The Novel's Draft

The shard was absorbed by the sword, and the sword flashed a bright light.

Grabbing another shard, he placed it on top of the sword.

The blade slightly illuminated.

Grabbing the sword, the hero brings it up close to his face.

"This sword will have the light attribute, it will grant the sword the ability to flash a bright light. But not only that but only that... combined with the divine attribute it will have the ability to slay any demon. However, the sword is too weak because it had been split into eight."

The hero started casting multiple magical circles on the sword.

"With a slight adjustment, the divine and light attribute will be combined."

Holding the sword, he swung the blade around.

Closing his eyes, armor made of light started forming around his arms.

He didn’t make full armor.

Instead, the blade started being reinforced by the armory that should have covered him instead.

The atmosphere shifted back.

Incus paused the attack.

The armor on Incus started to disappear and the blade started being reinforced.

I see that armor is a combination of both light and divinity.

Lunging forward to slash at the king, all of the shadow chains suddenly shattered.

Most of the demon king’s skin had been shredded off, his upper chest and face was left completely intact.

"You bastard, where did you learn that disgusting technique..!" The demon king’s face distorted, the air around him shifted.

The vision of the demon king on his knees and the hero with a blade that had the same appearance as Incus’ loomed over him with an intimidating stare.

With hatred in his eyes, the demon king threw a punch at Incus.

Appearing in front of him, Steinen blocked the attack with his great sword.

However his blade had shattered in half.

Ducking down, Steinen gave Incus the opportunity for her to slash the blade horizontally.

A large wound appeared across the demon king’s chest.

Blood didn’t pour out, instead there was a slight glow on his chest that seemed to be eating at his wound.

Dashing back, the demon king looked at his wound.

A flashback happened, and the same light was painted across his body with the true hero grabbing him by the neck, slowly stabbing him.

"You’ve poked a dragon inside me that you shouldn’t have aggravated." The demon king stared at Incus with an intense glare.

"Scales of dragon, strengthen me." The dragon scales started wrapping around her, giving her a surge of strength.

As Steinen fell to his knees, Incus pursued the demon king.

Steinen kept his head raised, the crimson glow from his visor didn’t diminish.

The demon king was still being nerfed, which is good.

Raising an upwards palm, multiple pillars of earth shot up that were conjured by the demon king.

Dodging all of the pillars, Incus blitzed around the field with acrobatic movements.

Appearing in front of the demon king, she stabbed a thousand times.

Shooting out fire from his body, an explosion of ember shot out into every direction.

Commanding the dragon scales, I made it block the flames.

Vertere drenched us in water in order to cool us down.

Waving his hand around, the demon king started to create dragons made of shadow.

It wasn’t created from the soot, but instead from dark magic.

A burst of aura covered him.

He activated his body reinforcement skill.

The skill’s components were very similar to enhancement but it was more intune to boost a person.

If enhancement was a microwave then reinforcement is an oven when it comes to making a person stronger.

The shadow dragons dove straight at Incus.

Cutting through the attacks, a gas of shadow enveloped the entire crater.

When the shadow died down, multiple demon kings stood around Incus and Steinen.

And also around us.

The demons started walking forward.

Standing up, I pointed my blade.

"Shit... we have to battle again." I sighed, "Check status."

When I checked one of the demon king’s stats, the status window didn’t pop up.

I see.

Laying back down, Vertere raised his eye brow at me when I laid back comfortably.

"What the hell do you think you’re doing?" Vertere scowled.

"Don’t worry, they’re just shallow illusions." I waved a dismissing hand.

Vertere looked at the fake demon kings, and seemed to sense that they weren’t real.

He also had illusionary magic.

All of the fake demon kings extended a hand.

A barrage of condensed fire balls shot out in succession at Incus and Steinen.

Incus exhaled a breath of cold air and started cutting down the magical fire attacks.

Steinen on the other hand was simply swatting away the attacks with his broken sword, as if the fireballs were nothing but flies.

Laying down as low as possible, the fire balls narrowly missed me.

Hold on somethings strange, the fireballs being shot by the illusions were all real.

How is he doing this?

Were the illusions actually real but they only had the capacity to launch fire balls?

Looking around, I tried finding where the real demon king was.

It didn’t take much effort.

The real demon king’s fingers were wriggling around with strange movements.

So that’s how it is.

The demon king has mastered quick casting to the point that he doesn’t even have to mutter a word, only using simple gestures.

Mana control is something that he has maxed out as well which clearly plays a big role.

He was casting fire ball from his own illusion’s hand.

He had ninety nine intelligence and mastered insight.

The fire balls stopped and switched to weapons made of shadows being launched at them.

With a bright flash, the shadows disappeared.

The divine light worked as a perfect counter against the shadow.

So it doesn’t only work on shadow demons but all kinds of shadows.

The king had true shadow conjuration, it must be humiliating to have his strongest element get shut down.

Growling, the demon king clasped his hands together and muttered one word:

Meteorite.