The creature kept creating havoc. His breath created winds on par with hurricanes, his steps made sounds like thunder. Thomas realized something, if the mission is to fight this creature, is this not basically a suicide? He called out for the system, but it never replied to him. He wanted to abandon this quest. Now he understood, the system asked for his permission this time. This update was able to endanger his life and he was too stupid to ask for an explanation. He realized, that system will no longer help him. He has to deal with this on his own. He created a big black fireball. He knew a regular fire spell might not work on it, so he decided to use hellfire instead. After the black fireball hit its target, the creature began screaming in pain. But there was a problem. The moment fireball vanished, the creature healed as good as new.
Due to Thomas's stunt, the creature noticed him. The black energy that was surrounding him began to spread as it now targeted Thomas. The creature began to grin and his saliva dropped to the ground. The creature made laughing noises and began to roar again. The roar was so loud that Thomas began to think that his head will explode.
"Yeah, no. **** this shit!" Thomas realized that even a divine-level spell could only make the creature laugh at him. As Thomas sprinted to the forest, the creature began chasing him. The creature was as fast as Thomas in his full speed. What's worse, the creature was clumsy, he kept falling on the ground, but he still was as fast as him. If the creature was able to balance himself, Thomas would have no way of escaping. Soon Thomas heard a system's notification sound.
[Quest: Survive for 3 minutes]
[Reward: Evil Spirit form]
"For 3 whole minutes??? Are you ******* kidding me?!?" Thomas shouted to himself, as now he had also to evade black energy balls that the creature kept spitting. As the creature realized it was useless to chase him on his legs, he decided to spam black miasma and dark energy balls at Thomas. As Thomas kept running, he had to avoid black magic as well and this slowed him down quite significantly. As Thomas ran, through the forest, he met many mutated creatures. But even those instead of chasing Thomas ran in fear after instinctively sensing the danger coming from behind. Soon he realized the creature stopped chasing, but he was not stupid enough to check why. He ran as fast as he can.
The creature on the other hand found a group of men that were trying to escape the village. Even tho the village was many kilometers away now, for Thomas and the creature, it took mere seconds to reach this place. These people were nobles that came to see the same lord who killed Elijah. However, they never reached their destination, due to the sudden attack of a monster. They made horses run as fast as they could. The creature stared at the horses, and in a moment he was in front of them. He waved his hand at the horses and the force of wind cut them into thousands of pieces.
Nobles kept screaming, as the creature was butchering them. None of them were left alive. The creature began laughing and remembered. There was a human that he was chasing. The creature frowned and dematerialized. The creature was very fast in his material form, but now that he was in his spirit form, the speed went up unimaginably. He began to use spirit search and kept looking for Thomas. Soon, he found him running. The creature once again grinned and began flying straight towards him. This time, he caught up in mere moments. The creature began laughing at him and taunting Thomas who now realized that he can't escape. He needs to stall for time. He once again created a black fireball "So be it you ******! You liked these before, take some more!"
Thomas began throwing hellfire spells and the creature. He realized that the fire won't spread, due to it already taking a lot of energy to hit the target. The creature put his hands forward to defend his face from the black fire but in about a minute, he began to get used to it. Even tho black fire could harm the spirits, but it's still useless if the spirit won't care about its damage. The creature realized even if the pain is real, injuries are not. They heal as soon as the fire is gone. So he decided to take all the damage, but kill the man who is hurting him.
"Oh ****!" Thomas cursed after realizing that the creature decided to attack him despite the pain. He closed his eyes, as he was waiting for the incoming doom.
"So here you are my boy! Had fun?" he heard a voice. Who is this? He opened his eyes and saw another demon. It was Royan, this was the moment when he came to claim Elijah's soul.
"Of you go!" Royan smiled as after he snapped fingers, Elijah's spirit vanished in white light. He checked around and mumbled "what the mess this kid made. Huh?" Royan's focus was now on Thomas, he stared at him and bit his nails. "Well, this is interesting!"
[System retrieving host from the shadow dungeon in 3...2...1]