Even the inside of his body had begun to change, and his blood was replaced by a dark matter. His skin slowly turned dark and eventually became blue.
His hair had started to fall rapidly, and skin turned rough. His ears began to twist on their own, and his body structure started to deform.
Cerberus couldn’t bear to watch Zach in such a state, and he had decided to kill him before it went further. Still, it was easier said than done.
He couldn’t possibly think of harming Zach even in such a state.
[‘My Liege has always treated me kindly ever since I accepted him as my master. He fed me and taught me so many things. So why did it come to this?’] Cerberus asked himself.
[‘Had I not been so immature with him, he wouldn’t have gone this far. I should have stopped him from using his Demon King’s blessings.
I am such a failure. Even after talking so big about protecting him, I brought this upon him. Without him, I have no purpose for living. He is my master and my God. If he dies, I die with him.
That’s why, I will stop him even if it means killing him. I don’t care about my life, not in the least.’]
Cerberus strengthened his resolve and asserted, [My liege, I don’t know if you can hear me or not, but know that I was by your side till the end!]
Cerberus lowered his head, seemingly bowing down to Zach for the last time as the result of the battle ahead was unknown.
He flapped his wings while holding his ground, dashed at Zach without flying, and breathed his fire at its full intensity.
The debris around Zach, including the shattered wall, melted into lava, and the head began to crack the ground.
Cerberus didn’t stop and continued shooting his fire as long as he could, but after a few minutes, he stopped to take a breath, hoping Zach would be burned to ashes.
[…!]
However, Zach stood unscathed with not even a single sign of burn on his body. He had devoured Cerberus’ fire.
Cerberus stopped to take a breath so he could shoot fire for longer, but after realizing his fire had no effect on him, he became desperate and began using all sorts of attacks on him.
He used his lion and goat head as well as his snake tail, hoping anything would work, but Zach either dodged or blocked all the attacks.
Suddenly, Zach’s body glowed, and he opened his mouth, snarling loudly while showing his large fangs and repeatedly hitting his tail on the ground.
Cerberus decided to attack again and opened his mouth to shoot fire. Zach did the same and shot black fire out of his mouth and overpowered Cerberus’ scorching fire.
[…!] Cerberus jumped back, but the damage was already done.
Zach’s fire had burned his dragon head, so now he could no longer shoot fire. He had overwhelmed Cerberus from every corner with no escape.
Physical attacks didn’t work on Zach, and the only magical attack Cerberus could do was shoot the fire, which he could no longer use; even if he did, Zach would devout it like he did a while ago.
AARGH!
Zach roared loudly on the top of his lungs, which blasted his burned throat, including his vocal cords. Black tears came out of his eyes, and his mouth vomited the remaining blood he had in his body.
Cerberus had it enough. Even though his dragon head was burned by Zach, and he was in immeasurable pain, he didn’t care about himself. He was looking for a way to bring Zach back without killing him, which seemed more and more impossible as time passed.
The last hope he had left was wavering in front of his eyes. He kept blaming himself for everything, but even if it was his fault or not, it was indeed too late to regret it.
Zach jumped in the air and flapped his wings to fly higher. While Cerberus watched him and waited to see what he was trying to do.
But the next second, he realized everything. Zach was doing to drop kick him and end everything in one shot.
Cerberus flapped his wings and stepped back without moving his eyes from Zach. Sure he could fly, but he couldn’t fly as high as Zach, given his massive body that required balance and sight of the three heads.
So the only thing Cerberus could do was to keep moving and changing his location, so Zach wouldn’t be able to pinpoint dropkick him, or so he thought, but Zach moved faster than his thoughts and landed hell sinking dropkick on Cerberus.
BANG!
As soon as Zach hit the ground—no, even a moment before that, the floor cracked and shattered on impact, rumbling the very surface the dungeon existed on.
A big hole appeared on Cerberus’ body that was see-through to the other side. Since Cerberus was also an undead, he had no blood, but he had senses and felt pain like an alive creature.
Because of the hole in his body, Cerberus could no longer stand up or even move. He watched Zach approaching him with the same demonic smile on his face and an inhumane walking style.
With heavy footsteps, Zach walked closer to Cerberus as he tried hard to move his body. Knowing what was going to happen soon, Cerberus gave up and closed his eyes.
To him, dying at Zach’s hands was an honor, but that person was no longer Zach; not in appearance nor in mind. He had become a full-fledged demon.
He was a mindless monster born from unbearable pain, ruthless rage, devastating despair, and sorrowful suffering, whose only goal was to destroy and devour everything on his way.
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