A Demon's Journey

After 5 or so minutes, Azaroth reached Kloras Town through the forest.

He used his sensing ability to limit and search for the group of warriors led by Brynn Gaynor.

He found that they had formed some sort of formation, and Brynn Gaynor led them. Peter's presence was nowhere near them.

Azaroth felt a warrior near Abyssal Hound, and it seemed that they were already fighting.

A broad smile appeared on Azaroth's face as he sensed how the beasts had absolutely demolished this town.

Even as he gazed around while standing above a high building, he saw the corpses of the people all around them.

Dark Ardor moved towards Azaroth, and his body unconsciously absorbed that dark energy. Azaroth's demonic transformation became even more powerful…

Azaroth stopped utilizing the Heavenly Demon Meditation Technique as he didn't want to absorb this dark energy just yet.

The potential of this dark energy was much greater… Absorbing it all now would be a waste.

"First, I need to deal with that man Peter," Azaroth spoke with a frown on his face as he sensed the battle between Peter and Abyssal Hound.

He could feel that the man named Peter was dominating the fight right now.

Azaroth used multiple Phantom Steps and immediately disappeared in that direction, ignoring the other human warriors.

He ignored them all because no matter what they do, they were bound to die.

After all, the Three-Eyed White Wolf was going to join this battle very soon.

In about a minute, Azaroth reached the location where he witnessed Peter in white robes, holding a brown-colored flute in his hand.

Meanwhile, he saw the Abyssal Hound jumping around and dodging Peter's attacks.

Azaroth was slightly shocked when he saw the weapon in Peter's hands. A flute…?

Azaroth had personally experienced a tough battle against the warriors who commanded sound powers.

It was even more exaggerated for the Abyssal Hound as his senses were much more enhanced than humans. The sound attacks were super effective against him.

The power, range, and speed of the sound-based attacks were quite impressive.

Azaroth clicked his tongue as he observed this situation 'Sophie's father really chose an appropriate person to guard his daughter. Dealing with this man is quite troublesome in itself. Because of his control over sound and vibration, he can even deal with two 5 Star Beasts at the same time.'

If someone looked from a distance, they would notice how there was not a single injury on Peter, and the Abyssal Hound's body had multiple injuries as it bled profusely.

Suddenly, Azaroth's eyes focused on the blood falling on the ground.

He was slightly confused as he saw all that much of Abyssal Hound's blood on the ground.

'The Abyssal Hound possesses great control over the demonic element. Why is it not healing its body using the demonic element? Considering the amount of death energy around him, it's easy for him to use the demonic element to heal himself to full health.'

Soon enough, Azaroth realized what the Abyssal Hound was doing.

A thin smile appeared on Azaroth's face as he thought 'I see… I nearly forgot that the soul within this Abyssal Hound is that of an Array Grandmaster rarely seen even in the Purgatory. Looks like he is trying to create a strong barrier that suppresses Peter's abilities using his own blood.'

Azaroth continued to observe the fight for some more time and noticed that Peter's eyes were also on the lookout for all that blood.

'This guy doesn't exactly understand what the Abyssal Hound wants to do, but he seems prepared to deal with it.'

Peter was holding the flute with both of his hands, and each time he blew air in it, mysterious energy was released from one of its ends.

Sometimes it was sharp needles that targeted the Abyssal Hound, or sometimes it was a wave of sound energy, and sometimes, it was just a strong shockwave that threw the Abyssal Hound away.

The Abyssal Hound dealt with those attacks using its own demonic power. Sometimes nullifying it or letting out a stream of hot demonic flames. Its prominent ability to deal significant physical damage couldn't be used as Peter didn't let the Abyssal Hound get close to his body.

As Peter attacked the Abyssal Hound once again. This time, his attack consisted of multiple invisible threads of energy.

Azaroth could see those invisible threads using his Mystic Eyes of Perception.

'Those threads consist of strong spiritual energy as well as wind elemental powers. It will not only tear apart the Abyssal Hound's body but also his spirit. Looks like I need to help him out.'

Before those invisible waves of energies could strike Abyssal Hound's body, multiple dark wisps targeted them. It hardly resisted for a second, but this was enough time for the Abyssal Hound to look at them and dodge that attack.

Naturally, this sudden attack out of nowhere surprised Peter as well. He whispered with a low voice, "Someone else is here. Moreover, he found out about my hidden attack and even intercepted it."

A determined look appeared on Peter's face as he placed one of the open ends of his flute against his lips and blew into it.

Nothing seemed to have occurred, but as Peter opened his eyes, he raised his hand and pointed his finger on the building where Azaroth was standing, "You should get down. I know you are there."

Azaroth knew that his earlier action had compromised his location, but he was ready for it.

'Phantom Step!'

Instead of getting down and having a frontal fight against Peter, Azaroth changed his location.

Before Peter could use his flute to figure out his location, the Abyssal Hound suddenly attacked him.

Peter jumped back and narrowly dodged that claw that was empowered by demonic ardor.

And just as Peter was getting ready to attack Abyssal Hound, multiple dark spheres targeted him from his left.

Peter immediately blew into his flute and created a barrier around himself. This barrier was struck by those dark spheres, but it effortlessly resisted them.

Peter slowly landed on the ground, and a grim look appeared in his eyes. He could foresee his defeat if he kept on fighting in this manner…

His main priority was to bring that other person in the open and deal with the Abyssal Hound and him simultaneously.

However, this was proving more than a challenge for him as when he was about to target the other person hidden in the shadows, the Abyssal Hound would attack. And while he was dealing with the Abyssal Hound, the person hidden in the shadows would interrupt him.

Their coordination was nothing less than bothersome for Peter.

Peter continued to jump back for a couple of seconds before taking a deep breath and blew all that air into his flute.

Suddenly, an ear-splitting sound was heard that paralyzed all the beasts in a 100 meters radius of Peter.

Azaroth had already prepared a counter-measure for that, but this sound attack was much stronger than his defense. His demonic energy barrier slowly shattered as the intense vibrations struck his body.

Peter turned his head in his direction and whispered, "So there you are!"

He still had no idea about Azaroth's identity, but he had sensed his strong demonic energy.

"You are the perpetrator who initiated this Beast Raid, right?" Peter continued to gaze in that direction as he asked this question.

Azaroth kept his mouth shut as he was sure that no matter how well he changed his voice, he wouldn't be able to fool a warrior whose abilities were related to sound.

His identity would be revealed in a second.

"Looks like you are not in a mood for talking. I need to bring you out in the open and ask you by my style." Peter spoke as he placed his flute against his lips.

"Green Jade Song."

As soon as this sound was heard, Azaroth felt as if his entire world was shaking.

For some moments, he thought it was merely an illusion. But when he increased the output of demonic energy, he realized that this was not an illusion.

This song from Peter seemed to be resonating with different particles and making them shake violently.

Azaroth could feel his own internal organs shaking slowly, injuring themselves in the process.

As his body was shaking, Azaroth grabbed hold of his left hand with his right hand and gritted his teeth, "HAAAAH!"

He lit up his own body with the Hell Flames and forcefully destroyed any and all sound particles that neared his body.

With this method, he prevented any further damage to his own body. However, many of his vital organs had already been damaged. Especially his heart and lungs…

Currently, Azaroth found it difficult to remain standing as he whispered, "Even after enhancing this human body so greatly through the Heavenly Demon Transformation Technique, its internal organs are still so frail. I need to do something about this."

He vomited a mouthful of blood as his demonic aura all but disappeared. Azaroth turned his head towards the battle and saw how the Abyssal Hound was in an even worse shape.

Unlike Azaroth, who possessed the Hell Flames, the Abyssal Hound had barely created a weak array barrier using his Ardor.

However, his own Ardor also shook because of that Green Jade Song and unleashed a relentless attack on the Abyssal Hound.

The Abyssal Hound's body was down on the ground as it continued to leak blood.

Peter stared at that Abyssal Hound's body and looked surprised as he felt some signs of life in this Abyssal Hound. He slowly regained his calmness as he whispered, "As expected of a demon beast. You still possess this much vitality even while being injured to this extent."

Peter then turned his head towards Azaroth's direction and spoke, "Now then, let's see the mastermind of this Beast Raid."

Peter created a sonic blast through his flute and blasted the entire building on which Azaroth was sitting.

As the building was destroyed, Peter was slightly astonished to see no signs of a corpse.

"So you can still run, huh?" Peter asked this question as he gently caressed his flute.

"Let's see how much power you still possess." There was a grin on his face as he immediately prepared another attack and launched it.

"Sonic Blast!"

This sonic blast once again destroyed a building. However, Azaroth was no longer there.

Peter continued to change his directions and target Azaroth with quick and strong attacks, while Azaroth used the Phantom Step to swiftly get out of the way.

As Azaroth consecutively used the Phantom Steps, he felt his organs shaking wildly, making him experience significant pain, but he could not stop.

The blood was gushing out of his body nonstop, but Azaroth had to ignore it as if he even stopped for a moment to treat it; he would greet those sonic blasts.

As a 4 Star Warrior, he didn't possess the strength to deal with those sonic blasts.

Peter also began to frown as Azaroth continued to successfully dodge his sonic blasts.

According to him, the person should be heavily injured. So why was he able to execute such quick movement techniques? Did that mean he could nullify his Green Jade Song and didn't take much damage from it?

Even as he was thinking, he didn't stop attacking Azaroth with those sonic blasts.

Peter was also curious about the reserves of this guy who could dodge his attacks so many times. Was he actually planning to compete against him in reserves?

As this thought appeared in Peter's head, he shook his head and spoke with a smile, "How foolish."