Burning Soul

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Asking his leave, she walked past him into the bushes nearby, unaware of the danger, Theo was still eating up his portion.

She walked a while and stood to look around as she clenched her fists tightly.

“Looks like we’ve got ourselves a clever one” A voice came from nearby bushes.

“Hmm! Looks like the little one doesn’t want us to get the man! No problem, No no no no no problem is what I feel! Such a young beauty is worth a hundred men, how delightful the day is being to us! My brain, my body, my soul is slipping! I fear we might not get such prey again.”

This time the voice came from a seemingly old guy who was wearing a long hood and held a wooden stick, it looked like he was a wizard though the way he spoke was enough to spook anyone!

His wet hairs and eyes which were on the edge of popping out of the skull looked loathsome in Ember’s eyes, but anyone else wouldn’t have been able to handle the ugliness.

She gave him a resentful look and replied,

“Who the hell are you?”

To which he replied while tilting his head,

“I am Belphegor! The blessed one you may say! How lucky I am that I caught you!”

Hearing his babble Ember replied with a loathing expression,

“What an ugly face! You dare to talk back to me?”

As he heard it, he tilted his neck and looked with a hint of anger before replying in his crooked tone,

“Ugly! Ugly ugly ugly ugly she says! I, me the only one who is blessed by the most respected witch of the witch’s cult is ugly you say! Unforgivable! Totally, completely unforgivable! I should show you my beauty! You shall witness it as I command thus using this gospel, yeah! You will! That beautiful resentful look is something to kill for! Right, kill, kill kill kill kill is what I was here for, I shall not though! Yeah! I want to see your look when I’ll force you! Yeah! Yeah yeah yeah, that is what I, no no no no, that is what she desires. Ahh, I can feel it! I can feel her will!”

His babbling definitely was pissing her off, but that maniac was no fool, she could feel a strong aura surrounding him!

“Belphegor! You sure you want to pleasure her! She’d sell good fresh!”

The other guy asked his maniac friend as he took out his staff.

“Pff, I only want to see her beautiful expressions as she loses her hope and then why not skin her while we are at, yeah yeah yeah yeah! A worthy sacrifice for her revival, a beautiful sacrifice, nothing less than she will do! Won’t you say?”

He replied while spreading his arms and looking up in the sky, his way of speaking was crazier than she thought.

Though he was not only talk,

“Shall we begin our play little girl, don’t worry, you won’t regret me enjoying that tender meat on yours! Come forth! Unseen Hand!”

As he said so, a gust of wind blew by.

‘Snap’, an invisible arm grabbed Ember by her waist and pulled her towards him, she was prepared for such and twisted her body mid-air while using a fierce attack spell towards him making him loosen his grip on her.

Just as she freed herself the other guy used an earth-bound spell making the spot she was standing, a trap in an instant though she read through this and jumped just a moment before and landed a step back.

‘These two are formidable’ she thought to herself.

But now it was a bit late to turn away, she had to force her way through.

Judging by their abilities they were no less than legends and had good coordination meaning they had been doing this for a while.

A fierce battle started between those three. As Belphegor and fang were fighting to capture her, she was not only fighting to flee but to prove her worthiness in her master’s eyes, she definitely couldn’t lose here.

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Both sides were testing each other’s weaknesses and strengths.

This battle was not a battle of strength as the opponent was surely no rookie!

“Ah! That beautiful expression! How blessed I am to see such a face of yours! This is fun! Yeah, Fun, fun fun this is, Fun!”

He was trying to provoke her as he wanted her to make a mistake deliberately!

She was not a kid to not understand, but what made her pissed was the way he intimidated her, it was like a strong guy trying to play with some small prey before hunting!

This feeling made her pissed!

“Are you done with that play of yours? Why not spar some blows already?”

Ember replied with her pissed look! She stepped in disregarding both of them with fanatical speed.

Using a sudden boost skill, she jumped causing the land to shake around her creating a crater from where she jumped, it showed just how much strength she poured in that move!

But even though she pounced at extreme speed, the later guy was able to dodge her from a close distance, His moves were quite nimble.

As he dodged it, his partner charged in, he transformed his staff into a spear with a spell making her startled a bit,

‘What the…’ she could only complain at the moment.

Though the distance between the two of them allowed her to avert the incoming spear by a thin distance so that a strand of her hair got cut in that movement!

Just as he was passing by her closely, she twisted her body mid-air doing a rollover and landed a kick on his back, literally making him fly!

That force was so huge even she felt the sudden recoil on her joints losing her balance and falling on the ground while coughing out a bit of blood!

‘Crap I’m forcing my body in this form!’ she thought to herself, indeed in dragon form her body had the potential of even withstanding a 6th tier blast magic but in her current form.

Her body had limits.

In the moment of chaos, without wasting a moment, Belphegor charged in on her with some wicked magic as it was visible on his staff.

“Now now now now, show me what color your flesh is of... little girl! Show me show me show me, and I’ll burn the sight on my mind! Come on!”, even though he looked all talk, but his staff showed a hint of terror to Ember, he was using some dark chanting in the demonic language!

A pair of invisible arms appeared again, this time it had claws on ‘em and as one of the arms grabbed her hand, it tore some flesh from her hands!

If not for her regenerative abilities she’d have lost an arm! She squinted and jumped a few steps back to lose the grip of that arm on her, but to her surprise, the person was too persistent!

He didn’t give her a chance to flee, rather chased her with those arms!

Being invisible it was hard to predict where those arms will strike from and having claws on such arms made it even difficult for her to fight back! It was a serious situation!

She was taking longer and if not returned she knew Theo would come looking for her and walk right into this dangerous situation! She had to do something! It was rather possible for her to change in draconic form to fight them off, but that’d expose her main weakness, agility!

Judging from the movements of the enemy they were quite agile. She would be easy prey if not dealt with carefully! She was thinking a lot while fighting them, the other guy she kicked was back on his feet as well.

“Oh! You woke up! I thought she got you good! Nice! Nice nice nice nice! Nowww, get her already, I can’t hold my hunger anymore!”

Belphegor talked to fang while stacking out his long tongue and rolling it over his upper lips leisurely making her even pissed!

But she knew, a wrong move and she could end up in their hands.

Just as she was preparing one of her spells, an arm of his grabbed her from behind and pierced right through her thighs, that sudden sting caused her to scream out loud in pain as even though she had regenerative abilities, those claws were stuck in her thighs constantly ripping up her flesh as soon as it regenerated!

It was a bloody mess now, after using regeneration constantly she was tired, dragon or not she was quite young to face such a frightening enemy!

Her stamina was running low and her eyes were being heavy after losing too much blood!

Just as she tried to flee, a few more armed arms caught her and pinned her on the ground.

This time she really got caught by some nasty people! After pinning her down both of them closed in.

Belphegor sat on his knee and lowered his head as he touched the blood on the ground with his finger,

“Ah! Wonderful! What a texture your blood has! Not so thick, not so thin, just about right! Ah! How desirable! Ah! And this smell is to die for… I wonder how it tastes?”

Saying so he licked his finger after dipping it in the blood, he then raised his head tilting way up and looked up in the sky as he stretched his arms,

“Ahh! How sweet my brain trembles! There can be no great sacrifice to the great Ulva, Oh! How long have we waited for you to be reborn! Now, now now now now, the sacrifice must be made, both her body and soul belong to me, only me!”

A shiver ran down her spine for a moment after hearing this, she was helpless against him in the current state! He then looked at her and stretched his hand to grab her chest,

“Let’s rip out that heart of yours first! How wonderful it’d be if I could see how it’s beating! I want I want I want I want it, Yeah! I want it!”

Saying so he began squeezing her chest while his other hand covered her mouth.

‘How humiliating!’ she thought as a teardrop slides by her cheek.