Chapter 1011: A City-Wide Spell
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"GROOAARR!"
"SHAAAAH!"
"GRUOOHH!"
Aberrant Demons of all shapes and sizes continued battling Blake's party. Their horrendous screams echoing across the entire city, making their hearts tremble in doubt, frustration, horror, and anger!
This entire situation, it was just hell on earth! All these demons which they wouldn't even hesitate to kill before, they were now people they had seen playing around.
Children, elderly, women and men, mothers and fathers, they weren't just insane barbaric creatures, they were normal citizens.
And even worse, some of them were even the family of their friend…
"Make it stop…! Please make it stop!"
Elfriedden kept clashing against his own people, the people he had sworn to protect, the people he had been thinking about this whole time as he grew stronger.
He continued conjuring walls after walls of ice everywhere, he froze their bodies temporarily, only for them to break out, melting through it all with their demonic flames.
"Please, Rosenheim, mother…! Sapphirus! This is enough!"
He kept struggling to form barriers, the faces of his family constantly pushing through the ice. Their aberrant faces, which slightly resembled how they looked before, twisted, horrifying.
"Please…! I don't want to see this anymore!"
He closed his eyes, releasing all his frost at once as his tears froze into ice.
FLUOOOSH!
A storm of snow washed away all the Demonic Aberrations at once, their frozen bodies falling over the floor, shattering into pieces.
Elfriedden's eyes opened wide as he realized he ended killing some of his people.
Their bodies wouldn't recover.
They stayed broken down and dead.
"A-Ah…! N-No! I didn't mean to! I'm sorry! I'm sorryyyy!"
He kept screaming, tormented by what he was forced to do.
What could these people have been?
An old elf selling fruit in the market.
Or a little girl playing in the plaza?
Maybe, even a friend of his brother?
Or perhaps one of the gossip ladies that his mother liked to talk with…
"I'm sorry…! Please forgive me…!"
"BRO… THEERRRR…"
"Ah! S-Sapphirus?!"
Elfriedden ended looking towards Sapphirus aberrant form.
Its countless tongues reaching forwards again.
He fell for the trick.
The monster smiled wickedly, as Elfriedden was caught!
"Aaargh! No, stop it…! STOP IT, SAPPHIRUS! DON'T YOU REMEMBER YOUR BROTHER?!"
"GRAAARRGHH!"
There was no coherent response, Sapphirus, in his monstrous form, had only used that voice to lure him into his jaws. Countless sharp fangs started tearing through Elfriedden's armor, slowly shattering it!
"Stop…! Sapphirus! STOP!"
Yet his torture didn't end here, his mother and Rosenheim walked towards him again.
Since they transformed that they were obsessed with him, ignoring everyone else but him.
Perhaps the bonds they had before ended becoming a last emotion, a wicked obsession to eat him.
Their arms rushed towards him, grabbing his limbs and beginning to pull.
"S-Stop…! STOP THIS…! Please…!"
Elfriedden couldn't fight back anymore, as he was about to be torn to shreds.
"Rosen… heim…"
He saw the monster that his girlfriend had become.
Her eyes were crying.
"Are you there…?"
Everyone else was so busy fighting and keeping the hundreds of monsters they absolutely couldn't kill from getting closer that they caught up to what was happening to Elfriedden too late.
"Elfriedden, don't let them kill you! Fight back!!!" Elizabeth screamed, firing beams of light and stopping the demons rushing towards her.
Dozens of giant hands ended hitting her powerful barriers as she continued erecting them one after another, undergoing her transformation, she grew two pairs of angelic wings and rushed to his aid.
"Why are you like this?!" she was about to grab him.
However.
BAAAM!
A giant foot loomed from above, crushing her down into the floor.
"Argh!"
Elizabeth desperately conjured several barriers to defend, and then rapidly flew away from being fully crushed, rushing high in the skies, she noticed a gigantic aberration.
It was over forty meters tall, and it possessed multiple heads and arms!
"Is this made of multiple people?! WAIT…!"
Her eyes widened as she saw the aberrations, in their failure to defeat their opponents, beginning to slowly melt into masses of flesh.
And merge.
"Why…?! Isn't this enough?!" she screamed, as she saw four giant fists rushing towards her. "Please, stop it…! Holy Spirits, please help us! Blake…! Cattalina!"
She hesitated; she could easily kill all these opponents.
But she hesitated!
Amongst everyone here, Elizabeth had the kindest heart!
To kill innocent people…
She would rather die.
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
Her barriers shattered one after another as the gigantic, blazing fists pummeled her down, she started rapidly moving towards Elfriedden.
At the same time, everyone else was fighting with their life on the line, while trying to not kill these people.
Erika continued slashing limbs with Chris, tears flowing from their eyes as they kept resisting, as they kept struggling together.
Eric fired his arrows and erected barriers that burned almost instantly, Alberta kept herself by his side, becoming his shield.
Erdrich fought alone, incapacitating as many foes as he could!
Everyone was crying, everyone was struggling, everyone was panicking, everyone was suffering.
They didn't know what to do!
"Do we kill them?!" Erdrich thought.
"What can we do other than to kill them?! If this keeps up, we'll all die!" thought Eric. "B-But would I be able to live knowing I killed so many innocent people?!"
"What would my father say in this moment?!" Alberta panicked. "What should I do?!"
"This can't keep going forever…!" Chris thought. "I'll have to… I'll have to start killing them or my friends are going to die! They're all too soft-hearted!"
"Mom… Blake!" Erika kept crying.
What they were unaware of was that all of Blake's Vampire Spirits were also fighting, they were actually only fighting a tenth of the actual army, which the Vampires were all keeping at bay, without killing any, or well, trying.
"This can't keep up forever…" Eriant said as his walls of sand kept being destroyed.
"Just keep them at bay, will you?!" Celestina cried, using her miasmic waters to stop the incoming foes.
"This would be much easier if we could just kill them…" Hendrick started considering it. "But master would hate us if we did… He had changed after all."
"Mama… papa…" Saphira looked in the distance, over a kilometer from there.
Blake and Mammon were still clashing fiercely.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
BOOOM!
And the skies were turning pink and dark purple.
"Good night."
Cattalina's Spell was finally conjured.
It was a city-wide Spell!
FLAAASH!
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