"[Hekaton: Earth Shattering Slash]!"
The Divine Sword Hekaton suddenly shone brightly, activating its unique skill: [Earth Shattering Slash]!
A gigantic slash descended upon the entire land, piercing through Claws Moonlight Beam and then slicing through his body!
Claw roared in agony, swinging his claws and parrying the enormous, earth-shattering slash barely, although his right arm was sliced apart!
He landed on the snow-covered floor, gasping for air and then vomiting a mouthful of blood. Wielding the power of Fenrir brought upon him a backlash.
"Claw!" Darkbound roared, slowly standing up by using his giant sword to stand back up. "COME!"
"GRAAAARRRGGH! ROOOAARRRGH!" Claw leaped towards Darkbound and began biting through his entire sword and then his arms and body.
CRAASH! CRAASH! CRAAASH!
His gigantic wolf jaws were incredibly deadly, capable of biting through everything with tremendous, overwhelming strength. Darkbound barely managed to tank the hits while unleashing a storm of Blades made of Shadows and Phantoms against the wolf, piercing his eyes!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Claw cried in agony, stepping back as his eyes began bleeding. Darkbound used this opportunity, gathering more of his Phantasmal Magic and fusing it with Maria's Magic together, summoning enormous skeletal hands made of Abyssal Shadows and Darkness.
"[Thanatos' Abyssal Claws]! RAAAAHHHH!!!"
Both gigantic claws impacted upon Claw, pushing him down into the ground. The wolf ferociously started biting and tearing apart the skeletal claws with ease, but that gave enough time for Darkbound to summon even more of these, which started falling over the giant white wolf like gigantic fist meteors!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
From above, below, left and right, Darkbound unleashed an endless barrage of punches that started to slowly overwhelm the giant white wolf, his entire body beginning to distort with all the wounds and broken bones.
"YOU WILL PERISH BY MY HAND!"
Darkbound gathered all the giant skeletal claws together into a gigantic fist, pushing down Claw into the ground and crushing his bones even more!
Claw vomited a mouthful of blood as he glared furiously at the skeleton.
"Y-You damn pile of bones…! GRAAAARRRGGH!"
His spirit was still one of a warrior to the very end, leaping towards Darkbound even as his body was being torn apart and opening his jaws!
"YOU WILL DIE BY MY HANDS!" He barked back, unleashing yet another Moonlight Beam!
Darkbound fell like a ragdoll into the floor, his black bones slightly beginning to shatter. His right arm suddenly fell into pieces over the floor, and half his skull was shattered. However, his willpower was endless.
The knight made with a hundred souls stood back up, relentlessly. His eyes glowed bright blue, like will-o-wisps glowing within his empty skull.
"I cannot die here… Not yet… I must protect… Protect my people!" He roared, rushing towards Claw.
Both were exhausted and their bodies were on tatters. Their clashed against one another, tearing themselves apart even further. Claw relentlessly gave deadly bites and slashing attacks using his claws, while Darkbound used his magic and blade to pierce through the giant wolf's body and deal lethal damage.
Their strongest blow was given to one another, as an enormous explosion of divine power and mana was unleashed, spreading across the skies, and forming an arc, while their surroundings were cleared of all the accumulated snow, showing the floor and dirt beneath.
After the clash, silence befell.
Claw's jaws biting ferociously on Darkbound's torso, shattering his armor and slightly forming cracks on his Core, while Darkbound's blade pierced through his neck all the way up to his brain.
"GRAAAGH…" Claw gave a last beast-like groan before it fell down into the floor, dead.
Darkbound fell into the floor, his body could not grow exhausted but his soul was very much tired. And his core had gained several cracks, weakening him even more.
However, as his fusion with Maria ended, her magic quickly reassembled his body and healed his Core's cracks, which was his greatest weakness, well, the weakness of most Undead strong enough to reach S Rank.
"Hahh… My liege, thank you." Sighed Darkbound.
"We're not over yet." Maria said. "[Rise]"
The giant white wolf suddenly stood back up again, as Maria simply inserted back the soul of Claw that was left wandering around. With her Queen of the Undead Title, Claw's animosity instantly changed, as he became more cooperative.
"E-Eh? I am back?!" Claw asked in surprise. "I-I am still dead? What… what's going on?!"
"You're dead, I've given you a second chance as an Undead, and so all your pack." Maria said, as all other slain werewolves appeared behind her, from within her shadows, as Undead.
However, Maria's necromancy had advanced so far that they didn't even looked like zombies, but looked very much as fresh as alive, and with her wound repairing skills, even the giant white wolf that Claw became looked freshly alive. It could be said to be an ability to preserve things in a fresh state, even after death… A magic she mostly uses to make preservation on food though.
"A-Amazing… we're back?!"
"We are undead? It doesn't even feel like it!"
"Boss, you became a giant wolf?!"
Claw was surprised. He really thought this was it… yet as long as the soul remains, there's always a second chance. Something that was impossible with the other Frost Generals that attacked the Dwarven Country, as their souls were destroyed.
"It does seems like you'll permanently keep yourself as a big white wolf, I'll be taking this loot though~" Maria said with a smile, taking the Divine Bracelet of Fenrir for herself, its powers reacted with hers. Unlike the other divine artifacts that were destroyed, this one was still working as intended. "Now, we should-"
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
However, the troubles were far from over for Maria's Abyssal Body Ego, as she and her Undead suddenly saw hundreds of giant fireballs falling towards them from the skies.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!