Book 5: Chapter 33: Chaos at its Finest

Book 5: Chapter 33: Chaos at its Finest

Scarlet

I grit my teeth as I feel the Red Plague beginning to go out of control, devouring all of the demons around us and growing stronger and stronger. But thankfully the five Noble demons begin fighting against the Red Plague themselves as well, slowing its pace a bit and letting me draw some of it back into me.

Something strange happens when I draw as much Red Plague inside of myself as I can though.

Almost like Im growing stronger when I pull the blood in.

Scarlet, theres something I didnt tell you until now that I think you should know, Tar says, making me frown. Father ordered me to keep it from you until you knew how to control the Red Plague, but the Red Plague is considered a part of your body. And it doesnt just replicate when it devours the realities of other beings. Tar hesitates a second as I continue pulling in the Red Plague until Im at my limit and cant hold any more. The Red Plagues own reality grows stronger as well.

Wait. Huh?

I blink as I feel my control slackening ever so slightly in my surprise, only for me to regain my control over it in an instant.

Doesnt that mean

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Cure, he says through gritted teeth with a damned near feral tone of voice.

My eyes widen at that, but I try to ignore him for the moment to deal with the Red Plague.

He just moves forward and grabs me by the throat, continuing, Cure.

Just wait a moment! I shout at him, my voice coming out clearly despite his hand on my throat.

He doesnt wait. And I finally realize why when he pulls my face closer to his, revealing the red and black embers that are starting to leak out of his eyes faster and faster.

Hes losing it.

Help clear out the Red Plague down there after this and Ill cure you here and now, I bluntly tell him, and he nods his head without hesitation.

So I close my eyes, focusing on the physical contact he has with my throat right now. Then I almost immediately find the connection Im looking for.

The corruption flowing through his body.

I follow the connection into his body before finding the branch of the root and attempting to follow it to the source. But I soon find that Im still too weak to do that.

What Im not too weak to do though, is cut off the larger branch that connects to a large portion of the other branches it reaches out towards.

I grit my teeth, feeling blood beginning to fill my mouth. But I stop myself from coughing on Damien so as to not infect him by accident.

Then I push as hard as I possibly can to cut the branch.

An act that is immediately followed by a loud thunderclap echoing out all around us.

I open my eyes again in surprise before meeting Damiens eyes.

Eyes that no longer have the pain and hunger from before in them, nor the embers.

I did it.