Debuff Master - Chapter 1118

Chapter 1118

Boom!

“Aghhh!” Siegfried groaned in agony after falling to the ground.

The attack he had just taken from Lucifer made him feel like a bomb had exploded around his throat. It wouldn’t have been strange if his head had been torn off his shoulders. His skull shattering into pieces wouldn’t have been strange as well.

However, Siegfried was the Demon King, so he survived the devastating attack. Upon becoming a Grandmaster, his body also became stronger and durable.

“Ughh…” Siegfried groaned, wiping the blood off his face and getting to his feet.

“So, the impostor is trying to prove that he’s the Demon King,” Lucifer muttered, watching with an amused look.

In Lucifer’s eyes, Siegfried was not even a pureblood demon. He was just a lucky brat who happened to stumble upon the throne of the Demon King.

“Phew…” Siegfried let out a sigh. Then, he looked up and said, “Here I come.”

Without showing a hint of fear, Siegfried launched himself into the air.

Wooong!

The +16 Vanquisher’s Grasp in his hand began to tremble violently upon charging up Crushing Tremor and pouring in a massive amount of Primordial Force.

The two clashed once again.

Siegfried struck with overwhelming force, unleashing a relentless barrage at Lucifer.

“I have already told you that it’s futile.”

Despite getting hit occasionally, Lucifer still looked composed. His vitality was so immense and his defense so high that none of Siegfried’s blows dealt any damage.

“I’m going to stop you, Lucifer!” Michael exclaimed, joining the fight.

The Chi-Chi Couple jumped in as well, attacking Lucifer with their laser beams.

“You’re not getting away with this.”

“You messed with the wrong people.”

The one-on-one battle between Siegfried and Lucifer turned into a four-on-one battle.

***

Meanwhile, as Siegfried and his party faced off against Lucifer, the Allied Forces and the Demonic Forces were pushing back against the Celestial Forces.

First of all, the Allied Forces had far greater numbers, so the Celestial Forces inevitably found themselves on the defensive.

Just then…

“I-It’s the Immortal Armada!”

“The Marchioni Empire’s fleet has arrived!”

The scales of the battle tipped even farther away from the Celestial Forces when the fleet of the strongest nation in the Middle Realm, the Marchioni Empire’s Immortal Armada, appeared on the battlefield.

A total of one hundred Invincible Battleships had joined the war.

The Marchioni Empire, having grasped the severity of the situation, had temporarily summoned back the Immortal Armada they had dispatched to the Coral Race’s planet.

“Wipe them all out.”

From aboard the mothership, the commander of the Immortal Armada, Princess Irene, gave her order to the fleet.

Wooong!

At her command, the laser cannons on the one hundred Invincible Battleships began to emit a low hum and heat up. Then, what happened next was nothing short of absurd.

Ziiiiiiiiing!

Thousands of laser cannons fired in unison, hitting every High-Ranking Fallen Angel on the battlefield.

Of course, these fallen angels weren’t instantly killed by the laser fire, but the damage inflicted was so great that they were critically wounded.

This gave the Allied Forces the massive advantage they needed. Thanks to the laser bombardment from the Immortal Armada, the Allied Forces gained that extra push they needed to start sweeping through the Celestial Forces.

The demon lords also fought valiantly on the battlefield.

Belial, the second-in-command in the Demon Realm, marked the second-in-command in the Celestial Realm, Gabriel.

Metatron, the third-in-command in the Demon Realm, also put on a spectacular performance.

“I am the Demon Lord of Vengeance, Metatron!”

Metatron proved just how powerful he was as a demon lord by overpowering Seraphiel, the third-in-command in the Celestial Realm.

With the Marchioni Empire’s Immortal Armada bombarding from the skies and the demon lords rampaging on the ground, the war took an even more dramatic turn.

The Allied Forces were being pushed back, barely managing to hold the line, but now, they were starting to overpower the Celestial Forces.

***

‘We can win as long as I do my part,’ Siegfried realized that the outcome of this war now rested in his hands.

If he could somehow take down Lucifer, then this long war would finally come to an end.

However, Lucifer was not an opponent that could easily be taken down.

“A vermin… dares to…” Lucifer muttered under his breath, rage evident in his voice.

C-Crackle! C-Crackle!

A tremendous wave of energy began to surge from his body.

“I’m going to kill you all, every single one of you.”

Then, with a flap of his twelve wings, he unleashed a powerful gust of violent wind toward Siegfried and his companions.

Shwiiiiik!

The winds were razor-sharp, enough to tear through steel like a hot knife cutting through butter.

“Ugh!”

“Kyaaah!”

The storm swept away the Chi-Chi Couple, and they were left bloody with wounds all over them.

“Arghhk!”

Even Michael couldn’t endure the wind, and cuts appeared all over him as soon as the wind blew across him.

Siegfried fared slightly better than the others, but he wasn’t unharmed.

“Ghhk!”

He was swept by the wind as well, but he narrowly avoided receiving critical damage before charging at Lucifer once more.

Wooong!

Siegfried cast his debuffs to weaken Lucifer right before the clash.

Boom! Boom!

The two clashed, their movements far too fast for the naked eye to follow.

Each blow they exchanged unleashed devastating shockwaves.

However, Siegfried was clearly losing.

He landed nearly all of his strikes, but he barely dealt any damage to Lucifer.

Lucifer’s defense was so overwhelming that Siegfried’s attacks barely scratched him despite being riddled with debuffs.

‘The difference in our stats is too big,’ Siegfried thought.

He believed that he had the upper hand when it came to combat skills. He had grown dramatically during the Crossroads of Life and Death quest, and the fact that he was continuously landing clean hits on Lucifer was proof of it.

Unfortunately, the problem was that Lucifer’s stats were simply too overwhelming.

‘If only my stats were just a bit higher… Damn it…’ Siegfried thought.

It was then.

“Die, all of you.”

Electric currents started to swirl around Lucifer…

Shwoooooosh!

—And a mass of massive black thunderclouds gathered in the sky.

“No! Stop him! We will all die if we let him finish casting that spell! Every single one of us will die!” Michael screamed frantically.

He knew exactly what Lucifer was about to unleash. It was a skill known as Heaven’s Wrath, an area of effect spell where devastating lightning would rain around the caster as if there were a lightning storm around them.

The Heaven’s Wrath caused immense destruction that unless one was a demon lord or an archangel, they would be fried on the spot. It was a skill capable of instantly annihilating big groups of enemies.

If Lucifer were allowed to unleash Heaven’s Wrath, the battlefield would be reduced to mere ashes, resulting in the annihilation of the Allied Forces.

‘I have to stop him!’

Siegfried instantly understood the desperation behind Michael’s scream and knew what he had to do.

Wooong!

He unleashed a Wave of Oppression to disrupt the skill.

“…!”

Lucifer scowled after noticing that the wave of energy was interfering with his channeling, but that was about it.

Despite the interference, Lucifer shook it off and continued channeling Heaven’s Wrath.

He was so powerful that the Wave of Oppression couldn’t stop him at all.

‘Do you think I’ll let you cast that?!’ Siegfried immediately lunged at Lucifer.

He grabbed Lucifer tightly around the waist and teleported away. He had to move Lucifer away from the battlefield before he could unleash Heaven’s Wrath on the Allied Forces below.

Pop!

Siegfried and Lucifer disappeared from the battlefield, reappearing in a plain field three kilometers away.

Krwaaaaang!

And Heaven’s Wrath finally came crashing down in full force, unleashing its lightning fury toward the ground.

“AAARGHHH!”

Siegfried screamed in agony upon getting engulfed by the lightning coming from Heaven’s Wrath.

Getting struck by lightning even once was something most people would barely experience in their lifetime, but here he was, getting hit by tens of thousands of lightning bolts at once.

***

The lightning strikes were nothing short of pure agony.

Blood poured from Siegfried’s nose, and he was twitching madly.

Of course, Lucifer was not about to let him go so easily.

“You are quite the eyesore, vermin. I won’t be granting you an easy death,” Lucifer said, clamping his hand over Siegfried’s face.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions erupted from Lucifer’s palm straight into Siegfried’s face.

“Ghrkkk!”

Unable to withstand the brutal barrage of explosions, Siegfried coughed up a mouthful of blood and nearly collapsed.

‘I can’t… beat him…’

Siegfried hated the situation he was in.

He initially believed that he could win against Lucifer, but he just couldn’t overcome the sheer difference in their stats, even with all of the debuffs he cast on the Chief Archangel.

That reality was simply far too infuriating for him. He was a Grandmaster and the Demon King. He cast all of his self-buffs and was armed with Chae Hyung-Seok’s buffs, too.

And yet, he couldn’t even put up a proper fight against Lucifer.

“Just die already, vermin,” Lucifer scowled.

Puuuk!

Lucifer’s hand pierced Siegfried’s chest and grabbed his heart.

“GRAAAAAGH!” Siegfried let out a blood-curdling scream.

Lucifer tightened his grip on Siegfried’s heart and said, “A maggot like you shouldn’t have dared to—”

Bam!

Michael came flying and tackled Lucifer.

“…!”

Caught completely off guard, Lucifer was sent flying into the distance.

“Siegfried! Are you all right?!” Michael shouted as he caught Siegfried in his arms.

“G-Ghhk…” Siegfried groaned in agony, a gaping hole visible in his chest.

His heart had not been destroyed, but he was critically wounded.

The fact that he was even alive was a miracle in itself.

If he hadn’t been in his Demon King form, the injury would have killed him instantly.

“I… don’t have… the power to beat him… If I just had a bit more strength… I could… I really could win…” Siegfried forced the words out in a hoarse, weak voice.

“Siegfried…”

Even Michael could see that Siegfried indeed had the skills to defeat Lucifer.

Unfortunately, Lucifer had been alive and growing since the dawn of creation. His sheer stats were not something that Siegfried could overcome, no matter how many buffs or debuffs he had up his sleeves.

What Siegfried needed now more than anything else was stats.

It was no longer just a matter of technique—he needed raw power, something that would help him fight Lucifer on equal footing.

‘He is the only one who can defeat Lucifer. I have to help him. In this case…’

As soon as that thought popped up in Michael’s head, he took hold of all ten wings on his back and—

Rip!

—he tore them all off.

“Take these, Siegfried,” Michael said, holding out his wings.

“…What?”

“You’re now capable of embracing all other forms of energy. Absorb the power in my wings and obtain the power I have stored up since the dawn of creation.”

“W-What are you saying? Arghk!”

“You have to fuse with these and become both an angel and a demon.”

It was an idea that never became a reality despite the long history of the dawn of creation.

[Divine Demonic Vessel Fusion]

The perfect being with both celestial and demonic power. Michael was now passing all of the divine power contained in his wings to Siegfried, urging him to achieve this unprecedented fusion.

“There’s no time. You must absorb my powers right now. If you want to defeat Lucifer, you must achieve the Divine Demonic Vessel Fusion.

“O-Okay…!”

“Hurry!”

Michael placed the wings in Siegfried’s arms before running toward where Lucifer was blasted away.

Having torn off all ten of his wings, he could no longer be called an angel.

At best, he was now just an ordinary human who was slightly more powerful than an average adult male.

However, none of that mattered to him right now.

‘You must win, Siegfried.’

If he could buy even a little time for Siegfried to complete the Divine Demonic Vessel Fusion, then he was prepared to pay even with his life.