Chapter 458 (1/2)
Banuklaak clattered in horror as it felt itself in a totally unknown situation. No place to stand, and nothing to hang on. It was floating in the midst of the void, yet untold amount of primal energies were rushing into its body. It started gasping for air. That was however the least of its problems, the real threat was the ray of light that was unbelievably bright. The light was searing hot and contained unknown form of energy, the demon realised that he was dying by the passing second.
Its chitin carapace and demonic barrier had failed, and its body was quickly being reduced into nothing but mush.
Banuklaak struggled futilely as the searing light threatened to engulf him. Thrashing about, it was trying to get a good look on what the light was, but in real space, this was useless. It tried to use its spells to escape the area, but then realised he was being held by something even stronger. A gravity well so strong that it was being dragged right into the light, and prevent it from using any dimensional magic.
Sensing that its life was quickly fading away, the ancient demon finally felt fear, it noticed that the weird man who had sent him here was just before him, and it struggled to speak. “STOP…. STOP PLESAE!! I DON’T WANT TO FIGHT YOU!! I WAS BEWITCHED BY SERATHON! I CAN SWEAR MY LOYALTY ONCE AGAIN TO THE CRAZED DEMON KING…. OR TO YOU!!! PLEASE, STOP!!! GET ME…..”
Its voice was swallowed whole by the voice, and aside from the shuddering of its carapace, there was no sound.
Hao Ren was ‘standing’ not far away from Banuklaak. His shield rippled as it protected him against the cosmic radiation and other harmful particles. He was almost like the sun god incarnate as a sphere around him was ablaze. He looked at the giant bug demon slowly descending into the light and wanted to know what the latter was saying. But sadly, he could not hear anything. Shrugging his shoulders, he mumbled to himself. “This is the stars that you lot had ignored.”
Banuklaak, the sly and opportunistic ancient demon whose careers spanned multiple allegience, backstabs, misdirection. The demon who rose from a lowly hell maggot into a demon lord. Countless other allies and demon lords was waylaid by the scheming demon, and through his cunning he had lived longer than any other demon, but all that came to an end today. Drowning in the blaze of cosmic fire.
This proved that even how cunning, how well planned one was, it was nothing in the face of brute, primal force. Banuklaak perished under the power of nature, and he died a crisp.
Hao Ren eyed his shield gauge and turned back with a heroic swag. “Lets go.”
A real man does not turn back to see a crispy roasted giant bug.
The battlefield was a sea of chaos, at least for the Allied army and the demon host. The unknown enemy had thrown even the most experienced of generals into confusion and most soldiers could only scatter and run for their lives under the intense bombardment. Their ability to resist was almost taken out in short order. Both the Aerym fleet and the Demon King’s Army had noticed the turn of the tide and did not bother taking on the now demoralised soldiers. Their primary targets was still the arcane and demonic cannons. They never intended to harvest a sea of their enemy’s blood, it was only to protect the retreating space hulk. Neither the Allied Army or the demon host was on the target list.
“Destroy the cannons! Leave the men!” Y’zaks swung his blade as he roared his orders, partly for the benefit of the enemy. “Our mission is to protect!”
The Allied Army and demon host soldiers soon realised that they were no longer the targets of the flying metal boxes and chainswords, and their sense of preservation trumped their will to fight, and the soldiers manning the firebase ran for their lives. Not even General Grigory could stem the retreat.
Hao Ren suddenly reappeared on Lily’s head. A giant piece of pork rib was stuck into his spear. Pointing towards Y’zaks direction, he ordered. “Lets rendezvous!”
Lily’s eyes turned towards Y’zaks, and after letting out a bone-shattering howl, she sped towards to Helcrown. Vivian too reappeared from a mist of blood. All combatants were regrouping at him, and Y’zaks after scouting the area, was pleased find that all of the demonic cannon was wrecked. Nodding hard, “There’s nothing left here. Lets go.”
Hao Ren and the rest of the Demon King’s Army retreated under the protection of the Obsidian Colossals. Then again, little of what remained of the demon host came to stop them. The death of Serathon and Banuklaak had shattered their morale, and they were in no mood to fight.