The Last Legendary Weapons Master: Rise of the strongest player

Chapter 140: When Kings Fall (2)

She wanted to blind Him completely by destroying His remaining eye.

But the demon shielded it with His arm, making it nearly impossible to hit.

So instead, she focused her flames everywhere else.

His flesh blackened.

Burned.

Charred continuously beneath the relentless fire.

And after enough flame damage accumulated...

The Iron Demon finally suffered real injuries.

Moon didn’t stop.

Phoenix flames wrapped around her entire body while she attacked the Iron Demon like a madwoman, strike after strike carving into His scorched flesh and sinking deeper each time she found even the smallest gap between those black iron plates.

Meanwhile, Jackson still had both arms locked tightly around the Iron Demon’s neck like a beast clinging to its prey until death.

Blood poured endlessly from the giant’s body.

His bones let out horrifying cracks every time the Iron Demon smashed him through walls and against the ground, yet not even for a moment did Jackson loosen his grip.

"Burn Him!! Burn Him with everything you have!!" Jackson roared as blood spilled from his mouth. "Before He breaks free!!"

As though the Iron Demon finally understood the danger He was in...

He opened His distorted mouth and released a savage howl that shook all of Old Ashvarn.

That howl wasn’t merely a scream of rage.

It was a call.

A summons.

And the city answered.

Only seconds later, the ground began trembling from every direction while the sounds of crawling and monstrous shrieks echoed from distant alleys.

Ethan’s eyes widened instantly.

"Damn it... He summoned the monsters!"

Realizing He could not win alone, the Iron Demon turned to the deep-city horrors of Ashvarn for aid...

And they responded immediately.

From behind the ancient buildings, the hordes began to emerge.

Transformed humans.

Mutated hounds.

Giants.

Crawling monstrosities.

Even creatures none of them had ever seen before flooded out from the depths of Old Ashvarn like a black tide.

The hunters’ faces turned pale.

They were barely managing to contain the Iron Demon as it was...

And now entire armies were rushing toward them.

"Everyone with me!!" Gustav shouted immediately, regaining his composure. "Stop the monsters no matter what it takes!"

He led most of the hunters away, leaving only the toughest among them, like Raiden, behind to support Moon and Jackson.

And just like that, the battlefield split into two separate hells.

One against a sea of monsters.

The other against a raging king on the verge of exploding.

The Iron Demon completely lost control after the flames continued ravaging His body.

He began smashing everything around Him with indiscriminate destruction.

One punch flattened an entire building.

Another sent a shockwave through the streets that shattered the ground apart.

Ethan and the others surrounded Him as best they could, trying desperately to survive His rampage.

But enduring a storm of attacks like that without losing anyone was pure madness.

Then suddenly—

The demon grabbed one of the First Squad knights who had stepped too close.

Their tank.

The hunter who had stood beside Gustav since the beginning.

The man didn’t even have time to scream.

The Iron Demon’s hand closed around his head...

And his entire body exploded inside that grip like a crushed sack of flesh.

Blood and shattered remains sprayed across the battlefield while everyone froze for a single brief second.

One second.

But that was enough.

Because after killing the hunter, the Iron Demon unconsciously exposed His left side for the briefest instant.

And an opening like that...

Was all Ethan needed.

"Moon!!"

He shouted at the top of his lungs.

Phoenix flames erupted once more from Moon’s sword as she instantly understood his intention.

She moved first.

Her burning strikes rained down upon the demon’s chest and injured side, forcing Him to raise His arm to defend Himself from the explosive flames.

And at that exact moment—

Ethan slipped through the blind spot.

The Wise Raven’s Insight ignited within his eyes while Aura Armor wrapped around his entire body.

Then he gripped the Executioner’s Sword with both hands.

"Night Lord’s Aura!!"

The blade spun violently, unleashing a spiraling storm of power that tore through the air toward the opening Moon had created with her flames.

Empowered further by the Night Lord’s Aura that amplified Ethan’s offensive might to another level.

And for the first time since the battle began...

The attack succeeded.

The spiraling strike pierced through the gap beneath the demon’s armor and buried itself deep inside His scorched flesh while Moon’s flames exploded alongside it.

She didn’t miss the opportunity either, driving her flaming sword deeper into the demon’s body at the same time.

The Iron Demon released a catastrophic howl that shook the city.

At last...

He had taken enough damage.

He had weakened.

"NOW!!!"

Jackson’s eyes ignited with bloodthirsty madness.

Every muscle in his body swelled at once while his golden Aura Armor exploded with power so violently that the earth cracked apart beneath him.

He tightened both arms further around the demon’s neck, unleashing everything he had left and forcing his body past its limits.

"Die, you bastard!!!"

Golden energy surged wildly through Jackson’s arms as he squeezed with every remaining ounce of strength.

Moon continued burning Him.

Ethan kept the sword buried inside the wound.

The mages drowned Him in fire while the remaining hunters held back the monsters trying to interfere.

Until finally...

The accumulated damage reached its limit.

A horrifying cracking sound thundered across the battlefield.

Then the Iron Demon’s neck exploded completely beneath Jackson’s crushing hold.

Black flesh tore apart.

The iron armor shattered.

And dark blood burst from His neck like a river.

The giant demon’s body staggered violently...

Before finally collapsing onto the streets, shaking the old city itself with the impact.

Silence swallowed the battlefield for one brief moment.

Then Jackson collapsed as well.

The giant dropped to one knee first while blood poured from his mouth, nose...

Even his eyes.

Both his arms were nearly destroyed.

His entire body was covered in fractures and wounds.

Yet somehow...

He remained alive.

A rough exhausted laugh escaped him as he stared at the Iron Demon’s corpse.

"Hah..."

"Finally... that bastard’s down."