A pilr of dirt and debris shot into the air as her bst exploded upon impabsp; The explosion ripped through the foothills of the mountain shooting out shockwaves. Gusts blew out from the ter throwing debris and rock everywhere.

  Yumi stared at the destru, pleased to finally have it over. ‘Now I move on… I wasted too much time already on this!’ She turned away from the wall of broiling inferno created by her attack.

  Fire shot over her catg her shoulder and baearly burning out her left eye from the heat. Yumi’s entire left side of her body boiled from the fmes turning red and raw. She groueeth together as she tilted back her head in the dire.

  The feline demon stood naked in the crater o the hellfire’s of her attabsp; Swiping his arm through the bst, a force cut the white fmes in half and instantly shem out. “You should never have turned your babsp; This is not over by a long shot!”

  “…damn…” She ched her hands together seeing how much power the demon still held babsp; ‘He really is a monster… I even pete with that?’ Doubt started to grow inside Yumi as she watched things go even worse for her.

  Apparently, the demon had enough of holding his power bad began to physically grow in size. “Now that yetting serious, I show my true form! I hope you remain long enough to make this worth my time.” Bck fur grew out over his skin as he tio increase i. Soon, he bent over taking on more feline qualities. In moments, any of his human appearances disappeared pletely.

  Before Yumi stood a giant easily surpassing twenty meters. Even with the feliributes, it didn’t look like any sort of animal that she knew. Though it sounded redundant, it really did look like a demonic cat. He had three thick tails covered in bck fur ending in white tips matg white paws and belly. Though there were glowing patterns all over the demons’ fur that looked simir to what Fumiko did with her magiot that Yumi reized any of the forms created.

  All she knew from staring at the behemoth of a demon, it radiated power like nothing she had seen before. She never felt power before, not like what was a on cliché in anime, but she believed that this was almost like that. It had such a presen aura that it vinced her sehat she could actually feel it. ‘How I beat something like this? This is a true demon?!’

  Chapter 404 – Reality of True Power

  “Now show me your true power, Hunter!” spoke the demon through the very air as though his words came through his power.

  Bruised, bloodied and burned, Yumi already felt her body’s poor shape and now demao fight at her peak. ‘ I even bring enough against such a foe?’ Despite the doubt that she harbored within herself, the demon gave her no mercy to such weakness. Immediately, a fme breath unleashed upohat she tried to block with her barrier.

  Shattered.

  Effortlessly.

  Yumi fell down smoking to the earth in a crash. Her body scraped against the torn up stone ripping into her tunibsp; The demo into the air swiftly and nded with a paw oo pin her down. “Don’t waste my time, Hunter! I know you have more to offer me than this weak resistance!”

  Groaning in pain, her body tightened and twisted from the weight of the demon on her. It wasn’t enough to crush her, though he did push her into the earth as her body held up. Yumi struggled trying to get free from the demon. ‘I ’t be stopped here… I still haven’t found Yuki… I don’t want to die in some stupid game!’

  Summoning up her ons, white bdes stabbed into the paw of the demon. Blood sprayed up from the wounds coating the bck fur thickly and painting Yumi even darker shades of crimson. The wounds were enough to be released. Bsting herself out of the vice, Yumi spuhe ground before throwing herself into the air to recover.

  Panting heavily from the pain and exhaustion, Yumi tried to get her focus back together. ‘I don’t have any choibsp; I’ve been holding baowing that this isn’t the st fight I have, but I ’t anymore!’ White bdes appeared around her body floating prepared to strike. Layers of barriers unfolded out for defense. Yumi reached out and grabbed a hold of two of the bdes from her arsenal. “You want my true power, fine! Don’t gretting it when you’re dying!”

  The demon ughed amused by her puffed up bravado. Bravado or no, he weled the better effort that Yumi put into the fight. Unleashing another fire breath, this time hitting a reinforced barrier followed by Yumi’s white bdes to divert the bst as she charged through cutting through the fmes to unleash a rge white arc of energy.

  C the front with its three tails, the energy exploded harmlessly away from the demon. It jumped forward, spinning around to whack her with its tail. Yumi flew through the air away from the demon as it leapt towards her quickly building up speed.

  Yumi stabbed her swords into the air, breaking with her power, while trating forward on the charged beast. Summoning gravity orbs around the demon’s feet, she mao slow it down, though not deal any damage. It was too fast and powerful to be truly harmed by such simple attacks. But it did give her enough time to press forward disappearing from the demon’s sight. Appearing overhead, she unleashed multiple arcs of energy at the demon.

  Unfortunately, her sneak attack did nothing. The demon blocked them with its tail again and whipped around quickly to strike her down. Crashed into a hole away from the demon, Yumi coughed up blood. The heightened battle grew worse for her body. “Damn…how long I survive like this? I’m already so worn out from fighting this monster, not to mention all of the previous fights and running for days… If only I had been fully rested…”

  Several orbs of fme appeared around the spot that Yumi id. She looked wide-eyed at the attacks just staring at her. They had maed from nowhere. Across the field, the demon still walked towards her. But his attack had already started and she couldn’t dodge it.

  Explosions of fme went off all around Yumi burying her screams of pain. Multiple rge craters grew out from the bst. Debris rained down from the area pelting the ground. No signs of Yumi revealed themselves ihinniru.

  The demon walked around the crater watg the site for any sort of moment. He could tell that she was still in the crater, but it was hard to pinpoint anything more than that for him. He had to wait for her, if she was still alive.

  Then he heard movement, rocks tumbling. His eyes immediately focused on the location in the rubble. Light exploded out from the pile vaporizing the rocks as they revealed Yumi. “You’re a tough one,” he remarked, pleased with her survival.

  Covered in blood, any wound on Yumi became nearly invisible. The injuries couldn’t be picked out from all of the blood, even the burns over the left half of her body disappeared. She breathed shallowly trying to keep herself together. ‘Even more than I believed…’ thought Yumi, even assuming that she was dead at that point. Though her body still seemed to be in one piece, somehow. ‘Have I been uimating my limits?’

  Such thoughts made her question if she had more power to give than she currently wielded. Though figuring that out wasn’t really something that she could afford in the middle of a battle for her life. She stared up at the demon. “I’ve got enough to still put you down!”

  “Please show me!”

  Gravity orbs appeared around Yumi as she floated up into the air. She doubted that her body had much left to give itself. The rest would have to be doh her powers alone. Aiming with her hand, she directed the points of attack for her orbs. The demo out of the dodging each of the attacks as her gravity orbs carved out hunks of the earth as they touched anything.

  Following the movements of the demon, Yumi tracked them with her orbs. She kept spawning more after she used them. The nd quickly became dotted with craters until it was pletely unreizable as even the fields of grass hugging the mountain. “Stop dodging!” she yelled in frustration as she rapidly charged up a rger sphere of gravity.

  Summoning up her swords again in twofold t, she sent them out first attag from different angles knowing that the demon was going to dodge them. She kept up throwing out more swords trying to pin down the demon into a spot for her attack.

  While it was focused on the swords, she materialized several smaller gravity orbs at the feet of the demoroying the ground on it. It jumped out of the crumbling ground as Yumi disappeared carryitack with her. “DIE!!” screamed Yumi hitting the monster directly above it unleashing the enhanced gravity energy.

  In an instant, the orb verted from an explosion outward to a micro gravity well that began pulling ihing including even Yumi herself. “Damn!” Surprised, Yumi didn’t expect to be caught by her own attabsp; She fought against the increasingly growing strength of gravity. The lo survived the more it seemed to grow taking on a life of its owing everything that I could drag into its void.

  The demon struggled just as much against the power of the gravity that Yumi unleashed. It tched onto the earth with its cws shattering the earth as it dug in. Gusts of wind sucked around the gravity ing up the clouds sparking a violeion as lightning strikes jumped about and micro tornadoes spun around the epiter.

  She mao pull away from the immediate viity, but it still dragged on her body, tugging her in if she didn’t keep fully trated on her power. However, her power seemed to have taken on a life of its own now. She no longer trolled the growth rate of it. It rapidly expanded with the gravity being more than she could keep a safe distance.

  Yumi realized it too te and it jumped in size and began t both of them in. Nothing the demon did to dig into the earth could hold it baymore. It fought with its own flight to stay out of the gravity sphere. Yumi struggled just as hard finding her power g. “It’s to…”

  Watg the demon, it was further out than she was from the sphere. And she had no idea what sort of effort her powers would have on her. Knowing what they did to physical matter, she really didn’t believe the way it was dragging ihing that she would be any more immuhan the rocks and trees it sucked up. “I ’t…” Yumi had to make a decision quickly. ‘It’s going to have me before the demon…damn it. I ’t keep this up much longer…’

  Quickly gathering up anravity orb, Yumi shot it into the massive white and bck distortion. The orb she shot in disappeared quickly and nothing happened. Yumi groaned in annoyance as she tried to keep her bance as it grew. A fsh of light jumped out of the void suddenly followed by a shockwave that ripped through the earth.

  “I’m free!” she ented, notig the gravity had disappeared. However, it wasn’t over. The distortioabilized, as she phough it was rapidly expanding, now that it wasn’t being held back by the gravity. Everything it touched was vaporized instantly.

  Yumi flew out of the range as it chased her. Before she could eveo a safe distahe whole thing exploded, no longer able to keep its mass together. Everything it absorbed verted into violent energy bsting the entire region up to the mountain still far in the distanbsp; Bsts of smoke rose up in ns signaling the impacts. Though the grouh fared far worse. A massive crater bsted through the earth until the only thi was a roasted sheet of gss from the heat.

  The fates of Yumi and the demon remained unknown, clouded in a vast thick cloud of ominous bbsp; Nothing survived it seemed.