After getting out of the teleporter, We were still 15 km away from the end of the bridge. It took us only a few more minutes and we were out of the bridge.
We realized on our journey that keeping the skeleton with us can get us in trouble.
"Although the energy of the skeleton has decreased thanks to you. It is still too much. It will be hard to get close to my forge with it."
"How about we cremate it? Although on Earth that is supposed to be the child's right."
"Yes, Drax has a daughter. The goddess that attacked you is her mother."
"Ethis?!! This sounds so messed up." I say.
"Ethis fell in love with Drax, so she had a child with him and they named her Gloria. If you ever meet Gloria do not tell her any of this. She thinks that her mother was human and died when she was born."
"That's some seriously messed family composition."
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We walk with caution through the forest as now we are in enemy territory.
After hours of traveling and defeating a pack of the wolf, killing a T-Rex that could use Earth magic, and devouring them. We devise a plan on our way to the forge, Warzheil explains to me the interior of the forge and we decide to split the work. Warzheil will gather his material while I will go to the store room and get the book from Drax and some weapons.
As we arrive near the forge we see that it is surrounded and bustling with goblins and Hobgoblins.
"Where do we get in from? And won't you get detected?"
"You think everyone keeps their mana detection on? You don't have to worry, I have reduced my mana spill to a minimum. We won't be detected by these weaklings. The demon lord is in the demon continent so only the champion goblin or the king can detect me at the close point. As for 'how to get in?'..." He says pointing at a huge pipe blocked by bars under the forge.
"It's a water outlet. We can get in using that, let's go."
I follow Warzheil and use my plasma spear to cut the bars which takes much time than I expected.
"Hehe, hard isn't it? It's made from a mixture of copper and adamantine. It took me great heart to even think of using adamantite for this purpose but it makes it a fine escape. I used it to escape last time but it only opens from inside."
"keep quiet old man, you will get us caught," I say as we move in the tunnel.
"What are you, my mom? You don't have any respect for me do you?"
"Did you finally go senile?"
"You little....[interrupted]"
"Shhhh...." I gesture and we both hide with the right wall's support as we hear someone coming from the right corner just a few meters away.
Those are goblins. They turn towards us and their torch illuminates enough area to notice us. I move as fast as I can and surprisingly I get in front of them in a second, my speed is absurd now. The goblins are in total shock, which gives enough time to end them, my spear's tip slices through their skin with unmatched precision.
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We arrive at a staircase leading up. We head up and reach a door. Rushing inside we kill 3 more goblins.
"You go to the 3rd last room from here. Meet me back in 5 minutes. The more we stay here the more risky it gets. There are about 400 of them here including the champion, the king, and the Hobs.
We separate and search for things that we want. I reach the storage room and slowly open it. It's dark and dusty, I close the door and use the tip of my spear as a torch, I have less time. I see small pockets like the ones Warzheil has so I tested it and yes it can store anything. So I start by finding the book next after taking 3 of those pockets. I find a plain-looking book with a symbol resembling my Eye so I open it.
"Dear God, If you are reading this then that means my sacrifice was not in vain..." I read it a bit and it's in Hindi.
I would like to read it now but we don't have time. So I put the book in a separate pocket and looked at the pocket for a while to find any way I could differentiate it from the other two and suddenly a 'T' symbol burns on it. How is this possible?
To test this, I look at my spear, and the 'T' symbol gets etched on it too.
Wow, I gained a cool ability. With this, I start to put swords, spears, and bows in the other two pockets. It took me more than 5 minutes, so I ran and reached Warzheil who was still not here. So I wander through the hallway killing any goblin I see and finally reach a room that is open but when I am about to get in I see 3 huge goblins standing around Warzheil who is tied up. I get ready with my spear and lunge at them but one of them sees me and tries to defend his friend's back but his weapon is no match, although my spear could only heat the weapon a little plasma is not physical which makes it hard to defend against and so the Hobgoblin loses his fingers and screams in pain which alerts the other two Hobgoblins and most probably the entire colony.
I swiftly disembowel the one in the center and chop the left guy's head off.
"We need to get out of here fast. Did you get the book?" Warzheil asks as I free him.
"Yeah talk less run more. Get on my back." I say
He gives me an annoyed look by hops on my back anyway.
We get out of the room but at the end of the hallway where the storage room is, there stands a humanoid being shrouded in black and red aura. She starts walking while pacing up towards us.
"R-run! Run you idiot, as fast as you can! That's the Devil."
"What?" although confused I start running towards the underground passage. Seeing my speed the Demon lord also speeds up.
It looks like we will intersect at the passage based on our speeds. Knowing this I take out my spear and as we get closer the demon lord summons a demonic claw made of dark energy, the lighting in the hallway is dim and it is night outside.
I can't reveal my trump card to him yet so I make a slide while dodging his claw which destroys the forge's walls behind us, I use this opportunity to his legs while sliding which makes him fall on the ground and top it off the old man uses his lightning to strike at the demon lords ass.
"Take that you demonic Runt. Heehaw!"
"Hey, what am I a Horse to you?!!"
"Nothing less than that. Hahaha."
Something's wrong, I can see the Demonlord's skeleton but when I close my right eye it turns out that it's the lich. How did he come here faster than us?
"I don't understand. From what I know he was supposed to be in the demon castle right now."
"Hey calm down, it's not the demon lord, it's the lich disguised as the demon lord."
"What? Your eye can see through illusions too?"
"I guess it can. And I just discovered another ability of my eye in the storage room but let's get out of here first. The lich can't catch up with my speed without his dragon."
"But don't you think it's strange? Why is the lich disguised as the demon lord?"
"I think it's an ambush. Maybe he is using the demon lord's face to fool the goblins?"
"Why would he do that?" Warzheil asks as I put him down to pass through the bars and get out of there.
"I have seen my share of politics. Although I can't say I don't know what's going on we should focus on getting out of this place."
I get out of the bars when I see Warzheil turning back to see a giant goblin, who is almost 3 times his size. As the giant goblin swings down his club at Warzheil, I react instinctively and use all the force in my legs to reach Warzheil and block the attack which surely reduces the impact on Warzheil but sends us flying into a horde of goblins.
The attack was so strong it fractured my hand but I healed quickly, I picked up Warzheil and ran over the goblin's head who was coming towards us.
I throw some of my last smoke spheres and run into the forest.
"You think I twisted my left foot, it's killing me."
"My bad for falling on your leg."
"Don't sweat it, a direct hit would have knocked me out."
"Only knock?"
"Well, maybe a few minor fractures?"
"Is someone on our tails?"
"No, I think we lost them. You really are an expert in escaping, aren't you?
"Hahaha, I haven't used my best and favorite tricks yet."
We ran for a while, I heard a whistling sound above us for a moment but there was nothing above us.
After running for a few minutes we arrive out of the forest near the Kobe River Ocean. But there stands the Demon lord looking at the river, He looks calm.
I can't see his skeleton this time, which means this isn't the Lich! It's the real deal!
"So you have returned old Smith. I saw some ruckus in the goblin camp but I had been busy so I decided to wait for you here while enjoying this beautiful scene."
"We won't be fooled this time you pile of bones. Have a taste of my hammer!"
"Wait, old man!"
Before I could stop Warzheil, he had already thrown his hammer shrouded in lightning at the Demon lord.
The Demon Lord stops his hammer with his hand and gets electrocuted but doesn't flinch.
"That was painful and rude old smith. I respect a talented weaponsmith such as yourself but I won't tolerate this a second time."
Warzheil calls his hammer back but the demon lord shrouds the hammer in a dark aura and lets go of it letting it fall on the ground.
"He neutralized it?! That's not the lich, He is the real Demon lord!" he yells while looking at me.
"You just attacked him outright without listening to me
"Then say so before!."
"I this is bad. I can't let Ronin die. I will stop this demon while he escapes" Warzheil thinks.
"Hey, there is a ship just 2 km away, take it and run. He wants me alive so I will live. You need to get out of here."
"Hey, you think I am so tasteless that I would kill a mana-less human like this? And what's this about the lich?"
"I won't leave you Warzheil. I will stop this guy, you go and prepare our ride."
"You sure?"
"You think I can't hold him?"
"No, I trust you. I will need at least 10 mins."
Saying this Warzheil motions to leave but the demon lord stops him with a wall made of dark energy. I knew he wouldn't just let him leave so I bring my palm near the wall and the magic disperses which leaves the Devil baffled.
"How? You... you aren't mana-less are you?" He asks in a serious tone.
"oh no, rest assured I am mana less just like you though, I think we need to clear some misunderstandings. First, I am taking the old man with me, second, it would be in your favor if you focus on the heroes and not me. I don't care about you trying to conquer the world as long as it doesn't involve me. So I leave you alone, and you leave me alone, what say you?"
The demon lord takes out a blade which glows in the night.
"Another swordsman, huh? Listen here. I hate swords. I have Bad blood with them for a long time."
The demon lord says nothing and rushes at me at a fairly decent speed, or is it that I have become faster so I see him faster as well?
I Easily dodge the demon lord but a smile curls on his serious face which reminds me of when I was fighting Ava. I instinctively dodged and as expected there was a doppelganger that was about to sab me.
"So you are not half bad after all? For a human, you seem skilled enough. My name is Jorthius Hellbourne, Let your name be known manaless Human warrior."
"Call me Ronin."
"Ronin is it. Now then Ronin, it was good meeting a warrior like you. But you will meet your end now. Because that's the fate of all humans."
Saying this the demon lord summons one more doppelganger and with the of them they chant some magical vocals, normally I would stop him but this is an excellent opportunity to see if his magic can affect me.
"Dark space god: Pull of the Blackball!" He yells
Two blackhole-like things appear behind and before me, they are out of my mana-canceling range and start to pull me back and forth. It's ripping me apart!! I concentrate my eye on the magic circle of the demon lord and hopefully It works, and the magic disappears. So I can deactivate magic by looking at it? Thank goodness I was able to stop it.
"What? How? Did he use a counter-magic? No, I didn't sense a shred of mana from him. Even a mana-less would have at least enough mana to be sensed by my mana field but this guy. He is no ordinary human." The demon lord thinks
He starts staring at my left arm all of a sudden and speaks.
"Hahaha, amusing, One of my best magic didn't have much effect on you. But on that hand, you are no longer a human are you?"
"So you noticed, I am half demon now."
"That makes things easier. By the will of the Dark god I command you to become my slave demon!" he shouts while raising his palm towards me.
Nothing happens.
"Ummm, excuse me can I leave? Your magic won't work on me, Actually, I am immune to magic."
This statement of mine leaves the demon lord in shock but he doesn't let it show in his expression.
"Earlier my magic did work on him for a short time. Maybe he is affected by Elemental and cosmic magic?"
"Earth demon: Stone Cannon!" the demon lord shouts
This summons multiple small spikes which shoot at high speed at me, expecting them to vanish I stand still but suddenly I feel pain in my chest. One of the bullets stuck me in my chest but thanks to my new strength they didn't. get too deep in my tough muscles. I try to keep standing, my wounds heal Quickly as I take the stone out.
It seems like He withdrew his mana from the stone bullets after shooting them at high speed like a Bullet from a rifle.
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