## Chapter 1093 – Ancient Vampire

Right now, the only ones up this high are Coltrahen and me.

“Nonsense!!!”

Just like before, he spat blood and seemingly committed suicide, then regenerated from the splattered blood, repeatedly firing blood cannons to pressure me. It was genuinely tricky. I actually got hit a few times because of that tactic. More than anything, it fucking hurt, you son of a bitch.

“Shit.”

Swallowing the pain I still felt… I looked up.

The ceiling, far above.

I had to get up there.

—Fwoosh!

I dodged all the blood cannons Coltrahen was firing, and sprinted upwards. Before, I hadn’t anticipated the timing of his attacks from both directions, so I missed my chance and got hit.

Now that I knew he could pull that shit, I wasn’t going to fall for it again!

—Zzzzzzzzz!

“Kieeeeeeeeeeck!!!”

But even so, it was still difficult to dodge multiple shots fired simultaneously. I stepped on the vines, shooting myself upwards, and drastically changing my trajectory to dodge all the blood cannons, finally reaching the top.

—The top.

To crush him.

I needed to be at a higher altitude than him.

That’s why I climbed all the way up.

“I’ll crush you from above.”

Crushing everything beneath me.

And thus, reigning supreme.

That was the true Heavenly Demon Descent.

Of course, the real Heavenly Demon would drag down and trample even those above him, but if that were the case, it would be more efficient to just crush everything from a high place from the start.

My past experiences and life had made my power even stronger, and now I was sure I could draw out its true strength, beyond just a glimpse of it.

Above all, I was a demigod.

It was possible.

—The power of the demigod felt within.

I did it back then, there was no reason I couldn’t do it now!!!

—Flap!

The Blood Demon Coltrahen was just maintaining his altitude from before, firing blood cannons at me, or bombarding the area below. He didn’t need to bother following me up. That was probably what he was thinking.

For him, firing blood cannons from afar might be more efficient than engaging in a close-quarters battle where he had no chance of winning. He actually landed a few hits, after all.

Sly bastard…!

“That’s your downfall.”

I was a demigod. A Heavenly Demon. And I looked down with the eyes of a seeker. That thing flying around like a pathetic mosquito down there was the Vampire Lord, the Blood Demon?

“That’s why you’re falling from this place.”

His status was too low.

I had no choice but to trample him.

In that state.

I aimed at his head.

—Whoosh!

And jumped off the vine.

—Whoooooosh!!

Fierce air resistance.
And the feeling of speed.

The true Heavenly Demon Descent, which I had used once before when I first fought Hilde. Back then, I had completed and realized a part of that secret technique with the hints given by the Wright brothers, and the enlightenment I gained from all the beings I had killed.

Forcing the weight of the beings I had killed onto the opponent, and reigning supreme.

—Drag down, reign supreme, and trample.

Right now.

It was time to do it.

“Ah.”

As I fell.

I felt that power from back then. I couldn’t feel it properly back then because I was such a weakling, and I only accepted it abstractly, but I could feel it clearly now.

—With this power, I can do it.

I can make this space mine. Trample all of the Blood Demon’s being, make him fall to the ground, dig his grave there, and put up a tombstone!

“Heavenly Demon Divine Art.”

Very precisely.
I unleashed the Heavenly Demon Divine Art as I fell.

He couldn’t escape.

Because at this moment, I was faster than him.

—Whoooooooooooooosh!

“Hahaha! How insignificant, human! No matter how much you struggle, you can’t kill me! Didn’t you learn anything from seeing me regenerate by taking my own life!”

Coltrahen shouted as he looked up at me.

Right. Destroying his body wasn’t very meaningful. He was a guy who regenerated as he pleased. So I would drag him down there, limit his self-made regen points, and then beat the shit out of him!!!

—Flap!

Coltrahen flapped his wings, trying to get out of the way as I approached. In my accelerated thoughts, that sight began to look like it was in slow motion.

—Fwoosh!

At that moment, I accelerated my fall.

“Heavenly Demon Descent.”

And activated the Heavenly Demon Descent.

—The power boiling over from my entire body is concentrated on my feet.
An immense power dwelled in my legs.

It was.

“…!”

A meteor.

—Thwaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!!!

At the moment of impact, the Blood Demon Coltrahen’s entire body was not only shattered, but evaporated into a mist of blood. His body was completely disintegrated by the immense impact.

—Hwaaaaaaack!!

In that state, I fell.

The power was strong. The most powerful force among all the Heavenly Demon Descents I had ever performed erupted. It was truly the strongest Heavenly Demon Descent ever.

But I now.

Sensed that the technique had failed.

“What the fuck…!”

It was just powerful and destructive.

It was destroying everything.
Not overwhelming and `crushing` everything.

—Hwarururuk…!

The power of the demigod was burning fiercely.
The technique was perfect.

But in a direction that wasn’t needed right now.

—Whoooooooooosh!

I looked up as I fell.

—Hwaaaaaaack!

The disintegrated Coltrahen was regenerating in the air. If he wasn’t such an immortal being, he would have been crushed to death by that Heavenly Demon Descent just now. But… what I needed now wasn’t a technique to destroy him, but a technique to drag everything down!

I had to make all the blood permeating this place fall!

“Have you realized it’s useless?”

—Glint!

“How insignificant and foolish.”

The flash of the Blood Demon Death Beam flickered above.

“Die.”

Accelerated thoughts, realized failure.

Even though the Blood Demon was destroyed by me, he regenerated above without falling, and was trying to aim for my head. If that Blood Demon Death Beam fell vertically like that, it would be fatal this time. There was no one who could save me.

I thought as I fell straight down, still in the same posture as when I was performing the Heavenly Demon Descent.

—Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

The Blood Demon Death Beam would be fired from above my head soon.
If that fell, I was screwed.

However.

—Hwarurururuk!

My soul was still not extinguished.

“…What was the problem?”

Where did I go wrong? This was a great Heavenly Demon Descent in its own right. A true Heavenly Demon’s step, filled with the power to destroy everything. But what I needed now wasn’t destruction, but reigning supreme.

“Reigning supreme.”

…Was that it.

“I see.”

A red light poured out from above my head.
At the same time, I realized.

—Efficiency.

I failed because I thought about efficiency.

The true Heavenly Demon.

Didn’t think about efficiency, but just.

“…Reigns supreme.”

Performing the Heavenly Demon Descent from a higher altitude than him to strengthen the power? Right. That was the error from the start. A wrong idea. An undignified idea that only efficiency freaks would think of.

Would a Heavenly Demon bother going all the way up there to perform the Heavenly Demon Descent in order to strengthen his destructive power?

—What a joke.

Ridiculous.
The Heavenly Demon didn’t need to do that.

Hadn’t I already done it once when I defeated Hilde?
—Just stepping on the ground and crushing the opponent.

I just had to do that, but.

I lost my dignity trying to improve it in a clumsy way, and this is what happened. The Heavenly Demon was a collection of swagger and style. Then, rather than really pursuing `efficiency`.

“Just.”

It was efficient just because I did it.

So you guys just had to know your place.

I just had to force it on everyone.

Even if it wasn’t actually efficient. If the Heavenly Demon said, “This is efficient,” then that was efficient. No. There was no need to say it. Everything the Heavenly Demon did was efficient because he was the Heavenly Demon.

There was no need to go up from the start.

The Heavenly Demon was an existence that commanded without lifting a finger from that spot.

—Thump…!

As soon as I realized that, the power within me surged, and I clearly felt the demigod’s power burning, burning my brain and spirit. The demigod’s power that had been burning from the beginning stretched out in a different direction again. Right. I was the one who controlled this power. I could rework it in any way I wanted.

The Heavenly Demon was an existence that thought like a Heavenly Demon.
And thus, the Heavenly Demon was completed.

Thinking about efficiency was something only the weak did.

When I realized that much.

“Heavenly Demon Divine Art.”

I took another step.

“Heavenly Demon Descent.”

Come down, Coltrahen.
This is the end.

—Hwarurururuk!!!

Blue flames blazed from the soles of my feet. The blazing flames brushed past my entire body. At the same time, as if this was the true Heavenly Demon Descent.

“…!”

—Crack!

The Blood Demon Death Beam that was falling from above disappeared, and its remnants began to fall faster than me.

“What!!!”

The same was true for Coltrahen.

Faster than I was falling, he and the blood that made him up. And all of his blood that was scattered above me, brushed past me and fell. The blood smeared on the walls. The blood mist scattered in the atmosphere. All of it. Everything. Fell down as if it was being squeezed out.

And so, what was above me.

—There was nothing.

Even Ari’s vines were quickly disintegrating and falling.

The heaviest thing pressing down was the Heavenly Demon Descent.

“This is the Heavenly Demon Descent.”

The moment I declared that.

—Thud!

I landed lightly.

“The Blood Demon is no match for the Heavenly Demon.”

The place I landed was none other than the top of the pancake made by combining everything I had dragged down and made fall. Because I had compressed everything of Coltrahen’s into one place, the pancake was black, beyond just being red.

There was no collateral damage at all.

This was the Heavenly Demon Descent that was aimed at just making him kneel, not destroying him. Only a small crater was created in the place I stepped on.

The Heavenly Demon controlled his power like a Heavenly Demon.

“Katt-nim!!!”
“Father!!!”

At the same time, they were taking everything in… No. They might not have seen it. What happened from up there to down here. It was truly something that happened in seconds. In their eyes, it might have looked like I suddenly landed on top of a black pancake that was created in an instant.

“What on earth just…!”
“I won.”

I said to Ari, who was in confusion.

“I defeated Coltrahen and came down.”
“Th-Then this black dough-like thing is…”
“It’s Coltrahen.”

—Squish!

I went up from the top of the pancake that covered the small crater, and onto the normal floor.

“What on earth is this… I don’t think I saw it properly…”
“Wh-What happened!”

By then, everyone had approached. They were bewildered as they looked at the small crater and the pancake.

“Let’s explain later! Risha! Now’s the time! Make an opening!”
“A-Alright!”

It was the moment Risha was about to start working.

—Twitch…!

The black pancake that had entered the crater slowly began to move.

“H-Hey! You said you won! I think that bastard’s regenerating!”

Karin shouted.

“What the fuck!”

I thought I killed him, but he’s regenerating!

And.

—Pwahahahaack!

Something soared out of the black pancake.

“Geeeeeeuh…! Geeeeeuh!!!”

With a visual that looked like it had emerged from a swamp of oil, it screamed with multiple arms and legs, and incomprehensible organs all over its body.

—It was Coltrahen!

To do that even after getting hit by my Heavenly Demon Descent!
He was persistent after all!

“Let’s just fucking beat him up!!!”
“A-Alright!”

At my shout, they rushed towards it.

I also swung Vugal, cutting him off while swallowing my dizzying mind.

—Kwaaaang!!
—Kuuuuuuuuung!
—Thwaaaang!

In that way, an infinite amount of beatings poured down on Coltrahen, who had become an unknown black mass. Now he was just a punching bag. Destroy, and destroy again. At the same time, I thoroughly smashed him so that the remnants wouldn’t fly away, so that he couldn’t escape even if he regenerated again.

He was getting beaten to hell while regenerating.