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The Demon saw in shock as his endless rain of demonic fireballs were easily overcome by Melodia's powerful magic… much, much more easily than he had originally expected.
"T-This is impossible! They said I could even overpower the Spirits of the Heroes with this form!" Cried the Demon.
"Spirit? Do you take me for a mere Spirit, Demon?" Asked Melodia while squinting her eyes. "No, monster… You're not even a demon, if you were, I might have spared you if you explained your circumstances and… accepted a life in prison. But seeing what you truly are, it disgust me."
Melodia, much like Arafunn, learned the origin of these "demons" which were only monsters given some intelligence and demon-like magic and powers through a special experiment that Arachne, the new self-proclaimed Demon Lord of Gluttony was doing.
"Tch! Shut up! I am part of a new, blessed kin!" Laughed the Demon. "And soon, you'll become a fried piece of meat!"
The Demon summoned more and more flames surrounding the entire area across the skies and creating a sphere of flames that trapped Melodia and him inside…
"I told you I wasn't a normal spirit…" Melodia said angrily, losing her composure. "I am the Princess of the Wind Spirits!"
FLUOOOOOOSH!
Her mere presence unleashed a powerful, invisible shockwave of winds everywhere around her all at once, the entire sphere of demon flames exploded in a second and then a giant hand made of wind grasped the demon!
CLAAAASH!
"UUAAGH?! W-What the…?! Let go of meeeee! KRIEEEE!"
The Praying Mantis-like demon roared in fury, but once more, he proved to be… inferior. His power? It wasn't even in the Tier 9 Rank actually, because if that was the case, Melodia would had at least put a bit more effort.
Why? Because the demon, no matter how much he struggled to free himself, was unable to do so. His flames were blocked by the winds of Melodia, which constantly continued compressing around his body, until…
"Goodbye, little bug~ [Void Compression]"
"KRIEEEEEEHHHHH!!!"
BOOOOOOMMMM!!!
The demon exploded into pieces on the spot, dying without even being able to fight back! And right after that, the jewel down below shattered, as Tempest managed to reach it at long last.
CRASH!
FLUOSH!
The Gate immediately compressed itself and disappeared from the spot.
"Woah, that was amazing, Melodia! You're so strong!" Tempest said.
"Heh, of course I am! And-"
POOF!
However, before Melodia could continue talking, she suddenly turned into white smoke and turned back to her tiny form…
"Ugh… Already?! I hate being so young!" Melodia angrily said.
Despite being the daughter of the Wind Spirit King, she was still only a few thousands years old… She had yet to reach her maturity, and therefore, could only borrow a part of her full-fledged powers temporarily.
"Hahaha, but you were awesome back then!"
"Ugh, shut up! I am in a bad mood now… Arafunn and Ninhursag better get done with the rest! For now let's crush these bugs!"I think you should take a look at
"Okay!"
As the two spirits started cleaning the swarms left behind of insectoid monsters, at the other side of the forests surrounding Agartha, a small hawk reached the skies above the jewel, Ninhursag, who had become such an insignificant-looking animal that no monster or demon paid attention to her, one of her many abilities.
She stealthily flew at a tree near the jewel, which was being guarded by another praying mantis-like demon. The demon was also holding a red colored orb on one of his claws, while glaring around for anyone that might try to intrude.
"Grrrhh… I just heard something far away. Did the others die or something? Dammit!" He muttered. "As long as the bugs get to the city, then our mission shall be accomplished anyways… Those damned elves will finally know the pain of our ancestors…"
Ninhursag silently glanced at the demon, analyzing its movements and personality, and then, it flew directly towards it, still in her hawk form.
"Cryaaah! Cryaaah!" She started screaming like a hawk, beginning to peek at the head of the demon.
"Uugh?! What the heck?! Damn bird! Get off my head! Is your nest somewhere closer?! Uaagh! I'm going to cut you!" The angered demon slowly started moving farther from the jewel, as Ninhursag gracefully evaded his attacks.
"Oi! You want me to fry you like a piece of meat- Eh?! Where are you going?!" The Demon panicked, seeing the hawk fly past him, and reaching the jewel!
The hawk glanced back at him as it sat down over the purple jewel, floating in midair…
"Thank you for being such an idiot."????????????????????????????????.????????????
"W-What?!"
CRAAASH!
Using her sharp claws and exerting much more of her actual strength, Ninhursag shattered the jewel in mere seconds, its pieces went flying everywhere!
"Y-Youuuuu…!" The Praying Mantis-like Demon roared in frustration. "You damn talking hawk!"
He swung his two giant blade-like arms against her, but she swiftly evaded them, and then, as the swarm of insects started surrounding them, her body started glowing brightly.
FLAAAASH!
Her small body turned into a giant three-headed Chimera, exuding an enormous aura of a beast within Tier 8, if not beyond that…
"ROOOOOAAAARRRR!"
"HUH?!"
The Chimera raised its giant lion claws and swung them angrily, slashing apart the swarms of insects coming at her, as her goat head's eyes glowed bright red, summoning several magic circles which conjured small black holes everywhere.
TRUUM! TRUUM! TRUUM! TRUUM!
The black holes immediately started absorbing anything in the vicinity, crushing and triturating it into pieces. Meanwhile, Ninhursag mercilessly unleashed a breath attack of burning flames against the Demon, blasting him away and managing to shatter that suspicious orb at the same time.
BOOOOOMMMM!!!
"GRUUAAAAAAGGGH…!"
The Demon began turning into ashes as he realized he couldn't even use the weapon given to him… Ninhursag was just too cunning to let him use something suspicious right in front of her face.
"Leave the forest of Agartha alone, demons!"
Her aura exuded a powerful shockwave of darkness and flames, spreading further everywhere, the insect monsters burned alive, incapable of fighting back against such an overwhelmingly big and powerful foe…
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