Sorry for the late update. The draft was gone and I couldn't find it, so I need to rewrite it again T_T
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Alex doesn't wait for anything and just attacks the demon woman. He takes a deep breath and shoots a powerful wind bullet. The demon woman is surprised and jumps to the left to dodge the wind bullet that ends up hitting the wall at the back.
"How cold. You don't say anything and just attack a beautiful woman like me. It really hurts my heart." The demon woman sheds some fake tears.
"I have nothing to say to an Etherious who attacks humans."
The demon woman's expression suddenly turns serious.
"How do you know that we are called Etherious? People always call us the Demons from the Book of Zeref. No one has ever called me an Etherious before, so how do you know?"
"Why should I tell you? It's not like you can tell your friends later."
Alex raises his right hand forward and controls the sand beneath the demon woman. He tries to wrap her in sand just like the previous enemies, but she is much stronger than he thought. The sand has wrapped her whole body suddenly gets pushed by the massive amount of magic power that she releases.
"It seems like you have some knowledge about us. I need to see what you know, so I will take you back to HQ." The demon woman says it while revealing her true form.
"A-A Dragon?!" Cana is surprised because the demon woman really looks like a dragonized human with red scales.
"No, that's not a dragon. Only her appearance looks similar to a dragonized human, but her magic power shows that she is a demon."
"Fufufu, you're right, I only look like a Dragon woman. Maybe Lord Zeref created me while imagining a Dragon. But maybe because I am created with a Dragon in mind, my abilities are very similar to that of a Dragon. For example..."
Right after saying that, the demon woman suddenly opens her mouth and a red magic circle appears in front of her mouth.
"Evil Dragon Roar!"
A powerful fire breath is shot from the magic circle towards Alex and Cana. Alex makes a thick sand wall to block the fire breath. He can feel its power and heat which is surprisingly strong.
"T-that's...." Cana is also surprised by the spell.
"Yeah, very similar to Natsu's spell, but much stronger. Though it is made using demonic magic power, so it's not a real Dragon Roar. Only its form is similar, the energy used is different, so it's a different magic. If it's learned by humans, then it will be called Fire Devil Slayer Magic."
Knowing that the enemy's power is fire, Alex decides to use its counter, water. But first, he blocks the cave exit using a sealed sand wall to prevent the demon from running away later. Then, he transforms into Mini Isobu to use Water Magic.
"Cana, be careful of her skills. Etherious doesn't use Magic like us or normal demons. They use a power called Curse which is different from Magic although I don't know how different they are. But it might have some advantages over Magic, so we need to be careful."
Alex warns Cana and she nods while the demon woman is getting surprised again.
"You even know about Curse. Just where did you learn about us?"
"You better not know it."
Alex creates a big blue magic circle that shoots numerous water spears at very high speeds toward the demon woman. But she can fly very fast and dodge them quite easily.
She shoots some fireballs at Alex and Cana, but Alex slaps them away with his 3 Tails. Cana tries to capture some fireballs with her Magic Cards. She can capture spells with cards, but the success rate is not perfect.
The more she knows about the magic and the spells, the easier it is for her to capture them. Weaker spells are also easier to capture than stronger spells. So she often fails at capturing spells and now she also fails.
However, the main reason for her failure now isn't because the spell is too strong, but because it's not magic. As Alex says, it's Curse, a different kind of power than Magic, and Cana can't capture it using her Magic Cards.
"It really isn't magic?" Cana has just believed that Alex told the truth. Usually, she would feel some magic power from the spells entering her cards even if she failed to capture them, but she doesn't feel anything now.
"I've told you so. Just focus on countering her attacks with your magic because trying to capture them is useless."
Cana nods and shoots some Magic Cards as projectiles, but the demon woman burns them with a fire shield that also evaporates Alex's water spears.
"Cana, let's try Plan Laxus."
"Ok."
Alex releases a very thick mist out of his mouth. The mist spreads everywhere and fills the room very quickly, blocking everyone's sight. The demon woman uses her Fire Curse to heat up the room.
She tries to remove the mist with heat, but the mist is made of water. The heat evaporates the water and it only creates steam which is basically just mist with high temperature. So the room is still covered with water vapor, just hotter.
Suddenly, yellow lightning currents spread all over the room. They spread everywhere and hit anything because the spreading water vapor connects them everywhere, creating numerous short circuits that lead to some explosions.
The lightning currents and small explosions hit everything, including the caged beasts, the demon woman, and even Alex. But he has rolled his body and covers his whole body with magic power to reduce the lightning effect significantly.
As for Cana, she hides herself in a Magic Card that gets wrapped by Alex's rolled body. So she is fully safe while Alex still can feel his body gets electrocuted a little. This is not really a good strategy considering it also hurts them, so maybe they won't use this new strategy again in the future.
But it seems to be a good AOE attack, if there are many weak enemies. After all, the electrocuted beasts lose their consciousness. Alex was worried the demon would release those violent beasts to attack them, but now it won't be a problem anymore.
The demon woman also seems to be slightly injured by the lightning currents. Now Alex understands that the demon's defense against magic is high. After all, that lightning was strong enough to knock out enhanced magical beasts, yet it doesn't hurt the demon that much.
"Seems like Curse power increases magical attack immunity. Or maybe, it's because an Etherious has a stronger body than normal demons, so the effects of most attacks will be reduced."
The demon is also very fast and Alex can't catch her up even though his attack speed is also high. Her being able to fly at high speed is also making it much harder to hit her. As a result, Alex and Cana become defensive while trying to find a chance to attack.
Fortunately, Alex's Water Magic is strong enough to counter the Demon's Fire Curse. Cana blocks the Demon's attacks that Alex fails to block with Water Magic. But sometimes they fail to counter because her attacks are too fast, so Alex needs to defend with his armored body.
"We can't keep going on like this." Cana is getting tired.
"I know, but we can't catch her if she keeps flying."
"If I can make you move in the air, can you catch her?" Cana asks.
"What do you mean?" Alex frowns when hearing Cana's question.
Cana whispers her idea to him and he widens his eyes. "It might be possible. But you need to make a lot of them."
"Yeah, that's why I said I can't do it for too long."
They agree to do Cana's plan that makes the demon curious. Then suddenly, Alex transforms into Mini Matatabi form, making the demon raise an eyebrow. Cana throws many Magic Cards, but none of them are aimed at the demon.
"Ara? Where are you throwing them? Are you getting tired, little girl?"
"Of course, I am getting tired. But I still can throw my cards as I intended."
The Magic Cards that Cana throws stop midair in different spots all over the big underground room. They expand until they're big enough for someone to stand on them. Then Alex in his Mini Matatabi form jumps on them and uses them as footholds.
He runs very fast on the Magic Card tiles toward the demon. Cana is creating footholds for Alex to catch the demon and it works really well. He can move very fast from tiles to tiles and reach the demon's location in a very short time.
The demon is surprised and tries to get away, but Alex can chase her without much problem now that he has things to step on. He shoots numerous fire bullets to attack the demon woman and counter her Fire Curse attacks too. Their plan seems to be working well.
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