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Chapter 44 - Chapter 44: Skeletal Finale

Saiba flies towards the transformed Razier and points his sword at him. He takes his blade and grazes a bony arm. That causes the skeletal exterior to crack and reveal the human arm hiding within. Razier stares at his fleshy arm.

He screams as he pulls on it, hoping to get rid of the human limb. Razier howls and is unable to free himself from his humanity. Instead, he summons a ring of bones and launches it towards Saiba.

Saiba has trouble reacting, but manages to roll out of the way due to sheer luck. Once again, he leaps towards Razier, aiming for the remaining bone arm. While in the air, a set of bones suddenly come flying towards him.

He manages to dodge the first few, but the remaining ones collide with his body and propel him upwards. He falls back to the ground with a strong impact.

He struggles to get back up. The injuries he has sustained are piling up now. His breathing seems to deepen and his muscles start to get heavier. Even holding his weapon is starting to become a hassle.

On the other hand, Razier is still doing fine, other than the crazed emotions he has been harboring since the battle began. Saiba scans his surroundings, hoping to find something to get a step ahead. He examines Razier's position, then examines the room around him.

Coming up with a plan, he grins and starts running the other direction. Razier sees him and shouts,

"Have you finally opened your eyes to the weakness of humans! All you can do is run, but I won't let you do that! You know my secret, so I can't let you live! It's not allowed!"

He points his scepter out as the usual barrage of bones comes shooting towards Saiba. The bones zoom closer as Saiba suddenly backflips and lands on one of the projectiles.

Using the bones as platforms, he parkours his way towards Razier before finally reaching him and slashing at the remaining skeletal arm. It disappears as well while Razier screams. He shouts,

"Stop it! Stop it! I'm not a human! I'm a monster! A monster!"

Razier goes completely insane as he starts waving his arms up and down, falsely hoping for them to fall off. More bones spring from his back and materialize in a demonic pattern. It seems as though Razier has completely lost control.

With every movement of his arm, a bone materializes in the air and slams against the ground, creating small tremors.

Finally reaching his last straw, he screams as a bone, ten-times the size of the previous ones, appears and falls to the ground. It creates an earthquake-like vibration that reverberates throughout the Soulless Graveyard.

At the impact point, a crack appears that grows and up the walls of the dungeon. It causes the walls to break as they start to collapse.

The bones, that were anchoring Razier to the walls, dislodge themselves as Razier falls to the ground. He lands on his arms as they snap from the impact. He feels the pain run up his body as he screams. He mutters,

"No... I'm not a human... This shouldn't be happening... I knew it... Humans are weak... These weak arms couldn't even stand something like this..."

The walls continue to fall as pieces land around Saiba. Saiba manages to dodge the large pieces of rubble, but the safe space in the room is swiftly shrinking.

Above him, a boulder-sized piece breaks off from the foundation and comes crashing down. He scrambles to dodge away, but he is completely surrounded and there are no places to escape to. Lily shouts,

"Hero! Watch out!"

Suddenly, a hand grabs him as he is pulled out of the room and back up to the surface. Saiba looks at the source of the hand, and it is none other than Lazaro Alberoth riding atop his trusty steed.

Lazaro looks back and gives him a thumbs up. He throws Saiba back on the ground and shouts,

"You guys are so mean! You left me up there and I had to deal with those skeletons on my own! Do you know how gross they were!?"

He adds,

"Well... It looks you guys went through a lot too, so it's fine..."

Marco asks,

"Is that guy one of your friends?"

Lily reluctantly answers,

"I guess you could say that..."

Saiba shouts,

"Lazaro! That's who we forgot! I'm glad you're okay!"

Lazaro mumbles,

"You forgot about me..?"

Saiba explains,

"I can explain more later, but for now, that skeleton guy is bad!"

Lazaro replies,

"I don't really think we have to worry about him though. It looks like he's already going to get crushed under all that rubble."

Razier lies on the ground, still destesting his humanity during his final moments. He shouts,

"I'm not a human, I'm a monster!"

A piece of rubble falls on him as his HP drops to zero and he is defeated. Right after, Saiba gets a pop-up that reads,

[Congratulations! Razier the Great Skeleton King was Defeated! Level +4. ATK +4. DEF +4. SPD +4. New Title Get: 'Skeleton Slayer']

The battle between Saiba and Razier finally comes to a close.