The moment Klaus activated the Falling Into Despair skill, he started reciting the transformation words, causing him to instantly gain so much power that, despite the spiders unleashing their peak Void stage energy, he was still keeping up.
However, that wasn’t easy. He is a mere Great Sage; fighting this monstrosity shouldn’t be on his to-do list.
Thankfully, his brain was bigger than one might think, so Klaus was always a step ahead, making sure he maintained his two remaining clones for the next couple of minutes.
If an immortal witnessed this battle, they would do everything in their power to take Klaus as their disciple.
Just watching him dodge, parry, and counter at the two-peak Void stage spider demons was enough to tell them his potential is limitless.
Klaus blocked an attack from the white spider that had healed itself completely. The attack was strong, but Klaus blocked it and then unleashed a powerful spear-like spirit weapon.
The spear exploded with speed as it clashed with the black spider demon, pushing it back from unleashing an attack that would have broken the momentum he was holding against the white spider demon.
“I look death in the face and smile,” Klaus said, speaking another sentence of the [Falling Into Despair] skill. A green runic circle appeared around his arm, taking his strength to a new level.
He already has a red and golden runic circle on his arm, so a third means his swings will have three times his total strength.
Klaus was using the boost to unleash precise, rapid strikes, sending sword arcs at the spider and forcing it to move back.
This made Klaus use the Vanishing Step to move back, too, before unleashing his spirit weapons on them.
He turned to the side and saw Nari clashing with the Ant King.
“Fury of the flame!” Nari flashed through the air, unleashing countless spear strikes that created countless arcs of flames, bathing the Ant King in its unholy radiance.
“Got you.”
She muttered as she moved back, watching the Ant King’s body start to turn back to its original dark color. Before the battle began, the Ant King was dark, but after activating the berserk skill, it became red.
Now, she had tried her best to hold it back until its berserk mode was over.
It had already been close to two hours, so it seemed the Ant King could go as long as two hours with the berserk skill.
But this wasn’t what Nari was aiming for. Her goal wasn’t to make it lose its berserk mode. She didn’t know how long it would last in that mode, so that wasn’t her plan.
She planned to cut an opening into the metallic carapace of the Ant King before her two hours of being a spearman came.
The moment she achieved that, she would go for the kill. The Ant King was just too robust on the defensive side.
However, now, she had created a large wound on its chest, making Nari continue to bathe it in her spear attacks.
The moment the two hours were over, she would transform from her spearman form to her demi-phoenix form, where she would wield her original class, the Archeress.
When that happened, she would kill the Ant King.
A few minutes into it, she transformed back to her archer form, showing that the two hours were over and the Ant King had also lost its berserk mode.
Nari took a deep breath, feeling the familiar energy of her Archeress class surge through her veins. The moment she transformed, all injuries were healed.
It was like she wasn’t in battle for the past 2 hours. Her stamina returns to the peak, and her strength is on a new level.
Her armor changed from its golden hue to red and black. Her wings also appeared, amplifying her speed.
Her hands moved like flowing water, and a crimson bow appeared in her grasp, forged from her own demi-phoenix flames.
This was the bow she once wielded in her past life as the great calamity who was tamed by the Star Monarch. Now, she held it again, aiming it at the Ant King.
Without wasting a second, she pulled on her bowstring, causing a long and sharp flaming arrow to appear in her bow.
The Ant King roared, its rage undying even after losing its berserk mode, but it was slower now, weaker. The berserk mode had taken too much of its energy, so it wasn’t at its best at the moment.
The wound on its chest oozed with a metallic black liquid, and every movement it made seemed to tear it wider. It was finally feeling the pain Nari had inflicted.
Nari’s eyes gleamed with a cold light.
She leapt into the air, her wings of fire spreading behind her, and with a single motion, she fired.
The arrow screamed through the air, its tail ablaze, and before the Ant King could even react, it pierced straight into the gaping wound on its chest.
The Ant King uttered a deafening cry, its legs thrashing violently, smashing the ground beneath it.
Cracks spread out like a spiderweb, but Nari was already on the move, firing a second and third arrow without hesitation, each one striking deeper into the wound.
Klaus had told her that to kill a being stronger than you are, the best move is to overwhelm it even when it is down.
Nari listened to him like he was some sage deity, so right now, she was overwhelming the weakened Ant King…
“Fall,” she muttered, her voice soft yet filled with killing intent as she unleashed yet another arrow.
The Ant King stumbled back, its legs giving way. It tried to support itself, but its massive body toppled with a thunderous crash that shook the battlefield.
Far from her side of the battlefield, Queen Lunara smiled, watching Nari finally take down her opponent.
But it wasn’t just her; people all over the world were cheering as they watched the colossal body of the Ant King collapse on the ground.
Nari landed lightly on the broken ground, her bow still drawn just in case.
She watched as the Ant King’s once fearsome body twitched weakly before falling completely still.
Only then did she lower her weapon.
“It’s over,” she whispered to herself.
But there was no time to celebrate. She turned her head sharply and saw Klaus still battling the two spider demons. She could tell the brat was using his all, yet he looked calm and calculative.
It was like she was always a step ahead, making her wonder just what he was going through at the moment.
Nari clenched her fists.
Then she moved in Queenie’s direction reluctantly.
Klaus, who was keeping an eye on the three ladies despite holding back two dangerous spiders, smiled as he watched Nari reluctantly go.
But the plan must be followed, and this plan was for the ladies to end their battles before coming to his aid. It was the only way they could handle the spiders.
Naturally, none of them liked this plan of his, but they trusted him to the point that they wouldn’t question his actions, whether they were suicidal or not.
Nari arrived at Queenie’s side of the battlefield and joined in with a powerful arrow that exploded in the face of the Ant King, sending it flying back.