Chapter 34: The demon lord Gilga of Uruk

His eyes glowed ragingly red. His silky hair grew longer and flickered as an ember in the night. Despite the flame enveloping his bodies, his clothes were completely unburned. The hybrid jumped forward to take on the ever-evolving Celestial Threat creature. As the two clashed, his humongous flaming sword, made up of HaoS' holy fire, slammed directly onto the creature's side. The creature initially was able to withstand the tremendous force of the slash for a few moments, until the flames started to swallow it up like a hungry shark devoured its prey. Even if he was fused with HaoS, Kibadios did not expect to best the creature at its peak power with such an attack. However, what he had hoped for, and successfully achieved, was for the purifying flame to make contact with the <Seed of Chaos> infected Prime Minister and cleansed the pitiful man from the dark influence of the seed. As the flame continued to burn the seemingly impervious creature, it shrieked loudly in agony, creating waves of sonic blast echoing throughout the capitol, strong enough to blast streams of dusts away from the vicinity. With its source of power, the <Seed of Chaos> was burning off, this would have been the perfect opportunity for Kibadios to finish off the creature, yet, the man briefly hesitated. The surprised Adela was standing silently nearby. Although she was dumbfounded by the new development, she still remained calm and appeared to focus her attention on the hybrid, watching every single movement of his. If he decided to continue his attack in the fusion form, he would be revealing more and more clues of his identity to the clever woman. But if he stopped now, the creature would most likely be able to recover in no time.

「Damn it, Kibadios! Think!」The hybrid urged himself.

「That was beautiful!」A woman's voice spoke to him from behind. 「What is that form you're in? These burning flames… somehow I feel like I have felt them before.」

… Of course, they are the primordial flames that made up this world. Kibadios thought, though he quickly turned his head to the woman next to him. The purple haired woman was tall, both taller and more muscular than most of the women that the hybrid has known. Heck, despite her beautiful face, she was even more masculine than most of the men in this world. Her unusual stature sort of reminded the hybrid of the female general from Chu in Kingdom, whose name he had already forgotten. Warily glaring at her, the hybrid finally spoke「Who are you?」

「My name is Gilga, Ruler of Uruk, and one of the four Great Demon Lords. You must have heard of me right?」She smiled down at Kibadios.

「That Demon Lord?」The hybrid was surprised. 「What does a Celestial Threat like yourself doing here?」

「Well, I was visiting Lorian on a diplomatic mission, but I guess the timing was unfortunate since I got caught in this whole crazy incident.」The woman moved even closer to the hybrid, her face was mere inches from Kibadios as she softly whispered to the guarded man.「Or maybe it's fortunate since I get to meet someone as interesting as you here, at what I had always expected to be a mundane trip... I don't know why you're hesitant to finish off the creature with your moves, dear. Are you also aware of the other two unusual individuals who have been observing this battle intensely all this time?」

Two?

「No answer, huh?」Gilga laughed out loud. 「I think can take care of this, but you'll owe me one.」

「... I dont know whatever you're implying.」Kibadios frowned. 「But if you want to deal with the creature, please know that thing used to be the former Prime Minister of Maeg. 」「Ara ara...」Surprised the demon lord. 「So that is Jayden Stringer? Now now now, then I guess I have to handle that thing with care!」The woman stepped forward, her clothes started to erode away, leaving her completely naked. From her bare, smooth skin, a thick, viscous liquid began to ooze out, covering her whole body until at a certain point, her flesh had also turned transparent. She has undoubtedly taken on an appearance of a slime… No, she was already originally a slime to begin with. She has just merely reverted back to her true form. (Click here on comment to see her picture, this comment is updated later)

「... Hoh? A slime demon lord? How original.」Kibadios sarcastically commented while witnessing her transformation. Despite changing back into a slime, she still maintained the appearance of a beautiful woman. Though that was not to last since she quickly melted down into a large blob, then inflated her size and projected her whole body toward the recovering creature and gobbled it whole at a lightning speed. By the time the weakened creature realized what happened, it was already trapped within the demon lord's slimy body. At first, it began to struggle, trying to slash its way out of the demon lord's stomach. Still, all was in vain since none of its physical attacks managed to affect the demonic slime. Even its miasma was being absorbed into the demon lord's own Haki while its energy blasts were quickly neutralized by the slime fluidic body before they could be projected. Although Kibadios knew the creature was extremely weakened by HaoS' purifying flames, the feats of the demon lord's performance was no joke. In less than five minutes, the showdown between the creature and those who risked their lives to fight against it came to an anti-climatic end as its body ceased to move around. With the potent force of the <Seed of Chaos> being extinguished, the creature slowly transformed back to the human named Jayden Stringer, floating naked within Demon Lord Gilga's transparent body. The demonic slime tenderly pushed the unconscious Prime Minister out of her body before transforming back to the large woman.

「Phew… That was much more taxing than I would have predicted.」Gilga wiped away the sweat on her forehand.

「... How did you do it? You made it seem so easy. I don't think even I could revert the Prime Minister back, not after he got infected with so many <Seed of Chaos> like that. ���Kibadios, having reverted back to his old self and dismissed HaoS away after confirming Gilga's victory, curiously asked the demon lord.

「 Well, it was no easy tasks.」Gilga looked at the Prime Minister lying on the ground. 「Though, I can't claim all of the credits. After all, this man's willpower was what made it possible.」... Though did he just say "Not even I"? Who is this young man here?

「Gilga sama!!!」A man ran toward the demon lord, holding a large white cloak and hurriedly covered the woman. Not that she minded since she continued to ask the hybrid questions about his identity without caring for the fact that her breasts and private parts were still completely exposed since the cloak was merely wrapped on her shoulder.

「Please, Gilga sama!」The attendant begged, disrupting the demon lord. 「At least cover yourself.」

「Why? Or else it would turn you on, Raz-kun?」Gilga teasingly traced her finger upward along the man's slender neck, then sensually held his chin up. 「I don't mind sharing a bed with you tonight.」Her suggestive gestures completely knocked out the blushing man as his head exploded in embarrassment, having been forced to look straight at the woman's bare breast.

「What a weirdo...」said Kibadios. The hybrid has already switched his attention to his two unconscious slaves and tended to their wounds.

「Ara ara… Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?」

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「... What was that?」In an abandoned corner of the capital, Adela slammed her fist onto the broken wall. 「That was clearly HaoS, wasn't it? It has not been spotted since that man was executed, why it just appeared here… Or was it really HaoS...」

「Of course that was HaoS.」The hooded figure appeared behind the distraught Astral. 「Even if it was not taking its physical form, there is no denying that it was HaoS. The question for you and the Astrals, though, is "Who is that hybrid?"」

「... What are you doing here? Lurking around like a pathetic cockroach.」Adela turned around, confronting the figure.

「Don't talk down to me when your homunculus body does not possess the power to back your feisty spirit up, Princess.」The figure raised his arm, conjuring several iron chains to restrict the Astral's movement.「Looks like your plan failed. Even if you planted so many <Seed of Chaos> within that Prime Minister, transforming him into a nascent Celestial Threat, this was all the havocs it could cause.」

「...It would have massacred the whole country had there been no intervention from that hybrid or that Irregularity.」Adela briefly struggled for a moment before giving up, knowing the limit of her power.

「... Yet, here we are. Your plan did fail due to the interventions that you were not able to foresee. Somehow, after 10000 years, this world has, once again, become interesting.」The hooded man swiftly decapitated the Astral's head and held it close to his face, green blood dripped down from its freshly sliced off neck. 「Wouldn't you agree, Princess?」Of course, there was no answer from the detached head since the homunculus body quickly turned into dust.

「Sensei, welcome back!」The man looked at the direction where the hybrid was at. 「What was the solution that you have arrived at, I wonder…」