Chapter 113: Crashing The Party

Chapter 113: Crashing The Party

Apollo felt the strength drain out of his body, and spots of darkness clouded his vision.

The seals twisted and turned, slowly fading into only smudges on the walls. When the seal was at the last peg, it stopped spinning.

Apollo cringed and felt like crying. He added another five years of his own lifespan, and the dark seal completely faded.

He fell to his knees. 'Damn it! 15 years of my lifespan, gone just like that!'

But he didn't despair too hard, as he reasoned it was better to lose these fifteen years now than continue being an Exorcist where he could die any day. There wasnt much change to his outward appearance besides some gray hair and wrinkles around his eyes.

As soon as the seal fully disappeared, a silver mist seeped out and coalesced into a small fox. In just a few seconds, the fox had reached the size of a wolf.

Tamae No Mae the Ultimate Class Demon, and she was returning to her full power. She couldnt be ordered to do something. They had to convince her to play along with Red Tail's goals.

Before anyone could utter a word, Tamae No Mae said. Bow.

There was a majestic aura around it that would make anyone want to pray to the fox demon as if she were a goddess.

Apollo didn't need to be told a second time and immediately got on one knee. "Honorable Tamae No Mae, we pitiful humans have a request to make to you!"

Seconds passed, and the fox didn't respond. Apollo glanced at the ultimate class demon and saw it wasn't even looking at him. She was staring at the only person insane enough to not have bowed.

Noxy had also bowed, so the only one left up was the Demonic Exorcist. The fox looked down at him; Tamae No Mae was now the size of a small house and stronger than any high-class demon that Apollo had ever seen.

'How much of her power is this?' He wondered. It felt like he was staring at a volcano, ready to erupt any second.

"Bow, human," the fox ordered.

An invisible pressure hit everyones shoulders. Apollo shook as he tried to keep his face from smashing onto the floor.

The Demonic Exorcist smirked challengingly, the rage in his eyes wasn't something that could be hidden. "Are you looking down on me?"

"BOW DOWN, HUMAN!!" Tamae No Mae roared, causing the pillars and the walls to crack, and a strong wind hit them all with enough force that it rattled their insides.

In response, the Demonic Exorcist released his Ord, which was nothing more than a speck of dust compared to Tamae No Mae.

But at that moment, a sudden wave of energy washed over them, and the seal that was only a smudge in the wall suddenly rewrote itself and became stronger.

Noxy was the first to react; she stood up and said. "Lady Tamae No Mae! Please enter a contract with me! If you lend me your power to clean all evils, this world won't be so ugly anymore! Why not make the world better when you have the power to?"

Tamae No Mae stared at her; her foxy eyes seemed cold. The Demonic Exorcist was the second to react, and he sprayed blood onto the fox.

"Human!" The fox screamed but stopped as each cell seemed to turn into a virus and attacked her. "Humph! You think some second-rate exorcist like you can control me?"

As Apollo had expected, the Demonic Exorcist had shot his own foot with this.

The Demonic Exorcist smiled in response. "No, I never thought of having someone like you under my control."

What?! Why the hell was the Demonic Exorcist even here then?

As darkness consumed him, he couldn't help but think he should have just done something instead of wasting his time becoming an exorcist. He should have at least found someone who would miss him

***

The mummified corpse talked with Agon but didn't explicitly state to him who he was. By the end of his conversation, the corpse slumped down, and no longer moved.

So that was the man who started this whole thing, the previous Sage, also known as The Magician. He was the renowned Hero who saved the world from rampaging Ultimate Class Demons. But he was also Agons father.

"Were you a Special Exorcist by the time he was around?" I asked Ellen.

She nodded. "Yeah, he was always an arrogant asshole. But he became the Sage at only twenty years old. The undisputed strongest exorcist."

The main character's father being a badass, was a common trope. Naruto, Luffy, Ichigo, Gon, and many others had some overpowered fathers. Agon wasn't anything special in that regard.

Though what was surprising was how strong he was, and how his special ability also seemed quite simple.

With that special ability, he could empower seals to lock up Ultimate Class Demons. So it kind of made sense why weaker seals that should only be able to hold high-class demons could lock monsters like Yamata No Orochi.

I was dying to know what limitations a special power like that had.

While I had known that the Cursed Corpse technique could be canceled, I hadnt thought of Ellens power being able to do so.

This ending wasnt so bad; with Ellen healed up and all the demons in the city dead, this was a hell of a lot better than the alternative.

It seemed like my preparations to fight the Demonic Exorcist had been for nothing and I loved it!

I'd been dreading the fight with that crazy bastard. No amount of preparation could help me against someone like that. I didn't want to be part of his mind games.

Relief washed over me at the thought of not having to fight, and I lay on the Colosseum floor. I couldnt help but smile as relief washed over my body.

This whole exam had felt like a long shit that was finally out of my ass.

A gross analogy, but this had been like a dangerous shitshow. The worst thing was that with how the exam was interrupted, I wasn't even sure I could qualify to have passed the exam.

But whatever the results, at least Tamae No Mae wasn't unsealed. I could finally relax-

BOOOM!!!... Something fell from the sky.

It was a man; the ground below his feet cracked like a spiderweb.

Dread filled my heart.

"Hey there, my favorite exorcist. You ready for the second round of our fight?"

"Fuck no" I answered truthfully.

"Well, I was just being polite by asking. You don't really have a choice."

That was what I thought too.

Damn it!