After the start of the battle, Drake took on four opponents: Zeldris, Monspeet, Derieri, and Drole.
Meanwhile, Meliodas was fighting Estarossa and Gloxinia.
But although Meliodas had regained his power, unfortunately, Estarossa and he had terrible compatibility.
Estarossa couldn't use the Demon Clan's dark power, so he wasn't skilled in magic power attacks at all. Therefore, Meliodas's Full Counter was useless.
And the ability that Estarossa possessed was [Full Counter], but unlike Meliodas, Estarossa's [Full Counter] could return the opponent's physical attacks with double the power.
In this way, Meliodas's most skilled moves were completely countered by Estarossa.
Most importantly, Meliodas's power level was far lower than Estarossa's, which was why he had been suppressed all along.
Gloxinia hadn't even attacked much, and only later had he been free enough to help Drole and the others recover.
Meliodas wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, saying, "Sorry, my little brother is just too troublesome!"
Although he was saying "little brother," Meliodas's tone was quite indifferent.
Estarossa's identity as the Demon King's second son was originally false, and that name was the name of Elizabeth's pet dog.
And Estarossa's true identity was the Goddess Clan's Four Archangels, Mael, who also possessed the Supreme Deity's strongest grace [Sunshine].
Three thousand years ago, Gowther of Selflessness, one of the Ten Commandments of the Demon Clan, sacrificed his life and all of his magic power to use a forbidden spell in order to end the Holy War.
He changed everyone's memories of Mael, forcibly creating an Estarossa who had killed the strongest angel.
In addition, the betrayal of humans caused Stigma to collapse, the Fairy King and the Giant King became the Ten Commandments, and the power of the two sides in the Holy War was unbalanced, so the Goddess Clan had to use their final plan.
So the Goddess Clan used their own bodies to activate the Coffin of Eternal Darkness, sealing away the Demon Clan, and the Holy War came to an end.
However, it seemed that although Gowther had changed memories, he hadn't been able to change emotions.
Drake let out a breath, saying, "There's no way around it, let's redistribute the opponents!"
After Gloxinia had healed everyone, he was about to command the Spirit Spear in its first form to attack the two.
But the Spirit Spear was blocked halfway by another Spirit Spear, and although the latter was sent flying, Gloxinia's Spirit Spear also stopped.
King descended from the sky, blocking Gloxinia. And on the other side, Diane held the war hammer with both hands, using the hammer handle to block Drole's fist.
Derieri had just taken a step forward, when she suddenly stopped, the arm that wasn't covered in dark energy had actually disappeared into thin air, and a large amount of blood spurted out from the severed area.
"You can't be careless in this kind of battle!"
Ban casually threw down the arm that had been torn off, saying in a mocking tone.
If you were to say who had grown the most during this time, the one ranked first below Arthur wasn't Diane, who controlled the power of the earth, nor was it King, whose magic power had increased many times over, but Ban.
When he had traveled with Ban before, Drake had helped Ban confirm his direction of growth.
The essence of Ban's magic power [Snatch] was actually a very powerful ability... the manipulation of life energy.
Ban could obtain the various basic abilities of enemies without their consent, but that was just the most superficial application of that ability.
Including the complete suppression of his own aura that he had used later, it was better to say that it was a branch skill of his ability, rather than an ability that he had trained.
And the [Gift] that he had mastered after returning from Purgatory was, in the end, just another way of applying his power.
The immortality brought by the Fountain of Youth was indeed the foundation of Ban's fame, but it was also an obstacle that limited his ability to become stronger.
So Drake had taught Ban to face and develop his own power. After reviving Elaine, Ban had trained like a madman in order to protect his lover in the battles to come.
Although his power level hadn't changed much, Ban's combat power had actually undergone a qualitative change.
The current Ban could not only double the effects of his previous abilities, but his use of abilities was also more refined by who knows how much.
For example, he could freely snatch any attribute from any target, and bestow this snatched ability on others.
Just now, he had suppressed his aura, and then instantly snatched away Derieri's two hearts while she was unprepared.
"Derieri!"
Monspeet shouted worriedly, and was about to take action to support her subconsciously. But a fire dragon shot up, directly blocking him.
With dragon wings spread out behind her, Stella held her sword horizontally, saying, "Your opponent is me!"
Drake smiled, saying, "Now the numbers are even, it seems we're going to have one-on-one fights!"
Saying this, Drake's figure moved, directly charging towards Estarossa, who had also started to move. Meliodas also swung his sword at Zeldris.
Estarossa produced a short sword with a curved blade in his hand, blocking Drake's fist.
Estarossa, who had originally been a member of the Goddess Clan, naturally couldn't use dark magic power, but he had a Commandment in his body that contained a part of the Demon King's power.
By borrowing that power, he could use various abilities. That short sword was also the Rebellion Sword created from this.
Even though the Rebellion Sword was a disposable item, its strength was enough to rival the most well-made weapons.
Even so, after being hit by Drake's punch, that short sword had directly turned into fragments.
Estarossa retreated, and his originally somewhat lazy gaze suddenly became sharp.
"I've never seen a human like you before! And I'm also very curious, why can you still fight under my Commandment!"
The Commandment that Estarossa possessed was Love, which Drake believed was one of the most powerful abilities among all the Commandments.
The content of Love was that those who harbored hatred would lose the power to harm others, and the strength lay in the breadth of the triggering conditions.
How many people who stepped onto the battlefield could guarantee that they didn't have even a little hatred in their hearts?
After all, not many people could be like Escanor, who "wouldn't hate those weaker than himself".
But unfortunately, Drake's own qualities as a warrior meant that he rarely fought with "hatred".
And most importantly, Drake, who knew everything, really didn't have any hatred when fighting Estarossa, but instead felt a bit of sympathy for him.
He had been born weak in the Goddess Clan, and had been looked down upon and ostracized by his own clan.
He had finally trained himself to be strong, and had also fought hard to obtain glory and power.
But the woman who had always taken care of him when he was weak, the one he had always regarded as his light, had fallen in love with someone else.
That wasn't the end of it, because of Gowther of Selflessness's forbidden spell, he had forgotten his identity, becoming the Demon Clan member he hated the most, and had turned around to harm his own people.
Even his name had become the name of a dog, when he thought of this, Drake couldn't help but feel that it wasn't strange that he had gone crazy later.
However, Estarossa had indeed killed Gowther of Selflessness's lover, and when he thought about it this way, Gowther of Selflessness's "killing the heart" in this way was also a kind of revenge.
Perhaps having noticed the strangeness in Drake's gaze, Estarossa felt a surge of anger for some reason.
"What kind of look is that, it's really unpleasant!"
Around Estarossa, dark energy condensed into several Rebellion Swords, and surrounded by these strangely shaped swords, he charged towards Drake.
Drake also didn't say anything, stirring up fierce flames to meet him.
A sharp light flashed in his eyes, Estarossa aimed for the timing of Drake's attack, preparing to activate Full Counter.
But in the next instant, Drake's fist landed on his stomach, and after a loud bang, the ground behind Estarossa was scraped into a fan-shaped depression by the huge impact.
Full Counter was a fairly practical ability, and in contrast to its extremely low consumption, the conditions for success for this ability weren't low.
Don't look at Meliodas and Estarossa relying on this ability to often suppress enemies, but Full Counter required the user to accurately strike the opponent's incoming attack in order to return it with double the power.
This required the user to have super-strong reaction speed and the ability to capture timing, and Estarossa had clearly not been able to capture Drake's punch, and could only take all the damage.
"Don't hate me, it would be too disappointing if you destroyed yourself because of your own Commandment!"
Drake's punch hadn't done much, but that sentence had almost broken Estarossa's composure.
"Human, I will definitely kill you!"
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