Chapter 21: Chapter 21: Despised by both.
"This is our chance! Let's send these demons away from the city! We can't waste a single moment!" James shouted as he pointed his sword forward.
All the Awakeners charged forward with James, Travis, and Victor leading them on the frontline. They fought the demons until they were out of breath and stamina, but they didn't stop swinging their weapons.
They managed to make the demons run in fear and flew away from the city. Everyone dropped their weapons and went down to their knees as they caught their breath, some of them collapsed and fainted with exhaustion. It was enough to prove that everyone was doing their best and went all out in the battle.
"The flame is still burning fiercely. We can't see anything behind it," James said as he looked at the wall of fire that was forty meters tall in front of him.
They tried to extinguish the flames with both magic and fire extinguishers, but nothing happened. They were starting to feel the heat and it gave them a minor burn all over their bodies.
"We can't do anything about it, but the person who killed the demon, what happened to them? Are they dead?" James asked as he removed his armor since his body was soaked in sweat.
"I don't think anyone would survive, especially when the explosion happened. That person just saved humanity," Morris answered as he wiped his face.
They were about to leave, but then they heard a crackling sound from behind the flame. When they turned around to look at the flame, they saw a silhouette of a person walking in the flame. They were shocked when the person survived and seemed to be fine.
They waited for the person to walk out of the flame as they held their breath. The first thing they saw was a left leg and they could see that it was severely burned that they could see the flesh and bone as it sizzled. The next thing they saw was a body with a similar condition, but they saw tattoos on it. The last thing that shocked them was the person's face which was completely fine.
"My-Mykel Alester?!" Morris was dumbfounded as he looked at Mykel with barely anything on him.
"Give me water..." Mykel said quietly as his voice trembled.
James hurriedly grabbed a bottle of water and ran toward Mykel to give it to him. When he offered the bottle, it melted before Mykel could touch it, and James could feel the burn on his hand. He then asked someone to bring a stainless steel bottle of water.
"Here, take this," James said as he endured the heat on his right hand.
Mykel grabbed it and emptied the bottle in just a few seconds, but some of the water got vaporized. They couldn't believe that someone could survive that kind of heat, and not to mention he could endure the pain like it was nothing.
The healer tried to heal him, but they felt what James felt and immediately retracted their hands from Mykel. They couldn't heal him because it required them to touch the body they wanted to heal.
"Don't bother, I'll be fine," Mykel said as he threw the bottle back to James.
Mykel walked to the side of the road and sat down to enjoy the cool breeze to ease the pain. Everyone was watching him and didn't dare to approach him because of the heat. They saw the steam coming out of his back and shoulders, but then they realized that all his burn wounds were slowly being healed.
They suddenly heard another chopper flying toward them and stopped right above them. They then saw a dozen people jump down from the chopper which was a hundred meters away from the ground.
"You might want to move from there or you might die from getting trampled," Mykel said.
Everyone started to run away and emptied the street where those people might land. They saw Elena and the others landing on the ground on their knees and immediately went to where Mykel was.
"Sorry, we are late," Elena asked as she looked at how bad Mykel's condition was.
"It's already over even before it started," Mykel said as he tried to stand up, and then Jeanne and Aurea helped him.
"It's over before it started? Then what with all this mess?" Sven asked as he looked at the buildings around him and the hundreds of dead Awakeners on the street. "Oh, never mind. I guess you're talking about the demon," Sven realized and started making a sarcastic statement as he looked at how bad James and the others' conditions were.
Mykel could walk on his own, but Elena, Jeanne, and Aurea didn't want to let him do that. He then looked at James, Victor, Travis, and Morris as he heard his own flesh still sizzling. "You need to fortify this place if you want to live, and I suggest you to do it now," Mykel continued.
Elena and Aurea furrowed their eyebrows and they looked a bit shocked when they heard Mykel giving a good suggestion. They thought Mykel didn't care about them and wanted them as good as dead.
"What did you see and hear?" Travis asked.
"Bad news. There will be more of them, and this is only the beginning," Mykel answered.
"We understand, and you should take care of yourself and get yourself treated," James said as he nodded with understanding.
Mykel left with Jeanne and Elena while the others stayed since they wanted to deal with all the demons with James and the others. Mykel was brought to the nearest hospital and got exclusive treatment even though there were hundreds of Awakeners that were badly injured.
After Mykel got a lot of treatment and was brought to a VIP room, Elena and Jeanne were sitting next to his bed to accompany him. He was asleep and they both let him rest and didn't make a single noise.
"What time is it?" Mykel asked with his eyes still closed.
"One in the morning. You slept like a log which is great because you needed it," Jeanne answered as she held Mykel's hand. "Everyone is here as well, they're waiting outside because they don't want to bother your sleep. Lyneth and Edith are still in New York though, Lyneth said that she knew you would be fine so she was doing her best there," Jeanne continued.
Mykel smiled as he slowly opened his eyes and saw Elena sleeping next to him. His smile then disappeared when he remembered what had happened back there.
"Bring everyone inside, there's something I want to say," Mykel said as he slowly sat up and leaned on the bed.
Everyone was gathered in the room and they were glad that Mykel was already in his prime again.
"It went wrong and everything became worst," Mykel said. "When I defeated that demon, it said something to me that all the princes have been waiting for this moment to meet me. They're not going to make the same mistake again and planned to take everything until I'm the only one left," Mykel continued.
"Princes? What's that mean?" Aurea asked.
"The princes of hell, and there are seven of them. Lucifer, Belphegor, Mammon, Beelzebub, Satan, Asmodeus, and Leviathan. They're the main princes of hell the others are also a prince, but they're inferior to the seven princes," Mykel answered as he rubbed his face. "Each of the seven princes is on the move, and they're slowly conquering Earth," Mykel continued.
"So, what we fought out there was a real demon? And you're saying that we are being attacked rather than going inside to attack them?" Rozan asked as he pointed his thumb outside the window.
"Yes, and they will keep coming until there's no one alive except me," Mykel nodded his head. "There are seven continents on Earth, and each one of them is being attacked by a prince of hell," Mykel pointed out.
"Then which prince we are dealing with here?" Jeanne asked.
"Mammon, the Prince of Greed," Mykel answered as he looked outside the window. "Not only that we are being despised by Gods, the Demon Kings are also going after us. Seeing how I was badly injured to kill a single demon, we are slowly being cornered." Mykel raised his right eyebrow as he stared blankly at the window.
"What are we going to do?" Elena asked.
"What else can we do? We can only fight back, like always," Mykel answered and looked at them with a serious expression.
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