Chapter 74 - Abaddon

Standing three meters tall, the humanoid devil figure was finally visible for all to see.

The demon had a strong robust figure that screamed of boundless power. Its skin was red all over the body. On its chest it had a bone armor that only covered the chest and its abs. but he couldn't tell if it was made out of bone as it was red in color. Much redder than the skin.

Similarly there were two plates on its shoulder and on its knees.

Apart from this it appeared that the rest was just like a normal human.

Its face was also red, with two short pointy ears that reminded Ian of elves from his past life. Albeit a bit shorter. A scar went from one ear to ear through the mouth was the most obvious thing about the demon. As if someone had cut its mouth or worse had broken it by force.

And unlike what Ian guessed, it did not have a tail. The only clothes on its body was the pants turned short it was wearing in its human form.

'Are these the diávoloi?' Ian thought to himself.

He gave a look at Whitebeard, who nodded gravely. There was no need for them to speak, they understood each other well enough to know that they were thinking the same thing.

This was a diávoloi.

None of the attacks and wounds that Ian had delivered remained on its body. As if it was reborn.

Ian was not going to attack blindly. This was a type of race that even the weakest of them almost killed whitebeard back when he was in his prime. Ian was not that arrogant. He knew that if he fought it alone, the fight would last for days and days before he might win. And that too wouldn't be without consequences.

He used a 'shave' and moved close to the old man.

Ian was going to fight along with the old man. That was how much of the importance he gave to this coming fight.

"Old man, do you recognize this one?" Ian asked as the old man had known all the three devils. As such he would be able to know it.

But there was the chance that there would be more than three or they might even be changed this time since they lost the last time against Whitebeard and Roger.

Whitebeard looked at the Devil for a long while before he finally spoke.

"This was the one who fought with Roger. I did not fight with it but roger had shown me its corpse so I'm sure. He said its name was Abaddon" He said.

"Stay on guard Ian. These demons, their fighting style is just them using overwhelming force and speed. And if I remember correctly then Roger had said that its main fighting style is using Bones as weapons…" He then added.

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Abaddon.

This was the diávoloi's name. Ever since he and his brother and sister had awoken from the last fight where they died to Roger and Whitebeard, he had been doing nothing.

But when the order was given to them to take care of Whitebeard as he had grown old, he volunteered for the mission.

Taking care of Whitebeard was a necessity for their future plans as he had already stood against them once… Plus it was their awaited revenge… The true history of the world would expose many things and they did not want that, so ever since the great kingdom was destroyed they had been stopping anyone from reaching Laugh tale, and knowing the truth of the world. And Whitebeard knew something too as Roger had told him… So they had to take care of him.

Abaddon was the one who corrupted Blackbeard, and had him betray the old man. And then he had him capture Ace. To jumpstart the war. And he had also went in person to check on the old man and he had indeed felt him weaken with time.

As such he felt that Whitebeard was already as good as dead. He had even came to the war and disguised himself as a marine in order to take care of things if they (the marines) proved to be inadequate.

But when the time had come, the old man was stronger than he had guessed and felt. He was sure something has happened since the last time he had checked on him. And not only that but he felt someone even stronger on the side of Whitebeard.

The shock however came when he felt the person's life-force. It showed him that he was still young by the Humans age.

This immediately got him alerted so he started fighting him. He had to, as Ian would prove an even greater threat then Whitebeard to them if he was allowed to grow. They can't let him reach Laugh tale and know the truth of the world. And there was an even more important reason not to let anyone reach that island…

But who knew that he was able to beat him that easily in his human form. He was both angered and alarmed. He knew that this person must be eliminated, even at the cost of showing his true form to the people there. So he did.

He saw how Ian jumped near Whitebeard and nodded his hands. That was smart of him. As if he was arrogant he might have died just right then.

Unknowingly to him, he was still underestimating Ian.

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Back to Ian and Whitebeard.

They saw the demon readying to attack so they prepared.

Whitebeard held his weapon in forward motion ready to intercepts any attack coming his way.

Meanwhile Ian was going to use the first form of his spear art.

The blistering Zero-G style.

Ian wrapped his spear in his energy and unlike where he usually increases its weight and make it heavy. This time he tried to make it lighter. Until he reaches a point where so long as he is using his energy the spear would stay floating on its own as the effects of gravity on it would be momentarily nullified.

He then does the same to himself though he is not able to cut off the effect of gravity on him completely unlike the sword. Still with that, his speed would be extremely fast.

This was how strong Ian was at the moment. Truly the level of an emperor.

However he couldn't do the same for Whitebeard as it takes a huge energy only to do it for himself. Perhaps in the future he might be able to.

Then as if the devil sensed this, it kicked the ground disappearing and leaving a crater in its wake.

It appeared near Ian with five lengthened claws that were just normal earlier.

Its right hand went directly for Ian's throat, but Ian with his newfound speed was equally as fast so he sidestepped the attack, and delivered his own with the now extremely fast spear.

The devil had a bit of shock on its eyes, before it receded as it casually stepped half a step back and caught the spear with its bare hand. Or more accurately claw.

The movements were completely hidden from the onlookers' eyes as they were extremely fast. Just like Whitebeard had said, they used extreme force and speed.

Whitebeard then came from the side swing his weapon down, actually making the devil jump backwards and avoid the attack that shattered the earth around it.

After all unlike Ian who might draw some blood from it, if whitebeards attack landed, it would deal the devil huge damage.

So far Ian lacked an attack as destructive as the old man's power.

Ian then moved forward using 'shave' getting faster than the devil suddenly.

He then attacked with a downward slice that was blocked simply by instinct followed by another attack soon after leaving the devil no chance to retaliate besides defending.

Internally the devil was starting to get annoyed. Its hands suddenly sprouted two long bones that it used to guard against Ian. It guarded with one and attacked with the other making Ian hurriedly move his weapon to guard.

The attack hit him directly at the center of the spear launching Ian skidding backwards a huge distance away.

The devil was still arrogant enough to not understand that Whitebeard had at one point in time killed its brother on his own. The logical choice in this fight against two as strong as it, should have been to run. But it appeared that this devil was hot-blooded much.

And it was with that, that whitebeard managed to hit it straight at the back with an air shattering swing that actually managed to fracture the armor on its body. And as it was launched at the direction of Ian, Ian had already got his bearings back and brought the six swords he had from the ring, and made them spin with his telekinesis at such a speed that they would tear through anything. He then launched them straight at the devil. Each from an angle hard to dodge from.

The spinning blades each targeted a point as they sped along the sky and reached the devil. Two went for its arms, two for its legs, one for its head and the last one for what makes one a male…

The devil that was thrown in the sky by whitebeard had no way to dodge. But it still managed to by leaning to the right then to the left narrowly dodging the ones thrown at its arms but they still drew blood as they touched it minutely. Then it shrunk onto itself still at the sky dodging the ones thrown at its legs and Head. Leaving only one vertically targeting its manhood that it spun around at the last second dodging it with a hair width.

When he landed he was breathing a bit heavily, while blood leaked from his lips and arms. The attack of Whitebeard had hurt it more than it was expecting.

This was what happened when two fought against it at the same time. This was the price of being arrogant. Even it itself started to realize that it might have been hasty…