Chapter 331: Utilizing Your Head

After a lot looking, Archibald was lastly attending to struggle once more. However the sense of freedom and elation that he felt was beginning to fade. He remembered why he hadn’t actually favored combating the demon Lieutenants within the first place, regardless of how satisfying every blow was, because it was just about unimaginable to truly win. Previously, they’d pushed them off a number of instances. With the assistance of different dragons, they’d subdued them. Nonetheless, they by no means had anybody truly been capable of kill one, not earlier than Void, no less than.

Nonetheless, his personal limitations turned increasingly evident because the struggle went on. Regardless that their opponents had been considerably extra highly effective than the Lieutenants had been after they had final fought them 4 years in the past, they nonetheless had been simply as laborious to kill.

That wasn’t to say that Daedalus and Archibald hadn’t gotten stronger, after all. The 2 of them had been simply capable of overpower one Lieutenant, and the 2 points of Lieutenants combating in opposition to them had a very dangerous kind of matchup. The air and shadow demons had been fast, however neither may actually take successful.

Archibald yelled a battle cry as he lashed out with the Heroic Strike talent he had obtained just lately. The may of his glowing sword blasted the shadow Lieutenant away, the sunshine sending it into a close-by mountain peak like a flattened pancake. He turned to assist Daedalus keep at bay the flanking air Lieutenant. However at the same time as he did, the shadow Lieutenant was already dashing again towards them in a spiral of darkness, they usually needed to have interaction it as soon as extra.

This tedious back-and-forth was all too acquainted. Nonetheless, it wasn’t all for naught. They had been retaining the Lieutenants off of their floor forces and Tony, which might be sufficient. It wasn’t the function that he had thought he and his accomplice would play through the last battle for the ages, however a distraction was no less than helpful.

A screech of terror echoing by way of the mountains froze their struggle, all 4 of the combatants turning to search for its supply. At first Archibald seemed down, worrying that one thing had occurred to the Nighty Knights or Beatrice, however quickly realized the sound was coming from above. The unrestrained terror within the cry made his insides twist, however when he lastly discovered the supply, his forehead furrowed in confusion.

The succubus had Tony. She gripped him by the lapels of his coat, pulling him shut. In actual fact, primarily based on their positions, it seemed like she was about to kiss him. That in itself was worrying sufficient that Archibald wished to dart up and assist instantly. However as an alternative of Tony, it was the Lieutenant who was screaming in terror.

As Archibald tried to make sense of the state of affairs, he simply managed to make out the faint traces of energy radiating out from Tony’s mouth. The type of the succubus rippled ever so barely the place she hovered. It began together with her hair, which started swirling towards him.

Her tail distorted, turning into bigger because the house round her twisted unusually, and her head shrank. Whilst she tried to drive herself away from Tony’s chest, his arms reached out and shaped a vise-like grip on her higher arms. She was pulled inexorably in the direction of Tony’s open mouth. Her scream warped barely as she was dragged into the blue void that glowed behind Tony’s jaws.

Archibald may solely watch in horror. It was gradual at first. Simply the Lieutenant’s head stretched forth unnaturally into his mouth. However the progress accelerated shortly till the tip of her tail disappeared down Tony’s gullet. Because the demon disappeared, he closed his mouth and seemed moderately inexperienced for a second. Then, the man started pounding his fist on his chest a pair instances and belching loudly.

Bee positioned herself and launched ahead, one hand grabbing the fallen angel’s wrist and the opposite her throat as she kicked off. She blasted herself by way of the demon, utilizing her as a defend as she smashed by way of a stone wall a number of ft thick. The influence pulverized the bones behind the angel. She may really feel the backbone flip to mud underneath her fingers and reform simply as shortly, however not earlier than they smashed by way of one other wall. After which one other.

It took seven full partitions to cease their momentum. At that time, Bee held extra of a puddle of demon components moderately than a complete Lieutenant. However even that was reforming as she watched.

By the point she blasted into the central chamber the place the Nighty Knights had been, she dropped her unwilling passenger, able to act. Bee did not consider that she may do any extra harm in the intervening time, and it might take a second to get well. So, she took a half second to evaluate the state of affairs, her All Seeing Eye telling her all the pieces she wished to know.

Her fears had been confirmed. Among the many many many smaller demons and numerous flashing summoning circles, there have been two lieutenants right here, certainly one of bone and one with an odd masks. The Lord of the Ossuary and the Witch Physician. The Witch Physician stood on the middle of a fancy ritual circle painted alongside the ground in crimson. Between his knobby ft sat an odd, wriggling lump of black materials that he chanted over. Bone earrings and feathered trinkets clinked as he waved his arms emphatically.

The Nighty Knights stood within the midst of all of it, combating in a gaggle. They had been already laborious at work battling a horde of demons, a number of archfiends, and the terrifying lich that appeared to guard his chanting companion. Whilst she watched, the skeletal demon reformed but once more after being cleaved in two by Bradley Chadwick’s huge flaming sword.

As she rushed ahead to hitch, she seen the magical symbols on the ground and frowned. One thing was acquainted about them. They weren’t the magic she was acquainted with, essentially. Nonetheless, they reminded her of a useless language that she had seen a number of instances. A number of the construction was acquainted, no less than. The lesser circles that repeatedly flooded the room with smaller fodder for the Nighty Knights to kill stood off to the aspect. However this was one thing else. It was one thing extra highly effective. Far more highly effective than the circles she had seen within the kingdom’s capital 4 years in the past when Archdemons and others had been summoned. However what was it for? Her talent gave her an concept.

She seemed up and noticed the chanting witch physician. Have been they summoning extra Lieutenants? Was it potential? She paled on the thought. There have been at all times 13, however that did not imply there could not be extra within the demon realm. There have been simply 13 right here. But when they may summon extra… then why had they by no means finished it earlier than? Why would they’ve waited? There should have been some cause. Then one thing pulled her consideration away.

The unusual lump on the middle of the ritual additionally seemed oddly acquainted. She gave it one other look. It took her a second to position it, and when she did, horror stuffed her. It was a head. And never simply any head. Because it turned in her course, she met the chilly eyes that she’d seen so many instances earlier than.

Her voice got here out as a breathless whisper. “Oh no. What have you ever finished?”