"HUUUAAAA!!"
*PUUM*
*DONG* *DONG* *DONG* . . .
"BUAAA! Those damn walking corpses are very annoying!
How is little Christel? Can I still hit that Devil?"
"You're late. Christel already chased Andariel"
"It seems that all of us are the ones who are late..."
The latest to arrive is the Barbarian Hero Korgar Throm.
"EHH! What a good spear!!"
*dong* dong* dong* *dong* dong* dong* dong*
Korgar looked towards the place where the voices were coming from and looked at the weapons embedded in the ground.
"Wait, Korgar, that's..."
But before Akara could stop him. Korgar held the spear that was more than three meters tall and raised it as if lifting a tree branch.
"How?"
"Interesting..."
"WoW~"
Different kinds of exclamations were heard in the shattered and dilapidated cathedral.
Despite the surprise, all the heroes and members of Camp Rogue were on guard with the barbarian warrior.
"That's Andariel's weapon, I think it's her tail... You can keep it, I don't think I'll say anything for now~
The other is a sword that summons in a burst of light and dark power. I thought it would disappear later, but it's incredible that it's still there. Shira?"
Shira pulled Christel's clothes and stared at her.
"What's up Shira? You want the sword?... but I don't know when it will disappear...
Well, you can keep it..." Christel shrugged.
But...
"ehhh~ Why can Shira keep your sword?~ it's not fair!~" Jaina, still hanging on Christel's back, began to throw a tantrum and play spoiled.
Shira saw this, disappeared from Christel's side and appeared on the sword. Taking it in her hand, she pulled it gently and the sword came out of the ground without resistance.
"Jaina... you use a bow and arrows, so why you want a sword two meters long..."
"It doesn't matter..."
"Next time I'll summon a bow, how are you?"
"Good! Remember, you promised!"
"Yes, I promise... When you get off my back? I can't walk like this..."
"Never~ hehehe~"
Christel took heavy steps with a blue sack on her back and walked over to Akara and the others.
"HUAHUAHUAHUAHUA! It's a good spear." Korgar began swinging the jousting spear back and forth.
Andariel's spear appears to have a fire enchantment. Bursts of flame flew from Korgar's swings and as debris struck there was an explosion of scarlet and orange fire.
"That's hellfire..." Akara was left like a statue as she saw the follies of this barbaric warrior holding a spear of a Lesser Primordial Evil.
"I like it~" Shira's soft voice sounded as she did some shadow dances and attacked with the straight, thin two-meter-long sword.
Shira's -Slash- seemed to cut through space, the blade of the sword swaying as if air did not exist and leaving a shadow where it passed.
"What kind of power Christel awakened..."
"That sword seems to have dual attacks from Space and Darkness," Kashya next to Akara replied.
"Damn! I should have asked little Christel for that sword; it looks very cool and goes with me" Moreina complained as she jealously looked at the sword in the hands of the Assesin Shira.
"This... Aren't we going back? It seems that the sun is already setting in the... East... "'What a strange planet... I don't get used to seeing the sun setting like this...' Christel looked at the entrance of the cathedral where the orange rays of the evening sun were coming in.
"The Monastery is free. Why don't we stay?"
"We can't stay..." Akara replied to Alysha.
"Mm! Akara is right, My daughter. Staying in a place corrupted by a demon for too long would be counterproductive."
"Don't call me You daughter!" Alysha ignored Moreina and walked to my side. Putting on a guardian pose.
"hehehe~" Kashya on the side laughed undisguisedly.
"Well, then I'll open a portal to Camp New Hope~"
Christel raising her small hands and pointing her palms towards a location. Then, to everyone's surprise, a red-orange portal expanded.
An oval, egg-shaped portal appeared before everyone's view. But the portal seemed to be made of scarlet and orange fire. In the center was what looked like a sea of lava, an orange substance that moved like a liquid.
"ehhh..." Christel fell silent. 'After being possessed by Metaria my understanding of the spatial concept improved significantly, I thought I could create portals now, but I never expected this...'
"Christel, you..."
"Christel?"
"If I didn't know her, I'd think she's a devil dressed as Christel..."
"But we have the most reliable detector, if it wasn't our Christel, Jaina wouldn't scorch her like this..."
Akara looked into the little girl with pink eyes and also noticed her golden hair like rays of the midday sun.
Akara does not distrust Christel, and also before her eyes she realizes that there is nothing wrong with the girl, there are no demons inside her body possessing her, and her essence and aura are the same as always, although Christel seems to have grown in power.
But it's also strange that the portals they can make are blue with the center having a deep blue seawater-like substance.
That the portal newly conjured by the little golden-haired girl contains the energy of hell is very strange.
"I...." 'Stupid portal. Stupid Andariel!'
"… Maybe, in the fight, I bit Andariel a couple of times and absorbed some of her infernal mana..." Christel lie a little.
"Let me see" Akara raised her hand to Christel.
"I.… well," Christel had no choice but to stretch out her hand and let Akara hold her by her wrist.
This is like those martial artists and Chinese Tradicional Medicine experts who take the wrist and can sense the state of your body.
Akara injected her mana into Christel's body through her wrist and Akara's fingers could sense the changes in Christel's heart pulsations in the veins and arteries, as well as the pressure and many other things.
Akara's mana ran through Christel's entire body, reaching for every boil of hair and every pore on Christel's skin, going through all 206 bones, from the tips of her toes to each of the golden hairs.
"How is Akara?" Kashya asked and the others waited for the answer.
"It's true, Christel's body is imbued with hellish energy, but it's a very pure and ownerless energy. It's as if the infernal mana in Christel's body is as calm as the water of a lake."
'This is why did Andariel enter my body? Or does it have something to do with the moment when Andariel absorbed a drop of my blood, or both?' Christel thought.
"Christel, take the spear, Korgar lend the spear to Christel for a moment."
"Fine"
"YES!!" Korgar without concern or malice simply threw the jousting spear at Christel falling on the golden-haired girl in an upright position.
Christel raised both hands and held the spear in her hilt. The moment the fingers closed around the spear, an energy as if emanating from the underworld dimension rose from Christel's feet, covering her in crimson-orange flames.
Rings of fire were created around the jousting spear and dark snake armor began to cover Christel's body.
Christel's eyes went from a light pink like flowers to a deep red with a deep pink glow.
Then, a dark crown began to form on Christel's forehead and a red moon emerged in the center of her forehead.
"Drop the Spear, Christel!" Akara shouted.
A loud sight pushed out.
Christel let go of the spear, burying it back in the ground. The fire calmed down and Christel returned to her former appearance.
The strange thing was...
"Jaina! How is it that... You didn't feel anything?"
Everyone looked up at Christel's back, where a young girl still stood with her arms around the little girl's neck with her feet raised and her knees bent like that, just hanging down.
"Huh? I didn't feel anything...." Jaina lifted her head and peered over her shoulder to Christel's side.
Christel was also amazed by the sudden surge of hellish power that was transmitted to her body that she even forgot about Jaina on her back.
Christel turned to the side and came across Jaina's ice-blue lock of hair and her flushed white cheek.
"Mmuack~ let's go, this place will become very dark, and I don't want to spend the night here..." Christel kiss Jaina cheek, shrugged and walked toward the hellish orange doorway.
'Ican say that I paid for a portal SKIN...' thought the golden-haired girl as she walked through the oval fire portal.
"What do we do?"
"Let's go back for now... Christel is fine, it's just that it seems that Andariel didn't just escape but left something inside Christel's body and maybe that's her plan, to tempt Christel to use more and more of the power of hell and make her transform into a devil.
Korgar, protect that spear and don't let it get near Christel and use it..."
"Right. HAHAHAHA Christel is a little scary with that aura and that shape!" Korgar responded with his booming smile, took the spear and placed it on his shoulder.
Then everyone began to pass through the portal as Akara, Lyara, and Isendra buried some runes with magic in the floor of the cathedral's entrance.
"Transport Point insured. With this we can return at any time..." an appreciative smile on Akara's face.
"Fine, but we have to keep a closer eye on Christel. We don't know what plans Andariel has with her," Isendra commented a little worried.
"Let's go back"
Lyara and Isendra passed through the portal. Akara looked around the ruins of the cathedral, still in a little pain, but with more hope in her heart she was happy to be able to return home.
Then Akara entered the portal and the portal closed.