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FLUOOOOOOSH!
While the rest of the party was fighting the armies of Demons outside, within the Demon Fortress, an enormous st of mes and demonic power of apletely different level than anything everyone had ever seen before emerged!
It was so strong it made some of the students feel slightly ill, with nauseas, or even feelingpletely paralyzed! If it wasn''t for their spirits protecting them, the demons would had taken this opportunity to kill them.
"W-What is happening?! Nggh…!" rice muttered. "T-This powerful presence, where is iting from?!"
"It''sing from the Demon Fortress, Lady rice!" rk said, battling against arge Oni and then slicing its head off with his weapon and the aid of his Rock Wyvern Spirit.
"Isn''t that where that crazy ke went to?!" Asked Arthuria. "Hah, is he nning to die so badly today?! What sort of monster is in there for him to go so far as to confronting it?"
"Well he has an obsession with beating high level monsters…" Said Ashen. "Though isn''t he getting a bit too cocky now? What if he dies or something?! We should go help him anyways, even if the guy''s a bit annoying, Arthuria!"
"I-I know! It''s not like I am happy he''s going to kill himself or something!" Sighed Arthuria. "However, it is not as if we have any time to spare for him either! Look at all the demons we have yet to y!" Arthuria sighed while unleashing rays of light and shing Imps into pieces with her Holy Sword Spirit.
"I already saw Eric and Alberta going to assist him." rice said, crushing the head of a Blue Oni with her Lion Axe. "Let''s hope that should be enough help! If anything, that fortress might fall apart very soon due to the mes!"
"I did heard they were able to fly…" Said Patricia. "Erdrich isn''t here either! Is he going to help out his friend? Ahh~ He''s such an inspiring and strong man…" Patricia said, the tomboy girl seemedpletely in love with the half-demon, the more demons she in with her giant Blood Sword, the more she thought about him.
However, the other half of the team didn''t thought the same as them. Although they were being overwhelmed by Demons, they simply couldn''t fight them and just leave ke to is demise.
"No, we can''t just let everything to him, if even with this little, if we can help with just this much…" Alianna said, as she quickly ordered the other three members of her party. "Mimy, Aquarius, Aquaria! Let''s make that same spell ke told us to use against the Fiery Grizzlies!"
"What?! But we are in the middle of a battle against demons!" Mimy panicked.
"Are you insane Elianna?!" Aquarius panicked.
"T-This is not the time to say ridiculous things!" Aquaria said.
"No, ke left this with me just in case we needed to do it once more." Elianna said, showing the other three several scrolls which were imbued with magic circle inscriptions. "I just need your spiritual and mana power, once its over, the spell will slowly begin and we simply need to protect it from the demons!"
"I-Is that even a thing?! ke''s really amazing if he can make something like that!" Mimy said while her slime spirit devoured an Imp.
"W-Well, alright then! I''m in! If we can help ke even if a little bit, I will!" Aquarius said.
"Okay fine, me too!" Aquaria agreed.
As they all agreed, rice heard them and quickly ordered her own party to protect them.
"Everyone! Circle around them and protect them!" rice said. "It is an order!"
"So we''re really doing this!" Ashen said.
"Wait, isn''t this a bit too reckless?!" Arthuria panicked.<novelsnext></novelsnext>
"I don''t really care, I shall help." rk nodded.
"Let''s do this!" Patricia said.
Meanwhile, as they were preparing, at the other side of the vige, hundreds of demon corpses were resting around a gigantic crater, a single half-demon young man stood above all of them, his body was covered on ck and red armor, exuding a spiritual and demonic power.
This was Erdrich and his second spirit he acquired after reaching Rank 2, the Demonic Living Armor, a special equipment-type spirit that enhances his demonic capabilities, strength, regeneration, and defenses when battling.
"It''s getting boring now- Huh?"
FLUOOOOOSH!
Erdrich noticed the enormous eruption of demonic power shing against ke''s presence, a smile surged on his lips.
"I see, so you''re taking the big one for yourself, ke. That''s not fair." He said. "Let your old friend give you a hand!"
He quickly followed Eric and Alberta that were rushing inside the Demon Fortress, still engulfed on mes with all his strength.
"Yo!"
"Eh?! Erdrich!"
"Y-You''re here! W-What a relief!"
Eric and Alberta couldn''t contain their happiness after seeing their friend, after all Erdrich was one powerhouse of a man, if they had him at their side, helping ke became much more feasible.
"I sensed something happening up there! These are also Demonic mes, they''re not budging even as I try to turn them off!" Said Erdrich. "Well, I don''t need to worry, you guys are already well trained at dealing with Demon Fire." Erdrich noticed how Eric and Alberta were using their Spiritual Auras to cover their bodies and protect themselves from the Demon mes and the dangerous Demonic Energy, something they learned already from ke.
"Yeah but what the heck was summoned here?!" Eric panicked. "It feels… even stronger than the Necromancer back then, or the Demon General too…"
"M-Maybe the Cultists had some s-sort of trump card!" Alberta said while panicking like her boyfriend.
"Whatever''s the case, these mes seem not as normal…" Erdrich said, swinging his arms and crushing two iing creatures. They were madepletely out of Demon mes and had the shape of lions, but his fists easily crushed their demonic cores, killing them on the spot.
CRAAASH! CRAAASH!
"Those are zing Demon Lions!" Eric was surprised.
"T-There''s moreing from everywhere!" Alberta said, as she noticed dozens of other animal-shaped beasts made of Demon mes.
"I guess that bastard up there is not letting us join ke so easily, huh?" Erdrich smiled while cracking his knuckles.
Meanwhile, as ke shed against Beelzebub, Eleanora, Hendrick, and Saphira rushed to his aid.
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