Combat Maid Harem

A thick golden bolt of lightning shot out of Elena's staff and hit the closest demon to her.

*Boom!*

He exploded into bits of meat pieces.

Ember pointed her staff at the ugly demon swimming towards her. A swathe of hot flames came out of the tip and covered the whole body of the ugly demon.

"Ahhh!"

He was able to release a scream before his voice was cut off. He got cooked and burnt to a crisp.

Aezel pointed and swung her staff from left to right, and a series of golden lightning bolts rained down on a group of demons heading toward her.

"Ahhh!"

"Ah!"

"Noo!"

They died.

The screams in the fog only made the other demons additionally panicked. The fog had already spread through the whole lake, with everyone in it losing their sense of direction.

Because of the direction of the wind, they followed it without realizing that they were heading toward Lawrend. Some managed to realize that, but they couldn't save anyone else as the strength of the winds got stronger.

The mist turned into a rain of demonic fire mana. They seeped into Lawrend's skin and replaced his phoenix fire mana.

After several more hours, a third of Lawrend's fire mana was demonic.

"More! Faster!"

Lawrend utilized his soul body to add to his control.

*BOOM!*

The fog got thicker, and the storm became stronger. It spread out of the lake and into the surrounding forest. It slowly encroached on the city.

The powerful gusts of wind aroused the attention of many. Even strong demons far away sensed the oddity. They turned their heads to the lake and waited for news.

Lawrend drowned in a small puddle of liquid demonic fire mana. An inch of liquid covered his skin as his absorption of them couldn't keep up.

An idea popped inside of Lawrend's head. He opened his mouth and drank the liquid demonic fire mana directly. They entered his stomach and exploded into a lot of mana.

His stomach became bloated, and he immediately tried to focus on it. A thick strand of liquid demonic fire mana joined the ones in his mana pathways and grew it by a significant amount.

When Lawrend saw that it actually worked, his hopes increased. He opened his mouth once more and took another mouthful. He repeated the same process repeatedly. This quickly increased the amount of demonic fire mana in his body.

As for his excess phoenix fire mana, he couldn't release it as fast as he was absorbing mana.

"Fuck it!"

Lawrend was annoyed at how slow the process was. He skipped releasing his phoenix fire mana and kept them inside of his body. Immediately, his rate of absorption increased by twofold.

Pain engulfed his whole body as the mana tried to escape, but there was nowhere for it to go. Each of his organs started aching, and then his blood vessels resisted great pressure.

"I will do this!" Lawrend shouted.

He was determined to combine them into Divine Fire Mana.

*BOOM!*

It wasn't the explosion that Lawrend hoped for. His blood vessels started bursting one by one, and his mana pathways stopped functioning properly. His brain also suffered an internal hemorrhage, which was the worst organ to be affected by such damage.

A pain that reached deep into his soul hit Lawrend's head. It was as if he was shot in the head repeatedly every second. It was a pain that would have killed a mortal.

Lawrend endured it and waited for the two fire manas to combine. He missed the time when it happened to his lightning mana several years ago. He was still weak back then. That helped the Divine Lightning Mana form much easier compared to the present.

*BOOM!*

Another explosion occurred inside Lawrend's body. His organs started bleeding as they ruptured.

"AHHHHHHHH!!!"

A pain similar to being turned to mush filled Lawrend's whole body. If it wasn't for his powerful soul, he would've already gone unconscious. He screamed as loud as he could physically.

Aezel, Elena, and Ember stopped what they were doing and turned to look in his direction. Fear and worry covered their faces in an instant. They flew over and saw him surrounded by a ball of demonic fire mana and screaming in pain.

His skin was ruptured in a lot of places. He was bruised, and his eyes were bloodshot. Overall, he looked like a zombie.

"Master!" Aezel shouted.

She was the one here most familiar with Lawrend's scary antics. He would always do something crazy that would make everyone's heart thump with worry. It was the same right now.

"Stupid Master!"

Elena took action and flew to him.

"Wait! Trust in Master!" Ember stopped her by grabbing her shoulder.

"What!"

Elena took offense at Ember trying to stop her and roared. Her Master was dying in pain. They shouldn't stand still and watch.

"Wait. I can feel it…" Ember muttered in a low voice as her eyes widened.

Elena and Aezel turned to stare at Lawrend carefully after hearing her words. They saw his wounds wriggling and healing, but the damage was spreading faster.

The split between Lawrend's two vertical halves started glowing a powerful green glow.

A powerful demonic aura and a searing hot temperature exploded out of Lawrend's body. His red and black hair started transforming. They turned into an ash-gray color that was entirely different than before.

His black eye turned a deeper shade of black. The light that entered his eye pupil would now disappear into it, forever. As for his red eye, it transformed much slower, but it still turned the same deep shade of black.

Aezel, Elena, and Ember watched in awe as Lawrend's whole body transformed. The divide between his two halves grew blurry and ultimately disappeared in a matter of seconds.

And inside Lawrend's body, a strand of demonic fire mana and phoenix fire mana fused. It created a chain reaction as it attracted all of the fire manas near it and combined them.