Chapter twenty-eight - Do you remember me?

Locke smiled like a child in an amusement park with his eyes glued to the sky, the Antlion continues to squirm as his body transformes in bizarres ways, lightning flashed in the sky, lighting up the environment. He felt his target was coming.

"Hey Locke, pay attention to the freak in the floor!" Tia spoked taking Locke out of his daydream.

"Hmm?"

Locke looked for the cause of Tia's concern, the Antilion was becoming more and more monstrous, the energy he was emitting was beginning to approach the queen's level, but his appearance was becoming massive and twisted, his body barely resembled an insect anymore, it looked like a mass of purple goo and swollen appendages, with mouths appearing all over the body, these mouths were tearing and devouring everything they could reach, even parts of the creature's own body.

"What the fuck is going on with this F*cker?" Locke asked worriedly.

"The gluttony fragment is getting out of control! This thing is going to get even crazier!"

Locke began to think as quickly as possible, plotting whether changes in his bait would hinder his plans, fully calculating how he was going to solve these new variables, while he calculated his new possibilities his electric guest finally arrived, floating in the air in his usual pose of superiority.

The mess that was once an antilion seemed extremely provoked by the arrival of the Raijū, his already crooked body began to mutate at a speed ten times faster than before, creating spiked tentacles with monstrous mouths on the tips, which ran towards the sky, attacking the Raijū violently.

The thundering beast did not stand still, he began to invoke thunder's from clouds, shot the blue lightning over the tentacles, burning them as they approached, the smell of burning flesh and ionized air filled the air with a pungent odor.

Locke smiled while hiding, it seemed that the gluttony sin fragment had a personal hatred against the Raijū, so Locke decided to watch the fight and take the opportunity to slaughter the winner, he only wished he had a bucket of popcorn to watch.

The gluttonous monster did not seem at all affected by the damage caused by thelightning, its shape no longer even resembled an natural thing, it looked like an absurd mass of purple matter, with limbs, tentacles and mouths, a nightmare straight out of a Cronenberg film, his mana was increasing so fast that Locke started to get worried.

"Isn't this thing getting strong too fast?" Locke questioned.

"The fragment of sin is consuming everything around it in order to be able to fight against the Raijū, but at the speed at which it is going it will not be capable to sustained himself for long!" Tia replied.

The Raijū in the sky did not stand still, he began to launch even more thunder's on the body of the gluttony abomination, but for each tentacle that its bolts sprayed, three others were born in the place, even more horrible and monstrous than the previous ones.

"Maybe we better do something?" Tia commented.

"No way i will enter in the middle of this tentacle hentai sh*t hell!!"

The fight between the two creatures remained heated, the Raiju stopped attacking with lightning from the clouds and began to spit golden color lightning spheres directly from his mouth, the golden lightning seemed to have a greater effect on the gluttonous monster and he could not more regenerate at the same speed and with tem sames shapes as before.

The Raijū jumped from side to side in the middle air, dodging the desperate attacks of the monstrosity, spitting the lightning spheres without rest, burning the amorphous mass of purple tentacles, the gluttonous incarnation screamed in rage, its tentacles attacked with double fury but only hit the void.

The Raiju seemed to be running out of breath, the frequency of his blows was falling and he was no longer launching as many golden lightning spheres as before, he attacked again through the clouds, casting ligtning by the sky.

The incarnation of gluttony began to wilt slowly, unable to heal as before, the Raijū took the opportunity to concentrate his attacks, pouring a torrent of lightning over the abomination, burning his body in a motionless charred mass.

The Raijū continued to float in the air, impassive, although Locke noticed that the golden metal rings that surrounded his body seemed less shiny than before, he still seemed quite ready for a fight, the Raijū continued to watch the burnt mass still in a fighting position.

"What is this clown waiting for?"

The answer came faster than Locke expected, the mass of burnt matter began to shake and broke, revealing a horrible figure straight out of a world of nightmares. The figure was completely purple in color, it looked like a mixture of a fly and a massive fat man, he was tall, about three meters tall, his body was covered in bristles and he had six insect arms with sharped claws, the creature raised its mouth and spat a purple ray against the Raijū.

[ATENTION! A Beelzebub's shadow was detected in the vicinity of the host, The emergency mission: destroy the demon lord's of gluttony shadow! was created!]

"Beelzebub's shadow?" Locke was confused, the situation was changing so fast that he was getting confused.

"It is the demon king Beelzebub! He's sending his power through that fragment, making a clone of himself! He must really want to end this Raijū!" Tia screamed.

'What do I do now? Do I get involved or observe some more?' Locke was confused, the emergency missions generally had very good rewards, but he had no idea of ​​the purple creature's power.

The Raijū dodged the demon's ray without difficulty, it seems that he was waiting for the moment when Beelzebub's shadow would manifest itself, the golden ring that floated around his neck began to cast a brilliant light, and the purple beast began to emit smoke.

Locke approached in camouflage, keeping his own mana as low as possible, trying to have the best angle to launch his attack.

Even though Belzeebub's shadow had much more power than the queen and its previous mutant form, the light emitted by the Raijū seemed to have an extra suppressive effect on the creature, which was becoming noticeably weaker by the moment.

The Raiju approached the purple creature, the light burned the demon's skin, forming bubbles, its shape diminished at a visible speed, a magic circle began to form around the demon, emitting a light similar to the ring, doubling the rate where the demon was burning. Its size was now little more than a meter, and the creature had been brought to its knees.

The Raijū approached the demon with his head raised, in a clear demonstration of superiority, he watched the demon with contempt in his eyes, as if he was pleased to subject him to his power. It was because of his proud attitude that he failed to see what would happens next.

A shadow appeared out of nowhere behind the Raijū, even though he felt a huge sense of danger it was too late, something cut through the air at high speed and the beast's vision changed, he was no longer looking at the demon but at the sky, he tried to move his head but he couldn't, his vision kept spinning and he saw something he didn't understand, there was a man dressed in black clothes next to an animal body, the body of a Raijū, a Raijū body whose neck was missing a head, his body.

"Do you remember me?" The man asked with a wicked smile.

The Raijū's mind didn't work properly, he couldn't understand what was happening, the fragment of the gluttony sin that his master had told him to take care of had finally reappeared and he had come as soon as possible, he had fought with the host and defeated him, and was in the middle of the process of sealing the sin again, ready to take it back to his master, and now, a mysterious figure had cut his neck?

The figure looked familiar, he tried to analyze his own memories in the seconds he still had to live, trying to find the source of his executioner, he suddenly remembered, on the night that the fragment of sin had disappeared he remembered finding a lost human wandering by this gravel world, he had hit the human with one of his lightning bolts, thinking that he could be the one who stole the fragment, but the human didn't seem to have any mana and he also didn't feel the aura of sin in him, so he left looking for the sin in among the insects.

It was the same human, yet he was completely different, the Raijū could feel a powerful aura of magic coming from him and a strange familiar feeling.

'It can't be...' The beast thought as his eyes faded and darkened. "Dragon aura?"

With the death of Raijū the magic circle that suppressed the demon started to fall apart, Locke wasted no time and activated all the silverlights, a dozen silver rays converged towards the creature, hitting his body and causing burns as intense as those made by the Raiju light, Locke ended up involving the demon with his black flames.

"Die Devil!" Locke shouted.

The demon roared and fell burned, dissolving in ashes, Locke received the notification of completion of the mission and was glad, the notification, however, came with a warning that the reward could only be redeemed when he evolved.

The system automatically sealed the glutton fragment, just as when he killed the queen, Locke wondered whether or not to destroy the fragment this time, once he finally understood how dangerous this sh*t was.

In the end he decided to store the fragment again in the inventory, as it could have some more use in the future, after all, if the Raijū wanted this crap so badly, someone might be interested in it, or maybe he could use like bait again.

Locke then turned to Raijuu's corpse with a smile.

"Too bad you died so easily, I wanted to pay you back for what you put me through but… Let's just go with the flow! Now, barbecue time!"

Locke then created a dagger with the shadows, he started with a delicate skinning process, one of the new trainings that Locke had opened when he completed the previous trainings was a Field Dressing technique training, the training was not at all difficult, since Locke had done a number of jobs in his life, including that of a butcher.

Locke took the skin off the body and drained the blood, he kept the metal rings, the tail, the claws and the skin covered with silver scales in the inventory, along with the creature's head, one day he would stack it and put it it over his fireplace.

As he pulled the creature's entrails out, Locke found a strange jewel inside the creature's chest, it was like a pearl the size of a child's fist, with a beautiful pattern of clouds and lightning.

"What is this?"

"It's a elemental pearl, some subspecies can create ono of this! It works as a nucleus to strengthen they mana! That is great! If you absorb the power of that you can gain an aptitude! " Tia was excited.

"How do I absorb this?" Locke was curious about the possibility of a new power.

"You can meditate with it and absorb the latent energy in a slowly pace!"

Locke kept the jewel inside the inventory, he continued to clean the Raijū's carcass, he seasoned the meat with salt and lit a fire. The black flame was very hot, so he used the old fashioned way. He used some tools that he had prepared and bought for the occasion and soon he had part of the creature's flesh on top of the flame, rotating slowly, the rest of the meat was in his inventory.

"Dude, this looks delicious!" Tia's mouth dripped saliva.

"Thanks, I learned from uncle Gordon!" Locke played.

Locke started to cut strips of the monster's flesh, he put some for Tia and started eating his own part.

The meat was lean, it was unlike anything Locke had ever tasted, it tasted wonderful, it was not as hard as he expected, it seems that the creature was not much of using its own body in battles so its muscles were not as resistant, Locke's teeth were also absurdly strong. With each bite, Locke felt a sensation inside of his chest, as if something was being nourished and growing inside him.

For the first time Tia ate slowly, it seemed that the meat also had an effect on the fairy, and she slowly enjoyed the food, eating in small pieces, with her eyes closed.

Locke still eating with a smile on his face, he remembered the Raijū's contemptuous expression on his first encounter, 'I bet you never imagined it would end like this! But look on the bright side, you are f*cking delicious!'

They eat thogether for a while, Locke was feeling his blood stir more and more, until he realized something.

The sky started to darken again.

"Hmm?" Tia realized it before Locke. "There's more of them come! A lot of them!" She screamed, it seems that her perception had improved a lot after eating the meat.

Locke could also feel something moving in they away, he put the roast meat in the inventory and put out the flames.

"What are we going to do? Run?" Tia questioned.

"Run? Why? A feast is coming our way! Wouldn't it be impolite to leave without appreciating? "

"Are you sure you can handle them?"

Locke smiled wickedly.