"Demon!"
"Hunter!" (Demon Language)
The fierce night wind carried snowflakes between them, yet it could not affect either of the two who had already confirmed each other's identity.
The sword-wielding Demon of Weapons had once been imprisoned within a glacier by Demon Hunters for tens of thousands of years. Now, faced with the appearance of another hunter, it immediately reacted by preparing to use its strongest power. Countless souls wailed and screamed within the Black Flames that suddenly ignited in its empty left hand. The burning souls filled its domain with power:
"Soul Burning."
"Soul Stealing!"
A Twelfth Order white, round-faced owl swept through the air. After crossing paths with the demon, the Black Flames that had been prepared as fuel vanished outright, while the owl flew into the distance with the scorching Soul Crystal clamped in its beak.
As both Miss Reinhart below and the demon above stared in astonishment, Shade narrowed his eyes amid the scattering sparks:
"Adele's Time Stop!"
Click~ A sound rang out from the void. After half a second of sluggishness, the astonished demon suddenly discovered that a circle of pitch-black chains had wrapped around its sword-wielding right hand.
That right arm seemed to have been simultaneously restrained by spacetime and could no longer move. When it tried to shake its arm, it discovered eight black Great Sin Runes upon the rattling chains. Even an Ancient Evil Spirit wielding an Angel Level weapon could not immediately break free from chains of this caliber. After all, the chains were not weapons. They truly possessed no offensive power at all:
"Great Sin?"
The unarmed Shade had already reached its front in midair. Now at nine rings, he did not have many thaumaturgies suitable for close combat while barehanded, and Thunderclap Wave was too weak. Thus, while using