Greater Demon 2

For people who don't like gore scenes, I think you should stay away from 10% of the chapter. But since my English vocabulary is very limited, I think it's fine. Be warned though.

Marquis Cro Galroe's side continues

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It was a quiet dark room. It was so eerily quiet that it will trigger any wild beasts' survival instincts and will shout at them "danger".

That silence and darkness were broken when two curtains moves and reveals a man along with 30 more people behind him, and a petite little girl chained right next to him.

The man shouted to the crowd in front of him, "Did you wait, my men!?" and so did the crowd "Yeah!" they shouted.

"Well then, let's start our tonight's banquet! Tonight's main meal is this girl! Let's all enjoy the show as she falls into despair from watching these plebians kill and eat away from each other!" He said before tossing the girl aside and the slaves into the front stage.

"Let the dance, BEGIN!" He announced at the top of his lungs as he sprinkled a somewhat black liquid onto the slaves.

After doing so, the slaves… no, the things on the stage started trembling and ate each other like wild beasts stealing each other's foods.

The girl couldn't bear to watch so she covered her ear and closed her eyes.

But that won't go unnoticed. "Now, this is a special show! Watch and enjoy it with us!" the man said as he held the girl's hair hard and forced her eyes open with magic.

The girl screamed at the sight in front of her.

Things that used to be humans are killing each other, feeding on them only to be attacked by another and so the loop happened.

The dozen now dropped into a handful, several, then few, and then only two of them remained, they are alive but barely moving.

"Appraisal." The man said as he held a stone engraved with magic symbols in his hand.

"Child of human, Amy. One that has seen hell unfold and so fell into despair." Such words resounded in his head.

He grinned at those words, (With this, there should be enough miasma he-) his thoughts was cut as he felt burning pain in his arm that's gone now.

"Wha—!? She's already here!? Apprehend them, my shadows!" Said the man.

(I was just about to start harvesting the miasma but she just had to arrive earlier than expected!) Marquis Cro thought.

(I'll have to rush it now. But I might have to use it on myself or else I'll bleed to death. There's only so much my weakened magic can do to stop the bleeding.)

As he thought so, he immediately got to work. He forced out a crystal ball from his pocket as he did so.

(Hopefully, this works properly.) He thought before stepping onto the crystal balls on the wooden floor of the stage. It exploded and released a white transparent mist that covered the whole stage.

What he used was another item from Cascade. It's a crystal ball made from white fairy dust and mana crystals. It releases a type of gas that the fairies use to hide from most creatures.

(Alright, seems like it's properly working. Get to work fast!) The marquis gathered both miasma and mana into his cut wrist and directed it into the vial in front of him.

(So far so good, Olivia is buying me time, too. With this I'll have the strongest soldier under me!… but still, a Demonic vial, huh… an item that traps a demon's soul into it and lets the user become a Demon Vessel without getting themselves taken over. I wonder how hard it was to contain a Greater Demon's soul into this thing, that demon was in its astralis form, too. A form that lets one use its full potential while one is in its soul state. He must've sacrificed a lot of my men just to make the right adjustments into this artwork…) He thought carelessly.

He had no time to watch the battle in front of him as he was busy concentrating the mana and miasma into the Demonic Vial.

After a few dozens of minutes.

(… not good… I've lost too much blood… I have to use it on myself now…) He thought before opening the secondary lid with his toes, exposing a magic circle with the color of blood.

"God damn it! It was unbalanced!" Marquis Cro thought as the magic circle leaked out black viscous liquids.

(It started!… I have to stop it!) He thought before concentrating his magic at one point in the hopes of saving himself from the horrors the item holds.

But less to his wishes, the gap between the miasma and mana only widened and the mana reached the core, making the black liquids berserk and devoured him fully.

"… If only Olivia did her job… properly…!" those were the last words and thoughts of Marquis Cro before the black liquid entered the holes in his head and covered it whole.

A few seconds the liquid started disappearing, no, it burrowed into his pores and forced its way in, forcing blood to gush out of his skin turning him into a bloody mess.

His whole body started pulsing as if pushing out the remaining blood. A few seconds after all blood was drained out, the next that came out was his guts.

His large intestines came out of his bottom and small intestine from his navel, liver, heart, and everything left came out of his navel too. His eyeballs fell off and his ears dropped into the ground along with the organ. Soon, his brain forced its way out of all the holes on his skull and skin, turning into a grotesque fleshy liquid.

That was when a mana ball suddenly hit his body of a mess, dispelling the mist and revealing such a state. Even if the people under him were sadistic, to begin with, they couldn't help but puke at the sight of it.

Of course, a little girl didn't let this chance pass and blasted the frozen door with all her mana after she drank a mana elixir handed over to her by one of her companions.

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