Chapter 23: Chapter 23: One of the many.
"Shanka, you take the lead," A man covered half of his face with white cloth said as he held two daggers with handles made of gold. The man had light brown hair and bright blue eyes, and he was staring at something in the distance.
A man standing at the front silently watched a giant demon with each of its limbs wrapped in chains. He also covered half of his face with a white cloth, and he had black hair and green eyes. He was holding a staff made of gold with carvings all over it.
The demon was destroying the city with its chains and cutting the buildings in half. The demon had destroyed dozens of cities and killed thousands of lives ever since it came out of the portal. There was nobody that could stop it, and it was on a killing spree as the other demons followed it from behind.
"Are you guys fine if I become the leader?" Shanka asked.
"We believe you're the strongest, so there's no reason for us to not choose you," The man answered.
There were three other people standing behind Shanka and the man, they were the people who were chosen by Ra. They traveled all the way to Saudi Arabia to deal with the giant demon.
"Then let's move, Khai, Rash, Zahra, Akila," Shanka said as he glanced at them.
All of them nodded their heads and followed Shanka from behind.
"Khai and Zahra, you go to the left," Shanka looked at the first man and the woman with long curly brown hair that also covered half of her face with a white cloth. She didn't hold any weapons, but her arms were covered with tattoos of a tiger and a falcon that weren't there before she entered the door.
Khai and Zahra nodded with understanding and started to walk to the left.
"Rash, Akila, you take care of the right side," Shanka said.
A man with long dark blonde hair and also covering his half face with a white cloth nodded. He held a scimitar with carvings on the blade and the handle was made of gold. He looked so relaxed and didn't have any fear in his eyes even though he was getting closer to the demon.
The last one was a woman with long and straight black hair that her bang covered her forehead. Half of her face was also covered by a white cloth, she was holding a katar in each hand, and the color of the blades was shiny black with gold handles.
"We will try to bring it down to its knees," Rash said as he swung his scimitar.
Shanka walked in the middle of the road as he heard the screams of the people. He could hear everyone screaming for help, forgiveness, and even prayer, but he was unbothered by them. He then stabbed his staff and the ground started to shake that enough to attract the giant demon and the other demons' attention.
"Come here. Your opponent is me," Shanka said to himself.
The giant demon looked at Shanka in the distance, and then it growled at him with its eyes wide open. The demons started to run past the giant demon toward Shanka who was in the open.
He watched as the demons crawled, jumped, and flew toward him and they were all getting closer. The moment they were only ten meters away from him, he raised his staff and let it get exposed to the sun. Suddenly spikes came out from the ground tall enough to pierce the demons that were flying toward him.
He slammed his staff to the ground and all the spikes went back into the ground in an instant. He then pointed his staff forward, and the sand around him started to form and flew toward the demons like a sandstorm.
All the demons got pushed away as the sand ripped and tore the demons' bodies into pieces as if they were inside a giant blender. Shanka watched as the demons were massacred and not a single blood could escape the sandstorm.
The moment Shanka lowered his staff, the sandstorm disappeared and the pieces of demons fell to the ground like rain. That made the giant demon furious and started to run toward him at full speed.
"Unfortunately, your opponent isn't me, you fool," Shanka said with a smirk.
When the giant demon was about to swing his hand and whip his chain at Shanka, it noticed something was lurking in between the buildings. When it turned its head, a giant tiger had already pounced at its arm and took a bit of its arm. The tiger was half the size of the giant demon which was at least fifteen meters tall.
The demon was brought down to the ground, and when the tiger was busy ripping its arm off, something was blocking the sun and it was a giant falcon that was as big as the tiger. The falcon scratched the demon's face and took one of its eyes with the falcon's claws.
Zahra was on top of the building and stood on the edge as she looked down at the demon being torn apart by the tiger and falcon. The tattoos on her arms disappeared and it appeared that the tiger and the falcon came from her arms. She then realized that the wounds were regenerating rapidly and that the tiger and the falcon weren't enough to deal with the demon.
"I did my part, it's your turn now, Khai," Zahra said.
Khai jumped off the building and pointed his daggers at the giant demon. The tiger and the falcon turned into dust, the dust flew and went into Khai's daggers. The daggers started to glow orange and the size of the blades grew a bit bigger.
Khai stabbed his daggers right into the demon's chest, and the giant demon growled in pain because it felt like the inside of its body was being ripped apart. He started to pull the daggers downward and created two big open wounds on the demon's chest.
"It's your turn, Rash!" Khai shouted as he pulled out his daggers and jumped off the demon's body because the demon started to stand up and got used to the pain.
His daggers started to dim and the dust came out of the blades. The dust flew toward Zahra and it covered her arms until the tattoos were marked on her arms again.
Rash ran from the other side of the road with his scimitar ready, and his scimitar was covered with floating sand around it. He then swung his scimitar even though he was still far away from the demon, but then the sand started to fly toward the demon in a crescent shape.
The sand cut the skin of the demon open and Rash didn't stop sending the sand to the demon. When the wound was about to close he stabbed his scimitar right into the demon's flesh.
"Enjoy the filling," Rash said.
The demon started to move weirdly and it looked like the body was stiffening. The moment Rash pulled his scimitar, the sand started coming out and that was the reason why the demon moved weirdly. The demon's whole body was filled with sand and it couldn't move its body freely.
"It's all yours, Akila," Rash said.
Akila appeared from behind Rash's back and jumped onto the demon's right arm. She climbed up with her katars so quickly that it only took her a few seconds until she stood on the demon's shoulder. She then tightened her grip on the katars and ran toward the demon's neck.
She sliced the demon's nack rapidly that the naked eyes couldn't see every movement she made. She was so fast that the demon's head was already detached from its body. She then jumped down at the same time as the demon's body hit the ground.
"We are done here, let's go back," Shanka said as he looked at the lifeless body of the demon.
All of them nodded and suddenly a sandstorm circled around them. They all disappeared and the people who filmed their actions couldn't see where they went.
(Inside the meeting room in the Rebirth Guild)
Mykel and the others watched everything from the beginning and were amused by how easy it was for them to kill the demon.
"They made so many unnecessary moves. That guy with the staff could easily kill that demon on his own," Sven said as he looked at the TV.
"They knew, but their purpose wasn't just to defeat the demon, they're showing off their powers to the public," Jeanne replied with her arms crossed.
"That's one. There are at least dozens of doors out there and they will produce people like them. They're going to be heroes that will save Earth from demons," Mykel said. "This is going to be exciting," Mykel smirked.
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