Chapter 58 - Burning Past, Scalding Wood

"Are you ready? there should be way fewer humans now..."

The pair of beauties with bloodied rags which only further incited those of questionable souls into being lured to the abyss by their alluring bodies, stood up in front of an intersection with two paths with cursed mahogany vines, and another free shadowy path where there wasn't any mist coming out of it.

Now, it's time for the truth... for real, and Vera's quivering body served as proof of this fact.

"I'm ready, have the bottles and the bombs ready." Sasha answered, not as nervous as her human companion if she could still be called that after her last stunt, she held a bottle filled with the inflammable Sollux liquid in her hand.

"Do you know how the bombs work?" Vera took out some of the bombs, but the more she looked at them, the more she didn't know how the fuck she should use them!

Is she supposed to just throw them at the beast? do they work like dynamite charges? but she can't see any string to light it up from!

"No, I don't..." She admitted with shame and passed one the deadpanning Sasha.

*SIGH!*

"Okay, it's like this, you got a lighter, right?" She had to ask, the worst scenario possible is that this Russian klutz forgot the most important thing when it came to producing fire...

"Of course I did, who do you think I am?!"

"..."

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Turns out this 'ball' only needs to be heated up until it starts to flicker in red light, of course, they didn't test it now as the number is limited and they can't afford to waste one of them just like that.

"How do you know this, Sasha?" Perhaps due to her quivering legs, Vera tried to asks ridiculous questions with shivering lips, only to get her bloodied hand pulled roughly by Sasha!

"WHO CARES?! LET'S GO! GO! WE'RE SAVING YOUR LOVERS!" The demoness took her hand and rushed inside the alleyway's intersection, bomb-in-hand!

"THEY'RE NOT MY LOVERS! UGH! YEAH LET'S GO!!"

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"AAAAAHHHHH!!!"

"H-HELP ME! I-CAN'T!! UGH!!! I-IT GOT ME!!"

Said and done, they arrived in front of the chaos yet again, but Vera's nervousness was not as she regarded this horrifying creature, she has already seen it dozens of times, her apprehension is caused by something else.

Will this work? will she be able to save them with this?

When the moment of the truth came, she feared at all her efforts would be for nothing, that this creature would shrug away this fire just as it had done with the slashes, that she wouldn't be able to save the two individuals that she cares for.

But... as the creature stood in front of her, walking heavily as its vines swiped through with fury, looking for prey, she tightened her teeth and smiled.

It doesn't matter if it works or not... what matters is that she's giving it her all to save the two people she cares for the most... she didn't run away and hide, she wasn't a 'coward'... she came here on her own volition, without being controlled by anybody... not by Lev, not by Fayette, not by Valentine.

She's here because she wants to be here!

Therefore, she took one of those bottles filled with the inflammable liquid, and threw it at the creature!

*BAANGG!!!*

The sollux splashed all over th creature as the bottle broke!

"SASHA!!"

"HERE!! THROW IT QUICKLY!"

The demoness had already been heating up the ball and kicking the vines, she passed it to Vera as if it was a hot potato, the ball flickered with a red haze, indicating that it was activated!

"TAKE THIS BITCH! GIVE THEM BACK NOW!!!"

Filled with determination and even faith, Vera threw that ball at the creature and braced for impact, she doesn't know how potent this thing is.

The ball hit the creature on the face like a rock and fell pitifully on the ground, still flickering, faster every second.

Vera and Sasha regarded all this, they don't know how potent this charge is as they have different qualities, Sasha awaited the explosion as she knows how it works already, but Vera regarded it with disappointment.

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*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!-------------

"HOLY SH- UGH!!" Vera and Sasha were blasted through the corridor by the sheer shockwave, the vines burned together with their skin!

"WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

The pained wails of a creature revered through the hallowed corridor and into Vera's pleasured eardrums sounded better than Valentine grunting in pleasure against her ears.

Because that this damned bastard tree got hurt!

That shit was potent...

Her eyes opened as she regained herself together with Vera, they were blasted at least ten metres away and she felt it through her entire body.

She saw a scalding ball of flames encompassing the furious creature, burning its skin as if preparing it for barbeque and her blood boiled.

'IT WORKS, IT WORKS!!'

"HAAAAA!!"

She stood up with haste in front of the stupefied Sasha, she didn't expect that bomb to be so potent... she stood up and undusted herself lightly, preparing to throw yet another one, and that's when she saw something ridiculous!

"VERA!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"

Vera took her Rose Eagle Thorn and started to slash the creature's limbs crazily, burning herself in the process!

The Russian beauty's skin burned, pained her, destroyed her skin, scalded her raw flesh but she didn't care!

She has been through worse burning, right now, the only thing that can enter her accursed red eyes is that this creature is being cut!

The 'limbs' can be sliced now unlike before!

The vines withered through the fire together with the corpses of the humans that had been entangled beneath.

"GIVE THEM BACK TO ME!! GIVE THEM BACK!!!"

Sasha gaped at what her eyes were witnessing, this woman, doesn't she feel pain?

She can literally see Vera's raw flesh burning, but the woman's scalding Rose Eagle Thron won't stop sinking inside the creature's body until it fell.

*BOOOOMMMMM!!!*

The creature fell back onto its own withering vines, and that's when Vera carried on... she took a bottle even as her flesh burned and threw it at the vines behind, even coating her own flesh with it!

"VERA!!!" How can she continue like this!?

Sasha seemingly forgot the burning hell Vera went through together with Valentine and Fayette, how many times had fire and ashes rained on them?

She's already used to this pain, perhaps, she'd rather be burned by now than suffer any piercing damage.

The beauty didn't heed, she started to cut her way through the corridor, her hot knife cutting better than before as the vines burned the corridor, leaving a mist of smoke that extended through the place.

She found bodies being tortured, vines protruding through the sockets where eyes were supposed to be, piercing the organs, killing the consciousness of those damned souls that were unlucky enough to fall on its grasp.

And the more she saw this, the more determined she became, as she imagined her Valentine and her Fayette going through something like this, she couldn't take it... therefore, she splashed more of that liquid and continued moving through the corridor together with an awestruck Sasha.

As the corridor finished, she slashed the last burned vines as her body no longer resembled that of a human... right now she's just a cluster of burned skin.

They appeared in one intersection and the entire place seemed to shake for some reason, as if the Mahogany tree was in deep agony, twisting and turning its roots across this multi-dimensional torture chamber.

Vera delighted at those shakes, she could feel it... but even then, her body just slumped on the ground as Sasha took her.

"That was ridiculous, Vera! What were you thinking!?" Sasha's voice was frantic, this is perhaps the craziest human she has seen in a while, how can she go through this kind of torture so casually?!

'Could it be because of the Rose Eagle Thorn?' That's the only possibility, there is no conceivable way that a human that has no mutation can go through such pain without losing her consciousness, that is unless... she's a silver soul? or a golden soul? Not even a bronze can go through this kind of torture and remain sane.

What are the odds?

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"I thought... that I want to save them no matter what, Sasha... I want to see their faces again... please, help me... just until I heal... cover me." Vera panted only now did the pain come back through her sensors past the ecstasy and the thrill of the moment.

Vera Sidorov lost her consciousness right at that moment.

She didn't find them but she felt satisfied due to the fact that this method works with sparkles and wonders... she has succeeded. As long as she keeps doing it, even if it takes a thousand years to find them, she will find them eventually.

There is hope!

Sasha regarded the burned Vera and pressed her tightly against her chest, myriad thoughts moved through her mind regarding the incident that just took place.

'Stupid girl... no wonder he can't forget you... going to such an extent...'

Sasha took the girl into a calmed corridor and had her sleep on her lap, she had done splendidly.... but there must be a more effective way than this.