The butterfly took Colin up on his challenge, and all three beasts started to glow pink and now, there were twelve beasts, four each, glaring at Colin. The bats suddenly flapped their wings and a over a hundred black spears appeared in the sky, before racing towards Colin. Colin waved his hand and a wave of hellfire impacted the the spears, most of the spears turned into pink dust, while the real ones, over a dozen passed through, forcing Colin to do some acrobatics on the ground to avoid them. The darkness spears struck into the ground, causing the ground where they landed to disintegrate.
'So this bastard decided to make clones, smart, but that's not enough to defeat me.' Colin thought and activated his [Demon Eyes] skill, now that the illusory world was gone, his skill was working more or less the same as before allowing him to see the residual energies around him, including the one used to make the clones. Looking at the bats, he could tell which ones were fake by the faint pink aura surrounding them and smiled. He created more than a dozen aura infused fireballs and gave them a command, to follow the fake beasts, before firing them towards the bats. The bats screeched loudly, sending a wave of vibrations towards them, but they were way harder to destroy than that and continued heading towards the fakes. Just as Colin was about to engage the real bat in combat, hundreds of shadow portal opened up and he could tell that more than half of them were fake. Out of the portals, the four leopards jumped out and Colin's eyes instantly focused on the real one, making the leopard shiver. Colin swung his sword towards the real one and it quickly wrapped itself in shadows and escaped, but not before Colin took one of it's legs, causing it immense pain.
As for the fakes, Colin simply released a wave of hellfire from his body, causing them to burst into pink dust along with the fake portals. Colin spread his wings and flew towards the bat who managed to destroy a few of the fireballs. Seeing him coming, the bat released another sonic attack that caused Colin's entire body to shake violently, but he infused his body with demonic energy and pushed through towards his prey. The bat created a shield of darkness around itself, but that didn't protect it, Colin infused his blade with hellfire and demonic energy allowing him to easily slice through the shield of darkness. The bat tried to release another screech, but it was stopped by a breath of hellfire from Colin, burning it's face. He lifted his sword and stabbed it into the chest of the monster causing it to release one final screech, destroying Colin's eardrums but he didn't care, as he channelled even more hellfire into the beast, killing it.
[You have slain a level 5 demonic beast(tier 4), Dusk Bat. You have gained 45,120 exp.]
"You shouldn't have come out during the day." Colin said as he looked at the corpse of the Dusk Bat. He placed his hand over the large bat and it quickly disappeared into his storage ring.
"Now then, where's that butterfly?" Colin wondered as he looked at the four copies of the butterfly, flapping their wings silently in the air, but he could tell they were all fake. He flew towards them and simply sliced their heads off, turning them into pink dust. Using [Demon Eyes], he could see a pink trail leading not too far away and followed it. He was led to a large building, but he didn't enter.
''I don't have time to play, I'm on a tight schedule." Colin said and charged up a fireball in his hand, infusing it with his aura and then threw it at the building. The strength of the fireball wasn't as string as the one used on Dracos Black, but it was still very powerful and easily destroyed the entire building, causing a massive dust cloud and debris to rain everywhere.
[You have slain a level 10 demonic beast(tier 3). You have gained 6060 exp.]
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[Congratulations, you have gained a level. You are now level 8/20.]
''Huh." Colin said as he saw the notifications and the butterfly flying out of the building, covered in soot and dust, while glaring at him with it's little eyes. Colin smirked and created dozens of fireballs and the butterfly quickly disappeared but Colin could see the pink shroud covering the beast. He sent the fireballs flying towards the beast and even as it tried to dodge, the fireballs kept following it until eventually, it was hit and fell out of the sky.
[You have slain a level 7 demonic beast(tier 4), Illusory Butterfly. You have gained 63,120 exp.]
[Colin, we managed to make it out of the city safely.] Sera said through [Telepathy]
[Alright, I'll catch up with you guys.] Colin replied as he removed the sword from the butterfly's head. He quickly placed it's corpse in his storage ring before activating [Stealth] and flying towards the buses.