Chapter 72: Chaos

"Useless, dumb bird!" Hiro cursed again, and while his heart bled, he entered the system's shop and spent 1,000 points to buy a demonic attributed weapon.

It's such a waste! Hiro gnashed his teeth in deep regret. He only had one discount voucher left, and he wasn't about to waste it on buying a weapon.

After thinking about it for a while, Hiro also recalled that he had that interpersonal missions function; he decided to double down on that one later to farm more gems while making use of the mission context to learn about the stronghold.

"Beat this fucker to death!"

"Attack all at once!"

The black raven felt scared for a moment and it immediately took to the sky in an attempt to divert some of the firepower.

Blasts of demonic energy in the form of bullets, waves, arrows, and irregular shapes hunted him down, but the raven was very skilled in the air.

It easily dodged some, lured some into friendly fire, and used others to help dampen his momentum and change directions accordingly.

"Caw! I'm angry, Caw!"

The raven was incensed. Suddenly, his body began to wriggle and tremble before exploding in size, turning into a massive avian beast the size of a domestic car.

The sudden increase in size kicked up a sizable storm of demonic energy, and while everyone was in shock, a sudden rumbling sound ripped their senses.

Boom!

Dust and debris kicked up, and a zigzagging crevice crept along the concrete floor toward a dilapidated building in the distance, bringing it to ruin.

When the smoke cleared up, it revealed Hiro surrounded by the cosmetic hellfire, his trench coat fluttering, and a broadsword almost twice his size lodged into the ground.

A purple, pupilless eye rested on the hilt of the greatsword, red blood vessels webbing out from the eye to the guard, and extended to the body of the greatsword.

From then, the veins slowly bled out into a deep purple color, transitioning to an onyx black when reaching the sword's tip. Read new chapters at m_v-l'e-NovelFire

However, the charting was left incomplete as the sword's tip was broken for some unknown reason, leaving wisps of demonic energy leaking out, giving one the illusion that the sharp end of the sword was no more than a cluster of mist.

"Where did he get that thing from?" The raven was shocked, but it was quickly distracted by a volley of attacks headed his way.

"Caw! Insolent! Caw!"

Hiro also noticed the change in the raven's body, and he felt even angrier. Couldn't it have transformed earlier and taken us away?

However, there was no time for regret or anger at the moment. Hiro also thought about leaving the demoness behind, but after thinking about it, it's not ideal for him to always search for the easy way out.

Gritting his teeth, he closed his eyes to calm down.

Recalling on his {Espionage I} skills to enhance his intuition and situational awareness, then adding his {Professional Combat} skills to the mix, his hand gripped the hilt of his greatsword.

"Get on my back and hold on tight. If you fall off midway, consider yourself unlucky," Hiro said to the small demoness.

She nodded her head and let go of his leg, quickly jumping on his back and wounding her legs around his waist, her arms latched onto his neck.

Hiro moved a little to adjust to the additional weight, center of gravity, and deviation in rebounding force from motion.

By the time he was done adjusting and coordinating, the momentary awe effects from his sudden outburst had faded off, and another group of demons rushed over.

"If they don't push my buttons too far, I guess I won't kill any of them," Hiro murmured. It wasn't that he feared the stronghold's lord, but he didn't want to be forced out of the stronghold so soon.

No one can explain the sudden appearance of a Tier-4 standard Great Demon out of thin air, and it would draw too much attention.

"Careful," whispered the female demoness when she noticed Hiro getting a little distracted.

Hiro looked up, a huge metal barrel was hurtling his way, tossed over by a huge orge.

Hiro turned back and blocked a punch coming his way with his left hand. Then, he kicked out fiercely with his right foot, lifting the assailant off the ground as his foot sank into their lower abdomen.

At the very least, Hiro assumed that he targeted their lower torso, even though he wasn't so certain.

Without the ground beneath them, Hiro swung the poor demon over his shoulder and slammed them into the incoming barrel.

As it turned out, a flaming arrow was attached to the barrel from behind, and it was densely packed with flammable liquids.

With a boom, a thick cloud of black ash took to the sky in a mushroom cloud. It was like a smoke bomb had just gone off in the midst of the fight, robbing most creatures of their senses.

Hiro's skin prickled, feeling multiple gazes penetrating the thick smoke to land on his body.

One of them came from up above, and a mental image of a massive, brown eye with his reflection in it popped up in Hiro's mind.

Damn, Hiro thought to himself. What a great stalker! Should I get a demon of a similar species for recon?

The more Hiro thought about it, the more he felt that this raven's motives were dubious. seaʀᴄh thё nôᴠel Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

"Cough! Cough…" Hiro heard coughing from the demoness, and he quickly assumed that some toxins were in the smoke.

However, he wasn't worried.

Gluttony!

His innate physique acted up, drawing and devouring all foreign matter that entered his body. The suction force was great, and through limited skin contact, the toxins in the demoness' body were also extracted.

Hiro furrowed his brows, as he could feel a strand of suppressed, albeit pure demonic energy struggling inside the body of this demoness.

He could sense it struggling against the suction force of his gluttony physique, which was forcing the compressed energy from a dormant state into an active one.

Any further excitement and it would most likely erupt. Hiro was curious, as that wisp of demonic energy was very pure.

On his back, the demoness was feeling hot and itchy, squirming uncontrollably. It was a feeling as though she was this close to scratching an itch, but her fingers were an imperceptible distance away from reaching.

It was so close at hand yet so far and unreachable at the same time.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!…

Six individual claws tore through the dark cloud of smoke, aiming for Hiro's vitals with the goal of severely injuring him.

"Tsk, how disgusting!" Hiro felt that they were very stupid, assuming that he was at a disadvantage and hence, taking to the field personally.

He moved directly into the intersection between two assailants.

As their claws approached, he swiftly shifted his body to avoid an attack on his lower back and heart respectively, allowing their sleek and slender bodies to pass by, inadvertently protecting his right and left flanks.

Hiro didn't hold back and brought his greatsword cutting down, and a hind leg took to the air in a spurt of purple blood.

Hiro quickly raised the greatsword to his face, blocking off another claw attack. Then, leaving the sword suspended in the air, he made for a roundhouse kick to the next assailant who crept in from the back.

Clang! Bang!

The sound of the claws impacting the greatsword and Hiro's heavy boots smashing into a nasty feline skull sounded almost simultaneously.

Making use of the counterforce from the kick, Hiro pushed back while drawing his greatsword together with him in the retreat.

His brows creased tightly, as the smoke was thinning out. In all honesty, Hiro would rather fight six enemies in the obscurity of this dense smoke rather than face a stampede of crazy demons.

"Caw! Just die! I'm angry! Caw!"

A massive sound wave pressed down from above, accompanied by a great pressure.

Hiro felt a chill run down his spine and looked up, as great waves of energy were fluctuating chaotically in the sky.

The wind pressed down, sweeping away the thick, toxic smoke. Then, massive limbs and bodies fell from the sky, accompanied by purple blood.

The raven's black feathers were crimson red, much like its massive round eyes.

The avian beasts encircling it were howling in agony while crashing down to the ground, destroying buildings and street stalls from the fall.

They weren't dead per se, but they weren't far off either.

"This guy had gone berserk!" Hiro quickly assessed the situation, and he located a deep red spike lodged into the raven's chest.

A menacing aura radiated off from the spike, and just by looking at it, Hiro felt a rush of irrational madness striking at his mind.

Hiro's mind spun, and without hesitation, he ran off while the greatsword sank into a black portal that appeared by his side.

Now that he wasn't fighting, Hiro had the mind to take notice of the body on his back; the girl was breathing hard and her skin was growing hotter by the second.

Hiro frowned deeply while making use of the chaos to escape the encirclement.

What's wrong with this girl's body? Should I trigger the interpersonal mission on her?