"Lord Tohru, Raize has become even stronger than when I first met him."
After firing another thunderous dragon breath toward the silent [Demon King] to push him back, the white dragon Kanna blinked her huge dragon eyes at the scene and spoke.
This physical strength was completely on par with a giant dragon; one could even say it was a match in a contest of strength.
"No, that undead isn't so easy to deal with. He hasn't even gotten serious yet."
Snapping out of her shock after seeing Raize devour the demigod undead's attack, Tohru gritted her teeth and shook her head, indicating that the undead wouldn't be so easily resolved.
However, because the undead had abandoned his physical body, it was very weak, which was why Raize could gain the upper hand at the start.
Though it was humiliating, the undead's necromantic abilities had even caught her off guard earlier. Could Raize, who had shrugged off that initial death strike, really withstand the soul attacks of a demigod undead from her world?
Thinking this, Tohru immediately prepared to fly over and assist Raize—this should have been her fight to begin with.
Roar!
But at that moment, another disturbance came from the spatial black hole in the sky. A dragon's roar echoed, followed by a pillar of dragon breath composed of cold, deathly energy striking directly at Tohru, blocking her path.
"Treacherous bastard!!"
Tohru swiped her claw and shattered the dragon breath pillar. Lowering her smoking dragon claw, she gave a fierce shake, and the explosive airflow swept away all the dust and smoke from the blast.
The dragon maid's fierce glare was as if she were looking at unforgivable trash, fixed on the new enemy crossing over from another realm.
The opponent had two pairs of twisted dragon horns on his head, wore armor, and had a pair of dragon wings spread from his waist. He was a silver-haired youth with skin as pale as paper, perfectly described as "ghastly white."
This was a five-star rank undead dragon. It was only natural for Tohru to call him a traitor.
A proper dragon, reduced to becoming undead—utterly ridiculous.
Given the pride of dragons from Tohru's world, even death was of little concern. Dragons of the chaos faction never cared whether they lived or died in battle; when they encountered an enemy, they just fought to the end.
Even if they lost and died, they accepted it.
"Well~ Say what you will. Our ideologies differ, so any words are pointless. Perhaps you've already forgotten, but my death back then was because of you, Tohru!!"
Called a traitor, the undead dragon youth with a fierce, predatory glare didn't get angry. Instead, he raised a greatsword made from dragon teeth and, as if teleporting, stepped forward and slashed fiercely at Tohru.
Clang——!
A piercing screech rang out as Tohru raised her dragon arm and steadily blocked the attack.
Locked in a contest of strength with her opponent, Tohru was deeply worried about Raize. Yet, seeing this self-righteous undead dragon in front of her only irritated her. With a cold smile, she stared directly at the creature, sizing him up before mockingly saying:
"Your death was because of me? I've killed too much trash to remember every piece of garbage I've tossed aside. You came all this way across realms just to die—how hardworking of you."
After speaking, Tohru grabbed the dragon-tooth greatsword with her other hand. Her beautiful face twisted into a fierce dragon-like visage, and she opened her maw wide, biting savagely toward the creature's head.
Her fighting style was increasingly reverting to her wild side—using claws, teeth, tail, and more.
The undead dragon youth was startled to see such a wild fighting style, typical of dragon form. Having become undead, his physical body remained as it was at the moment of his death. How could it compare to Tohru, who had fought her way to this day?
Crack!
Schlick——!
A clear shattering sound and the tearing of flesh echoed. Before the dragon youth could retreat and evade, it was too late. The greatsword and his right hand were bitten off together, the dragon-tooth sword instantly crushed into debris.
But no blood flowed from the severed arm—only necromantic energy dissipated like blood.
"Pah!" Tohru's fierce face twisted in disgust as she spat out the contents of her mouth. The rotten taste was utterly repulsive. Glaring at the pale-faced youth clutching his severed arm ahead, the dragon maid said with brutal fury, "I'll tear you to pieces until not even scraps remain. Your filthy soul doesn't deserve to dwell in a dragon's body!"
Roar!
A thunderous, sky-shaking roar echoed through heaven and earth.
Tohru lifted her restrictions, preparing to kill this creature quickly so she could hurry and deal with that undead.
Meanwhile, above the floating Cursed Island in the distance, Raize's battle was far from over. This was only the beginning.
"Living being, not even your soul shall remain!!!"
Sure enough, after taking that hit, the undead, though battered and injured, was Thoroughly enraged, just as Tohru had predicted.
Countless twisted undead faces emerged across the sky island. This island was not only a mobile fortress but also his mobile domain, allowing him to draw energy at will to replenish himself.
That's why, after enduring Raize's brutal assault, it hadn't completely collapsed. With a soul-shattering roar, the undead blasted away Raize, who had been pummeling him at close range.
Drawing upon necromantic energy, he repaired his shattered right hand. The blue soul flame burning in his skull flickered violently, the face within the flames contorted with rage and distortion.
Crack——!
Raize's soul trembled slightly from the blast, but he was largely unharmed. Meanwhile, the undead channeled immense death energy, condensing it before him into a singularity-like point. The space around it cracked like a vortex.
[Death Zero Point!]
Condensing and compressing law-level death energy, vast as a tsunami, into this tiny point, it continuously annihilated the surrounding space and all material existence, even affecting souls.
It somewhat resembled a black hole. In terms of power, unless the undead voluntarily stopped it or the death energy within was exhausted, it could erase the entire nation of Japan from existence.
Even without ongoing energy maintenance, the power within the singularity was enough to annihilate Japan into nothingness. This demigod undead had many such techniques, and this one was absolutely among his deadliest.
Dying under such a move from him, a demigod undead archmage, would be a dignified death for this human.
Though the human was special and had shocked him earlier by devouring his death technique, surely he couldn't easily neutralize this move too, could he? Could this human possibly even swallow—What the hell!!
Nom!
The undead, initially confident he could kill Raize, watched as Raize opened his mouth wide and swallowed the death black hole capable of destroying the entire island nation. The only thing in his mind that could describe his utterly fucked-up mood was a classic expletive from the East.
What the hell kind of human was this?!
Feeling the immense death energy filling him once more and the gradually refining law fragments, Raize showed a smile. His anger over the undead's earlier threat toward Eu had eased a bit, and he now looked at the undead like a delicious treat.
But fighting and killing were still necessary. He had now developed resistance to the undead's [Death].
"Die!"
A low shout brimming with killing intent was followed by an Ashura Senku release. Layers of fierce afterimages lingered in the sky as Raize slipped into pocket space, charging toward the undead.
"Get away!"
Snapping out of his shock, the undead frantically cast necromantic spells. Howling ghostly faces, like a night parade of a hundred demons, shrieked as they lunged at Raize.
But they hit nothing!
Appearing beside the undead, Raize grinned ferociously, his large hand reaching out to grip the undead's flame-covered skull. All his power surged to its peak in an instant.