Seeing the trap that they've prepared doesn't work on Ben makes the Etherious Demons warier now. They have prepared some plans, but now they think that most of those plans won't work too. So they need to find a way to defeat Ben using the most suitable plan.
"Damn, I can't just stay still here. Let's just fight him head-on," says Jackal while transforming into his Demon form which looks like a Demon Beast.
Jackal dashes forward and Tempester shouts, "WAIT, JACKAL!"
Tempester wants to stop Jackal, but Keyes stops him, "Let him be! You know how he is, so stopping him will be futile. Just use this chance to observe that human."
Keyes only wants to see Ben's power and Tempester knows that. But he follows Keyes's instruction because he knows it's the best thing to do. They can always resurrect their dead members using their secret method, so dying is not a problem.
Jackal arrives in front of the thin Ben and touches Ben's body with his black arms. He smirks because Ben doesn't move and just looks at him. In Jackal's mind, Ben is doing something very stupid right now.
"If you want to die that badly, then I'll grant it to you," says Jackal while smirking.
Then, a massive explosion happens with both Jackal & Ben in the center. The other Etherious Demons are backing away because the radius of that explosion is wide. They even get pushed because Jackal is going all-out in that attack that breaks the surrounding tanks & walls.
"Did it work?" asks Franmalth.
Torafuzar scoffs and says, "It surely works. Even if his magic is heat-based, it is nothing in front of our Curse power which is superior to magic."
"Superior, huh? I don't know which part feels superior," says Ben amidst the smoke, surprising the Etherious Demons there.
Ben is unscathed because the explosion that Jackal made didn't affect him. Jackal widens his eyes in disbelief because he was using all his power in that attack. But not even a scratch appears on Ben's body.
"Do you think this level of explosion can damage the Sun?" asks Ben while grabbing Jackal's neck.
"Let me tell you something. Explosions of a much bigger scale than this happen every time in the Sun. So unless you can make something far bigger than those explosions, you would never hurt me," says Ben while placing his left palm on Jackal's stomach.
A dark red magic circle appears on Jackal's stomach and Ben says, "Let me show you a real explosion before you die. Boom."
*BOOM*
A much bigger explosion happens in the spacious room. It engulfs, Jackal, Ben, and every Etherious there. The explosion even reaches other rooms after breaking walls, floors, ceilings, etc. It kills many Etherious Demons in the other rooms that get engulfed.
The Cube shakes and everyone can feel the tremor caused by the explosion. It's a really massive explosion even though Ben controls it to not affect his friends. So none of the Fairies get hurt by that explosion that killed many Etherious Demons.
Jackal who is in the center of the explosion has disappeared. Nothing is left of his body as he has been destroyed into smithereens. The other 9 Demon Gates in that room are also injured, but they don't die. Jiemma & Minerva are still alive too.
"What's wrong? Why're you just standing there? This is a battle, you know," says Ben as if there's nothing happened.
The Etherious Demons get back to their senses and they all decide to go all-out.
"Yes, this is a battle. And you've made this battlefield to our advantage," says Keyes as a dark aura covers his body.
Then suddenly, all the dead Etherious Demons get up again as if they've returned to life.
"Necromancy? Very interesting," says Ben before looking at the other Etherious Demons.
Torafuzar, Tempester, and Franmalth are transforming right now. Both Torafuzar & Tempester transform into their Etherious forms while Franmalth transforms into Hades with a far more sinister & strange look. As for Keyes, he doesn't transform.
Ben is now surrounded by many revived Etherious corpses and the transformed Demons. He is quite interested in their transformation, especially Franmalth who transformed into Hades. Ben isn't interested in the power-up, but he's interested in the method.
But it doesn't mean he will take his time to observe them. He is already tired from his 22 days project and he is very hungry right now. So he will finish this faster and go home to eat a lot of food.
After deciding to get serious, Ben tells all of them to come and not waste his time. Furious by that taunt, the Etherious Demons immediately move to attack Ben. Jiemma also joins in, but Minerva is staying behind, she even moves back because she knows she won't win.
Ben smirks as they move forward and suddenly a very wide dark red magic circle appears below all of them. The Etherious Demons don't know what it is, but they also don't care. They just want to attack Ben as fast as possible.
Then, the Etherious Demons hear Ben chanting his spell while bumping his fists. "Sun Devil's Domain! The Cursed Sun: Life Burner!"
A dark red flame comes out of the wide dark red magic circle. Then in an instant, the dark red flame engulfs everyone there. A massive dark red flame sphere appears in the cube and it burns everything that it touches.
Everyone in the cube can feel the heat coming from that dark red flame sphere. But Ben controls the heat to not spread too much and just concentrates inside the sphere. His targets are inside the sphere, after all.
The revived corpses get burnt instantly and the Etherious Demons feel their body are burning too. They all can't move again and they just squirm painfully because of the burning sensation. No one can resist the heat except Minerva who looks fine.
"I won't do anything to you because Sting personally asked me to save you if I ever meet you again. You better thank him and change yourself because you don't need to follow your trash father anymore," says Ben while looking at the dying Jiemma.
Jiemma died first because he isn't as strong as the 9 Demon Gates. But even the 9 Demon Gates are struggling against Ben's power. They all know it's just a matter of time before they die from this super hot solar energy that looks like a dark red flame.
But even in the middle of this, Keyes still has time to think of something. "This sensation, DON'T TELL ME! YOU! YOU ARE USING A CURSE, RIGHT?"
That question shocks the other 9 Demon Gates and Minerva. Ben doesn't answer and just smirks while looking at them.
"No way! A human is using Curse, and it is even combined with Devil Slayer Magic," says Keyes in disbelief.
Ben smirks and says, "You are underestimating humans too much. We can even learn the magic of Demons', Dragons', and Gods'. Do you think that we won't be able to use this Curse power too? Heh, you are not that smart, aren't you? But be glad Demons. You have realized this before your death, so you can die peacefully."
Right after Ben said that, the 4 Etherious Demons finally get burnt to ashes. They can't resist Ben's magic at all even though they said that their Curse was superior. It's still a unique power though or Ben would never learn & used it.
Ben removes the sphere and a massive spherical room is created. The edges are fiery red and there are many melted materials around the edges. Ben's hot dark red solar sphere has burnt and melted everything it touched.
After the sphere disappeared, the only ones left are Ben & Minerva. Minerva slumps on the floor weakly while trembling. She has just witnessed something amazing yet terrifying at the same time. And she is very relieved that she comes out of that hell alive.
Ben walks past her while saying, "Go back to Sabertooth and be a better person. This will be the last chance I give you."
After saying that, Ben walks away from the terrified Minerva. He still has one more target to remove, the Guild Master of Tartaros, the man called the Underworld King, Mard Geer.
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