We look at his new features and see black horns with some crimson coloring near the tips with his hair becoming blood-red. His skin darkened to an ash grey while his eyes became a bright glowing violet. He starts to laugh louder as I hear Liliana scream in pain while he stabs her in her gut.
"Finally! Finally! Finally!"
I stand up and glare at him with immense anger and hatred so intensely I feel like I could lose myself.
"Let her go!!!"
He smiles at me as if I said something stupid.
"Why would I when I can finally kill you all?! I've been waiting for this!"
He laughs even more like a maniac and has a smile so wide it's almost like his face split in half.
"You are a demon! Why are you here!?"
"That's the question you should've asked from the start. My name is Erros, a priest of the Dark Goddess, and a human who became a demon through a blood pact."
All of our eyes widen at his announcement.
"How about this, I won't have to kill you if you also go through a pact. You will won't you?"
He asked as if saying no means death. We all yell no and he throws Liliana to the side.
"Well I can't say I tried but if left alone you could jeopardize our plans, sorry not sorry."
He then proceeds to attack all of us while not leaving any chances of a counter attack. Gerard and I attack with Hillary and Tyria acting as support.nbefore we run at him I cast Natures Call to buff us and Belladonna to summon a dark Dryad that'll help us by debuffing the enemy.
Belladonna constantly applies stun and poison while she can as I and Gerard go on a full frontal attack. Every punch, sword strike, and feint are being dodged like it's child's play. During the fight he knocks both Hillary and Tyria out of commission as Gerard and I keep at it.
We are worried about the state the girls are in but I can't get distracted.
"Hey you know what sounds fun? Maybe I'll violate all the girls after I rip all of your limbs off and make you watch. Doesnt that sound great? I mean I also gotta have fun too you know."
After he said that He smiles like he's enjoying himself and we both get so angry that we start to make mistakes in the fight. Our strikes become more predictable, slower, and his taunting gets worse as he tries to rile us up even more.
"Hey you with the blonde hair, which ones your girl? I mean knowing how handsome you are they all are right? I think I'll start violating the girl I first took care of, even if she becomes a corpse."
His grin gets wider and I start to see red as I continue my assault. Gerard then gets sucker punched and stabbed. Then Erros grabs his shirt collar and he throws him to the edge by the girls.
"Now that the annoying one is gone its time for the real fun. You are the only threat to me and I feel that you'll be so much fun to crush!"
Then at that moment I coat my sword in holy energy as I struggle to go on. At that time I noticed him start to sweat as I get closer.
"I didn't think you could wield holy energy yet! Well this complicates things."
He then starts to panic as I finally start to land a hit every once in a while. I noticed the color draining from everyone's face as the fight progresses. I then force myself to keep going.
He smiles as I look more determined to kill him as Lilianas breath becomes shallow. I get more and more worried as I try to end this sooner rather than later. I yell a gutteral scream as he teleports next to Liliana and stabs her again, this time in the heart. I see her look at me with a sad smile while mouthing the words 'I Love You'.
At that moment I go berserk as holy and life energy surrounds me while I charge at Erros.
I force my self to go faster every time a strike misses.
'Faster Faster Faster FASTER! I GOT TO END THIS BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!'
As the fight drags on I notice him get slower and myself get bigger, stronger, and faster.
I can hear myself roaring constantly as we fight. Our strikes as they his one another I can feel the arena shake.
Out of nowhere as I get distracted he teleports to my side to stab my kidney. His blade shatters as he sees the white scales under my skin. With a face full of fear he backs away and I rush forward hoping to end this soon.
I start slashing any and every way possible to force home on the defensive but he gets a lucky hit in. While I was distracted he stabbed my stomach with a concealed dagger.
I stumble backwards as I feel my strength draining from me. He also jumps a few meters away to get distance between us. I pull the dagger out and see a light shade of purple along the edge of the blade.
"You had to resort to poison to knock me down a few notches?"
I cast heal to help me resist the poison better and then I get into a final stance. As he does the same he smiles.
"Let's see who wins this fight. Ready?"
I don't say a thing as he turns serious.
"GO!"
As we run I activate holy on my sword and body. He looks like he's surrounded by darkness. As we pass one another and stop a few feet apart I hear him laugh.
"I guess you won."
I hear a thud and a large cut opens on my chest. Before I worry for myself I rush out his body into my storage and begin to drag Gerard, Tyria, and Hillary to Liliana. As I put them down I slowly pick up her body and notice her life signs are extremely weak.
I start crying wondering why we had to go through this, and did those maniacs really think we were a threat?
I gather the last of my Mana and cast Resuscitate. A construct appears behind me with the appearance of an ethereal angel. It looks down to us with a face full of sorrow and spreads a holy energy coupled with life to heal us all albeit barely though. I can see everyone's face regain some color with Liliana being slower than the rest.
I see the angel vanishing after healing us and I say thank you. It nods to me and smiles. After I noticed everyone being healed partially knowing they would now survive I started to carry everyone to the best of my ability. As I made way way back to the entrance if I saw a monster I would kill them with my sword since I ran out of Mana.
Exhaustion was creeping up on me, my pain, injuries, and coupled with the fact that I'm out of Mana should've knocked me out. I was being stubborn, I refuse to pass out till I know they are safe. My life for theirs. I can't let my love and friends die without trying to make sure that they can be saved.
As I finally got closer to the exit I forced myself to go faster despite the pain I feel.
After appearing on the otherside I can see the school headmaster talking to our instructor with a team of healers. As we appear I see everyone looking horrified at the state of my team and I. As I put them down I see our teachers appearance change to Elda.
"I knew it was you."
I pointed to her as I said that and started to pass out as she caught my falling figure. As my consciousness faded I could hear her try to talk to me but to no avail the darkness took me and before I passed out I heard a few dings from the system.
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(3rd POV)
The Headmaster afraid of the backlash from the royal family yells out to Elda.
"What happened in there!?"
Elda looked at him and slowly put Kayde down.
"It seems that one of our students was a Dark Goddess fanatic. I don't have any ideas on the details though. We will have to wait till they wake up."
She looks at the state of Kayde, Liliana, Gerard, Hillary, and Tyria with a saddened look.
'This shouldn't have happened' She thought.
Then the healers pick up the students as a large thundering roar happens.
The Headmaster sighs in defeat.
"Too late, they already know. How am I going to explain this?"
He walks off with Elda and the healers to the academy infirmary while contemplating how he will get to keep his head.
"Don't worry, you should know the King and Queen. We will explain everything the moment Kayde and the others wake up."