37 Demonic Energy, Blood-Red Sword

Upon hearing Alaric's demeaning words, and noticing Alaric was looking down on him, Penne Ryder had reached his limit.

'I thought I'd come out here, murder this damn clod, and then execute some guards! Now he knows some sort of dark magic, and my guards aren't dead! I have no choice!'

The head of the Ryder family looked up at Alaric, and said viciously, "Drawing my blood... you shall regret!"

Alaric looked at the fat tyrant in amusement, but soon he was astonished. Penne Ryder opened his mouth, and pushed out his tongue, engraved upon it, was a formation!

Quickly, Alaric ordered Pamela to gag the tyrant, but it was too late. The formation upon Penne Ryder's tongue began to glow, emitting a dark, purple light.

All that could be heard was Penne Ryder's laughter, as Pamela quickly retreated, and Gunnar arrived at Alaric's side beneath the building Alaric stood upon, having killed the 12 guards.

"You dirty peasant! You disgusting farmer! You deserve to die for causing me to feel pain!"

The light surrounding Penne Ryder soon turned black, and upon the tyrant's head, a pair of horns began to grow. Other than that, Penne Ryder seemed to be undergoing more physical changes. Warts grew on his face, his nose became sharper and sharper, exaggeratedly so, and his eyes gained cat-like pupils.

It was over very quickly, and Alaric couldn't put it to a stop due to the freezing cold barrier surrounding Penne Ryder. Goat-like horns adorned the head of the village chief, who could now be completely considered a demon. Even his hair had become black as a result of the transformation.

All Alaric could say was, "You look a bit silly, becoming a demon while wearing a bath robe."

Normally, Alaric would be scared, but he quickly noticed that Penne Ryder's mana signature had only become equivalent to rank 3. Compared to Sonic, he was still a little lacking.

As soon as Penne Ryder spoke, his now raspy voice reverberated throughout the entire area, even sending chills down Alaric's spine.

"Dirty clod, you've misunderstood the magnitude of the situation! Although I planned to unveil this dark magic when I dealt with that dirty Storm Blade Wurst... you'll do as well!"

Alaric, although unimpressed, noticed that the cold barrier was quickly expanding. In fact, it almost reached him, and he was 20 meters away from the fat demon. Even then, it continued expanding.

'Yeah, I can't handle this anymore. It seems like whatever formation that was allowed for him to become a rank 3 wielder.'

As Alaric was about to command Sonic to come and handle things, something distracted him.

Penne Ryder reached into the air, and an object began to manifest into his palm. It was a blood-red sword, with the exact same color scheme as the daggers on the robed corpses, and the blade within Wurst's attic!

Alaric went wide-eyed and quickly shouted, "Sonic! Capture this demon alive!"

'He's powerful, my lord, but your command shall be fulfilled nonetheless,' Sonic's voice sounded in Alaric's head.

As if Penne Ryder sensed something, he used his blood-red sword and slashed to his left. Just the force of this slash alone had destroyed a row of bushes and houses nearby his estate.

Suddenly, Sonic appeared behind the tyrant demon, and Alaric could tell that the slime had telepathically communicated with Penne Ryder.

"MY honor?! He's a mere rank 1 clod!" the Ryder family head shouted, and his sword slashed in the direction of Sonic once again.

Suddenly, flashing images of Sonic surrounded Penne Ryder.

'Sonic is fast enough to form afterimages? Even my eyes at the peak of rank-1 cannot catch up with him?' Alaric thought, shocked.

Penne Ryder seemed angry and unamused, and shouted out, "Temperature Torture!"

Alaric thought it was a bit embarrassing for a demon to shout his attack names, but he couldn't say so. He'd be a hypocrite, as his slime-based attacks were verbally activated.

Suddenly, the low-temperature barrier began rising in temperature, melting the ground beneath Penne Ryder, before lowering once again. Like this, it fluctuated in temperature. To anyone else, that sudden temperature change would break them immediately. But to Sonic, a slime, it mattered not.

Sonic instantly dashed to the front of Penne Ryder, attempting to grab him with a tentacle, but the demon quickly jumped back and slashed out with his sword.

Mana emanated from this slash, and it took a physical form, rushing toward the cthulhu slime.

"It seems temperature changes don't affect you! Who cares?! I have more ways of dealing with you dirty clods!"

The slash was so great in width that Alaric had to jump further away from their battle.

Alaric was alarmed, 'A sword wave? If this battle persists any longer, I may lose valuable real estate!'

A sword wave was something that only those powerful swordsmen at rank 3 could form. Similar to the blades of wind that Wurst slashed out, a storm wave could be created with a mana-imbued slash of one's sword. Although weaker than Wurst's talent, it was still damaging.

The sword wave quickly rushed into Sonic's body, but Sonic merely allowed it to do so. After all, Sonic's core was sitting peacefully within its head, and would not be hit by the sword wave.

The blue wave formed from Penne Ryder's slash quickly crashed into a villager's house behind Sonic, destroying it completely. At the same time, the upper and lower halves of Sonic's body reconnected.

This time, Alaric was enraged, "Sonic?! What the hell are you doing?! Showing off your regeneration while valuable real estate gets destroyed?!"— Alaric activated his ability and shouted out —"End this immediately!"

Sonic's mana signature immediately exploded in quantity, and there were even shockwaves emanating from his being. Soon, a voice sounded in everyone nearby's heads,

'Yes, my lord!'

Sonic disappeared from its current location and appeared behind the horned Penne Ryder who was currently in the air after sending out a slash.

'The Lord requested this end immediately. Thank you for the valiant battle.'

Penne Ryder was shocked at the slime's speed and before he could even turn his head, his vision went black.

Directly behind Alaric, on top of a villager's house, Sonic appeared, and said, 'I have completed the task assigned to me, my lord.'