Chapter 308 War is here(4)

Colin sighed in relief when he saw that Alice came out of that fight unharmed, and safe with Lily, but he was a bit worried about her extreme hostility, and utter brutality to the enemy. Which would have been a good thing, if it didn't make her so reckless in battle. With the battle going smoothly, Colin decided to regain his energy and activated his cultivation trait, [Yin-Yang Rotating Wheel]. He closed his eyes and he imagined the Yin-Yang sign, except that the white part was crimson red, rotating and absorbing the demonic energy in the surrounding. He started the process of transforming the foreign demonic energy in the air into his own, a very slow process. As he continued to recover his demonic energy, something came flying in his direction and he quickly moved his head to the side, allowing it to crash into the wall, creating a crack in it.

"Ughhh." Skorn groaned as he got up off the floor, his body covered in cuts and scorch marks, and walked towards Colin.

"Skorn, what the hell are you doing here?" Bartus asked and Colin also opened his eyes to see what was going on. But, before they could ask anymore questions, a golden bolt of lightning came flying towards them and they quickly evaded, allowing it crash into the wall, blowing a hole in it.

'Fuck, we just finished that.' Colin thought angrily when he saw the hole in the wall.

"T-t-that's the Morning Star family ability, [Pride Blaze]. I thought you said he couldn't use it!!" Bartus shouted angrily at Skorn, as Askalad walked towards them, his glave in hand and sparks of golden lightning striking the ground, scorching it black. His entire body was surrounded by blazing golden energy, energy so hot that it melted his foot prints into the ground as he walked and all of them could feel the heat from several meters away. Lightning bolts flew off his body aimlessly, burning and scorching everything it touched.

Name: Askalad

Race: Demon Viscount

Title: []

Sin: [Pride]

Level: 4/25(350,000 exp to next level]

LP: 610/890

DP: 40/89

Family Ability: [Pride Blaze]

Traits: [Aura Manipulation], [Psyche Protection]

Skills: [Regeneration], [Supernatural Physique], [Supernatural Senses], [Aura Vision], [Demonic Energy Manipulation], [Advanced Compulsion], [Contract], [Demon Transformation], [Lightning Affinity], [Demon Ritual: Demon Creation], [Telepathy], [Demon Eyes], [Demonic Inventory], [Astro Projection], [Demon Core]

[Pride Blaze: This trait allows it's user to double their physical attributes while burning with the flames of the morning star, capable of burning all their foes. This trait doesn't come without cost, as it burns both DP and vitality to keep active.]

"Move!!!" Colin screamed and the three of them jumped out of the way as Askalad appeared infront of them and slashed down his glaive, carving out the ground. They managed to escape the strike, but they were struck by the lightning bolt, causing their muscles to spasm and skin to become scorched, as they fell to the ground.

"Do you understand now, arrogant child, the greatness of the Morning Star?" Askalad asked as he calmly walked towards Colin. Skorn rushed forward to help, but Askalad simply swung his glaive and a wave of golden lightning struck him, causing him to fall to the ground....smoke rising from his body. Colin got to his feet unsteadily, and surrounded his body in hellfire, trying to atleast try and defend himself from the intense heat of the lightning bolts. Bartus was the next to attack, creating spears out of dark mist, sending them flying towards Askalad, but he didn't even look at him, and when the spears got close, they simply burned away.

"Try this then, you arrogant son of a bitch." Bartus snorted as he created a large rotating drill made of gold and sent it flying towards him. Askalad turned around this time and pointed his glaive at the drill, and a thick lightning bolt hit it, blasting it to pieces.

'Now!!' Colin thought and rushed towards him, sending a punch to his face as he turned around. A loud bang was heard, but the punch did barely any damage as his head only slightly moved. He sent a kick to Colin's stomach, sending him sliding across the ground, as he coughed up blood.

'Fuck!!' Colin roared in his mind as he held his stomach in pain. Askalad looked at him indifferently, and pointed his glaive towards him, charging up another lightning strike.

"Haaaaaaaa!!" Bartus screamed as he descended from the sky, a large golden hammer in his hand. Askalad snorted in contempt and sent the lightning bolt towards Bartus, and it enveloped his entire body.

"Bartus!!!" Colin screamed as he saw a charred corpse falling to the ground, and Askalad flashed a small smile. As Colin gritted his teeth in rage and slowly ran towards Askalad, as he charged up another lightning bolt, he saw Askalad's face twist to the right and heard the sound of bones breaking as well as the cracking of a whip. Then he saw a spear made of gold stab Askalad in the back as he screamed in pain.

"Bartus, but..." Colin said in shock when he saw Bartus floating in the sky behind Askalad, then he turned towards the charred corpse as it slowly turned into pink mist

'Lily.' Colin thought with a smile, and he could see her flying towards Askalad while he was pulling out the golden spear, her skin a dark crimson, her body surrounded by a thick red aura and her face twisted into one of pure rage. Her whip turned into a staff and she spun it around before striking Askalad in the side, sending him rolling across the ground. Askalad looked at her with an angry expression and roared, his golden aura combined with a thick lightning bolt, that was sent flying towards Lily, and she quickly thrust her staff forward. The staff had the ability to cancel out energy attacks, but even with that, Lily was being pushed as the lightning bolt maintained it's strength.

[Guys I could use some help here!!] She said urgently and they quickly snapped out of their reverie. Skorn was the first to reach Askalad, and he delivered a solid kick to his side, sending him rolling across the ground once more, and disrupting the lightning bolt, allowing Lily to get rid of it. Next was Bartus, who gleefully created a hammer and spike made of gold, before smashing the hammer against it, sending it flying towards Askalad's head. Sensing the attack, he managed to dodge at the last moment, but he was met with a punch to the face from Colin. Thoroughly enraged, Colin's strikes were more powerful than before and Askalad has weakened significantly as his DP was draining at a rapid speed due to the [Pride Blaze] family ability. Askalad swayed a bit, as the strike wasn't enough to put him down.

"There's more where that came from!!" Colin roared as he delivered a flurry of punches onto Askalad's body. Askalad quickly pushed Colin back with a lightning bolt, which was blocked by his gauntlet but still made his muscles spasmed, and tried to escape, but he quickly realized he was surrounded. Lily used her affinity to create stones and hurled them towards Askalad, but he was easily able to smash them with his hands and lightning, but Lily created hundreds of them and he couldn't be careless as they were dense enough to do some damage. Skorn came in and threw a punch, which was dodged and returned by Askalad. Askalad felt something hard hit his face, and he could see bars of gold raining from the sky.

"Fuck off." Askalad screamed as lightning was emitted from all over his body, pushing away both the stones and the gold bars. He dropped to his knees, panting heavily, but none of them were going to let him rest. Colin delivered a kick to his face and Bartus started raining down curse spears at him, which were now effective as most of his powers were drained, his skin started to turn purple, as he could feel his strength draining away and he gritted his teeth and prepared to swing his glaive and atleast take a limb from Colin, who was still attacking him.

"Paralysis." Bartus said, and Askalad's body froze, allowing Colin to punch his head into the ground. Skorn soon joined in, beating the hell out of Askalad, causing bruises to appear everywhere on his body.

"This is for waking me up so early in the morning you bastard." Colin said as he delivered a punch to his face

"This is for enslaving me and my clan." Skorn said, as kicked Askalad in the stomach, lifting him in the air before delivering a hammer strike to his back, sending him crashing back into the dirt. Skorn picked up the glaive, preparing to end Askalad, but all of them suddenly felt a chill down there spine, a very cold chill, and quickly put some distance between them and Askalad.

They hear the whistling of the wind, as something traveled through it at fast speeds, but before they could even look up, it crashed into the ground, sending out a shockwave and creating a massive cloud of dust.

"Rejoice at my arrival worms, for War has graced you with her presence." A voice said from inside the dust cloud, and as it cleared, they could see a muscular woman with green skin covered in red runes all over, a single black horn on her forehead and black, feathery on her back.

"Oh no." Colin said with wide eyes