Crimson Overlord

230  Nemesis, the demon with Angel's blood 1

While Orpheus was having fun in the company of Lily, his woman wasn't lucky, together with her companion, they encountered an assassination attempt, well the assassin named Marcus was after her, and her partner hid while Nemesis fought Marcus, her strength surpassed the assassin's anticipation forcing him to use a dreadful method to increase his strength, he had to carry his mission at any cost yet he couldn't succeed despite his strength getting boosted. He was turned into a grotesque monster just to kill this bitch.

Nemesis observed the thing before her in disgust.

Covered in disgusting black scales, Marcus had jaws like that of a bear trap. His nose was gone, replaced by an unsightly twitching meaty growth. Meanwhile, his eyes fused into one, it was like a goggle that was rotated vertically. His eye was also shifted to his forehead.

Inside his eye, there were more bestial eyes that kept darting about like pinwheels. He had at least ten mini-eyes in that place.

Even calling him a demonic-origin beast would be smearing the other demonic-origin beasts. There was only one term for someone who used to be a human.

Monster!

Still, she fought despite the pressure, and Marcus couldn't get any real advantage.

He paid a great price for the power to kill Nemesis, he got his hands on the dark power that enhanced his combat power greatly.

But, all this for what?

He turned into a monster because he wanted to use the cruelest method to dismember Nemesis's limb from limb, he wanted nothing less than to exact the worst kind of pain imaginable to the one who forced him into this wretched form.

Reality told him to hit the road, the foe he wanted to shred into a million pieces rose into Level 4 just like him, and she did so without paying any price.

How can Marcus accept an outcome like this? This is an outrage!

He never once considered that his enemy was hiding her strength, the information couldn't be inaccurate.

"No... NOOOO..."

His mental wirings went haywire. Marcus mumbled incessantly to himself, his dark origin rampaged out of control, his ramblings turned into an enraged bellow, then, his dark origin exploded outwards.

"This cannot be!"

His malice manifested in his voice and expression. Like someone out of his mind, he leaned forward and used his tail to spring him up into Nemesis who was still floating above the ground.

"I will kill you!"

Nemesis looked on with cold eyes. Then, her black and white wings started dancing like sharp whips, lashing out at Marcus.

"Die die die die die!"

Marcus couldn't fight with a rational mind, he only focused on one thing, killing Nemesis!

His claws extended outwards like spears, his claw spears met the whips of light coming from Nemesis's wings.

The whips dimmed down and turned translucent when his claws made contact, his claws went through the whips like a mirage.

His attack hit nothing, that's what it felt like when the dim whips lit up again. This time, he could hear something slicing through the wind, the new attack expanded in Marcus' vision.

A sense of danger rang within Marcus and he instinctively used the momentum generated by flailing his tail to weave down, dodging the incoming wings of light.

Bam

The whips missed Marcus and crashed against the ground, creating a crater that was one meter wide.

Marcus finally recognized the attribute of the whips of light.

They can materialize and de-materialize on cue!

"Damn!"

Marcus cursed.

"You and your petty tricks!"

"Tricks?"

Upon hearing this Nemesis grinned as she looked down at a sour Marcus from above.

"Fine, I will change up my attacks..."

The wings of light moved again, but, she didn't send the wings after Marcus. Instead, Nemesis's wings bent into a shape that looked like spider legs grew out from behind her. The wings were pointed at Marcus.

Ring!

The tips of the wing lit up as small concentrated balls of light grew in volume and luminosity.

The balls of light shook one time and immediately afterward, lasers were shot out.

"Long-ranged attacks again..."

As an assassin, he's like a fish out of water when fighting against someone who can attack from far away, Nemesis forced him to go into the defensive. He can see that if this keeps going, he is going to die from a fight of attrition.

He must find a way to get close at any cost, being on the defensive for too long would mean death.

Marcus suppressed the anxiety within him and he smacked the lasers into non-existence like he was swatting flies.

Nemesis' expression was calm and relaxed even as she pointed at Marcus and rained down a rain of laser bolts.

Marcus anchored his foot behind him and he started swiping at the air, unleashing a torrent of dark claw beams.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

The lasers and claw beams met and canceled each other out. After a cloud of dust got stirred into the air, visibility reduced between the two fighters.

Marcus saw this chance and he silently muttered.

"Here's my chance!"

Roar!

Responding to Marcus' bestial shout, his dark origin rippled across his body.

With a mighty swipe of his arms, his arms turned brilliantly dark as he merged with his claw beam to quickly travel across the distance between the two fighters. Ignoring the dust storm, the distance, and time, Marcus appeared in front of Nemesis in an instant.

Nemesis' pupils shrunk.

Marcus saw this as his victory and he chuckled.

"Die!"

With another howl, his dark origin aura condensed in his claws, and it extended to a gnarly length.

He smashed that attack into Nemesis's chest.

Nemesis watched the claw attack as time slowed around her.

That charged attack was reflected in her heterochromia's eyes.

Fwish! Fwish!

The Black and white wings covering in light as if they're made of light behind her also combined to form a giant sword of light, the sword of light was willed by Nemesis to meet the giant dark claw attack.

BAM!

A thunderous boom echoed out and a shockwave unlike any other shook the ground, blasting rocks to dust and fissuring the immediate vicinity in a tsunami of rubble.

Dust rained down over the land.

As a wave of dust reverberated outwards, the two fighters could no longer be seen.

Luna, the demon from the now-fallen Morningstar's family did her best to watch the fight, her sharp eyes piercing the cloud of dust.

When the dust touched the dark barrier of isolation put on by Nemesis to fight to her heart's content and stop any prying eyes, the dark barrier repelled the dust from spreading beyond it. Soon, one could see only a giant crater at the center of the fight, a testament to the desolation brought upon this place.

Meanwhile, Nemesis and Marcus emerged from the chaotic scene as they wrestled for supremacy with their weapons, claws of darkness, and a sword of light. They pressed against each other while sparks flew off their weapons.

Nemesis in action Nickaido