Still Loved Even In The New World
CHAPTER 160: Demonic Lord.

To my surprise, the Aether in this place is very dense, much denser than a special training ground. In addition to the dense Aether, there was also a cruel mana that was extremely eroding and destructive.

This cruel mana was different from where in general, they were more cruel and bloody. A cruel mana like this would contaminate normal mana and make normal mana turn into cruel mana. A living being that absorbed mana essence like this would be demonized and turned into a demon whose consciousness was degraded until it would become a bloodthirsty being and only knew how to create damage.

I walked slowly while watching around. It is like a dead city that has been abandoned for a long time. Many large trees were growing and their roots were destroying the structure of the city. Buildings made of sturdy material have been severely damaged by the wild plants and moss that grow on them.

The knights escorting me, they split into two rows positioning me in the middle. Okay, they are so blocking my vision, My body is only 1.3 meters tall, how can it be compared to the sisters who are almost two meters tall?!.

Well at least I'm very grateful at the moment. The first time to move to this body, the height is only comparable to that of children aged 6-7 years who are very short for nine years in general. Luckily, after absorbing the essence of Moon Phoenix Blood, my body structure has been perfected.

Although my vision was blocked, but with my mental strength, I was able to clearly know the surrounding conditions. The city is really very spacious that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. This vast city was completely abandoned, was this related to this cruel mana?.

Filia:"All spread!."

"Yes!."

With a single blink, those knights had gone in different directions. I didn't go too far, I just needed to wait for the information the knights returned to me while waiting for the researcher to arrive at this place.

It didn't take long, the researchers had arrived in the city safely. As I expected, on the way, they encountered many monsters that had been contaminated by this cruel mana and turned into demon beasts.

This was very common when there was an invasion of the Abyssal Demon. I was wondering why the underground city, which was free from the beast attacks on the surface, had to build a wall that was this strong to surround the city.

Now I know the cause. The walls built to surround the city were not used to resist the waves of ferocious beasts, but were used to protect the city from the invasion of the Abyssal Demon and the bloodthirsty Demon Beast. It was only fitting that in this city had an extremely dense accumulation of ruthless mana.

However, even though the ruthless mana in this place was extremely dense, they were unable to affect the aether that was in the air. After all, aether and mana are two different levels.

Graoooo....!

The sound of an extremely loud beast roar suddenly came from one corner of the city. After that roar appeared, like a domino, another roar also followed and made the entire city and forest become extremely noisy. Various roars of ferocious beasts echoed throughout the place.

"Your Majesty, a horde of Demonic Beasts are starting to arrive at us."

A knight ran over and immediately reported what had happened. Hearing the report, I immediately widened the mental power network to find out the surroundings within a ten square kilometer radius. Countless Demonic Beasts were running towards us from both inside and outside the city. But what attracted the most attention was a Demonic Beast that made that call to summon another Demonic Beast.

It was a bear-like beast with many white bone spurs on its back, like a hedgehog that was about seven meters tall was white with a purple-red aura around it.

Filia:"Prepare, a Berserker-type Demonic Lord has been found."

Demonic Lord, the name for a Demonic Beast or Abyssal Demon which was Tier four. Of all types, besides evolvers, berserker types are the most troublesome types. With the berserk abilities he had, that Demonic Beast could raise all of his stats, and worse, we wouldn't know how much his stats would increase before the beast unleashed its skill. So that way, it would be very difficult to guess how powerful the Demonic Beast was, even though I can see its entire stats.

Although there were more researchers than knights, but none of the Moon Palace members had no combat skills. It could be said that all the members of Moon Palace were the combat specialists behind their side jobs. So, as soon as they heard my orders, they immediately executed it and entered a battle state.

Rubidea:"Big... It's been a long time since I've wanted to make a move, finally the opportunity came."

A girl with a large sword and fiery red colored hair said excitedly as she swung her sword.

Rubidea is the fourth of five Southern Cross Sisters. She has a slightly rebellious personality and a very passionate girl. She is described as a 16-year-old girl with long, curly red hair.

Philia:"Rubidea, lead the others to fight."

Rubidea:"As you wish, Your Majesty."

Led by Rubidea, the army soon formed a large circle and awaited the arrival of the Demonic Beasts. I realized that in the city's protected area it wasn't allowed to fly.

Philia:"Rubidea, keep your distance from the main army and fight with the Demonic Lord."

If Rubidea were to fight the Demon Lord around the main army, then, the impact of the fight between Tier four and Tier five would affect a large area and the impact of the damage would affect my own troops so that the losses of my troops would increase.

Rubidea took a long distance from the main army, she went towards the direction the Demonic Lord's voice was coming from. Of course I have to follow him. After all who would be the opponent this time around was a Berserker-type Demonic Lord who was unfathomable. So I need to get ready to give him help anytime I need it.

A moment later, the roars of those thousands of Demonic Beasts came from all directions. From the hidden inner city to the corners of the forest, almost everywhere there were many Demonic Beasts flaunting their claws and fangs towards my troops.

In an instant, my army was already under siege by the Demonic Beasts, even the huge gates of this city were still crowded with monsters trying to squeeze in, he said, it was as if they were impatient to immediately devour our fresh meat.

The entire body of the Demonic Beast was enveloped by a sort of dreary purple-red aura with glowing red eyes that were extremely striking even in a bright environment.

Seeing that those thousands of Demonic Beasts only consisted of Tier zero Demonic Beasts up to several Tier three tails, I felt relieved and could trust my troops that even though they were outnumbered, I was outnumbered, but they will be able to defeat the brainless Monster.

After I made sure that no one was strong enough to defeat my troops, I could breathe a sigh of relief and instantly accelerate my pace to follow Rubidea who was running vigorously while laughing.

Seeing us running towards them, the Demonic Beasts who were in our path both roared impatiently and immediately rushed towards us with great ferocity. There were almost a thousand of them who blocked our path. Those Demonic Beasts ran towards us like hungry wolves.

Rubidea immediately held the great sword that was beside her back with one hand. The sword was slightly taller than his own body by a width of one inch. The body of the sword was pitch-black with many fire-red runes flashing like magma on it.

As soon as Rubidea's hand touched the handle of the blade, the runes on it became increasingly bright. Without many words, Rubidea immediately swung the heavy sword horizontally with one hand towards the swarm of hungry monsters that were running towards us.

«Bone Burning Slash»

A crescent-shaped red light shot out rapidly towards those monsters. Without any time to react, the entire monster was immediately passed by the light of the sword slash and cut off very neatly. But that's not the only thing that's the most frightening. Less than a quarter of a second after they were slashed, his corpse instantly decomposed into ashes without the slightest remnant.

The sword light did not immediately stop, but instead continued to the back of the monster line and crashed into an ancient building made of stone. Instantly, the building was immediately destroyed with a huge explosion. And because of the extremely high temperatures, the flakes from the rocks and sand that flew immediately melted and became a rain of molten rock that inflicted sustained area damage on the surrounding monsters.

The low-level monsters suffered various burns due to the splashing of the molten rock, but that splash of molten rock was unable to create any damage to the other high-level monsters.

When the fight in this area started, my troops in the back had also started fighting with the thousands of ferocious monsters. Their research clothes have long changed with weapons and armors of various models and colors.

The monsters were densely packed into the entire corner of the outer city, but with Rubidea leading the way, the two of us ran straight through the waves of monsters like Moses splitting the seas with his staff.

Nonetheless, the gap Rubidea made was immediately filled back by those monsters without fear of death. I don't need to expend skills just to fight those low-level monsters. The fire and lightning that surrounded my body was enough for me to turn those who were approaching into flying ashes.

The further we ran, the more monsters we faced also got stronger.Tier two and three monsters started to appear and block our way forward.

Rubidea:

«Domain:The Cursed Land of Ashes»

A one-kilometer diameter circle soon formed around Rubidea. The area, which was originally covered by solid black rocks full of moss, has now turned into very hot gray sand with lava flows in various places. This is the domain owned by Rubidea «The Cursed Land of Ashes».

The Cursed Land of Ashes was a domain where the world only contained hot ash and lava. It has a negative environmental influence where any opposing player entering this domain will receive combustion damage from the environment. Also, due to the hot ambient temperature, then the opponent's stamina will continue to decrease faster than usual.

In addition, because everything consists of ash and no solid ground, it will basically affect the movement of the opponent, especially movements that require momentum from a solid ground pedestal such as running or jumping.

For yourself, this domain can enhance the fire and earth attributes of Rubidea and weaken the attributes belonging to opponents, especially the attributes of wood and water.

«Sharing Authority»

It is usually impossible for others to have authority over the domains of others. But, with Rubidea sharing her Authority with me, I also have control over this domain.

I felt that the fire attribute inside my body became more turbulent and strengthened several times.

Rubidea:"Sha.... Come and be ashes before me."

The monsters instantly flooded the domain field of Rubidea like a tsunami that hit the land. However once they set foot into the domain territory, their movements slowed down and even the Tier two monsters below instantly fell to the ground due to the suddenly unstable footing and spiritual pressure from Rubidea's higher life level. The monster's body smoky continuously, the monsters' skin peeling and burning blisters.

However, before those low-level monsters could struggle to stand up or shout, they had died from being trampled by other monsters running into the domain in a hurry. Most of the deaths were not caused by the domain, but some of the deaths from the monsters were because they fell and were trampled by other monsters.

Despite this, there were still very many monsters that kept running towards us. Without waiting for them to reach out to us, Rubidea had run with her greatsword and slashed through those monsters like she was mowing weeds.

The rotten reddish-purple blood immediately soaked the ash below and made the ash become bloody mud. But due to the extremely hot environment, the blood instantly vaporized into fog and disappeared without a trace.

No matter which direction the monster attacked from, Rubidea could still see it as if she had eyes all over her body.

This is one of the other uses of the domain, namely perception. No matter how weak or small it is, as long as it enters the domain area, then the domain owner will be able to feel it. It's like human skin. Although humans could not see their backs, as long as even an ant crawled on the skin of their backs, it would definitely feel them.

It wasn't just Rubidea who was busy fighting monsters. Even on my side are also very many monsters that advance without a second thought. Since most of them are Tier two monsters and below, so I also don't need to fight too hard. Most Tier three monsters targeted Rubidea who was stronger and more dangerous than me.

Somehow I feel a little underestimated by this brainless monster.

A slender silver sword appeared in my hand. This sword emitted an extremely soft white light like moonlight.

«Epic Tier Weapon: Wuye Yueliang»

«Wind Sword Technique: Technique 1: Bamboo Forest Wind»

I immediately ran towards the group of monsters and started slashing. No matter how much and fast those monsters are, they cannot touch me at all. Slash by slash, incision by incision, the monsters started to get injured and bleed. Each sword move was extremely smooth and gentle. No matter how many monsters gathered, the sword could pass through every crack and make wounds on their bodies, as if a gust of wind passed through the bamboo forest along with the soft whistling sound of each crack.

Perhaps the Wounds did not directly kill high-level monsters, but with the increasingly accumulated wounds and the bleeding effect of this sword was enough to kill the enemy slowly and painfully.

Over time, more and more monsters fell under my feet with many incision wounds on their bodies. Demonic Beasts had extremely powerful recovery, but their recovery came from absorbing the ruthless mana in the air.

Bleeding effect itself can continue to reduce the opponent's hp continuously and the effect will be stronger with the more incisions given. Moreover, the holy moonlight on this sword was the best killer for Demonic Beasts since the incision from this moonlight sword could weaken the ruthless mana in the monster's body, with that, their regenerative effects will also slow down. Of course the effects of the sword were limited, but at least this would kill them more easily.

Looking at the many monsters that were getting uprooted, suddenly three Tier three monsters appeared and directly attacked me from all three directions. This was not intelligence, but rather just the instinct of their ferocious beasts trying to avoid losses so that they would intuitively attack the opponent from their weakest point.

«Wind Sword Technique: Technique 4: Gugur» Leaves

This technique is a body movement technique that will maximize agility and allow the user to avoid many attacks such as falling leaves that swing with the wind and are difficult to hit.

«Wind Sword Technique: Technique 2:Wind Ribut»

With a single slash, the strong wind along with the sword blades mixed within instantly blew those monsters away and slashed their bodies.

«Racial Magic: Eternal Flame»

«Wind Sword Technique: Technique 3: Tornado»

A silver white flame with a golden thunderstorm immediately enveloped my body and sword. I swung my sword into a full 360⁰ circle, forming a whirling tornado.

The tornado spun very fast, inside the tornado there were also many wind blades ready to tear apart the enemies trapped inside and turn them into minced meat. The tornado also brought a silver-white firestorm and expanded even more with me as the center.

All the enemies that were around me were sucked in according to the bernoulli effect and were instantly engulfed by those tens of meters tall fire tornadoes. Neither Tier three monsters nor below had time to cast their skills nor magic before the tornado swallowed them. Especially in the absence of dense land within this domain, so those monsters could not find the grip of the tornado's suction.

Graoooo's...

Roarrs...

...

Various monster roars were immediately heard, but were fueled by the thundering sounds of fire and lightning. It should only be that with the sword technique it would not be able to kill them, but in addition to Racial Magic, those monsters would burn into flying ash.

As the tornado gradually stopped, many ashes flew out and several pieces of bronze-colored monster bones fell into the ashes. The ones that could survive the attack were the valuable materials from the monsters, so these would be collected. With a wave of hands, all of those items went straight into my storage.

I looked around and saw Rubidea rampaging and burning all the monsters that attacked her to ashes while laughing happily. That's why I didn't allow him to go to the Dragonists Kingdom and quell the rebellion in the capital. If I release it to that place, the entire capital will turn to ashes.

Roarr....!!

Loud screams echoed in the battlefield. As I turned to the origin of the sound, suddenly a huge claw appeared before my eyes. In this urgent time, I instantly used my soul power to protect my body from that huge slap.

Bang...!

A big slap hit my body. I just felt that I had just been hit by a high-speed vehicle that directly threw my body.

My head feels spinning. I was thrown at high speed like a cannonball and hit a building a few kilometers away from where I was. The entire stone building instantly exploded and collapsed along with the surrounding buildings.

Uhuk...

A mouthful of golden red blood came out from my mouth and fell to the ground. Due to the effects of the extremely violent impact, the area around me formed a fairly wide crater. If it wasn't for my clothes being high-tier armor, I might have been crushed into minced meat.

From the outside of the domain, I couldn't see the difference from other places, all I could see was a thin, transparent layer within which hordes of monsters and Rubidea were still fighting.

Looking far away to where I was standing, I saw a huge bear with two heads seven meters high. His entire body was covered by an exoskeleton of white bones with many bone spurs on his back. Its claws were as white as pearls and were very long and sharp as daggers.

Like Demonic Beasts in general, his entire body was surrounded by a purple-red aura from which ruthlessly accumulated.

Shit, I'm off guard. I was completely unaware of the monster's arrival even within the domain. This is a very, very rare event and almost impossible to happen.

«Grumpy Bone Bear» (The Silent Ripper)

Unique Skill: Absolute Silence.

Damn, it was a monster with a title. It's worse than I thought. It was only fitting that he was able to avoid the perception of the domain, it was the effect of his unique skill that was able to block all perceptions and make him able to move without being noticed by his prey in a short time. In other words, it was a unique skill that was perfect for sneak attacks.

I immediately ran and jumped over the monsters that were all around me. I jumped towards the tall building a few kilometers away from the location of Rubidea and the monster faced each other.

Rubidea:"That's presumptuous. How dare a monster like you injure His Majesty. I'm gonna kill you."

A bright red flame was burning around Rubidea. The temperature increased and the red flames turned blue and subsequently turned into a light blue that was almost bleached. The surrounding demon beasts instantly turned into ash and sank into the lava formed by the melting ground.

Rubidea immediately shot up and dashed towards the monster while swinging her greatsword using both hands. Not to be outdone, the monster also roared towards Rubidea and slashed its pearl-white claws in the ocean.

A bluish flame light and a murky white light clashed, creating an extremely powerful air wave that made a ruin in the surrounding area. Even the buildings and all the monsters within a one kilometer radius were blown away by that shockwave.

The bear with the title was truly powerful, but how could Tier four fight Tier five?!. As I expected, the monster was immediately thrown backwards and destroyed everything in its path. The front of the bone armor and the monster's claws burned into a black coke with an unpleasant smell.

But a Tier four monster was Tier four. Such wounds cannot cause fatal injuries to his body and can be instantly healed with a short time.

«Great Sword Technique: Slash of a Thousand Burning»

Without waiting for the monster to stand among the ruins, Rubidea darted straight towards him and slashed out the sword covered by the light blue flames.

Bangs....

Graoo...

The slash caused an explosion and instantly threw the monster into the distance. Not stopping there, Rubidea continued to launch attacks berbubi.

One slash...

Two slashes...

Three slashes...

...

Countless slashes continued to hit the monster in midair, causing numerous explosive sounds and swaying the monster like a volleyball. His bone armor and spurs shattered and burned, making the monster look extremely miserable.

Rubidea:"Thousand...!."

Bangs...The explosion...!!

Rubidea slashed at the monster while it was still at high altitude with an extremely powerful attack, making the monster flung to the ground like a meteor, causing it to crash, it creates a huge crater that melts the surrounding soil due to the extremely hot temperatures.

The monster situation is very bad. His entire armor had been cracked and his skin and flesh were burnt. Worse, his right arm and right head were on fire revealing flesh that turned into charcoal with bubbling boiling blood, spreading the scent of charred flesh into the air.

Roaring.....!!!.

The entire ruthless mana in the air instantly gathered towards the monster like a flood. A reddish purple veil enveloped the monster's body and healed its wounds.

As long as one head remained, the monster could grow another head that had been damaged. His entire badly injured body healed very quickly. Even his armor that had been smashed to pieces had grown back, but this time the armor was different from the previous one. His armor turned into a bronze color with bone spurs that turned to resemble sparkling bronze metal spears.

Graoooo....!!

The monster roared and a red purple magic circle formed around it. From the magic circle appeared countless number of bronze spears four meters long. The spears flew towards Rubidea at sonic speed.

The sound of a spear piercing through the air at sonic speed made the ears buzz. To deal with the attack, Rubidea swung her greatsword and fended off the spear that flew towards her.

Clang... Clang...!

The sound of metal clashing echoed in the air in Sagala direction. There were thousands of spears at such an incredible speed that it pushed Rubidea backwards.

A few minutes later, the attack stopped. But, before Rubidea took a breath, the monster leaped towards her and landed a crushing blow towards Rubidea thus making her flung far back, destroying everything she went through.

Roars....!

The monster roared towards the thrown Rubidea, as if mocking the Rubidea he defeated.

However, after the dust settled, Rubidea's figure stood among the ruins quietly and wiped away the dust trail in her armor.

Rubidea:"A hopeless attack."

The light blue flames lit up much stronger around his body, eating an area of several meters. But unlike before, the fire began to shrink and form a protective sheath around his body, as if his body had been coated by a light blue light without the slightest trace of fire.

It was not because the fire disappeared, but rather the fire solidified inwards and the temperature continued to rise.

The light blue flame turned white and switched again to a gloomy gray color with a terrifying temperature.

Rubidea:"I admit that you are strong enough for a Tier four monster. Maybe you can live for hundreds of thousands more years, but baby, you made an irreversible mistake, presumptuously to His Majesty."

Although Rubidea knew that her words would not be understood by the monster, but she continued to speak to the monster like a judge giving the final decision.

«Fire Sword Technique: Infernus Ignis»

Rubidea darted very fast towards the monster, she darted through the sound speed barrier and carried a white, grey tail like a comet. In the blink of an eye, the distance of several kilometers instantly closed.

Rubidea:"Death..!"

He swung his sword fiercely towards the monster without holding back its strength.

Bangs... The explosion...!

Along with that slash that touched the monster, a dazzling white light instantly illuminated a vast area with Rubidea as its center. The light was instantly extinguished as if sucked into the center, making the world become silent.

However, the silence lasted less than a billionth of a second and was followed by a massive explosion like a hydrogen bomb. Shock waves and heat waves swept out in all directions ferociously, burning and vaporizing monsters close to the area.

Because the light was too bright, I closed my eyes and blocked my eyes with my hands. I could feel the shock waves and hot air coming at me, but this kind of temperature could still be put up with my defense.

As I opened my eyes and saw the impact of the attack, I noticed that an area of about five kilometers had been wiped clean and turned into magma that melted with high temperatures. Rubidea stood between the hot lava with her red hair still fluttering. The monster had already disappeared and left behind some faintly glowing dark bronze-colored fragments.

Die... Really dead.

Rubidea sighed and picked up the loot left behind by the monster then came towards me quickly while handing over the booty.

Rubidea:"Your Majesty."

Although Rubidea often behaved like a spirited and self-absorbed child, under certain circumstances she would also be as serious as a knight.

He kneeled towards me while handing over the piece of monster bone he had in his hand.

Filia:"Good job Rubidea, my knight."

Rubidea:"Yes, Your Majesty."

Although it was a simple compliment, Rubidea's face showed immense happiness with her ruby-red eyes sparkling.

After telling Rubidea to stand up, I looked around the ruins. The monsters that survived, they had lost their leader so the instinct of fear began to overwhelm them. The monsters started to run chaotically towards the forest and disappeared among the tree shadows.

Fight's over...

(The end of this chapter)

Because long time no update, so I'll give you more words.

Oh, I also didn't show many powerful weapons in this chapter so that the scarcity of those weapons could be seen. I also want to recreate the weapon sequence to make it easier to understand.

Weapons from the lowest:

Rubbish.

Usual.

Rarities.

Super Rare.

Epic.

Legendary.

Divinely.

Items and materials are of the same level, so the list above is also the same for materials.