Entering into the barrier which shut immediately he stepped in, a blur of a mindless creature violently lunged at him with a loud growl.
"GRRRRRRRR!!!"
Iode was caught off guard, but not entirely, as he stared directly at the blur. His adrenaline rushed up throughout his body, he said whatever came to his mind.
"Mana shield!!!" Iode casted as he had body reflex to defend himself from the horror.
A thin colorless plasma membrane appeared in front of Iode shielding from the dreadful claws of the abomination and taking it damage.
This is a spell that Iode has never used, the mana shield, colloquially called the astral shield is an advance level spell that creates an astral shield projection in front of its caster, protecting him from almost any attack, as long as there is enough mana to fuel it.
It is a spell that is dependent on the amount of mana pool present in the mana vessel, thus, it gulps up huge amount of mana. Therefore, it is a spell used as last resort by most people in desperate situations.
Iode's mana pool as been drained to half with just a single spell. He stood behind the shield with a stunned expression on his face. The mindless creature kept slashing and gnawing at the astral shield aiming to reach Iode.
The mindless creature was very much like the one he encountered in the void expanse. It was a demon with long fangs, almost 6 inches in length. It has multiple sets of teeth like a shark. It has curved horns coming off the sides of it's head. The demon's skull has multiple spiky bone tumors that push up through the skin on its face. This demon has 4 abnormally long arms. Its entire body was covered in small, jagged spikes.
Though stunned, he was very much calm. He stopped the spell to let the abomination get to him. Immediately the shield went down, the demon brought forth its claw to slash Iode's face, it suddenly stopped mid swing.
Iode became perplexed with the demon's action. It stared at Iode with its terrible and awful looking face and voiced a little growl. It brought down its arm and slowly backs off. Iode kept staring at it as it hid behind the bushes.
'wow, detto was right when he said they might not come to me because of Valier's energy'. He thought.
He stood still at the entrance of the cemetery, while he might have been feeling uneasy since they began their journey en route to this place, and it grew as they got closer, his uneasiness sky rocketed the moment the demon hid behind the bushes.
From the bushes to the ground, hundreds of absurd looking demons showed their faces but did not come over to Iode. He kept watch as the horrible looking creatures stared at him, he thought of one thing.
'if only i had the staff with me, it would triple my power, i could easily eliminate these abominations".
As he thought of his staff, his stigma at his left wrist began to glow in purple and then photons of purple light began to disperse and gather up at the same time. Gathering into Iode's left hand, soon the light photons completely fused and starts to solidify, looking like a recognizable object.
The object that formed in Iode's hand was his staff, the staff he got as a gift from the archmage. The staff was still as it was, made from polished wood with two orange gems fitted at the top though not directly. The gems floats graceful on top of the wooden part.
Iode looked at the staff in his hand with surprise, he thought he had lost it in the Luwesuchus belly, he smirked.
'i thought i could only summon melee weapons, it seems the staff has acknowledged me as it master... What a splendid gift you have given me Archmage Averay'.
He held onto the staff tightly, he supplied some mana into it. The staff glowed faintly, he smirks and said:
"Witness my power and despair!, feel my energy and know pain!. This is your last day in this world you inscrutable abominations from hell!!! ".
Magic circle appeared below him and around his staff, he said:
"Quadratic sunbeam!!!".
Behind Iode, four portals appeared and forced out huge beams of intense energy, pulverizing any creature in it way. The spell is an advance level spell that not only force out powerful beams of energy, it also allows the caster to decide the direction he wants the beams to go.
Iode directs the beams to light up every corner of the cemetery within the barrier. Wailing, screeching and shrieking were resounding all around the cemetery. Within seconds, the lush green bushes of the cemetery, as well as the tombs and the demons became nothing but ashes.
Iode was panting heavily, those two spells he casted sucked a lot of juice out of him, because of the way he used them. He was quite proud of himself, defeating hundreds of demons in one go, it's no easy feat _ to himself that's it.
While he confirmed that there were no more demons loitering around the premises, the uneasiness didn't leave, he was still having the feeling that there was still at least one more demon alive, but he couldn't figure out where but he was getting it.
'why do i feel that the undead demon is of a different caliber from the ones i just spent almost all my mana on?'.
Just then, an humongous hand sprung out of the ground, covered in tiny spikes and ended with terrible long claws, it dug itself out from inside the ground and a towering fifteen metres tall demon stood. It roared very loudly and angrily.
"Oh my!". Iode said, mortified by the shadow of the demon.