Her enemies had also suffered.
The Wrath demon's right hand was grasping a huge gash that was at his neck, which was spilling blood like a river. He frowned as his heart burned brighter, and his wound started closing. And the Sloth demon had six missing eyes that also started healing at extreme speed.
A second passed, and their wounds healed. The spot where they stood suddenly collapsed as they then launched at her once more,
whoosh! whoosh!
but before they could close the distance, the vixen's eyes flashed, and hundreds of 4 meters tall, exploding thorns bloomed from the spots on the ground where her blood had spilled. Blocking their path.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The Wrath demon roared, tilted his horns forward, and smashed into them like a mad bull,
boom! boom!
They exploded, but the abyssal flames around his body weakened the impact, allowing him to tank them with only minor damage.
The Sloth demon flashed behind him, following the path that he cleared.
Seeing this, the Thorn Vixen flashed backwards, distancing herself from them.
'I cannot burn my vital blood for much longer, or else my bloodline will be damaged… I must push it to the edge now. Where it will be forced to use that fearsome ability.'
She thought as she felt her heart shrinking. Her eyes started shimmering and her body started pulsating like never before, and,
'Thorn Descent!'
Hundreds of ten-meter-long thorns materialized hundreds of meters above her, then started spinning like turbines, swish! swish! creating mini tornadoes around them, and then flashed towards the two demons who had just finished clearing the exploding thorns, like fragments from a fallen star.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two demons' instincts screamed at them. and without hesitating, the Sloth demon flashed to the left, attempting to leave their range. While the Wrath demon, on the other hand, crouched, legs contracting. A giant ten-meter-long fire sphere materialized at the tip of his horns, and then he launched himself at the thorns like a mad bull carrying the sun.
Whoosh!
In no time, he arrived before them, and,
"BRILLIANT ANGER!"
Boom!
He raged as the fire sphere bloomed into an explosion that engulfed everything within two hundred meters, incinerating the thorns.
"kill! kill!" he roared in madness, as he floated at the center of the explosion. his heart had shrunken a lot after that attack, but he was so lost in rage he didn't notice it.
suddenly, his instincts screamed like an ancient bell; it echoed in his mind, awakening some of his clarity. Then it happened, the vixen appeared a meter before him like a ghost.
Inside the still-raging explosion.
Her body was ablaze. Hair scorched. Skin peeled in curling layers, revealing pulsing red fleshy muscle beneath. Her cold crimson eyes locked his, and her claws aimed to rip out his heart, and her tail aimed to whip his head into a bloody mess.
The world slowed down.
'Mad… she's mad… trying to exchange her life for mine?'
'Too fast!!!' The attacks were unexpected and too quick. he could only block one. He moved his hands with all his might to shield his heart, then braced himself for his head to be gone.
But suddenly, his instincts screamed out louder, for right at that moment the vixen's tails twisted unnaturally, now aiming for his hands, and splat! his hands exploded.
Now his heart was clear. the vixen's claws closed the distance inch by inch.
'Die!' she shouted.
'How could this be?!...'
His eyes widened as he felt the chill of death freeze his soul... In that infinitesimal moment before the vixen's razor claws made contact with his chest, the world in his eyes slowed down even more, and all his life memories flashed through his eyes, from him clawing his way out of the river of birth a hundred years ago, to this very moment.
'It's not supposed to play out like this... I am not supposed to die here, not at her hands... I am the one who is supposed to kill her and use her corpse to ascend... so why? wh-" Suddenly, his flaming eyes that were dimmed with despair lit up. ' I should have known you wouldn't allow me to die like this. our contract dictates it such.'
Suddenly, the Sloth demon appeared behind the vixen, covered in white smoke that protected him from the blazing explosion around. It grabbed both her hands that were now penetrating his skin, stopping her from reaping his heart, and then whispered in her ear,
"Sleep."
Along that whispered came an unseen wave that washed over the vixen before she could react. Immediately, her eyes dimmed as she began to uncontrollably fall into slumber.
'Now is the time… don't fail me,' she thought with a gleam before her eyes completely closed.
The Wrath demon's lips arched into a smile as he saw this scene. but froze the next moment as the flame twisted and a figure cloaked by a purple mist suddenly appeared behind the sloth demon, like a silent viper.
Veal.
The moment he appeared, His legs wrapped around the Sloth demon's waist. His glowing tails instantly coiled around it, starting from his legs to its arms that held the vixen, then started vibrating.
"Got you."
He mused as he tilted his upper body backwards and clasped his hands together, pulling them to his chest, aiming to rip out the Sloth demon's heart.
But before he could strike, something unexpected happened. The Sloth demon's enigmatic head spun 180 degrees, faced him, and...
"No, I got you… Sleep!"
'What!?!?!... The vixen was wrong! He can use this ability multiple times. He doesn't have to wait a certain duration!'
Veal shouted internally, as an almost irresistible drowsiness washed over him. His eyes dimmed bit by bit. His heart started racing, and his mind blazed like never before.
He knew that he could not close his eyes, for that would mean death.
"!'
His hands then started shimmering colorfully like his tails. Then, with pure willpower, he moved his hands to his head and grabbed it.
His body started shivering, his head tilted back, and his eyes opened wide. and a faint moan escaped his lips.
~Hhhm~
'What?!?' The Sloth demon's disgusting eyes, hidden within his smoke, flashed with confusion. Veal lowered his head, gazed at it, then mused.
"How can I slumber while I'm experiencing self-inflicted, heavenly pleasure?"
As he spoke, his hands struck like a spear, and splat! he pierced into the Sloth demon's body and grasped his flaming heart.
It tried to resist, thrashing about, but it was futile, for its body was bound.
Veal viciously pulled out its heart. Then he opened his mouth wide, all the way to his ears, and swallowed the heart.
Splat!
It exploded in vital blood in his stomach, which flowed to his heart, which opened its jaws wide and devoured it. After which, it started shining brighter as he advanced towards the end of the vital rank.
Everything happened so fast that it was only at this moment that they descended below the radius of the explosion and landed on the ground.
Bam!
Their bodies were radiating so much pressure, the moment they touched the sand, it began melting, and their bodies sank slowly as if they had stepped into quicksand....
The Sloth demon did one last thing before it completely died. Its head sprang back 180 degrees, locked eyes with the Wrath demon, who was still in a slight daze by the turn of events, and whispered in a calm tone, one not belonging to a dead thing.
"They are trying to wake you up from your eternal dream of anger. They are trying to destroy your dream world of endless wrath… Do. not. allow. Them!"
Yes, a dream. The Wrath demon was asleep, dreaming a dream conjured by the Sloth demon. There was no alliance from the beginning.
No contract.
There was only the Sloth demon using its ability on the unsuspecting Wrath demon, penetrating his mind, trapping him in a dream, and making him its pawn.
Hearing it, the Wrath demon's eyes started twitching, and his head began spinning uncontrollably. While that was happening, Veal's tail's explosive ability activated, and,
Splat!
The Sloth demon's body exploded into a bloody mess of blood and fragmented eyes, ears, and noses that splattered over them and the sand that had turned to glass beneath them.
It was at that moment that the vixen woke up. She tried her best to stabilize herself from tumbling over with what remained of her body. Now, only a thin layer of skin clung to her flesh. If it were not for the fact that her body was in a constant state of healing as it burned, she would have been much worse.
She gazed around with what remained of her right eye.
'Good,' she praised after glancing at the figure that was covered with purple mist, and noticing that the Sloth demon, the biggest threat, the one she feared, was nowhere to be seen. her plan had worked.
She then focused on her claws, which were still resting on the chest of the wrath demon, and began to add force. She wanted to end him before he came out of whatever trance he was in.
But...
Suddenly, her instincts sent her a single message.
Death is before you.