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Chapter 74 - Demon

After absorbing all the vitality from everyone in the dome except for Nevan who had his orange aura surrounding him like a second layer of skin that acted as a shield, protecting his life force from being sucked.

Dahlia was now fully transformed without any clothes, she was an entirely black looking demon, the hairless elongated body, the pointed ears, the horns extruding from her forehead coming out at a curve like goat horns.

Her body was nothing but skin and bones, hunched over making it look like it couldn't hold up its weight, with long arms that acted like another pair of legs to hold up her hunched over body. Two tiny wings were on her back and a tiny little devil tail coming from her behind.

Eyes as black as midnight with surprisingly super white teeth, that made her that much scarier with a long skinny black tongue. They say the demons have white teeth cause that's where the souls of the innocents get stuck as it feasts.

Innocent souls being harder to chew through, since they're good hardy souls, versus evil people's souls who are corrupted and broken, so it easily breaks apart.

This story gives people hope because if you're stuck in the teeth, you haven't been digested, so once the demon dies your soul will be released. Made believable by the fact that demons usually seek out evil people to eat rather than the hard to swallow innocents.

Nevan seeing this form didn't like it one bit, it did not look appetizing at all, he gagged a little thinking about sticking that thing in his mouth.

The demon after adjusting to its new self spotted Nevan and instantly moved to attack.

Surprised to see the speed was at his level, Nevan braced himself for impact.

'Boom'

A visible air ripple was released from the impact as they clashed together, a small crater forming under Nevan's feet as he prevented himself from moving.

The demon unhappy with this opened its mouth and shot out a black beam of energy not giving Nevan any chance to react as he was hit point-blank.

thankfully he still had his aura around him which mitigated most of the corrosive damage, but a hole was still blasted through his right chest which quickly healed back up.

Nevan copied the demon and opened his mouth firing an orange energy beam right back at it, blasting a hole through its chest, only to have it heal back just as fast.

The demon backed off and swung its elongated arm hitting Nevan away as it took the time to fly back to the center of the dome.

Nevan zoomed back to find the demon now at the center with its arms raised towards the big black ball of dark magic, speaking some sort of gibberish.

The ground started to shake as the gravity pressure inside the dome increased while dark clouds around the center area started to continuously strike black lightning at the ball in the center.

Nevan sent a cross energy blade that he boosted with his sonic howl at the chanting demon, but it was intercepted by a large black lightning strike coming from the ball.

Nevan charged the demon trying to stop whatever chant it was doing, this was no longer a normal battle against a powerful witch, this was a demon who had abilities superior and more mysterious than any witch ever would or could for that matter.

The last demon to invade the earth started the dark ages where humanity along with magical creatures united to fight a common enemy that was trying to wipe out all life.

It was a brutal battle that left many dead, but they came out victorious with the sacrifice of many witches to form a spell large enough to wipe it out in one strike.

Nevan didn't participate in the fight because this happened across the ocean at the time and he was too lazy to go over, now he wondered how on earth they managed it without him, but that goes to show how dangerous witches are and how dangerous this demon is.

As he ran towards it dodging black lightning strikes, he shot energy beams from his eyes in an attempt to distract it from chanting, which seemed to be growing the black ball above it and shrinking the dome.

But it continued to ignore him, even with some of the beams taking chunks of its flesh.

The black ball continued shooting more and more lightning at him, to the point where he had to retreat and couldn't get close enough to the demon.

Nevan's anger grew the longer this went on, this was not the fight he wanted.

Having enough he finally released his Phantom-Wolf manifestation, a giant black orange-eyed werewolf silhouette phantom formed around him as he powered himself up to the limit.

The demon sensing the danger looked over at the new threat, accepting it as something that was worth worry about, it stopped what it was doing and absorbed the black ball back into itself to also power up.

A massive Black and Orange Aura expanded against each other as they each powered up, fighting for control of the area.

The demon size noticeably increased as it now stood a foot taller than Nevan even while hunched over.

With neither aura winning the area, they attacked, zooming towards each other at a speed too fast for even Originals to see.

'Boom'

Both flew back from the force of the impact, where the demon landed the ground itself started to disappear from contact with his black aura, from where Nevan landed the ground cracked and was destroyed from the pressure.

Getting up they charged again, flashing around as they battled, appearing and disappearing from location to location as they skirmished.

The demon tried to grab Nevan's leg with its right hand as it struck out with its left hand, Nevan ducked under the left and grabbed its right arm, pulling the demon off its feet as he forcibly spun it around on the ground, dragging it along then lifting it up and over to slam it back into the ground.

Nevan then jumped on it and started to repeatedly hit it over and over again, until the demon had enough and blasted its black aura out sending Nevan away who landed on his feet.

The demon then let out an angry roar, the first noise it's made since being born.

It was a horribly loud screeching sound that made Nevan winced in pain, forcing him to cover his ears.

The demon took this chance and jumped on Nevan pinning him to the ground. Looking up he could see the Demon looking at him hungrily as it licked its lips. Opening its mouth it moved its head down to bite, but Nevan's Phantom werewolf silhouette wasn't just for show as its jaws bit around the demon and started to shake its head, tearing it apart, badly wounding the demon as it was tossed away.

Nevan's trump card exposed he attacked with the intent to finish this.

Appearing before the Demon had a chance to fully recover, he started to attack with abandon, allowing the demon to hit him back as he grunted through the pain of his flesh being torn off.

Making sure to give twice what he received, waiting for the chance to unleash the phantoms attack he's been charging up.

Alerted by the growing orange glow coming from the phantom werewolf's eyes, the demon found itself stuck in combat, unable to leave as it battled with Nevan, knowing that any attempt to flee would open itself up for attacks without repercussion.

Despite Trading blows and giving better than he got, the corrosive factor of the black aura left Nevan wounded for longer and longer periods, slowing his regeneration as time went on, while the wounds he gave the demon could be healed right back up with no problem, making him look worse for wear.

Seeing the growing threat, the demon tried to take it out with a black beam from its mouth, but Nevan hit it shut mid beam, forcing the demon to blast its own mouth open causing it immense pain as it howled in agony.

This was the opportunity he was looking for as Nevan flashed above the howling demon and slammed him down with both fists together as hard as he could causing another giant crater to form.

He then flashed to it again, pinning it down as he proceeded to have the phantom open its jaws along with his own, unleashing all the energy he had stored up and all that he had available upon the demon.

A huge explosion followed wiping out New Orleans completely as it was replaced with a dark abyss where you couldn't see the bottom.

Nevan and the demon were nowhere to be seen.

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