260 Eyes of a fighter (2/2)

Auren noticed that her eyes had widened up for some reason, ”Evlin...??”

”That's it!! That's how I can find Knucker's body!! I just need to use my geo-radar on the entire planet!!”

”WHAT!!??”

”Auren! You're a genius!!” Evlin stated while kissing his bald head.

”Wait, hold on!! You wanna use your power on the entire planet?? Can you even do that??”

Evlin began to ponder about that and a dangerous idea came to mind, ”Maybe I can... If... If I use terminal energy...”

”Evlin...”

”We are here!” stated one of the guards that were guiding the two as they reached the end of the tunnel.

”You will come with us! Make company to the emperor while he enjoys the battle... And act as a motivation in case she tries to escape...” another one ordered while looking at Auren, ”As for the girl, she must go alone!”

Evlin began to worry about her friend, ”Will you let us go if I win?”

All of the masked men began to burst into laughter.

”Lady... If you win with these small arms and legs, we might just make you our queen!” the guard from before commented.

Evlin gazed with confusion at her limbs for a moment. It was true that she had quite the defined muscles for someone her age, but when compared to the riders who all looked bigger than her fridge and had arms of the size of a log, she began to see how they could assume she was not as strong as her supposed warrior eyes were letting it out to be.

”Is that a promise?” she wondered.

”Just try to last more than five seconds, young one!”

They pushed Evlin into the arena and closed the doors of the tunnel leaving her to study the place by herself and realize that she was locked in what appeared to be some kind of underground colosseum. Since they were underground many torches had to be lit up to illuminate the area.

The place was filled with masked civilians cheering and roaring for the show to start from the grandstand.

Her gaze continued to circle the place until she spotted the white-masked guy from before sitting on a throne with Auren by his side. Evlin waved at him as if asking to wish her luck.

From the looks of the throne, it seemed like this guy was some kind of king or emperor to these people.

”Begin the challenge!!” he shouted while waving his hand.

Evlin stared at another gate located on the opposite side of the arena and noticed it began to open as well.

She assumed her battle stance and began preparations for whoever it would come out. The guards asked her if she wanted an ax or a shield to use in battle before, but she replied that she already had everything she needed while staring at her magic whip.

Immediately she began to use it to release healing magic in order to boost her strength and speed.

A massive cry was heard coming from deep inside of the opposite tunnel and a large shadow began to come out of it with heavy steps.

Evlin took a deep breath and stared at the beast, a huge humanoid creature with four arms, grey skin, and no head. It's torso had a face with a pair of red eyes and a wide mouth that couldn't stop drooling while looking at her.

Its lower half had  the tail of a snake and several spikes could be seen behind its back.

”Human foooood...” the grey headless being whispered.

”A demon...?” Auren gasped, ”You guys don't use monsters to fight?”

”Of course!” the emperor replied, ”You think we would risk getting one of our warriors or our monsters killed just for momentary entertainment? That would be a waste of resources!”

The crossbow mage without a crossbow began to giggle. She was worried about having to harm some poor beast due to her fondness of animals, but harming demons on the other hand was barely a problem for her.

”HUMAN FOOOOD!!!!!” the grey demon shouted as it rushed through the field to catch the young woman in front of him.

Evlin raised an eyebrow, ”You know... I never really got why demons love saying that... 'Human food' is something humans eat, it doesn't mean food made of humans... It kinda sounds like you guys are asking for a sandwich or something...”

”HUMAN FOOOD!!!!” the demon shouted again, this time inches away from striking her.

”Not a guy with very rich vocabulary, are you?” Evlin commented.

All of the citizens began to yell ”Blood! Blood! Blood!” in excitement.

She used her geo-radar and easily dodged the demon by predicting where his attack would land as she hopped to his side, much to the surprise of the public.

The woman rushed to strike her opponent but its skin was harder than she expected and she ended up being pushed back by the demon. Evlin boosted her legs to escape his attempts to catch her and began to play a game of cat and mouse, constantly leaping left and right to avoid its arms.

The audience started to sheer seeing how well Evlin was handling herself and surviving for so long.

”Hahaha!! She ain't half bad!!” the emperor stated while hitting Auren with his elbow and pointing at the mage.

She tried to land a few more hits here and there but the creature was too tough for her regular boosted-strength.

He turned around to search for her and noticed the miss getting ready to attack one more time.

”Human fooood!!!”

”Okay, girls... Show mommy what you can do...” she whispered as she began to focus on the terminal beings inside of her.

Evlin took one look at the demon, raised her fist, and just as the creature was about to swallow her, her eyes shined with three different colors for a split-second.

Her body began to get warmer, power started to flow through her bones, the same kind of power she felt when facing the demon leader of Sloth, when fighting against Wrath, when helping Ria boost her portal, the power of terminal fire.

The words [Let us out...] echoed in her mind as her fist ignited itself with energy that continued to change colors.

”Human foooo- Guaaaahhck!!!”

The mage stared at the grey man and smacked its stomach-head right in its center, sending it flying all the way to the gate where it came out from and trashing it completely in the process.

The entire audience went silent at that very moment and began to stare at her who just clenched her fists.

She gazed at the emperor, who looked like he was completely frozen, and began to smirk, ”So... Does this mean I'm your queen now?”

Part 3

”What....” the emperor whispered, ”What... Was that...??”

He did not know how to react after witnessing one of the demons that his men had so much trouble capturing being sent flying with one punch from a girl that was half his size.

”What did she do!!??” he screamed.

”She punched him in the face...” Auren bluntly replied, ”That's kind of her thing... That, and blasting things with her crossbow...”

”Crossbow...? Wait a minute... Is this woman...”

The emperor continued to stare at Evlin who was taking her time stretching her arms and legs after defeating the demon.

She was carefully analyzing the aftermath of activating terminal energy on her own since she now was planning on using that on a much larger scale in the future.

”Mmm... Doesn't seem like there is a lot of knockback from using just this much... But I wonder if I could end up in trouble if I used it on a global scale...” She mumbled while holding her chin, ”I need to do a few more experiments... HEY, WHITE-MASK!! CAN I GET ANOTHER ONE??”

The public shifted their gaze to the emperor who acted like he was frozen in time for a second. He quickly recovered his senses and started to scream again.

”Send out the next challenge!!” he shouted.

The audience started to cheer loudly as they were now excited to see Evlin perform.

She stared at a gate opening on her left and witnessed another creature coming out of it.

It looked like a serpent with three alligator heads and wings of a fly on its back. Each head contained a massive horn that was set on fire.

”Oh, man... This is so weird... I swear one of my students drew something just like that once during one of my lessons... Except his was red...”

The creature circled Evlin like a dragonfly, constantly trying to stay away from her field of vision and getting behind her.

Evlin was never a big fan of facing flying opponents so she decided to leave the terminal fire testing for later and try to handle the situation with her usual powers.

She pulled out her whip and struck the ground to make a massive hand made of rocks appear in an attempt to grab the creature.

”Earth magic!!” the emperor gasped, ”It really is her!!”

The demon managed to avoid the hand with its superior speed and began to unleash a beam of fire from each of its horns aimed at Evlin after moving to her blindspot while screaming ”Fooood!!!”

Evlin whipped the ground again and raised a wall of diamonds to block the blast. She then used her whip to latch onto the wall and threw it and the demon, but just like before, it's superior agility proved to be too much for her, and it easily avoided the projectile.

”Ugh... This is so annoying... Where is Ashley when I need her? She would have come up with ten different plans to take this thing down by now...” Evlin complained.

The demon tried to fly behind her again and launched another triple blast of fire.

Evlin released some healing magic and leaped out of the way with her boosted speed. The demon continued to follow her with its beam like a kid trying to burn an ant with a magnifying glass.

The mage noticed the demon playing follow the leader and decided to strike the ground once again to raise a pile of smoke, and once it cleared out, several earth golems that looked just like her were revealed, making the demon confused on where to aim.

While the demon kept himself busy with the golems, Evlin used this chance to take a page from its book and rushed to get behind it.

She launched her whip one more time and finally managed to grab its serpent tail.

Evlin smirked at the demon and released one word, ”Boom!”

Immediately after that, she unleashed a blast of raw energy from the end of her whip that blew up the demon's body into pieces.

As its remains continued to fall Evlin pulled her whip back and tied up again to her arm.

”I'll admit, it's not really my thing, but I guess I could get used to it...” she commented while trying to get used to her new weapon.

”Way to go Evlin!!” Auren shouted.

”Thanks, Auren!” She replied while making a victory sign with her fingers.

Then, as if following Auren's behavior, one person in the audience began to scream as well, ”Evlin! Evlin! Evlin!”

The mage turned around confused thinking someone was calling her, but right after that another person began to call her name as well, then another, then another.

She then finally realized, they weren't calling her, they were cheering.

”EVLIN!! EVLIN!! EVLIN!! EVLIN!!”

”What in the world...?” she mumbled. Evlin was more than used to people hating her, but this was the first time such a large number were expressing support.

”Send the next challenge!!” the emperor shouted again.

Another gate began to open, this time on her right, and from it another demon crying ”Human fooood!!” came out once again.

This one was also humanoid, but its muscular body was covered in black fur, his hands and feet were replaced with claws and paws, and above its shoulders, instead of a human head there was the face of a lion with blood-red eyes.

”Daren...?” Evlin whispered as she looked at the demon.

”Human food...” the demon replied, followed by standing on all four and vanishing in thin air.

He then quickly reappeared in front of the mage and slashed her arm with its nails.

”Guaaahhhh!!” Evlin cried as she rolled on the ground that was now covered with some of her blood.

”Evlin!! Fight!! That's not Daren! That's a demon!!” Auren tried to scream.

”Ugh!! Right, right... Daren has been freed from his curse years ago... ” she whispered while healing her wounded arm.

The black beast vanished again with great speed, but Evlin reacted by using her geo-radar and predicting where it would strike next.

”There!!” she shouted while striking the ground with her fist that was tangled in her magic whip and made a wall of diamonds rise up to block the beast's attack.

The black demon lion was caught off-guard by the sudden wall appearing and Evlin used this chance to send all of the golems she had summoned before to go after him to lock it in place.

”Gruaahhhhh!!!!” he screamed trying to fight off the golems latching onto his arms and legs.

Evlin hurried towards her diamond wall and smacked it with her fist to send out some modeling magic that turned it into a griffin's head flying at the demon and striking it in its stomach.

”Kuaahhhh!!!” the demon cried after being smacked by the bird-shaped diamond.

Evlin noticed the lion-man no longer moving and began to call all of her diamonds to her in order to create one huge golem in the shape of a griffin to ride on top of.

”WHO IS YOUR QUEEN!!??” she shouted for the entire audience to answer while pointing at the sky.

”EVLIN!! EVLIN!! EVLIN!! EVLIN!!!” all of those present began to chant in response.

”I can't believe it... It really is her!!” the emperor whispered sounding as if he was about to cry, followed by shouting even louder than anyone present there, ”OUR HERO IS HERE!!! THE CROSSBOW MAGE IS FINALLY HERE!!!”

Auren just stared at him, feeling a little lost, ”Hero...?”