He used movement and when he's at his striking range, he slashed at me.
"Really, he's using Durandal directly to cut me? Doesn't he know that Durandal isn't a sword to use directly to cut someone? How did this idiot become a Durandal user?" I thought to myself.
I blocked the fake Durandal with a rare intermediate church reflection spell. The force of the attack he used to hit a specific part of the spell ricocheted back at him.
"Huh, how did you block that attack and what spell did you use to make me bounce back?" He asked.
After he said those words, I actually started wondering how he became a hero, because that intermediate church reflection spell was the first reflection spell they created.
I sighed, "Can you stop asking a question and focus on attacking me? I'm getting bored over here."
Meanwhile, in the palace, Satan, the other devil kings, and the church crusaders were getting ready to fight.
Satan chuckled, "Now that Tsukiko is gone, it looks like I can finally start fighting you guys."
Liam started laughing hysterically, "Do you really think that the three of you had a chance to beat us 8? Don't make me laugh. Out of all of us, I'm the strongest one here."
Yeah, sure, whatever you say.
"You? Really? I thought you were a crusader, but I guess that you're just a comedian." Beelzebub chuckled.
He sneered, "You disgusting pig, how dare you call me a comedian!" He shouted.
I mean, he's not wrong because if you see someone dressed as a clown, you would say that he's a clown, right?
"Everyone, now that hero William is busy fighting Tsukiko, and Kira has fallen in battle; I will take the lead now."
Every one of the crusaders started saluting Liam for absolutely no reason at all.
"Crusaders, now is the time to use our real holy sword!" He shouted.
The crusaders threw away the lower-class holy sword they had and summoned a different version of Ascalon.
"Now, use your ultimate attack to eliminate these evil creatures from the world!"
They took their ultimate sword stance and charged at Belphegor and the other.
Belphegor sighed, "Satan, just sit back and watch. I'm going to show these idiots the difference between us and them." He laughed. "Area of range, Chronostasis."
Chronostasis is a fascinating optical illusion ability that distorts our perception of time.
After he activates chronostasis, the Crusaders' bodies are frozen in place, but their visual, speech, and auditory perceptions remain active.
"Huh, what is happening? How can't we move?!" Liam asked loudly.
"Do you really think you guys had a chance to defeat us? I'm Belphegor, one of the devil kings. Idiots such as yourselves can never defeat me. Not even in a million years."
"Do you really think this skill can hold me down? Skill Repeal!" Liam shouted.
Skill Repeal is a sub-skill that was derived from the ultimate Skill Nullification by the hero Leo.
He used skill repeal to repeal chronostasis but nothing happened.
He continued shouting skill repeal but nothing happened again and again.
Belphegor fell to the floor and started laughing at his failed attempts to repeal chronostasis.
"Why isn't Skill Repeal repealing your skill!" He cried.
"The reason is that skill repeal isn't working because hronostasis is an ability and not a skill!" He continued to laugh.
Meanwhile, back at the training ground, when William was about to try to attack me again, chronostasis was activated.
After it was activated, William was also frozen in place.
"Huh, did Belphegor use chronostasis again?" I asked myself.
"What did you do to me?! You bastard, what did you do to me?!" He asked.
"I didn't do anything to you, but now that you're frozen like this; I'm going to just finish you off and get it over with."
"You coward, how can you call yourself a man if you're going to kill your opponent while he's frozen in place?"
Did he forget that I don't really have empathy for my enemies if they were the ones who wanted to fight me?
I walked over to him, placed my hand on his shoulder, and smirked.
"Remember this William, this is a battle. It doesn't matter how you win; once you win the battle, that's all that matters!" I roared. "So if you want to call me a coward to kill you while you're frozen in place, call me a coward, all of you. Because in the end, I'm the victorious one. Now it's time to take my revenge."
I know that line was a bit outrageous, but I had to pissed him off before I killed him, right?
"Victorious my ass! You're just a coward who uses his power to fight people unguarded!" He shouted. "I don't know why God would give a coward such as yourself grace before he died. Grace should be used by the courageous and not the cowardly!"
Did he just say god gave me grace?
"Can you shut up now? You should be using your last words to ask for forgiveness from Hades and not using them to say a load of bullshit words that don't matter in this situation." I laughed.
I dismissed Durandal, activated the ability "precise manipulation", and walked away.
Precise manipulation is an ability that uses grace/reverse grace to precisely attack one of your enemy's organs and destroy it. But the downside is that it takes a lot of time to destroy the organ, and the person has to be immobile for more than five seconds.
"Where are you going? Come back here, you cow..... Huh, what is this pain.... It feels like my heart is..." He mumbled as he was dying.
After he died, I picked him up, put him over my shoulder, and used Flashstep to see what Belphegor and the other were doing. When I arrived, I saw Belphegor kill the last of the crusaders.
"How did it take you so long to kill that loudmouth?" Belphegor asked.
I don't know, maybe because I wasn't fighting him seriously!
I sighed, "I should be the one who says that to you."
Belphegor used the skill levitation to pick up the corpses of the crusaders.
"By the way, did you sense that someone was watching us?" He asked.
"I did, but it's just a mage for the church," I replied
"So did you kill him?"
"No because I want him to tell the other in the church that I killed William."
"Oh, I see. Anyway, now that these inconveniences are out of the way, let's give these idiots a proper burial." Belphegor laughed.
"Do you mean throw them in the hole?" I laughed.
After burying them, Belphegor deactivated chronostasis, and then I went to take a bath.
Meanwhile at the church locations. The mage who was secretly watching us reported back to the archbishop with the information about William and the crusaders' deaths.
"What do you just say? How did William and the crusaders get killed by those pests?!" The archbishop asked. "We bless them with power and gave them one of the strongest holy swords; so did those pests kill them?!"
"My apologies archbishop Desmond, but it wasn't the devils who killed them. It was the former hero, Tsukiko Kage, sir."