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Meanwhile, while Allan and Shade fought their trials, Arafunn was fighting one of his own, and a rather unique demon at that, one rather… filled with himself, despite being a mere ant.
"I am Herbranpheles, the King of all Ant Demons! I'll crush you and show my tribe that abandoned me that we can beat the damn humans! They'll understand once I bring your head to them that we can still keep fighting!"
Herbranpheles, the self-proclaimed King of the Ant Demons roared, his tall and muscular body was covered on a hard exoskeleton, as he possessed six arms and a long abdomen behind.
"So you want to use my own head to convince your people to continue fighting pointlessly?" Sighed Arafunn, without really understanding the demon's logic. "Maybe you should first find yourself a brain, you're really stupid."
His words quickly made the Ant King lose his last bits of patience, as the furious Ant Demon descended from above, aiming at Arafunn's head with his huge, clawed legs.
"SHUT UP!!!" The furious Ant flew down with his wings, reaching Arafunn in a single second, a huge kick hitting his face!
CRAAASH!!!
"Unnggh…?!"
"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! KRIEHEHEHEHE!!!"
Arafunn felt the world spinning around him, as he was thrown across the many walls of the almost airless, windless caves he was trapped in. His surroundings constantly crumbled, trying to crush him with huge boulders.
BAAAAM!
RUMBLE!
"Shit…!" Arafunn quickly flew away from the crumbling ceiling, only to find Herbranpheles tailing him from behind.
"KRIEHEHEHE! Where are you running?! Aren't you a legendary hero that defeated the Demon King?! If someone like you is running away from me, what makes me?! A being even stronger than the Demon King!" Laughed the Herbranpheles with his detestable voice, Arafunn was already beginning to feel irritated.
"Melodia." He called, as the Queen of the Spirits of Wind, the Fairy of Melodies Melodia, emerged behind him, glancing at the huge ant pursuing them.
"What the…?! Gosh! You're really becoming braver now! To think you come all the way here and fight in the frontlines!" Melodia laughed.
"Can you give my magic a little boost?" Arafunn asked. "I'll change the entire terrain if needed."
"Oooh?" Melodia giggled, evading huge claw-shaped attacks made out of Beast Aura coming from Herbranpheles. "Alright! Those sharp eyes… I haven't seen them in a while!"
"What are you babbling about?! COME HERE, BITCH!" Herbranpheles roared, rushing down towards Arafunn, and kicking his back, pushing him down into the floor as it constantly shattered and crumbled apart!
CRAAASH!
"Ungh?! Argh…!" Arafunn vomited blood as he felt a few of his bones break. He gritted his teeth and glared at Herbranpheles with furious and sharp eyes as the ant king's claws grasped his chest. "Heh… You're really a bad match for me, ant kid."
"HUH?! Getting cocky now that you're about to die?!" Laughed Herbranpheles. "What can you even do other than die?!" His Beast Aura surged from within his body, resembling a gigantic and monstrous black Ant Beast. "DIEEEE!!!"
His huge claws reached Arafunn's face, as Herbranpheles was about to blow his head into pieces with his own brutal strength!
FLUOSH!
However, out of nowhere, a shockwave of invisible energy impacted the Ant King, pushing him several meters away!
"W-What?!" Herbranpheles opened his eyes in shock as he fell into the floor, noticing how Arafunn had unleashed something. "Winds?! But that's impossible, there's no winds here!"
"Certainly, without winds nor a lot of air and oxygen, I cannot conjure my magic as much…" Arafunn sighed, his body was covered on wounds and the left side of his face was swollen. "But its different with sounds. Echoes, vibrations, such things can be created very amazingly, even in this place… In fact, the cramped place makes it so sounds constantly hit one another within the walls. I can do this like THIS!"
Arafunn's body overflowed with Spiritual Power as he changed his appearance, huge green colored butterfly wings appeared on his back as his clothes changed, resembling those of a mystical prince of winds, a crown made of green light appeared above his head.
TRUUUMMM…!
The moment he said "THIS" a huge wave of sound was unleashed from his mouth, the vibrations so powerful they began to devastate everything, piercing through the walls and hitting Herbranpheles!
"GUAARRGHH?!"
The Ant King screamed in agony as his entire body was filled with vibrations constantly saying "This", his entire body started trembling, his ears exploded, his mouth began to bleed, his internal organs barely held off!
"I-Impossible! I CAN'T… LOSE!" Cried Herbranpheles, forcing his own body to rush towards Arafunn as his enormous claws fused with his Beast Aura, and then he channeled his Soul Weapon. "[Soul Weapon Materialization]: [Underground King's Claws]!"
His claws were covered by huge insect jaw-shaped claws made of brown metal, as he sliced through the sounds themselves and reached Arafunn!
"DIEEE!"
"Nuh-huh."
Arafunn's words became tremendous sounds, blasting Herbranpheles away like a ragdoll again, the rest of the caves all crumbled. The sound vibrations so ridiculously strong and potent that the rocks that were caught on them shattered and turned into sand.
In just a few seconds, the entire cave section disappeared, revealing an enormous dungeon room covered on sand… Herbranpheles vomited blood as he emerged out of the sand, his eyes filled with disbelief as he saw the entire caves completely gone.
"W-Wha…?! What?! H-How did you…?!" Herbranpheles couldn't understand.
"I just turned everything into sand, I knew there was actually a normal room here." Arafunn sighed in relief. "Well, that took a lot of energy though-"
"DIEEEE!!" The Ant King didn't gave up either, leaping towards Arafunn to finish him off, thinking he was now tired!
"[Celestial Wind Blade]"
By waving his hand, a huge blade of divine winds sliced through the weakened Herbranpheles, slicing him into several pieces at once!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
"G-Graaaggh…! W-Winds?!"
The Ant King's remains fell over the sand, his consciousness slowly fading away…
"Oh, about winds? Well, once I opened the entire place, a vacuum was created and a lot of oxygen- Ah, he's dead. I shouldn't even bother." Arafunn flew into the gates at the end of the room, a huge sphere of compressed winds generated a vacuum strong enough to blast the dungeon walls.
"I'll be there in a minute…"
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