Free Web NovelChapter 74: Bluffing
Gravisk, seeing that Victor had managed to break through its barrier with that sword that seemed to absorb magic, raised its staff and prepared an attack.
"You’re very good for a mere human! But no matter what kind of freak you are, your destiny now is to be crushed by me!"
Victor didn’t reply with words, instead he swung his sword as the demon’s attack came and he cut the beam of evil energy in half with no problem.
"What?!!" Gravisk was stunned to see Victor do this, because he hadn’t done anything like it until this late stage of the battle, even with Gravisk throwing so many attacks at him and his friends.
Victor landed in front of the demon and raised his head to look it in the eye - after all, he had done just that before. He then rested his sword on his right shoulder and said to Gravisk:
"You talk too much, even for a demon. How about you just sit still so I can kill you? That will save us time, because I’ve already wasted too much time on you."
Gravisk, enraged by Victor’s audacity, channeled its magical power into a series of intense attacks.
Beams of black energy hurtled towards Victor, but, surprisingly, he skillfully began to cut through all the attacks with his sword. Each of those spells was powerful enough to destroy the tower of a castle, but Victor was intercepting and nullifying practically all of those attacks.
The slashing energy beams dissipated into the air, causing only minor damage to the area around them.
"You’re a foolish human!" growled Gravisk, pointing its staff and the amount of spells per second increased, literally turning into spam. "You think you can challenge a demon?! Your sword is no match for my power! It won’t withstand such pressure!"
Victor had a serious expression, and his right arm holding the sword moved at such an absurd speed that normal people wouldn’t be able to see anything but Gravisk’s magical attacks evaporating into thin air.
When a particularly powerful sphere of energy approached, Victor, to show that it wasn’t exactly his sword that was doing it, slapped it with a bare hand, knocking the sphere back in Gravisk’s direction.
The demon was momentarily stunned. He had never seen anyone resist its magic so easily. Then it parried the attack while saying:
"Ho-how... How could you have become immune to my magic?!" Gravisk exclaimed, perplexed.
"Earlier, you had said that when we humans were still jumping from branch to branch, you were already learning magic. However, you must be very stupid indeed, because with thousands and thousands of years of life you never learned about the existence of the Den."
"Den?! What the hell is that? Is it that strange magical energy of the gods that you humans, like that cleric, use? I don’t sense such power in you!" freēwebnovel.com
"If you liked power more than you like the pride of being powerful, you’d know what I’m talking about, but of course I’m not going to explain the concept of Den to a demon. Just know that the power that some humans have achieved since the Age of Heroes is much greater than demons, it’s no longer just heroes who can defeat you." Victor declared and pointed his sword at Gravisk. "Although when I defeat you, my point won’t be proven."
Gravisk wasn’t used to meeting an opponent who not only resisted its spells, but also possessed knowledge of something it didn’t know.
As such, it quickly became very uncomfortable for Gravisk to look at Victor, it was as if, for the first time in its life, Gravisk couldn’t see a way to beat someone.
The demon had tried everything from undead and spirits, to magical barriers, a whirlwind of souls and powerful magical attacks, but none of it had managed to seriously injure Victor or make him stop.
Gravisk felt as if, all this time, Victor had just been overestimating it, analyzing its actions, experimenting and reacting. And even after all that, Victor was standing there in front of it, as if he had adapted perfectly to everything.
’If he were alone, the obsessing spirits would focus on him and I’d have a total advantage, but they’re busy with the vermin that accompany this man...’ Gravisk mentally analyzed.
"What is it? Why are you so quiet? Don’t tell me you’re scared. Come on, get up there. I want to see what else you have to show." Victor said with the debauched tone Gravisk used at first.
Anger bubbled up in the demon’s blood and it gripped its stone staff tightly, but when it went to raise it, its arms locked, because it saw a slight smile appear on Victor’s face. Then its arms trembled and it hesitated, because this was the first time in Gravisk’s life that it felt something worse than concern, it felt fear.
Fear seeped into Gravisk’s thoughts like a silent poison, paralyzing its actions for a brief moment. It had never imagined that it could feel such a sensation.
Since the dawn of its existence, Gravisk had been feared, adored at times, but never challenged as directly and ruthlessly as Victor was doing right now.
The silence that followed between them was clear, and the sounds of the others’ battles against the obsessing spirits dominated the entire room.
Gravisk’s eyes, normally bright with the flame of demonic power, now tried to hide that strange feeling that it could barely describe.
Finally, after a moment that seemed like an eternity, Gravisk broke the silence with a loud, sardonic laugh. freeweɓnovel.cøm
"I understand what you’re doing, human! You think you can make me back down with your little mind games, don’t you? You’re bluffing! You just have some magical artifact that makes you briefly immune to magic! You’re not as strong as you want to seem and I’m going to prove it now!"
Gravisk then began to focus an absurd amount of energy into its staff, creating a sphere of darkness so dense that it seemed to absorb the light around it.
The ground shook under such power, and the air became even heavier with the overwhelming presence of that demonic magic.
