63 To protect my sister (2/2)
”... But I'm kinda in a hurry right now...”
The high-demon stared at her with curiosity.
”You... You can use magic...”
”I can also sing, dance, and do party tricks, now GET LOST!!!”
She hit the ground with all her strength and a massive rock spike emerged and moved to stab the high demon's body.
However, the spike was completely stopped before it reached him.
”Huh...!?”
The demon was staring at the spike that was a few inches away from his nose a poke it with his finger.
”... Was this... Was this supposed to harm me or something...?”
”...!!!???”
Evlin started to punch the ground again and again trying to release magic from her gauntlets, but nothing happened.
”I'm out of magic??? Now????”
Evlin stopped to think about it and realized that she had been using magic like a maniac for the whole day today. A few hours ago she used a lot of her power to change the appearance of all of her friends to make them look like monsters. Then she used even more power to make a bridge and help her and Gustav get across an absurdly large pit. And just a while ago, after hearing about Ashley's situation, she kept rampaging across the mountain's path killing everything she could meet eyes with.
She was honestly surprised she didn't run out of magic much before this point.
The demon was just looking at her wondering if she was going to do anything but he realized she was just a lost as him right now.
”... Anyway... Die!”
The demon started to rush towards her. His massive size made the ground shake every time his legs would hit the terrain.
Evlin got out of the way before he could step on her but she realized he was going for a different target, his spear.
He grabbed his weapon off the wall and prepared to throw it at her again.
Evlin managed to dodge it in time but the moment the spear collided with the ground a huge shockwave was released and pushed her back.
The giant demon used this opportunity to pounce on her with his two front horse legs.
Evlin recovered herself and tried to leap away from his stomp, but the moment she did that the demon grabbed her with his massive hands and started to squeeze her like a toy.
”I thought you were more powerful and would give me a nice challenge... But you are all bark and no bite...”
”Ughh!!!!”
Evlin couldn't react. She was focusing all her strength on using her arms to stop herself from being squashed.
Gustav tried to call the high-demons's attention.
”Stop!! We are not enemies!!”
”So...?”
”Huh...??”
”Who cares if we are not enemies...? A good fight is a good fight! And I want to see what else this little bird can offer!!”
”Stop!! Please!!”
”Come on bird!! You were doing some really interesting things a while ago... Show me what else you can do!! Show me your power!!”
”Ugh!!!”
Evlin couldn't even speak right now. She was too exhausted from using so much magic all day. The last time she felt like that was during her fight with the demon-slayers when she channeled all her magic in one giant attack. Right now, she had no more power to defeat this monster.
”Come on!!! Show me!!! You survived an attack from demon-slayers right?? You gotta have more fight than that!!”
”Ughhhhh!!!!!”
”I can give you a better fight...”
The demon, Evlin, and Gustav all turned their attention away as they heard a voice. They all turned their heads and spotted a green girl with vines on the place where hair would be and several leafs coming out of her clothes.
She was sitting on top of one of the pillars with a grin on her face and eyes filled with bloodlust. Her left hand was a huge leaf-blade and was drenched with blood of the same color of the dead serpent monster that was just sleeping there a few minutes ago.
Evlin looked at the girl and tears came to her eyes.
”Ash...!?”
”Hey sis...”
Ashley dropped from the pillar and landed on the snow. She slowly approached the demon who still had Evlin in his hands and glared at him.
”Let... My sister... Go... Now!”
”Mmmm... A dryad... You friends with this little bird?”
”You have five seconds... Five...”
”Hahaha... Aren't you a cocky one! Interesting!”
”Four...”
”Very well, let's see if you can give me a proper challenge!”
”Three...”
The demon placed Evlin in his left hand and reached to grab his spear on the snow.
”Two...”
”Get ready little dryad!! This is the power of a high-demon!!!”
The horse monster swung his spear to smash Ashley, but before he could, she simply waved her leaf-blade arm and slashed the spear in half.
”One...”
She then followed by turning her arm into several vines with spikes on its ends and stabbed the demon in several places until it fell on his knees.
”Guuhhagagag!!!!”
The demon lost all the strength on his body and finally released Evlin. She almost fell on the ground but Ashley managed to catch her with her vines.
The demon kept staring at Ashley with a body full of wounds all over it and release his last words.
”S- So... Strong...”
A slashing sound could be heard as Ashley cut the demon's head off after turning her arm into a leaf-blade again. She simply stared at the head falling over like if it was a bag of trash.
”So weak...”
Evlin was so weak and tired right now that she could barely see what was going on. She could only hear the voice of her sister and a blurred image of her face covered in green.
”Ash...”
”It's ok Evie... I got you... I won't let anyone hurt you again...”
Evlin heard those words and finally fell into a deep sleep.
She then opened her eyes again and realized she was back at the white void.