The demon was now completely enraged, and countless Shadow Tentacles burst from the shadows on the ground and walls, shooting toward Caesar like venomous snakes.
Caesar moved at high speed within the Sandstorm, using Sand Veil to constantly dodge. At the same time, a Heavy Stomp collapsed a nearby wall, and the resulting dust further disrupted the already unstable environment and the demon's perception.
The opponent opened its massive maw and spat out a cone of Corruptive Breath. Caesar could only dodge to the side—the green mist landed on the wall with a sizzling sound of corrosion, and the wall quickly turned black and brittle.
"Roar!"
It wasn't over yet; immediately following was a piercing soul Shriek, and invisible sound waves swept across the field.
Caesar felt his head grow heavy, and a momentary daze appeared before his eyes—this was the high-probability Confusion effect.
He immediately retaliated with Dragon Breath and Scale Shot. Crimson dragon flames and high-speed rotating scales shot toward the demon, but they were easily blocked by the dark energy on its body's surface.
After several exchanges, Caesar confirmed his suspicion.
Although this demon's power level was extremely high, its movements were somewhat stiff, and there was a subtle sluggishness in its magic circulation.
It was as if... a highly skilled player was controlling an account being penalized by ELO.
Unable to land a decisive blow for a long time, Beelzebub completely lost patience.
"The games end here! Merge into the eternal darkness!"
It let out a roar containing a strange rhythm, like an activation incantation. Simultaneously, several "Demonic Anchors" pre-planted in the rock walls beneath Caesar's feet, above his head, and all around him suddenly lit up with a crimson glow and exploded!
Dark Ritual: Domain Expansion!
The world spun!
The entire underground space trembled and distorted violently, like an oil painting being squeezed by an invisible giant hand. The surroundings—rock walls, sand, even light—peeled away, flowed, and reorganized like melting wax. A sense of weightlessness and a stronger pulling sensation hit him simultaneously.
The next second, Caesar found himself in a temporary Dark Demi-plane. It was like Endless Nights Temptation, yet entirely different!
The sky was dark red, without clouds, only a slowly rotating vortex that looked like congealed blood scabs.
The earth was charred black, with a lava-like dark light flowing through the cracks.
The air was thick with the stench of sulfur and the foul smell of scorched souls.
Most importantly, gravity was at least three times that of the main world! Caesar's body suddenly sank... his Sandstorm Domain was completely suppressed and repelled, and his Sand Veil ability failed accordingly.
He had been dragged into the opponent's home field, a death cage designed specifically to weaken him and buff the demon!
"Here, I am the Law!"
The voice of the Shadow of Beelzebub echoed throughout the plane, and countless low-level Dark Servants crawled out from the scorched earth, snarling as they rushed toward Caesar.
Caesar was instantly plunged into the absolute disadvantage of being besieged and suppressed by the Domain. His Dragon Tail swiped away an attack, followed immediately by a Dragon Breath to clash with the demon's Abyssal Demonic Flame.
Boom!
Energy annihilated, and shockwaves scattered. But a sliver of purplish-black flame, seemingly alive, splashed onto his left shoulder like a venomous snake. This fire was like a maggot on a bone, quickly burning through his scales and leaving a charred, festering wound.
Caesar let out a grunt of pain and immediately used Sand Attack mixed with ground-type energy to barely extinguish that eerie flame.
"Its core consciousness isn't here!"
Viola reminded him, "This is just a phantom! It's remotely controlling this body and Domain through those 'anchors'! Destroy the anchors, or disrupt its link!"
What is this old geezer talking about?
He didn't understand at all, but Caesar immediately recalled the demon's uncoordinated "sluggishness" from before.
The link between this body and it was not perfect!
He immediately condensed energy in his mouth, but instead of the anchors, he blasted it directly toward the Shadow of Beelzebub's main body!
Dragon Pulse!
The purple shockwave ignored the influence of gravity, tore through layers of obstacles, and went straight for the demon.
"Foolish!"
The Shadow of Beelzebub let out a sulfurous shriek, "In my Domain, you don't even have the right to touch me!"
It mobilized most of the Domain's power, condensing several indestructible "Walls of Shadowy Sighs" in Caesar's charge path, while simultaneously multitasking to control more Shadow Tentacles to flank him from all directions, clearly intending to trap Caesar completely.
At the very moment the demon's attention was fully drawn by Caesar's grand "suicidal charge"!
Caesar suddenly let out a thunderous shout.
"Viola!!!"
A bolt of purplish-black lightning emerged without warning from the space behind the demon!
It was the sharp claw!
Wrapped in Viola's soul fire, next to the sharp claw, a dark rhombohedral crystal—the Ghost z-crystal—was emitting an ominous light!
phantom force! Z-Power Unleashed!
With the injection of Z-Power, Viola's soul fire burned fiercely, and phantom force transformed into a purplish-black beam that pierced through reality and the netherworld. It was both a physical slash and a severing of the soul link!
Its target was precisely the flickering spectral fire in the Shadow of Beelzebub's chest, which was fluctuating slightly due to the Domain's activation—the core where the soul link was most unstable!
The Shadow of Beelzebub never expected an attack to come from a "prop" it had treated as an ordinary weapon.
Puchi!
The sharp claw accurately pierced through its chest, skewering that pulsing spectral fire along with the heart behind it!
"Ugh, aaaaaah—!"
The demon let out a shriek mixed with pain and disbelief.
The entire Dark Domain trembled violently and became extremely unstable, and those Dark Servants and Shadow Tentacles instantly faded.
The backlash from the forced severing of the remote control caused a fatal separation between it and its "vessel"!
The shadow walls in front also became fragile due to the Domain's instability.
Now is the time!
Fierce light exploded in Caesar's eyes! Ignoring the sharp pain in his left shoulder and abdomen, he squeezed out the last of the power in his Meridians, spiral-compressing all his strength, will, and desire for victory into his long-prepared right claw!
Three-colored light—the violent purple of the Dragon, the treacherous black of Shadow, and the resolute gray of Metal—condensed and intertwined like never before, transforming into a three-colored spiral energy claw with a tip flickering with space-tearing light!
"Die for me!!!"
Dragon Claw! Shadow Claw! Metal Claw! — Triple Claw Strike: Spiral Rending Kill!
BOOM!!!!
The massive claw slammed heavily into the already brittle Wall of Sighs, and the wall shattered like paper! Without losing momentum, it drove directly into the demon's chest!
Pfft—!
Purplish-black demon blood, reeking of sulfur and scorched souls, gushed out from the front and back wounds like a fountain! It splashed everywhere!
Beelzebub's body convulsed violently, and the form condensed from "Evil Elements" began to irreversibly disintegrate, turning into black ash drifting through the air. It left behind only a soul resonance filled with endless malice.
"Damn dragon... I will remember you... I will surely..."
As a creature from Ultimate Space, it would be restricted when coming to the main world, but it would not truly die there. However, this shouting did not reach the dragon's ears.
[Ding! Over-level kill of 'Legendary Demon: Shadow of Beelzebub (Extremely Weakened)', Experience +12,000!]
[Rank Up! LV.41 > LV.42!]
Caesar knelt on one knee, gasping for air, having no time to heed the System's pleasant notifications. His gaze was locked tightly on the demon core that was about to completely dissipate—a condensed, constantly twisting mass of dark energy.
Before the opponent's core could completely scatter and return to the so-called "Ultimate Space," Caesar suddenly opened his Dragons Kiss and swallowed it in one gulp!
...[Detected ultra-high purity 'Dark Attribute' factors, absorbing...]
[Experience +2,000, Learned Skill — Crunch!]
...[Detected Knowledge Fragment: Abyssal Magic 'Dark Possession Art' (High-tier soul Control/Transfer Secret Art) —]
[Warning! The logic of this spell fundamentally conflicts with the host's power System and is extremely dangerous. The System is performing a safe conversion and adaptation based on the logic of a similar skill (Substitute) in the host's skill library...]
[Adaptation successful! Learned Skill — Substitute!]