Saki straightens up, pushing the burly leader away with little effort. She turns her around, the silver eyes in her eyes is gone—replaced with an intense red with no pupil. The two black horns that crown her head match the black of her curved greatsword,
"It seems like you found it before us," The leader comments, glancing at the golden star resting above the young woman's voluptuous chest. "No matter. I'll kill you and rip it off your corpse, demon."
"S-Saki? Is that you?" Darren calls the young woman with disbelief in his voice. Just a few hours ago, she has been laid out without much difficulty by Sarla, but now she stands before him, having stopped an attack that certainly would have bisected the dwarf.
Saki lazily looks over her shoulder and at Darren. The air twists behind her as words made of black flames form, "Do me a favor take whoever is alive, and get the fuck out of here."
The dwarf's eyes went wide at the message, "Rude," He says as he gets up, gripping his axe as he hurries toward his remaining comrades.
"You're not going anywhere!" Someone behind the burly leader says, raising his hands to conjure a spell. In response, Saki raises her right leg up, to which the leader responds by coating his sword with malevolent red Aura, ready to swing.
The young woman simply lowers her foot back down, confusing the attackers except the leader who appaears before his subordinate, his sword deflecting an unseen strike to the side. A crumbling building takes the hit as its upper half slides off,
The leader's eyes narrow, but his underlings' widen. None of them had managed to perceive that strike. "FOCUS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE ON HER!" The leader shouts, coating his entire body with even more Aura as he lunges forward. Behind him, hundred of magic circle form,
Saki tilts her head, but does not move a muscle. The leader's sword slashes across her stomach, followed by hundreds of spells each striking her from every angle. Smoke, dust and silence fill the air. The leader slashes his Aura coated sword, unleashing an arc of malevolent red energy that blows away the cloud,
Saki just stands there, MENACINGLY (sorry not sorry). She lowers the greatsword resting on her shoulder, a thin flaming Aura covers it. The arc of malevolent Aura clashes with it for a single instant before shattering like glass.
The leader did not wait for his attack to land, his sword—brimming with Aura—aiming for her unguarded side.
CLANG!
Saki lazily lowers her head, looking at the sword trying its hardest to penetrate her flaming black Aura, "... Really?" She sighs in disappointment. She stabs both of her swords into the ground and cracked her knuckles as Aura appears above her fist.
The leader reacts quickly, retracting his sword and making his Aura explode. Saki grins at his attempt to defend himself, she corks back her right fist and...
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Her fists slash through the air, creating mini explosion on impact and lifting the leader off his feet. Despite his Aura reinforcement, the force behind these fists do not diminish one bit, and soon...
CRACK!
His sword shatters, leaving him unprotected to the barrage. His subordinates watch with shock at how easily that demon is beating their leader, and as much as they want to help, they can't do a thing. No one is physically as strong as the leader and spells are out of the picture as they don't want to hit him either.
Saki's barrage comes to a halt as she punts the leader with a kick to the gut. This one spits blood as he crashes through several buildings. She turns to the remaining assailants, picking up her greatswords. She points at one in particular, at the back of the group.
"Hey, you with the blue hair, lemme tell ya something..." The one in question is a woman with short light blue hair with chains around her, slithering like snakes. She tenses up, ready to defend herself, even if she is not going to survive.
"I like ya
She likes ya!
And I want ya!
She wants ya!
Now, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The choice's yours.
What's it gonna be, bluey!?"
The group of robed assailants are dumbfounded,
"Did she just..."
"Yep, she did!"
"... Well I knew some demons were unserious, but still..."
Saki can't help but giggle at their reaction, but she has to focus. "I ask you a question, bluey.
She asked you a question, bluey!"
The blue-haired woman stares in disbelief, "I... I..."
"I-I-I can't hear you back there!"
"FUCK YOU!"
"So you choose the hard way, fine by me!"
Saki's flaming black Aura flares up, obscuring her figure. The robed assailants focus their spells onto the black-haired demon as she rushes forward, not paying any mind to the attacks coming her as they either dissolve or bounce off her.
"What is th—" One tries to ask, but his question never gets out as one black greatsword cuts through him, separating his torso from his lower half. Blood fills the air as Saki slashes her way through spells and assailants alike.
In a matter of minutes, more than fifty corpses litter the ground. But before she can reach the sixty mark, Saki is forced back by a more powerful barrage of spells. "Oh? Finally fighting back I see."
The remaining forty robed assailants squeeze together some with swords, spears and other weapons while the others chanted spells. Saki can chains piercing their backs, so she decides to take things a little bit more seriously,
"HELLFIRE CLAW!" She shouts, jumping into the fray with one greatsword coated with black flames shaped like a claw. The armed assailants greet their attack with malevolent coated weapons, but it was pointless as the claw cleaved through ten of them without any resistance.
"Aura Skills!?"
"Too late to complain. HELLFIRE JAB!" Black flames converge on the tip of the curved greatsword as Saki jabs with it, poking a hole into the shoulder of another. A wave of Mana hits her before she can continue to pierce holes into the melee assailants, but it doesn't nothing to deter her.
She throws her swords up in the sky. White circles pulsing with golden vein-like lines appear in her palms, "Heavensflare Bombardement!" Fireballs of black and gold form in the sky,
"A demon casting spells!?" The blue-haired woman exclaims in shock as the fireballs rain down on the group. She raises her hand, commanding her chains to form a shield above her, the other Mages follow her movement and the warriors hurry near them.
To the Mages' surprise, the attacks are not as impactful as they seem.
"You really fell for that! Wow, I'm disappointed!" Saki mocks as she slashes through the smaller groups with ease. That spell was just a light show meant to distract the Mages as they were the bigger headache.
The warriors try to their best to resist, igniting their Aura and even their life force but it is completely useless. "Void Steel Flash!" The flaming black Aura that coats Saki's swords morph to mix of light and darkness as she jumps from one group to the other so fast that only afterimages remain in her wake,
The blue-haired woman stares with fear as the demon stands before her, the body of her comrades fall simultaneously in a splash. "You chose the hard way, remember Shira?"
"How do you know my name!?" Shira asks frantically, jumping back while swinging her chains. Saki grabs the chain, pulling on it with such strength that it almost rips the blue-haired woman's arm off.
"It's simple, really. I know all of you, but right now what I want..." She says, ripping apart Shira's clothes with a swing of her sword.
"Back off, you pervert!"
Saki just smiles before plunging her teeth into her neck, "AAAAAHHHH!"
***
On the other side, the blonde woman sips a cup of tea while swallowing Magic cores. Around her are bodies, completely intact but their eyes rolled to the back of their heads. "She's finally done, talk about being a slow poke."
She stands up from her chair, gathers the rest of the cores with a snap of a finger and starts walking toward Saki when...
"Crystal Hail!" A crystalline rain falls down on her, pulverizing the table behind her. Two minutes later, the spell stops. "Who was that!?" Sarla inquires, but she finds her answer by looking down.
"Aren't you awfully late, little liar? A bit more and we would have to track you down."
Sarla jumps back, summoning two crystalline daggers. "How!?"
"Please, if you thought that little averse could do anything to me, you are sincerely disillusioned. As for who I am... Call me Siphiria." The blonde says while bowing elegantly.
Sarla's hair stand, whoever this Siphiria is... She is dangerous. "You're not from this village, are you?"
"Oh I am, actually. Just like you, little liar but unlike you, I had no need to backstab everyone because I hated the place."
Sarla's eyes narrow, "then how come I don't remember you?"
"I could tell you... But I doubt you would believe me anyway. Besides... It doesn't matter."
"In that case, die!" Sarla throws her dagger at Siphiria, but a thin white Aura shatters the daggers. "Crystal Sp—" A hand grabs Sarla's face, preventing her from casting her spell.
"Hush, will you? Didn't your mother teach you it's rude to throw things at people? Maybe I'm expecting too much from Harlem,"
Sarla struggles, trying to break free but to no avail. Despite looking fragile, Siphiria is insanely strong. "I'll just get what I want from you, and then I'll let her do as she wishes." The blonde woman announcrs, tearing a hole into Sarla's robe. "I'm not one for meat... But I suppose I can make an exception."
A muffled scream fills the air as Siphiria plants her teeth into Sarla's side...