Astaroth
Ash nodded and then used Shining Rain, It is a wide area spell that empowers all allies and debuffs all enemies and Gyuratan is target here.
Everyone watched as golden light flakes dropped from sky, it was a beautiful scenery not only that ,but everyone felt stronger , Mercedes too felt her strength increasing and looked at Ash who is smiling looking at Gyuratan, she looked at Gyuratan and saw, he is no longer Human, but is now a Demon with pointed ears, pale face and hideous body as if it is now deformed.
though it was not result of Shining rain, It was due to Archillus Doom that cancels all buffs or any skill effect of target for 5 min, and Gyuratan disguising spell was removed, but to everyone it was due to effect of golden rain, they mistaken it as Holy spell.
"he is really a Demon" Lorex face distorted in anger,.
"What did you do to Gyuratan?" Lorex asked pointing his Axe at the Demon.
"fufu~ Who are you?" Demon ignored him and looked at Ash and asked.
"No one could see through my disguise even this girl but you saw it in first glance, Who are you?" he asked Ash once again.
While Ash looked at him and said " I understand now"
Demon tilted his head and asked " what do you understand?"
"it was you who killed and declared previous Red Knights as traitor right?"
Ash said and everyone eyes widened and they looked at Demon for Clarification.
"why do you think so?" Demon said and everyone felt it's true, what Ash said was truth.
"you wants to weaken the Empire, so that when Demons invade, A weakened Empire won't be of any threat to Demons" Ash said.
"fufu~ you are somewhat right but it is merely my contractor wish" Demon smiled and said.
"I am Astaroth, I lost my qualification as great Demon but that didn't mean I am weak" Demon said and then " How about we all have a deal, keep my identity a secret and I won't kill all of you" he smiled and said.
"you framed Sir Piaro" Mercedes said , her body shaking in anger.
'the only person who accepted her, didn't fear her, her eyes were those that made even her parents feel scared of her yet he accepted her as a normal girl not a monster like her parents'
'She thought him as traitor too, but what was the reality, he wasn't a traitor'
'Forgive me," Mercedes cried, tears streamed down, she looked at Astaroth with red eyes. "I will kill you" unsheathing her dual blades she attacked Astaroth, "Storm blade"
A multiple slashes of sword energy attacked him and he defended bringing out a bizarre sword.
"It means all he have said for past years was a lie" Dia cried and joined Mercedes too in attacking him.
"he framed Sir Pairo to weaken our Empire, he caused the death of Sir Piaro and others family" Lucas roared in anger and attacked him.
"Thank you Ash, if not for you we won't have been able to Identify him" Lorex smiled, his smile was tear stained, not knowing whether he is happy that Piaro innocence is now proved or whether he is sad for it being too late.
[Affinity with Lorex reached 100 points]
[Affinity with Mercedes reached 80 points]
[Affinity with Lucas reached 100 points]
[Affinity with Dia reached 100 points]
"it's okay, Demons are enemies of everyone" Ash said but he couldn't hide his smile as he looked at the notifications and then pointed at Astaroth.
"let's kill him" Ash said and everyone nodded..
"All Knights below rank 10 leave!!" Mercedes said and everyone left and now only 11 people are left in arena.
They are 1 to 10 Red Knights and Ash.
Earlier Gyarutan held the position of 4th knight but now he is facing all other Red Knights as his true identity is revealed.
"Ahh~ what a pity, now I have to kill all of you" Astaroth said and then atmosphere changed and a field of Storm engulfed all of them.
' Damm, Archillus Doom is still a cooldown' Ash mumbled and looked at field Astaroth summoned.
"First I will kill you" he said and then pointed at Ash and then a lighting strike aimed at Ash, a Red Knight swiftly appeared in front of him and used shield to protect him, Ash who was going to use Black and White shrugged and changed to Light ray.
Light ray it was a single target magic spell that deals 1000% of magic damage continuously per second for 5 seconds.
Arghhh
Astaroth yelled and formed a barrier to stop Light ray, "laceration Strike" Lucas using this opportunity gets behind him and aimed at his neck.
"tch" Astaroth clicked his tongue and then a lighting erupted from him and attacks everyone,
Now he is using big attacks as all those Knights left, might already have informed everyone about him, Now there is no reason for him to hide.
[You have suffered 20,541 damage]
It was the damage after Ash swiftly utilized Carshians fury
[Carshians fury]
Shields the caster with a fire shield.
The shield absorbs a total of 15,000 damage and will return half of the absorbed damage back to the opponent.
Physical defense and magic resistance will increase by 20%, and fire resistance by 99% while the shield is active.
Skill Mana Cost: 3,000
Skill Cooldown Time: 20 minutes.]
"damm, " Lorex shouted and then throws his axe at him, it was Volcanic Axe.
Ash seeing this used Blockade sword to stop Astaroth.
Astaroth stiffened and Lorex attack him him directly and then using this gap everyone attacked ,
"Slaughter Sword!"
"Sun Cut!"
"Volcanic Sever!"
'Mortality Sword and then Massacre Sword' Ash also used his skills albeit with silent invocation.
"Bisect!"
During those 8 seconds one by one different attacks hit him and Astaroth health reached 3/10th of the original.
"Damm it" He shouted and then lighting field increased more and started attacking everyone.
a total 30 lighting strikes occured per second for next 10 seconds.
[10th Knight have died]
Everyone due to this are now on their last legs, while the only tanker type Knight died for taking lighting strikes on himself for 7 seconds.
Mercedes gritted her teeth as she saw one of the Red Knights dying, she got momentarily distracted and then Astaroth aimed at her, Ash who was also angry at 10th Knight death it was him who protected him earlier, he shook his head and blinked to Mercedes side and then used Black and White to protect her.