Chapter 86 – Battle… Boring

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

“Fire Magic: Destruction Balls!” fifteen medium sized balls of contained fire appeared above the right battalion’s left flank, descended upon and ushered explosions left and right. Princess Lang marveled at her work for a moment, brandished her sword, and joined the fight on the right battalion.

“Ice Magic: Ice wave.” Riyah winded up her spell from the back to the front as she released her magic, a big vertical arc of ice appeared in front of her and propelled itself forward, colliding with three lines of the left battalion’s left flank,

Before bursting to create ice spears that thrust forward piercing two lines of the left Flank. She then silently flew to the back, preparing to assist Allen on a spell.

“Poison and Shadow Enchant: Cloud of Arrows.” Celine released one arrow to the right battalion, and another on the left battalion, each enchanted by her magic, the arrows struck the ground and came out a black smoke, covering almost half of the battalion.

The monsters inside suddenly ran in different directions, gasping for air, as tears fell down their bloodshot eyes as the poisoned smoke sipped in, unfortunately for those that were at the center, were corroded by the clouds for they did not come out in time.

The smoke faded out just as fast as it came, revealing a horrendous scenery of deformed bodies and corpses.

“Spirit Magic: Discarnate Essence!” chanted Flin as a magic circle appeared below both battalions that ripped out a piece of the soul of the monsters as they felt their souls being torn apart, further weakening them and slowing their movement.’

Flin jumped beside Riyah as he connected the three of them to assist in Allen’s spell by transferring him their mana.

“Water Magic: Submergence!” suddenly, a big magic circle the color of blue appeared above both right and left of the second battalion, summoned a gigantic water ball, and bombarded the location below with water bombs,

All the while some parts are getting flooded by the excess water, while some created water puddles. Cries and screams reverberated from the monsters at the mercy of the spells, and had their life snuffed out in seconds.

Allen was channeling the spell in front of Riyah and Flin, all the while Trunk, Coralia, The King -Raze-, and the two alphas of the two packs were behind them, waiting. Allen finished channeling as the last water bomb assaulted the area, and the flow of mana to Allen ceased, as just as he helped in Flin’s, so did the two help him.

“Are we really to stay here while the others and those kids fight for us?” asked the alpha of the lava wolves.

“Aren’t they doing short work of the monsters Rain, so why are you complaining.” said the alpha of the normal wolves, or to be precise, esper wolves, as this was their name originally, one they’ve yet to introduce to everyone, except his cousins.

“But this is such a spoil sports Cloud, look at them having fun.” retorted Rain.

“Look at yourself first and decide whether you’re still fit to fight.” reprimanded the alpha of the esper wolves, or Cloud, as it was graciously said by Rain. “You’ll just be a nuisance.”

“Wha- You…” and there goes the childish tantrum of the alpha of the lava wolves as he talked, more like shouted, to Cloud how he is still strong enough to fight, despite having wounds all over his body.

“You call that strong when you’re barely able to stand on, unbelievable, I am not having this conversation now cousin.” Cloud’s voice left no room for argument, Rain just stomped the ground angrily.

“Not fair.” He added.

“W-.” before Cloud could reprimand some more his idiotic, and apparently childish, cousin, an ominous power burst forth from behind the demon gate, and out came the demon vanguard from before as he flew high up, freed from his icy prison.

He landed at the stupefied demon slaves near the demon gate, the slaves did not notice that their troops were being annihilated left and right, got startled as the demon vanguard descended beside them, particularly the one in charge.

“Insolent fool, you can’t even handle one insect, now look at our army!” said the demon vanguard, sword in hand.

“I-I, Thi-.” The demon vanguard plunged his sword to the ground in anger.

“I do not want to hear any more of your excuses, do your job properly, I’ll handle this insect.” he said, cracked his knuckles, and took his sword, the demon slave squeaked in an audible tone, and scrambled to stand up but had difficulty to, for the wound on its chest.

“You.” said the demon.

“Yes?” replied Ken, not provoking, nor amused or so, just plain curious, but the demon took it as an insult. The demon furiously stared at him.

“I challenge you to a mock battle!” said the demon, pointing his sword.

“Huh? Oh, a battle? Meh, that’s boring, I don’t do that, especially when there’s a lot going on, sorry.” said Ken apologetically.

“Are you insulting me?!” the demon lunged at Ken, slamming his sword on the ground which Ken avoided, jumping backwards.

“No I am not sir, but if you must know this is already a one on one battle.” Ken swing his scythe downwards meeting the sword of the demon, the two blades clashed, trying to push each other off, before jumping backwards to gain distance.

“Fight Me!” shouted the demon.

“Okay, if you insist.” How can this creature have such unpredictable change of thoughts, thought the demon, right before he could do anything, Ken was unto him swinging his scythe horizontally, but he parried it. He’s fast, thought the demon.

“Don’t get cocky.” The demon retracted his sword and in a fluid motion the sword was coming down on Ken, the demon had poured out a huge amount of his power on the sword as it crashed on Ken.

The demon had a huge smile, but it faltered when the smoke cleared revealing nothing but cracked ground.

“Over here~” Ken said in a singsong voice and bashed the blunt upper part of the scythe’s head on the left cheek of the demon, propelling him sideways.

“PWUAH!” the demon twisted once but caught his footing and lunged back on Ken, swung his sword, Ken blocked the strike but it propelled him backwards, hitting a tree, and down the two go creating smoke.

A blur suddenly flew out of the smoke and up in the air Ken was ready to strike down his scythe. Impossible! the demon thought. The demon intercepted the strike but he did not expect the power to be double as that of earlier as his feet plunged a full inch on the ground.

Ken flipped backwards after striking the demon down, but did not stop as he wind up another strike, and dashed forward to perform a horizontal slash, then another, then another, until all different directional slashes had been performed.

The demon was left dumbfounded leaving him unable to keep up with Ken’s slashes, but this was not due to Ken’s seemingly outstanding display of sword fight -or in this case, scythe-, he genuinely felt like he couldn’t move, and only through that last sixteenth slash was he able to move again.

Those were just regular slashes by the way, Ken just enhanced his body with all three of his enchant buffs, and haste too, surprisingly, or not, his spells were enhanced or leveled up somewhere along the line.

He angrily looked at Ken, and unleashed his full might, as dark energies burst forth from his body, enhancing him, making his body grow bigger, twice his size, earlier, he was six feet, now he was twelve feet, and more scale like rock formed on his body to act as armor.

“You will regret this day!” he shouted in a deformed voice, and lunged forward.

“Oh, I won’t, Dark Moon Magic: Death Moon Form.” suddenly, a dark ray of light with silver edges descended on Ken, intercepting the demon’s advance pushing him backwards, double the force of his advance, as his body collided to the ground creating a deep trail.

“Now the fun can begin.” said Ken, clad in dark armor with silver linings, held the scythe in both hands, pointed it like a sword at the demon.

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