The Celestial Labyrinth

"KILL THEM BOTH!" Benkai orders

The shadow demon dashes at our direction at great speed. It shows it claws then rushes to attack us. I tried blocking the attack with my dagger. The claw went right through, and I still felt the attack. I stepped back as soon as I felt the pain. Domotraus ignored the shadow demon and went for Benkai. The shadow demon noticed it and became one with the shadow.

"Domotraus watch out!" I warn to him

The shadow demon appears from Benkai's shadow and immediately intercepts Domotraus. Domotraus' fast reaction allowed him to stop before making the attack.

"Tsk, can't go one on one with me?" he taunts him

This shadow demon is a problem enough, why is he trying to get the summoner to join into a two on two. This is just gonna get more problematic than it already is. I looked around to find any source of light, but it's just from the lanterns at the edges of the roof. They weren't bright, but still gave off dim light to its surroundings. Maybe we can beat this shadow demon with bright light, that's just a possibility though. I can't really prove that it can work against it, but it is a shadow after all.

"Beat my shadow demon first, I'll think about it" he replies

The shadow demon this time goes in for the attack on Domotraus. He was able to dodge the first attack from the demon's claws. The second hit was coming and he wasn't ready for another dodge, so he tried to defend himself and same thing happened to me, happened to him. The claws went right through his defense and attacked him. Domotraus rolls backward getting on his feet. He activated his gauntlet and relentlessly slashing towards the shadow demon. The demon didn't move at all and each attack just seemed to have no effect at all. Domotraus jumps back after noticing how ineffective his attacks were. He decided to just go for Benkai instead ignoring the shadow demon. He tries to go around but gets intercepted by the shadow demon. He jumps back again.

"You annoying demon, out of my way!" Domotraus says irritated

He runs at full speed going for a tackle towards the demon, which fails. Instead he went through the shadow demon, like he went inside, and past him. I was pretty shocked at how that worked. As soon he got out, he fell to floor screaming.

"AAAAAHHHH" he screams in pain

"Never touch a shadow demon, lesson learned" Benkai says

Domotraus tries to get up, but the pain was too much for him he could barely stay still. He got up on one foot then stood up. He turns to face the shadow demon. The shadow demon had already closed in on him, went for a claw attack. Domotraus still injured, couldn't dodge. He tries to block it again, but fails and kneels to the ground.

"Urgh, I won't yield!"

Domotraus gets up with all his remaining power. His body glows a bit red, and his body grows a bit as if his muscles expanded. He enters a raging state.

"RAAAAAAHHH" he roars out

Domotraus' shirt begins to rip, but he doesn't go shirtless. His pants also begins to expand and rips a bit. He didn't become faster but he became stronger in a way. The shadow demon tries to go for another claw attack. Domotraus was able to get back a bit before the shadow demon went for the attack. His battle instincts increased and became a fighting monster.

With my speed, I was able to go around them and get a lantern. I closed in on Benkai while the shadow demon was busy with Domotraus.

"Hah!"

With my other hand, I slashed my dagger towards him. Benkai being someone who can used magic, of course he defended himself. A simple shield spell, blocked my attacked. I need a way to cast magic, as if I can.

"Don't think you can get me that easily!" Benkai shouts

The shield disappears and floats back and shoots out an orb. From a deadly range it hit me, and it pushes me back. The moment it touched me, it made a loud booming sound that made me go deaf for a few seconds. I fall to the floor and glance at Domotraus who was still in rage fighting the shadow demon.

"Domotraus, get one of the lanterns!" I shout to him

Domotraus noticed me holding a lantern and had the same idea, I think. He rushed to get a lantern, but the shadow demon kept blocking his way. He kept doing maneuvers to get around, while avoiding the claw attacks of the shadow demon.

"Well, this is the part I leave, I'm sure we've got what we came here for" Benkai says

"You're not going anywhere!" I say

"Hold these two off" Benkai orders

The shadow demon tries to get close to me, but stops 15ft away. As the demon was occupied with me, Domotraus immediately rushed to get one of the lanterns. I approached demon, and the closer I get the farther he goes. It was like he was avoiding me. This concludes my theory that we can use light to fight the demon. Now that I think about it, the demon did notice me when I first approached Benkai, but I think he didn't intercept because I had a source of light. He's able to stay in dim light, so another theory is that he can't approach bright light. We can keep fighting this thing until day time, but there are other matters to focus on. No options left on how to fight this demon, I think the scroll is the best solution here.

I turn to chase Benkai down as he was about to jump off the ledge, I caught up to him with my speed and grabbed him before he could get out. He kept squirming trying to make me release, but the power of the potion of strength I drank gave me the power to keep him held.

"Let go of me!" Benkai shouts as he tries to pull himself away from me

"Over there!" someone shouts in the distance

We both looked to see who it was and it was that lightning elemental guy from the Hollow Arthas, Zaber. Zaber came along with many other knights.

"Tsk, let me go!"

Benkai starts to float, and ascends into the air. I wasn't strong enough to pull them down, but I was strong enough to stay onto him. I flew upwards as well. We were about 50ft high in the air, and we kept going higher.

"You think this is high enough already?" I ask

"Scared of heights? Maybe you should let go" he taunts me

We could see the whole mansion from up here. Domotraus still fighting the Shadow Demon, but isn't doing so well as he kept getting caught off guard by the demon. The demon couldn't approach Domotraus due to the lantern he held with him, so it had a different method and it was to throw projectiles at him and so. The whole mansion had been surrounded by knights and each of them drew a magic circle on the ground. Ritual magic that'll be focused on the mansion.

I looked everywhere and couldn't find my remaining team, it was just the Hollow Arthas knights. A group of knights got in being led by Zaber. Then a bounded field appeared from the magic circle keeping us trapped. Before Benkai could escape, the bounded field just hit knocked him back and he couldn't escape.

Zaber notices us both flying high into the air. A lightning aura appears around him and he does a running jump to the wall, begins to climb at such a fast pace. He reaches the roof top and sees Domotraus fighting the shadow demon.

"Tsk, you both are such a troubling lot" Zaber says

Zaber's aura begins to intensifies and they all focus on one point, the palm of his hand. Powerful concentration of lightning stayed on his palm. He extended it towards the shadow demon, and in just a flash it hit the shadow demon. Domotraus falls to the floor, and exhausts his rage mode. The shadow demon about to claw him until a bolt of lightning strikes him. It passes through the shadow demon extinguishing him. Benkai notices how easily Zaber took down the shadow demon.

"Argh! I'll kill you, I'll kill all of you!" Benkai screams

He quickly gets a scroll from his cloak and casts the spell that was written on it. The scroll disappears and he points at me.

"BEGONE TO THE LABYRINTH THE BELONGED TO THE CELESTIAL BEINGS" he shouts

His finger begins to glow, and my vision just glows up. After the glow I find myself standing on a mossy stone floor.

"Heh, this is obviously an Illusion, you think I'm this gullible?!" I say

I run to the wall hoping I'd fall off the ledge, assuming I was still on the mansion. I hit the wall pretty hard that I fell to the floor. I was feeling pretty tired, the boots of speed had worn out and so did the potion of strength. I sit upwards on the floor examining my surroundings.