Return of the Calamity-Class Death Knight

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Chapter 304: Memory (2)

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"You reopened a dimensional portal…?"

Dorugo murmured in shock at Damien\'s sudden appearance.

"How did a knight open a dimensional portal? Did he have helpers? Or did he use an artifact? Either way, it’s amazing."

It was unexpected that Damien had followed them here.

But it wasn’t a major problem. Even with the Imperial Supreme Sword in a near-death state, Damien Haksen alone wouldn’t be able to change the outcome of the battle.

"You should have stayed buried there and died quietly. To come after me… You’ll regret this."

Suddenly, an intense headache struck Dorugo. It was the worst pain she had ever experienced.

"Ugh, grr... Aaaagh!"

Dorugo grabbed her head with both hands, desperately hoping for the pain to pass.

With the headache, strange memories began to surface. Dorugo began to read the memories in a daze.

"What... what are these memories...?"

The memories gradually increased. Eventually, Dorugo recalled everything from her previous life.

"Damien Haksen... Death Knight... The Seven Authorities... I remember now. Finally, I remember. Why on earth did I forget such crucial things until now?"

Slowly, Dorugo fixed her gaze on Damien.

"Damien Haksen, my loyal knight. I never imagined we’d meet again like this."

"...Did you regain your memories?"

Damien asked suspiciously. Dorugo nodded.

"Yes, I remember everything now. Who we were… what we did together."

Dorugo\'s eyes began to change as she looked at Damien.

Her once calm eyes started to tremble, rising like a fire caught in the wind.

"How dare an undead like you kill your master?"

Dorugo screamed in anger.

"Do you know what you’ve done? The grand plan that I painstakingly prepared for over a thousand years, was all destroyed because of you!"

Dorugo’s eyes flared red as she raged uncontrollably.

"That ritual! The time-reversal was never meant to be used now! Someone like you shouldn’t have used it! Argh! Aaaagh!"

After a while of raging, Dorugo forced herself to calm down.

"...No, the ritual can be prepared again. As long as I take control of this world, preparing the ritual again will be easy!"

Dorugo glared at Damien once more.

"Damien Haksen, this time I’ll turn you into the perfect slave. I’ll break you so thoroughly that you’ll never even think of defying me..."

"Hahahah."

Dorugo’s words were suddenly interrupted by laughter.

Dorugo looked at Damien with a face full of confusion.

"Don’t tell me... you\'re laughing?"

"Haha, hahaha!"

Damien threw his head back and burst into laughter.

"Dorugo... Dorugo remembers! She has also regressed like me!"

Dorugo couldn’t understand why Damien was laughing so joyfully.

"Ha... haha..."

Meanwhile, Damien\'s laughter gradually died down.

As he lowered his head and stared at Dorugo, his eyes overflowed with both delight and bloodlust.

"I’ve been regretting it all this time. I killed you far too easily."

Killing intent radiated from Damien. The sinister aura sent a chill down Dorugo\'s spine.

"Epsilon!"

Unable to withstand the murderous aura, Dorugo instinctively cried out.

"S-Stop Damien Haksen! Don’t let him get close to me!"

The Four Great Demon Kings immediately stood in front of Dorugo and formed a barrier to protect her.

When Damien saw what they were doing, his lips curled into a sneer.

"You think you cheap knock-offs can stop me? Good. I\'ve been wanting to crush you all for a while now."

Damien took a stance as if he was about to lunge forward and muttered.

"Third Wheel."

In an instant, Damien’s body vanished.

A blue flash engulfed the Four Great Demon Kings.

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"Damien Haksen!"

The first to react was Iota.

Iota stood in Damien\'s way as he unleashed his dragon form.

"This time, I will have my revenge!"

His dragon-scaled fist tore through the air toward Damien.

But Damien didn’t dodge. Instead, he threw his own punch.

The two fists collided.

Iota\'s fist was like a boulder, while Damien\'s seemed as small and fragile as an egg.

But the result was different. The egg shattered the boulder.

Iota\'s fist crumbled. The muscles in his arm burst apart, and black blood splattered everywhere.

"Arrrgh!"

Iota screamed in agony, but Damien showed no mercy.

He kicked the ground and flew into the air. He stomped on Iota\'s head.

Iota\'s head slammed into the ground. The ground was crushed under the impact.

"Damien Haksen!"

Next came Epsilon. He swung a massive iron ball down at Damien.

Damien swung his sword upwards. The rising sword met the descending iron ball.

With a thunderous crash, the iron ball shattered. Shards of metal embedded themselves into Epsilon’s skin.

"Impossible..."

Damien swung his sword again, cleanly severing Epsilon\'s head, causing blood to rush out.

Damien prepared to charge at Dorugo again when suddenly a massive magic circle appeared in the sky above.

“Danger! Damien Haksen. Must kill here.”

Lambda cast dark magic. Red lightning poured from the circle like a torrential downpour.

Damien read the flow of the lightning completely, dodging the downpour with the precision of a hair’s breadth as he pushed forward.

"...Is he even human?"

He slashed at the panicked Lambda. Lambda\'s body was sliced in a straight line from head to groin.

With three down, there was only one Great Demon King was left.

“No matter who you are, I can’t stand by and let you harm my mother.”

Theta swung her sword with great force. The sound waves expanded, trying to engulf Damien.

In response, Damien raised his foot and stomped the ground hard.

The shockwave and his aura dispersed the sound waves effortlessly.

"You blocked it... so easily?"

Theta was greatly alarmed, and Damien didn’t miss the opportunity and charged at her.

A long gash was left in Theta\'s abdomen after Damien brushed past her at lightning speed.

A massive amount of blood gushed out from the wound, causing her to knelt on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, all Four Great Demon Kings were defeated.

Dorugo was speechless and murmured in disbelief.

"Defeated? They\'re stronger than they were in the past. I invested all the resources meant for you into them..."

Damien began walking toward Dorugo. She regained her senses after realizing the danger.

"How... how dare you... once again raise your sword against me?"

Fury spread across Dorugo\'s face as she clenched her teeth and screamed.

"You\'re an undead that I created! Without me, you could never have become this strong! And yet you’re so ungrateful...!"

With one swift motion, Damien appeared in front of Dorugo and swung his sword, cutting her shoulder.

The skeletal shoulder was cut off easily, revealing the marrow inside.

"...Huh?"

Dorugo didn\'t immediately realize her shoulder had been cut off.

"Aaagh!"

She screamed in agony while clutching the severed area.

"Why... why does it hurt? This body shouldn’t feel pain!"

Her skeletal form had no nerves, so she shouldn’t have been able to feel any pain.

But Damien\'s swordsmanship was special.

During his time as a Death Knight, Damien created a new style of swordsmanship specifically to kill Dorugo.

A technique that could sever the soul along with the physical body.

The reason Dorugo was feeling pain now was because her soul had been severed.

"It seems you\'re in quite a lot of pain." Damien said calmly.

Now that he was standing before Dorugo, his mind felt cold and clear.

"You’d better get used to it quickly. You\'ll die slowly and painfully as I torture you."

Damien raised his sword once more. As Dorugo saw her death flash before her eyes, she screamed for help.

"Do you think you’ll be safe after this? In the end, you’ll submit to me! And when that time comes, you and your family will all be dead—"

Intense killing intent exploded in Damien\'s eyes.

The plan to kill her slowly and meticulously vanished from his mind.

Damien swung Dawn at Dorugo\'s neck, but his blade couldn’t cut through her.

Suddenly, a longsword appeared and blocked Dawn\'s strike.

Damien followed the blade with his eyes, and there stood Hela.

“My dear, I’m sorry. I don’t particularly like this creature either, but I can’t just let her die.”

Hela said calmly.

“When I saw you last time, I should have killed you then. That was my mistake.”

Damien\'s voice rumbled low, like a ferocious beast.

Hela smiled and replied.

“You wish to kill me, don’t you, Dear? But before that, there’s something that needs to be finished. Those ones aren’t dead yet.”

As soon as she finished speaking, an enormous pressure erupted from somewhere.

The Four Great Demon Kings rose to their feet.

Their bodies started growing larger. Their human forms quickly vanished and were replaced by monstrous figures. They had finally revealed their true selves.

Behind Damien were the Four Great Demon Kings, and in front of him, the leader of Pandemonium.

Even though he was surrounded by such powerful enemies, Damien chuckled.

“So, I can’t kill Dorugo until I’ve dealt with all of you, is that it?”

“Exactly, My dear. But I wonder if you can face us in your current condition.”

She wasn’t wrong. Damien had nearly depleted his stamina and mana from overusing the authorities. The small amount of mana he had left had been consumed when he used third wheel.

“What a horrible feeling to be pitied by a trash like you!”

Damien said with a sharp tone.

“But don’t worry. I have plenty of ways to kill you.”

With that, Damien removed the bracelet from his wrist.

The dark mana sealed within it was unleashed.

“...Dark mana?”

Hela murmured in confusion.

“Why would a knight possess dark mana? When you can’t use it, can you?”

“Stop him!”

Dorugo suddenly screamed in panic.

Hela tilted her head in confusion.

“Stop him? From what?”

“Stop Damien Haksen from absorbing that dark man!”

Dorugo shouted desperately. But it was already too late.

Damien gathered all the dark mana dispersed in the air and absorbed it into his body.

He stopped using the Five Wheel Harmonious Art.

Dark mana and regular mana were different forces. To control dark mana, he needed to use a different mana cultivation technique.

It was a technique Damien hadn’t used in a long time, but one that was all too familiar to him.

A technique not born of his desires but created during his time as Dorugo\'s slave, slaughtering countless people.

Nameless mana art.

The power that once wiped humanity from existence, the power of the Death Knight now reawakened.

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