Route of Earth(Path 49-Storms of Disasters Part One)

After one day, while Serina and the others were running in the tunnel,
“We don’t have just reinforcements to distract you, but also to prevent you from aiding the ones under attack!” A gargoyle charged itself with non-elemental aura and placed itself between a magic circle acting as a seal.
“Oh, we have weapons specialized for this!” Xadio, the bat that is on Serina’s side, charged itself with metal aura and launched a diving kamikaze attack on the gargoyle. Its body was sealed under titanium and hit the gargoyle, but only the seal got shattered. Serina teleported to its back, took out an air rifle and shot a few bullets on it.
“You…I will stop you even as dusts!” The gargoyle’s sheer will turned itself into a hollow. An explosion was occurred, blowing Serina and Xadio away. Beile pointed her axe wand on it, charged the wand with flame aura and shot a few flame balls on the hollow. Rafion took out his fullerene wand, dashed to his front and knocked the flame balls to the hollow.
“This is not sufficient to defeat me!” The hollow charged itself with flame (upgraded version of fire) aura and blocked the attack. The flame balls were still there, stuck between the gargoyle’s wings and the wand. Kasim took out a bronze sword, teleported to its back and attempted to stab it, yet it strafed to its right, dodging both attacks. The flame balls and the wand hit Kasim while Rafion was stabbed by the bronze sword.
“This is not supposed…to happen….” Rafion and Kasim teleported themselves away from the hollow and healed themselves slowly. Beile charged her wand with aqua (upgraded version of water) aura and shot a few water jets on it. It was hit and smashed the tunnel’s wall. Xadio quickly launched the same attack, yet it sense that move and cast switch on Xadio. Xadio ended up smashed onto the tunnel by the water jet, yet it quickly teleported itself away and the hollow was hit once again.
“Ha, now it’s time for us to fight!” Kasim charged his sword with land (upgraded version of rock) aura and stabbed it onto the ground. A few rock spikes were launched from the tunnel’s walls, piercing the hollow’s body. It quickly teleported itself away and healed itself. Rafion quickly dashed towards it while charging his wand with frost (upgraded version of ice) aura, not realizing that the hollow was charging itself with toxin (upgraded version of poison) aura.
“Watch out!” Beile teleported to the hollow’s front and slashed it using the axe blade part of her wand. The toxin aura was dissipated, but it flew towards her, scratching her shoulders on its way and rammed Rafion. He quickly regained focus and slashed the hollow carefully, trying not to injure self in the process.
“What kind of power is this?” The hollow quickly teleported itself away. Everyone was exhausted due to the usage of higher levels of elements. Kasim quickly dashed towards the hollow while charging his sword with holy (upgraded version of light), attempting to exhaust his aura reserves as a trump card. The hollow, knowing teleporting self away is not an option, it charged itself with space (upgraded version of vacuum) aura and attempted to do the same.
“Now!” Serina charged her air rifle with air, wind and sky auras. “Die,” She shot a few tornado covered air bullets on the hollow. The bullets hit it, turning it into dusts.
“Thank you, Serina,” Kasim dissipated his space aura and fell onto the ground, feeling too weak to even move.
“Next time, don’t force yourself too much,” Serina fed him a bottle of energy potion. Kasim quickly blushed upon the potion was inside his mouth.
“That attack was awesome,” Rafion winked at Beile.
“Yours are quite impressive too,” Beile rubbed his head.
“Let’s have some rest. We can’t fight if we are in such a state,” Xadio slept in the tunnel. At the meantime, Tefia and the others were in the same trouble….

Route of Earth(Path 48-Storms of Disasters Part Zero)

While they were rushing towards Nizum, transmissions were suddenly given to them separately.
“What? Irzik is now under demon attack? Damn it….” Serina was shock upon hearing the sound from a sound portal. “I understand. We’ll inform the others about this,” The communication was closed after a few seconds. At the meantime,
“Scargo is under demon attacks? Those demons must be calling reinforcements. I’ll wipe them out,” Ancrast responded to a sound portal and the communication was closed shortly afterwards. After a few minutes,
“I’m sorry to say this, but we have to split because the demons have recently get reinforcements and used them to attack other cities, including the ground capital,” Serina was reporting to Tefia through a sound portal.
“The same thing goes to me,” Ancrast was repoting through the sound portal as well.
“I understand. Be careful cos’ once you are done there I hope you’ll aid us,” Tefia answered them. “But Serina, isn’t that you have a lot of people with you? Can you transfer a few of them to Ancrast?”
“Yes. And you might need to transfer one over too,” Serina replied her and they closed the communication. Ceia, Ankhial and Eklash were teleported to the tunnel where Ancrast and Weiloe were. While Tefia and the others are on their way,
“I forget to introduce myself. My name is Hefin Irk, a guild member with A class sorcerer license,” Hefin introduced herself. At the meantime, in Nizum,
“We will not fall before our reinforcements come!” The soldiers were fighting against new hordes of demons. Apparently, new reinforcements were teleported inside, making the battle less hard than they expected. Inside the castle,
“Lord Qina! They have new reinforcements coming out from nowhere!” A vulture was flying into the throne room and reported the situation. The atmosphere was intense, the guarding demons became anxious and Qina was punching the throne repeatedly.
“All soldiers, aid your comrades! Leave no survivors!” It quickly yelled at every demon in the castle and they were teleported away. Then, it drew a magic circle on the ground. It charged it with evil (upgraded version of dark) and a Cerberus was summoned. It was teleported outside as well. At the meantime, in Irzik,
“The demons are now besieging the castle! Our barriers cannot hold on any longer!” A soldier was yelling through a sound portal. Demons were attacking the walls of the castle, but the attacks were blocked by barriers, which getting weaker and weaker.
“We’ll call the magic users to kill them as much as they can!” A sound replied her and warlocks were appeared on top of the castle’s walls, casting various spells on them. After a few minutes, healers were repairing the barriers from the castle’s gate. Apparently, it turned the ambush a battle of attrition. At the meantime, in Scorgo,
“You puny humans are no match for us,” A few gargoyles launched dive attacks on a few guild members, but they quickly jumped away, only to be attacked by another few gargoyles’ dive attacks, injuring them quite heavily.
“Yeah, you are right, but we will hold on until our last drop of blood!” They healed themselves and launched homing missiles on them, which killed a few of them but the others managed to dodge the attacks while launching dive attacks on them again.
“You are much persistent than what I thought. But never mind, I will make sure that you die of your own honorable death!” The gargoyles’ attacks were missed. The whole city was turned into a huge battle arena. The guild members were busy fending off demons, waiting for their reinforcements. This will be another hard struggle….

Route of Earth(Path 47-Confirmational Transmission)

Back to the arena in Oylfez city, Tefia and the others were sitting on the chairs surrounding the desks.
“I guess we better wait for a while. In fact, that gargoyle is one of us. I hope he can convince the girl who took care of him earlier to join us. Yeah, I haven’t introduced myself yet. I’m Lokafo Vota, the mayor of this city. Thanks for aiding us and hopefully we can score a surprise attack on them,” Lokafo stood up and gave a bow before sitting back on his chair.
“Wait…what is the status of Nizum? I think there are attacks in the capital already,” Tefia asked him.
“Our forces are dominating and all demons have retreated to the castle. Our problem now is to invade the castle, which is impossible due to the demons had places spiked barriers surrounding the place and we don’t have magic using soldiers at the moment,” A man wearing a brown cloak, black cape and dark violet mask appeared in front of them through teleportation.
“This means that a minion of the demon lord must be occupying the castle. We faced a similar situation before,” Orkaf took out his doktionas and put it on the table. It was as good as new. “And I think we must attack the castle at the same time,”
“I see, but as for you, how is that girl?” Lokafo pointed at the man with brown cloak.
“She said that she will join us and she’s now checking her equipment. As for others, sorry for keeping myself in a mask. I can’t let anyone see my gargoyle face when I’m a human. I’m Orzofia, Lokafo’s battle assistant,” He sat down on an empty chair. Tefia cast two sound portal spells and one is to Serina and Beile while the other is to Ancrast and Weiloe.
“Tell us any progress. Hopefully we can get new allies to blast Nizum’s castle. It’s now shielded with spike barriers,” She spoke to both sound portals.
“We have a few. Our guildmaster, and two freelance fighters,” Serina reported to her.
“We saw no one and are very sorry for that,” Ancrast answered her with an informing tone.
“It’s okay then. Now what we should do now is get rest. It will become our hardest battle up to now. Who knows if that is the bait leading us to real enemies?” Meltine told them in a warning tone. The communication was closed.
“As for the tunnels leading there, I’ll dispatch my backup soldiers right now to ensure your paths are not interrupted. We can’t afford any delays more than suitable rest,” Lokafo told them and they were teleported to the streets. “If you need anything, contact me,” Lokafo and Orzofia walked away from them while the girl with cyan robe appeared from nowhere and followed them. At the meantime, inside Acrio castle of Nizum,
“Master Qina (pronounced as key-na), they are besieging us! It looks like they try to stop us while waiting for reinforcements,” A reaper appeared in the throne room, looking at a brown hollow.
“What? Reinforcements? I’ll call my own reinforcements myself!” It drew a magic circle on the ground and charged it. Various types of demons came out and teleported to the outside of the castle. Dead bodies and dusts were culminating everywhere. “Let’s see who’s faster,” Back to the pink hollow,
“Well, this will make you much refreshed,” Ceia cast energize on the bat and it was too energetic to sleep. “Why you are helping us?”
“That hollow ruined my wings and I have to get tortured to repair them,” The bat answered it.
“So, want to aid us? After all, we have more demons to thrash,” Ankhial suddenly appeared.
“Yes. I won’t forgive them for giving me such a trauma!” The bat cancelled the spell and slept again.
“We’ll take this offer as well,” Eklash answered him as well.
“We? Yeah, it is indeed we,” Ceia was surprised with his answer. The next morning will see something unexpected….

Route of Earth(Path 46-The Hexa Wielder)

After a day, they arrived at Wurtz city. The ceiling was painted with various odd patterns, presumably atomic models of various chemicals used in weaponry. The wooden houses were painted with horizontal stripes of colors while the brick houses were painted with vertical color stripes. Other buildings were painted as plain colors.
“You two…do you know about this girl?” A man with a pair of shoulder cannon, missile box attached near his ankles, and a pair of double R (an alloy made from 50% rhodium and 50% ruthenium) sword appeared in front of them.
“Yes, so what?” Ancrast took out a pair double I lance tonfa (tonfa with lance extending to the front), knowing that he will attack them. Weiloe quickly took out a pair of ruby axe wand. It looked like an ordinary wand except that an axe blade was attached near its tip. They were quickly teleported into a deep deep ground arena. It was as large as a soccer field, with the absence of the seats.
“You are going to die because you are among the ones who hinder our jobs! Remember me, Dacron Kevlar, the hexa wielder!” Dacron started his attack by charging his weapons with fire aura and launched fire balls, heat seeker missiles and burning “larks” simultaneously. They merely dashed backwards and jumped repeatedly to dodge the attacks.
“You are fighting us, not massacring people!” Ancrast charged his tonfa with water aura and launched the lances while jumping highly towards him. Weiloe dashed to him while charging her wands with steam aura. The axe blades were covered with steam, as if trails of icy mist surrounding it.
“This is your punishment of aiding smuggling and trafficking!” She cross slashed him split second before the launched lances stabbed his shoulders and Ancrast stabbed them further in by attaching them back to the tonfas and pulled them out.
“This is your punishment for opposing us!” Dacron charged himself with fire and non-elemental auras and stabbed the ground. A fire pillar appeared from nowhere, spreading in a circular formation. Ancrast and Weiloe were burned and thrown away to the sides of the arena. Their backs were injured while the fire was exitngiushed due to wind was formed while they were midair.
“You are not invincible!” Ancrast wake up, healed himself and dashed back to him. Weiloe stood up as well, but cast barrier on Ancrast instead. Dacron teleported to her front, yet she slashed him and he was thrown back to Ancrast before he was stabbed at his shoulders again.
“Watch out!” Weiloe teleported to the tonfas and broke the handles. Ancrast was thrown back 3 meters while the rest of the tonfas were poisoned as Dacron charged himself with poison aura and flowed them through the tonfas, attempting to poison him.
“How sweet, but I’ll make it bitter!” He turned around slightly and ejected the tonfas by sheer will. They hit her and she was poisoned, collapsed onto the ground. Then, he dashed towards Ancrast, without realizing that Weiloe woke up, recovered herself and charging her wands with wind aura.
“And you’ll only feel spicy,” Just when he came close to Ancrast, “Wind astraea!” A magic circle appeared above Dacron and his feet. A tornado emerged from the magic circles, surrounding him in the violent winds. Wind slash waves were launched on him and he was turned into dusts.
“Thank you. I guess I owe you a lot, I think,” Ancrast healed himself while throwing a bottle of aura potion to her.
“No. After all, this is what I should do,” She drank the potion and they stayed there, waiting for Tefia’s sound portal transmission. They will receive one soon….

Route of Earth(Path 45-Blazer Attack)

The silver hollow started its attack by dashing towards the pink hollow, yet suddenly,
“You are not escaping me!” A bat appeared and blocked its attack by using its wings. Ceia quickly teleported herself away.
“You are quite persistent. I thought I can get rid of you, but I guess I’ll have to kill you now!” The silver hollow charged its sword and attempted to stab the bat, but it did not work. It dashed backwards and dashed towards the bat again.
“Fire plane!” The bat charged itself with fire aura and cast the spell. A plane of fire appeared out of nowhere and the silver hollow was burned when it dashed through the fire plane. It transferred the fire onto its sword and attempted to stab the bat again.
“Flying away won’t rescue you!” The bat tried to flew away from its attack, yet fire blazes were emitted everywhere quickly that it was burned. It fell onto the ground while extinguish the fire on its wings.
“You are smart, but intelligent,” It took out a 20cm long double tipped spear and flew towards the silver hollow while spinning itself as if it was a tornado. The silver hollow swung its sword as if it was a baseball bat and knocked it to the sky, yet it quickly stopped and launched a dive attack on the silver hollow.
“The same thing goes to you,” It strafed away a few meters and swung its sword as if it was a golf club, knocking it back to the sky. It threw its spear while charging it with fire aura. Fire was formed on its tips and falling down while rotating like a wheel. The silver hollow strafed away from the spear, yet the bat teleported to its front, caught the spear and launched the spinning attack again.
“Yeah, and the cycle continues,” It charged itself with fire aura and the attack become like a spinning fireball attack. The silver hollow quickly charged itself with water and wind auras and water was dropped from the sky, extinguishing the fire before the bat was thrown away.
“And it’s now your side of the cycle,” The silver hollow charged itself with vacuum aura and a vacuum ball appeared above the bat and hit it. It crashed onto the ground with its wings damaged. It stood up weakly and trying to heal the wings, but it was too slow.
“I…will not…give…up!” It took out a 50cm long single barrel cannon, launched it on automated mode and formed a healing barrier surrounding itself. The silver hollow dashed towards the bat while scratching the ground, forming fire sparks, but the cannon moved to his front and shot a small sized blast on it. It was thrown away with a small hole formed inside its body.
“You…I guess I have no choice but to dispose of everything,” The silver hollow switched to a laser gun and shot a few laser beams on the cannons. They were missed, but the laser blasts from the cannon missed it as well. After a few seconds,
“Now I’ll dispose of you!” The barrier was disappeared as the bat was fully healed. It grabbed the cannon using its claws, charged it and shot a larger blast on the silver hollow. It switched back to its sword and blocked the attack, yet the sword was melted and it was hit, turning it into dusts. “Hah, now I can have a nice rest,” It flew on the ground and had a nap out of its restlessness. Then,
“Hey, wake up. I know you are with us,” Ceia appeared in front of the bat with Eclash and tickled its stomach.
“I’m tired! Let me have some rest,” It refused to wake up. At the meantime, Ancrast and Weiloe were wiping out another smuggler….

Route of Earth(Path 44-Paired Battle)

While Ancrast and Weiloe were running in the tunnel, slowly descending to the deeper grounds,
“I sensed a few demons. Take your weapons out,” Ancrast took out a cannon with four barrels, attached on his left shoulder and took out a angel wing wand. The wand has a pair of palladium made angel wings near its tip and a pearl was attached on the tip.
“Yes,” She took out a pair of isledion (an alloy made from 35% of zirconium, 35% of ruthenium and 35% of rhodium) boomerangs. They resemble slash waves launched from a dagger. They are sharp that she wore her barrier glove. Then, a pair of double helix dark beam was launched on them out of nowhere.
“Get out of here if you want to survive!” A purple hollow teleported to Ancrast’s front and kicked his right waist, throwing him onto the tunnel’s wall. Then, it charged its legs with fire aura and attempted to burn his wings. Ancrast quickly jumped away, yet,
“Not so fast, traitor,” A black hollow suddenly appeared at his back and kicked him, throwing him to the purple hollow. Ancrast took the chance by charging his cannon with photons. A laser lance was formed as if it was a harpoon. He stabbed it using the lance and launched it, thrusting through its shoulder.
“Take this!” Weiloe threw the boomerangs to them, which they all dodged. Ancrast launched two smaller barrels on the black hollow while the other two larger barrels on the purple hollow. He charged them with wind aura and the barrels launched wind pulses on them. The jumped and attempted to destroy the barrels, but the barrels switched directions and they were thrown onto the ceiling instead.
“Well, I guess we have no choice but to do this!” They took out a platinum trident each and launched slash waves on them. They merely dashed backwards, yet the stabbed their tridents on the ground and a trident struck up from the ground, thrusting through their back and they were left hanging in the air.
“Smart, but I guess this means I have to do this as well!” Weiloe charged the trident with poison aura and flowed poison into the trident. After a few seconds, the poison flowed into the hollows’ tridents and thus, into them. The tridents stabbed through their back were disappeared while the hollows were recovering themselves from poison.
“Curse you!” They switched to a pair of shot guns and shot the bullets on them. They blocked the shots with their weapons while walking slowly and calmly to them. The weapons started to deform, but they were quickly restored.
“Yeah, curse ‘you’,” Ancrast charged his cannon and launched the barrels separately. Each of them launched laser beams on them while he himself launched a laser blast from his cannon pod. The attack was blocked by laser barrier, with shockwaves emitted on the ground, damaging their legs.
“I guess you don’t know how to spell dusts,” Weiloe charged her boomerang with electric aura and threw the boomerangs on them. They moved through the barrier and slashed them repeatedly. They were turned into dusts before the boomerang returned to her.
“Thank you, Weiloe,” Ancrast smiled and blushed.
“It’s nothing, really. I just protecting you,” She continued running in the tunnel. Ancrast quickly followed her. At the meantime, at Zorn,
“How dare you oppose us! And you are not supposed to see people who have memories of you when you were still alive!” A silver hollow appeared and pointed its double I (an alloy made from 50% iridium and 50% indium) sword on her.
“That is not written in the ethical guide. Now pay for your sins!” She took out a butcher’s knife. A fight ensues….

Route of Earth(Path 43-Fake Discussion)

After a few minutes, they arrived at a hole on a road. They went inside and a soldier sealed it, in case the demons come to raid the city. After walking down the stairs, they saw a fighting arena with no seats. A metal table with wooden table design was visible along with a girl. She was wearing a purple necklace and has purple long hair.
“Thanks for coming. I’ve been waiting for you,” She was sitting alone. Fire aura was emitting from her body. They walked to the table and sat on the chairs. Then, Tefia saw her purple pendant on her necklace. A man in a sleeping posture was visible.
“You are a smuggler, aren’t you,” Tefia took out her ifnarisis, charged it with metal aura and launched a slash wave on her. The necklace was broken and the man was freed. He was wearing platinum equipment, which were all scaled for flexibility.
“She is not merely a smuggler but a human who sided the demons!” He took out a platinum sword covered under platinum scales, charged them with metal aura and launched the scales on her while dashing towards her. “I’ll kill her with my own hands!”
“Well, looks like I must fight you,” She strafed away from the scales, but he changed his directions and plus slashed her. She was electrocuted, but she was able to take out an obsidian bat wand, absorbed the electricity and shot an electrical beam on him instead. The obsidian sphere was mounted on a joint, which has bat wing shapes as blades. He was hit, but the current flowed through his armor onto the earth.
“Ha, you can defeat me using sneak tricks, but not in real battle!” He teleported the scales back to his sword. He merely standing still and waited for her to attack. She charged her wand and dashed towards him. Black flames were formed around the bat’s wings. She swung her wand from her right to left, attempting to destroy the armor, yet,
“What?” He blocked the attack using his sword and kicked her stomach instead and jumped towards her. She was thrown to the ceiling, but just when she nearly reached it,
“Giving you crash damage this way is too merciful. This is what you deserve!” He teleported himself to her front and stabbed her while launching the scales, which pierced through her body. Then, he kicked her stomach again and she crashed the ceiling.
“Damage reversal!” She cast the spell and the ground was cracked everywhere while she was healed. “You think I really let my guard down? No!” The energy from her wand was still there and she slashed his as if cutting him into halves. He fell onto the ground with his armor split into two and flew off his body.
“Yeah, this attack is powerful, but watch what your attacks are,” He cast fall on himself while charging himself with rock aura. He crashed onto the ground, but he was unharmed as he absorbed the energy from the ground and healed himself using the energy. Rock spikes suddenly fall down and smashed her onto the ground. She was turned into dusts.
“You should have go there ahead of us and aid the demons,” Meltine made a sarcastic remark on him.
“If I go now who will explain to you what we are supposed to do? You are a saint, not a moron!” He shouted at her back.
“Alright. So, what do you think? Any strategies or our job is to confirm the others’ positions before we attack together?” Meltine replied him with an apologetic tone. At the meantime, Ancrast and Weiloe were fighting against demons, not one but two….

Route of Earth(Path 42-Coming From Nowhere)

After one day, Tefia and the others arrived at Qylfez city. The city is quite large compared to other cities. The buildings were made from bricks enhanced with stainless steel rods, thus the buildings have thinker walls. The residential areas are separated with other areas by barriers and gates.
“You are late. The demons were killed a few hours earlier, but I’m glad that you have retrieved the stolen metal blocks. Anyway, please come with the other guards near here. We’ll inform you about the current situation,” A guard told them and several guards with different colored uniform was standing behind her. They followed the guards and passed through the gates, but after a few seconds a bat appeared from nowhere. Then, a gargoyle suddenly appeared and they were fighting against themselves.
“Looks like your plan is exposed. Go away and I’ll fight it alone!” The gargoyle yelled at them. They quickly ran inside a 50 meter tall tower with glass block walls. It charged its wings and launched a few slash waves on the bat.
“I thought all gargoyles have sided the demon lord, but it is a surprise that a traitor like you will appear here and fight us! Prepare to die!” The bat absorbed them and launched its own slash waves back to the gargoyle. The gargoyle merely dodged the attacks while flying towards the bat and charged itself with photons. The wings were “enlarged” when laser beams were surrounding the wings.
“I am the traitor of the demon lord, but you all are traitor of the realm of satan!” The gargoyle accelerated itself and spun upon closing the bat, as if it was a drill. The bat was hit and thrown 25 meters away. It was injured further when the gargoyle launched the laser beams surrounding its wings and they hit the bat.
“I am loyal to my superiors no matter what!” The bat healed itself and glided towards the gargoyle. The gargoyle quickly flew away from the bat, charged its claws with ice aura and scratched its back. The bat’s wings were frozen and became heavy. It was slowly descending onto the ground.
“And this is your price for your blind loyalty,” The gargoyle quickly shot a few ice beams on the bat from its claws. Its wings were completely frozen and it could not even flap its wings. It quickly recovered itself and flew speedily on the gargoyle, ramming it onto the ceiling.
“But apparently you and paying for your treason,” The bat charged itself with rock aura and a rock spike formed on a ceiling, slowly piercing through the gargoyle’s body. The gargoyle quickly teleported itself away, charged its eyes with photons and shot laser beams from its eyes. The bat attempted to launch a dive attack on the gargoyle, but the attack was not strong enough to withstand the laser beams and it was turned into dusts. After a few seconds, the gargoyle was turned into a man wearing a brown cloak, black cape and dark violet mask.
“It’s you. Where have you been?” A girl wearing cyan robe with a greand sword (titanium sword with sunflower shape at the end of the cross guards and as pommel) suddenly showed herself up and threw the sword on him.
“I need some time to face the fact that I’m no longer fully a gargoyle. After all, I am a demon for years and suddenly I become a shapeshifter,” He walked to her and picked up his sword.
“I see. Let’s join them, shall we?” They walked together and holding hands, smiling to each other and exchanged whispers. At the meantime, Tefia and the others are having “discussion” with the officers….

Route of Earth(Path 41-Hollow Take On)

“You hollows are a disgrace of all of us!” A pink hollow suddenly appeared and teleported the wall away. She took out a pink colored water crystal wand. Then, she charged her wand with fire aura. “Go and call you boss. This asshole is a tough one,” She called the guild workers and they quickly ran inside the guild, which was a wooden shop house.
“Oh no you don’t,” The teal hollow charged itself with rock aura and launched rock spikes on them, yet they were blocked by random fireballs appearing in the air.
“I am ashamed that lots of hollows has derailed to their demonic paths,” She charged them with more fire aura and cast fire astraea on the teal hollow. A magic circle appeared on its legs and above its head. Helical fire beams were spinning out from the magic circle, thrusting through its body, but they were absorbed as fire aura instead.
“You are a heretic!” It took out a shotgun, flowed the fire aura inside the bullets and shot the bullets on the pink hollow. It merely blocked them using her wand, but the wand was slowly turning into steam, yet the steam seemed to be encased.
“Because of that moron? It is merely a leader, not a god!” It changed its wand into an encased steam wand, charged it with steam aura and formed steam mist around the teal hollow, yet it was unharmed and absorbed the steam mist into his shot gun’s bullets and shot them back to it.
“Hollows are demonic in nature. We are following the nature’s law!” The teal hollow switched to a marble bladed titanium sword and dashed towards it while charging it with steam aura. Upon reaching close, he stabbed it on the ground and steam was emitted before he swung it upwards, breaking the encasing and freed the steam. It was slashed as well and thrown upwards.
“Nature? Even lots of demons are opposing the current demon lord, is this unnatural? Why nature can’t be good? I think you won’t be answering all of this,” The pink hollow accidentally kicked the teal hollow’s head and threw it onto the ground, with the feet stepping on its neck. It quickly teleported itself to the pink hollow’s back and attempted to cross slash it, yet it jumped backwards, took out a new wand, charged it with light aura and threw it as if a lance. Light balls surrounded its handle as if it was wrapped in a polka dot gift paper. It was hit and turned into dusts. After 10 minutes, the workers appeared again along with a man with goat-like beard and sword blade shaped eyebrows.
“Who are you actually? Why a hollow like you protect us?” He sighed while looking at her, felling its figure reminiscent to someone he knew in the past.
“I can’t let my loved one’s precious things destroyed, you know. After all, hollows has derailed from their true paths and I will not become one of them, Ankhial (silent k pronunciation) Varos,” It looked at him.
“I see, Ceia (pronounced as sea-ya) Les. Welcome back, my dear,” He walked towards her and tried to hug her, but suddenly a knight wearing Kevlar suit dropped from the sky, attempting to slash it, but it quickly jumped away and Ankhial took out his sword and blocked his attack. “Hold your horses, fighter. She just fended off against a hollow which wants to destroy my guild. I know you are renowned as Kotiva’s demon slayer, but not all demons are evil, even the exiled demon princes,” He told the fighter in an informing tone.
“I see…looks like we have good allies. So, we have to wait for them to fight against the demon in that capital. Hopefully the armies can hold them off. I’ll go and slay other demons,” The fighter teleported himself away.
“Eclash (pronounced as ek-lush) Wark, you are just as reckless as usual,” He looked at the sky. At the meantime, Tefia and the others are fighting other demons….

Route of Earth(Path 40-Catch Up Strike Part Four)

At the meantime, Rafion and Kasim were chasing the only remaining demon. After 15 minutes, they found a jiang shi hopping away from them. Then, they took out their spears and threw them while charging them with fire aura. The jiang shi noticed the attack and turned around knocking the spears away.
“A stiff corpse, huh? I guess magic is the only option here,” Rafion took out his amoultz wand (wand with axe blades attached beside and having jade attached on its tip), charged it with fire aura and cast fire sphere on the jiang shi. It was trapped inside a fire ball, but it hopped out of the fire ball towards them.
“Yes, but maybe yin yang magic will make things short of it,” Kasim took out a bronze coin dagger and ran towards it. It hopped higher and stepped his shoulder, but Rafion charged his wand with wind aura and threw it towards the jiang shi. It was spinning with spirals of wind surrounding it. The attack hit and the jiang shi was pushed back 20 meters while his wand was thrown back to him.
“…” It hopped to its front while charging itself with vacuum aura. Vacuum surrounded them, making them unable to breath, but they quickly charged themselves with wind aura and cancelled the spell.
“You think this really works? Now see this!” Kasim dashed towards it and plus slashed the jiang shi. Fire sparks were emitted, showing the it was wounded, yet it quickly choked his neck and reached him, attempting to bite him.
“Let go of my friend!” Rafion cast magnetic separation on them and they were broke off. Then, he cancelled the spell while charging his wand with acid aura. Then, he threw it in a projectile motion. It hopped to its front while dodging the attack, but hydrochloric acid was splashed everywhere upon hitting the ground, dealing corrosion damage on the jiang shi.
“…” It healed itself while continued to hop towards them. This time, it charged itself with ice aura and ice needles rained on them. They quickly changed it into normal rain by charging fire aura on the needles.
“This is it!” Kasim charged his dagger with electric aura and attached it on his right shoe. Just when it came close, he kicked it by swinging his legs downwards, slashing it. It was electrocuted and turned into dusts.
“Let’s wait for them. They are too beautiful to be left alone,” Rafion was discharging his aura. Kasim followed suit as well. After 2 hours, Beile came to them while Serina met up with them 30 minutes later.
“I guess the threat is finally over, eh?” Serina asked Rafion.
“Not really, but at least we won’t need to rush like what we did before,” Rafion answered her gladly.
“Yeah, like we have nothing to do. Let’s go. We have a guild to be saved,” Beile walked along the tunnel and the others quickly caught up with her before they started to run. At the meantime, in Zorn,
“Phew, this is the longest day in my life,” A guild worker was sighing while drinking energy potions.
“Yeah, hopefully they eliminated the demon’s reinforces,” Another guild worker was repairing his damaged weapons. But after 10 minutes, a teal hollow showed itself and took out a water crystal rapier.
“They have killed my subordinates, but they never noticed me at all. It might be hard to take you down, but it will eventually done,” It taunted them and they quickly stood up and rushed towards the hollow. The hollow merely stood there while charging itself with rock aura. They hit a stone wall appeared from nowhere and they were squashed when the wall fell over them. There will be someone to save the day….