kill the Gods!"
FLUOSH!