Karna was feeling the effects of the new enhancements while walking towards the inner part. The deeper he went, the more he felt he was about to face someone stronger than all of the sins he had seen before combined. But instead of worrying him, it actually made him even more excited.
As he went forward, he came face to face with a gigantic being that seemed to be completely made out of magma and red stone. It radiated pure energy of rage and power.
For the first time ever, Karna took a stance to fight. Unlike the other fights, Karna knew this one was going to be stronger than before.
"It has been a millennium since I last fought. Make sure to show me a spectacle before you die, boy," the ten-foot-tall giant said as he suddenly vanished from Karna's sight.
Karna froze for a moment before he felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He immediately made a barrier with his death energy as the attack suddenly landed from his left side, breaking his barrier and making him crash into the side of the wall. Karna was shocked again at the force with which the attack landed along with its speed.
He looked again and was shocked to find that the giant was outside the area that the soul lamp had covered.
Karna immediately tried to move towards where he had seen the last attack come from, but was surprised to find no one in that direction.
This removed the doubt in his mind.
'The sin found the limits of my senses. Looks like it saw the battles I had before,' Karna thought as he immediately defended an attack that came from behind him. Even though the attacks were faster than he had thought before, he activated his Sharingan, used its 360-degree view, and used a large amount of magic to increase his perception speed to his maximum possible level at the moment.
Even though he had reduced his consumption of magic in this form, it still required an amount of magic that would have left a normal A-rank wizard wheezing in pain within a few minutes. And with Karna constantly using the form to survive the corrosive effects of the darkness aura, he had to be even more careful about how much he was spending.
And unlike the time when he had used ethernano shards to power up the usage of Incursio armor, the death demon slayer form actually exacted a toll on the body while using it. If he tried to increase the amount of magic, the chances of his body breaking down the moment he released this form were very high.
So he had to use it carefully while facing the strongest opponent he had ever faced in his life.
Karna was able to guess that he was fighting the sin of Wrath by looking at the characteristics of the body. Right now, the only thing he was able to do was anticipate where the next attack came from by maxing his perception to what he could handle at the moment and dodging the moment he saw movement in the areas that the soul lamp could project.
'This can't go on for long. Looks like depending on my eyes won't work in this fight,' Karna thought as he planned his next step.
He activated the armament-making ability of his death slayer mode and expanded it from him like a fog instead of barriers and weapons as before. As he did, he raised his hand towards his right.
And immediately, a punch landed on it. He managed to stop it, but the force within the punch dragged him at least two meters to the left. But even then, he did not let go of the grip he had gotten in his hand.
"Got you now," Karna muttered with a wide smile as he turned to find the surprised expression of Wrath, who saw that his attack had been stopped.
"Impressive. Let's continue," Wrath said as he started attacking without any pause in between.
Karna closed his eyes and began to use his darkness to sense all the attacks. He switched off his soul lamp so as not to be distracted by the light and used his newly created sensing power to anticipate the attacks and create counters for them.
He was glad that he had trained in martial arts since his last fight, where he had decided to perfect that weakness. Right now, he was able to counter each and every attack done by Wrath perfectly. Even though Wrath had heavier and faster blows aimed at him without giving him a second to rest, Karna was able to handle each one of the attacks.
The fight began with Karna defending each strike by diverting it in different directions, but now he was able to land strikes after diverting them.
'It's not enough. More—faster and stronger,' Karna thought as he began pushing himself further and further.
Wrath was able to feel that his earlier advantages were disappearing one by one. As soon as he felt his opponent spread his own darkness around him, he knew he could not use the earlier ambushing methods again. That was why he had decided to face his opponent head-on without giving him even a chance to catch his breath.
Demon physiology was entirely different from human physiology. Humans have to worry about the amount of air they take in, the strength of each of their limbs and joints, their stamina, mental strength, and even their magical level. But demons can be considered nonstop motion machines. They have no need to worry about air or tiredness or their body structures. As long as they have magic, they can survive, but when their magic reaches zero, they die without any reason whatsoever, even if their physical body is without injury.
But right now, Wrath was feeling fear—an emotion that had long been purged from his system ever since he completely mastered his powers.
Instead of getting weaker with time, the human in front of him was adapting and growing stronger and stronger by the second, at a rate that was bordering on inhuman.
He had no idea what to do next.
A/N- hope you like it.