Ember's Astral form adapts to his hybrid form being activated, and he grows close to a kilometer tall.
His sharp-clawed hands and feet glow hot with white physical and mental ether, and his long, pointed tail waves behind him; showing everyone in the room that he is clearly not a human.
Outlines of ether-infused fire flicker all over his being, and the Demon's purple eyes widen in fear.
Andras completely forgets about the warlords he's fended off and moves his spear forward, letting out a beam of dark energy at the new largest threat in the room.
A white outline of indented scales forms all over Ember's arms, legs, and vital areas, and a toothy grin is visible on his face as he raises one of his clawed hands to block the beam of darkness. The palm making impact glows with far more fire than the rest of his being, and when the two forces collide, the black beam disintegrates into nothing as it falls into the intensity of the flames.
The Demon's heart drops, as it doesn't understand what it's seeing right now.
All it thinks to do is go on full attack mode and kill the enemy before him before it can do any harm. So, Andras disappears in a shadow step and appears right behind Ember with his spear pointing right into his back.
However, just as fast as the Demon travels through space, Ember rotates his body and moves his free hand in front of the black crystal to intercept the blast.
Another burst of ether is visible in the abyss of darkness as translucent fire is summoned to completely disintegrate the entirety of this dark blast.
The Demon shadow-steps again, appearing above Ember, aiming his beam directly down on his head; but Ember moves his clawed hand bursting with fire in the way again.
The Noble Demon's yells of frustration are drowned out in the darkness as he disappears and reappears dozens of times all around the hybrid dragon, aiming for fatal blows, but Ember predicts his moves with impossible precision.
What the Demon does not know is that the moment he used this demonic domain and allowed his true form to leak out from his avatar, a strange vibration only found in Noble beings began leaking out from his body.
Advanced mental ether senses are enough to pinpoint his location the moment he appears back in the physical world, making the three 1st Class Warlords that fought Andras earlier more capable than most.
They have honed their perception for tens of thousands of years and can see through a divine grade perception impairing technique like this, even if their avatar strengths are weaker.
However, Ember can see a step further.
The vibrations of a Noble being once awakened cannot be hidden with normal means.
Those who have tapped into this wavelength even once before can never unsee its power.
Even as the Noble Demon slips away into a shadow form, moving as pure energy rather than interacting with the physical world, Ember's senses can still track his location and predict where he will reappear to strike.
Andras yells into the void, filled with rage.
His mind replays his Demonic Dragon being taken down in front of the entire Citadel, and his own disgrace within the darkness of 1st-class lower lifeforms actually making him bleed.
Now, a strange human with an odd monster transformation can predict the movement of his ultimate ability and disrupt his custom Soul Weapon granted to him from the family head himself like it is easy.
Another dozen attacks go by, and when it's clear the Demon's movements are getting sloppier and more desperate, Ember strikes back.
He perfectly predicts the appearance point of Andras' next attack, and just as the three-pronged spear materializes, Ember's tail acts as an extra limb for the first time in this battle, and the spiked point at the end slams against the middle of the Demon's spear.

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