Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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Each of the six-armed serpent demons has a slightly different appearance.

The serpent demon had a giant serpent tail that was olive green with brown ring-shaped spots, and its upper body was dark gray. Its two eyes were like two glass balls that emitted a red glow.

The reborn individual discovered that the six-armed snake demon with an olive-green tail seemed to be longer and taller than himself.

The olive-green-tailed guy immediately launched into a tirade: "I summoned you to help me fight, not for you to stand around doing nothing! You idiot!"

She listened and managed to guess a little about his background.

—I was summoned to this world by you.

She suddenly realized that demons could indeed do this, temporarily summoning projections of other demons of their kind to help them in battle.

So, am I a temporary projection? With such abundant evil and chaotic energy here, does that mean I'm currently in an abyss?

So, what am I?

—A six-armed serpent demon whose demonic body remained in the material world but was temporarily summoned and projected into the bottomless abyss by its fellow demons.

Isn't this completely the opposite?

Before she could fully process what was happening, a thunderous roar rang in her ears.

The six-armed serpent demon turned its head in bewilderment and was astonished to see a huge figure rushing towards it.

That big guy was actually a head taller than her. His strong body was surrounded by a black and purplish-red halo, his bat-like wings were spread high, and his whole body was crackling with terrifying flames.

He brandished a long whip that resembled a fiery serpent in one hand, and held a long sword in the other, which looked like a dazzling bolt of purplish-red lightning!

Chapter 59 Dreams Never End

Before the six-armed serpent demon could react, the nearly four-meter-tall demon, its body wreathed in flames, lashed down with its fiery whip.

Accompanied by intense, sharp pain, the burning whip wrapped around the six-armed serpent demon's arm.

The whip, wreathed in flames, was covered in barbed spikes and hard, small hammer-like prongs, countless barbs deeply embedded in her flesh. However, thanks to the demon's powerful damage immunity, it inflicted almost no real harm on the six-armed serpent demon.

In the next instant, the giant fire demon pulled the fire serpent whip back.

She felt a tremendous and violent force coming from her arm, and her body was instantly thrown uncontrollably toward the blazing figure opposite her.

She screamed and fiercely swung her sword forward.

Just as she was about to be engulfed by flames, a silver-blue sword light and another black shadow pierced into the massive figure beneath the firelight!

A deafening roar erupted above her head.

The "Mand of the Spellbreaker" and the "Shadow Strike Sword" unleashed unparalleled destructive power. The holy and anti-magic properties of the silver-blue adamantite blades dealt a heavy blow to the fire demon, while the unreflective black blades automatically pierced through the fire demon's damage reduction, leaving it with two massive wounds that penetrated deep into its internal organs.

The enormous fiery figure painfully flapped its two bat-like wings on its back, dropped its lightning-fast longsword, and clutched its ribs with its giant hand.

The purplish-black demonic blood, mixed with the chaotic and evil energy accumulated within its demonic body, gushed out from between its fingers, transforming into a shower of falling blood.

The great demon roared in shock and rage, swinging his fiery whip and flinging the six-armed serpent demon far away.

The giant serpent's body tumbled and was flung into the air.

She saw an endless expanse of land, filled with demons committing suicide one another. Then she fell from the sky, crashing down among a group of demons locked in combat. With a deafening thud, she slammed a foul-smelling, humanoid toad demon heavily into the bone-splattered mud.

Wisps of black mist emanated from the demon corpse beneath her, gradually dissipating into the purplish-red air.

Upon seeing this, the surrounding demons stopped in unison and howled as they pounced on the six-armed serpent demon.

With a series of slashes from "Mand of the Slayer" and "Shadow Strike Sword," she killed all the demons in the blink of an eye.

The six-armed serpent demon then realized just how powerful the two swords were here.

The demons of the bottomless abyss, their skin and bodies filled with evil and chaotic energies, possess damage reduction abilities that can only be broken by using benevolent energy or cold iron weapons. This means that when they fight each other, most of the damage is negated by mutual reduction.

But now, the damage reduction abilities of other demons are no match for the two swords in her hands.

In particular, the holy and demon-slaying greatsword "Mand of the Slayer" is a veritable demon-slaying nemesis.

Wherever the silver-blue sword light touched, demons died instantly upon contact!

In an instant, piles of demon corpses surrounded her, and wisps of black mist emanating from the corpses gathered together to form a dense black fog.

That is the essence of demonic power, the core of the abyss that constitutes the demon, now slowly returning to the abyss.

The six-armed serpent demon had absorbed it once while disposing of the corpse of a demon-born drow, which greatly restored her demonic body, so she benefited immensely.

The speed at which the black mist dissipated was far slower than the speed at which she slaughtered demons.

The six-armed serpent demon simply swung his sword with all his might while chanting dark holy words.

She was extremely excited to feel the seemingly endless demonic power surging into her body, constantly strengthening and nourishing her demonic form.

—I am now the exact opposite of an ordinary demon.

Most demons living in the Abyss, once summoned to the material world, engage in rampant slaughter. This is because they know they cannot die; at most, they will be banished back to their own plane. However, if their true form is killed in the material world by the summoning magic, or if their true form is killed in the Abyss, then the demon truly dies and ceases to exist.

Her true form had long been taken to the material world by summoning magic; this place is merely a projection of her summoning.

So she doesn't need to worry about being killed here at all, at most—

With a deafening roar, a blinding flash of fire filled the entire field of vision.

Amidst the excruciating pain throughout his body, the six-armed serpent demon saw a bolt of purplish-red lightning swiftly slash across his neck.

The view then spun around and tumbled down to the ground.

She saw her headless, charred body struggling erratically before finally collapsing to the ground.

Her gaze glazed over for a moment, and the last thing she saw was the giant claws of the fire demon stomping down on her.

The field of vision returned to complete darkness.

The six-armed snake demon screamed, its eyes widening, and sat up while holding a large, furry bundle.

She trembled all over and gasped for breath before realizing that she was in Ivy Beatrice's bedroom, and that she herself had transformed back into Ivy Beatrice.

The fluffy bear in her arms was woken up by her noise. It protested with a sleepy "coo" and then turned over in her arms before falling asleep again.

She fell back onto the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

So was that scene just now a nightmare, or was it a real experience of being summoned by magic, projected into the bottomless abyss, participating in a demon brawl, and ultimately being killed?

She closed her eyes.

Re-examine the anomalies of the spiritual world.

This time, no matter how close she brought her mental energy to the circular darkness, there was no reaction. The countless voices that had filled her mind before had now fallen silent.

However, she suddenly discovered that the advanced teleportation spell she could cast each day had increased from once to three times.

The six-armed serpent demon opened its emerald green vertical pupils.

That's not a dream.

He was indeed summoned to fight a battle in the bottomless abyss by another six-armed serpent demon, but he was killed due to carelessness, which caused the summoning spell to end prematurely.

However, there is one regrettable thing: perhaps because it was a projection rather than the real body, although several demons were killed this time, the amount of demonic essence extracted was far less than that extracted from the brains of the demonic drow.

That's fine too.

She comforted herself.

—In a chaotic battle involving hundreds or thousands of demons, no matter how powerful you are, you can't see and hear everything in all directions; life and death depend entirely on luck. If you were truly involved, you would already be beheaded by now.

She thought silently.

Based on initial experiences over this period, demonic essence and the soul of a living being have both similarities and differences.

Biological souls are arguably the most versatile form of energy. They can be used to repair damage to magic cores and to master profession inheritance, making them a universal experience value.

Even when necessary, demons can consume the souls they acquire to cast their own class-specific magic, using it as mana.

Demon essence can also be used to repair damage to the demon core, and it is even more efficient than the soul of a living being in this regard. Absorbing demon essence may also allow one to acquire spell-like abilities from other types of demons.

However, the essence of evil cannot be used to master class traditions, nor can it be consumed for spellcasting.

In other words, once the damage to one's demon core is fully restored, the Demon Essence becomes largely useless. However, it's still quite useful for now; it's just unknown when one can be summoned to the Abyss again.

The six-armed serpent demon picked up the thick volume of "Advanced Meditation" from the bedside table, somewhat annoyed. While stroking the bear cub in her arms, she flipped to the section she had finished reading last time and continued studying.

The demon could see in the dark; she didn't need to light an oil lamp or candle to see what was written on the scroll. The turning of the pages woke Xiong Gu again. The fluffy little thing purred sadly in her arms, burying its head in her cleavage and turning around, but finally settled down, watching curiously as she rustled the pages in the dark.

Reading a volume of "Advanced Meditation" would take a full 10 hours and six days in total. But this is only by human standards.

Demons are extraordinary and immortal beings. Their way of thinking and brain abilities are far superior to those of ordinary creatures, and their reading speed is incomparable to that of ordinary creatures.

The six-armed serpent demon was confident that he could finish reading the book within three days and make the intelligence-enhancing magic within it work.

—We must seize every minute to make ourselves stronger.

She told herself this, but her mind kept wandering:

Since I can be summoned to the Abyss, can I also be summoned to other places? Perhaps other worlds like Toril, or maybe I can cross the crystal walls and arrive at other dimensions, such as…

She shivered slightly.

The words of Enser, the thug, echoed in his ears again:

"...My father and I weren't originally here...we came into this world with the land beneath our feet—"

"...The Great God-King will come to liberate us, the Enser people, just as he defeated the evil Witch-King Imaska ​​before."

"What is the name of your God-King?"

"Gilkin. The eternal God-King and Savior of Enser, his name is Gilkin."

The emerald green vertical pupils shone brightly in the pitch-black bedroom, like two eerie green flames.

—Gilkin.

—The incarnation of Gilgamesh, the "Hero King" from Sumerian mythology on Earth in his previous life, who has traveled to this world.

Upon hearing this familiar name, she had already looked up relevant information.

Long ago, before the Enser people's kingdom was torn apart and transported to the world of Abel, it was land that originally belonged to the world of Toril. A wizarding kingdom called "Imaska" used teleportation magic that could penetrate crystal walls to bring a large number of Enser people and another race from an unknown otherworld to be enslaved.

However, the Enser people came into this world along with their faith. The Enser people prayed tirelessly to their gods, and eventually many Enser gods descended to earth in human form, leading the Enser people to overthrow the rule of the Imaska ​​people and establish their own country.

Later, due to immense war, many living gods perished. Furthermore, the native gods of Toril prevented the gods of Enser from radiating their divine power from beyond the distant crystal wall to descend upon Toril, and the Enser gods gradually disappeared. "God-King" Gilejin was the last living god among them. When "God-King" Gilejin was betrayed by the Enser and killed by "Queen of the Five Colors," Tiamat, the Enser people also declined along with their gods.

However, as the lands of the Enthers were transported from Toril to the world of Abel, their unwavering faith once again came into play.

There is no obstruction from the supreme god of Toril here. Legend has it that Gilejin, the "God King" of Enser, has successfully descended upon the world of Abel as the second living incarnation of a god.

He vowed to unite all the Enthers in Abel and return to the world of Toril to avenge himself against Tiamat, the "Five-Colored Dragon Queen" who had killed him, and to end the "New Imasca Empire" rebuilt by Queen Vulsusi of Imasca in her old homeland.

Since being reborn into this other world, the reborn person has had a dream that they have been hoping to realize at all times.

Her once warm home, her aging parents... those were things she could never let go of.

If only I could see it one more time…

But she knew that her power was too insignificant and she could only put it aside for the time being.

As she researched information about Enser, that dream rekindled in her heart, and now, having experienced this summoning to another world, she became certain:

One day, when she becomes powerful enough, her dream of transcending time and space will surely come true.

Just like a line from a shonen manga I read in a past life: "A person's dream will never end."

Chapter 60 Dreams Never End

Before the six-armed serpent demon could react, the nearly four-meter-tall demon, its body wreathed in flames, lashed down with its fiery whip.

Accompanied by intense, sharp pain, the burning whip wrapped around the six-armed serpent demon's arm.

The whip, wreathed in flames, was covered in barbed spikes and hard, small hammer-like prongs, countless barbs deeply embedded in her flesh. However, thanks to the demon's powerful damage immunity, it inflicted almost no real harm on the six-armed serpent demon.

In the next instant, the giant fire demon pulled the fire serpent whip back.

She felt a tremendous and violent force coming from her arm, and her body was instantly thrown uncontrollably toward the blazing figure opposite her.

She screamed and fiercely swung her sword forward.

Just as she was about to be engulfed by flames, a silver-blue sword light and another black shadow pierced into the massive figure beneath the firelight!

A deafening roar erupted above her head.

The "Mand of the Spellbreaker" and the "Shadow Strike Sword" unleashed unparalleled destructive power. The holy and anti-magic properties of the silver-blue adamantite blades dealt a heavy blow to the fire demon, while the unreflective black blades automatically pierced through the fire demon's damage reduction, leaving it with two massive wounds that penetrated deep into its internal organs.

The enormous fiery figure painfully flapped its two bat-like wings on its back, dropped its lightning-fast longsword, and clutched its ribs with its giant hand.

The purplish-black demonic blood, mixed with the chaotic and evil energy accumulated within its demonic body, gushed out from between its fingers, transforming into a shower of falling blood.