"I, Dreyar, will now proceed with the execution of Mika Elbar, the wielder of Excalibur and secret weapon of the foolish angels."

With his tall and lean stature, Dreyar swung his sword down on Mika.

[3 minutes left.]

Dust rose at that spot but shortly dispersed when Mika jumped out while swinging Excalibur.

He attempted to cut Dreyar’s head off.

"...?"

But Dreyar did not budge from. It was as if Mika hit a thick and sturdy wall.

Dreyar retracted his fist.

"!"

It was a simple punch but Mika was not able to dodge it.

And almost having his senses knocked out, Mika was sent flying into the pile of corpses, which led to a few bodies being thrown out of the pile.

"Are you stupid?!" Beatra laughed loudly, holding her stomach.

"If I were you I wouldn’t underestimate him." Martha remarked with a grin.

"..."

Mika lifted his face.

His body was now partly covered by the blood of the corpses around him.

He wiped his bloody mouth and then touched his left cheek which was marked by Dreyar’s fist.

"Let me introduce myself properly." Dreyar stated as he slowly walked over to Mika.

"I am Dreyar and I currently hold the sixth seat among the S-rank demons."

Cocking his arm back again, Dreyar readied himself to thrust his sword at Mika.

"Let’s fight somewhere else..." Mika suggested with an aching voice.

"I see. You want to avoid damaging the dead bodies? How remarkable." Dreyar replied as he canceled his attack.

Again, he began to walk closer to Mika until his face was right in front of him.

"However, this is not a fight. In your state, you cannot do anything to me."

"Keh...!"

Mika’s head was grabbed whole by Dreyar.

"I will kill you quickly and let you rest beside your people here." he stated as he lifted Mika with one hand.

Then, Mika was thrown to the ground a few inches away from the head of his father.

Dreyar followed up and immediately tried to stab Mika in his back.

"Argh...!"

But Mika reacted just in time as he turned around and offered his left forearm as a sacrifice in order to avoid an even worse injury.

The sword pierced right through the forearm and its peak stopped moving in front of Mika’s chest.

Using his free right hand, Mika summoned the Holy Spear and thrust it to Dreyar.

"Enlarge...!"

The spear increased its length, pushing Dreyar, who held onto his sword, way into the sky.

Then, the spear disappeared and changed place with Excalibur.

And while blood gushed out his forearm, Mika stood up.

"Just a few moments ago, you threatened to kill us all but look at you now." Martha huffed mockingly.

"You haven’t done anything to any of us yet and here you are, already beat up and bleeding." she added.

"Shut up..." Mika muttered, grinding his teeth against each other.

Xander was distancing himself mentally from the others as he remained silent on the stairs.

"It’s really a pity that the villagers, believed in you, the supposed hero of the village, even to their last breath." Beatra chimed in.

"Especially your parents and those two children there were stubbornly believing in you."

Beatra looked over to the bodies of Ain and Eric.

"What did she say...? ’Mika will never lose to the likes of you!’ or some shit like that." she imitated Ain.

She even tried to imitate her voice and her firm and yet panicked expression.

"Well, the composure of that girl quickly crumbled when we slaughtered her brother, who was trying to save her, in front of her eyes."

"..."

Mika clenched his fists even though his nails dug deep into his palms.

"Speaking of stubbornness. We told your parents that it was your fault that their village was attacked by us." Martha stated with a sadistic grin.

Dreyar returned a long time.

Unfazed by the spear, he descended to them with his wings spread.

"And yet, your parents smiled at us with tears in their eyes, saying that it was impossible that it was your fault. They believed in you because you were their child apparently." Martha elaborated with a small sigh.

"Your mother constantly tried to argue with us, shouting that we were trying to mess with their feelings." Beatra said.

"And to be honest, she was partly right. We loved messing with them emotionally." Martha stated.

"However, in the end, what we said was still the truth. Because of you, we came here. Because of you, we killed everyone here. After telling her that clearly, we finished her and your father off."

Martha drew an imaginary line across her neck with her hand.

"You should have seen the shock on their faces!"

Beatra could not stop laughing.

[2 minutes and 22 seconds left.]

[10 seconds left until the effect of Time Manipulation wears off.]

[15 teleportations left.]

Mika appeared before Beatra.

From his point of view, she was caught by surprise and slowly raised her guard but Mika was faster.

He cut off her right arm and then proceeded to turn to Martha who was beside her.

Mika rammed his sword into her stomach and slammed her to the stairs.

Even her scream appeared slow for him as he pulled Excalibur out.

He retracted his arm as he was about to behead her.

"?"

But Dreyar interfered.

He was about to slash Mika horizontally.

Just in time, Mika blocked the attack with his own sword and was sent to the sky.

In the air, Mika spread his white wings and switched to the spear.

"Enlarge."

After being thrown, the spear expended its whole size.

It was bigger than the chief’s house but Dreyar stopped it with his hands.

[2 minutes and 12 seconds left.]

[50 seconds left until you can use Time Manipulation again.]

For Mika, ten seconds passed but for the others, it felt like five seconds.

"AAHH!"

"..."

While the screaming Martha was rolling to each side, holding her wound, Beatra grimly glared at Mika.

At the moment, her arm was cut off, Beatra felt pain for the first time as Excalibur negated her ability to not feel any pain at that very moment.

"Shrink."

The spear returned to its original size and was now in Mika’s hand again.

"..."

Mika looked down on them from above.

"You wanted to head to the Great Jungle or whatever it was called after this ambush, right?" Dreyar asked.

"Yes." Xander replied.

Xander was left unscratched but he was still nervous.

He thought that Beatra and Martha were in their current states because of all their provocations.

"Take those two and go then."

Dreyar took up his fighting stance.

"Something in him has changed..." he muttered sternly.

"As long as you stay here, he will keep targeting you first. Even though I am an S-rank, I cannot promise your safety." he announced additionally.

Xander gulped down his saliva and rushed to the two women.

However, Mika noticed that and flew down quickly.

"..."

Dreyar tried to block off the path and flew towards Mika, too.

[14 teleportations left.]

And before those two could collide midair, Mika teleported himself away. Instead, he appeared in front of the baffled and agitated Beatra who held onto her missing arm.

Everyone reacted too slowly.

Especially, Beatra who was stabbed by Excalibur in the chest. And before she could utter a sound, Mika drew his another sword.

Enhancing it with lightning magic and light, he began slashing Beatra wildly while Excalibur was still stuck in her body.

"IYYAAAA!!!" she screamed hideously and helplessly.

"..."

Martha and Xander were right there but did not dare to move an inch out of shock and fear.

[She is already dead.]

"..."

Mika ignored the system and kept slashing the silent Beatra. Her blood splattered on the stairs, on her comrades and mostly on Mika.

Only when Dreyar swung his sword, Mika would move away as he dodged the sword.

Beatra’s body, which was marked by sword cuts everywhere, could finally fall.

Mika was standing on the building’s roof.

He reached his hand out which led to Excalibur getting called back from Beatra’s body.

Mika swung his swords to get off the blood, ignoring the blood on his own face.

[1 minute and 52 seconds left.]

"Leave now." Dreyar advised Xander.

"..."

Even without him telling him, Xander’s instincts told him to get away as fast as possible.

He lifted the shocked Martha and used his wind magic to levitate them and get away.

And when Mika’s body moved slightly, Dreyar charged at him immediately.

"I won’t let you do as you please anymore." he stated.

He kicked Mika into the building.

[Mika.]

"..."

Mika remained unresponsive.

"In that state, I can’t tell what he’s thinking or what he tries to do next."

Dreyar descended on the roof.

"He may fight worse than usual, however, he is now more dangerous than ever."

He looked down the roof’s hole and observed Mika who was lying on the ground with his blank eyes staring up.

"He’s broken."