Gareth and Greg are stunned to see the this demon had a ring.
Although he had recovered his strength by eating the imps he still wasn't back to full and he wasn't prepared to face another demon.
Morgania's condition was worse off then Gareth since her blood overdrive causes immense backlash and even though she started healing this ability usually left her weak for the rest of the day.
Morberock quickly assessed the situation and realized these two were trying to exterminate his subordinates. Then he noticed Morgania's weakness immediately!
As a superior demon, it would be wrong of him to not take advantage.
Boom*
With great speed the demon rushes over to Greg to deliver another fist to his stomach. With much effort Greg managed to block the oncoming fist with his mana shield.
To his dismay the force the demon exerts, quickly overpowered him and sends him careening backwards.
He slammed into the wall of the imp hive.
Morgania saw this demon and got up coughing up some blood. She ignored it and began running at the demon however, her speed was nearly as fast as when she entered the battle.
When she saw Greg get hit, fury overtook her. However there was nothing she could do as she used too much mana already.
Morberock however didn't continue to pursue Greg, turning his attention towards the approaching girl.
He starts to smile sinisterly. 'I'm glad my prey knows to come to me!'
He twisted his body and blasted towards Morgania. He met her oncoming blade with a heavy boot, smashing her into the ground. He follows up with a flurry of fists, striking her like a gong.
She could only raise her arms to defend herself. regardless the injuries continued to accumulate.
At this rate she would die! Luckily that didn't come to pass as a sharp pillar of black-stone ripped out from the ground and smashed into the imp. It pushed the imp off, however not far away.
Morberock turned to his head to see Greg release a ball of corrosive breath at him. sensing danger from this attack he moves to avoid it.
Greg expects this and as he watched his feet turn he creates three sharp spikes of black-stone to block the path.
This failed to stop the imp, since it smashes it's way through the stone. The stone manages to rip off chucks of it's skin and leave pieces of black stone inside it's body.
To the dismay of Greg however, the imp began to rapidly heal with pieces of black-stone dropped out of it's body. Greg continued his assault of stone, while ordering his archers to begin firing.
"It's useless human, your bad at this game." The imp chackles with the same sinister smile. The imp starts showing off greater speed! He's dodging the larger black-stone spikes and arrows, while continuing to advance towards Morgania.
Gareth knew this wasn't going to work, so he devised a plan with Greg. The black stone attacks seem random however, they curved to create shadows.
It was their turn to attack! The shadow soldiers disappeared as Greg began.
The imp reached the edge of the hole he left Morgania in, only to be met with a towering black-stone spike erupting out directly below him. He stepped back to avoid it, causing him to run into the attack of Greg.
He jumped from the shadows dagger in hand, cleaving upwards to leave a gapping laceration on the imp!
This caused immense pain, however the imp endured as he twisted his body to deliver a powerful backhand. Greg was barely fast enough to return to the shadows, evading the attack.
He reappeared from another shadow behind the imp to attack again, this time the imp was on alert and furious!
As Greg struck down, like a porcupine demon-stone emerged form the imp. They blocked the attack and like a jaw six others stabbed into him.
This caused him to cough up blood as he felt his ribcage shatter.
"Got you!" The imp roared manically as another blunt stone emerged from his back!
It slammed into Greg further crushing his ribs and breaking the other stone spike stuck in him, sending him fly into the black-stone pillar he created.
"You were quite annoying, but I finally caught you." Morberock snarled as he approached Greg, who was barely conscious.
He looked up to see the imp coming closer, so as a last ditch effort he created stone spikes protruding just barely out of the ground. The imp did step on it causing even more pain.
With a final burst of energy Greg jumped forward to stab the imp in the heart!
However reality didn't turn out to be quite promising, as Morberock swatted the blade away and counterattacked with a punch to the face.
This knocked Greg unconscious, yet this wasn't the end. He began to slap Greg's face relentlessly while hold his hair with the other hand.
"YOU DARE POSE A THREAT TO ME!" He howled as he continued to rain down slap after slap, further disfiguring his face.
"ENOUGH!" A voice thundered in his mind. The imp Morberock immediately listened and stopped.
"Bring those two back to me! Along with their weapons." The voice said then went silent like it wasn't present to begin with.
Morberock wishing to appease the creature behind the voice, quickly followed order picking up the weapons and with the help of some other imps carried the two towards an unknown destination.
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5 days later,
Morgania was the first to awaken. She found herself in a dungeon hands and neck chained to a wall opposite of Greg.
They were in a large room with a dragon chained to the ground to the left of them and thick iron bars to the right.
She scanned the dragon Gareth and realized he was awake staring angrily at Greg.
"Young lord, wake up!" She whispered loud enough for him to hear but to no avail. Gareth did the same but telepathically and not as respectfully.
Finally after a few minutes, Greg awoke.