Chapter 528: One Against Two, Still Dominating!

“Cotis?”

Watching Cotis use the Divine Cutter to block the attack for him, Demiugos had initially been puzzled—he could have blocked it himself, so why had Cotis intervened?

But soon, upon seeing Cotis’s situation, he instantly understood why Cotis had just helped him block the attack.

As long blade met long blade, a sharp metallic clang rang out, and the surrounding air instantly transformed into an invisible shockwave that swept outward.

The trees standing around them, at the very moment Shengzai’s blade clashed with Cotis’s weapon, were instantly severed by the fierce sword qi across a radius of hundreds of meters.

Sparks flew from the colliding blades, and Demiugos stared in shock as Cotis’s towering frame—over two and a half meters tall—was forcibly slid backward more than ten meters by the impact.

In terms of raw physical ability, Cotis was unquestionably among the top in Nazarick’s mausoleum.

Yet in this close-quarters melee clash, he was actually falling behind!

If Cotis, with such immense physical strength, was already at a disadvantage, what would have happened to him just now if he had used his “Demon’s Manifestations” arms to block the attack?

Without a doubt, his arms would have been severed instantly—that would’ve been the best-case scenario.

After all, his own physical stats were among the weakest of the Guardians, only stronger than Viktim’s, and barely fifty percent better than the battle maids.

“How can a human possibly have physical strength at this level?!”

Realizing Shengzai was no ordinary human, Demiugos no longer took any chances—he immediately activated his transformation ability.

As a demon, Demiugos’s human form was merely his weakest state, for he possessed three stages of transformation.

At this moment, as a terrifying aura erupted from his body, Demiugos skipped the second stage entirely and leapt straight into his final, third-stage transformation.

Fully demonized, Demiugos bore the title “The Ultimate Expression of Male Romance,” Nazarick’s most terrifying demonic form.

“Roar——————!”

Fully demonized, Demiugos unfurled a pair of fleshy wings from his back and spat a torrent of “Jihanah’s Flame” straight at Shengzai on the ground.

Yet as the crimson fire column consumed everything around it—even turning the earth into molten lava—Shengzai raised one hand and summoned a glowing emerald-green barrier that completely shielded himself.

““Acalanātha (Immovable King Strike)”!”

Just as he blocked Demiugos’s Jihanah’s Flame, Cotis reappeared before Shengzai using “High-Level Teleport,” swinging his massive silver-white halberd.

“Deng——————!”

Shengzai swiftly crossed his blade horizontally and blocked Cotis’s heavy downward strike; the ground beneath his feet instantly cracked, forcing his legs deep into the earth.

Yet despite the vast difference in physique, Cotis’s blow failed to bend Shengzai’s arms.

“Even my full-power strike is perfectly blocked—you’re clearly an exceptional warrior.”

“But merely blocking my ‘Decapitating Fang’ won’t save you.”

“Frost Aura!”

The scorched earth and molten lava from Demiugos’s flames now froze instantly as Cotis unleashed a wave of chilling energy, as if the entire area had plunged into an ice age.

A layer of white frost spread visibly from Cotis’s halberd, traveling up Shengzai’s blade and rapidly covering his entire body.

As Shengzai’s body became completely encased in ice, causing momentary stiffness, Cotis seized the opening and raised his other arm—the Divine Cutter—and swung it toward Shengzai.

“Martial Art—Dual Heaven Flash!”

As Cotis’s blade descended, Shengzai’s body temperature surged violently, and suddenly, crimson flames erupted from his entire form.

In the instant the flames burst forth, the ice coating him melted instantly, and the searing heat, as if guided, coalesced into a second flaming blade in his other hand, striking back at Cotis with superior speed.

The sudden eruption of flames was in fact the Pokémon move “Flame Charge.”

As the flame blade slashed across Cotis’s body, the fire instantly reacted violently with his released “Frost Aura.”

The clash of freezing air and scorching heat generated vast amounts of steam, triggering a torrential downpour.

“Compared to other Guardians who rely on armor, a warrior’s body is the strongest weapon.”

“My physical armor is immune to ranged projectiles, resists lower-tier weapon strikes for short durations, and possesses high fire resistance.”

“A fine martial art—but using fire-based attacks was a mistake.”

Cotis had four arms; previously, two held “Decapitating Fang” and “Divine Cutter,” both of which Shengzai had successfully blocked.

Now, as he took Shengzai’s flame blade directly, his other two arms retrieved two more weapons from storage: “Kurikara Sword” and “Immovable Snare.”

One weapon dealt multiplied damage with a fatal strike; the other reduced the enemy’s evasion rate.

To evade these attacks, Shengzai had almost no option but to use spatial magic.

Yet at the same moment, Demiugos, having anticipated Shengzai might use spatial magic, immediately activated “Dimensional Lock.”

“I suppose it’s no surprise a max-level Guardian could do this—but you think this is enough to defeat me? How naive.”

“Bone Vein—Abyssal Dance!”

The ground before Shengzai suddenly split open, and two colossal skeletal arms burst forth!

As Cotis swung his remaining two arms’ weapons at Shengzai, the newly emerged giant bone hands suddenly clamped together, trapping Cotis’s entire body between their palms.

This sudden turn of events left not only Cotis and Demiugos stunned—even Yarbed, watching from afar, furrowed her brow deeply.

Shengzai’s displayed power had exceeded Yarbed’s expectations.

Cotis was Nazarick’s strongest weapon user; in one-on-one combat, he ranked only below Shalltear.

Demiugos’s combat ability might be the weakest among all max-level Guardians, but even the weakest Layer Guardian is still a Layer Guardian.

Yet now, with Cotis and Demiugos fighting together, they were still being dominated by this Shurou King!

(End of Chapter)