"What the hell is this?!!" Enzo banged the edge of the force field with his hand repeatedly trying to break through it. But it didn't matter how hard he did so, he could not get through it.
"I'm going to die, I'm going to fucking die!!" Enzo's eyes became red as he backed the force field his gaze focused on the two fighting infront.
At this point, Eliza seemed to have the upper hand against the inky humanoid beast, her ice powers fortified her cuts freezing several parts of the creatures body making it rigid.
However, dispite this, the beast's strength seemed to be increasing by the second. The more it attacked, the more power flowed through its vains….slowly but surely, she would lose to its monsterous power.
If she couldn't even escape what were the chances of him coming out of this alive?
"I have no choice but to risk everything" Eliza thought in her mind as a maddened look of desperation overtook her.
This thing didn't fit the description of what she was made to believe was lingering down here, it was way out of the scope of what she was ready for, it was a monster that had seen countless battles a creature with intelligence.
If she wanted to survive, she would need to sacrifice something. Even if it was her life.
So she let her sword go, then with the butt of her palm, she struck forward sending it directly into the creatures center mass.
"Arggg" the creature staggered back then positioned itself with an aggressive Jerk.
"Die!!!" Although she wasn't armed at the moment, didn't mean she was helpless. With a swing of her hand she summoned several shards of ice from thin air then she rushed at the beast.
Her fingers had turned into claws, she slashed down at the beast repeatedly cutting at its chest and causing a black liquid to gush out of it.
It neck, joints and stomach were her focused points, she wanted to gut the creature, bleed it out and kill it.
It had killed everyone in her party, even if she was to die, she had to take it with her.
"Stupid little girl"
Unfortunately for her, the creature that had stayed silent all this while finally spoke, and it did so with a tinge of mockery in its tone.
All of a sudden, it's wounds started to heal at a frightening pace, closing up its bleeding wounds. It was like it's blood was a healing potion.
"You .can speak? now I understand…" Eliza finally came to a realization that shook her to her very core.
"You're a demon" She said gritting her teeth.
Demons were one of the most frightening existences the federation had encountered in their exploration of the cosmos. In the old texts found in dead worlds, it stated that just when the universe was made to "be" these things crawled out of the annals of its making.
"Not quite, I am but a lowly beast….just not one you can kill" The demon revealed its razor sharp teeth as it bared down on Eliza. He could tell at first glance that this little girl was formidable, as she emitted an aura very similar to an old being.
However, this wasn't that being, he could easily take her out.
"Like I'd believe a demon" Eliza tightened her fist and took in a large breath of air.
""I am Eliza Winald, daughter of Gia the Ice Warden.
It is my duty to stand and fall for humanity—To face the darkness of the universe, be it demonic or Divine."
Her gaze burned at the creature before her
"You demon, you will not cross this threshold."
All of a sudden a magical item materialized infront of her.
It was a staff bathed in ice, engraved with a multitude of inscriptions that looked so ancient, it looked uncreated. As if it had always been.
"Curses!!" As if noticing what this staff was, the demon jerked forward trying to destroy it in a panic. If he allowed that thing to fire at him, he would surely die.
However even with his quick reaction he was already too late, the staff fired a Chunk of ice outward as it approached mid jump and made a whole through its chest.
Demons had seven hearts situated in the center of their body making them incredibly hard to kill. If Eliza had gone for the kill with pure skill, she would be dead right now.
Instead, this heavy uncontrollable attack was perfect. It ripped open a hole through the demon simultaneously destroying all of its hearts.
She had won…..
But at what cost?
Her body a second later shribbled up as all its life force was sucked out.
Equivalent exchange, to kill something as powerful as a demon her life was the only natural price.
"Damn," at the back watching this whole thing unfold, Enzo sighed as he watched Eliza's mummified body on the ground devoid of life.
The two of them were dead!!
Enzo stared at her with hollow eyes. Just like that, she was gone. He thought she'd win, or they'd die together. But this?
No victors.
Just corpses.
"What a cruel world."
He turned away, gripping the pickaxe with trembling hands. He didn't belong here. Not now. Maybe not ever. He had to get out of here.
However, as he turned and started breaking off the ice wall, a shadowy figure seemed to churn not too far away slowly forming a strange figure.
In a split second as Enzo's back was turned away, it rushed at him its formless body not making an ounce of noise. It was completely untraceable. It was at its weakest state, moving quietly was its most powerful asset, all it needed to do was get close enough to Enzo and possess him.
Unfortunately, it failed to realize one thing.
Even shadows have reflections.
In the last moments of its sprint, Enzo had caught a glimpse of it rushing towards him from the reflection in the ice wall.
A glimmer of light entered his eye as he instinctively swung his pickax sideways and stabbed at the shadow.
[You have slain The Divine shadow of an Unknown Deamon]
[Seven nameless adventurers stumbled onto the resting place of evil in search of glory and treasure. They unknowingly resurrected an ancient fiend and for this transgression they were killed- except one]
[Glorious, you have been bestowed the bloodline of the Night]
[warning: Star dust infection detected, prepare for your first voyage]
Enzo had killed it.