Ray stands before Zhena, his body very slowly regenerating, though still heavily burned. Zhena grinds her teeth in frustration.
“Damn it, look what you’ve done to my beauty. Now I’m some kind of... some kind of fucking freak. You'll pay for this dearly. Fuck slavery I’m gonna kill you, you fucker.”.
She looks at her chain that has been destroyed and scattered into different chunks and kisses her teeth. She strains her body, as if trying to take a massive dump, and a very faint pink glow erupts around her body. This was the extent of her existing power, that underhanded surprise attack from Ray had taken everything out of her. However, it had also considerably trained Ray, he currently couldn’t use any flame powers as the reserves he had left were being used to heal his body, which meant no sword, no more aura and no more fire attacks. But he had one more method, he hadn’t been able to call upon it without aid before, but he knew now he could.
As Zhena darts towards Ray, slower than before but still with great speed, he closes his eyes and calls upon the beast within him, his body slowly transforming. However, due to his lack of energy, only his hands fully transformed, however, that still gave him enough energy to run toe to toe with the weakened and crippled Zhena.
She struck out with her only good hand; however Ray caught it and kicked her back, she stumbled backwards and fell backwards. Ray lifted his leg to deliver a “Beast stamp.”, a devastating axe kick, however Zhena Rolled backwards, back onto her feet and launched forwards, punching Ray hard in the stomach sending him sliding backwards on his feet, however he quickly recovered and stood his ground.
The 2 of them stand there panting, Zhena was in a significantly worse condition then Ray was, however since she was superior in power to him, she was still able to fight him at an equal level despite having broken bones, burns, having one useless eye and missing an arm.
Ray runs at Zhena he acts like he's about to punch but purposely misses and slams his shoulder hard into Zhena, pushing her back. He then performs the “Quadruple kick.”, a fast-turning kick to the upper thigh, followed by a double side kick to her stomach and face. As her head flung back, he spun and lashed out an all-powerful, devastating back kick. It was weaker than it would have been if he had his full power, but the force still sent her flying backwards, skidding and bouncing along the floor.
She lay there for a few minutes, regaining her strength and then got up slowly, coughing up blood as she did. She stands before Ray panting and in pain. Yet not down for the count.
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“You really are one tough bitch ain’t yah. If you weren’t a demon, you’d be a great ally, to bad I’ll have to put an end to you providing reinforcements.”.
Zhena laughed.
“Fool, even if you beat me here. Our lord has been creating places exactly like this all over this world. True, no one as strong as me may appear right now... He’ll bring the others with him when he is ready to take over this world, however hordes of demons will soon infest this land. Do you think you’ll all be safe?”, she smiles a truly evil and crooked smile, “Bheldrid was allowed free reign in this world until his true army came, those humans he’s hypnotized, they will soon become food for our army to grow in strength and numbers. They'll arrive to him soon and when they do, he’ll send them all over this accursed land and you will all fall. Knowing that evil bastard he’ll first release the humans just to see them realise and scream in terror as they go extinct, then He’ll send his forces all over the world, wiping out everything. You think your safe? You can’t even beat me, your one pathetic trick didn’t even work. This world is done for. IT IS FINALLY TIME FOR THE RISE OF THE DEMONS.”, Zhena said, cackling evilly.
Ray stood there in complete and utter shock, there was more of them, dungeons like these scattered across the world and if she was right... they would infest this world like a plague. They would run rampant and destroy everything before the other Demi-human races even arrived here, before they could save the humans. This wasn’t good whatsoever, this world, was truly in great peril.
Weeks prior, unknown to anyone, out of dozens of dungeons from hell scattered across the continent, swarms of hundreds... no thousands of demons emerged. As they entered the overworld they had one mission, make it to Bheldrid. And as these herds rampaged liked beasts towards the human capital, killing anything that entered their sight, the rise of the demons had already begun, without anyone knowledge.
In present time, the demons had already gathered in the human capital, the people, who had still been under hypnosis had no idea that amongst them roamed beings from hell itself. However, the demi humans who had been enslaved could and they were petrified at what they saw, it was truly the end of the world as they knew it. As these demons wandered around the human capital, waiting for orders. Few knights' eyes began to twitch as the demons walked by, their inner selves fighting, trying to warn their bodies of the horrors around them, however they needn't fight it long, as a dark figure with 3 purple, glowing eyes sat on the throne of the giant castle in the center of the human capital. As he sat there, shrouded in darkness, he smiled a truly devilish and sinister smile. He raised his hand... and snapped his fingers. A purple wave spread across the entire continent and as it passed over the humans, a haze of red and purple mist exited their bodies.
As soon as it did, they all collapsed to their knees in horror and terror, as they remembered the past 10 years. And then, the screams began to fill the air and echo throughout the capital, one after the other.