Chapter thirty: Dungeon and Demons

Hi arrives back home and takes his armor and weapons off. He goes to the heads room to find Aria doing some paperwork with the family´s consulter. Aria lifts her head and goes up to Hi to greet him. She hugs him. "You´re finally back." she tells him. "I am I´m sorry about the paperwork take a rest." Hi says sitting down at the table in her stead. "I´ll be going then to tend to the garden." she says leaving the room. "So you´ve finally decided to come victorious I hope." the consulter says. "Yes, now give me the paperwork." Hi tells him. "Very well, I´ve sorted them out and all you have to do is sign them." he tells him giving him some papers and a pen. "Let´s go through this then." Hi says signing the papers. A long time later Hi goes back to his room to rest up. The day passes and in the evening a letter arrives for him. "What´s this then?" Hi asks opening it and reading another brief for a quest from the church of the holy kingdom of light. "Demons again?" Hi asks. He teleports away and meets up with Lucius. "So you´ve come Hi." Lucius says greeting him. "So I did, do tell me what is going on." Hi answers. "There´s a group of demons lingering around in the forests with an archdemon. He seemed very strong from our reports. He´s been there for quite a while now. I wasn´t sure if we could deal with it in time because of the increased rate of demons our troops are busy at work." Lucius explains. "I´ve got it you need my help to kill it." Hi says. "Exactly and I count on your continuous support in these times." he says. "Times are hard indeed." Hi says troubled at the increase of monsters and demons. "Something is stirring up I can feel it but there´s no proof for the higher ups to act." Lucius says. "There are more demons that drive out monsters out of their natural habitats." Hi says. "And the´ve seemingly gotten stronger and have begun uniting again. They´ve never done that only in legend it says they once were a united front in the wars of the old times. Dragons, Monsters, demons and us humans with the help of the godess and angels existed a long time and have clashed time and time again. But those times are over. There are less demons and dragons and the angels haven´t descended in a thousand years." Lucius explains in detail. "I´ve heard of such stories altough some things were different in it." Hi says. "We are ready to enter the dungeon, sir!" a tempel ritter tells Lucius. "Prepare to enter!" Lucius commands them leading the way with Hi. They enter the dungeon deep in the forest. A relic of the ancient civilisations. "Light." Lucius says snapping his fingers. One of the tempel ritter create an orb of light to illuminate the room. "Lead the way Hi we´ll follow you." Lucius says. "I can feel their aura from here mixed with some big spiders and scorpions along the way." Hi says picking up on the trail leading the group. "Stop." Hi tells them signaling with his hand. He analyses the ground and walls in front of him some of the stones are misaligned and protrude from the smooth stone ground and walls. "Just as I tought traps Be careful where you step and follow your frontman." Hi says leading the way avoiding the stone plates that trigger the traps. They continue on whitout any trouble and find two ways now. "Where do we go now?" Lucius asks. "This way." Hi says leading them down the left path smearing some paint on the walls to mark the path. They continue further in through the winding stairs and long hallways. "This place is a maze we would´ve taken ages to find the right path." Lucius says. "We´re nearing the main hall. There are twenty giant spiders and scorpions up ahead on top of the pillars prepare for combat." Hi tells them. The tempel ritter prepare their spears and shields and assume a formation. Hi uses fire balls to knock the spiders and scorpions down. The tempel ritter swiftly dispatch of the vulnerable spiders. "Good job." Lucius says. "Prepare to enter the main hall with the demons. Stay with me and focus on the demons we will leave the archdemon to Hi." Lucius tells them. "Let´s get it started then." Hi says opening the doors. The demons inside wear armor and their leader the archdemon is a demon general. "Kill the intruders!" he orders his troops. Hi rushes in ignoring the demons and clashes with the demon general who stops his sword with a glaive. "A feisty one aren´t we red hair?" he asks him fending off the blows. "Not bad." Hi says fighting him seeing the experience the demon general has. "The archdemons you encountered before were just small fry compared to me!" He says pushing back Hi with his relentless attacks. In the background the tempel ritter methodicaly deal wiht the other demons blocking their attacks while poking at them with their spear. The demons struggle to get close and the holy magic weakens them. Lucius at the forefront deals with the other demons cutting them apart with holy magic. Hi is backed into a corner now. Hi uses his fire magic and allows it to burn himself powering him up making him faster and more deadly. The demon general backs up focusing on keeping the defense up. The demon general covers himself in a dark puple energy powering himself up to increasing his speed and deadliness coming in and out of the shadows. Hi is surprised by his attacks but ups the brighteness of his flame stopping the demon general to use the shadows. The demon general transform even further into his true form. A drake demon hybrid with a dragons head, wings and tail but with the demon´s black color. He flies in and attacks Hi with relentless claw slashes and breathes fire. Hi charges through the fire delivering a fatal strike, which falls short because of the tough scales. Hi needs to back off and finish this fight fast. The demon general notices that and tries to prolong the fight by keeping him on the defensive. Hi parries the attacks and analyses the body structure of the true form of the demon and finds a reverse scale. He ups his output even further and flashes past the demon generals claws and delivers a powerful thrust through the demon generals forehead where the reverse scale is located in and unleashes his flames inside of him turning him to ash. Exhausted Hi breathes out and falls to his knee to rest up. The other demons are dealed with. Lucius holds out his hand and helps Hi out. "You need a hand?" Lucius asks. Hi takes his hand and stands up again. "Thanks, we did it." Hi says. "Thanks to you! Whitout your help this would´ve taken more time and men." Lucius says giving him a bag of gold and a healing potion. "Take this courtesy of the church." Lucius says. Hi takes it and drinks the healing potion. "This´ll help alliveate the pain until i get home." Hi says. He teleports back home to his room and takes off his armor. Aria comes into the room to see the exhausted Hi. "You went out again and got hurt. Let me take a look." she says. Hi takes off his shirt and shows her the burns. "This is bad. You really need to learn to control that power. You need to train with Sozin again." she tells him healing his wounds with her water magic. "Thank you." Hi says. "I want to see you training with Sozin tomorrow." she tells him. "I´ll contact him." Hi says writing a letter of notice.