Vlov Arkhangel's roar echoed throughout the sea of fire, the turbulent river of flames rolled up raging waves, the already intensely burning fire intensified even more, forming a storm surge in an instant!
"The surrounding fire, its highest temperature is probably around three thousand degrees Celsius."
Arcueid stared at Vlov as she spoke, then patted Naoki and Aoko's shoulders. Both of them instantly felt something as if added to their bodies.
Protection?
"I'm giving you a layer of membrane that can withstand curses. After all, that fire is just a manifestation of a curse. As long as you can withstand the curse, then you won't be affected by the fire. Of course, this is just in case."
"Just in case, huh... truly thoughtful."
Opening all magic circuits, letting mana fill his entire body.
*WHOOSH!*
The light of mana simultaneously bloomed and shone on Naoki and Aoko's bodies.
The disaster area was so vast, and earlier when looking from above, many casualties were visible. They could no longer let Vlov be.
They had to stop (kill) him here!
Because of their freefall earlier, the entire area with a thirty-meter radius centered on the three of them was completely empty, so there was no need to worry about anyone interfering.
In that case—
*THUMP!*
Stepping forward first, like a spurting rocket, Naoki instantly shot towards Vlov. Both his fists rolled up vortexes of fire, dragging trails of flames as they directly and violently struck his head!
However, just as his fist was about to hit Vlov, an uncomfortable feeling suddenly surged into Naoki's heart.
His eyes weren't looking at him.
Not looking at him who was shooting straight towards him, but passing over him, staring at Arcueid who was still dozens of meters away, with a gaze full of longing.
And until the moment his fist felt flesh—
*CRASH!*
Centered on Vlov, a terrifying firestorm instantly shot into the sky and swept outwards. Naoki, who was at point-blank range, was directly carried high into the air by the rapidly rising heatwave!
And the next moment, a huge amount of fire gathered to form a demonic claw in myths, suddenly striking Naoki from high in the air!
*BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!*
Gandr, as fast as lightning, quickly pierced through space, penetrating all the fiery hands one after another!
And as if having predicted the arrival of Gandr, Naoki didn't even glance at it. While grasping the raging flames in his hands, he threw them towards Vlov!
The scattered rain of fire instantly split into dozens of fire lances!
Finally shifting his attention from Arcueid, those empty eyes glanced at the fire falling from the sky. Vlov reached into his chest and directly pulled out a terrifying great weapon.
It looked like a long sword, but its blade was like a falchion.
Facing the falling fire lances, Vlov directly swung his falchion at one of them!
*THUMP!*
The fire lance was instantly shattered by the pure slash. And right after the fire lance fell, taking advantage of the brief pause after he swung his sword, Naoki instantly increased his thrust to the highest point, almost transforming into a fiery shooting star that shot downwards!
*THUMP!*
The kick barely grazed Vlov's body, tearing a large crack in the debris-filled ground!
After nimbly avoiding the attack, Vlov resolutely swung his falchion at Naoki's back!
However, just before it hit its target, a huge impact suddenly struck the sword blade from the side, the missed slash hitting the ground.
Stepping the falchion deeper into the ground with one foot while restricting Vlov's movement, Aoko, who had caught up, directly swung her right fist shining with magic formulas!
*BANG—BANG—BANG—!*
Three consecutive bursts of Mana, tripling in speed in an instant, this fist instantly became a missile that struck Vlov's chest straight on!
The force that pierced his chest made him bend over. His entire body was thrown backward on the spot with blood spurting out!
And in the definite path where he was thrown backward, Naoki rode the strong wind, running as fast as he could to catch up—
*BANG—BANG—!*
Imitating what Aoko had just done, after two slightly slower accelerations, he slammed into Vlov's flying face!
*THUMP!*
The ground, already cracked by the previous blows, visibly caved in even more from this impact.
Seeing Vlov's head directly hitting the ground from his punch, Naoki had no intention of stopping at all, both his fists continuously hammering down like a rainstorm.
*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!**BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!**BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*
Hundreds of consecutive blows bit by bit continued to hammer Vlov into the ground. Countless amounts of blood were forced out of Vlov's body by his fists. If blood was the source of a vampire's power, then every punch Naoki landed at this moment was truly reducing Vlov's strength.
His weapon was seized by Aoko, and he himself was completely suppressed by Naoki.
'The situation seems very bad.'
Although his consciousness wasn't very clear yet, the heart-piercing pain made Vlov assess his current situation. If this continued, he would be directly beaten to death. Naoki's fists were too strong.
*SLASH!*
Completely disregarding that a large part of his body would be reduced, Vlov directly sacrificed most of his upper body, including his left arm, quickly rolling away from Naoki's attack range.
However, even before he had time to breathe and recover, Aoko, who had been watching him, had already chased after him, her slender right leg slamming down with all her strength.
*CRACK!*
Sacrificing his grazed cheek, Vlov once again rolled away, then with the help of his only remaining arm, he stood back up, raised his hand and pulled from the empty air. The falchion that Aoko had stepped into the ground directly came out and flew into his hand.
*CRASH!*
A wave of fire filled with curses swept out from around him, demonic fire claws along with the great falchion swept sideways!
*BANG!*
Parrying the slash with his fist.
*THWACK!*
A magic cannon tore through the fire claws.
Destroying Vlov's attack at the same time, Naoki and Aoko, who were already in front of him, simultaneously raised both their fists—
*CRACK!*
His chest bones shattered from the impact, his chest cavity was torn open, their fists very easily pierced through Vlov. Blood spurted out from behind him like a blooming flower.
This was a fatal blow.
His blood had already been drained quite a bit, this attack would determine victory, without a doubt.
The hot curse quickly disappeared without a trace, the burning world instantly collapsed and faded. The curse born from Vlov would also end with his death.
However—
"Aaaah..."
A low sigh suddenly escaped Vlov's throat.
A piercing cold suddenly surged into Naoki's heart! The warning bells in his heart rang madly as if they were about to break!
[Run quickly!]
His brain and body roared like that. Without the slightest hesitation, Naoki instantly pulled back his hand, while grabbing Aoko into his arms and running as fast as he could backwards.
And just as his heels lifted off the ground, an unexpected snow-white light ignited in Vlov's chest.
"So it turns out..."
Raising his eyes, already despairing of this world, Vlov raised his wrist like when he had swung the fire before, but this time, what answered him wasn't fire, but the opposite—
*CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK—!*
A glacier that tore through the world.
"This world... is so cold..."