Julio couldn't take any more of this soap opera. His face twisted as countless red eyes started popping up from within his open wound, slowly beginning to regenerate as more and more tendrils appeared, slowly starting to regenerate his wounds.
"I won't fall so easily…! I am the Hero of Darkness!!! JONATHAAAANNNN! I'LL KILL YOUUUU!!!"
His steps started making the entire ground shake constantly, as his body started transforming and trying to adapt to the deadly wound that destroyed over half of his internal organs… for that, he had to accept even more of this power, to become part of his own body.
He rushed forward towards the two of them, ignoring everything else happening around, even as the Frost Army was being completely overwhelmed by the Arachneia led by their little Queen, Arachne.
Julio reached Jonathan and Maria in an instant, swinging his massive Chaos Blade, and unleashing an utterly titanic slash of pure darkness and chaos concentrated together.
The power of this single slash of pure black energy made all the ground around them shatter apart and fly into the skies.
However, Jonathan confronted the powerful attack head-on, as his own Divine Blade started shining brightly…
"[Sunlight Blade Arts]: [Heaven Fall]!"
An enormous shining light erupted from Jonathan's Divine Blade, as it impacted Julio's darkness slash with enormous force. The impact between darkness and light started shaking the heavens, as a loud explosion shook the earth.
"Hahahaha! Not bad!" Laughed Julio. "But can you deal with this?!"
Julio's entire body shapeshifted, as he extended his upper half into a slimy form, surrounding Jonathan and opening a giant red eye on his chest, firing a massive chaos beam at his back when Jonathan was concentrated on his own technique!
However, as the smoke dissipated, the enormous beam of chaos that Julio fired was, instead, absorbed by a large moon-shaped mirror summoned by Maria, who was riding over her giant winged dark lion chimera, Kuro.
"Huh? Not that again?!" Julio cried.
"Take your shit back, asshole." Maria smiled.
The chaos transformed and fused with her Moonlight, becoming a beam of purple and silver color impacting the giant red eye of Julio, a classic weak point in many video games, resulted to be a weak point in real life as well!
Julio's giant red eye was also created through the power of his Demonite Core. After all, he only carried but a part of the Evil God Fragment's Essence within his chest, a Demonite Core of immense quality and power.
When Maria's beam hit his chest, the Demonite Core started to slowly shatter.
"Uggh…! Y-YOU DAMN BITCH!"
Julio was furious, as he rushed towards Maria while shapeshifting his form around, resembling a formless mass of miasma and darkness, his giant dark blade quickly pointing at Maria, attempting to pierce through her body!
Jonathan flew there at light speed, as he utilized his [Light Embodiment] Skill, which cost a lot of MP to utilize, but that could temporarily transform him into pure light to travel at incredibly fast speeds.
He quickly materialized back to normal, as his Divine Sword also turned back to a material state right in front of Julio's attack, the impact of his sword with his overly charged divine power generated a bright flash of light, shaped into a piercing blade that slashed across Julio's arms and tentacles!
"[Sunlight Blade Arts]: [Sunshine Slash]!"
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLAAASH!
It was as if countless rays of light descended upon Julio's entire body all at once, slicing him slowly into pieces! He despaired, as he felt each of his pieces disappearing at the same time!
"Uuaaggh! W-What the hell?!"
He glanced at Maria, noticing that she was catching each fragment at lightning speed and devouring them! Her Mana continued growing larger as well.
"Let's see how far can your damn regeneration go!" Laughed Maria, pointing her Magic Staff at Julio, and unleashing a massive beam of moonlight.
Julio was being burned by both moonlight and sunlight, as he started stepping back, his regeneration was failing him more and more as he realized Maria's very presence was draining away his energy… This was, of course, Maria's Ultimate Skill into action.
"Being near that woman is like looking at a black hole…!" Julio thought. "My complete power is being drained constantly! What kind of ridiculous monster is she?! And with Jonathan helping her, they're incredibly tough to fight against!"
Julio panicked, as his body constantly shapeshifted, his Chaos Blade was moving around his body constantly, as he swung it with multiple tentacles, attempting to shake his surroundings while letting out Abyssal Waves.
"No… I cannot lose here!!! DIE! DIE! DIE!!!" Julio cried, attacking everywhere frantically.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLAAASH!
However, Maria's Moonlight Magic and Jonathan's Sunlight Blade Arts constantly intercepted his blows and sent them straight back at him!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOOM!
Julio gritted his sharp and multiple jaws at once, unaware that his humanoid body had completely changed into an aberrant mass of shadows and tentacles with eyes and jaws.
"You damn pathetic fuckers! Fuck you Jonathan! I hate you!!! FUCKING DIE!!!" Julio started screaming like a child, attacking Jonathan constantly with Chaos Beams and slashes of his Chaos Blade.
"Julio! You've been corrupted by the brainwashing of the church for a while…" Jonathan sighed. "I still remember when you used to be such an upright and good-hearted disciple! Now look at you, you've become a raging monster, you're not even yourself anymore!"
"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!!" Julio roared. "I always hated how they gave you all the attention, all the recognition! I once… wanted to be like you, but not anymore… I am stronger, I am INVINCIBLEEEE!!!"
The Hero of Darkness let out all of his energy at once, as a gigantic shockwave of chaos and darkness spread everywhere!