Colin flew back to the bus to retrieve his sword, and gave Sera a summary of what happened, before flying towards the forest where the the man said the cave was. After searching for a few minutes, he finally found the cave the man was talking about, and he could sense a large amount of demonic energy from the cave. Looking inside, he could see dark red stones that gave off demonic energy while pulsating with an ominous dark red light.
'So those are cursed ores, didn't I pass a bunch of them on the way to City J.' Colin thought to himself, remembering the stones with demonic energy he found in the forest while rushing to city J.
*Hisssssss*
Colin heard a loud hiss and turned around, only to see a giant blue scaled snake staring at him with it's yellow predatory eyes. The snake was atleast 6 meters in length and had huge fangs sticking out of it's mouth.
"You must be the guardian huh, let's get this over with." Colin said and brandished his sword.
*Hisssssss*
Colin heard another hiss from his right side and turned around, only to see a green scaled snake similar to the first one.
*Hisssssssss*
He heard a third hiss from his left side and he could see a partially invisible snake with green eyes staring at him and his face turned dark.
'That short bastard screwed me over.' Colin thought angrily as he realized the gravity of the situation. He had thought that there was only one tier 4 guarding the cave and the man didn't bother to correct this misconception. In other words, he sent Colin to fight three tier 4s on his own not caring whether he lives or dies.
'I'm gonna make that bastard pay.' Colin thought as the blue scaled snake lunged at him, it's jaws wide open revealing even more of it's large tusk like fangs. Colin decided to fly into the sky to avoid being surrounded by the snakes, but they wouldn't allow their prey to escape. A powerful stream of water gushed out of the blue snakes mouth and the green scaled snake shot a glob of green liquid towards him. Colin quickly flew out of the way, the stream of water and the glob of unknown green liquid continued to follow him as he tried to escape.
"Screw this!!" Colin shouted and sent out a stream of flames towards both attacks causing the water to evaporate, but the glob of green liquid exploded and splashed all over his body. He could feel his skin and see clothes being burned through by the acid like liquid. Just as he was about to curse loudly, he heard the flap of wings and then he felt something heavy hit him in the back, sending him crashing into the ground. The snakes immediately pounced on him and sunk their fangs into his flesh. He could feel himself getting weaker and weaker from both bloodless and the large amount of poison being injected into him by the green scaled snake.
'Screw this.' He thought and his entire body was caught aflame as hellfire burst from his body.
*Booom*
A large explosion rocked the area as everything in the surrounding area was burned to ash and whatever wasn't was covered in a dark reddish orange flame. The snakes retreated as soon as they sensed the spike in Colin's demonic energy, sparing them from turning into ash, but not being burnt. The snakes scales were scorched black and a some of their scales were even burnt off their body. The blue scaled snake lost one of it's eyes and the green snake lost it's fangs that it had sunk deep into Colin's flesh. As for the partially invisible snake, it was able to avoid a lot of damage by flying into the sky but it's wings were burned severely.
"Round 2 you scaly bastards." Colin said as he shakily got to his feet, his entire body was covered by hellfire and radiated incinerating heat, his eyes burned with hate and rage that was almost palpable to the snakes. The blue snake hissed at Colin and fired a jet of water from it's mouth and the green snake sent another glob of green liquid towards him, but he wasn't going to make the same mistake twice. He created a sphere of hellfire around himself causing a large amount of steam to rise in the air, but he wasn't done.
''Rise.'' He muttered and the small wisps of flames around him rose into the air and started gathering into a large fireball.
"Hellfire Rain." He shouted and the small fireballs immediately rained down onto the area. This version of the technique was way weaker than the one used in city E due to there not being any aura mixed into the hell flames, but they did the job. The snakes screeched, screeched and wailed as their flesh and scales were burned by the raining hell flames. Colin disabled the sphere as the small fireballs rained from the sky, he could see the green scaled snake and the blue scaled snake being protected by a sphere of water, but they weren't his target. Looking around, he spotted the partially invisible snake, who wasn't exactly invisible anymore allowing Colin to see it's multicoloured scales that were blackened due to his flames. It was shielding itself from the hellfire with it's wings and was screaming in pain as the fireballs burned it's wings.
Colin didn't care though, and ran towards the snake and slashed down his sword onto the pathetic creature and it tried to block with it's wing but the sword easily cleaved through. Colin continued his assault and plunged his sword into the chest area of the snake, just below it's head, but he wasn't finished yet. He twisted his sword and a burst of hell fire burst from the back of the snake, incinerating it's insides.
[You have slain a level 3 demonic beast(tier 4), Comauflaging Serpent. You have gained 27,120 exp.]