With a burst of crimson energy.
Bang!
A large hole appeared in the middle of Deliora's chest.
The ribs supporting its body and the magically vital heart had all vanished.
The green light in Deliora's eyes dimmed instantly.
Opening its large mouth to conjure energy for a roar, it could barely move, gathering only a bit of energy before it dissipated uselessly.
Deliora's massive body could no longer control itself and toppled forward.
The gigantic Urshifu(Single Strike Style) let out a roar.
"Roar—"
The power of evil surged, causing Deliora's breath to weaken further.
Then, it retracted the paw that had pierced through Deliora's chest.
The gigantic Urshifu(Single Strike Style) started glowing red, rapidly shrinking in form.
In an all-out burst of power, the Galar particles in the gigantic Urshifu(Single Strike Style) were exhausted, transforming back into its normal size of two meters.
With a flash of red light, it was swallowed into the Poké Ball at Gaal's waist.
Without a point of support, Deliora 'crashed—' with a sound, its mountain-like body collapsed to the ground, unable to rise again.
On the hillside, Ur was somewhat astonished, completely not expecting Gaal's backup plan to be this.
Were those two gigantic figures summoned beasts?
Such powerful summoning magic.
Gray and Lyon stared in shock at the fallen Deliora.
"Did... did we defeat it..."
Such a powerful demon was simply pierced through and killed by a single hit...
Lyon swallowed hard, feeling his scalp tingle.
Though he had calmed down a bit after Ur's earlier encouragement, the sight before him was simply outrageous, wasn't it?!
A single hit killed Deliora?!
Lyon couldn't help but feel relief that he had recognized the situation early.
Otherwise, boasting that he was the strongest mage in the future would be a massive embarrassment.
He doubted that even ten more years of training would allow him to match Gaal at this moment.
Let alone the summoner that dealt that fatal blow to Deliora.
As Deliora lay defeated, the gigantic Gengar, under Gaal's command, smirked wickedly.
It opened its mouth, which seemed to connect to the abyss of the underworld.
Psychic energy enveloped Deliora, lifting it into the air, and then the gigantic Gengar inhaled.
Deliora's body was uncontrollably sucked into the mouth of the gigantic Gengar, disappearing as if swallowed whole.
Then, Gengar voluntarily deactivated its gigantic form.
Swish!
It flashed to Gaal's side.
"Gengar!"
It seemed to be asking for praise.
Gaal chuckled as he petted Gengar's head, and Gengar floated up happily.
Then it continued to shrink in size, settling on Gaal's shoulder.
In front of Gaal, a panel appeared that only he could see.
He looked over the rewards from absorbing Deliora.
Inside Gengar, modified by Gaal, it was connected to another space, as well as to the system.
Whatever was swallowed could be absorbed by the system as soon as Gaal focused his thoughts.
He had previously commanded Gengar to 'consume' materials and monsters while collecting fire and water essence.
As Deliora's flesh and magic power were absorbed by the system, the collection degree of the evil stone plate surged from 14% to 43% in an instant.
The other essences from Deliora supplemented the system as well.
Other than exchanging a few Galar particles for storage, Gaal repaired all the other essence energies within the system.
He checked the exchange space.
With a flood of essence pouring in, the items in the exchange space had grown even more.
[Point Exchange]
[Sky Tree Fruit (a peculiar fruit that can blast enemies away, with a small damage radius): 500 points]
[Burning Oil Bottle (a glass bottle filled with gasoline, ignites easily): 500 points]
[Squirtle (can summon a Squirtle): 1000 points]
[Healing Gem (worn to increase life recovery by 100%): 3000 points]
[Magic Crystal (worn to increase base mana by 2.5% points): 3500 points]
[Amplification Codex (worn to increase spell strength by 2%): 4000 points]
[Gengar Evolution Stone (a stone that allows Gengar to mega evolve): 4000 points]
[Galar Particles (energy particles that allow Pokémon to gigantamax): 7000 points]
[Shattered Holy Grail (increases spell strength by 6%, increases magic recovery speed by 25%, and casting speed by 8%): 9000 points]
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[Flame of the Month (a fiery wand of Pinos, increases fire magic power by 11%, has a chance to summon small meteors when attacking): 43370 points]
[Evil Eye (a ring crafted from the Evil Eye of the Floating Castle Lord, increases spell strength by 2.4%, has a chance to apply petrification to enemies when attacking): 50110 points]
Gaal roughly scanned through the list, feeling a bit dazzled.
With a massive influx of essence repairs, more items were available for exchange.
However, the items from various worlds were mixed together, and there was no classification feature. He had to go back and carefully list everything to recall for future exchanges.
Yet, this also motivated Gaal further.
He remembered when he first crossed over and was carried back by Master Makarov.
The basic panel consisted of half readable text and half garbled question marks.
After all these years of steadily pouring essence in, it had finally been repaired to a decent state.
Although Deliora's large chunk of essence was invested into the system, he had retained none of the points.
However, Deliora's skin and bones remained in storage.
If he fashioned items from this magic-resistant demon's skin and bones, the returns would greatly exceed those from the essence repair system.
At that point, feeding the exchanged items back to the system would net another huge amount of points.
Gaal glanced at the wands worth tens of thousands of points and stroked his chin. These seemed like divine artifacts, didn't they?
If he recalled correctly, there were also legendary, epic, and mythic tiers beyond them...
Tsk...
Suddenly feeling a sense of anticipation.
When the system could repair itself enough to exchange for items of that level, wouldn't I be invincible?
Shaking his head, he brushed aside the thoughts in his mind.
Gaal looked down at the town that had turned into ruins, raising his wand and tapping it on the ground.
A silver-white magic circle immediately appeared.
It spread from beneath Gaal's feet, encompassing the entire town.
"Time Magic: Area Rewind."
At the locations of the original construction ruins, waves of shifting illusions emerged. If one looked closely, they resembled the town before it was destroyed.
As the illusions solidified, the ruins on the ground began to move, oddly reversing back in time.
Visibly restored to their illusionary forms, they melded together with the real structures, indistinguishable from reality.
A few seconds later, the large silver-white magic circle vanished.
The town had been restored to about three-quarters of its original state, while a quarter, such as the center, remained completely beyond recovery.
This area had been the point of strongest magical fluctuations during the battle with Deliora.
The remnants of the buildings had disappeared entirely, evaporated into nothingness.