Conqueror

"What…?" Suddenly, this 'Hero' has turned hostile on us.

"Don't even try to hide it. I can feel it." Zeraph Nindine, the hero, pointed at me. "That demonic power inside of you. You exchanged your soul to be a servant of evil? How disgusting." He then pointed at Afal next. "And you… you're hiding your true form? I know of it. My eye can see through everything. And your form? It's straight-up displeasing and disgusting."

Now is not the time to be pissed about his attitude. "Hey, I don't care what you think of us. But I do know we have the same goal. To kill these monsters coming out of Tartarus."

"So?"

"So…? What? Do you know how powerful they are?"

"They're not powerful. The Lich is the only thing keeping them alive. I don't need your help."

"Hey!" Zeta joined in. "You're a hero right? I'm a human so can you help us defeat those monsters?"

"…" Zeraph was silent for a second. "Fine. I'll protect you. But not the demons and that goblin with you.

"That's… fine." It seems that Zeta also got worried since he discovered Rize's species in an instant.

But it's not the time to be worried about that. Our goal is only these monsters.

The hellhound is gone so its annoying speed and phase will not be a trouble anymore.

The Phoenix rose to the sky. And began to dive to us head first. It was fast like a bullet. But we managed to dodge it. But the ground was split when the Phoenix hit it with its beak when it dived to us. That's incredibly powerful.

Zeraph began to take his move. He raised his sword and pointed at the sky, "Tears of the Goddess!" A small cloud formed and began to… rain?

But this rain wasn't simple. Its burning the skin of the monsters. And mine. I thought I can't feel pain. But I can feel the burning sensation this rain is doing to me. And Afal's expressionless face suddenly turned pale. It seems he's under a greater pain than I am. Same with Rize.

"Barrier!" Zeta casted on us. "That's a holy element. It deals extra damage on demons and monsters. This spell ignores your defenses. And being 'painless' is a type of defense so that's the reason why you can feel it."

"I see. Thanks." I said to Zeta. "But it seems that this spell of his is useless. That Lich is such a big problem."

The Lich healed them all again with ease.

The so called hero began to fight the monsters. I ordered my party to stand back for a while and gather information. Rize is the only one that can fight while in range so she's the backup of Zeraph.

"Status Reveal!" Zeta had a troubled look on his face. "They're all at level 1000. Exactly at that number. The Lich currently has around 235,000 Mana. Which is more than yours and mine. But for some reason, that mana pool isn't going down. Healing these monsters at least would've taken 2,000 mana or more. But it didn't take a single point on it."

The Lich's staff began to glow blue.

"Zeta, observe, I think its about to give mana."

"Mhm." Zeta waited until the Lich gave mana. "That's… Hmm… How?"

"What happened?"

"Its mana pool has gone down from 235,000 to 190,000 but in an instant, the Lich's mana instantly went back to full. I'm going to check a second time with my other skill. Buff Reveal!"

"What do you see?"

"Increased Mana Regeneration, Cooldown Decrease, Infinite Mana, Healing Satiation and Magic Penetration. The first one is explained by its name, the second is putting your skills on lower cooldowns and the third is infinite mana for five minutes. Healing Satiation means that every recovery or healing spell it cast is 50% more effective. Magic Penetration deals increased damage on armor. So the Lich is able to cycle to his infinite mana using Cooldown Decrease. I don't know these skills since I haven't learned them. I just know their descriptions using my skill."

"Okay let's go. Let's just focus our firepower on lich. Our secondary target is the Phoenix. But everyone must avoid the Basilisk's gaze and poison. Got it?"

"Yeah!" Everyone responded.

We all rushed in to the enemies.

Afal and Rize went ahead and targeted the basilisk.

Herold and Precia targeted the Phoenix.

Zeta made sure to protect us by giving support. And to hold off the Hydra.

And I targeted the Lich together with Zephyr even if he didn't ask me.

"Holy Pulse!" Both of us casted at the same time. I'm not surprised but he is. But we didn't let our emotions get in the way of the battle. So we fought side by side.

The pulses from the balls of light we made managed to do small damage on the Lich. It's not enough to damage it severely but it's a great start. It seems that it's weak to light.

The sky then darkened. But apparently it's not the sky, a giant shadow was above us and it was the Phoenix rising to the skies ready to dive at us again.

Afal rushed in front of it.

Rize casted, "Giant Net!" And a giant net appeared after she fired the bullet on her gun. The Phoenix dived down to us but Afal dispelled the shapeshift on both of his arms to show his new body parts and tried to stop the Phoenix from diving.

The giant net Rize casted is preventing the beak of the phoenix from opening so the Phoenix can't open its mouth. It's a great backup plan in case the Phoenix can breathe fire.

I abandon my worries on the Phoenix and focused on the Lich. "Come, Soul Scythe! Soul Homage!" My weapon appeared and I imbued it with magic.

Then I heard Zeraph talk. "Death Reaper…?"

My eyes widened on what he just said. It seems he knows the existence of Death Reapers. But I ignored it for now and so did he and refocused ourselves on the Lich.

I ran up to the Lich and swiped my scythe and I managed to damage its ribs. Zeraph also rushed in and swung his sword on the Lich's ribs. Both of our attacks managed to form an X on the Lich's ribs.

"ARGHHHH!!!" The Lich writhed in pain. And suddenly, I felt intense pressure coming from behind me. Zeraph also felt this as his face suddenly turned pale.

The eyes of the three monsters, Nine-Headed Hydra, Phoenix and Basilisk suddenly turned red and an aura on their eyes appeared.

"They're enraged." Zeraph spoke up.

"I see. They're coming!" I braced myself as the Phoenix dived at me once again. But this time, everything behind it was forming small explosions. It seems that it has managed to get past through Afal.

The basilisk threw our poison everywhere and the Hydra threw poison as well too. It then breathed fire everywhere lighting the poison in flames. The whole area was filled in a pit of flames.

The basilisk slithered incredibly fast. Too fast for me to react. I didn't even noticed that I was already wrapped around its body. I was being squashed. Zeraph was about to save me but he got rammed by the Phoenix and has been lit up in flames by the Hydra.

Herold rushed up to me but all the wounds he dealt were extremely huge but the Lich is healing them continuously.

Nothing they did worked. I don't need to hold back anymore.

And at that time of realization, two beacons of light shot up to the sky at the same time. One was dark and one was light.

At that moment, something inside me changed… Bloodlust has evolved. And at that moment I shouted…

"DEVIL'S ADVOCATE!"

"ANGEL'S PROTECTION!"

The monsters, even my party, everything was silent.

I broke free of the strangling of the basilisk. And as I looked at my armor, nothing really changed in the appearance except for the now color black armor.

[Armor of the Bloodfallen has evolved. Will now change into Devil's Advocate. All the other skills of Armor of The Bloodfallen will be inherited into Devil's Advocate. New skills have been unlocked:

||Devil's Playthings||

Dark Magic and Soul Magic will have a 300% Damage Increase and 100% Defense Increase. Blood Magic will have a 100% Damage Increase. Fire Magic will have a 200% Damage Increase. Complete Immunity to Dark and Fire Magic.

||Domination||

Increased damage against lower-ranked demons. Increased damage against light and holy skill users.

||Suppressed Rage||

Increased damage depending on the user's current mental state.

||Pure Darkness||

Every fifth attack, the next damaging skill you attack or will do will be imbued with dark magic and gain the effect of 150% Lifesteal.]

There we were. Hovering in the air looking at each other. As if in that moment, everything stopped.

Zeraph and I were locked eye to eye.

I am the Devil and he's the Angel.