"Hahh… I've grown rusty…" Allan looked at the enormous Berith, whose entire body was covered in wounds and burns, yet was still going. Compared to the True Demon, Allan had gone through even worse things as he had made Ifrit possess his body, and this had almost completely destroyed his body.
Even then, he had managed to corner the demon into this point, but the true demon still held a greater advantage in stamina and self-recovery ability. His aura was growing stronger the more damage he took as well, and his spear was becoming monstrous, the specter within it even more vicious.
"I suppose this is it, hero…" Berith said. "You've been the greatest challenge I've had, and you shall have the honor of live with me in each battle as I seal your soul into my weapon! Become my strength!"
Berith pointed his weapon towards Allan, as Allan prepared to escape the battle and think about something else until he could recover his stamina good enough… However!
Suddenly, a beautiful and muscular woman with tan skin, many battle scars, and sharp golden eyes emerged atop of Berith, holding a large hammer which suddenly grew tens of times its original size, turning into a mountain-shaped mace!
"Wh-What?!" Berith muttered in shock over her sudden appearance, but it was too late to respond in time.
"I summon the strength of the earth and the mountains… CATACLYSM!!!"
The hammer hit Berith's head directly so hard it easily shattered his skull, splattered his brains, and completely disfigured his entire face, flattening it horribly… Naturally, he died on the spot!
"Nepheline!" Allan said with a smile.
"Yeah, we are back, and the Miasmic Domain should be gone by now. It's why it is raining." Said Nepheline, as the enormous body of Berith began to fall from the skies, clashing over the ruins below.
"So this rain is because of that… Rain really weakens my fire though." Sighed Allan.
"Ahaha… Sorry about that." Sighed Nepheline
However, the two heroes were quickly startled by the emerging soul of Berith coming out of his Demon Core.
"I'll eat your souls at all costs!" He roared furiously back at them.
"Begone! Purifying Phoenix Flames!" Allan unleashed a storm of blue flames that consumed the entire soul of Berith, consuming it within the bright power and exorcizing it. Unlike his daughter, he was unable to completely destroy the soul of a powerful True Demon, but forcefully sending it back to Hell was possible in this weakened state.
"What about Shade?" Wondered Allan.
"He's helping the dragon as of now. We have to go check on the kids and Faylen!" Nepheline hurriedly flew into the ground with Allan behind her.
Meanwhile, Agni was fighting ferociously against the enormous Astaroth, who over the fight, has slowly begun to shapeshift until becoming a monstrous hydra with many snake heads everywhere.
Its biting power was enhanced, and his ability to generate venom and poisonous slimes was even better now. Agni was barely resisting all of this power all thanks to Sylph's Boosts and Faylen's buffs, but such power had already begun to slowly run out, and the true demon didn't even looked tired!
"Hahh… T-This damn demon…! DRAGON BREATH!"
Agni opened his jaws as he charged all his energy, unleashing a powerful dragon breath!
However, it was in fact very small compared to his first attacks! It barely did a small wound over one of Astaroth's heads, as the true demon duke laughed at his attempt.
"Shahahaha! It seems you've already ran out of energy, huh, Ancient Dragon? The Dragons of this world cannot even compare to the Infernal Dragons of Hell, not at all! You're just oversized lizards!" Astaroth laughed, as countless of his snake heads flew towards Agni, attempting to wrap themselves around him and catch him to finish him off once and for all!
"Damn it…! Ignatius, Sylph… I've failed you…!"
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
However, Agni's eyes opened wide in shock, as he saw a black blur moving at an incredible speed across the skies, using two small daggers imbued with incredible amounts of Mana to slice through the heads of Astaroth one after the other!
"Unnnggh…?! M-My heads!" Astaroth was left completely taken aback by this new player that has joined the game!
The blur of shadows quickly flew around the entire ball of snake heads that Astaroth had become, slicing through every single head faster than the true demon could even regenerate!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
"GRYYYAAAAAAAAAAGGH…!"
The true demon gave a pitiful scream of agony, as Shade quickly merged right before his eyes.
"You've grown too weak, begone. Space-Tearing Decapitation."
Suddenly, Astaroth felt as if his entire being was sliced in half not only through his body, but space itself! Shade's knives and his technique had already evolved into such a stage!
"T-This is… impossible…! Y-You're a mere… humannnn…!"
Astaroth's soul immediately tried to fight back as well, but shade suddenly unleashed his shadows, conjuring… a Black Hole!
"Begone from this world. Endless Blackhole."
The soul of the foul snake was absorbed by this blackhole, completely swallowed, and sent to a different dimension, not even Hell, quite possibly.
The black hole disappeared in a single second after that, as Shade looked at the dragon in front of him. Agni had not meet this man before, so he didn't knew if he would consider him friend or foe.
"I can sense your connection with Sylph, you were also fighting the True Demon… I can guess you're on our side?" Shade wondered.
"Well… Something like that." Said Agni.
"Hm, well then, come with me." Shade quickly guided Agni down into the ground, as he and Allan and Nepheline finally meet together, reaching the barrier made by Sylph while defeating any monster that got in the way.
The Miasma Domain might be done, but the demons the Dungeon Break Portals brought out were still wandering around. And now that the domain was gone they might even sneak into the rest of the city, eliminating them all was their top priority.