Chapter 11: 11. Demon Slaying
Deliora becomes more violent after getting injured. He keeps shooting big magic bullets from his mouth now while also chasing them as they keep running away.
Alex is focusing on evading Deliora's rapid giant magic bullets while Ur is attacking the bullets that almost hit them to change their direction by shooting multiple Ice Lances.
Deliora's mad attacks prevent them from getting closer to Deliora. They can't attack him properly if they can't get closer, so this is a problem.
Waiting for Deliora to run out of magic power is also a stupid idea because this demon has an unimaginable amount of magic power.
Instead of Deliora, Alex is the one who feels his magic power is getting lower. It's very difficult to maintain Shukaku's Full Body transformation for a long time with his current amount of magic power.
That's why they need to finish this fight quickly, but Deliora's rampage is making it difficult for them to even attack the demon now.
"ALEX, CAN YOU MOVE A BIT CLOSER? I CAN'T CAST A SPELL FROM THIS DISTANCE."
"I'M TRYING."
Alex is really trying to get closer to Deliora, but Deliora's attacks are too fast and he is forced to move back.
"No choice then. I will deflect his attacks, so you need to charge forward."
"You sure?"
"It's our only choice."
"Tch! Fine."
Alex charges forward in a zigzag pattern to confuse Deliora and also dodge the magic bullets. Ur attacks any magic bullets that Alex can't dodge, but she focuses on deflecting them instead of destroying them.
But Ur can't deflect every magic bullet. Some manage to pass her attacks, so Alex blocks them with his hands.
The magic bullets destroy his sand hand, but he reforms them every time they are destroyed, which depletes his magic power even faster.
Although thanks to that, they can finally get closer to Deliora. Ur immediately casts a spell to seal Deliora's movement.
"Ice Make: Ice Geyser!"
Ur creates numerous giant ice spikes on the ground around Deliora. Although the ice spikes can't pierce through Deliora's hard body, they are enough to stop him from moving as they clump around Deliora.
"Ice Make: Ice Blocks!"
Ur creates some giant ice blocks and forms them into stairs in front of Deliora. Then she tells Alex to use the stairs to jump on Deliora again. But then she sees Deliora's mouth glow again.
"As if I'll keep letting you do that! Ice Make: Rosen Krone!"
Ur creates ice roses and thorny vines from the giant ice spikes. The ice thorny rose vines climb Deliora's body and bind his mouth, closing it so it can't shoot more magic bullets or beams.
Alex uses the stair made out of the giant ice blocks and jumps even higher than before. Before Alex jumps, Ur creates another giant Ice Nail on Deliora's wound. She made it sharper and longer than before.
Before Alex hits the Ice Nail with his giant Shukaku body, Ur hits the Ice Nail first using a giant Ice Hammer. Pushing the Ice Nail directly with her magic was reducing the power because of Deliora's high magic resistance before.
So now she uses her magic to create a strong physical attack by hitting the Ice Nail that has become a physical object using Ice Hammer, making her attack fully physical.
Her plan works because the giant Ice Nail pierces through Deliora's body even further. It's not very deep, but their attacks haven't finished yet because now there is a giant sand raccoon falling from a higher location than before.
"Take this, you damn demon! Special Attack: Fat Raccoon Tail Drop!"
This move doesn't really have a name, but Alex just wants to pump his spirit. He rotates his body and slams his giant tail as strong as possible at the giant nail.
Once again, the powerful tail attack hits the giant Ice Nail. This hit is even stronger because now Alex can calculate the momentum better and he also drops from a higher place, so the gravity increases the power of the hit even more now.
The giant Ice Nail pierces Deliora's body even further. It pierces through his chest and hits his stomach. He can't even scream because Ur's ice rose vines bind his mouth.
But Alex isn't finished yet. After hitting the giant Ice Nail with his tail, he actually propels himself up once more. So he drops on the giant Ice Nail again, now on his feet.
"HAHAHA! YOU THINK I'M DONE, HUH? TOO BAD I WON'T STOP UNTIL YOU DIE. AS IF I'LL LET THIS CHANCE GO, YOU BITCH!"
Alex keeps jumping and dropping on the Ice Nail as if he is the hammer. With his weight as Shukaku, the force of his fall is powerful enough to finally make the giant Ice Nail truly pierces through Deliora's body from up to bottom.
Ur removes the giant Ice Nail to make Deliora bleed from the massive wound. Then Alex surprisingly jumps on Deliora again to crush the giant demon's body with his weight.
Again, they are surprised by Deliora's durability. He is actually still alive and still tries to move now. But he can't as his body has been damaged too greatly and he lost too much blood.
Furthermore, the giant fat raccoon is sitting on his body, so there's no way he can move with how weak he is now. Alex is holding Deliora's mouth though to make sure the demon can't shoot another magic beam as a desperate attack while dying.
Shukaku suddenly tells Alex something which makes him nod. Alex flips over Deliora's body to make him face the ground. Then Alex sits on Deliora's back and holds his head from behind.
"Farewell then, Deliora."
Alex pulls Deliora's head to the back, snapping the demon's neck. It finally kills the giant demon that has caused a lot of destruction on Earth Land and killed numerous people.
They have killed a Demon without using Devil Slayer Magic. Furthermore, it's not just a normal demon, but a demon from the Book of Zeref. So this is a very impressive feat.
As soon as Ur confirms Deliora's death, Alex's full size Shukaku body crumbles into sand that buries Deliora's corpse.
Alex is now lying on the sand weakly as he has used almost all of his magic power to keep the transformation for that long.
Ur is the only one who looks fine. But she actually also has spent a lot of magic power. She spent many times the magic power that Alex used to make her spells strong enough to hold Deliora so Alex could deliver the powerful physical attacks.
The 3 kids are finally released from the sand binding. But they are not in good condition now. Alex's movements made them nauseous and they couldn't do anything about that because they couldn't move.
They have been holding the nausea for too long, but now they can't hold it anymore and they finally puke on the sand.
It's funny how Ultear, Gray, and Lyon seem to be in worse condition than Alex and Ur even though they didn't fight at all.
But maybe because they couldn't do anything, the fight could finish without any of them being gravely injured or even died.
Alex can imagine just how messy the fight woukd be if these 3 kids get involved. Their weak magic won't be the problem, it's their judgment, their abilities to make the correct decision.
If they get involved in the fight and do something rash, they could endanger themselves and the others. That's why Alex prevented them from getting involved by binding them in Shukaku's body.
Being nauseous and vomiting everything they've eaten is better than dying. Anything else can come later, but for now their survival is the most important thing.
"Are we going home now?" Alex asks while still lying weakly on the sand.
Ur smiles when she hears that question. "Yeah, we are going home. All of us."
Alex also smiles. "Good, carry me then."
"Huh? What?" Ur blinks her eyes.
"Carry me. I can't move my body."
Alex seems to have forced himself too much, so now he can't move his body. Ur giggles at that, but she's also very proud of Alex for going to that extent in the fight.
Now that everything is over and Deliora is dead, they can finally go home, back to their cozy house where they can sleep comfortably.
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