The five snakes of different colors jumped off the white haired young woman's hands, floating in the air as if they had wings of their own before they sprung towards the spiral-horned demon before them as if they were arrows that just took flight!

'This got to be some sort of temporary disruption, everything should go back to how it is if I hold on for a few more seconds!'

A wave of determination quickly took over the demon's despairing expression as he raised a wall of black soil in front of him to parry the hideous looking snakes.

While it was obviously much weaker than the walls of lava that he has been using so far, with how much he concentrated his corrupted earth element in it, the demon believed it would be able to hold off… at least until his connection was back to normal.

Hisss…

Weak whispering hisses could be heard from the lively snakes as they straightforwardly burrowed into the black earthen wall.

The white-haired woman had already been battling the spiral-horned demon for a long while so he knew that evading the wall and going for the demon himself wouldn't be possible with how flexible his control of the defensive wall was, be it made of lava or not.

Thus, the only solution was to considerably destroy the wall and then take the defenseless demon down before he could restore it. Although this way proved useless so far with how long it took to destroy the lava walls that kept appearing one after another as if the demon's elemental reserves were endless, the white-haired woman believed that it might be possible considering the demon's current state.

She was also bound to run out of elements even after all the secret replenishment methods that she used so far, so even if this spiral-horned demon was just using some sort of complicated trick to fake weakness, it was still worth a try to go at it once again!

The indigo tail that was stuck out of the black earthen wall twirled around the white tail next before they both shone in unified white as the black soil around them started turning glacial…

'Anytime now…'

Following that, the green tail did exactly the same as the indigo tail did as it twirled around the red one next to it, causing the wall made of ice to melt as both tails glowed in fiery hot red.

The corrupted earth elements that the wall was made of lost their identity as their connection with the spiral-horned demon broke off, all that was left of it was a big mass of water with a blue snake at its center.

'Now…!'

The huge blob water was only a few seconds away from the spiral-horned demon before he could tell that his complete power was finally… Not back.

'No!'

His power had really returned to its suppressed state since they were currently within one of the human domains… the lord's suppression shield that should have allowed them to trick the laws of the domain seemed to have simply stopped functioning.

The blue snake inside the big blob of water shone as electric arcs crackled all over it as if it was some sort of an electric eel before it exploded!

Thackkkksssssstrisss!

The electric arcs immediately filled the whole blob of water as it looked like a terrifying storm had broken out inside of it before it collided with the spiral-horned demon!

"Gahhhhhhh...rahh!"

The sound of the collision was so loud, yet it was suppressed by the screams of the spiral-horned demon. For the very first time in his life, he was experiencing how it felt to be fried alive…

"Nooooahhhhhh! Why! Thhhish sh-should not have happened! Th… -sn't shupposed to happen... "

"I guess it really did work…"

The white-haired woman couldn't help but feel astonished at how smoothly everything worked out…

The demon which had been keeping her in a lock this long was already forced to his last breath using the same tactic that had failed for at least a dozen times. Something was definitely wrong just as he said a minute ago…

"Indeed, this wasn't going to happen if you stayed holed up in that little mole house you were trapped in… I'm not sure who caused what happened to you, but I gotta thank him. I will certainly take the record for killing the first commander this way!"

Standing directly in front of the charred demon who had white foam coming out of his mouth, the white-haired woman smiled in a crazy manner as long red claws grew on her right hand before…

Blunk.

One head fell to the ground.

"Hmm, what's this supposed to be…"

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[ congratulations! You have managed to destroy one of the erupted demon bases of the Nature Domain! ]

[ Calculating your contribution to the base's destruction… ]

[ Your actions have only remotely managed to change the flows of the fight, thus the reward received is lowered… ]

[ You have received 0.15 stat points ]

"Hmmm?!"

Just a few seconds after I heard the unwilling shrieks of the tri-horned demon, I suddenly received an interesting set of system notifs…

'Just how…'

This battle was definitely far from over, and while somehow the tri-horned commander seemed to have been overpowered by Blade to the point of being thrown over like this, he seemed to be far from death just as his vigorous scream indicated.

Moreover, the notifs seemed to insist even more that this battle wasn't the source of this notifs, 'remotely' definitely seemed to be pointing that out strongly at the very least.

'Then it must be…'

I couldn't help but slightly flinch my head to the side as I heard the loud excited voice come out from the earpiece I was wearing...

The voice definitely seemed to belong to that crazy cult master...

'She is...'