"This is impossible!!"
Carrion refused to accept it, and even more so, he refused to believe that his strength was this weak.
He desperately swung the Beast King Spear in his hand, countless spear shadows attacking Frey from all directions.
"Clang!"
"Clang clang clang~"
But in response to his barrage, Frey still used just a single finger.
A flick. A light snap.
Any strike, no matter how tricky or fast, became laughable in front of Frey's finger.
"Crack!"
"Clang!"
Even when the Beast King Spear finally shattered under the endless collisions, Carrion still couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"The difference in dimension..."
"It's actually this vast..."
Carrion's arms trembled slightly, a result of the strain from wielding the Beast King Spear at full force.
Yet even with everything he had, he couldn't force Frey to get serious.
No, she hadn't even tried.
From beginning to end, Frey's attitude had been like an adult playing with a child. She was toying with him.
"Click."
"Hmm?"
Frey suddenly raised her finger to eye level.
A crack had appeared on the invisible barrier covering her fingernail, and it was slowly spreading.
"Not bad."
Frey revealed an appreciative smile. "To think you actually managed to damage my Crystal Wall Prism."
The Crystal Wall Prism, a protective skill evolved from Frey's spatial barrier, was a passive ability.
Even without activation, it naturally enveloped her.
Especially critical areas like the back of her neck, heart, and eyes.
Before obtaining the Eternal Shield, Frey relied on this defense to protect herself from sneak attacks.
Just as Carrion had always believed, Frey was not skilled in close combat, hence these thorough defensive measures.
But now...
It seemed there was no longer any need for that.
The Eternal Shield's existence had completely resolved her safety concerns, allowing her to stand firm and unleash damage freely.
"Unfortunately, you still haven't seen true power~"
Frey was referring to the Eternal Shield. She had originally thought that if Carrion managed to break through her Crystal Wall Prism, he might reach her main body.
Then, and only then, would he witness what an immortal, indestructible body looked like.
And from that moment, fall into despair.
"Confused?"
Frey deactivated the spatial barrier around her body and floated forward, stopping ten meters in front of Carrion. "Come. I'll show you."
"What do you mean?"
Carrion was at a loss. It felt like he had returned to the past.
To hundreds of years ago, when he was not yet a Demon Lord, still under Frey, fighting alongside his older brother the White Tiger in the wilderness.
Five hundred years ago, he was the younger brother.
And now, five hundred years later, he was still the younger brother.
Had these five centuries been wasted?
"Next, attack with everything you've got."
Frey spread her palm and pointed it straight at Carrion. "No need to hold back. With your strength, you still won't be able to break through my defense."
"Don't worry. I won't use magicules."
"Are you kidding me!!!"
Carrion completely lost it.
Was Frey joking?
Not using magicules?
What did she mean, taking his attacks head-on with her bare body?
Even a true Demon Lord couldn't do that!
Even with millions, tens of millions of magicules, someone like Veldora could still be hurt by kinetic weapons.
"No, I'm serious."
Frey calmly replied, "My magicules are currently around 3 million."
When she first awakened as a Demon Lord, her magicules had only reached 2.2 million, but after this period of consolidation, they had stabilized at 3.1 million.
Don't underestimate 3.1 million. Among the current Ten Great Demon Lords, it even surpassed Night Queen Luminous.
And with Frey's Ultimate Skill, Horus, her combat power was above even Luminous.
This was not even counting her broken skills like Magicules Solidification and the Eternal Shield.
"Three!!!"
Just one number made Carrion inhale sharply.
He understood his own situation clearly.
Though he held the title of Demon Lord, and had even gained a Demon Lord seat, his magicules had barely broken past 400,000.
Even if he added the broken Beast King Spear into the calculation, the total was around 500,000 at most.
And Frey?
Just her raw magicules alone were nearly eight times that of his entire being.
"You're probably thinking that my huge pool of magicules has nothing to do with defending myself physically."
"But seeing is believing."
Frey smiled. "You should experience it for yourself."
Seeing Frey's unshakable confidence, Carrion didn't hesitate any longer. He spread his fingers wide, claws extending, and terrifying magical energy gathered around them.
"Beast King Claw!!!"
Though not as destructive as the Beast Particle Cannon, this move was another ultimate technique Carrion had refined over many years.
Its area of effect was small, but in terms of single-target power, it was his strongest strike.
Boom!!
But the moment the Beast King Claw landed on Frey's palm, Carrion's worldview was shattered again.
"She didn't even move..."
He didn't want to believe it, but the truth was right in front of him.
"How... how did you do that?"
If it had just been high defense, Carrion wouldn't be this shaken.
What shocked him most was that Frey hadn't used any magicules.
And that meant...
No Unique Skill. Not even a passive ability. Let alone any resistance-type skills.
If any of those had been activated, there would have been fluctuations of magicules.
But there were none.
Absolutely none.
This woman, just as she claimed, had blocked his strongest single-target strike with her physical body.
That's right. Purely physical defense.
Carrion's attack hadn't even reached the range where the Eternal Shield would activate. It didn't trigger.
The reason Frey could stop Carrion's attack was entirely due to the massive defensive boost from Magicules Solidification.
"Shocked?"
Frey didn't answer Carrion directly. She lowered her hand and looked off into the distance at a large mountain.
Boom!
In the next instant, without warning, a fierce gust of wind surged outward.
Terrifying air pressure condensed into a visible streak of light, like a waterfall flowing in reverse, blasting straight upward and slicing the distant mountain clean in half.
And that wasn't the end.
Following the first strike, an even more destructive wave of energy swept through, directly pulverizing the entire mountain into dust.
As for Frey...
She had merely made a flicking motion with her hand.
It was obvious what she had done.
(To be continued.)