Undead Beast Master: Living Solely for My Desires

It was quite impressive actually, considering how much damage Zaroth had gotten up until now one would suspect that he wouldn't be able to move a muscle.

Yet he ran like nothing bothered him in the world, this wasn't only because he had gotten familiar with moving while feeling pain, but also because his desires simply outweighed any pain he felt.

The strongest and most consuming desire was to kill the Demigod—for it had tried to take Elysia from him. She was his, and he would never let anyone steal something so precious without consequence.

The second belonged to Luna. The Demigod may not have been a true god, but it was close enough and her desire surged through him, pushing him forward.

And there was the third one. Through his bond with Midnight, he knew that the more humans he killed, the stronger his demonic powers would grow—and in time, he would unlock even greater abilities.

Apparently, it only worked if he killed humans, not beasts. But what about the Demigod standing before him?

It had to work, right? Whatever that monster was, it must still have a soul, and killing it would surely make him stronger.

And Zaroth didn't want to miss the chance to let the prey run away from his grasp. If Zaroth saw opportunity to get stronger he was going to take it.

He shot forward as fast as he could, leaping onto the Demigod's hands, held by Elysia. Pushing past the pain in his body, he ran, his beasts moving aside to give him space.

Seeing Zaroth approach it the Demigod opened its jaws again ready to let out another devastating roar, considering how close Zaroth was now, the sound wave was surely going to kill him.

But as soon as the Demigod opened its mouth, Hellweaver acted, its massive body slamming into the Demigod's jaws, sealing them shut and preventing its roar.

The Demigod felt pure rage as it closed its jaws, cracking the exoskeleton of the spider and yet Hellweaver didn't seem to care about the pressure its body was under as it stayed unmoving.

Zaroth stepped on Silverfang's back as he jumped as high in the air as he could and slashed with his odachi trying to pierce the brain of the Demigod.

The blade entered, pierced the flesh but stopped at the skull, it was in a way expected after all Zaroth was but a mortal and he didn't really have much experience when it came to fighting as most of the time he just winged it relying on pure force.

But sadly this time it wasn't enough as the blade wasn't able to pierce the skull of his opponent.

The eyes of the Demigod widened as it realized that it had just escaped death by a hair length.

Forgetting about everything else it focused solely on survival as it tilted its body downward and at the same time moved its legs as it wrapped them around Luna.

The attacks of the Demigod on the capital had stopped as they had went past the border, as such the being focused all of the energy at a single point. Exactly where Luna's flames had been concentrating all this time.

The vision of Zaroth began to blur as a light similar to a sun appeared below his feet.

And then his vision went black for a couple of seconds.

'What happened?' he asked himself as he tried to make his eye see again, the only thing he was able to sense was that he was falling in free fall.

After several seconds his vision returned though it was still blurry.

To his horror he was much higher in the sky than before, what had really happened was that the Demigod had caused a devastating explosion and since Zaroth was above it he had been launched into the sky like a projectile.

"Just my luck—" Before he could finish his words, blood began to spill from his mouth.

It seemed that abusing his mana core to such extent had finally caught up to him, he wasn't in the Abyss and as such using all of his beasts alongside his skills had drained him like never before.

The constant pain made it hard to gauge the state of his mana core, but he could sense the countless cracks surrounding it. It was only a matter of time before it shattered under the pressure.

He didn't want to but he had no choice he was going to die any second now so he was forced to desummon Luna alongside his other beasts.

This made his core feel just a bit lighter, but not by much as it continued to hurt a lot.

Now that the matter with the mana core was settled there was another problem.

He was not only high in the sky without Luna, but at the same time, it seemed the Demigod was flying toward him with full force, trying to finish him off.

Truthfully, the Demigod was in as bad shape as Zaroth, if not worse.

That explosion that it had caused had no doubt used a large part of its energy and at the same time had damaged it as well.

As a result, the Demigod now had only one set of wings, badly damaged. Its face, once hideous, now seemed utterly grotesque. The Demigod had tried to heal some of the damage, but had failed—miserably.

What stood out however was Zaroth's odachi and spear that were still imbedded in its skull.

'Maybe… if I land a hit on one of them…' he tried to form a thought but he found it beyond difficult.

It was simply too much. The enemy he was facing was overwhelming. Zaroth didn't have it in him—he'd already pushed past his limits too many times. There was no way to survive.

The Demigod roared as it fired all kinds of elemental attacks at Zaroth.

'This is the end huh? This is how I die?' he thought to himself.

The first attack was just centimeters away from reaching his face, and once it was supposed to hit it seemingly changed course at the last moment.

This wasn't a fluke as several more of the attacks did the same.

"Am I hallucinating?" he muttered to himself. This was the most logical deduction.

That was until he saw that behind the Demigod was Elysia, she seemed to be breathing heavily most likely close to her limit as well. At the moment she was using everything she had to protect Zaroth with her will.

'Is she protecting me?' he thought.

Wasn't it pathetic in a way? He had gotten involved because he was the one that was supposed to help her, he was the one that was supposed to save her, yet the roles were reversed at the moment.

"Hah." Despite the strain in his body, he couldn't help but chuckle. "No matter how strong I grow I am going to remain pathetic until the end it seems." he muttered as he moved his body.

He was going to die anyway so he might as well go out with a bang.

Seeing that the attacks of the Demigod weren't able to harm him he got an idea as he put his hand on one of the fire attacks and then propelled forward toward the Demigod.

'It works I guess.' he thought as he began to use the attacks the Demigod was throwing at him to propel toward the being as fast as possible.

Since the Demigod was ascending insanely fast and Zaroth began to descend just as fast, the great being didn't have any time to react until Zaroth was above it, he had brought his two hands together into a fist.

"This is the end." he spoke as he brought them down at the spear that had been imbedded into the Demigod's skull up until now.

Zaroth's strike, coupled with the intensity of the fall, was immense. The spear pierced through the skull and reached the brain.

[You have killed the child of the God of Chaos]

[God of Chaos looks at you with fury in its eyes]

[The gods have been made aware of your existence]

[A mortal has slain a divinity]

[This moment will be remembered for the ages to come]

Zaroth heard the system speak in his head something that he hadn't heard in a quite long time.

Sadly he wasn't able to enjoy any of it as it seemed the body of the Demigod began to shine.

It seemed that it had the same thought as Zaroth—if it was going to die, might as well bring its enemy into the grave.

Zaroth's eye widened in shock.

And then, he was assaulted by a devastating explosion, brighter than the sun, head-on.