Life Hunter

When they reached the room, they saw Raal was waiting for them along with his wife. They were simply chatting at a table and invited Arima"s group to join them. Night jumped on the room"s bed and laid down on the pillow. He found the best way to use that small body.

"Welcome" Raal said with an unnatural smile

Arima tilted his head "Is something wrong?" He asked

"No, of course not, don"t worry" The Demon King answered, he looked at his side and saw that his wife was talking with Lanya and Lilis, and breathed out in relief "{Let"s just continue with telepathy, sorry, she can be extremely scary, I don"t what she would do if she learned that I want a fight with you}" Raal said with a relieved tone.

Arima smiled "{Sure, no problem, when do you want to do it? I have all the time you want, I"m going to the Main Land after this}" He responded

"{Well, what about today? Just help me, saying to my wife that it is a spar without killing to improve ourselves and it should be good}" Raal answered and Arima nodded in return.

"What are you talking about?" The same demon Queen suddenly asked

Raal trembled and looked at her with a smile "Nothing much. By the way, I want to set a spar with Arima here. Today would be good, after all, he leaves to the Main Land soon" He said and distorted a bit the fact that Arima had all the time he wanted.

The Queen looked at Arima "You actually want to accept that spar?" She asked

Arima smiled "Of course, it should be fun to fight the man said to be the strongest on the continent" And answered

The Queen was a bit surprised "Are you saying that you are qualified to fight my husband?"

"(Aaah, that"s what you meant)" Arima wryly exclaimed in his mind.

"Ratia, don"t be rude like that, Arima is strong, I would even say that he is stronger than me" Raal said to stop her wife from saying more.

Ratia glanced at him and looked back at Arima "Did you set a sort of bet?"

"A bet?" Arima and Raal exclaimed at the same time

"You"re not saying that you"re having a fight just for fun, right?" She said

The Demon King"s expression became stiff while Arima wore a pensive expression "What about that? If you win I can serve your country" The latter said

"What?" Raal was shocked "What if you win?"

"Well, before that, I have to ask you, do you have a prison in this country or a place where you lock up criminals?" Arima asked

Raal looked strangely at him "Yes, we have one, of course. We should have around ten thousand locked up, just in our city" He answered

Arima grinned "If I win, I want the permission to destroy the life force of all of them, of course the reason is a secret. That shouldn"t be an unreasonable request, right?"

Raal"s eyes widened "Of course it isn"t unreasonable, if you can destroy the life force of all of those criminals, then you"re welcome. Of course, we"d lose some labor material, but if you don"t kill them, it should be good" He said

"Then it"s decided, let"s begin then" Arima said and stood up. He then pointed to the east "Let"s do it around twenty thousand miles in that direction" He proposed

"On the sea, huh? It"s not a bad idea" Raal responded and stood up too. Night opened his eyes and jumped on Arima"s shoulder.

On the other side, a two meters tall bull appeared beside Raal. The four looked at each other.

"Hey, what are-" Ratia tried to say something but was interrupted by her husband

"Sorry, can"t go back on it now. Can you protect the continent?" He said

"You too, Lanya, Lilis, help her protect this continent" Arima also said

The two fighters grinned and disappeared at the same time along with their soul beasts.

The three girls that were left looked at each other "What do they meant by protecting the continent?" Lanya asked

"Most likely, they meant that their fight would produce some tides and we would need to protect the continent from it" Lilis casually said and stood up "And also, we should hurry, just a single punch from them would produce a small one" She said and teleported, Lanya and Ratia soon followed her. The former was almost at the ninth level and finally learned how to teleport from Arima and the latter was already at the late ninth level.

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Far away in the ocean. Arima and Raal were standing on water. Night started changing form and the same thing happened with the bull on the other side.

Night transformed into a fifteen meters tall dragon while the bull simply changed into a ten meters bull. Raal became astounded by Night though

"That cub was your soul beast!? I knew that your soul beast was a dragon but never did I think it was able to transform into a small wolf cub. That"s impressive, I thought it was just a tamed wolf" The latter said

Arima laughed "The bull at your side is also extremely big. Now, let"s go" He said, Raal grinned and nodded "It"s been a while, [Resonance]" Night became a black and red light that recovered Arima.

"It"s time Rayord" Raal said and the bull beside him nodded "[Resonance]" The same phenomenon occurred and Rayord became a light fused with Raal.

During their fusion, their auras already started fighting, the sky was slowly becoming dark and threatening, the wind was blowing strongly and the water became agitated.

After their resonance, Raal had become bigger by at least a meter, he grew a second pair of horns a lot bigger than his own, his skin darkened and hardened and he called a huge great sword in his hand.

Arima had gained scales on his arms princ.i.p.ally, they were a lot thinner than before but looked stronger at the same time. His hair grew until the middle of his back this time. His eyes became crimson with a slit in the center and the snow star patter returned in silver color. His wings were a bit bigger and his tail seemed to be longer and had a gray mane on it. Arima called Karma and unsheathed it, he broke two seals and its aura spread.

Arima and Raal looked at each other for a moment then disappeared from their position, the water also exploded under their feet and they reappeared in mid-air with their weapons clashing. That first strike already pushed back the water and made the earth shake.

At that moment, Arima had suppressed his strength, so he returned to when he was at the tenth level. It was without saying that the physical strength of Raal was great but the difference in the weapons was obvious, Karma was pushing back the great sword.

Raal smirked and his sword glowed and started pushing Karma. Arima deviated Raal"s sword and used Karma"s sheath to hit the latter. That exchange created another shock wave that could destroy a fortress if there was one.

"That was unexpected, I never thought you would specialize in Spirit magic" Arima said when they were apart by a few hundred meters.

Raal laughed and shouldered his sword "Is it that strange? Spirit magic is really useful, you can control all elements and even enchant things in fight with it" He said

Arima smirked and thunder roared, the sky brightened with purple lightning and Karma became surrounded in black fire and lightning.

Raal became serious and the water around him started elevating and spinning, the wind also blew stronger. A cyclone formed in the sky and pushed the thunder clouds away.

On one side, thunder was rumbling and on the other, a cyclone was transforming the water and the wind into a threat.

"[Aeterna]" Arima swung Karma and a dark wave flew towards Raal

"[Marine"s wrath]" The latter waved his sword and a two-colored wave clashed with "Aeterna". The resulting explosion pushed the water until the bottom of the sea. And while that explosion wasn"t finished, Arima and Raal charged at each other in the middle of it and engaged in close combat.

Tornadoes appeared time to time and clashed with the purple lightning that fell from the sky.

"[Forta.s.se Aeterna Noctem]" Arima chanted and Karma became shrouded with a huge energy of both fire and lightning but he didn"t send it as a wave and brought it in close combat.

"[Element"s Judgment]" Raal did the same as his opponent and clashed his infused weapon with Karma.

The new discharge of magic, overtook the precedent that still wasn"t finished and transformed more of the sea into a barren ground. Arima and Raal both phased their body with their own mana and crashed on the ground which was the former sea floor.

They soon got up and clashed one more time with a grin on their faces. They continued to fight in that way for almost an hour, without stopping once, they kept clashing with swords and magic.

They were in the middle of the ocean but barely any water could be seen in the horizon. Only lightning that was creating craters, and tornadoes that were going wild, there was nothing else.

At some point, the two fighters became a kilometer apart from each other.

"[To beat the strong, you need to become a devil]" The Demon King chanted and his body started growing taller and bigger, his eyes became red, he grew some fangs and his body started changing. His body became entirely recovered in a blue fur, his face began to distort and his legs bent. Ultimately, what was left was a six meters tall minotaur holding a new great sword, bigger than the last one.

"[Agnitio vultus unum centum]" Arima used his enhancing magic and his body also grew bigger, although it was a lot less than Raal. At the same time, his skin and flesh started crumbling away to reveal a skeleton.

"That"s quite an evil looking form" Raal commented

"Look who"s talking" Arima retorted

Raal gripped his sword and it started glowing even stronger than before. Arima also released the third seal of Karma.

"It"s time for the second round" They both said and vanished from their position.