"What a coincidence, I too hate demons who think they are smart, but they are not," said the demon with a treacherous look. "For example... you."
After he spoke, the thousands of humans who surrounded them suddenly paused. Their eyes turned crimson, then they charged at Veal with madness, their speed slightly above that of a human.
Bap! Bap! Bap!
The sound of their stampede echoed out while the ground trembled.
At the same time, the demon stood up. His body began inflating like a gas balloon, and in no time, he stood three meters tall, his frame bloated as if it was about to explode the next second.
It then blurred and arrived before Veal at extreme speed, smashing the princess into a bloody pancake in the process. Its right fist clenched tightly, and the air whistled as it punched at Veal's head, aiming to explode it.
Whoosh!
Veal stood calmly. To him, the demon's speed was no different from a Bloodling Rank demon. And right when the demon's fist was about to make contact, he smiled, his purple eyes shining, and commanded,
"Halt!"
The next moment, the demon, along with all the humans, froze like statues.
The force from the demon's punch created a shockwave of compressed air that blasted the humans within ten meters behind him into a bloody mist.
But to Veal, it was no different from wind. and he made sure to protect his prized possession by wrapping her entire body with his tail.
Their frozen bodies started shimmering with a faint purple hue.
"It seems you're not the smart one. If you were, you would have noticed that I, too, have the ability to control those whom I have polluted," Veal mused as he tilted his head upward, gazing into the frozen demon's eyes, which darted with anger. it wanted to speak, but unfortunately, his body wouldn't allow it.
"I now command all of you…" Veal's smile morphed into a bloodthirsty grin, "to kill yourselves."
The purple aura controlled his attackers' bodies, lifting their hands to their necks, straightening them like swords, and,
Splat!
They slit their own throats. Blood sprayed into the air, falling down like rain, especially the demon's. It's blood showered Veal like a waterfall, and he accepted the crimson downpour with a blissful expression, hands stretched out, head held high.
"Spectacular!" he rejoiced, as the thousand humans dropped to the ground, the rightful position for the corpses they were.
Bap! Bap! Bap!
A few seconds later, the demon fell to its knees before him. Veal pulled his right leg backward in a kicking motion, then,
Bam!
He kicked with so much force; the impact produced a shockwave that spanned a twenty-meter radius and sent the demon's body flying. It smashed into the palace walls that stood dozens of meters away.
Crack!
The wall shattered, and the demon's body was smashed into a bloody mess in the process. Its intestines and lungs lay outside its body, its blood creating a puddle next to it.
It twitched a few times, like a dying rat, before dying completely. After all, it was now occupying a human body, and there was only so much a human of that caliber could withstand.
And with the death of its primary host, it, too, would die.
Veal took a step toward its body, wanting to confirm for himself. But before he could take another step, his instincts warned him.
He immediately gazed at the sky, eastward. It didn't take him long to see the threat.
Whoosh!
The air screamed as a silver arrow pierced through it at extreme speed. In a moment, the arrow arrived a few meters before him. He stood calmly, for it was just an ordinary human arrow, and such a thing couldn't harm him. He raised his right hand to catch it, but suddenly something clicked.
'No… if my senses warned me about it, there must be something special about it.'
Without hesitation, he took a single step backward, blurred, and appeared one hundred and thirty meters away a second later.
Whoosh! Crack!
The arrow lodged into the ground where he had stood. He waited patiently for something to happen.
And something did happen.
The arrow shattered apart, revealing the tiny demonic parasite hidden within, a creature that seemed to be a fusion of snail and scorpion, no bigger than a pinky finger.
Its head twisted and hissed with hatred and fear as it realized it had failed; its target had not fallen for its trickery.
It was the main parasite.
Veal blurred and appeared before it. He gazed down at it with mockery and praise.
"A trickery demon indeed. Must say, that was cunning using an ordinary arrow as a cloak. I'm afraid if it were any other demon, they would've fallen for your scheme… but unfortunately, I am no ordinary demon."
He then raised his right foot to stomp the parasite out of existence at extreme speed. As the shadow of his foot fell upon it, the creature squirmed and pleaded. Its body contracted, trying to launch itself into the distance.
But...
"Begone."
Bam!
Veal's foot struck without mercy. The ground within ten meters collapsed three meters deep.
He then raised his foot and inspected the impact area. No trace remained. Not even a drop of blood.
It was completely annihilated.
Veal then gazed in the direction from which the arrow had descended and blurred.
Minutes later, he arrived atop a hill on the outskirts of the empire. Before him lay the corpse of a human, a remnant of the holy knights. In his lifeless hands, a crossbow.
Veal's mind turned with ideas.
'This was the demon's actual vessel… no, he must have switched to this human in the last moments, when he knew that their clash was due. He bet everything on that arrow shot. Disregarding the negatives, he took his last shot at returning to the Abyss… yes, this is what happened. And even if it isn't, it can't be too far off,' he deduced.
Then his tail whipped the corpse, exploding it into a bloody mist.
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