Demon Lord: Erotic Adventure in Another World-Chapter 767: Can’t Be Saved

’How does she look like this?!’

Asmodeus stared into Funf’s dull eyes while observing her state. Her skin became brittle and dry, and her lips cracked and bloody. She coughed up dirty, black blood each time she exerted herself.

He held his hand above her forehead, the abyssal aura swirling between his fingertips as he fought the temptation to blow her away.

"...k.....m....e..."

Funf’s eyes lifted, glancing up at Asmodeus as she struggled to speak. Her tongue barely moved, creating slurred words. It reminded him of visits to the dentist, and he couldn’t help but frown.

Martha and Brando watched Asmodeus from the side, neither making a noise.

"You two should go."

Even though Funf was an enemy, there was no need to broadcast her suffering and death to everyone else. Their grudge was personal, and if something happened by chance, these two would die instantly.

"She really looks horrible." Valena approached Funf without a care in the world. She ignored the danger and poked her face. Then tilted her head while rubbing her chin. A moment later, she poked her again and nodded. "This curse is a really nasty thing."

"Hm? Do you know what it is?"

Valena’s words surprised him.

However, she shrugged her shoulders and nodded back as if it were the most normal reaction in the world.

"Of course I do. My mother showed me once." Valena dipped her finger in Funf’s black blood, then sniffed it. She recoiled instantly, before pouting. "This curse is the doing of those annoying old monsters that hide deep inside the planet to avoid notice. Can’t you feel the foul, corrupted energy?"

Asmodeus watched the small dragoness with awe. ’To think an idiot like her knew something like this! You really do learn more each day.’

Suddenly, a concerned voice echoed in his head, not Velvet’s but someone who wasn’t supposed to be here.

[Asmodeus, how is the situation inside?]

’Serena, you came after all...’

There was no reply for a moment, but Valena suddenly sniffed the air and glared at him. Before he could speak, she already slipped close to him. She sniffed around his neck, and the jet of warm embers shot up his neck.

[I’m sorry, husband... But... I missed you.]

He glanced down at the beaming eyes of Valena, confused at what she wanted. She stared at him with wide eyes and her mouth open in marvel, while still sniffing the area around his neck and head.

"What’re you doing?!"

"...You, why do you have such a delightful smell suddenly?!" She pouted while gripping his chest, leaning closer; the experience reminded him of when his cat sniffed his ears and neck while trying to gain his attention.

"What smell?"

Trapped by the dragon, he just let her do as she wanted, while responding to Serena, sometimes she became strange if he left her waiting too long.

’It’s fine, I forgive you. But, where is Velvet?’

[Ah, Velvet is...]

Her voice lost the vibrance from earlier, and he could almost imagine her fiddling with her fingers while biting her lip.

Asmodeus closed his eyes; too much was happening at once, and he needed a moment to gather himself and organise his thoughts.

"Valena, go outside, unless you can help me break this curse."

"Tsk!" The dragon hissed at him before clicking her tongue as she ran towards the door. She glanced back at him with a calm look and with a shockingly light voice. "There’s no cure, she’s done for." And told him Funf’s fate.

’Even a dragon cannot help.’

These words obviously reached Funf, too; the weakened Arbiter’s arms dropped. She stopped trying to fight and collapsed. Funf’s lifeless eyes rolled to the side, capturing Asmodeus in their languid sights.

While he stood still with closed eyes.

[Velvet is just a little tired, so she’s taking a rest, honey, don’t worry! I am here to help with cleaning up the mess, but there’s an annoying barrier at the entrance... it might take us another hour or two to break in!]

He clenched his fists from Serena’s voice, tone and word choice.

"A little tired... Velvet wouldn’t rest even if she were on the brink of collapse." He muttered to himself, then shook his head. "She must be injured. Something happened outside beyond our expected plans, and Velvet faced it alone to protect the others."

Funf’s shoulders shook at his words.

He caught the movement from the corner of his eye.

"Funf, did you do something?"

A sudden surge of heat rose from his stomach. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The dark feelings and desire to destroy her without mercy merged with the death and abyssal energies that leaked in a black shroud of miasma.

Again, her shoulders shuddered as she looked at him with misty, wet eyes.

"I..."

Blood leaked from her lips as she tried to speak. She scrunched up her face while clenching her fists loosely as tears leaked from the corner of her eyes.

’It must be frustrating to die like that.’

His monologue carried a bland and emotionless tone as he stepped close and grabbed her by the throat, lifting her off the ground, scrutinising her with pale gold eyes.

Her feet dangled as she stared back.

There wasn’t any begging in her eyes; he couldn’t even sense the desire to live or fight back anymore.

’What a powerful curse, to make that haughty and annoying woman like this.’

Their eyes remained locked together.

Maybe if not for the situation, it might have created a romantic or passionate atmosphere.

"I know you can’t speak well, just move your eyes up and down if the answer is yes. Understand?" He hadn’t lost his mind to anger, yet.

Funf’s eyes slowly darted up and down, causing more tears to spill.

’I understand, Serena, don’t do anything dangerous. I am alright here and things should be over soon, there are two dangerous existences in here. Don’t fight without me, okay?’

[Of course Darling~~ Ehehehe!]

Serena’s voice soon came back, much brighter than before.

It was almost a little eerie.

"Did another Arbiter come?"

A tremor spread through her body as she opened her eyes wide. The next moment, her body started shaking so badly as if having a seizure.

"Stop it!" Annoyed, he couldn’t control his temper and slammed her against the sand wall with a loud thud. Two distinct cracks echoed in the empty room, causing his hand to loosen momentarily.

Funf silently looked up at him, her eyes sluggishly moving up and down.

"I see."

Asmodeus felt deflated, never expecting her to actually tell him so easily. His eyes lowered to her cracked lips, and his heart tightened. This woman, who shone so brightly and looked so beautiful, now looked like a corpse.

The tear in her lips started bleeding after he slammed her into the wall...

"I’m not a monster, since you told me I’ll end it quickly."

Despite being an enemy, he disliked watching her die slowly while suffering. He planned to defeat her in battle, not like this.

"Ngh...!" She winced as he brushed across her finger, pouring his divine aura into her lips to heal the wounds.

Ba-Dum!

Ba-Dum!

Instantly, a suction started devouring his aura like a thirsty child.

Asmodeus tried to pull his hand free, but the force refused to release him. The sensation was like a small mouth wrapped around his finger, then a soft tongue flicked across the tip while sucking intensely like through a straw.

"What the hell is this?!"

"...?!"

However, Funf couldn’t possibly answer either...

She’d wrapped his fingers with her plump red lips the moment they healed.

Funf’s little tongue coiled around his finger several times, like a snake she refused to let go. Suddenly, she bit down on his flesh and poured something into him. "W-What the hell?!" He punched her in the stomach.

The force created another snap, but she continued sucking and letting something flow into his body.

He gripped his wrist with the other arm and lifted her off the floor.

Bang!

He slammed her against the wall.

Bang!

He did it a second time.

Bang!

Each blow dented the reinforced wall designed to take the force of a dragon. Funf’s little face scrunched up with each blow, as blood poured from her nose. Yet he couldn’t help but notice her dull red eyes, which started to regain their colour again.

The issue wasn’t her sucking his fingers.

It was the strange, painful throbbing that spread through his arm as a chaotic energy poured into his body through her mouth.

"Ngh, fuck!"

There came a choice; he pressed his left index finger against her forehead, shaping a gun with his left hand.

"Stop, or I will kill you."

Abyssal aura rapidly gathered into a small, cracking sphere of blood-red lightning at the tip of his finger. He bit down on his tongue, ignoring the painful throbbing that reached his chest as if something was eating him from the inside.

Bzzzt!

His magic reached critical mass as her beautiful, gem-like eyes peered up at him.

The cracked lips vanished, her pale skin became vibrant and soft, and even the blood leaking from her nose became vivid red.

’She recovered?!’

Ba-Dum!

Ba-Dum!

In his moment of shock, the dull ache reached his core, and he couldn’t hold on any longer, with gritted teeth. He closed his eyes and unleashed his sanguine devastation.

VWOOOM!

A flash of red blinded him.

The shockwave of his beam burst his eardrums as it shot through the wall.

There wasn’t any scream or plea to survive; his attack vaporised everything that stood in front of him the moment he unleashed it.

The brilliant red light burst from the side of the makeshift tower, creating a dense ray of pure death. Its force blew the sand apart, creating a deep trench at least five metres deep. Then, it deleted the mountains in the distance with a devastating shockwave.

Asmodeus closed his eyes and slouched.

Suddenly, he realised something.

The pain vanished.

Not only that...

But the energy inside his body had doubled, and the previous feeling of pressure on his shoulders and body while inside the Crystal Abyssal realm vanished completely.

"E-Eh...?"