110 Chapter 38 - Grave Portals (2/2)
”CHARGE!” Jack roared, allowing the heat to fill his limbs with power. Behind him came the rush of Battle Prayers of the Nameless Legion and a rush of feet.
Bounding forward faster and faster, Jack easily outstripped them all to crash into the first wave of demon spawn to attack in turn. Fearless cut through two devil hard bodies with each swing, his holy armour able to handle the blows of the demon spawn without a dent. A flash of steel flew past him, the Flower Knight and her all-female companions crashing into the rightmost enemy flank.
Having led a bloody path to the Alter of demon bone, arranged with graves filled with corpses, Jack was thrown back by a crashing of a Crimson Bomemoth's roar. Recovering quickly Jack cast ”[Goldenheart][Greater Speed]!” in quick succession, and released even greater amounts of internal power to slip around the Crimson Behemoth's siege claws and leave a burst of crimson in his wake.
The huge demon bellowed in pain as its side was ripped open, and again when Jack clambered over
its body to slash it along it's back. Sliding down the nape of the huge demon's neck, Jack tore a massive hole through the demon's neck, before sliding around its face to slash all four of its eyes.
Coming to the aid of its mate, the other Crimson Behemoth slammed into the creature's side, and unleashed a tide of tentacles from its mouth to reach at Jack. Unleashing a [Holy Fireball] stored within his armour, the creature howled as the ball of holy flame exploded in its gullet and set tentacle and mouth aflame like crude oil.
Tha napalm-like affect of the Three's purifying flame caused the Crimson behemoth to scream incoherently and crash around - it's tail shattered the alter, while it's footing slipped and the whole beast slid into the collection of deep graves. Once the holy flame touched the demonic infused corpses down there, jets of holy flame erupted from the graves to turn everything within to ash and cinder.
Meanwhile jack finished off the remaining Crimson Behemoth with huge cleaving strikes, and the NameLess Legion butchered the remaining Demon Spawn while the more intelligent Imps fled into the Crimsonwastes and far away from the slaughter. Just more demons to this cursed plain, Jack let the Flower Knight lead the charge to mow them down while Dana descended from the sky.
”What do you think this is?” Dana held up a red ribbon made into a loop with plenty left over to dangle below, ”Was on the Demon, called it a 'tie'. The Demon claimed it was an 'employee' too and that I was 'trespassing'....what a strange thing to say.”
”Strange indeed. Perhaps some of the 18 Evil Souls are working with them, it would explain the sudden rise of demonic portals,” Jack muttered and strained his eyes across this bloody forest.
”We should get going, the report from the King said there are another two portals North of here. Just like the fortress from whence we came, the wards there attracted a small raiding party trying to slip by.”
And from the descriptions, it was the same disc-like portal of the one he sought. Clenching his fist, Jack swore that power would be his, and then all this could finally be over.
”Gather what you can quickly, we move soon!” He roared the Nameless Legion and accompanying Red Robes hurrying to obey. Too slowly, for even with other Templar bands out in this frontier, they reduced the enemies numbers far too slowly.
A demonic invasion was coming, and humanity would rise to fight it.
Heroes would arise from the lowliest peasants to the greatest nobles, pushed to action by the horrific slaughter. The mere thought made Jack's blood boil, dedicated to halting that eventuality. No matter the cost.