Chapter 45: The Second Demon War [MOON]
Chaos ensued around me. It was certainly not a pleasant feeling. Now this is really war. Humans, elves and demons are fighting all around us. Yet all I can do is focus my attention on how to stop this rampaging brute. One swipe from his enlarged right hand and both allies and foes were sent flying. Arrows and blades are unable to pierce or damage his body at all. Not to mention he is acting like a mindless brute attacking anything close to his vicinity.
There was a couple of cannons that shot at him but the cannon balls were mostly deflected by his muscular tough body. We need to be able to control this guy. The army will have to deal with the other demons while we try to take down the Dragon Lord.
The Elementalist reactivated his Concentration while I reactivated Bloodlust with Frenzy. Hopefully this would cause the Demons to start attacking their own kind instead. The Elementalist set both his daggers with fire and ice respectively and charged head-on towards the Dragon Lord. I casted both Combat Fortify and Fury to increase my strength, defence and attack power. Not that I like seeing my body turning red but the situation is dire now.
I threw my axe directly at the Dragon Lord with all my strength. Despite the size being only the size of a fire axe, it hit home. Somehow my axe was strong and sharp enough to pierce his body. I guess that is what a legendary weapon can do for you. The Dragon Lord flinched from the pain and wanted to pull out my axe. I teleported to it and leaped up atop his shoulder after removing my axe. Should I just decapitate his head right now? If I enlarge my axe big enough, I should be able to kill it right now.
As I got ready to swing my axe, the voice of the Elementalist shouting “Watch out!” was heard and I barely dodged the giant hand that slammed on shoulder where I was standing a second ago. The Elementalist slid underneath the Dragon Lord and began slicing on his heel and ankle. The Dragon Lord roared in pain and wanted to swipe at the Elementalist but he hid near the foot area causing the Dragon Lord to miss. The Dragon Lord was furious and lifted his foot in attempt to stomp on the Elementalist.
“Cannons!” shouted the Elementalist.
Multiple shots can be heard and all of them hit the Dragon Lord directly. The Dragon Lord lost balance and fell to the ground as he was standing on one foot. Cheers can be heard around us but neither the Elementalist nor I missed the opportunity to strike the killing blow on the Dragon Lord. The both of us rushed as fast as we could to look for the head but he was protecting it with his massive right hand. All of a sudden, the Dragon Lord lifted his arm which started growing even larger. I instinctively shouted “FALL BACK!”, grabbed the Elementalist by the arm, tossed my axe as far as I could and teleported.
Not a moment later, the Dragon Lord slammed his even more ridiculously large arm onto the ground which made a huge crater and shockwave. Buildings were shattered by the impact along with humans, elves and demons. Casualties are climbing up. We need to kill this Dragon Lord and fast or there won’t be any army left to help us with this demon invasion.
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“You think you can take me on alone, Hawthorn? Did you forget how miserably you failed earlier? said the Demon Queen as she was gliding around throwing her blue thorn daggers at me.
“The way I see it, you failed to kill me as well so I guess we are even,” I dodged her daggers while sprinting after her.
“I won’t make the same mistake ever again,” said the Queen as she raised her hand.
More pillars covered in red thorns started bursting out from beneath the floor. Can she summon these out of nowhere? Don’t she uses blood? Wait, the city is full of blood and she seems to be able to control higher quantities of it after she broke her limiter. She have plenty of blood at her disposal now. Damn it.
I summoned Tengu-kaze with a flick of my left hand. I channeled power to it and used wind pressure to slice off the pillars obstructing my way. I turned my head around to look for the Queen. She was nowhere to be found. I looked up and she flying with her mouth looking like wants to vomit. I know what you are planning to do!
She screamed with intensity and it ripped a large hole through the floor. I instinctively leaped forward before the attack reaches and gave a sigh of relief that I dodged that. I do not wish to experience that attack once again.
Four more charges of “Lightning Strike” and two more “Lightning Charge” at my disposal. Night is approaching soon with a possibility of a thunderstorm based on the thunder sound I heard earlier. That will work in my favour tremendously.
I will need to find a way to stop her flight movement for me to deal the killing blow.
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This captain is absurdly strong. Is he somehow linked to the Demon Queen? After breaking that jewelry belonging to the Queen, he powered up even further. Even activating Focused Mediation cannot break through his speed and raw power. Both the Dark Lord and I are being pushed back by this captain. I hate to admit it but we might not be able to defeat this captain.
“Elf girl! Wake her up! We need her help!” shouted the Dark Lord.
Indeed. We need Rose to help close the summoning circle inside the throne room. I am unable to close it as I need to support the Dark Lord to fight this captain. I told the Dark Lord that I am falling back. He nodded as he knew what I wanted to do.
The Dark Lord started blocking swinging his sword furiously to block all the attacks from the captain. I did a quick chant and casted Light Blessing and Accelerate. I cannot afford to cast Great Blessing as I will be out cold after the duration of the spell. Hopefully this will give us a little edge to hold this captain.
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“Rose, wake up!” I shook her.
She seems to be completely out cold. I doubt anything is going to wake her up now. What can I do to wake her up? I don’t have a bucket of water with me. I can’t move much either. The adventurers are holding back the demons from reaching us. As much as I want to help them, I can’t leave Rose alone here. Damn it, think Lily, THINK!
Oh, that’s right. I have my elven wine with me. Maybe, just maybe..
I removed the lid from my flask and place it near Rose’s nose. C’mon, I hope this works. Please wake up, Rose.
Cough cough!!
Yes! It works, thank goodness!
“W.. what happened? It felt like something was burning my lungs,” said Rose as she was still coughing.
“Sorry about that, I needed to wake you up. The situation is dire right now and the guildmasters need your help,” I explained to her.
“W.. what? My.. help? What is going on? W.. why are demons suddenly around us? How long was I unconscious?” said Rose as she was still in a daze.
“Rose, listen to me. We need your help. Steady yourself as I ask the guildmasters on what they need,” I said to her while holding her shoulders. She needed to understand the current situation that we are in.
“Dark Lord, Rose is awake! What do you need?!” I shouted.
“Tell her page 30!” shouted the Paladin Lord.
“Rose, page 30” I said to her.
“W.. what?” she replied while still trying to gain some semblance.
“Rose, your book. Open page 30,” I clapped her face cheeks trying to wake her up.
“R.. right. My book,” she said as she rustled her pouch and took out her book.
She scrolled through the page quickly and started reading on the page. I took a peek on what the page is about and found out that it was a spell about sealing something.
“How long do you need?!” shouted the Paladin Lord.
“Just a minute!” Rose replied.
Rose was reading intently while ignoring her surroundings. She must focusing herself entirely in studying the spell. I kept a lookout to ensure that no demons would disturb her. And true enough, some demons came to disturb us. My foot might be injured but I can still fight. The adventurers are getting pushed back against the high number of demons that kept pouring out of the floor.
I eliminated the demons that attacked us. They are easy to defeat in small numbers. Hopefully Rose is able to study on how to stop the demons from coming out.
“I got it!” shouted Rose.
She kept her book safely back in her pouch and stood up. I looked at her and she was widely awake now. Good, we need her to win this war. “Let’s go,” I said to her to which she nodded.
We ran towards the glowing circle area while avoiding the adventurers and demons that were fighting. Some tried to attack us but we dodged out of the way or just pushed them aside. At some point, Rose jumped up and started stepping on the demons head to run faster. One of them tried to grab her leg but she leaped far away and made it to the circle. I need to catch up to protect her but I can’t run that fast with my injured foot.
Rose stood close to the circle but hidden behind where the demons are coming out from. Wait, what is she doing? Is she, Y-posing? I almost burst out laughing but held it in. If it was not for the situation we are in, I would had laughed at her.
The Demon Queen shouted some demonic language which caused majority of the demons to turn their attention towards Rose. She was closing her eyes while chanting in a Y-pose. She won’t realised that she is in danger!
“Adventurers! Protect Rose like your life depends on it!” I shouted as loudly as I could.
Some adventurers went to protect her while majority of the others ignored my request. I am still some distance away from Rose. Damn it, why is it always distance that is my worst enemy?
“Protect the White Angel if you bollocks wishes to see another day,” warned the Dark Lord using his Fear spell to convey the message. I did not know that you can convey message using the Fear spell. I guess Zen did not know about it.
Immediately nearly all of the adventurers rushed towards Rose in an attempt to protect her. Not sure whether it was due to the spell, the fear of dying or getting wallop by the Dark Lord that made them rush over to help her. At least many adventurers are protecting Rose now. White Angel, huh? That nickname suits her and I’m certain it is going to stay around for a long time. Much better than my terrible nickname. Geez.
The hole was starting to close. A yellow semi circle was formed and started to block the hole while the floor was starting to reconstruct itself. Demon that were trying to claw their way out of the hole was halted by the spell and they fell to back wherever they came from. The Demon Queen started throwing some daggers at Rose which Zen knocked all of them away. She then extended the thorns wrapping around her arm towards Rose but Zen sliced one of her wings off, grabbed her horn and threw her to the floor with a loud bang. Zen must be furious that the Demon Queen tried to attack his beloved sister.
The circle stopped glowing and it was as if the floor had never broke apart in the first place. Rose opened her eyes and was shocked to see so many adventurers protecting her. Does the spell require so much of her focus that she have zero awareness of her surroundings? The remaining demons were slowly being killed by the adventurers. Things were getting more quiet now aside from those three fighting.
“White angel! Go close the other circles that you can find! There should be many of them around the city!” shouted the Dark Lord.
“Curse that woman. You Hawthorns were always a pain to deal with. Do you even have any idea what you are doing?!” shouted the Demon Queen.
“Ruining your plans obviously. And don’t you dare talk that way about my sister,” said Zen. Still trying to deny that you aren’t a sis-con?
“W.. white angel? Who?” asked Rose.
“That’s you, Rose. C’mon, let’s go. We need to close the other circles around the city,” I told her as I started dragging her along.
“But what about onii-chan and the guildmasters? Shouldn’t we be helping them?” asked Rose.
“Just go! We’ll hold them off!” shouted the Paladin Lord.
“You heard them, let’s go,” I said to her.
“We’ll protect you, white angel. Lead the way,” said one of the adventurers.
The adventurers all started pushing Rose out of the throne room. Some even tried to carry her but she wriggled free and decided to run on her own. I can hear her shouting “I am not white angel!” as they were heading out of the castle. I stayed behind for a short while to look at Zen. He is giving his all fighting the Queen. I will only be in the way if I were to join the fight so I’ll be following Rose to make sure she is safe.
“Please, stay alive. I love you,” I whispered softly as I looked at him and not a moment later, I headed out following the group of adventurers protecting Rose.