Chapter 340: Killers of Men

"Aww, no more toys to play with? I didn’t think I would break them so quickly. Then again, I am always so careless with my playthings, hehe~

I guess it’s time for me to get my hands dirty." Vi’fer cooed in her sultry, sing song voice before giggling wickedly.

That was more in line with what they had been expecting from this boss. If they had properly dosed the right people, Vi’fer would have launched straight into that little speech from the start.

She would only make her move when there was no one else under her control, whether through death or prevention. It was the mark of her phase two.

Spreading her wings, Vi’fer floated a few more feet into the air. She swirled her whip over her head, letting it sweep through the air, leaving a trail of fire in its wake, before she cracked the bone whip against the ground.

Belladonna quickly sunk into a fighting position, before turning and swinging her foot into the kneeling man next to her.

Her foot collided with his face, which had been twisted into a drunken and lustful smile before it caved in around Belladonna’s foot and exploded into a fine red mist.

Vestra finished her coughing, quickly picked up her wand and sent three firebolts flying with a single wave, each one seeking a kneeling man, whilst the others did the same. All whilst dodging the attacks of the succubus in the centre and whilst Lilith kept her attention with a multitude of taunts.

Many of Lilith’s taunts were not random either, as she lured Vi’fer into attacking her, before miraculously shifting her lumbering body out of the way with cat-like grace, letting the succubus’ whip swing through the air where she had been standing, and cut apart the men that were kneeling in worship to her instead.

Other than their blunder with Vestra, they had planned out how to handle this boss. She was thoroughly documented after all, and it was mainly her first phase that wiped out a lot of the early parties.

After that, her phases were posted about and discussed.

In this phase, Vi’fer would drain the life force of the men around her to heal herself. A tactic that everyone knew was incredibly unfair, as Bosses should never be allowed to heal. That was their thing.

Whilst it was a process that could be stopped, Vi’fer did not like it. After you stopped her from healing so many times, then she would send her worshippers after you, creating a scene like the illusion Belladonna had witnessed, all whilst she entered her ’Enraged’ status.

However, if you killed them before Vi’fer got injured enough to require healing, the men would never activate and she would be unable to heal. All that left was the Enraged status, which was effectively her last stand.

Once all the men were dead, and they were surrounded by dozens more bodies and were walking in a shallow pool of blood, they finally turned their attention to the boss herself.

Belladonna immediately burst forwards, leaping onto a thick vine that burst from a blood soaked seed, and sprinted across that vine as it darted straight towards Vi’fer.

Springing off of it, using its momentum to launch her faster, Belladonna whipped her leg around and drove her heel into the back of Vi’fer’s head with a spin kick.

The Demon drifted forwards, the flying equivalent of a stumble, before Belladonna’s express escalator vine ensnared Vi’fers leg and dragged her from the air.

Vi’fer landed with an earth shattering crash, as her pretty face was the first thing to hit the ground as she was slammed down. She barely got a chance to lift her head, before Belladonna launched herself from an air platform and delivered a double heeled drop kick to the back of her head.

She tried to go in for the kill right there, but the demon must have sensed her bloodlust as she swept her talon tipped wings and sliced at Belladonna with them before cutting the vine off of her leg.

With a single push, Vi’fer launched herself off of the ground and into the air, where she started to quickly dart around and stay at a distance, all whilst lashing out with her whip.

Whilst she was keeping Belladonna at a distance, even when she was under Lilith’s taunts, She became much more aware of the vines. Vi’fer swept her whip around and using the sharpened edges of its spine-forged body to slice through them before they could get close, as they were the only thing that could drag her down to the ground and ruin her distance advantage.

At least, that was what she thought.

Belladonna skidded across the blood as she came to a halt, panting heavily from the exersion of all this running around and fighting. That was the act she put on, at least, and she must have been a better actor than she thought because the Succubus took the bait hook, line and sinker.

A manic, sadistic grin spread across Vi’fer’s face as she launched her whip towards Belladonna. It was a grin that only spread wider when she saw that the girl made the idiotic mistake of raising her arm, which was equipped with the golden projection of a shield.

The whip hit the rim of the shield and immediately bent, continuing the path of its momentum as it wrapped around the shield and the arm holding it half a dozen times. It was only thanks to a ’lucky’ head tilt that Belladonna stopped the whip from wrapping around her head too.

Vi’fer tightened her grip on the whip, ready to pull her victim into the air where she could devour their essence. But at the same moment, a wicked shark-toothed smile spread across Belladonna’s lips, as her shield disappeared.

"Gotcha." She cackled, as the previously tightly wrapped whip now hung loosely around her forearm.

With a flick of her arm, she pulled her arm out of the loop before the demon could tighten it, and grabbed hold of the whip before beginning to spin.

Around and around she went, dragging the demon along with her like she was performing an Olympic hammer through. When Belladonna finally let go, the Succubus went flying, right into the path of Lilith’s axe swing.

The Aura Axe cleaved through her flesh like butter, and it was only by chance that she lost her wings instead of her head.

The Wingless Demon bounced a few times, before skidding to a halt. With an enraged growl, she picked her broken and battered body off of the ground, and let out a deafening shriek of bloodthirsty rage as she entered her ’Enraged’ Status.

Her power exploded as her body churned the last vestiges of her mana through itself and overcharged it to an extreme level. Her skin glowed crimson, her horns and finger nails grew into monstrous weapons.

However, as she stood there powering up into her final and strongest form, she had forgotten about the vines.

A dozen vines as thick as tree trunks burst from seeds that were tossed into the blood, and quickly wrapped around her transforming body. By the time Vi’fer realised what had happened, her war cry was muffled and her body was encased in greenery.

The cocoon of vines wriggled, as its prisoner struggled for release. But with a clench of Figg’s fist, the cocoon tightened and tightened, until Vi’fer the Insatiable was finally ended with a muffled scream and a sickening crunch.