Leo ran.
He noticed that demons were surrounding his position. He felt the rain get contaminated by the demon aura. He felt the the rain increase in temperature. He saw the buildings collapse when demons destroyed buildings with the sheer weight of their bodies.
They were shrouded in a thick black mist, and then he saw them. They appeared in front of the gate. They climbed on each other's backs and blocked the gate. They climbed on the walls and hissed at Leo.
This was the first time since Leo's awakening that he held the need to use his strength. He was ready. This was the first time since Leo's awakening in Little Vicious Village that he realized he would need all the magic power inside of his body. He was ready, or thought he was... He knew the children depended on him. He knew they needed him to survive.
In the split second before the demons attacked, he decided to combine void and fire magic. He would launch himself up into the air. He would use two spells: "Push" from the void magic, and "burst" from fire magic.
But as the demons approached him, he instinctively used Solomon's earth magic circle to raise his body up into the sky by creating a circular platform that was 15 meters in diameter. The magic circle didn't use up his own magic, so it was a good decision.
As Leo raised his body over forty meters into the sky, he felt the force of the maneuver nearly break his bones. So, he cast "fortify" from void magic as soon as he could.
He escaped the last minute decision with a few hairline fractures in his legs and severe damage to the bones in his feet.
The long limbs of the demons crawled up the pillar that Leo created. They sank their claws into the pillar to follow Leo up into the sky. A few demons started to break the pillar of earth as well.
But that didn't matter, the combination of "push" and "burst" magic had already been combined. Leo cast a quick "fortify" on his body, right before the combination magic finished casting.
The combination magic took longer to cast, but that was a blessing, since Leo needed to cast "fortify" again, but stronger. He didn't want his body to utterly shatter from the force of the combination magic.
The plan was insane and hastily put together, but it worked. Leo launched himself above the wall, above the demons, and above the city gate.
Leo then realized he hadn't thought about his landing. He was twenty meters above the ground when he finally found a plan.
He created a pillar of sand that shot out of the ground. The ground shrunk around the pillar as sand caught Leo with the usage of Solomon's magic circle.
Leo noticed that the demons didn't follow him. They hissed at Leo from the wall.
'Oh yeah,' Leo remembered, 'They can't leave the city without calling a wind pillar down...'
Leo shook the sand off of his black coat and put from between the crevices of his body.
He winced from the pain of his broken bones after his adrenaline calmed down, and he collapsed on the ground. He wished he was better at the void magic "mend" while he pieced together the bones of his body. He gave up on mend, and decided to lay down on his back, while he howled in pain.
Meanwhile, Ahab and Bazeel watched from the terrace of Ahab's palace the execution of Solomon.
The clouds rolled in the sky, while rain poured down from the heavens, and Solomon was about to be executed.