Chapter 8 - The massacre of floor 2 [part 2]

You could see a seemingly perfect young man riding a hellish alpha horse with a scythe, behind him are 4 people wearing a mask with various blunt weapons, the mask has a skull with 4 horns [The summoners will start using masks and the number of horns determines the rank, 2 horn is a duke, 4 horns is a king, 6 horns is emperor and 8 horns and glowing red eyes is the god] and the people are riding lesser hellish horses, around them are hellhounds running in a formation and it seems like they are running to a 5 meter bullheaded beast with rippling muscles, when they get closer Mint starts slowing down and lets Baran the General Taurus see him.

When Baran sees him he seems to mock them by smashing his dazzling battle hammer on the ground lightly, when Mint sees this he gets off the horse and lightly swings his Scythe, Baran sensing the danger puts the battle hammer in front of himself in a defensive manner, the scythe hits the head of the Warhammer and cracks it slightly, Mint says "Go to hell, I hate cocky opponents" when he finishes saying this he jumps casually and the hellhounds fire the hellish breath weapons they have, Mint waves an arm at the flame and streangthens it to the maximum [Maximum damage and not avrage like previously], the 4 demon kings then summon 12 maw demons above Baran that latched onto him but this time immidietly rip a chuck off it, now Baran cooked and got bitten chucks off is entering rage mode, now he is wildly swinging his hammer and using Numbing detonation that makes him swings his hammer downwards, Mint hears a huge explosion going off, probably the hellhounds on that side using the breaths and says "Lets stop messing around..." and uses that penetrated Baran's hammer completely and went through his head. In the distance, you could hear the Asterius the Taurus King that is grieving for his supporters and swearing vengeance upon them.

The 2 fights were witnessed by the original team that was supposed to kill the bosses, Kirito was amazed by the skill Mint used on the previous boss had such power! Asuna was shocked by the skill of the demon emperor and flustered that the man she misunderstood for so many years was standing there, the other raid members were nervous about the power of this new group and the various fiends they summon until they hear the roar of the Taurus King, they are surprised because Baran was supposed to be the final boss in the beta, then when Kirito wanted to join Mint he got a message to not intervene, Kirito understood that Mint can handle it so he just silently watched the situation unfold.

The roar was followed by slow heavy footsteps and the king of Taurus arrived, Mint comes upfront to face him, when they meet face to face Asterius lifts his hammer and swings it at Mint, Mint expecting it snapped his finger and a 2.5 meters {Asterius is around 10 meters} Tanarukk appears [CR of 5] {They appeared as short, stocky orcs with bristly hair, horns, or ridges along the sides of their heads.} that blocked the hammer barely with its greatsword, then the Tanarukk bit the thigh of Asterius.

While those 2 wrestled with each other the group of the demon emperor came back to Mint to regroup, the hell hounds prepared in a formation to shoot at Asterius at Mint's command, and the bearded devils riding nightmares attacked Asterius, they only used their glaives to attack to keep their distance and cause infernal wounds, now Asterius has not only has a Tanarukk to deal with, now he is bleeding non-stop from the various wounds caused by these devils, when he wanted to use his lightning breath a flail hit his crown causing him to be stunned, the attacks intensified due to being informed about Asterius not being able to do anything pretty much anything for a limited time while stunned.

Asterius is down a health bar now and is starting to seriously wound the Tanarukk, but before the orc goes down Mint dismisses the nightmares he previously summoned and uses his ability that fuses a fiend with another from the same race on the orc with another 2 Tanarukks, the Tanarukk is now 9,76 meters and with an additional 2 pairs of horns, now he looks more like the equivalent of Asterius in orc form then a mediocre minion attacking a superior being, Asterius is stunned by the change but the AI quickly adapts and tries to smash him with a hammer, the Tanarukk blocks it easily with his greatsword and pushes it back without much resistance, the bearded devils saw this as a chance and turned fully on the offensive, Asterius is dying quickly and can barely do anything, only staying on the defensive...

Now Asterius is on his last health bar and close to dying, promptly the rage is signaled by the boss's black skin burning through like coal, as he is entering the rage mode Mint decides to quicken the fight and commands the hounds to fire, they fire and the boss is reduced to a sliver of health remaining, Mint then approaches him and takes his crown, after he took his crown Asterius is wailing loudly, Mint annoyed by this swings his scythe and decapitates him, killing the boss fairly easily.

At this moment Argo and Nezha come to warn the original raiding party about the new boss, they of course stop in their tracks seeing the defeat of the boss and all the Fiends gathering there, they approach Kirito and Asuna to ask them about the situation, and meanwhile Mint gives the Tanarukk the crown of Asterius and promotes him to be a permanent fiend using the ability of the demon god , Mint mumbles to himself-"Man, I should pick the 5 strongest of every fiend race and combine them to have a ruler for each race... when I pick the other 2 strongest Tanarukks I shall combine them with this one", after Kirito explained what happened to them Argo was amazed by the skills of this group of players and wanted to know more information about him but refrained from asking him as it would be rude but she noticed a friend request popping up by Mint and when she glanced at his direction he winked at her which caused her to be flustered... as for Nezha he just zones out as he wanted to redeem himself and stuff... but he's just a background character that was never mentioned really other than this one time so meh...

So after a day of the boss fight, Argo and Mint meet in an inn, Argo teases a bit Mint and asks if this is a date, Mint replies with "If you want it to be one then yes" with a devilish smile but turns serious "But let's talk about why I called you here, I want to give you information about various things but first, right now my Fiends are completing the quest to become a guild and I am the guild master, our name is "The Fiends of Games" or "The Fiends" for short, and as a warning my guild has ranks and those ranks use masks to inform others of them, for example, the ones you saw with the goat skull mask are the demon ones, the amount of horns is appropriate to the rank... I shall inform you of the other masks at a later date as those will be the active ones for now. Now I want you to inform others of this information... [Mint tells her of lesser hunting grounds but still considered good ones for players without Mint guiding them plus various hidden dangers that killed a few players in the original]", Argo is shocked and asks if she needs to pay with her own body for this information and Mint just chuckles and says "Just add information about our guild in your guidebook and plenty of players will know about us" Argo just nods silently memorizing all this information... Mint wants more people to know about the guild as in the next games like ALFheim online the guild will be feared and adored by many, plus fewer people will be terrified when they see a bunch of Fiends ganging up on a boss...

After leaving the inn and going to an empty area Mint smiles a wicked smile and loudly says "Now let the killing streak begin!"