'That, might actually be dangerous.'
For the first time since the battle began, Pride began to have second thoughts about not going all out from the start.
The ground behind him was left with a giant hole that was nearly five hundred meters wide with a depth that was more than three times its width.
His muscles bulged up with blood vessels showing on his forehead as he tossed the mountain-sized chunk of earth at Pride.
"AAAAAAAAA!!!"
Followed by a loud booming scream, the gouged part of the ground was thrown at her. At the same time, the heroes immediately took their distance, the spatial magicians teleporting them away from the area.
'They're really planning to kill me, aren't they?'
Pride thought to herself as she turned her gaze to Webb who was watching her with narrowed eyes. Among all the heroes present, Pride was sure that he was the only one strong enough to give her a bit of a hard time.
'First, let's break the other heroes' spirits.'
As Pride thought that, she rose her sword overhead and muttered something to herself.
**BOOM!
The next moment, there was an explosion of magic power as a pillar of black light surged from her sword, piercing into the clouds.
Upon feeling the amount of energy in the blade, both the giant's descendant that threw the mountain of earth at her and the heroes on the ground frowned in displeasure as they instantly figure out what she planned to do.
The giant's descendant resolved himself and coated his fist with flames while taking a stance, getting ready to attack Pride as he kept on condensing magic power around his fist.
"Aura of Pride: Sword of Hubris."
Pride swung her blade down right after she called out the name of the technique she was using, an action she normally deemed completely unnecessary.
The amount of demonic energy in the giant pillar of dark light was released from the tip of her blade like a laser beam that destroyed everything in its path.
***KAAAABBBBOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!
A deafening explosion rang out as the ground shook with more force than an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 or above.
The sky darkened, as the laser of black light split and shattered the mountain of earth, turning it into dust, before going on to split the giant's descendant behind it in two from head to crotch.
Tiny pebbles rained down as a result and clouds of dust that stretched up thousands of meters in the air covered the entire space.
**BOOMM!!
The sliced halves of the giant's descendant's body fell down to the ground, revealing the scene of carnage that stretched on for miles on end behind him.
Not only had Pride's attack shattered the mountain of earth hundreds of meters wide and thousands of meters long, but it had gone on to blow a hole through the ground behind the giant it had cut in two, forming a canyon in the process.
However, the part that left the heroes shocked the most, was the fact that they could now see cracks in the space that was the newly formed canyon.
Cracks in space that signified that Pride's attack had actually succeeded in damaging this special space that they had created to isolate and take her down.
After that, she slowly descended to what was left of the ground and gazed at the heroes as if she was looking at mere insects.
"No, way…"
"You're, kidding…"
"This...impossible..."
The heroes were told that Pride was in the same level range as they were, but even they were not so sure they could dish out an attack of that scale, destroy the mountain of earth and slice the giant's descendant in half while also cracking the space created, and still have energy left in their bodies.
However, from the frown on Webb's face, as he stared at Pride, they could tell that she still had more than enough energy to take them on comfortably.
"I'd hold her off, begin the preparations."
The moment Webb spoke, he grabbed his sword and kicked off the ground, appearing in front of Pride a second later as he swung his blade at her neck.
"Not enough."
She dodged his sword at the last possible moment with minimal movements and prepared to thrust her fist on his face before the sword in his hands suddenly gleamed.
"!?"
Pride instinctively guessed the danger in that light and instantly took a distance from him. The next moment, a blade of light left the sword and flew to the place where she was standing just now.
"Celestial Energy, huh?"
Webb corrected his balance as he swung his shining sword in the air multiple times, as if trying to test out the blade, and nodded to himself in satisfaction.
Pride cracked her neck and began walking towards him, her entire demeanour changing as she infused her sword with demonic energy.
Webb took similar actions, increasing the concentration of his 'Celestial energy' in his sword as he took slow but steady steps towards the demon who had long seen through his through level of power.
If one were to appraise Webb now, they would see his level; shooting up rapidly, past the eight hundred mark and even going towards the level 850 barrier before finally settling at 843.
The level difference between him and Pride was nearly a hundred, but he did not dare underestimate the demon as he had seen that she easily possessed power that was leagues above what her level represented.
'I knew something was fishy when all the seven of them had levels at 777.'
He thought to himself as he picked up the pace, Pride doing something similar as the two blitzed towards each other with energy-infused weapons.
**CLANGG!! BOOMM!!!
The two's weapons met each other with a flash of black gold light as the ground underneath their feet crumbled due to the shockwaves released at the point of the clash.
Before the shockwaves could even spread properly, the duo had already moved out of the area at speeds so fast they appeared to be streaks of light in the air, clashing occasionally and exchanging blows that cratered the earth underneath their feet.
Webb coated his sword in golden lightning and struck down at Pride who twisted her body to the side, effectively dodging the slash while sending in her own flame-coated sword towards the celestial hero's neck.
He easily ducked to avoid the slash while clenching his fist and enhancing his strength with magic before delivering an uppercut to Pride's torso.
Nevertheless, the demon foresaw this and blocked his punch with her open palm, grabbing his fist and flinging his entire body into the air with enough force to send him flying a few hundred meters.
**BAMM!!!!
Webb crashed on the ground and bounced back up multiple times before his body finally came to a stop as he slammed his back on a small cliff.
**BOOM!!
Pride, who had taken to the skies right after flinging him, plunged down with her sword, turning the small cliff into a pile of dust as she crashed down on it.
An injured Webb emerged from the cloud of dust but his wounds healed rapidly as he disappeared from his spot and re-appeared behind Pride, sending a kick to the side of her body.
The demon of Pride was sent flying into the air faster than she sent him flying earlier, but she had no time to catch her breath as he reappeared in front of where she was about to land and thrust his sword filled with golden energy straight into her chest.
**PUKK!!
Webb frowned as the feedback he felt was not the kind he was expecting, instantly deducing his attack had failed, and jumped back before coating his sword in energy, extending its reach to a hundred meters as he roes it overhead and slashed downwards.
Pride, on the other hand, looked at her arm which had a stab wound that was burning with golden flames as she tossed her blade to her other hand and coated it in demonic energy, extending its reach to a similar length as her opponent had just done.
She swung the sword horizontally, her blade clashing with Webb's and resulting in a large explosion of great intensity.
"I wonder how many cities we would have destroyed by now if not for your special barrier."
Pride remarked as she used her magic power to expel the celestial energy that was eating at her arm before empowering her natural regeneration as she dashed towards Webb.
**BZZZTTTTTT!!!!
The celestial only remained silent as he waved his hand and created a pillar of lightning that smashed down upon her.
However, the demon easily cut the lighting pillar in half with her sword, reaching him an instant later and intended on doing the same to him.
Webb quickly raised his sword to block her slash before countering with one of his own, the power behind it not being enough to push her back.
The next moment he released a burst of magic power, creating a shockwave that sent Pride flying dozens of meters and creating a crater easily ten times that distance.
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