The Powerful Cat

"Pusiluo, stop watching the show." Aliquin spoke in a cool voice.

"Meow~~" The golden kitten let out a soft cry, which seemed to carry a hint of cheerfulness.

Immediately afterward, under Natlan's wary gaze, the golden kitten instantly shifted into battle form.

"Natlan, my master wants you dead. Sorry about this!" a cheerful voice rang out.

The golden kitten disappeared, and a person appeared in its place!

"So this is Aliquin's helper?" Natlan quickly sized him up. Pusiluo's human form stood about three meters tall. He wore fiery red armor, and his long crimson hair streamed loosely behind him. With sharply defined features, he looked every inch a bold, burly man!

The red-haired giant stared at Natlan and called out, "Natlan, I'll be your opponent from here on!"

In terms of true strength, Pusiluo far surpassed the two powerful fighters present. Even though he usually displayed only a tenth of his full strength, he was still far stronger than an ordinary Six-Star Fiend.

Because he was a Volcano Giant!

"Hmph! Bring it on!" Natlan could tell that Pusiluo was powerful, but with Aliquin keeping him occupied, he couldn't escape. He had no choice but to fight.

"The red-haired giant—is he the golden kitten from earlier?" Milia watched in disbelief. Who would ever connect a cute little cat with a burly giant?

Morti was also astonished. Such an adorable little kitten had turned into a hulking giant, and its voice was so booming.

Only Luo Ya had expected this. He watched on with a calm expression.

"For my master's Fiend Assessment, I can only ask you to die!" Pusiluo laughed loudly. An axe suddenly appeared in his hand, flames burning along its blade. He swung it hard, and a series of layered explosions rang out: "Rumble~~~"

Wherever the axe passed, space shuddered layer by layer. Even the stable space of the Hell Plane showed signs of breaking apart!

"What?!"

Natlan's expression changed instantly!

This physical attack was probably already approaching the level of a Seven-Star Fiend!

Just as expected of the freakishly powerful Volcano Giant! That terrifying strength was truly unmatched!

"Eight God Break!"

Natlan held nothing back and immediately unleashed his strongest move—

"Whoosh—"

Eight sharp, blood-red spears shot out almost simultaneously, streaking through the space of Hell like lightning. They rushed toward the incoming giant axe like eight fleeting meteors.

"Bang!"

The eight blood-red spears crashed head-on into the axe, making it pause slightly and greatly reducing its power.

"Die!" Pusiluo merely turned his hand, and a large number of axe afterimages flew out, radiating toward Natlan like shockwaves.

"Whoosh!" After unleashing his strongest move, Natlan split into hundreds of dark afterimages and hurriedly tried to flee into the distance. Even after two axe afterimages struck him, he kept running for his life.

Pusiluo's attacks were simply too terrifying!

A few more hits, and he definitely wouldn't be able to withstand them!

"Trying to leave? Not so fast!"

At the same moment, Aliquin split into hundreds of clones again, accurately intercepting every one of Natlan's afterimages and cutting off any chance of escape!

"Damn it!" Aliquin was no match for him in strength, but his ability to create clones and afterimages was just as good. With him interfering from the sidelines, Natlan had no chance of escaping the battlefield!

"Pusiluo, attack together!"

"Yes, my beloved master!" Hearing Aliquin's Soul Transmission, Pusiluo despised his master's shameless behavior, but he didn't dare disobey his orders. After all, this guy was his master.

"Boom!" "Bang!"...

The underwater world seemed to be rocked by a series of undersea earthquakes. Even the powerful fighters in other battlefields sensed the violent energy fluctuations here.

One-on-one, Natlan felt he could escape from either Aliquin or Pusiluo.

After all, though the former was just as fast as him, he wasn't particularly good at head-on combat. The latter had terrifying attacks, but was far slower than him.

But now it was two against one. He was completely trapped between them, with enemies on both sides, and as time passed, his situation grew increasingly dire!

"Pusiluo, now!"

As the saying went, even the strongest defense eventually failed. Natlan's combat instincts were formidable, and his skillful use of clones and afterimages had let him avoid fighting Pusiluo head-on as much as possible. But Aliquin was no pushover either.

Under the two of them ganging up on him, Natlan eventually let his guard down. And the moment he showed an opening, it was naturally time for Pusiluo to deliver a fatal strike!

"As you command, my master!"

Pusiluo was furious, but there was nothing he could do about his master. So he directed all his resentment at this fellow named Natlan.

"What a useless fool! You deserve to die!" Pusiluo's gaze was filled with murderous intent. He swung his axe fiercely, aiming straight for Natlan's head!

With Pusiluo's ferocious strength, what would happen if that axe struck?

At this critical moment, Natlan had no choice—

"You two forced me into this!" The golden-flamed axe struck Natlan squarely, but it didn't hit his head. Instead, it sheared away part of his body.

At some point, a terrifying phantom that seemed capable of Swallowing Heaven and Earth had taken up a vast area of the underwater world!

It was a gigantic spider monster with two triangular eyes and eight slender legs. Its body was hundreds of meters long, and its entire body was covered in blood-red hairs. It looked utterly Evil and terrifying!

"A dark-type divine beast, a Shadow Demon Spider?" Luo Ya had seen an illustration of this kind of divine beast in the Compendium of Divine Beasts he'd bought earlier at the Fiend Castle. He could recognize it.

"If you want me dead, then one of you will have to die with me!" Natlan seemed confident in the move he was about to unleash.

"Pusiluo, stop him!" Aliquin shouted urgently, almost hysterically!

Clearly, he knew something about Natlan's trump card. But Natlan had to combine it with his Innate Divine Ability to unleash its true power.

"Die!" Pusiluo was furious too. If Natlan had such a powerful move, why hadn't he used it on Aliquin right from the start? What a damned bastard!

Fueled by his resentment, Pusiluo brought down his deadly axe with all his might.

"Rumble~~~" Layered explosions rang out continuously along the axe blade, and even space let out a pained wail!

Natlan, now in his Shadow Demon Spider form, roared.

"You two!" he cried in fury, but Pusiluo's axe didn't hesitate for even a moment.

"Ah!" The blood-red spider monster went completely berserk, risking everything to unleash his Innate Divine Ability. In the spider's compound eyes, a ghastly crimson light, cold and Evil to the extreme, began to gather—

"Splurt!"

Pusiluo's axe came down without mercy. The enormous flaming battle axe cut through the air and struck the red spider's head squarely. In an instant... every one of the red spider monster's compound eyes was smashed, and the area where its head was set was completely pulverized. The axe continued on, splitting the spider monster's entire body in two!

"I refuse to accept this!!!"

Natlan's dying roar echoed again and again through the underwater region.

Either one of them alone would have been unable to kill him. But together, they'd left him no choice. He hadn't even had the chance to use his final move before dying in the most frustrating way!

"Bang!"

The giant spider monster's corpse split in two and crashed onto the reefs on the seabed. A thick, bloody stench filled the surrounding area.

Only then did Aliquin reveal his young, pale face beneath the black robe. He glanced at the enormous corpse on the ground and couldn't help sneering. "I'd already learned all about you. How could I possibly give you a chance to use that move?"

"And you thought you could take me down with you? What a complete fool!"

"Master, are you all right? Meow~" After the battle ended, Pusiluo returned to his harmless golden kitten form.

There was no denying that Aliquin was utterly shameless. He'd had Pusiluo help him deal with so many battles, yet Lord Pusiluo hadn't even received a Fiend Medal.

What a despicable bastard!