Shocking Interruption

All around, the colosseum was in an uproar. People were getting up from their seats and making a break for the exit. Sirks and the two girls were unlucky enough to be in the middle of all of this and had no way to get out. They were far too small to follow along with the crowd as they would just get trampled on. Therefore, Sirks was trying to shelter them with his arms to keep the other people from rampaging over them.

"Hey, stop pushing! Argh- Sh*t!" Sirks turned and grabbed the man who almost knocked him and the two girls over and pushed him down, slamming him against one of the chairs.

"The the h*ll do you want!?" the old man demanded, struggling to push Sirk's hand off his shoulder.

"What's going on!?" Sirks asked him, pointing at all the chaos.

"Ahh!" A person hit Iris and pushed her into Sirks. Fortunately, he caught her and sat her down as well before going back to interrogating the man. "Open your mouth! We don't have all day!" he told him to hurry up and tell him.

"Demons!"

"What!?"

"I said, demons! There's a godd*mn demon in this place, and he's killing everyone." Sirks was at a loss for words hearing this, and he wasn't the only one. Iris and Wompa were also just as shocked. Sirks' hold on the man loosened due to him spacing out for a bit and the man shoved Sirks away, and said to the three, "If I were you, I would be running right now!" before taking his own advice and running away along with the rest of the crowd.

"Demons... There are demons here!?" Sirks still didn't believe it. He jumped on top of one of the seats and looked in the direction of where everyone was fleeing from to see for himself whether it was truly a demon or if it were something else. "Sh*t." There were too many people for him to get a clear view.

"Is there really a demon?" Iris looked up at Sirks and asked, sounding very worried about the situation.

"Not that I can see. There's too much in the way. But what I'm more worried about..." Sirks turned his attention back into the arena where hoodie and the Iceblade were. They stopped fighting and were trying to get a read on the situation as well. They had even less of an idea of what was going on and their confusion was apparent on their faces.

Sirks threw his arms up and started waving them to get hoodie's attention. "Over here!" he shouted at him.

"What are you doing?" Iris asked him, giving Sirks a look like he was an idiot. "How are they going to hear or see you when there are this many people around?" They would have to have a crazy amount of luck for hoodie to spot them amidst all the people.

Contrary to what Iris thought, they were indeed very lucky as Kies suddenly turned his head in their direction and spotted them. It was almost like he knew exactly where they were the whole time...

"Looks like it worked!" Sirks made a gesture to convey a message to Kies, pointing at the exit and waving his arms in a way to signal him to leave. "I hope he gets what I'm saying..."

Sirks didn't have the time to stick around and find out whether or not Kies got the message. "Come on, you two, we need to leave." Sirks helped the two girls up and started for the exit along with everyone else. He grabbed onto their arms tightly so that they wouldn't get swept away by the crowd.

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Back down in the arena, Kies and Rui were still left in the dark as to what the commotion was about.

"A fire?" Kies wondered. With the amount of smoke there was in the air, it was certainly a possibility. However, it didn't explain why the barrier would fall. A fire should be easy to take care of considering the number of people here. There should be at least one or two mages in the crowd that could handle it. If not, there were always the soldiers. So it wasn't a fire. It was something else. Perhaps... An enemy attack?

"We will have to continue my fight another time," Rui said, looking into the crowd with a serious expression. She wasn't looking at the root cause of the problem, but at something else. Kies traced her gaze to a man with the same outfit as her. It was the other royal guard that she arrived with. He was waving for Rui to come up and he had his sword drawn.

Rui didn't wait for a reply from Kies and immediately ran off into the nearest gate and disappeared up the stairs.

Meanwhile, Kies kept his eyes on the male royal guard, tracking him through the crowd. It was not that hard since he was one of the only few that was running towards the danger instead of away.

Kies was lacking too much information here and he didn't like it. He sent his winds into the crowd to pick up on voices so that he could get clues on the situation.

"-horns. It had horns!"

"Don't stop running. It's right behind us!"

"Where are the guards!?"

"It killed them all!"

"Demon! It's a demon!"

Kies opened his eyes and spun his head towards the direction of the smoke again. "A demon..." A real demon? After this long? Whether this was true or not, Kies needed to see for himself. Forget the match, this was far more important.

Kies wrapped himself with the winds and jumped up the wall and into the first row seats. He then commanded the winds to clear away all the smoke that was obscuring the view.

There, standing on top of a seat surrounded by a couple of soldiers was a thing with two horns sticking out of its head. There were many bodies around it and its torso was drenched in fresh blood. Though Kies was quite far, he could smell the strong scent of iron from here.

The monster looked like a demon, but it was not a demon. Kies recognized it. It was the same thing that he killed when he rescued Iris. It had the traits of a demon but it was far weaker than one. It was the demon serum...

Kies pointed his index finger at the human-turned-demon and got ready to blast the thing's head off. He didn't like the way that it was laughing as it tore a soldier apart while his fellow soldiers stood by and watched, unable to do a thing.

While it was nowhere close to an actual demon in terms of strength, it was far too much for the average human who couldn't use magic to handle. The winds on Kies' fingertip howled, screaming to be released so that they could hunt down the prey. But before Kies could let them go, the male royal guard made it to the scene and hacked the hybrid's head off with one clean cut.

Kies slowly lowered his arm and let the winds calmly disperse. From the looks of it, his help was unnecessary. But for the monster to go down so easily, it didn't make sense. If that was all it took then the normal soldiers should've been more than enough...

"Winds." Kies summoned the winds back to his fingertip and aimed it at the severed head. Without a moment's hesitation, he let them go and they pierced through the head and burst out of the other side. The monster howled, startling all the soldiers and the royal guard.

But it wasn't enough. Kies charged up another attack and fired it at the head again but it dodged it this time around. The headless body crawled over to the head while all the soldiers were distracted and plucked it up from the ground, getting it out of the way just in time as the winds drilled a hole through the floor where it just was.

The hybrid stuck its head back on and the flesh reattached itself. Even the hole in its forehead regenerated almost instantly.

"What in the world is that...?"

Kies couldn't believe what he was seeing and neither could anyone else. How did it heal all its wounds like it was nothing? As far as Kies knew, demons couldn't do something like that. They were durable as h*ll with their scales but they couldn't regenerate like that. In a way, they were more "human" than that thing is.

The male royal knight attacked the monster relentlessly, cutting off parts of its body. He even went so far as to use his magic to trap it inside the earth. However, the monster freed itself every time. It broke through the rock with its raw strength and reattached any limbs that the royal guard managed to hack off.

This went on for the next minute before the hybrid grew tired of getting its body parts cut off and tried to escape. But this decision was made a bit too late. By the time that the hybrid chose to escape, the other person who was capable of restraining it arrived and froze its feet before it could get away.

The creature tugged its feet, trying to pull it out of the ice but the only way that it could get free now was to cut its feet off. On top of that, the other royal guard and Kies were still keeping an eye on it in case it tried anything.

The monster opened its mouth and spoke in a crazed voice, "This is not the end!" It reached into the pocket of its shorts and took out something.

"Do you think I'd let you!?" The male royal knight rushed forward and sliced off the hybrid's hand before it could do anything. But strangely, instead of scowling, the monster laughed.

This made the soldiers wary and they all surrounded the monster nervously. One of the soldiers went over to the severed hand and picked it up.

"No! Drop that!" Rui yelled at the soldier. But it was too late.

The hybrid howled in glee as the small compacted bomb in his severe hand glowed red and started beeping. "Huh!? Ah!" The soldier panicked and threw the bomb in a random direction without thinking and it ended up going towards a crowd of fleeing people.

"What are you doing!?"

Kies tried to blow away the bomb and send it high up in the air where no one would get caught in the blast but as he was casting his magic, a wave of electricity slammed into him, interrupting his spell.

The winds died down and the bomb's beeping interval grew shorter until it turned into a long beep, hinting that it was just about to explode.

Rui and the other royal guard also tried to use their magic to contain the explosive but the electric field was interfering with their magic as well, rendering it useless.

They could only watch in horror as the bomb flew into the crowd of people.

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