Re: Devil - Volume 1 Chapter 7

“Now then, What should I do?”

I said that as I watched the hell maggot rampaging wildly with my weapon stuck inside it’s body dealing miniscule damage. [I think]

Even so, the hell maggot’s vitality was very high furthermore it was tenacious and I could not see it falling down anytime soon.

I could either wait for it to die slowly or I could attack it while avoiding it’s attack. On the premise of not getting hit both options were feasible but sadly both were also high risk because one hit from the hell maggot could cause me fatal damage.

“Tch… At the end I needed to use [Shadow Claw].” I invoked [Shadow Claw] and my claws grew longer and were enveloped by black-colored substances.

I wanted to try using my [Shadow Claw] to see whether or not it effected the maggot. I dashed towards the maggot and quickly clawed it’s body and then I stepped back swiftly avoiding it’s body attack.

It actually worked and it worked better than I thought it would. I could see some green-colored fluid spurting out from it’s body.

I decided to continue to attack using [Shadow Claw] while really avoiding it’s rampage and random attacks. I believed there was a saying “the best defence is a good offence.” [Where do I know this from?]

[Well anyway, you all know the drill. Exploitation. I decided to just hit and then run. I could see that as long as I don’t make any mistakes the maggot will not be able to hit me.]

I repeated attacking the hell maggot’s body using my [Shadow Claw]. Not long after, the hell maggot’s body was riddled with claw marks and wounds and I could also see that it’s movement was becoming sluggish that I didn’t need to make an effort to dodge and preditct it’s next attack.

I wanted to end this using my weapon because I also wanted to maintain my stamina after this fight. I canceled out my [Shadow Claw] and waited for the chance to jump.

Seeing the right time to jump, I jumped and mounted it’s body and pierced the weapon deeper in it’s body. Of course the maggot reacted instinctively sensing the pain and wanted to jumped backwards.

I quickly positioned myself to jump forward while holding my weapon. With the help of the momentum I successfully took out my weapon as well as dealing additional damage to the hell maggot.

The hell maggot finally let out it’s final screech before falling down.

“Wew … This was not so troublesome as I thought it would. The maggot was actually easy to kill but why did Inpuji say that it was suicide fighting a maggot?”

I shrugged off the thought because at the end I already killed it.

As I walked closer to the hell maggot’s body thinking to devour it, I saw some movement from the maggot’s dead body. It was wriggling liked something wanted to come out.

“Oi oi this isn’t funny at all. Dead bodies don’t move, do they?” I held my guard up and prepared my weapon against incoming danger that would come out from the body.

Then something came out. I saw a grotesque looking creature came out from the dead maggot’s body.

It had two antennaes but one of it was broken. It had quite a large head ,bigger than the maggot , with compound eyes on the side of the head. It had a stout piercing mouth that looked sharp. 1 pair of wings and 3 pair of legs and a body covered with insect’s fluid.

I closed my ear because the sound was more destructive than the maggot’s screech.

Then it saw me. Just as I wanted to guard and got into my stance, the creature suddenly lunged itself towards me and I took full brunt of the attack.

I was flung backwards and fell on the ground. I threw up a mouthful of blood. I could feel that my insides are damaged because of the attack.

I quickly used my [Inspect] to see what the hell was I fighting. [Inspect]

[Hell Fly (Incomplete Metamorphosis)/*(Interrupted Evolution)]

[F.u.c.k me, so you are saying that the hell maggot was high leveled enough to evolve but it didn’t want to evolve yet. Wait a minute, by evolving you can get back to full health if it was successful. So the hell maggot was not dead but at the foot from the death’s door?!]

My thoughts were interrupted as the hell fly spewed some odd-looking mucus from it’s mouth that I quickly dodged it. I didn’t want to know what it’s effects were.

Some of the mucus landed on the surface of some rocks and eroded it. I gulped at the sight of that. [What should I do… What should I do… AH! I know, I could use that]

After spewing out some mucus, the hell fly lunged itself again towards me but this I used [Lesser Skin Hardening].

I managed to hold my ground and didn’t got flung backwards but the pain was still there. I gritted my teeth and I raised my weapon upwards and swung it down towards the hell fly.

The hell fly swiftly stepped backwards but I managed to still hit it.

One of the legs of the hell fly was actually cut through.

[I see, the situation is not hopeless as I thought it would. Although the hell fly is very fast and it has good agility and it’s attack packs quite a punch. It’s defence is worse than it’s previous form.]

[The Lesser Skin Hardening actually works and I think I got an idea.]

“Hey fly, Come attack me!” I taunted the hell fly with my finger. The hell fly seeing that got enraged and lunged itself.

But this time I was more prepared than the first two attacks. I went into my guarding stance and also protected my vital.

I coughed up mouthful of blood but I spewed towards it’s eyes. The fly was blinded for a second. Then I quickly stabbed it’s body using my weapon.

I took out my weapon by slashing it upwards towards the head but sadly it jumped backwards.

A large wound appeared in it’s body with it’s body fluid gushing out constantly. I could see victory but …

The hell fly ran towards me and slashed at me using it’s stout piercing mouth. Sensing the danger I instinctively readied my weapon and blocked it.

My hand holding the weapon was numb but the hell fly didn’t stop there. It swung it’s head and slashed again but I counterattacked it.

We continued doing this exchange while also getting a little cut until after I successly parried it’s mouth, my weapon broke during the fight and I let my guard down and …

The hell fly sensing this chance quickly slashed down but unfortunately I didn’t react and dodge in time. A large wounds appeared in my body area.

I endured the pain because I knew If I fl.u.s.tered I would be devoured. Without caring about the pain I quickly used [Shadow Claw].

Although the range was shorter than my weapon, it was still better than being weaponless. We continued our fight but this time me being defensively and the hell fly was slashing and slicing recklessly.

I thought, the hell fly knew that it didn’t have much time left and wanted to quickly to devour me to heal itself so I just waited for the right chance.

And the chance came, Just as the hell fly wanted to stab me using it’s mouth. I grabbed it using my [Shadow Claw] and I counterattacked it using my other [Shadow Claw] at it’s head.

The head of the hell fly flew away. The body twitched for a moment before it fell down in front of me realizing that it’s head was gone.

“Hah… Hah… gugk?!” I threw up again a mouthful of blood. Finally after the adrenaline left me, I beared the full brunt of the acc.u.mulated pain during the battle.

I was currently really in a mess. My insides were damaged badly, my weapon broke and I thought my essences were almost null. I was also bleeding and I needed to quickly stop it.

“Need essences… quick… ” I quickly devoured the body in front of me. I could feel a huge amount of essences from this body were absored by my body.

My insides were fixed but they were not fully healed as I needed to rest. But my bleeding stopped and at least I could walk.

I quickly looked for the head that was flown away and I found it. I quickly devoured it and hopefully I got some skills and just as I wanted to eat the stout mouth, I received something.

[Congratulations! Hell started to take notice of you, little imp!]

“What the f…?”