Boom—!!!!!
After the blood-red light expanded outward, the demon baron was truly blown to pieces. Vast sprays of mangled flesh and blood burst out, only to be instantly vaporized by the raging energy turbulence that followed.
A gigantic spherical energy explosion crushed a massive stretch of ground, completely evaporating everything within a two-hundred-meter radius.
"Leader!!!"
The remaining vampire ninjas, hurled away by the violent shockwave of the explosion, witnessed the scene with faces twisted in despair and grief, roaring unwillingly.
But no matter how unwilling they were, it was meaningless. They had no power to undergo some miraculous awakening. No matter how furious or sorrowful they felt, it was nothing more than helpless rage.
After the explosion finished off the demon baron, the residual blast energy swept them away, flinging them to who knew where.
"You… you truly deserve to die!!!"
Ariel's face was contorted with fury. Watching the demon baron, her companion who had grown up alongside her since childhood and the inventor of magical weapons, vanish just like that, an uncontrollable rage instantly flooded her entire being.
Raize was being absolutely serious. He did not care what schemes his enemies had, how cute or harmless they looked. If they were enemies, there was no need for mercy.
Although the Satsui no Hadou had been safely absorbed under his Kirby-like power, it still carried a so-called side effect that was not truly a drawback.
When Raize used the Satsui no Hadou, he did not lose his sanity, but the more he used it, the more it stirred the killing intent buried deep within his heart, creating an uncontrollable resonance that made his desire to kill grow ever more intense.
In the past, he might have spared certain people due to circumstances, but in the state of Satsui no Hadou, that possibility was infinitely close to zero. When he struck, it was with the sole purpose of killing his enemy.
"Before you act, think about the consequences. Dare to reach out your filthy hands toward me, and I will cut off both the hands and the person attached to them."
Raize coldly stared at the enraged Ariel. At this point, their relationship had already become that of irreconcilable mortal enemies, yet Raize felt no fear whatsoever and had no concern about any consequences that might come from killing her.
He had already had Laffey record everything that had just happened. Would the queen of Velliers tolerate someone who plotted rebellion and a seizure of power?
The footage was a safeguard, and Haruna, the real evidence who had helped Ariel and the demon baron hide, was the decisive killing blow.
Anyone who dared to scheme against Raize would pay the price. Anyone who dared to involve those around him better be prepared to be dragged down as well.
With his killing intent completely unleashed, Raize swiftly brought his hands together at his waist once more and fired a compressed Satsui no Hadou Hadoken straight at Ariel.
Although its size was reduced, its speed was pushed to the absolute limit.
Facing the one-meter-diameter blood-red energy sphere, Ariel, consumed by rage, no longer held anything back.
She gathered all her magic and cast her spells, forming wind blades with her magical weapon as the core, actually slicing the energy sphere apart and even launching a counterattack against Raize.
From this alone, Raize immediately knew that Ariel was now fighting for her life. Her entire body had entered a state of magical frequency overload, her physical strength breaking through its limits, and spells were being unleashed at him as if the magic cost was nothing.
"Unable to recognize the gap between us. How pitiful."
A trace of disdain flashed through Raize's eyes. He stomped heavily on the ground, causing an area of over a hundred square meters to collapse into a massive crater.
The young man, his body overflowing with violent killing intent like an asura, charged forward head-on without yielding in the slightest, directly meeting the enemy's ferocious assault.
With a casual leap, he soared more than fifty meters into the air. Using nothing but his bare body and limbs, which were deadly weapons in themselves, Raize mercilessly shattered every form of magical attack Ariel unleashed.
Magic lightning storm? Who do you think you are using lightning on? A Raiko Hadoken blew it apart head-on.
Elemental magic powerful enough to alter the weather? Sorry, but the current Raize could accomplish that with a mere gesture, and with ease.
Countering every move directly, smashing through the encirclement of attacks head-on, Raize tore through everything and appeared right in front of Ariel, his fist distorting the surrounding air currents as it smashed straight toward her.
Clang! Crack—
Ariel's face twisted as she crossed her twin weapons in front of her to block. Raize's monstrous force slammed into her, driving her straight backward, her feet carving two deep furrows into the ground, while dense cracks spread across both of her weapons.
Her slender arms were already in a state of magical overload. With Raize's blow, the surging force transmitted through them, causing streams of blood to spray out as her muscles began to collapse violently.
Even more terrifying was the wave of Satsui no Hadou that surged in with the force.
An extremely cold and merciless consciousness slammed into the mind of this no-longer-young magical garment girl.
"Die!!!"
Immediately pulling back a short distance from Raize, Ariel's pale golden eyes burned with rage and killing intent as she raised her hand and unleashed a space-type spell at him.
Spatial Collapse.
Exhausting the last of her magic, Ariel cast this killing move at close range. Once activated, it directly shattered a small region of space itself. Even if the target could resist the spatial tearing and survive, being trapped within the ruptured space would result in being shredded into nothing by chaotic spatial currents.
Crack crack crack crack—
Dense fractures instantly spread throughout the space surrounding Raize. Like a bird trapped in a cage, there was nowhere for him to escape.
Enveloped by Satsui no Hadou, Raize immediately felt the surrounding space begin to twist and collapse. This area had become a dead zone. The destructive power generated by collapsing space was extremely terrifying, something Raize had already witnessed once before in the ruined realm.
"Hmph. Now I'll send you straight to hell."
A powerful and violent aura erupted from Raize's body. He showed no fear at all and had no intention of retreating.
His body broke through from Absolute Domain 99% to Absolute Domain 100%, stepping into Ultimate Power, and the level of that Ultimate Power continued to rise without stopping.