While Scorch was fighting a battle to death with a greater demon, Wang Lei's party kept moving forward.
"Look! The path is getting narrow! We won't be able to ride on horses from here!" Chen Jiang said.
"All right then. Everyone get off your horse now!" Wang Lei said.
Everybody left their horse near the narrowed path. After dismounting from their horses, they started moving forward very slowly.
"I can feel it. The huge energy coming from the room which is at the end of the path. Can you all feel it too?" Xu Jin asked.
Everybody looked at each other's face. The feeling of tension was expressed on their face.
"There is no need to fear. We are the strongest slayers on Earth. I am sure we can defeat that demon lord as easy as a piece of cake! That's why, believe in yourself and your friends!" Chen Bao comforted everyone with her words.
The intense expression on their face lowered a bit.
" I think I should inspect the room first. It will be better if we can know that there are any traps or not!" Xu Jin said.
"That's right. You should use your clairvoyance ability to check for traps or enemies." Wang Lei said.
"All right, all right! Now! I will use my clairvoyant ability, the ability of an archer!"
After saying this, Xu Jin closed his eyes and made some weird pose with his fingers. He was able to see on the next side of the wall. His ability was like an x ray vision and he could also zoom on an object he wants to see clearly. He found out that there is a trap set on the room door. Some lower demons were holding a rope, which they would leave if anybody entered the room. The person who entered would be slashed by a huge axe tied with the rope.
Other than this, the whole room was empty and there were two doors at the end of the room, which looked like they connected to another room.
He told his observations to Wang Lei, Chen Jiang and Chen Bao. After hearing Xu Jin, Lei asked Jiang to break the wall in such an order that would kill those lower demons.
"Don't worry! Now... watch... me... go!"
Jiang said and crashed into the wall, covering himself with his shield.
"Come in! The wall and the bones of these demons, both are broken!" Jiang said.
When Wang Lei and others entered the room. One of the two doors in the front opened. A greater demon came out of that room along with 20 higher demons. The higher demons were around 5 feet tall, of green colour and they had spiked mace as their weapon. The greater demon was of red colour and 7 feet high. His face was like a pig and he was very huge and muscular. His weapon was a huge machete which looked very heavy. He said,
"Welcome to the castle of great Afrozwein! I am Terrazwein, younger brother of the great demon lord Afrozwein!"
After hearing these words, everyone was shocked. Jiang said,
"Y-y-y-y-y-you can speak!"
"tsk tsk tsk, you guys don't have enough knowledge! Every greater demon can talk! Only greater demons and demon lord have a name and can talk!" Terrazwein said.
"Enough with the talk, tell us where is your big brother!" Wang Lei said.
"Tsk tsk tsk! You guys have to defeat me first! Only then I shall allow you to pass to the next room!"
"Very well then! We shall slay you right now! Right darling?" Xu Jin said.
"Indeed, darling!" Chen Bao replied.
"Listen very well, sometimes higher demons are stronger than the greater demons if they are in a group. I and Jiang will handle those 20s higher demons, while you guys slay that greater demon, Terrazwein and then we will proceed towards the next room to slay Afrozwein. Is it okay?" Wang said.
" Okay!" Everybody said in unison.
After they discussed the plan, Lei and Jiang moved separate way and Jin and Bao moved separate way. Jin reached towards Terrazwein and said,
"Come on baby! Are you afraid that I will slash you?"
Terrazwein got angry and started swinging his machete towards Jin. When he was busy attacking Jin, Bao used her fire magic to burn him but it was negated by an invisible force.
Both Jin and Bao were shocked. The greater demon started laughing. Meanwhile, Jiang and Lei were slaying the higher demons.
The greater demon looked down at Jin and Bao and said,
"You two aren't able to scratch me and you are trying to kill my big brother? Impossible! Impossible! Impossible! Impossible! Impossible!!".
After saying this he rushed towards the direction of Chen Bao. He tried to crush her under his huge machete. While he was running towards her, Jin came running with super speed, holding a spear towards Terrazwein. He didn't planned to slow down after piercing him with the spear. He was able to break his armor but his thick body wasn't much affected. The spear was a loy able to slash the skin and muscle on his abdominal region. Even though the spear didn't affected him much, the force from which Jin ran towards him tossed him away from Chen Bao. While Terrazwein was tossed away nearby, Jin said,
"Bao! You are a magic type slayer! You should not come between my fight. Instead, you should back me up!"
"You are right. I'm sorry." Bao said.
"No need to apologize. Afterall you did this to save me, didn't you?" Jin said.
"Yes!" Bao said with a smile.
Terrazwein was now getting up. He angrily said,
"You guys are better than I expected! You were able to penetrate my armour! My armour was embedded my magical spells. It was a high level demonic artifact which could negate any type of magical power and you just destroyed it!"
"Hoh! So that is the secret, why you were able to negate my fire attacks." Bao said.
After saying this, she used here fireball magic. It was like meteorite blast. Numerous fireballs attacked Terrazwein. He swung his machete hitting the fireballs and cutting them in two. After the fireballs divided into two parts, they gradually slowed.
However, some of the fireballs hit him. Those fireballs gave him the sensation of pain. Hiding behind the fireballs, Jin used his fire arrows to burn him because he thought that till now fire is giving him the sensation of pain very effectively.
As the arrow left the bow string, it sped up and was about to reach the eye of Terrazwein but suddenly, he stopped the arrow with his bare hand. He hold the bottom of the fire arrow in his palm. His palm was burning. He destroyed the arrow by breaking it into two.
After that, he screamed very loudly. As if he was calling for backup but that scream was not full of defeat. It was full of hatred.
After screaming, he rushed towards Jin swinging his machete.
Bao saw this and used her fireball to take buy some time for Jin to escape. While Terrazwein was running, many of Bao's fireballs missed him. Only a few fireballs reached the target, who was Terrazwein. Terrazwein used his hand to destroy the fireballs. He was wearing some kind of armour on his wrists. When the fireballs crashed with it, they shattered into pieces.
The scene Xu Jin was seeing was a huge demon rushing towards him and his wife crying in the opposite direction. He didn't thought about himself. He thought about his wife. He thought,
"What would happen if die? My wife will become a widow. She tried to save me. I cannot betray her! I will survive by slaying that bastard Terrazwein because I still have a small chance! I am not injured!"
He put his arrow down and projected his most powerful fire spear till now. Terrazwein reached near him and tried to slash him with his machete. He swung his machete towards Jin, but, Jin blocked it with his fire spear. Jin thought to himself,
"I did it! I can survive now! I will slay him! I reached out to this ray of hope!"
But he didn't knew that reality can be cruel.
Terrazwein increased his force on the machete and destroyed Jin's spear into two. He kicked Jin which knocked Jin unconscious. He reached out to Jin and crushed Jin's skull with his machete.
Chen Bao saw the complete scene. Meanwhile, Jiang and Lei were finished slaying the higher demons. They had a few injuries which weren't life threatening. When Jiang and Lei tried to reach Chen Bao and Xu Jin, she screamed her throat open. That screamed was heard by everyone in that castle.
Jiang and Lei saw the corpse of Xu Jin. They were filled with many emotions at once. Rage, sorrow, regret, hate and anger. The weird thing was that they didn't had any time to waste on shedding tears.
Chen Bao stood up and said,
"You are going to pay for what you did, Terrazwein! I will avenge my husband! I am going to use the thermite technique!"
She closed her eyes, backed off her hands, clinched her fists and then she brought her hands forward, opening her fists and releasing a huge wave of heat fire. It was hotter than 4000 degree Celsius.
Terrazwein started melting but he called for other higher demons. When the other higher demons arrived, Bao said,
"Chen Jiang and Wang Lei. You two have to defeat the demon lord Afrozwein. I would ask you only once. Please don't let Jin's sacrifice geat wasted. I will kill all the higher demons here! Now go and slay Afrozwein!"
Chen's tears started shedding. He said,
"What are you saying, Bao! Come here, quickly!"
Lei patted on Chen's shoulders and said,
"Stay strong, Chen. Now is not the time to get worried. It's too late now."
Lei pointed his finger towards Bao and showed that burning demons were leaping on her and she was also burning in her own fire. Chen also realized it now. He said,
"You are right. It's as Bao said. Don't let the sacrifice get wasted."
As more people sacrificed themselves, Wang Lei and Chen Jiang moved forward towards the door which led to the beginning of this battle. The room of Afrozwein.
XU JIN AND CHEN BAO HAVE PASSED AWAY.
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