Inside the control room, I fell silent and stared at Azkerath. The title he placed on me didn't make me tremble at all. Indeed I should not have been here. But I had insisted that they were the ones who invaded my world first and I was forcibly dragged by it.
"I have fulfilled your call and your master's...!!! Stop all these attacks and take me to the supreme ruler of your reaaalmmm...!!!" I said loudly.
Azkerath remained silent and didn't immediately respond to my statement. Then his jaw opened and flames burst out of his mouth.
"HA... HA... HAAA...!!! YOU ARE TRULY BRAVE IN YOUR CONFIDENCE LIKE THAT...!!! IT WILL NOT BE THAT EASY FOR ME TO GRANT YOUR REQUEST...!!!"
Unexpectedly, Azkerath instantly disappeared leaving thick black smoke and red lightning.
"JOOOHAAANNN JUMP BACK IMMEDIATELY...!!!"
My robot reflexively jumped backward after Mendicore shouted. When I landed, something in front of me fell very fast and hard causing the ground to shake violently and my robot briefly fell sitting. It was Azkerath who had teleported into the air and thrust his sword toward me. Mendicore's presence truly saved me.
"I have activated full alert mode! Immediately do what I command later Johann!!!"
I just nodded while trying to stand again. It seemed my task now was to hold him as much as possible this way until Hellraider arrived.
Azkerath disappeared again by teleporting.
"JUMP TO THE LEFT...!!!"
I immediately followed his command and while jumping I turned facing right. He was already on my right side swinging his giant black sword. The tip of the sword almost hit my robot's chest.
But before I finished landing, Azkerath immediately disappeared again.
"WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU!!!"
Before I could jump forward, suddenly my right leg pressing the pedal felt like it was kicked very hard so my robot fell sitting.
I immediately grimaced feeling great pain in my right leg. It was visible in the system that the entire right leg part was red.
"Azkerath has cut off the robot's right leg Johann...!!! Come on escape immediately with my portal...!!!"
Before my pain subsided, from the front visor view, suddenly Azkerath had teleported in front of me and directly thrust his sword into my robot's chest. Instantly all parts except the head turned red. I could not even lift both of my robot's hands anymore.
Azkerath's eyes burned glaring at me. Instantly my whole body felt extremely hot as if being roasted alive. I screamed as loud as I could.
"AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH...!!!!"
"JOOOHAAANNN... HOLD ON...!!! I WILL RELEASE YOU...!!!"
While I was still feeling the torture of Azkerath's curse, suddenly the immense pain disappeared instantly. I immediately opened my eyes and Azkerath was no longer in front of me, but a Graganthurion that seemed to have just driven him away.
"While Azkerath was casting curse on you, that robot punched his head and he immediately disappeared, Johann...!!!"
That Graganthurion immediately lifted my robot into a sitting position. The system showed damage levels already quite severe. Instantly I saw my right leg had been severed, apparently cut earlier by Azkerath's sword. The question in my mind was, who was piloting that robot?
"N-no way...!!! Johaaann... S-sir Grelmure is inside that robot...!!!"
I was extremely shocked hearing that fact. Grelmure managed to punch Azkerath with his robot...
Did he deliberately charge here just to save me???
"Your robot can no longer move agilely let alone fight, Johann! We must get out immediately so we are not trapped here if something worse happens...!!!"
Now I followed his suggestion. I removed all control equipment and Mendicore had opened the exit portal.
When I got out, Grelmure was fighting one of the Arch-Judgementors. I took my starstone pistol and prepared to shoot if smaller monsters tried to attack me.
Sure enough, low-level monsters ran toward us and I immediately shot them one by one. I took, activated, and threw explosive and flashbang grenades at monsters coming in groups.
"Mendicore...!!! Watch if Azkerath suddenly appears…!!!"
While I was busy eliminating those monsters, suddenly something bad happened again.
"RUN FORWARD NOW…!!!" shouted Mendicore.
Reflexively I ran without looking back. Luckily the monsters in front of me had all been eliminated.
In the middle of running, suddenly I felt a strong tremor causing me to fall followed by a wave of dust hitting me from behind.
When I turned around, Grelmure's Graganthurion had fallen face down with sparks of electricity appearing on its body. Before I could react, suddenly something fell from above hitting the robot's body very hard causing another strong tremor and dust blast. I reflexively lowered my head.
"Nooo...!!! Azkerath has defeated Sir Grelmure's robot...!!!" shouted Mendicore.
I immediately looked ahead again. Azkerath was on top of the robot and thrust his sword into the Graganthurion's chest. Immediately after that, he pulled his sword and swung it quickly at the robot's neck. The robot's head was instantly severed and rolled quite far.
"NOOOO… GRELMUREEEE…!!!"
I immediately summoned the Bous Ball, stood up and ran toward the robot's head. I threw the ball as far forward as possible. When teleporting, I quickly grabbed the ball, ran briefly and threw it again. I kept doing that until I reached the robot's head.
I immediately tried to open the control room door which fortunately was right in front of me. But unfortunately the door was badly crushed and would not open. Suddenly Mendicore's portal formed beside the door.
"Use this, Johann...!!!"
I immediately entered the portal and inside the cockpit it was completely wrecked. As I ran to the control seat, I saw Grelmure still there but his face was covered in blood.
"Grelmure... hold on...!!!" I shouted while guiding him out of the control seat.
He screamed in pain. I suspected he had serious bone fractures. Reflexively I summoned the last spray in my hand and sprayed it all over his body. I no longer cared if Mendicore saw this.
Grelmure immediately opened his eyes and cried when he saw me. I quickly helped him out of the control seat and back to the portal.
Outside I leaned him against the robot head debris. He immediately held my face with both hands and looked at me while sobbing.
"I'm sorry sir, if you had to get involved in my problem..."
"We must leave here now, Johann...!!!"
I held both his arms again, closed my eyes briefly while smiling, then glanced at Mendicore.
"They want me because I should not exist in this realm... I will buy some time until Sir Hellraider arrives... He is the main hero in this universe... Quickly leave me...!!! Once again... convey my apology to everyone... especially Sir Hellraider..."
I immediately released Grelmure's grip, summoned my Bous Ball again and ran leaving them.
"JOOOOOOOHAAAAAAANNNNNNN...!!!!!!"
That was the last thing I heard from Grelmure just before I teleported with the ball. Suddenly I remembered Imelda shouting that too when I left Earth forever.
After teleporting some distance, I stood looking around, there were only monster corpses of various sizes. Suddenly in the sky I saw red lightning striking violently. What is this??? Is Azkerath casting his curse magic again?
While I was processing this phenomenon, suddenly once again a heavy tremor occurred and I fell again. I immediately turned around and Azkerath was quite close in front of me.
"ENOUGH PLAYING...!!! NOW YOU MUST PERISH...!!!"
I immediately stood up again and stared at him angrily.
"Oh really...?!?!?! I can also teleport like you using this...!!!" I shouted while showing the Bous Ball.
Azkerath who seemed provoked stepped forward but immediately teleported. I immediately prepared to throw.
For some reason suddenly from within my heart something told me to look up. I reflexively looked up and Azkerath was already floating with his sword aimed at me. He immediately dived and instantly I threw the Bous Ball far forward.
Right as I teleported instantly, another heavy tremor occurred and this time I could control my posture so I didn't fall.
When I glanced back, Azkerath had teleported again. As if no one warned me anymore, suddenly from the right my whole body felt like being hit by a high-speed truck and I was thrown far away. I fell rolling and when I stopped lying down, my entire body felt completely crushed and unable to move at all.
I saw the dark sky above covered by my blood-soaked vision. The torture didn't stop there, my body was immediately grabbed by a giant hand. Then my eyes saw Azkerath's head closer which was terrifying like a hell dragon.
"IT IS OVER...!!! I WILL FULFILL MY MASTER'S WILL...!!!"
Azkerath immediately threw my body toward his jaws.
I could not think or even feel anything anymore because I was already dying.
My body briefly spun, looking at that sky again and from behind I began to enter the mouth cavity of the demon king.
All my vision began to be covered by blazing flames and instantly turned into complete darkness.