The scrabble was more intense than ever, another magma demon had been hammered with a devastating roundhouse kick...
Staggering uncontrollably, and ridden with anger, the magma demon tried to recover his balance.
However, a tap against the concrete floor was heard and the nightmarish adjudicator had covered the distance in a heartbeat.
With sleek footworks and a leap, the adjudicator feigned a full force overhead attack on the towering demon, aiming diagonally down to the left; displaying outstanding speed and intent.
However, out of pure serendipity, the magma demon parried the attack with the hard exterior of it's forearm, dispelling visibly wild sparked.
Without missing a beat, the adjudicator followed up with what looked like the same attack. However, while sky high, he concentrated on his opponents head and kept the actual target only in his peripheral vision. He sidesteps out of the way of any potential counterattack.
Then with one hand, he attacked , suddenly dropping his sword in the foremost leg of the demon - a neat display of deception and foul play.
Lava gushed out as it let out a graveyard howl. It threw caution to the wind and kamikazely swung it heavy arms at the adjudicator. However, the silhouette of the adjudicator quickly dissolved into the ever clearing mist.
Amidst the heated encounter, a transmission was made.
"Alpha, this is Omega, the coast is clear. We're no longer being obsessed from that tower. "
"Excellent!! It's high time we crank this up a notch." The alpha said " All adjudicators should abort and rally at the rendezvous point ASAP. "
In a heartbeat, all the adjudicators had gathered at the center of the hive.
"Knights of Klayrenbolg, we are the swords that ward off evil, the finest pieces in the game of chess. Our objective is always cut and dry, and tonight, we are here to do what we do best, for the love of Klayrenbolg and the greater good of mankind. Demons and demiurges have no place in our world, therefore, as adjudicators, it's within our rights and responsibility to purge them." The alpha said to his squadron.
However, during their gathering, they were aware of the magma demons advances, yet they did not tremble nor did they falter.
Instead, they surrounded their Alpha who just pulled out a glowing mantil and said "Wield your swords, holy knights, that I may cleanse you of all the bloodshed. For it only takes that which is holy and pure of heart to overcome evil's might."
They complied, and now wielding their blades, the holy ritual had began.
"Purify us oh Lord,
With the holy scriptures of the holy apocrypha and we shall be clean;
Wash us with holy light from the holy grail and we shall be whiter than snow."
At that moment, all of the magma demons swooped down from a massive leap. However, before they could smash into the crowd of adjudicators, their amours lit up in such a blinding ambience unseen before.
A concentric barrier of bright light shot out of them and as the demons came in contact with the light, they were all hurled away.
"We now wield the purest of souls, let us pray for that of those we are about to purge, demon or not, that although they are past salvaging, they would somehow find peace after death."
"Oh lord, grant us your benevolence and emnesty for those we purge." Uttered the alpha.
"Mend in affinity the possessed, the broken in mind, memory and spirit." His knights responsed.
The alpha continued, "Soften the most callous of heart, the slaves of acrimony." and so did his knights in response.
"Liberate the ingenious, vindicate the honest of heart."
"Prepare them a befitting abode in your bosom, Amen!!" Concluded the alpha, as the prayer of intersection for the damned was brought to an end.
Apparently, during the prayer, the demons had already recovered and were pounding vigorously on the holy light that engulfed the knights.
They turn and finally, the long awaited "Purge!!" thundered.
Immediately, pouring through the eye vents of their face plates was a striking brightness. Their eyes could be seen glowing with ambient light.
Even the demons could feel the elevation of power within the adjudicators.
Immediately, the adjudicators turned into phantoms, vanishing towards their adversaries with intent to vanquish. All except for their commander who stayed put to incorporate the nearest fiend.
His boots glowed as he burst forward with an explosive force, generating a propulsive wind blasts, that provided temporary flight toward his adversary.
The demon lunged forward; kicking off rabbles behind it.
"Slow poke! Seems your bark is worse than your bite!" The airborne alpha taunted as his cuirass glowed in a blinding splint; the next moment, the demon's forward thrust had pierced through nothing but the phantom of the commander, who had just phased out of reality itself.
[ index(cuirass) -a piece of armor covering the body from neck to waist]
The momentum behind the jab was incredulous, causing the demon to trail further. This left the adjudicator with enough time to phase back, re-position, and push off his wind boots once again; this time ready for a nasty hack with his large sword beaming red.
Perceiving the incoming attack and not having solved his momentum problem, the demon spread his arms wide apart. In one clasp, he performed an earth shattering clap which issued forth a tremendous shockwave, impeding his progress and obliterating everything in it way.
In the air, knees bent, body dropped into a low squat while torso hoisted upright; the alpha was closing in quickly, wielding his great sword that was vibrating with oblivious energy.
'Yet another demon falls by my blade?!' He chuckled deviously to himself, as there was no room to miss an opening of this sort.
Generating a vicious force from a smooth overhead thrust that emerged like a storm shadow all the way from the back, he ploughed the ground along it's way; progressing into a vicious hack towards the demon's back.
However, instead of a clean slice, a thunderous clang erupted when the blade connected with it's neck, as though two metals barged into each other. Visible sparks danced off the gleaming edge of his blade.
"Oh! Your exterior's tougher than I thought." Said the alpha. "Well that just means, I've gotta go up a gear. No hussle at all!"
The encounter between his great sword and the demon's skin morphed into a test of strength; a standoff; with none barging.
However, this was the tiebreaker, his gauntlet started to glow, coaxing an unusual phenomena. The ground around them began to deform, breaking apart and borrowing chasms into the earth; from it, tons of rubble floated, circulating in a spiral around them.
As the glow intensified, so did it affect the magnitude and direction of the flowing dirt. They inched closer towards the glowing splint like a minny black hole, sucking in all the rabble.
Finally all the rubbles gathered around the gauntlet; drowning out it's glow completely, as two giant arms made of sold rock, held onto the hilt of the blade.
"I find you guilty of trespassing where you do not belong!" He judged, "Due to the weight of your crime, I sentence you to death!"
Electric surges went off from his arm and onto his blade, adding a shocking effect that churned vigorously at its hard exterior.
The alpha pushed off with all his might and propulsion from his boots creating enough weight and mass behind the sword. Then like an invader, the blade started to sink in...
Witnessing the change in circumstance, the demon grabbed hold of the bladed edge, which seemed to held in place.
However, suddenly, the edge of the blade started to rattle and spin like that of a chainsaw. And with the added electric effect, it was shredding the demon's flesh by the second, eating away until it's head detached, rolled over and tumbled to the ground in a pool of lava.
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