Re: Devil - Volume 1 Chapter 20

[Tower of Babel Floor 1 Area 2]

Alive:5 Dead:65

3 figures appeared before us and as I had thought all of the demons were already dead or teleported out.

All of the 3 figures were humans and I could not see any sight of an angel.

[Weird, From I have experienced first hand fighting with Angels, They are really not pushovers.

Humans that I have already encountered so far should not be able to defeat an angel and even if they do they should not be totally unscathed after fighting with one

Either angels are too rare in this floor, they have managed to kill an angel sneakily or the angel that I have fought is the only angel but if so, I am very thankful because one angel already gives me a handful of trouble, I could not imagine fighting a group of one].

I shuddered at the last thought imagining multiple arrows shooting towards my body. I really needed to find a countermeasure.

I also realized something that this Tower of Babel was at least fair enough to send out a small number of Angels.

“It is our luck we only need to fight 2 imps at the end, Leader!” said one of the human cheerfully. He was wearing a leather armor and a thin clothes underneath it.

“Don’t underestimate any demons that you see. Even if you fight an imp or a goblin, it will be fatal if you are careless.” said the human in the middle with a scar on his face sternly. He reminded me a little about Olgur.

He was wearing armor covering almost of his blind spots except his face and the joint of his limb.

“Clara, Do you still have any mana left to cast spells?” asked the same human.

“Uhh… Yes! I have no problem casting two or three spells.” answered the human wearing a loose robe with a hood.

“, It is a female human.” whistled the imp. I looked towards the imp.

It’s eyes radiating desire to devour and other emotions that I didn’t know. Was she not only a female human? Was there anything special about her?

Anyway, 3 humans, the middle should be the leader and they knew each other beforehand. That meant the chance of discord was slim and all 3 were enemies.

The human leader should be a melee fighter and the other male was probably one also however the female was a long ranged fighter seeing the wand on her hand.

[Insight]

Level 35 – Apprentice Mage A – No Title

Species: Human

Class: Apprentice Mage

Unranked

Skills

Fire Ball

Lesser Strengthening

[Lesser Strengthening]

Description: Increase the offensive and defensive power of an ally by a bit.

My eye twitched seeing [Fire Ball] in the status of the female mage. [Lesser Strengthening] was also a bit troublesome.

I groaned and complained in my heart. Why were all the long-ranged fighters so troublesome to handle. It would not be long before they became the bane of my existence.

The other two

Level 66 – Warrior B – No Title

Species: Human

Class: Warrior

Unranked

Skills

Heavy Slash

Lesser Swordmanship

Warrior’s Roar

[Warrior’s Roar]

Description: Roar of a warrior boosting ally’s attack power.

Level 40 – Thief A – No Title

Species: Human

Class: Thief

Unranked

Skills

Pickpocket

Lesser Dagger Mastery

Trap Tracker

[Pickpocket]

Description: Steal a random target’s item with a low chance to alert the target. Depending on the target’s awareness, [Pickpocket] might fail.

[Trap Tracker]

Description: The ability to detect and dismantle traps. Unfortunately unable to detect well-hidden traps or a complex one.

[I see why they are in top condition to battle now even in this late game. Their party is a solid one almost covering each other’s weakness and traps are worthless againts them].

I glanced at the imp telling him to kill the female mage quickly.

But, I could see in it’s eyes that it was unwilling to kill the female mage and I glared at it.

The imp tensed fearfully and suppressed it’s desire and nodded at me.

The leader after seeing our slight movement turned serious and readied his sword from his back.

“Careful, I have a bad feeling about this. Clara buff me.” He roared [Warrior’s Roar].

“Relax leader, they are just imps. Look at me killing one of the imp using my dagger.” said the man beside the leader as he dual wielded 2 daggers.

“O.. Okay Leader!” The female mage raised her staff and began to cast [Lesser Strengthening] on the leader.

I naturally didn’t wait long enough for her to finish casting the spell because I knew how dangerous and advantageous a boosting spells were due to being one as well.

Startled the casting of the spell was interrupted but the leader yelled “Don’t lose focus! we are here to cover you!”

The leader seeing this quickly shielded the female mage with his body trying to face the head on charge from me.

I didn’t stop and kept charging at him and used [Enhanced Shadow Claw] as my claw extended and also covered in black substances.

The warrior parried my claw using his sword and the momentum managed to flung me away because my body was too light.

As I almost landed, The thief appeared behind me with his daggers ready to stab me. Feeling danger I instinctively flipped myself as well as borrowing the momentum to avoid his daggers.

The daggers missed and I quickly counterattacked using my claw against him.

However the warrior wasn’t idle seeing this chance and raised his sword and used, which I assumed, [Heavy Slash] as his sword glowed with a blue aura covering it.

Danger was screaming in my mind and I knew a direct attack from it with a boost nonetheless would turn my body to a meat paste.

I quickly retreated myself from the battle as the sword smashed at the floor.

Countless small debris and shards came out resulted from the crack of the floor.

[Scary… I … I underestimate the humans this time. The past warrior was injured and the humans that I have encountered were only weak and stupid.

This party of 3 not only knew how to team up but also leveraging their strength with each other].

“Leader … ” said the thief. Not good, I saw that the thief was now serious and tensed up.

“Yeah this is not a normal imp. My feeling was right. We need to quickly kill the imp before the other helps out. Clara quickly used your spell again.” commanded the leader.

The mage nodded as she tried to cast the spell again.

Before I wanted to interrupt it, the leader charged at me before raising his sword and trying to slash my body.

I used [Lesser Speed Movement] to increase my speed.

I avoided it and ran towards the mage again but the thief this time was the one shielding her as he raised his dagger preparing to face me.

I clicked my tongue annoyed at this development as I quickly used [Enhanced Shadow Claw] on both of my claws.

His daggers and my claws clashed a few times until I saw the warrior turned back and ran trying to assist the thief.

Suddenly,

“Kyah… ”

I could see that the imp injured the female mage heavily as his teeth sunk into the flesh of the female mage’s nape.

Blood spurted dying the robe with the color of red. The imp kept biting and devouring the female mage’s flesh with a rapid pace.

The thief was surprised and horrified seeing the mage was injured. [Chance!] I smirked as I extended my claw and pierced his eyes blinding him.

“Ahhhh… ” He screamed as one of his arm released the dagger to grab the claw but I already retracted it.

“Clara! Adrian! ” The leader was furious as he quickly swung his sword at me and I sidestepped not forgetting to take the dagger.

I chuckled lightly seeing this because this was when a human would not think rationally. Ah How I missed the feeling of holding a weapon although it was not a sword.

Thanks to the imp giving me chance, I could finally had a one-on-one fight with the warrior.

Although the warrior was slow in my eyes, one attack from him proved to be fatal. As long as I could avoid his attack and dealt constant damage he would be dead sooner or later.

While I was having fighting the warrior, the imp was not idle as he killed the blinded thief.

I would be ashamed if he could not kill a crippled human then rather than helping me it actually went back to the female mage and continued to gnawed at her flesh.

I shouted “What are you doing?!” Help me kill this warrior!”

“Nah, I believed you can do it! Let me enjoy this female mage first. It is also payback for what you did to me with the Angel!

Oops forget to cut your tongue, we don’t want you to flee right.” replied the imp as it bit the female mage’s mouth and yanked her tongue out.

I clicked my tongue in annoyance seeing this behavior of this imp and focused back to the warrior. At least I was assured that he was the last remaining enemy to kill but it reminded me to maintain my vigilance behind me towards the imp.

…

After some time, The warrior kneeled and fell down and due to huge amount of blood lost it would not be long before he died.

His armor tattered and his sword broken. “I am sorry … Clara … Adrian… I could not avenge you …”

He died as the familiar black substances covered the corpse and scattered around the tower.

“Huff… huff…” I was also not uninjured. Although there were some scratches here and there, I was also almost exhausted.

[This battlefield has ended]

Tower of Babel Floor 0 Area 3]

Alive:1 Dead:69

“Huh?!” I was surprised and glanced at the number again.

Seeing that it was correct I quickly turned around and saw that the imp and the female mage were gone.

“Damn it! From the beginning it knew that I wanted to kill it and before the warrior has died, it teleported out.” I cursed.

[Last living being: Hellspawn]

[Hell has won this area and will receive a portion of blessing from Babel. Glory to Hell!]

[Outstanding! You are the last living being that survived this ordeal two times in a row, a portion of collected souls will be converted to essences (Hellspawn)]

The familiar black essences appeared above me and dropped down on to me. The process of getting stronger began as I relished myself in it.

[Hell has granted you a bit of it’s authority]

A streak of black light from nowhere again flashed and dug into me.

“Status!”

[Status]

Level 58 – No Name – Lesser Challenger

Species: Lesser Infernal Imp (Uncommon)

Unranked

Hell’s Authority Rank I: 12%

Skills

Insight

Enhanced Shadow Claw

Greater Fire Body

Lesser Skin Hardening

Compound Eyes

Lesser Speed Movement

Lesser Swordmanship

Lesser Dagger Mastery

Lesser Strengthening

I could not help but laugh loudly seeing my [Status]. I managed to level up 20 times making my level 58.

But the most exciting and useful part was the [Lesser Strengthening] I could immediately see what I could do and experiment with my other boosting skills.

I could feel myself really different from before. Power could not help bursting out from this small body of mine. This was really a qualitative change from me.

[Checking current strength… Strength too much with the next battlefield… Able to skip one floor]

“What?!…” I could not retort as I was in the middle of teleporting out from this tower.

…

“So do we agree that the “feast” will be held after the next floor?” chuckled Jakath.

“Agree, Let them grow a little bit stronger and increase in quality. You are right that this batch of Hellspawn shows more quality.

Many of them managed to survive and I could see many having skill that could potentially boost ours. There will even be a baron I think with this speed.” said Olgur.

“Fantastic! My faithful minion is getting really excited and it is hard to control them without killing them.” smiled Jakath widely.

“How about you, Sir?” asked Jakath a bit fearfully towards a figure. The figure was the same as the one that Count Andromalius had ordered to investigate his territory.

“…” The figure stood in silent for a while before nodding slightly.

“Great… Then minions prepare to greet your “junior”! Meeting adjourned!”

“Please wait for a moment, General Jakath. I have an interesting news from this newborn batch.”

“Oh you? Tell me along the way.” Jakath smiled amusingly.