Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 28: Marchosias, The Fire Spitting Demon Wolf
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"This must be at least 10% less durability… I need to keep going… Activate skill: Cursed Claw!"
While the Goblin Emperor tried to evade the Detonating Cursed Claws, I quickly activated the skill to stack up on more. Through this battle, I have discovered that I can stack up on 21 Cursed Claws at the same time, this is my current limit in control, and it's obviously with the help of my split minds, without them, I would had never gotten this far in this battle.
There is a certain control that needs to be executed on each Cursed Claw for it to function the way I want, from making it move to a position I want to deactivating each individual Cursed Claw, it takes a lot of thought process and mental energy.
It would even worse if I was not an Undead, taking extreme fatigue from the Stamina lost; however, I can cheat this while being one.
Although physical fatigue does not affect an Undead, mental fatigue still hits me hard. When the Goblin Emperor evaded the last Detonating Cursed Claw, I already had 21 more Claws floating around me. I assigned 10 to protect my body from blows, while the rest will grab the Emperor from various angles and Detonate, sometimes the Emperor will destroy them beforehand, so I will need to activate this skill constantly through the entire battle.
Using my new Vampire Wings I catch up with the Goblin Emperor new speed, being able to evade almost all his attacks, however, there was always variables in battle!
FLASH!
"I knew you were going to use again your cheap tactic, grabbing me from behind! I got you! RED GOBLIN EMPEROR HAMMER!"
"Damn it! Cursed Claws! Shield Position!"
I ordered the Cursed Claws the to take over the powerful Goblin Emperor Hammer attack, each one was able to withstand a certain amount of damage, however, the blow was too strong, and it break more than 15 Claws in one go!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
I used the second they give me run away on a nice distance, and started to activate the skill once again.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Out of thin air, six Floating Cursed Claws appeared, rotating around my body.
The Emperor noticed that I didn't even took his blow and used its max speed to rush towards me!
FLASH!
It suddenly activated a myriad of buffing skill once again, creating a strong dark and crimson aura around his armored body!
"I'm already tired of your tricks! You are going down!!"
"Tsk! He's too fast!"
I quickly threw every Cursed Claw towards the Emperor making them all detonate at the same time, filling the Emperor vision with dust and flames.
"What? Where?!"
Using this small opportunity, I quickly activated Cursed Claws once again, and sneakily used five Cursed Claws to grab on the Emperor right arm!
"Eh?! My arm!"
"DEACTIVATE SKILL: CURSED CLAW!"
Flash! Flash!
Every claw tightly grabbing his arm started to inflate growing in size exponentially!
BOOOM! BOOOM!
"Guuuuuuuuuuuuakkkhh!!!"
The five detonating Claws were so tightly grabbed on his arm that the combined explosion completely blasted it, making big pieces of armor and meat rain from the skies!
"M-My arm!!! Guaaaaaaaaaaahkkhhh! You bitch!!!"
I discovered that concentrating many Claws in certain areas and making them detonate would be the easiest way to wear him down!
"Now!"
I already create 8 Cursed Claws and used them as decoy, detonating them to distract the Emperor, while I flew around the battlefield and created more.
"Gaaah! I can't see anything!! You fucking bitch! Get out! Damn it! Will I have to use the third one already?! GHH! Even if it takes a piece of my soul every time, I need to survive!"
While I was preparing for the second attack, the silhouette of the Goblin Emperor inside the explosions smoke become bigger, its body size was increasing massively!
FLUOSH!!
"W-What?! You have to be kidding me! Another Ring?! How many does he got?!"
When the smoke dissipated, the armored Goblin Emperor was three times his size, already surpassing Nesiphae!
Its former purple dark armor was still there, but a new crimson armor covered it! Double armor?!
In addition, his missing arm was made into a long Crimson Sword!
"What the heck is this transformation?! I'm already in Demon Mode, and this dude got like 3 transformations?! What is this?! Freezer?! Are you shitting me?!"
"GAHAHAHA! AMAZED?! This is the strength of the Shadow Awakening Rings! Behold!"
FLASH!
Suddenly, blocking every light in my sight, a big shadow appeared ahead of me! It was the Emperor! Somehow, even after wearing two armors at the same time, he still remained its amazing speed!
Using its Crimson Sword, it tried to slice me in half!
SLASH!
CRASH!
Thankfully, I already had eight Cursed Claws floating around me, which took the hits in time, giving me some space to run away!
"Uggh! If he got two armors now, does that mean double durability?! It's like a fucking video game final boss with so many transformations!"
While flying at max speed, I quickly used all my mental energy and my split minds help to stack up on 21 Claws!
"I need to survive! I'm not going to lose to you! I have come so far! How could I lose to a fucking Goblin?!"
"Now!"
FLASH! FLASH!
While the Emperor flew at max speed behind me, I threw ten Cursed Claws right on his face, making them all detonate!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"Gahahaha! They won't do any damage now!"
While the pretentious idiot laughed, I sneaked 11 Cursed Claws behind him!
"Let's see how confident you are!!!"
This time, 11 Cursed Claws tightly grabbed his crotch!
"EH?!"
"DEACTIVATE SKILL: CURSED CLAW!"
The System tried to dissipate the Cursed Claws, but the amount of power inside them made them inflate instead, and ultimately detonate in bright colors!
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
The 11 Cursed Claws detonated right in the middle of his massive Crotch, being able to destroy the strong armor and leaving a big bloody hole were once there was his reproductive organ!
"GUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAHHHHKKKKKKKKHHHHHHH! Noooo!"
Even if he was so strong, the Emperor could not contain his pain! Because I once possessed a male body, I knew how much would a kick in the balls would hurt, but what if your entire balls and reproductive organ blasted into minced meat?!
An incredible pain! Something beyond human comprehension!
The Emperor lacked any type of healing spell, and could not do anything over his painful wound, only yell in pain and agony!
"Main Mind! Let's throw him with everything we got!!!"
"Yes!"
I quickly flew around the yelling Emperor, and threw him every Cursed Claw I activated every second, making his entire body detonate!
Countless explosions filled his strong double armor, like beautiful fireworks on New Year!
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
Suddenly, the glorious and demonic double armor of the Emperor slowly started to shatter and fall in pieces, while the explosions hit on his massive body, creating countless bloody holes, because of this; he was quickly inflicted with Poison and Paralysis once again!
"Ghhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa! No! It can't be! I was going to win! Everything was on my favor! How could you do such a thing! Ghhhhhaaaaa It hurts so much! It hurts so much! My crotch! My crotch! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"Are you kidding me? You were the one who said that Goblins played nasty! Fuck off!!!!"
The Emperor immense body fell to the ground, in incredible pain, creating a massive and bloody pit, there were chunks of his body everywhere, and he barely hanged on his life.
"I must… do it!!! Fourth Ring!!!"
FLUOSH!
The massive and wounded body of the Emperor suddenly started to exude a strong aura! Covered on a strong Crimson!
"Another transformation?! You were about to die!"
Suddenly, a massive armor started to form over the destroyed Emperor body, filling every part of his wounds and missing limbs, until completely covering its head.
With this new strength, the Emperor stood up, but started to change once again, the armor forced his posture and transformed itself, making the whole helm look like a mad wolf head, with sharp fangs and glowing eyes! The Emperor lost total control over his body, and this wolf armor was the one fighting this time!
"What?! How?! A wolf armor?! It looks like that Bers### armor!"
Suddenly, the armor finished its full transformation and looked right into me!
A strong and terrifying voice came from the wolf mouth of this armor!
"GAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So you are the otherworld demon?! Amazing! To think that you would be able to defeat three other armors before me! Let's see who's the strongest demon!"
"Eh? Is this an actual demon talking?! What's your name?!"
"My name… they call me Marchosias, the fire spitting Demon Wolf!"
"Ghh! This guy means bad news… No way…"
Suddenly, the wolf armor whole body became engulfed on flames!
FLUOSH!
"Now perish through my flames!! Graaaaaaaaaa!"
BOOM!
The massive Wolf jumped off the ground, destroying everything around itself with incredible strong shocking waves and setting a massive fire all around!
Using its powerful fire to propulse itself, it flew directly towards me!
"Ghhh! Fuck!"
I tried to use my Cursed Claws to take on his flaming tackle, however, it was too strong, and completely destroyed the 12 Cursed Claws in one go, hitting me with his full might!
CLASH!
Such amazing propulsion force sent me several meters away, and set my entire body on flames!
"Gaah! Fuck! Activate Skill: Flame Body!"
Suddenly, my body completely covered itself in flames, and I became immune to their damage, however, this wolf flames were different, leaving a strong curse effect debuff, which lowered my Speed!
"CURSED CLAW! CURSED CLAW! CURSED CLAW!"
I repeatedly activated Cursed Claw to catch my blasting body in time, avoiding hitting the ground.
"Ugh! This guy is too fast, and that fire of him makes his tackles extremely potent!"
"But, wouldn't this fire and energy consumed kill the Goblin Emperor? Perhaps he is hanging on his life while he can, maybe if I stall him enough the Emperor will die in time…"
FLASH!
Suddenly, a flaming shadow appeared behind me!
"You are too slow, little Demon! Put it some fight at least! ORRAAAAAAHH!"
"EEH?!"
CRASH!
This time I wasn't able to intercept his attack and was blasted to the ground, leaving a deep pit!
BOOOOOM!
"GAAAAAAAHH!"
I barely was hanging on my life; I started to vomit tons of blood, and noticed that most of my bones were shattered by this attack only!
"Ugghh… I must eat something… Anything… Blood…"
I quickly flew outside the pit, barely hanging on my broken body; I activated countless Cursed Claws and made them detonate all around, to create a distraction.
"There must be… here!"
On the distance, I found a big group of Goblins cowering in fear, they were trying to run away of the Anti-Magic Zone by trying to dig a hole.
"Ahh! The Demon!"
"The Demon! Run away!"
"Don't kill us!!"
I couldn't handle myself and feasted on these Goblins, killing and eating them all, regaining Stamina and gained one level, completely filling my HP again.
I these seconds, the demon wolf already sensed me eating, and came rushing at full speed!
"HAHAHAHA! Eating in the middle of a battle?! Are you getting desperate already?!"
"Main Mind, watch out!"
"Fuck! Cursed Claws don't disappoint me now!!!"
FLASH FLASH FLASH!
Five Cursed Claws appeared out of thin air, stopping the Wolf on place, and then detonating!
BOOM!
The Explosion was too weak, and the Wolf was barely damaged!
"HAHAHA! This is nothing!"
While throwing Cursed Claws and making the detonate, I quickly flew away, trying to figure out a way to use Cursed Claws to defeat this Demon!
"Cursed Claws is my only way of defending and attacking, I have figured out things that I would had never imagined before, and there must be something else! There must be a way!"
My Split Minds started to intensively think on ways of using this skill in combination with others, but barely anything came.
"Without Magic, our options are very thin, and this Demon power and defense is incredible, he's taking the explosions like nothing at all!"
"Perhaps… No that's not it… Ugh! Maybe… Could it be?"
"You got something, Lazy Mind?"
"Yes! I think so! How about you wrap your claws in your strong thread, you can't use magic thread, but the normal one is still there!"
"How could that even work?!"
"Just do it!!"
"Agh! Okay!"
The Demon Wolf came closer and closer, flaming like a mad meteor!
As I activated more Cursed Claws to explode on his face, I multitasked and activated my Strong Thread Creation over 5 Cursed Claws, the threads completely covered the Claws, and seemed to merge with them, reinforcing the claws, and making them more solid looking.
"Ah! I think I figured what you meant! If I maintain the energy of the Cursed Claws on place using this amazingly strong thread, the energy won't dissipate after hitting something, right?"
"You got it right! However, this is nothing more than theory! We must try it!"
"Al right! Leave it to me!"
Energetic Mind took over my body and wen't right ahead of the Wolf!
FLASH!
"H-Hey! Aren't you being too sudden?!"
The Wolf noticed my sudden bravery and praised me!
"HAHAHAHA! Amazing! Come! Let's fight to the death!!!"
As I flew at max speed, the Wolf also engulfed its body in intense flames! Creating a strong heat pressure!
FLUOSH!
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
I moved the Reinforced Cursed Claws ahead of me to intercept the Wolf Flaming Tackle!
BOOOOOOM!
An incredible shock wave filled the Anti-Magic zone!
CRASH!
Surprisingly, the Reinforced Cursed Claws stayed on place, using its full force to stop the strong might of the Wolf!
"It worked?!"
"HMMM?! What are these thing?! Your Claws, became solid now?!"
"It seems that the thread stacked on the countless skills forming the Cursed Claws, reinforcing its power"
"But how can just a strong thread do this?!"
"I don't know exactly how it works, but it seems that if you apply a creation related skill on something energy based, it can become solid, it's like another weird System bug, just like the Cursed Claws detonating before, it's something that perhaps the System can't handle completely by itself"
"Maybe the System never expected any being to just combine so many skills in one place, after all, the myriad of skills that you possess is because of your God Blessing, and normally any living being wouldn't have so many skills to fuse, making it an unreliable strategy"
"Agh! This is too confusing! I will just keep creating more! Activate Skill: Cursed Claw! Activate Skill: Strong Thread Creation and Manipulation!"
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Countless Cursed Claws appeared out of thin air, and the thread I created wrapped all of them.
The Claws quickly absorbed this thread and their transparent appearance became more solid looking.
I quickly made stacked on more Cursed Claws while the first ones were still hanging with the Wolf, stopping it from advancing, although, they seemed a little weaker.
"Look, the other claws look like they are getting weaker; perhaps because it became a solid object, I has obtained Durability stat?"
"I don't know! However, I will just keep making more! CURSED CLAW! CURSED CLAW!"
The Reinforced Cursed Claws grabbed on the Wolf Armor from all sides, while others started to dissipate, probably reaching their Durability limit.
While the Wolf had his limbs tightly grabbed by three Claws each, I used the remaining nine Claws and started to punch him all over its body!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"Ghhh! T-These are way stronger! How can it be?! I can't barely move! You are a formidable enemy! But I must do my all too!"
FLUOSH!
The Wolf Armor started to exude a strong heat all over its body, and its crimson color quickly became orange, covering its whole body on ferocious flames!
"FULL FLAME BURST MODE!!!!!"
BOOOOM!
The Wolf Armor released a strong fire aura, burning every Claw attacking him to a crisp!
"W-WHAT?! It even got skills! It's just an armor!"
The Wolf laughed and celebrated.
"HAHAHAHA! You made me reach my limit! I will use all my power now! FULL FLAME BURST FLAMING TACKLE!"
FLASH!
Like a flaming meteor, a strong and powerful force crashed over my body!
CLAAASH!!
"Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!"
The wolf did not finish here, as he kept pushing me through the ground, making an incredible deep pit, pushing my entire body to its limits!
"Ghhhhhaaaaaaaaa!"
The flames were so hot that they started melting the ground, generating lava around the strong tackle of the Wolf!
If it wasn't for Flame Body, I would had already become complete dust!
BOOOOM!
The Wolf finally stopped its powerful tackle and jumped out of the deep pit, filled with hot lava.
"Hmph, you have Flame Body, but can it protect you from melting rocks?"
I quickly realized that I was drowning in lava itself, even with full flame immunity given by Flame Body, the melting rocks still damaged my body.
"F-Fuck! Agghhhhh! Ahhhh! I must! Get out! UUUAAAAAAAAAAGGHHH!"
I tried to fly away but my Wings were already melting.
"Uuuggghhh! N-No! I can't die! I can't die yet! Aaaagghhh! It hurts so much! Flame Body barely lets my body not get completely melted!"
"MAIN MIND! HANG IN THERE!"
"MAIN MIND! DON'T DIE!"
My split minds were quick to react and activated Strong Thread Creationg, using these threads, I was able to climb out of the Flaming Lava pit.
"Agghhh…"
The Wolf, who has been looking my struggle this whole time, was surprised.
"Hmmph… Impressive, even with such pain, you still keep going?"
I tightly grabbed from my Threads and noticed my completely humanoid body having severe burns all over it, with my once smooth skin burned and bleeding.
"Ghh… S-Shut up…"
The Wolf laughed.
"Haha… Come again?