Underestimated Demon

For the first time, Julius felt extremely hopeless.

"Master... Master!"

His surround turned silent as he stare at the demonic being in front of him.

"Get a grip!"

With its large body and tentacles as long as a body of an anaconda.

"You'll die if you don't move!"

He felt as if his death was near.

"Master, you numbskull, I told you to move!"

Julius came back to reality after being pulled by the struggling Ela as her limbs were covered by a blue liquid.

"Y-you're bleeding..."

Julius stutter as he saw her companion bleeds slowly through her death, while at the time fighting the unfazed demon.

"Damn that receptionist. I will be sure to kill her after we escape from this."

'Escape? What do you mean by that? With this kind of thing attacking us I don't think we can escape.'

Julius thought as struggle to move his find after smashing through the trees after the tentacle blow.

'I know I'm weak, yet this far exceed my expectation. Am I this useless?

I can't even land a hit to that guy despite holding a powerful blade.'

Pew pew

The sound of the plasma gun resound as Julius stare at his companion trying to defend themselves from the tentacles of the demon.

'Is this really a humanoid demon? Despite its upper body, the whole thing is basically similar to a squid.'

He can't fathom the current strength of the creature and looking by it, they barely able to put a scratch on it.

Suddenly.

Gyaah!

Ela came flying, one of her limbs were thorn while making a painful face after getting hit by one of the flying tentacles.

"No, Ela!"

"M-master... Damn it, leave."

Leave? What does she mean? Julius, even if the world or the universe end, he will never do such a cowardly thing.

"N-no."

"I'll just save my memories so I can be recreated. Go!"

He doesn't believe that. He knows for sure that despite Ela's high intelligence level, she can't recreate what Julius did.

She was lying.

Julius, still struggling, held the gun with both of his weak arm.

"No, what are you doing master. You really are a numbskull!"

Julius didn't mind the rant of his companion, instead, he starts to run at the other direction.

"Come here, you demon. Face me if you dare!"

Ela knows what he's doing, but this does not mean she permits it. Back in their homebase, she already made an oath that she will protect him, not the other way around.

"That's right, follow me."

Fortunately, the demon, despite being conscious, is not smart enough.

The blazing plasma gun continues to fire as the huge demon chase him until Ela was left to her lonesome.

"M-master..."

Losing too many blood, Ela felt an extreme numbness throughout her body. Julius wants to save her, however, she can't seem to move even a single inch.

"Idiot."

Tears flow from her eyes as she tries to salvage her only working hands. She touch every inch of her body and hope something will be activated.

Fortunately...

(Responding to SOS. Tracking Coordination.)

(Send spare parts and a small group of army immediately. Master is in danger.)

Blink!

(Sending a squad of special forces, tracking Alpha's suit.)

(Coordinates tracked. Please standby, prioritizing Alpha.)

Soon, lights float in space as multiple aerospace shuttles fly through the vicinity of the forest at the base of the mountain.

Immediately after landing, a small group of humanoid robots with a dark armor slowly exit the aircraft fully prepared.

(Locating Alpha.)

(Bravo spotted, limb's thorn. Large amount of blood lost. Possible reason. Fill Force Impact.)

(Alpha tracked, fighting an unknown creature. Responding with haste.)

Soon, dark figures move across the forest with great speed as Julius continue to fight and lead the demon towards unknown.

"Come here, you dipshit. How dare you cause trouble to my companion!"

"Son, I'm here."

"Fuck you."

"Son, why do you have to lie?"

"My father knows what's the truth, the only mindless person who will ask such thing is you!"

Trying to fight against the hallucination, Julius continue to fire the plasma gun as it's energy starts to deplete.

Pew pew

"Eat this!!!"

Julius grew hopeless as the bullet that should kill it instantly only made a hole for a short moment and soon vanishes as if nothing happen.

This sort of thing is truly irrating as it does not require physical contact. Instead, it can only be triggered by the unknown force that was used here in this world.

"This fucking strange world, what kind of parallel earth uses another energy unknown to us?!"

Since he starts to get hopeless, Julius's usual demeanor starts to appear and blame the others once again because of his own fault.

(Targeting unknown creature. Using Magicrium-based bullet energy.)

Julius mood turns 360 degree as he heard an autonomous sound coming from his behind.

"Haha, you dipshit. Now you're screwed!"

(Prioritizing Alpha's protection.)

"Where's Ela?"

(Bravo was recovered, however, she sustain grave injuries and needed to be brought back to the home base.)

Sigh

Julius sigh out of relief after hearing a great news. At the same time, the demon being starts to struggle as well after getting rained down by a number of painful unknown bullet unlike the ones before.

"No, don't kill me."

"My mom..."

"Please..."

Different voices soon were heard from the body of the demon as it slowly get smaller.

"Thank you."

Soon, the demon that's was here before vanish and left a number of skeleton remains that was immediately identified as humans.

Julius weak mind starts to reach it limits and soon fell unconscious. Fortunately, he was able to be supported by one of the robots.

"Ela."

Is his last word before entering his peaceful sleep.