The flames surrounding the skeleton turned into armor, covering his entire body. His body also grew substantially, about 12 feet in height, he roared and the flames went out in a flash, only staying inside his body. He wore a menacing crown made of Hellsteel and wielded an over sized odachi. Orchem gasped at the sight of him, and his thugs ran for the hills before he finished transforming.
"I didn't know demons can do that." I muttered to myself.
Baelor looked at me with utter confusion and shock.
"Do you not know who that guy is!?"
"No... Why? Is apart of a house?"
Baelor fumed with frustration and confusion.
"HE'S THE FIRE KING YOU IDIOT!" Even when whispering, he still sounded loud and angry.
It hit me like a train moving at top speed. Of course this guy is the Fire King. I never saw him before, but he is rather famous. And Powerful. He is the second strongest S rank demon. No wonder Orchem's thugs were so scared of him.
The Fire King slowly walked to Orchem, holding his odachi in a striking position.
"So, D Rank eh?" He taunted Orchem, "What do you want with Duskborn's daughter? Surely you don't think you can kill him?"
Orchem gurgled some intelligible words, before striking the Fire King with a psuedopod. The Fire King got knocked back a few feet before stabilizing him self.
"So, you have chosen, death."
The Fire King lunged at Orchem and slashed at him, but the slime absorbed the impact.
The Fire King twisted his sword out of Orchem's body and leapt back, before the ignited his word with flames.
Orchem sent 9 pseudopods at the Fire King, trying to restrain him, but the Fire King expertly dodged each one with great mobility.
Orchem started to blast big glops of acidic slime at the Fire King, one of the blobs hit him and restrained him. The psuedopods then went for a counter attack and smashed into the Fire King's body creating a big explosion of dust and rubble.
There's the damage I was talking about the resulting shock wave knocked down several stalls and blew a bunch a boxes everywhere.
I stood up and grabbed Baelor's hand, pulling him up, and then breaking into a sprint. I did not get the weapon I needed, but I wasn't sticking around to get killed in a fight between these two.
The Fire King's and Orchem's fight raged on. I did not care to look back, knowing that I could trip on rubble If I was distracted.
We turned a corner and there stood three of Orchem's thugs. They were hiding in an alley way, most likely trying to hide from the fight, but once they saw us they sprung out, swords drawn/
"Oh looky here, a couple of brats trying to escape." One of the thugs said. He was a green, 4 armed bug bipedal creature, holding 4 short swords. He tried to stay intimidating but I could hear fear in his voice.
Baelor reacted quickly.
"Wait! Kordo! It's me Baelor!"
Kordo looked at Baelor for a second, then smiled.
"Baelor! My friend! The boss got a 500 essence coin bounty on you."
Baelor's face dropped.
"Wait... But... Orchem said..."
"Deals off punk. You and your stupid brother didn't do a good job. We gotta tie up loose ends." Another thug said, being a blob of multicolored slime with arms and legs.
He walked closer to Baelor, sword raised, when he was about to strike I intervened.
I had grappled a wooded pot lid from the ground and used it as a shield, protecting Baelor.
The slime took a step back and got back into a striking position.
"Oh? Who's your lame friend Baelor?"
Baelor quickly stood up and grabed a stick from the ground, giving me an acknowledging glance.
"I'm Markov." I said curtly.
"Oh! Volo's son!" The last thug said. He was a Hellspawn with ash colored hair, eyes, and skin. His name was Ash and he grew up in this village.
I kept silent, then I lunged out and kicked the blob. It did not have the desired effect. My leg bounced off his jelly legs and I nearly lost my balance.
He snorted and then tried to stab me with his sword. Baelor blocked it with his stick but he had to let go of it.
"Run?" He asked me.
I looked at the three thugs, more powerful than us and had weapons. We couldn't do anything to them.
I looked back at him and said "Run."