Desperate Battle!

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Indeed, this Monster has a lot more speed than its damn size implies! And this is because it has over 6k Agility! That's a B+ Rank monster for you!

In terms of agility and raw stats, this monster beat us by far. And just by pushing lightly, he broke down my barrier, which I had spent thousands of Mana into, and decided to just kill me right away because it thought I was the leader here, or maybe because I was the most annoying with my Domain and Magic.

However!

SLAAAASSSH!

"GRAAH?!"

My trusty Demonic Blade came forward and slashed through the beast's heads, trying to slice off the human head! The beast immediately noticed this and twisted its body, trying to catch my floating blade but not managing to do so, as my blade flew around leisurely as if insulting it.

"This is the guy you'll fight today!"

Lucifer rushed forward as he enhanced his body with the power of his powerful Draconic Soul. His entire body emanated a deathly phantasmal aura that encompassed his entire body and enhanced his strength greatly.

CLASH!

He used his claws and tail to attack the monster, pushing it back from where it came from. His deadly breath attack burned through its flesh as the monster roared in anger and suddenly caught his arms… and then tore them apart!

CRAAASSSH!

"Unggh?!"

This thing is definitely strong!

"Go, Undead Army!"

I called all my Undead on standby and merged their groups with the ones I had just formed. The entire massive army of over 60 Undead rushed forward, suddenly swarming the entire monster as I bought some time for Lucifer.

I grabbed his arms and stuck them to his body, healing them back with Undead Healing.

"Thanks…" He sighed.

"Keep fighting!" I shouted.

Lucifer nodded as he rushed forward, jumping over the creature who was absolutely massacring all my Undead as if they were ants reveling against a lion.

BOOM!!!

"ORRRAAA!"

He roared furiously as the beast was taken by surprise. His claws pierced through the monster's chest and began to slash through it and take large chunks of flesh and scales.

Meanwhile, Partner and Kuro quickly joined in, attacking the beast's arms. Kuro used his claws, jaws, and magic to burn, slash, and bite two arms by himself, slowly making them weakened enough for Partner to use all her might in a powerful consecutive thrusting technique.

Her spear pierced through the monster's arms and ended up slicing three of them after her combination attack with Kuro!

BOOM!

The three massive limbs fell onto the ground as the beast began to leak blood from its body. Feeling pain and anger, the creature suddenly released an enormous shockwave of darkness, throwing everyone away from it.

Most of my Undead died there, but thankfully, our main party barely managed to make it through as I spammed Undead Healing on them.

"GRRAAAR!"

The monster roared angrily as it leaped towards us at a frightening speed. My blade slashed through its body but was then punched away with immense might.

The monster once more targeted me, trying to crush me with its four lizard legs, but I decided to greet it with a power I had been preparing, Pandora's Box!

BOOOOMMM!!!

A mass of darkness and chaos came out of my entire soul and reached the chimera while it was in midair—a large chunk of my Mana was consumed into this one powerful attack.

The beam of darkness began to damage both the monster's flesh and soul as I pushed it into the ceiling!

CLAAAASSSSHH!

"GGRAAAAGGH…!"

The monster seemed to be in a pinch, but then…!

"RAAA…!"

Its entire body gathered its demon energy, and the bastard copied my move, releasing a beam of black demonic energy towards me, overpowering my Pandora's Box!

BOOOM!

The massive beam reached me in an instant, but Emeraldine generated a large force field of holy light which shielded us from this demonic power.

CLAAAASH!

"Unnngh…! Come on!"

She cried out as she gritted her teeth, so I quickly touched her shoulder and infused my Mana into her, helping her maintain the barrier.

CRASH!

The barrier began to crack, but when it was about to break, the monster couldn't muster more demonic energy and stopped firing such a powerful beam. However, its body was still in midair when this happened. Without the force of the beam keeping it in midair, it fell directly towards us, breaking the barrier and shaking the entire floor.

BOOOMMM!!!

The shockwave generated with its massive near ten-meter-tall body sent us all flying through the corridors as we all glanced at the monster scornfully.

This damn bastard wasn't even that wounded aside from lacking three arms from the six it had.

"GRRRAAAAHHHH…!"

Without even letting us stand up to fight once more, the creature reached up to me, but my Undead shielded me with their bodies, buying time and swarming it once more.

I spammed Fake Life on the corpses of the Undead and simply raised them back to fight. They were more destroyed than ever, but nothing some Undead Healing couldn't patch.

The power of a Necromancer is within its undying troops! Even if you defeat my whole army, I can just raise them again and patch them up!

"GROARR!"

As the beast was pulverizing my Undead, I healed back Lucifer, Partner, and Kuro, while Emeraldine healed her own wounds and stood up.

This wasn't over yet…

"Maria!"

Suddenly, the voice of Laura resonated through my mind.

"Huh?! How can you speak to me through my mind?" I asked.

"This is the power of my Unique Skill, Twin Connection! I've made you into my Twin… Like this, you can share my Abilities! Please, use Detonation. I believe it can help you somehow… it cannot make living beings detonate but- Undead… can work on them!" Shouted Laura.

"Wait… Undead… Detonation?"

A devilish smile emerged on my lips as I saw the Chimera destroying my Undead…

Perhaps I can use my own Undead as Unliving Time Bombs…!

However, to activate them, it is required to touch the Undead!

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