Assassination Through the Netherworld - Chapter 97

Before the demon could even think about plundering the fallen Vera’s crystal, Teddi crashed so harshly against him that the two of them fell together!

*BAANGG!!*

“Vera!”

Fayette grit her teeth noticing that Valentine was too busy to do anything and Vera’s current circumstances would just delay everything.

*CLAANG!!*

Fayette’s horntail clashed against her opponents’ weapon, the difference in strength so devastating that she was blown away, just like she wanted; towards Vera’s direction.

“Go now!!” Manson yelled, with Teddi releasing one of their bears, they got the chance to at least take out one of the carriages.

The demon soldier that had been fighting Fayette didn’t give chase, rather he flew towards the injured bear and mounted it.

Fayette who just picked Vera’s head could only look hopelessly at how one of the objectives left, but from this distance, she could tell that the ‘objective’ is not inside there.

“Faye.”

!!!

The head spoke!

“Just put me back on my body! I don’t know what’s going on!” Vera yelled, not feeling any more pain, when her head got cut, she felt the pain but it only lasted so long…

‘It must be another one of my ‘characteristics’… I can feel the roots.’

That underside of her neck didn’t look bloody and gory, roots protruded out of there as if seeking the source.

She’s a Mahogany Tree.

While Valentine and Manson clashed in the distance with Teddi fighting a Demon Soldier and Miki another; Fayette stood in utter bewilderment with Vera’s head in her arms.

After shaking her head to release the nonsensical thoughts, she regained herself.

Fayette didn’t waste time as Teddi is clearly at a disadvantage and needs help; Valentine needs help against that bastard as well.

She did as told and sought Vera’s body to ‘re-attach’ the head to the body.

The roots from the body and those from the head sought one another and within seconds, Vera’s head was back in place.

“T-This is ridiculous…” Fayette gasped; for a sci-fi person like her this is nonsensical.

One thing is to regenerate faster one’s wounds; another is that Vera’s body is some kind of humanoid tree at this stage.

“Ridiculous but helpful; you go and help Vale while I assist Miki and Teddi.” Vera growled, angry that the person that cut her head down had just fled.

“I’ll chase after them afterwards.” She confessed, no way she’d allow that bastard to escape with all those goods that they could brazenly use.

“Do you know your way back to the forest?” Fayette asked first, just to make sure.

“Umm!”

“Then go, remember to speak through the badge!”

Fayette didn’t stop Vera from going to do what she wanted, the recent events marked the belief that among the three of them Vera is the one with the least danger.

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*BOOOMMMM!!!*

A blazing hammer impacted on the sand, but it was easily evaded by a nimble Valentine, when he saw what happened to Vera; he panicked, but at the end of the day she’s still eccentric, everything is looking great on their side, but the objective is not here.

“You’re an agile bastard, tell me, who is your contractor? This is common practices between protectors!” The man brimming with fire knew there isn’t much time.

And as expected.

*BOOOMMMM!!!*

Both of them had to jump when the ground collapsed to give way to myriad teeth.

A gargantuan hideous worm,  brown in colour, eerie to say the least, and he can feel there are more coming.

The worm released a sort of high-pitched noise with both protectors focusing on it.

Fayette continued her fight against the demon soldier and the two of them turned around distracted, but when she felt something beneath, the beauty gasped and jumped away!

*BOOOMMMM!!!*

“VERA BE CAREFUL!”

The moment she released her yell of anxiousness, the worm came out of the sand with a head start and devoured the Demon Solider she had been fighting.

*BOOOOMMMM!!*

On Vera’s side the same happened, however, her opponent evaded as well.

The Russian gal immediately commanded Teddi to take Miki away, they wouldn’t pay attention and would just engage their opponents.

Teddi technically crashed against Miki and saved her from the worm that came out right at that instant, devouring their foe.

“This is getting ugly! Faye, go together with Vera! run with Teddi and Miki after the other convoy!”

Valentine yelled the moment his eyes witnessed all those worms together, this situation is going out of hand and if not controlled properly who knows what casualties might take place, Vera’s incident was lucky on their side; were she not a mahogany tree, just by losing her they’d be in big trouble.

“YOU’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!”

*WHOOOSH!!*

Manson threw a barrage of flames his way, the more time passed his flames seemed to grow with more and more intensity, from orange, they turned crimson and caused cracks to spread across his body.

Valentine had to roll out of that one as the worms were in the process of seeking a new target while two of them focused on ingesting their ‘meals’.

“What about you!?” Fayette and Vera yelled simultaneously, thinking that the bastard is yet again thinking of sacrificing himself for their sake, nothing farther from the truth.

Valentine trusts his women with his life.

“I’m killing this bastard! now I know who he is, I’ll catch up… make a lot of noise and have some of the worms to tail on you!” Manson’s identity is only the least of his concerns, his true target is that fire… he wanted them to attract at least two of the worms, surely they’re faster by mounting Miki and Teddi.

He immediately ordered Miki to follow Fayette’s orders and prepared for a massacre.

“Got it!” The two girls, now cleared, prepared to run towards the carriage that had already departed, but Manson wasn’t about to allow them to escape, he refocused on them rather than Valentine and prepare to throw his massive hammer at them!

“Where do you think you’re going!?”

But the Bringer of Euthanasia also wasn’t about to allow them to be disrupted, he jumped with the intent of staling him, but an unexpected object came his way from Vera!

“VALE! HERE!”

A big bloody knife emitting killing intent equivalent capable of having Charles Manson look like nothing else but an infant.

From behind them, one of the worms prepared to swallow the two of them together and it lunged at Manson from behind!

Vera threw the Rose Eagle Thorn and it landed in Valentine’s hand but this time it wasn’t like the last time, the knife has evolved.

‘MINEMINEMINE… YOU’RE MINE!!’

!!!

*RUMBLE!!*

As if pumping blood in his hands, veins started to grow crazily almost exploding as his mind flooded with dark thoughts and then the image of an individual showed itself in front of him, a woman he knows and he gasped at the sudden maniacal silhouette, a face he had never witnessed out of her.

*SLASH!!*

*BOOMMM!!*

The slash was so strong that it blew gales of wind and red aura, directly obliterating one of Manson’s blazing arms cleanly and bisecting the head of the worm in a vicious angle with a single strike, bursting his blood vessels together with theirs and rendering the three of them in a deadlock.

“UGHH!!! PIG!!!” Manson, an individual who seemed pain as nothing but commodity, found himself experimenting the worst kind of torture coming straight from his arm.

Fayette and Vera were already gone and therefore, didn’t get to witness any of these events, but… Valentine had fallen and hurriedly released the Rose Eagle Thorn that fell on the ground, devouring the blood on it’s corrupted metal.

‘CVVALEADASFDFFZRAEELASDADWD!!’

He held his head in pain as corrupted intonations flooded his mind coming from the knife, said weapon seemingly crawled across the sand on it’s own, approaching Valentine like a parasite thirsty for blood!

‘W-WHAT!!?’

‘MINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINEMINE!!!’

Manson’s body presented convulsions while the impact of the bisected worm shook the ground, having the other worm visibly scared!

‘W-WHAT IS T-THIS!!?’

As if countless needles coated in acid were pinching his wounds, for the briefest of moments, he couldn’t even stand up.

This continued for an entire minute in which the last worm fled for its life while the other two were already following Vera and Fayette.

Valentine raised up and shook his head, he saw countless…. countless women, or demonesses, he couldn’t recognise them… they looked at him with myriad infatuation, obsessive, corrosive, toxic, awful.

Only one of them he could recognise and it elated his blood.

‘H-How is this possible!? How are you involved!?’

His deceased sister, Christine Wagner.

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“Can you see the carriage!?” Fayette while two ladies dwelled further in the gales of sand, they had left Valentine behind and were tailing the carriage that escaped, but it’s difficult to see within this sandstorm.

“I can’t, but two of those worms are pursuing us, give me one of the spears!” Vera yelled from beside her; mounting Teddi.

Fayette threw one of the spears from the ring and the two ladies kept going as fast as they could, following the trail of the sand until the silhouette of the carriage became visible.

“We can’t stop moving… Miki and I will take care of the demon, you must take the carriage and take it to the forest!” The blonde announced her intention as they approached the carriage, the demon had already spotted them but he didn’t plan to stop, who knows what Manson would do to him if he failed!

“Bastards!” He realised it was impossible to outrun them, his callisto bear is not as fast and it is also pulling the carriage!

“Miki, take care of the bear!” Fayette jumped directly onto the moving carriage with her knife in hand and easily crawled up intending to lunge at the demon from behind.

The sandstorm seemed to gain momentum at an increasing pace, devastating the land as the two worms approached the convoy.

*BAAM!!*

Miki immediately started to crash against the callisto bear who growled in retaliation; she even spewed magma on it.

The demon soldier took his spear and planned to impale Miki on the get-go, but being crushed by Teddi from the other side he lost his balance and the blonde took the chance, she lunged with her knife in hand preparing to cut his disgusting neck away.

It wasn’t that easy!