Modern World Warlock

After Dante lured the behemoth to the forest preserve, the warlock grinned with excitement, feeling like he could go all-out.

While fighting the other demons, the warlock was slightly constricted in his freedom, understanding that big cities were filled with people and his destructive magic was too dangerous to use freely.

In his past world, not even the most bustling cities had a population as high and condensed as the capital of Novaria, so he never had the need to restrain his powers as much.

However, now that he finally found himself in an open space and facing a mighty opponent, Dante couldn't help but feel excited.

The behemoth rushed like a bull, charging towards Dante, destroying and knocking down the trees that were on their way.

Meanwhile, Astaroth kept releasing waves of hellfire from the top of the beast, encasing parts of the forest in flames.

The camera on Dante, which was transmitting his point of view to Camille and the others at the tower, malfunctioned after being subjected to hellfire for too long, so Trinity controlled a couple of drones to record the encounter from the air.

As Dante flew towards a small hill, he stopped and turned to face the behemoth, which kept charging at him in a crazed state.

Astaroth, on the other hand, seemed a lot more calm than his beast, unleashing non-stop waves of hellfire.

Still, when the warlock stopped, Astaroth knew that the man had a plan and commanded the behemoth to halt.

Nevertheless, the beast was running too fast for it to stop abruptly, and as it slid on the ground with the momentum of its speed, Dante let out an eerie smile.

"Burning rush," Dante said, making his right arm, which was encased in shadows and flames, burn brighter and stronger.

In the blink of an eye, a trail of fire appeared at Dante's location while the warlock himself was standing behind the behemoth, making Astaroth turn in shock.

When he spotted Dante grinning behind him with his claws dripping blood on the ground, he noticed that the behemoth had one of its front legs severed.

At that instant, Astaroth jumped down the beast's back to face the warlock, expecting to hold him off for some time while the behemoth regenerated its arm.

With every swipe and clash from their claws, waves of hellfire would rise from their location, scorching their surroundings.

The spectators at the tower were observing the encounter, and Sophia pondered aloud why Dante's right arm looked like that.

"It's the effect of the Malevolent Art…" Lilith replied.

Malevolent Arts were abilities that were solely reserved for demons and warlocks, and depending on the chant, the effect would be different.

Of course, demons had to be at least at the level of a demon king to be able to cast it, and most of them were limited to a single malevolent art.

The malevolent art for wrath switched the caster's right arm for what demons called the "Claws of Chaos," which had the ability to produce endless waves of hellfire.

With both combatants using the claws, their fight was fated to be quite destructive, making Lilith smile with both mischief and satisfaction.

"But, if Astaroth can do it too, does that mean that Big Bro is in trouble?" Jake interjected after listening to the succubus explanation.

"Heh, kid… Just keep watching," Lilith replied with a smirk.

When the spectators focused their attention back on the encounter, they saw that the behemoth's severed arm had fully regenerated and was attacking Dante simultaneously with its master.

The barrage of attacks coming from the giant monster and the archdemon was enough to make Dante take several steps back to evade them, with his hellfire aura still burning his surroundings.

At one moment, Astaroth appeared beside the warlock and charged with his claw, making Dante protect himself with his left arm.

Simultaneously, the behemoth rushed with its horns toward Dante, prompting him to use his claws to stop it.

Nevertheless, the force of the two attacks flung Dante back, demolishing a line of trees with his body before violently rolling on the ground.

Seeing that his two opponents were rushing at him without leaving him a second to breathe, Dante sneered with his eyes sharpened.

"Is that all…?" The warlock muttered, raising his claws upwards.

Astaroth widened his eyes in disbelief and halted his rush, but the behemoth didn't stop, enraged and focused solely on killing the warlock.

"Malevolent Art: Greed," Dante muttered with a grin, generating numerous golden portals that covered the sky in a one-hundred-meter radius.

Another massive wing the size of the fiery wrath wing appeared on Dante's back. However, contrary to the dark and flaming appearance of his previous malevolent art, this one had a golden hue and didn't alter any parts of his body.

"What…!?" Astaroth asked himself, witnessing someone using two malevolent arts simultaneously for the first time in his life.

The spectators at Camille's tower were shocked, not by the implication of Dante using two arts at the same time, but at the beautiful golden portals that covered the area from the skies.

"Behemoth, halt!" Astaroth shouted commandingly at his beast.

Nonetheless, the monster was in a complete state of rage that clouded its mind, as its only intent was killing Dante.

Smiling from ear to ear with a wicked grin, the warlock turned his hand and pointed at the ground with his index finger when the behemoth was less than five meters away.

From the golden portals in the sky, dozens of weapons of all shapes and sizes started violently raining down on the beast, creating a wake of dust and blood.

When Dante pointed his finger forward, the rain of weapons started to trail toward Astaroth, who quickly jumped back to avoid getting skewered.

Sensing that he wouldn't be able to avoid all of the attacks, the archdemon stood his ground and caught one of the raining weapons, using it to skillfully deflect the rest that came down upon him.

'Hellslayer… You cursed monster,' Astaroth thought, still in disbelief at the fact that Dante could use two malevolent arts at the same time.