Chapter 57 - Blood Thirst Senses Overflow

The two companions had to go through a total of ten cycles before they noticed the number of humans in the corridors decreasing swiftly.

The dark corridors progressively became more hoarse as the blood of the fallen coated the corridors.

In one of such chances, they had a great encounter!

*CLANG!*

Vera's knife pierced through the enemy's knife as she struggled to keep her place, this demon is not a pushover, she can recognise him!

"IT'S YOU!" 

The demon that attacked Valentine like a slippery rat back then!

It's a dark-skinned demon with two big horns.

The demon smirked when he saw his short sword get pierced and glared at the Rose Eagle Thorn with greed in his eyes as the purple-skinned Sasha regarded everything while on guard, her attention set on Vera.

"Oh? you're one of the protectors, you're still here... I guess that bastard has met his end by now, so much for a protector~" The demon started to run the moment the vines regained their vigour, but how could Vera let him go, this demon is strong, surely his core is tasty!

"Shut up!"

'KILL HIM! DEVOUR HIM!' The bloody knife seemed to scream with increasing demand, forming a small headache in her head at its bloodlust.

'You don't have to tell me twice!' But the influence had already phased through, she's no longer the same... yes, she craves to devour as well, even if her fundamental values haven't changed, Vera Sidorov now craves to eat demon cores and crystals, they're no longer disgusting as they used to be in the forest, they're tasty!

Vera ran after him while followed by a sighing Sasha, they evaded the Vines with increasing dexterity, having repeated this so many times, Vera has somehow gotten used to patterns, right now whether she survives one of the corridors is not a question, it's a fact, it's not about strength, so long as she could understand how the vines work, she can evade them.

And this dark-skinned demon is no different.

Even after the three of them moved through one of the intersections, Vera never stopped tailing after the demon.

"You're a nasty one!"

"Give your filthy core, bastard!"

Seeing that Vera was courting death with insistence, in an empty corridor, the dark-skinned demon decided to steal that knife from her, it's obviously better than his cracked one.

"Come here then!" He believes himself to be more skilled than this filthy protector.

Once he stopped, rather than rushing harshly, Vera regarded Valentine's instructions in her head, she knows she can't blindly rush forward onto a waiting enemy, still she evaluated the demon's position and looked for any flaws.

"Don't involve, Sasha... I want to test myself against him."

"He's not a pushover..."

"I know, that's why!"

*SLASH!*

Vera sent a testing slash that got countered with the demon's counterattack as he evaded, due to his short sword being cut, their weapons were roughly the same length, but Vera's knife is obviously way sharper, a single hit from her could be lethal for the demon.

"I'll make sure to take your soul with that knife, girl... you must be at least an onyx! and then you two, filthy bitch once I slice her neck, you will follow!"

The demon, seeing her reluctance to engage proactively, started to slash forward, drawing Vera back into a defensive position, he knows that for her to have this skill and even have a demoness as her ally, she must not be carbon by any means.

Vera grit her teeth and kept parrying the slashes, but the demon had skills with the sword, cutting her several times, still, she didn't lose her calm, the man has been clashing their weapons in a way that will allow him to slide through rather than parry with strength, keeping the integrity of his weapon, therefore, she only has to force him!

*BANG!*

She took a chance to keep the man's right leg that had been more to the front than his left leg, the demon stumbled, surprised at Vera's physical strength as his thrill increased in-pace with his indignance, how could this human have physical strength enough to counter him!?

"Die!" 

He increased his vigour, but with that came a barrage of flaws that moved through Vera's mind as if in front of her it was Fayette instead of this demon, but... this 'Fayette' unlike the real one that she adores, is making a lot of mistakes.

*SLASH!!*

She made such an accurate cut, that it went through the demon's fingers, cutting them easily and making him drop his sword!

Vera carried on with a kick to the gut that drew the demon back, and kept her onslaught, the dark-skinned fiend got forced into the defensive as she went as far as to pick up his sword and throw ravenous hits one after the other.

The demon grit his teeth in indignance and tried to flee as he had clearly underestimated this protector, but how would Vera allow him to?

When she saw him running, she took her sword and threw it as if it was a spear, impaling the demon's leg and making him stumble!

"Got you!"

She lunged on the fallen demon and sliced her knife through his skull relentlessly until she made sure the bastard is thoroughly dead.

'As expected of a demon of pride... it was his downfall, a pity... he was a talented youngling, I'm surprised that with this skill he's not yet a demon soldier... he must be quite young and inexperienced.' Sasha evaluated the entire situation and had to lift an eyebrow in admiration at Vera's increasing skills.

'Also, nothing less from someone that is with 'him'... Rose Thorn, so that's what you were.'

Vera's eyes shone in a red glint when she extracted the shining bloody core that seemed no different from a snack in front of her eye, plundering it away from the desolated corpse of a demon of pride.

A part of her even felt graced, as if she had slaughtered that bitch that lay her arms on her man, Lucretia Descartes.

She had also been a dark-skinned demoness, a powerful one that even the current her couldn't even hope to defeat.

*CRUNCH!!*

The core seemed to melt in her mouth as she swallowed it right away without any consideration to whether Sasha would want it or not... this is her prey, she hunted it!

...

"... are you done?" Sasha who had been sitting to the side, eventually called out to her... when not even the bones were left.

It's incredible how quickly she devoured an entire corpse... just like that.

Still, she doesn't feel any fear of approaching Vera.

"Y-Yes... sorry, I lost myself there for a minute." Vera's eyes quivered with a red glint, her hands shivered in ecstasy as well as fear... how exactly did this happen? why again? initially, she just craved the core... that delicious core, but before she even knew... her jaws were crushing bones.

She really just devoured the entire body of a demon that's visually bigger than her? how is that even possible? why is her stomach not building at all?

She devoured an individual's whose weight in mass should be way greater than her own yet her belly is not even full!?

Still, the Rose Eagle Thorn shone with a dark brilliance, in extreme satisfaction.

Sasha regarded all this with utter nonchalance, to her, this is not uncommon.

"Yes, I know... Zamira was much the same... the Rose Eagle Thorn's influence is strong... don't let it control you, Vera." Yes, she could recall their encounter back then... they fucked and the woman still dared to leave her just to follow a slightly powerful demon that passed close by, the Rose Eagle Thorn can't suppress her bloodlust regardless of the circumstances... it's a part of the deal that implies becoming stronger.

"It might be too late already, Sasha..."  Vera stood up and sighed at her bloodied attire, she did it again.

"I think this generation's Sinister Sundew will have it difficult with someone like you around" Sasha smirked evilly at the thought.

"Sinister Sundew?" The Russian beauty's zircon eyes contemplated Sasha as the words resounded with poison within her mind.

Just listening to this name, she felt like killing already.

"If you don't know yet, you will know when the knife decides to tell you, I'm sure it's more than a little delighted now that you're having such a banquet for its sake... as the Rose Thorn, this mahogany tree is perhaps one of the best places for you to be aside from the 'Forbidden Rendezvous' that is...

"What kind of place is it?"

"Well, it's a place where hundreds of people, humans are demons are placed in the same coliseum, closed... for several centuries... everything is allowed inside, you can already imagine what happens inside... it's one of the Lust Circle's main attractions for tourists... the orgies that produce inside... they're exquisite~" Uttering those words, Sasha licked her

"Have you participated in one of them?" Vera stood up and pulled Sasha whose exquisite body wiggled and bounced.

"... No, not them... something else more appealing." The purple-skinned demoness spoke cryptically and prepared to set off once again.

"Doesn't sound convincing... that means you're a voyeur and have seen them all the way to the end?~"

"I... AM NOT... A VOYEUR...."