In the middle of Darcia city, not too far away from the castle, Sol was facing Cerbarus.
"Interesting, it's surprising to see how much you have changed in just the span of a couple months." [Cerbarus]
"That's sad…" [Sol]
"Sad? What are you talking about?"
"Nothing, I was hoping to face all of you at once to make things quicker, but too bad only you came to visit me."
Hearing that, Cerbarus began laughing out loud.
"Bahahaha! Very funny, I can't believe how delusional you are to think you could take us all at once."
"Delusional?? Look around you, what do you see?"
"Of course, I admit you did pretty well to get all the way here. However, all the demons you've killed so far were weaklings, they are nothing compared to an Elite Demon like me."
"Elite Demon or not, it doesn't matter, you will still suffer the same fate as them."
"Hahaha!! Is this kid an idiot? Is he saying our master is on the same level as us?" One of the demon soldiers in the crowds laughed.
"Yea, how dare he compare us with our master? It's obvious our master is on a whole new level, there's no point comparing."
Despite getting surrounded by the demon army, Sol remained calm because he knew their strategy of catching him won't work since they can't go near him. If they get too close to him within the radius of 3 meters, they will be poisoned to death. Because of this, all the demon soldiers made sure to stand at least 10 meters away from Sol to prevent breathing in the toxicity.
Naturally, Cerbarus had already heard from the demon soldiers regarding Sol's poison, but still in his mind, he thinks the poison only works on low-tier demons, and is useless against a high-tier demon like himself. Because of that, Cerbarus wasn't worried and was confident that his body could handle the poison just fine.
"Master, we don't know what kind of poison he's using, so please be careful."
"Are you guys looking down on me? You think someone like me would die to poison easily?" Cerbarus was a little annoyed that they didn't trust him.
"Sorry we dare not to, we were just worried for your well-being."
"It's fine. All of you back off and leave this kid to me. I might not be able to kill him since he's super tanky, but I should be able to catch him with ease." [Cerbarus]
Sol was getting a little impatient and said, "Hey, fucking fat ass!! Are you done talking?"
"Bastard! Did you just call me a fat ass?!"
"Oh, are you not? Because no matter how I see you, you definitely look like a fat ass pig to me."
There's no doubt Cerbarus was obese, easily 2,500 pounds or more. Cerbarus was a big eater, he was the type that would eat anything, he wasn't picky and he has even eaten some humans before. Human females especially were his favorite snacks.
"Son of a bitch! I dare you to say that again!"
Cerbarus was furious, he was very sensitive when the topic was about his weight. Heck, even the demon soldiers wouldn't dare to mention anything related to his weight because they knew if they did that, they would be killed.
"Fat fucking obese! Hahaha!" [Sol]
"Motherfucker!! Die!!!"
Without mercy, Cerbarus charged at Sol.
'Such killing intent, looks like he's really mad at me.' Sol chuckled.
Despite how overweight Cerbarus was, he still moved very fast, almost as if his weight wasn't there at all.
WHOOSH!
Very quickly Cerbarus got behind Sol and started headlocking Sol.
"Hahaha! I've caught you! You can't run away now!"
"I wasn't planning to run away anyways since I have no match for your speed to begin with." [Sol]
It was at this time, Cerbarus noticed his nose started bleeding.
"Huh, what's this shit?! Why is my nose bleeding?!"
'My vision is starting to feel blurry as well… Is this the side effect of the poison?' Cerbarus thought.
Not too long later, Cerbarus collapsed onto the ground. He was sweating heavily, and looking at his face, one could tell that he was in agony. His face was pale, looking like a ghost, almost as if he was near the end of his life.
"Ugh! Fuck this!" [Cerbarus]
"Hahahaha! You probably thought that my poison can't kill you, right? Well, sorry to say this, my poison is powerful enough to even kill a Diamond-Rank demon. So how do you feel? Do you regret it now for not listening to those demon soldiers who warned you earlier?" [Sol]
'I can't believe that I'm going to die here… I need to get the antidote from him somehow.' Cerbarus thought.
"I'm sorry, please forgive my action earlier, I promise if you can give me the antidote, I swear upon my life that I would serve you forever," Cerbarus said in a pitiful voice.
"Oh, I don't have it, sorry."
"A-Are you serious?!! How could you use poison and not have an antidote as backup…"
"Because I'm immune to my poison, so I don't need it. Anyway, I'm done talking to you, so see you later! Hahaha!"
Just like that, Sol left and began heading to the castle to finish off the 8 remaining Elite Demons.
After Sol left, the demon soldiers tried to help Cerbarus up, but Cerbarus refused and yelled, "Fuck off! Don't come near me or else you guys might get infected too."
"But…!"
"No, but! It's too late now, I've already accepted my fate," Cerbarus has lost his will to live, "Kuggh! It hurts!" Cerbarus coughed out blood. His face was getting paler every minute passed.
Naturally, to save their master, the demon soldiers won't give up so easily.
"Someone! Call the doctors right now!"
"Yes! Someone go get a doctor here!"
"Yes, right away!!"
Without delay, some of the demon soldiers left to go and get the doctors.
***
Hiding in the shadow all this time while spying on Sol, Ingrid was looking rather disappointed as she bit her right thumb in frustration.
'This motherfucker! Not only did he escape, he even came back stronger than before… Fuck, why do I have the feeling that no matter what I do, nothing will work against him?... I hate to admit it, but it's my loss this time. Whatever, just you wait! I'll definitely find a way to kill you or make you suffer no matter what!' Ingrid thought.
As Sol was on his way to the castle, those demons who were aware of Sol's poison would avoid Sol immediately as they knew there was no point risking their lives for nothing. However, for those demons who didn't know about Sol's poison, they died without knowing why when they attacked Sol.
By the time Sol reached the castle's front gate, he had already killed a roughly total of 100,000 demon soldiers or more.
Besides that, due to how deadly the poison, a simple touch could spread like a virus. In other words, if the demons want to remove the corpses of their dead comrades, they may have to wear some kind of a protection suit to do it safely, otherwise, they themselves will get infected as well and possibly die.
Standing in front of the castle's gate, Sol was looking rather annoyed that they closed the gate on him.
"Idiot, you think shutting the gate can stop me?!!" Sol said as he began searching for a way to climb up the castle's wall.
Each time when Sol tried to climb up the castle wall, the demon soldiers would throw stones at him or poke him with whatever weapons they had to prevent him from climbing up. Due to that, Sol had a hard time finding a way to enter the castle.
"Bastards! Just you wait! It won't be long before I find a way to get in!" Sol said, 'Tch! How annoying…!'
A few hours later…
At this time, Cerbarus had already succumbed to his death and unfortunately, the doctors couldn't save him as they didn't have enough time to find a cure for it.
At the moment, using the dead demon corpses, Sol began piling up near the castle wall in order to make a staircase for him to climb up easier.
"Hahaha! Just a matter of time before you guys meet your end."
Seeing what Sol was planning, without hesitation, they started setting up the corpses on fire to prevent Sol from using it as a staircase.
"Dammit!" Sol was furious because he spent hours to pile up the dead bodies, and only to get burned into ashes.
'Smh, looks like I have to find a way to get inside the castle secretly. A way that they can't see so they won't be able to respond to it.' Sol thought while stroking his chin.
Eventually, night time arrived. Without the demon soldiers noticing him in the dark, Sol began digging a hole. His plan was to dig all the way to the other side of the wall and enter the castle.