"Who.. dares to summon me, Malice, from my slumber." Said the demon, its voice echoed and distorted to the point it almost made its words unintelligible.
'Agh, this is getting more troublesome...' Arcsen thought..
Malice, a demon that has an appearance of a big human body with the head of a horned goat, his skin is covered in thick but short black fur, a pair of bat wings grew on his back, capable of generating strong winds with each flap, his claw, sharp like obsidian, able to cut anything that comes into its way, his saliva dripping from his goat-like mouth, and a fiery rage can be seen through his eyes like a hungry beast that lacks any intelligent except hunt.
Malice saw the memories of the three assassins that summoned him and realized that he was summoned to kill Arcsen, Malice eerily smiled and licked his mouth in excitement.
"Hehe?! So you're my target!" Malice said with a sinister tone.
Usually most people would be scared and shit their pants if they saw a demon like Malice, however, Arcsen instead acted like Malice's existence didn't matter to him, he scratched the back of his head in annoyance and clicked his tongue.
"Tck, fine, i'll play with you." Arcsen said.
"Heee..."
BOOM!
The raindrops stopped moving, time has slowed down, yet even in this pace, Malice disappeared instantly like a bolt of lightning, a loud explosion happened because Malice exceeded the speed of sound threshold, it was like watching an object teleported into another place in the blink of an eye.
!!!
For a normal human, that kind of speed would not even give them a chance to react or see it coming, but it's a different story when the opponent you're facing is someone that is known for his strength and power in the world, Arcsen, with his incredible reaction speed, manages to catch Malice's movement and barely missed his claw that is supposed to grab Arcsen by the head.
Malice went pass Arcsen in an instant and destroyed the houses and everything in its surrounding, sending brick debris and thick dust flying over the sky, the dust quickly settled due to the heavy rain, but the falling debris were not that easy to be destroyed by water alone.
'He's fast..' Arcsen thought.
Crack!
Moments later, Malice appeared from beneath the destroyed house, he stood up, looking unharmed, and turned his head 180 degrees towards Arcsen, where it was revealed that he kept his smile from when he was about to dash forward.
"Interesting, heeee..."
FLAP!
FLAP!
Malice flapped his wings and began to flew away from the ground.
"You're flying?— UGH!?"
SLASH!
Arcsen initally questioned why Malice decided to use his wings, but that's when he got caught off guard and was shocked to see another Malice right infront of him, spawning out of nowhere, for once, he couldn't see Malice movement, Arcsen then swung his sword at Malice infront.
Swooosh!!
Right after Arcsen swung his sword and slashed the Malice infront of him, Malice's body turned into a mist and slowly fades away, it was body illusion, and Arcsen just got fooled by its convincing appearance.
'Illusion?' He thought.
Then, another Malice appeared, then another, multiple malices appeared around Arcsen, they created a circle that locked him in place, Arcsen finally understand what Malice was trying to do, it was to confuse him and search for a perfect timing for an attack.
< PERFECT DECEPTION >
"You're not an ordinary mage aren't you, hehe.. Hehe... A sword wielding mage, and.. A Celestial member? heeee.."
All of the malices in the area spoke at the same time, all of Malice's voice reverberated all across all direction, his distorted sound is getting harder and harder to understand.
"You're talking like you're submerged in water, speak clearly, goat head." Arcsen mockingly said.
"Give me your best effort, Arcsen Riela, or fall to your despair"
"You're weaker than those assassins..."
Arcsen's voice sounded annoyed to be told to give up, he frowned and looked angry while Malice couldn't help but smile mischievously.
"Hehe.. Heee... A 7 Star Mage, what is a 7 star mage¿"
Malice felt a bit confused for the first time, the memory of the three assassins from before suddenly passed through his mind, and it specifically told him about Arcsen being a 7-Star mage, however Malice didn't understand the concept of mage ranking.
"Light— Shine and Plummet."
< LUMINOUS COLLAPSE >
BWOOOMMPPP!!
Large magic circle exploded from Arcsen's body and it instantly covered a radius of 50 meters, then, a dome was created, all of Malice's clone and illusion were trapped inside of the dome, the real Malice saw this and was surprised to see the scale of Arcsen's magic, Malice gradually loses his smile and it instead turned into worry when he felt a slight pressure that is pressing him down to the ground.
"Now your clone are useless." Arcsen said coldly.
"Grrr.. GRRR.. BASTARD!"
All of the Malices screamed and they jumped all together, dashing towards Arcsen to kill him once and for all, however it was too late, the pressure suddenly rose exponentially, what first thought to be a small pressure being applied slowly turned into an instant bone crushing force that held Malice down with no way out to escape, he can't flap his wings, he can't move his body, its as if he was placed at the bottom of the deep ocean trench.
"Die."
Arcsen's magic < Luminous Collapse > is a spell that is capable of manipulating light particles in a localized zone, the spell increases the light's density to such an extreme degree that it will crush everything in the zone by pure pressure like how it is in the deep ocean, Malice, being a demon he is, naturally have a harder body so he will take a longer time before his body can be completely crushed.
"Impressive, you're not dead yet." Arcsen said as he watched all of the Malices that haven't disappeared yet.
< DEVIL'S BOOST >
< DEVIL'S BOOST >
< DEVIL'S BOOST >
"URRGGHH!!! ARRGGH!! J- JUST YOU WAIT, THE DEMON LORD WIL—
SPLASH!
Malice final effort is deemed as useless until his very end, his body finally gave up and folded under the pressure, all of Malice's organs, blood, and bones were shattered and all splattered onto the ground, for a moment, it wasn't raining water, but demon's organ and blood.
"Sigh, i'll have to report this." Arcsen said.
He walked away from the scene and, but not before using the magic crystal in his pouch again to detect if there's any dark energy left in the area, and apart from the dark energy residue from Malice, there was nothing that can be found.
"This much information should be fine right? I have no reason to stay in this place anyway.."
***
Shlack..
Shlack....
Outside of Whisper's Den, where the welcome sign was placed before, Arcsen walked pass the sign once again, this time he's going out of the village, and on his way out, he met a couple slimes that is trying to attack him, the slimes are desperately clinging onto Arcsen, they usually eat plants or rotten things, but when slimes feel threatened, they will attack anyone and if they're big enough, they can swallow anything.
"Hmph.."
Arcsen smiled and squatted to grab one of the slime that is clinging onto him, he thought that slimes are cute, if they didn't grow to such a massive size.
'What an interesting monster, to be honest i'd love to have them as a pet..'
"Haha, you won't be able to swallow my pants, it's made from a special material."
Arcsen rubbed some of the slimes before standing up and shaking off all of them away from his legs and pants.
"But still, this rain, its still going strong even after all of that battle, im starting to feel cold.."
"HACHOO!!"
A sneeze was suddenly heard.
It wasn't Arcsen who just sneezed, but rather another person that is close to him, the voice sounded like a woman, and through his enhanced hearing and also smell, Arcsen could detect that the voice is coming from behind the tree that is beside him, the tree wasn't that far away, but it is rather blocked by a grass mound, Arcsen were only able to see the tree leaves, but it wasn't that much of a problem, he carefully walked to the top of the mound and went down again before arriving at the location.
"Hello?" Arcsen asked.
In there, he saw an adult woman in robed outfit sitting beneath the tree, she has a black long hair that is slightly curvy, from her face alone, Arcsen guessed that she might be in her 20's, she seems to be stuck in this place and is freezing from the cold rain, her body was visibly trembling and there were snot dripping from her nose, she used her robe to momentarily protects her from the cold, but it was clearly not working anymore.
"Are you okay?"
"H- huh?.."
The woman opened her eyes and saw Arcsen, at first she didn't react to him at all, but when her senses are finally back, she replied..