Everyone whirled their heads forward as they watched the horrendous event happening before their eyes.
Zelal looked at the scene and gulped. He looked like he was at its wits ends.
"I know I shouldn't be saying this but... did we just push ourselves to our death bed?"
Freya sighed as she glanced at Zelal who had an 'I'm already dead' look all over his face.
Freya had a refined smile on her face as she said, "Oops!"
Zelal gawked at her for a moment before turning to face the creature and sighed.
'Mother, it looks like you won't get to see your favourite son, again! '
His mind answered back, 'Well... I guess you wouldn't have to worry because her favourite son is all fine and alive and is standing right there watching you.'
Zelal's lips twitched harshly at his inner consciousness.
Somewhere, back in the Sun kingdom, Lili who was walking through the corridor suddenly felt cold.
She shivered as she thought, 'Who is thinking about me? Ah! it might be my daughter-in-law. My pretty daughter!!!' and she skipped towards her husband's chamber.
"So... Now, what do we do?" Zelal asked helplessly
"Well... like they say fight till the end?" Hak scratched his chin as he looked on at the screaming demon worriedly.
"That's not the best solution, its more like a death sentence." Jinha smacked his shoulder as he said.
Freya contemplated as the demon scratched her body all over like she was going insane... Insane!!!!!!
She knitted her brows as she mumbled, "I think she's going berserk because we destroyed half of her soul."
"WHAAT?" they whipped their heads towards her and yelled in unison.
Freya looked at the piercing eyes with a small smile and explained, "Well... I thought it was a rumour but it seems like it's true. The demons have their soul stored in some items. Like the dream shield we encountered. The dream shield was an embodiment of her soul. That is, when we broke out of the dream by shattering the locket, we destroyed half of her soul."
Everyone just stared at Freya with their mouths open. She continued, "With half of her soul gone, the demonic power within her might have started rebelling inside her and have seized control over her body. Thereby, making her transform into a complete crazy demon who has no awareness of what she's doing."
She looked at their wide eyes and rubbed her forehead troublingly, "Simply put, there's a crazy demon on loose and we have to stop her before she destroys the kingdom. And, the main problem is that the crazy demon seems to not care about the people and only care about me."
Right after she said that everyone sensed danger as their bodies systematically made them shift positions.
With a whish of the demon's claws, the spot where they stood earlier had turned into a black area.
"Wow ..that's close..." Zelal dabbed his chest.
He looked up to see the demon's eyes glowing heatedly at Freya.
"You puny human... you dared to harm my soul." a thunderous rough voice growled angrily at the masked girl.
"Well...in my defence... I didn't know that locket was connected to your soul." Freya shrugged calmly.
"Well...not completely" hehe.
Enraged by her words, the demon brandished its next attack on her.
She dodged the next attack but staggered a little. 'Damn it!'
Lyndel grunted as she said, "Wait and watch on how I'm going to devour you."
As she was about to launch another attack against Freya, she felt two attacks from her behind.
"Hold on. How can you forget about us?" Zeno smirked.
She turned derisively and raised her hand, stopping the attack just as it reached her palm wiping away his smirk.
Zeno was stunned as he watched her halt his attack but quickly recomposed his face. He never thought that the demon would easily deflect his attack.
Lyndel appeared before him instantly, smirking as she slashed at him with her claw. Zeno couldn't dodge the sudden attack and took the hit head-on with his eyes bulging outwards.
He didn't get the time to catch his breath before a number of countless punches landed on him.
Hak, on seeing this, moved quickly to attack with his water bullets. It managed to distract Lyndel from the lifeless Zeno as it appeared before him in the next second.
Hak widened his eyes as his body reacted subconsciously, moving aside, dodging her punch.
'Scary!' that one word flashed across his mind as he directed his serpent to course through his body, encircling him.
The serpent roared loudly as it blasted steam at Lyndel.
Lyndel got the full effect of it right at her face before it snarled. She flew up in the sky as she mustered dark energy in her hand. She threw the ball towards Hak, who countered it with a water ball.
The loud explosion accompanied by the wind made Hak stagger backwards.
He regained his balance and pointed his finger up which had a small pint of blood coated. He smirked as he motioned his finger up but soon, his smirk faded as he saw Lyndel appear before him and smash his head to the ground.
He groaned in pain as he got up. His head bloodied, he looked up at the demon as he joined his hands together for his next attack.
Lyndel flew straight towards Hak but was stopped by the earth and ice wall.
Liz and Zelal attacked together as both simultaneously directed ice and earth against Lyndel.
Lyndel smirked as she waved her hand. The wall disappeared into nothingness. It just took a small wave of her hand, to vanish the wall.
"Oh boy!" Zelal mumbled in horror.
Lyndel flashed past Zelal within a second.
"You guys are wasting my time."
Zelal's body spurted blood all over. His eyes widened as he fell down, groaning in pain.
"Zelal!" Usui yelled.
Liz's eyes grew darker on witnessing Zelal falling down. Her hand morphed into spikes covered in ice as she rushed towards Lyndel in haste.
She swiped her hands against Lyndel who dodged it calmly. Liz suddenly swiped against her head, which Lyndel dodged but as Lyndel focused on dodging her attack above. She forgot to notice the next attack.
Liz punched her on her stomach with her fist covered in ice aura. An ice patch formed on the demon's abdomen as it paralyzed its movements.
Liz smirked as she launched kicks and punches against her new punching bag. She blasted a fireball against Lyndel who was rooted to her spot.
"Combined magic: Freeze Fire"
A firestorm emerged on the tip of her finger and she pointed it at Lyndel. The firestorm blasted at Lyndel who stood there watching the storm with a smile.
The storm soon engulfed her and before Liz could relax, she heard a menacing voice right beside her ear, "Well...it's my turn now."