Chapter 1336: Battle Against True Demons
Chapter 1336: Battle Against True Demons
Not one or two, but three True Demons stepped into the battlefield, dragging their enormous bodies out of the small crack, their hands spreading it further, making it larger and more
corrupted.
As their foot reached the floor, dark red auras spread out, as a blood-like miasmic liquid started to boil and spread around like a pool. The power of True Demons and the most dangerous element they possessed, Demonic Energy.
This energy seemed capable of consuming everything at an even more aggressive rate than Miasma, and it was a completely alien essence, giving the True Demons a tremendous edge over other normal people. Their power was quite literally from another world, and it showed due to their alien appearances and the contamination they brought along with themselves... The True Demons that appeared were the most basic, but their power was already at the level of Tier 9 monsters. Giant, with red skin, resembling more aberrant goblins, with pointy ears, long scaled tails, six eyes in their face and spiraling horns across their faces, alongside very long and ugly noses.
Comparing these to the Demons of Terrarium was a complete insult to these people, these monstrosities were truly what one would describe as "alien" and even "hideous" and even their personalities, riddled with nothing but the thought of eating souls and consuming everything into chaos already spoke well about how much different they were.
If anything, their name as "True Demons" was well earned, as these, for many people, were what a real demon would look like, and act like too...
"I smell fresh, young souls..."
"Hmmm, the virginal blood of females..."
"Ahhh! Delicious, exquisite! Look! Human flesh and souls! Young, virgin girls at that?!"
Their faces opened as they revealed countless sharp teeth across their entire cranium, which extended to their esophagus, their long tongues were sticky tentacles with small teeth attached to them!
"W-What are those things?!" Celica screamed in horror.
"T-True Demons! No, they're coming here already?!" Celeste screamed. "Shit, shit, shit!" Unable to contain themselves anymore, the monstrous True Demons rushed towards the girls.
Felicia was too busy dealing with Sylphy's clone, as it constantly tried to break out of her endless ice and fight her.
"WE MUST FEAST! DEVOUR THEIR TENDER FLESH! EAT THEIR DELICIOUS SOULS! BLOOD! WE MUST BATH IN THEIR BLOOD!"
The trio of True Demons loomed over the girls within a second, Felicia was about to conjure her magic, but a sudden black sword was launched at her, slicing her arms!
SLAAASH!
"You're so persistent! Girls, you can handle three of them, right?!" Felicia said. "You've dealt with worse shit after all!"
"I don't know about that!" cried Celeste. "But we gotta try!"
"I-I... Mister Teddy! Mister Jester!" Celica panicked, summoning her golems to battle.
"GRAHAHAHA!"
The True Demons laughed at the same time, swinging their gigantic claws down. Each one of them was ten meters tall, behemoths compared to normal people.
And they were supposed to be the weakest of the bunch too!
CLAAASH!
Their combined attack, three giant claws descending, covered with demonic flames, was hastily blocked by the golems of Celica and Celeste's Shadow Barriers.
Crack, crack...!
CRASH!
However, the barriers shattered instantly, and the True Demon's claws reached Celeste, while Celica's golems managed to resist the blow, only to be bombarded with demonic fireballs right after.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The golems were pushed back constantly, but Celica relentlessly healed them using her magic, all while Celeste unleashed her Abyssal Darkness Magic and her Curses to create restraining chains and weakening curses, which the True Demons barely were affected by, but that managed to stop their charge.
"Sylphy! Hey Sylphy! Are you there? Can you help?! And what happened to Ivy and... Bark?!"
Celeste panicked as she saw Sylphy still in the floor, her face looked still to be in pain, groaning as she felt the miasma seep through her entire being, while her body constantly tried to fight against it.
And then she also noticed Bark's dead body, and Ivy sitting right in front of it, still shocked and frozen, incapable of believing he was dead...
"Everything's going to shit! And where's her father at?!"
"GIVE ME YOUR SOUL, LITTLE ONE!"
One of the three True Demons attacked Celeste, his claws easily blocking her magic and then unleashing a barrage of blazing attacks. Demonic energy wasn't something she wasn't familiar with, after all, she once carried their power and was even blessed by two Evil Gods.
But ever since her being "healed" from that, she had never touched that element again, mostly because of its aftereffects, controlling demonic energy made someone's mind go mad and filled with psychopathic thoughts.
But it was also like a drug... Something that the True Demons were born in and raised in, making them insane monstrosities since birth.
BOOOM!
"Ugh...!"
Celeste's barriers shattered again, her Spirit looked exhausted after helping her all this time, and she was also tired! Her Cursed Spear Arts was still improving, but it was unable to ever reach the True Demon because it was constantly attacking her with long arms. "Dammit...! Am I that weak?! Where is my true power at? Is my darkness and curses, just not enough for this shit?! My spear techniques... I am still lackluster in this too!"
And then, within her, something resonated, something that Felicia had gifted her through her arduous work.
Tens of thousands of Alchemy Runes.
"That's...!"
As the flames reached her and burned her body, her dark powers suddenly activated, Darkness, Curses, Spirit Energy, and Alchemy becoming one.
Something unique to her, that nobody else could do, to manipulate an element that she had
grown rather familiar with...
"{Dark Geomancy}: {Demonic Hand}"
FLUOSH!
The Demonic Energy, as an element of its own, even if alien, obeyed her, as a gigantic crimson hand materialized out of the demonic flames and demonic miasma covering her body.
"Ngh?!"
The True Demon's eyes widened as he saw the gigantic hand rush towards him, punching his ugly face and breaking his nose, while its lower jaws dislocated.
"Gryyaaaghh!"
As the monster screamed in agony, the Demonic Hand exploded into flames, dealing even
more damage to the True Demon.
BOOOM!
"T-That child...! She controls our power?!"
The True Demon was left flabbergasted, as he saw Celeste appear in front of him, her spear
about ton pierce his head.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!