Hunt the Killer 1*

Night falls and Asteri, together with Allatu, begin to mobilize on the streets of the city in search of clues about this killer. Almost no one can be found in circulation already, strange since it is only seven in the evening, but you can already find some drunkard or beggar around.

"I think it's still early days for our killer to enter the scene." Asteri says.

"Yeah, but maybe we can look for something so as not to be unprepared at the right time?" Allatu asks.

"I don't think so ... we have too little information, this bastard attacks everyone he finds around, he doesn't have a specific type of people, no one has seen him in person or rather they have been there but they are all underground. We don't know if has a hiding place or where it comes from, basically zero clues. Asteri reflected.

"So we just have to go around and wait, it looks like a romantic night walk, can't you find love?" Allatu says.

"Yes, if we weren't looking for a crazy killer who slaughters everything that moves, I've even heard of dogs or cats found butchered ... but we're not sure it was him." Asteri says.

"Even animals ?!" Allatu is a little surprised.

The hours passed as the duo walked and chatted through the small streets of the town.

"AAAAAAARRRG." but at one point they heard a scream from a dying man nearby. The two looked at each other and understood each other without speaking they moved towards the scream.

They ran quickly and it didn't take long to get to where that scream was coming from. On the ground they saw the body of a man, most likely drunk still having a bottle in his hand. On the floor you could see a lot of blood flowing like a dam, on the part of the man's chest there was a blade that kept him implanted on the ground, that blade was 'attached' if you can say so to a shapeless arm.

"Here is our friend." Asteri says.

"That's why you couldn't see any traces on him." Allatu said looking at the being who were not naturally human.

The being in question had no legs, indeed it lacked the lower part of the body, or rather its lower part was composed of a kind of smoke with colors mixed between black and dark purple, it resembled a waterfall but instead of going down went upwards forming the upper part, that part resembled a humanoid with a human chest with two arms that at the end of them were the hands that looked like, which instead of fingers and nails had four claws, is hooked to its arms it had two rounded gray blades, it also had backrests on the always gray ones. And finally his head, his shape was always that of a humanoid, but he had no ears, mouth and nose but only two slit eyes of a dark purple. He had no skin or flesh but looked like he was made of this purple / black smoke.

The being noticed the arrival of the two and looked at them, as if to scrutinize them.

"A devil and a ... human? No, it seems so but it has some peculiar characteristics ... interesting." even if the being has no mouth, he can still let out a dark voice, which almost sounds like a whisper in the mind.

"And you, on the other hand, look like a cloud of smoke that came out badly." Asteri replica.

'Watch out Asteri, it may be at the same level as you, but I feel something deeper in it. warned Aurelion from within him

'Partner welcome back, I haven't heard from you in a while, where have you been' 'Asteri asks.

'You know what a certain guy was like was having fun with a succubus so it's not like I had all this time to chat.' Aurelion laments.

'You're right, but what is it that I feel, jealousy ?!' Asteri jokingly says.

'Sure sure.' Aurelion says in an exasperated way.

"Let's be careful Allatu, he doesn't seem like a simple enemy." Asteri warns.

"Okay, but he has something I think I've read somewhere ..." Allatu mused.

"Okay, but it's not the time now let's think about how to get rid of this thing." Asteri says.

"Haha funny what you say hybrid, but it's impossible to get rid of me." says the being pulling the blade from the man's corpse and heading towards the two.

"Here it comes!" Allatu warned.

But in that moment a thought passed to Asteri in his head 'fuck! I don't have a sword ... but wait I have something else. ' Asteri concentrated the magic in his hands, a flame was formed from one of them and electric discharges on the other, both colored powers of the three colors. And right after that he took the shape of some kind of blades.

While Allatu pushed a whip of the same color out of a pink smoke.

"What an unusual power, more and more interesting, who knows what the future will hold." said the being staring at the magical blades formed by Asteri's hands. They were not swords created and then held but they were like extensions of Asteri's arms and hands.

"Arcane blades," Asteri said.

'You'll have to finish this quickly if you don't want to use up your entire mana pool with those blades.' Aurelion says.

'I know, but I have to be careful.' Asteri replied.

'Mh' Aurelion nodded.

"Well then, I'm on my way." says the being that was still moving slowly towards them, but suddenly accelerated, leaving a trail of smoke behind it.

. . .

From not far away a human could be seen wearing gray armor with gold ornaments and a blue cloak. He looked like a knight.

"A creature of darkness, I have to eradicate it for good." the human said from inside the helmet, from his voice you could tell that he was a boy.

And heading into the fight he pulled his blade out of its sheath with great confidence.