Chapter 424: Hijacking IV
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On another part of the area while Aileen was taking care of this world's vampire queen and a dragonkin, Fengris on the other hand is taking care of a beastman and an insectoid twice his size on his side.
After he kept dodging numerous claw attacks from the beastman who is somewhat agitated towards him, Fengris then proceeded to neutralize his next attacks completely by a set of three moves aimed to deflect two attacks and paralyze the enemy on the third, as he caused the beastman to choke on his throat and take a few steps back with a burning glare directed towards him.
To be exact the way Fengris paralyzed the beastman was through a quick strike to the enemy's throat using his finger tips, causing the beastman body to instantly cuts off his momentum as he gasps for breath. Sadly due to the beastman physique, Fengris only mange to cut off its attack and not fully paralyzed its body. If it were any enemy, he was quite confident he could take him down in that three set of moves.
The moment the beastman was brought out of commission for about awhile, the insectoid then rushes in from the side as its swung down its halberd and aimed its blade towards Fengris. But before the blade could hit its target, Fengris quickly rushes forward in order to evade the swing attack, as he circled back towards the insectoid with a jump and deliver a quick counter kick towards its face.
In those few movements, Fengris threw off the insectoid, as it crashes across the ground and slammed its whole body unto the wall of the throne room. However since the insectoid was somewhat equipped with its tough carapace, Fengris attack which could literally take down an elephant in one blow, was proved ineffective, as the insectoid itself stood up once more after being kicked away.
Without' a moments delay, Fengris closes in the distance between them in a blink of an eye as he struck out a fist which instantly buried down the insectoid along the wall once more. Unfortunately yet again, he only manage to topple the big guy down without really dealing any physical damage on its body. Thus after the fall, the insectoid quickly shot off the wall as it swung down its halberd, causing Fengris to actually take the initiative to dodge the strike.
"Tough nut to crack eh?!?!"
Since a normal punch wasn't enough to actually take down the insectoid, Fengris than took it up to another notch as he finally used his black lightning derived from his calamity class species. Encasing his fists with black lightning, Fengris dodged the insectoids, rapid swing in immediate notice, as he quickly countered back with an uppercut followed by a hook punch which made the bulking giant kneel on the ground.
After that Fengris then begun encasing his whole body with black lightning to its bare minimum enough not to blow everything away upon touch, as he sent in multiple hooks before he planted the insectoid's face to the wall once more. Even though the carapace of the insectoid proved to be durable enough to defend him from dangerous attack, the shock wave from its punch enhanced by his calamity aura literally shook the insectoid innards as he begun taking in internal damage.
What's more since Fengris attacks is associated with black lightning, each of his attack literally paralyzed the insectoid body for about a milliseconds, causing the bulking giant unable to move from its spot nor defend for itself. In literal means the insectoid became a punching bag for Fengris as he took blow after blow towards his body for about 30 seconds straight.
In that short seconds, the beastman finally got ahold of himself as he quickly sharpened his claws using his own bestial trait and mana as he charged forward with an intent to kill. But the moment he got close towards Fengris proximity, the person himself dodged his claw swipe as it planted its fist unto his face and threw him far off behind with a broken nose.
The moment the beastman got thrown off by a single attack, Fengris then turned back his attention towards the insectoid's hard carapace as he continued drilling the enemy with his own attacks. However the beastman would not give up as he begun to raise up his aura which cause the very air in the room to grow heavy as he fully transformed his body into that of a bestial monster while baring his claws and fangs towards Fengris himself.
In another charge, the beastman completely enhanced all of his body parts with strengthening magic to its maximum degree as he plans to finally take down Fengris with his own powerful blow. Unfortunately his aspirations betrayed him, as Fengris simply dodged his attack, causing his blow to struck down his allied insectoid, and the person himself used his black lightning to pummel him down to his size.
With a quick counter to the side, Fengris caused the beastman to gasp in pain as it felt its bone crack due to the strength he had inputted on his attack. But before the beastman could even utter a single cry, Fengris shut his mouth with a face punch, followed by numerous body blows and chained up with a kick to his shoulder which literally dislocated its arm.
The moment the beastman went on all four due to the pain all over its body, Fengris looked down from above as he spoke some few words, before delivering an axe kick towards the beastman, which knocked out the person in question himself.
"Your way out of your league"
After Fengris dealt with the beastman as easily as breaking a toy, he then turned back his attention towards the insectoid as he continued drilling through the enemy's tough carapace.
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On another area, Belial is somewhat a clear number disadvantage as he is faced against four opponent instead of two in comparison to Alice and Fengris enemy. He doesn't know if its pure coincidence, but he somehow felt cheated after the far comparison of the number of opponent he has compared to both Aileen and Fengris.
In front of him there is a demon princess, an Archdemon, an Undead King, and a succubus queen. Each and every opponent he is faced is laced with annoying trait that is applicable to their own kind. However since a succubus is within their ranks, he had to do all that he can in order to protect his mind from the succubus mental attacks. Thus without anyone noticing, he applied a mental barrier on himself to protect his mind from the queen of succubus.
However who would've thought that the moment he splits his attention in applying the barrier on his mind, the succubus queen then begun her move as she suddenly appeared behind him and begun carrassing his neck with her arms in a lovingly manner.
"Hey there! you seem stressed out"
while putting her embrace around him, the succubus queen whispered ticklish word unto his ear as she even proceeded to bite his ears seductively. But before the succubus queen could do such a thing, Belial's mental barrier quickly snapped him back into reality as he grabbed the succubus queens head lying on his shoulder and glared at her with his blackened eyes.
"Filthy parasite!!!"
That was Belial's comment towards the succubus queen. No matter what circumstances or world, he cant seem to bring his foot on liking such race who toyed with everyone's mind. In comparison to other demons who liked the succubus race, he cant seem to look at them in a different light as he kept his disgusted feeling inside his heart when encountering such species in order not to offend them.
The only person who knew of his circumstances was the demon queen of his original world. This time however with the fact that this is another world, a world completely irrelevant to him, Belial's bottled up disgust towards such race, then exploded as he glared at the succubus queen.
However before Belial could even use his immense strength to squash the head of the succubus queen, a skeleton warrior wearing a frosty armor then suddenly came into view wielding a long halberd as it slashes its weapon straight up towards him at the front. With that Belial then popped out his dark wings as he used his wings dexterity to actually block the attack while still grabbing on the succubus queen's head who seemed struggling to break free of his hold.
But just as he was about to shift back his attention towards the succubus queen, the person herself then suddenly got teleported out of his grasp as it suddenly appeared beside the demon princess for some quite a distance away from him. Based on his judgement, the demon princess seemed to retrieved the succubus queen away from him using some type of magic, while the skeleton warrior distracted him for just a few seconds of his time. Surprisingly such simple approach actually distracted him, which caused for the successful retrieval of the succubus queen.
At that moment just as he was about to make a move, the archdemon, the servant of the demon princess of this world, then suddenly casted a spell on his palm as he sent a fiery blaze of flames towards him which was enough to literally incinerate anything within its trajectory path. The moment the flames crashed unto Belial, a huge explosion then followed after, causing the archdemon itself to smile from the strength of his spell.
"Did you get him?" asked by the succubus queen
"Not sure, but i think i did a considerable damage to him using my flames right?" responded by the archdemon
"Maybe! but don't let your guard down!" answered by the demon princess
As the wild flames raged on, a pair of black wings suddenly cuts apart the flames in between, shocking everyone on site, as Belial rushes towards them in a zoom and quickly took down the archdemon with a single punch in surprise.
"What!?!?! kuh!!!!" reacted by the archdemon as he got thrashed to the floor
"He's still! alive!!!" warned by the succubus queen as she flew back
However before the succubus queen could get any farther away, Belial suddenly blinked behind her, as he strike out a fist right towards her guard. Surprisingly the succubus queen was quick to react to Belial's sudden rush as she quickly gathered up her mana unto her arm and blocked her attack. This type of maneuver really shocked Belial as he cant believe that some flimsy arms was able to defend against his attack.
Unknown to Belial the succubus queen has another source of power aside from her charm, dream eater, and soul taker skill. One of her strength is that she can gather outside source of power from the believers of the succubus species and some of the enslaved people who were caught by their charms. A type of draining power that drains other peoples strength and make it into her own.
Since this world is riddled with war, stress has accumulated all over the world, due to that people who are stressed are quite vulnerable to a succubus temptation, thus being enslaved by their charms. Draining those who are enslaved, all the power she gathered towards her from all over the world then gave her strength equivalent to a hundred thousands of people. With such equivalence, she then struck a pose with her fist as she begun attacking Belial fervently with her own strengthened punches.
This sudden change naturally caught Belial off guard, thus with a couple of punches from the succubus queen, he was then sent flying as he crashed unto the wall and caused a crater to form on the castle majestic walls.
From that location, skeleton arms suddenly emerged from the ground as it locked his legs tight like an anchor, as the archdemon and the demon princess casted their own spell and bombard him at the same time
"Flame Burst!!!"
"Hollow Flare!!!"
With that another explosion rung out as Belial was blasted out of the throne room and unto the open air outside the castle itself. The moment he got blasted out of the room, About a hundred of skeleton archers emerged from the walls as they aimed their bows towards him and begun to rain arrow o0n him.
Without a moments delay Belial blitz into the air dodging all the arrows and spells directed towards him, before diving back into the throne room and strikes down the Undead king before he could even create any more skeletons warriors within their ranks. After all dealing with the skeleton soldier first when fighting against it's creator is a huge mistake on whatever world maybe. the simplest way to deal with such creator or summoner was to deal with its caster first.
Once he downed the undead king, Belial then used his wings to block the spells coming towards him as he attack the demon princess and punched her through multiple columns inside the room. Naturally that act infuriated the archdemon who served as the demon princess servant, and caused him to rush towards him in anger. However that was the biggest mistake anyone could make when dealing against him.
Once a person lost its cool in face of an opponent, its movement then became easy to read, thus giving multiple openings for the enemy to exploit. Without minding the archdemon's rage, Belial easily neutralized the proclaimed archdemon, which is the same rank as his back in his own world, as he downed him too using only a few moves he had self construct all on his own.
After taking three opponents down, Belial then charged towards the succubus queen as he efficiently dodged her multiple attacks, before giving her a quick counter by a gut punch and blasting her away with a spell which literally also troubled Kaido when they first met.
"Anima!!!"
With such huge blast, the succubus queen was blown out of the room as she fell down the castle's wall and crash towards the populace of the capital.
The moment he had taken all four of them down, Belial stood straight one more as he fixed his suit and turned his attention towards the demon king residing within the room. After all, in comparison to the said strong warriors gathered inside this room, Belial felt immense danger towards the demon king itself rather than its retainers.
As long as he could keep the demon king at bay, he was quite assured that he would be able to let Argos lead the elf towards the target location without any trouble at all.
However the moment he turned towards the throne itself, his blackened eyes stared wide in shock as the demon king himself vanished completely inside this room, presumably the demon king himself took the opportunity of the chaos to slip away from their watchful gaze and escape out from the room itself.
The moment Belial realized that the demon king went missing, he then called out towards the others as they warned them about their circumstances.
"Guys! the demon king is missing.... he's not here in the room"
"What?!?!?!" reacted by Aileen
"Are you serious!!!" responded by Fengris
With the demon king missing, they had no choice but to ensure that Argos was safe and finish this small battle happening inside the room in a flash.
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At the same time around the deepest part of the demon castle, with the help of Elfrune sensitivity to mana, she managed to find the core of the world tree as she successfully guided Argos towards the correct room which held the core. The moment she arrived in the room, she quickly casted out a defensive barrier around the room itself and herself as she approached the core carefully.
After all one wrong move towards the world tree's core, and the tree itself might mistake them for an invasive species and send out deterring agents to get rid of them.
As she slowly approached the core, she soon arrived before it as she begun her work and started preparing the spell for a long transporting group towards a far off distance world, a type of similar spell which is used to summon the heroes of another world to their own.
As shew prepared the necessary steps for the spell, Argos on the other hand felt a foreign presence just outside the room as he stood in front of Elfrune and prepared himself for any combat to come. Just as expected about a few seconds after he felt a foreign presence outside the room, the defensive barrier casted by Elfrune was easily shattered as the demon king entered the said room.
The moment the demon ki9ng made his appearance, Elfrune was naturally shocked by his presence, before Argos reminded her to go go back to what she was doing.
Since the black dragon had actually warned her, Elfrune had no choice but to believe Argos as she returned to her work, while she let him deal with the demon king
"This place is prohibited from any outsiders outside my control, how dare you disregard my intent to not allow you into this room" bellowed by the demon king with slight anger on his face
"Well looks like you didn't get the memo, we're not taking no for an answer" retorted by Argos
"You dare disobey me?"
"Last time i checked we weren't part of your forces... so you have no rights to lecture me"
Hearing Argos words, the demon king gathered black mana unto his palm as he readied himself for combat against the proposedly black dragon. However the moment he did such a thing, the space in between them broke apart as a portal appeared and spat out Aileen, Fengris, and Belial right in between the tension of the room.
The moment they appeared, confusion painted the demon kings face as he cant believe that the three guest he left behind had appeared before him near unscathed from his subordinates. Such a thing was just preposterous.
At that moment Elfrune finished up the spell before her as she was surprisingly a smart lad who can easily make such spell in such immediate notice. Once the transporting spell powered by the world tree's core was finished, that was then the signal for the whole group to make their move and prepare to depart.
Without a second thought, everyone bypassed Elfrune as they all thanked her for her service, before heading towards the spell. Since Elfrune finished her services, Argos quickly thanked her while the demon king was still stunned from the series of events and immediately crushed the necklace around her neck to instantly return her back to her kingdom.
"Huh?!?! wait!!! is that it?"
Still surprised that her journey came into an abrupt end, Argos then silently smiled at her as he watched her disappear in his view.
"Thank you for your help, you are truly a useful elf'
With those gratifying words which made it hard for Elfrune to accept that her service was over, she then reached out at the exact moment she disappeared and returned to her home. The moment that Elfrune was transported back, Argos joined the others as Aileen maneuvered the spell with her own space magic and begun transporting everyone out of this world.
The moment the process was finished, the demon king snapped back into reality as he begun to stop them from ever escaping his sight. However he was far too late as Aileen activated the spell and pulled everyone out of that world while leaving a cursing finger towards the demon king.
In just a few moments, the four then disappeared into this world, as the experience that the demons in that world felt, left a bitter taste for everyone native of that world. Unknown to the four, due to the chaos they had brought in their speed running, the difficulty of that world advanced even further which literally made it harder for the heroes of that world to accomplish peace.
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Located at another unknown planet, the four then arrived safely at a mechanic platform as they were all welcomed by a sight huge an Alien wielding advanced machinery weapon on all of its 8 hands. Upon seeing the unusual creature, Aileen couldn't help but complain once more while being surrounded by space hovering ships.
"Ah shit!"