Chapter 57: Behemoth (1/2)
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A sudden gust of wind raised the snow in the air as the temperature dropped even further. The sounds of catering teeth could be heard as two figures tried desperately to wrap themselves in a single fur cloak as they tried to walk in the thick layer of snow while dragging on the reins of two horses behind them. The level the snow had reached was too high for them to ride the horses and they couldn't leave them behind.
”Why. Did. We. Bring. Only. One. Winter. Coat. We're. Gonna. Freeze To. Death.”
”You. had. your. own. Bag. Why. Didn't. You. Bring. One. For. Your. Self.”
”I. Thought. it was. Your job. To. Pack. Clothing. And mine. To pack. our gEars.”
The argument continues at a snail's pace in the blistering cold for a while before a voice cut in from the front and broke their conversation. ”Will the both of you be quiet.” There were no signs of discomfort that came from the voice, proving it was unaffected by the cold. A sign that someone possessed some level of Cold Resistance.
He rode on a horse that was somehow able to move on top of the snow without sinking. The owner of the voice wore a thick black fur cloak, with a hood over his head that covered most of his face. He carried no weapons only a small box that was attached to the belt on his waist.
He jumped down from his horse and brought out a fur cloak from his spatial box and threw it at one of the brothers. ”Here, I asked you guys to equip yourselves well for the trip and you couldn't even buy a winter coat.” He then walked over to the head of his horse and cast a spell. The horse immediately neighed and took off running in the direction they had come from.
Without a pause, he proceeded to do the same to the other two horses before walking forward towards the entrance of the forest. Bam and Bor finally able to breathe after each equipping their fur cloaks, hurriedly followed behind their boss Zomatsu as they had finally reached their destination. The Darknar forest.
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In the vast interior of an exquisitely designed hall in the south wing of the massive demon king's castle, stood several figures as two of them stood at the center of the hall several meters apart and Tyler was one of these figures alongside Rain who stood in front of him with Albert and the two girls standing further to the side.
This was a wing Tyler hadn't been to before so he was unaware of this Practice hall as Albert had put it. Like the rest of the castle, this hall was massive, to say the least. It was about 300ft long and 200 wide and there were more than five of them on this section alone.
Tyler watched the dark elf in front of him with piqued interest, it was only a few minutes ago when he was just about to question these girls and even made a nice gesture in returning the black dagger in order to gain a level of trust but was instead challenged to a duel.
Of course, she said it wasn't a death match but she still wanted him to go all out. Although she appreciated his help she wasn't willing to just bow down to him like the rest without knowing if he was strong enough to match her. Tyler had been a bit speechless before he finally agreed to the match. To be honest, this wasn't completely bad, he needed to test his new spells, gain some more battle experience and find out how strong this dark elf really was.
Rain stood a few meters away from Tyler, she remembered when she had asked Tyler to fight her everyone in the room had gone speechless and even Liz tried to convince her otherwise. To be frank, there was no real reason for her to do this as they still owed Tyler for saving her life, but after hearing the story about what had transpired in her absence, there was one word in that story that irked her.
Behemoth.
She had heard the tale of the seven deadly demons that had shaken the entire continent more than eight hundred years ago. They were either regular demons, lesser demons, and even subsidiary races with strength rivaling that of a demon lord.
While it was easy for the Great Five to handle any family or families that went out of control. It was a lot harder to deal with Seven individuals' demons with that could match a normal leader. They were forced to compromise. Handing over some of their most undesirable regions to them to govern over without their interference.
The region may be undesirable but the behemoths still gladly took in and they thrived. Over the years several more behemoths had risen to fame, with some joining the hunter guild, merchant guild, and even joining some of the great Five and other weaker Families in order to gain something beit wealth or fame.
To Rain, these people were nothing more than brutes that knew nothing more than proving their strength. She felt that the reason they never establish a family for themselves was just because they couldn't think past their bloodlust.
All they thought about was either money or their next fight. She had also met a behemoth before and therefore didn't have any favorable opinions of them. She couldn't accept being weaker than an ignorant idiot like that and couldn't stand the fact that Liz was talking about this possible behemoth so fondly.
Rain remembered what had happened back in the darknar forest better than Liz and she knew that what Tyler had used that day must've been a Tier 6 spell or maybe even higher. With that said, and him being a magic swordsman, that must've been his most powerful spell, but in a setting like this, he wouldn't be able to use it.
She readied herself, she didn't believe she was all that far off from a behemoth and she was going to prove it in this fight. Even if she lost, she would have already made her point and proved to Liz and everyone here that this guy wasn't worth the hype.
Albert came forward and asked Tyler if he required a weapon, Tyler simply shook his head and asked Albert to start the fight. Albert walked to the center of the two and took several steps to the side before saying. ”Begin.”
Rain was surprised that Tyler hadn't taken out his sword and wondered if he was keeping it for later when he runs out of mana. 'In that case, I'll just have to force it out.'
”Twin magic, Lightning.”
Rain stretched out an arm and Tyler could see electricity crackling on her fingertips as two thick bolts of silvery-white lightning shot out of her outstretched fingertips, traveling in a snake-like motion at Tyler with great speed.
Reacting to her attack, Tyler cast a spell of his own, this time opting to use the defense spell ”Earth wall.” He felt a massive drain of his Mana and immediately reined it back. Expending too much Mana was very dangerous for him so he needed to be extra careful.