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    "SO DAMN COLD…! YOU BASTARDS!"


    Mammon roared with demonic fury, his demonic mes rapidly mixing with his spiritual powers once more, as he unleashed three more eruptions of mes from the ground.


    This time, aside from trying to cover his own body with them to melt Elfriedden''s Divine Draconic Ice, he fired some at him directly, from the left and right, all while he was already taking down a huge mass of living demonic spiritual mes.


    Because indeed, these mes were somewhat alive, they moved on their own, roared, and were pretty much chasing after targets. This was the reason they were so hard to kill! Mammon was figuring out a way to grant "life" to pretty much anything by fusing them with spiritual energy.


    "Dammit!"


    Elfriedden saw the two seas of rainbow and demonic mes approaching, quickly gripping his fists and attempting to escape, only for the mes he thought he had turned off to suddenly regain some of their power, forming giant chains wrapped around his legs!


    "SHAAAH!"


    The mes roared and hissed at him, showing hundreds of different, demonic headsing out from them, these mes were not just alive, they were synthetized out of the souls of the demons Mammon was constantly devouring!


    "What?! Ugh…! NO!"


    Elfriedden was about to encase himself on a dome of ice to resist the iing mes, while he used his sharp needles to destroy the mes beneath. However, that tactic alone was already too dangerous!


    BOOOM! BOOOM!


    Both Living Demonic Spirit mes shed against Elfriedden in thest moment, his dome of ice, a barrier of divine draconic frost he created around his body rapidly began to shatter and melt!


    Crack, crack…!


    "You have to be kidding me! I can''t handle this on my own?!"


    As he felt frustrated once more that Mammon was targeting him to this extent, Elfriedden tried to harness more and more of his icy powers, but the frost, although powerful, could not handle so many living mes at once.


    It was only natural, he was very strong, but there were limits even to the strong.


    "Where could those idiots have gone to now from- Ah!"


    As Elfriedden saw his barrier about to shatter, two figures rushed from the skies. Both were bratty teenager boys with overly muscr bodies, young warriors whose powerful bodies were epassed on mes of their own.


    "Missed us, knife ears?!"


    "You''re always getting yourself into trouble, don''t fight alone!"


    Chris swung his giant Spiritual Axe as his Spirits fused together around his body. While he was fused with his fox, the rest of his spirits converged together into a powerful crimson armor around his body.


    CLAAASH!


    The enormous impact that his attack unleashed into the mes pushed them back as the countless demonic souls thatposed them screamed in agony.


    At the same time, Erdrich, on his ck Demon form, shed against the mes, the golden tattoos spread across his body spread further and further, resembling zing golden mes.


    His bare fists stopped the mes and then, with a myriad of blows, the mes started to dissipate as his punches pierced through them, makingrge pieces of the living fire simply disappear!


    BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!


    Feeling happy that they finally managed to catch up, Elfriedden wasted no time, quickly finishing off the relentless living me below him with his needles, sewing through its entire body and then shing and piercing through it.


    SLASH! SLASH!


    CRASH!


    "Gryyeeeggh!"


    The living mes exploded into pieces and dissipated into pure smoke, as Elfriedden finally learned the thing truly died this time. He learned that to truly eliminate them, these living mes had to explode into smoke.


    "Keep hitting them, until they explode into smoke, they won''t'' die, don''t fall for their tricks!"


    Elfriedden assisted both Chris and Erdrich, theirbined efforts allowed them to quickly ovee this challenge, both living mes were overwhelmed, until they exploded.


    BOOM! BOOM!


    Their bodies explodedpletely into pure ck smoke, with no more mes left behind. It actually worked, just as Elfriedden had stated!


    "So that''s how it works, alright!" Chris nodded. "Though, you look a bit different, or is that my idea? Elfriedden…"


    "This is a new form I''ve taken, a new power I had no idea I possessed," Elfriedden answered. "But right now, there''s no time to talk about my incredible talent and powers, we have to quickly go assist everyone else, let''s go!"


    "Yeah, I was going to do it even if you didn''t tell us!" Erdrich charged first.


    Mammon noticed the three powerful young men approaching, his entire body continued birthing demonic spirits, as an army of three hundred demonic spirits of all shapes and sizes greeted them!


    "Demonic Spirits?!" Chris asked, shocked to see them here.


    "How can it create them so easily?!" Erdrich had bad memories about them.


    "Don''t mind their existence, just kill them!" Elfriedden said. "We must procure the safety of the citizens, their spirits… are not important! Their lives are, destroy the spirits if they get in front of our path, don''t hesitate. As thest remaining member of the royal family, I give you permission!"


    As Elfriedden roared, Chris and Erdrich nodded, smiling, their bodies red with spiritual and demonic mes respectively. Their bodies bulged with stronger muscles as they quickly enhanced their physical prowess.


    "If you insist…!"


    "No mercy then!"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Both zing giants rushed forward, Chris Axes and Erdrich Fists shed and tore through the Demonic Spirits with tremendous firepower. Within seconds, they had already gone through half of the army. These Spirits were strong, their power even beingparable to A+ Rank monsters.


    However, before this trio, they were nothing but fodder. Elfriedden stayed behind them, covering their backs from iing blows and summoning as many needles as he could, firing them as deadly projectiles.


    Due to his Talent and Skills, Elfriedden''s needles could deal bonus damage against anybody, and ended being much more lethal than any of his other projectile shapes.


    BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!


    As ke watched his friends cover that area, he and Erika decided to go all out, Mammon was already beginning to stand back up, his wings spread further, bingrger and more menacing.


    Despite all the damage he had taken, the Archdemon was nning something again!


    "Erika, release all your draconic power now, you have my permission!"


    "I''ll do!"


    Both of them transformed their bodies bing hundreds of meters tall!


    RUMBLE!


    A battle of titans was about to begin.


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