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Chapter 22 - We Have An Army... And He Is Just One Person…

While on the other side…

A tall looking man wearing a black robe that hides his face can be seen walking inside a place that almost look like a chamber at the first sight

The man is also carrying someone on his arms to which as we all could figure it out by now…

Just as the man walk further into the chamber, there is already someone waiting for his arrival on the end of the side

The man then greets the other guy with a smile on their face

"Here is the girl as we promised…" Said the guy wearing the robe

He then handed Rei over to the other man, the other man just smiles joyously as he finally obtained Rei who is hosting the greater demon inside her

The man that took Rei then quickly turned toward the other men with a concern on his face

"Are you sure that the Gatekeeper won't tried to rescue her?" Ask the man concern

The guy with the robe just smile while tapping on the other guy shoulder gently

"Don't you worry…"

"Even if that guy managed to come here… I won't let him interfere in the ritual…" Said the guy with the robe as he slowly turned back and walks away

"After all… we have an army... and he is just one person…"

The image of an infinite devils could be seen in the background waiting for someone to trespass their lair…

Meanwhile Arashi as he already figured out a few clues toward Rei kidnapper quickly ran out from the house

(I've spent a lot of time in the human realm that I've forgot our real enemies is demons)

(That's why, there were no traces of them inside the house…)

(Damn it!) Shouts Arashi inside his mind

He then grips over his sword as it looks like it manages to tracks over something

Just as he ran blindly following his sword guidance, he eventually arrived behind the hills that is far from the eyes of people

But Arashi started to look confused as there is nothing like doors or a secret component that would leads inside

Just as he was about to give up, he suddenly looked over to his sword and figured out something

Arashi then pick up the sword and stabs it unto the ground to which suddenly an illusion of a hills was broke revealing a cave that have been turned into a secret base

Seeing that the secret base had been unveiled, Arashi sheathed his sword to his back and slowly walks inside

Just as Arashi walks in, he didn't realize that someone is watching over him from afar

"Impressive…"

"To figure out the location of our base and revealing the illusion made by our highest rank demon is truly impressive…"

The man who are giving out comment about Arashi smiles as seems as he just won a million dollars

"Let see if you could handle whatever inside…" Said the man as he slowly disappears into the dark

Moving inside, Arashi couldn't see a single thing at all as the cave didn't install any light equipment at all

Arashi could only tried to touch the wall to see where he is going…

And just as he was doing that, he accidentally touched on something that feels weird

Realizing that, he quickly drew his sword and due to that his sword starts to glow up and it lights the whole cave revealing a horde of devils lurking inside the cave

Arashi is a bit surprised to see this many devil in one places but he didn't quit

Instead of running away, he grips on his sword even tighter waiting for the devils to attack him

Seeing how Arashi didn't back off or tried to run, the devils felt intimidated that they started to shriek towards him

"Come…"

"I would slay anyone standing in my way!" Said Arashi

Feeling intimidated all the devils turn toward Arashi with a menacing look as they've just found their prey for a long time

A few of them starts to ran over toward Arashi with their claws out

But before their claws could get a hit on Arashi, his sword already cuts off their body

Other devils who were looking at Arashi slaying their friends start to get angry

Arashi just turn over them with a menacing eye

"Who's next?" said Arashi

The fight then broke out between Arashi and the devils, but even though it was a one sides fight, Arashi still manages to obliterate half of them leaving half of them cowering in the corner

Just as Arashi thought he could win the fight with the devils, He suddenly got struck by a heavy blow that he didn't even notices

That blows were so hard that Arashi hits on the wall and break it

Others devils starts to run away after seeing the devil that just hit Arashi came out

Arashi shook his head after dealing with the blow given by that devil as he didn't think there would be a devil this strong

"The hell was that?" said Arashi while holding his head due to being hit by the devil

He then gets more surprised over other devils cowering and running away after that one devil appear itself

Arashi then realizes the reason the other devils were so scared over this devil as it looks much bigger and scarier than the other

But that doesn't mean that Arashi is also scared of it, he just brushes the dust of his shoulder as the devil came closer

Seeing how Arashi isn't intimidated by its presence the devil starts to look pissed as it raised its hammer and tried to hit Arashi

Noticing that Arashi quickly dodge it and then he tried to swing his sword over toward the devil but to his shocked the devil just grabs on the hilt of Arashi sword like it was nothing

This gave Arashi a sense of cautious toward the devil as its definitely is different than the others

Just as Arashi is stunned over the devil managing to grabs on his sword, he didn't realize that the devil is aiming to hit him once again

Due to that Arashi got blown away again toward the wall, this time the blown were so hard that Arashi coughed up blood due to the impact

"Shit…"

"Did I underestimate it too much?" mumbled Arashi under his breath

He tried to gets up from the ground but just as he was about to tried that he got kicked over by the devil

As Arashi is floating in the air, the devil flew over to him and hits him on the back making Arashi to hit the ground again

(this is bad…) thought Arashi

This is the first time that Arashi had suffered bad injuries since his last fight

He tried to get up and reached his sword but the devil came back and hit him a few more time until Arashi couldn't move anymore

Just as Arashi is being beaten up by the devil, the man who were looking over him from the shadow felt a bit disappointed due to Arashi losing this battle

(The greater devil, created by the power of a greater demon and is being trained to be the strongest devils in the world)

(They even said that devil had not eat for a long time and that could be the reason for its barbaric action…)

(It's a bit disappointing… because I've wanted to fight him but he isn't that impressive anymore if he got beaten up by that demon.) thought the man as he slowly leaving the scene unto his shadow

But he immediately stops when he felt an incredible aura looking over at him

(Wh-what is this tremendous aura I'm feeling?) Thought the man as he tried to look the sources of the aura

Just then he noticed that the tremendous aura he had been feeling came from the Arashi sword

(That sword… There's no way…)

That man face suddenly brighten up with a smile over the magnificent view he's having

Meanwhile Arashi who are being beaten half death by the devil couldn't move a single muscle anymore and just lay down on the ground

(Shit…)

(Is this how I'm going to die?) thought Arashi as he stared into the darkness

Out of sudden the devil who were just beating Arashi picks him up from the ground

The devil then opened his mouth and let out its tongue that starts licking on Arashi face

It looks like the devil wanted to devour Arashi to fills its hunger

Arashi tried to struggle out of the devil grips but it was futile as he doesn't have the energy left to fight it

(Damn it…)

(Am I going to be eaten?)

(I don't want that…)

(I still have promises that I need to fulfilled…) Thought Arashi

The devil then slowly raises Arashi head into it mouth while Arashi struggles

Arashi as he's just at death doorstep suddenly get a glimpse of the people he had promises on…

And one of them shocks him the most to which he struggled back

"Arashi…." Called out the girl in a white dress

The devil then is ready to swallow Arashi off and fed itself but suddenly it stopped as it feels an uncomfortable presence stabbing it

It takes Arashi out from it mouth and tried to find the source of the presence which to its realization came from Arashi sword

The devil shrieks over the sword as the sword let out a tremendous and terrifying aura which gives the devil goosebumps

The devil then threw Arashi on the ground and tried to attack the sword but just as it tried to do so suddenly it view went black

As its like it have been devoured…