Raegar watched as the Devil Lord reacted with unnatural speed, parrying his attacks that met his in a screeching clash. Sparks erupted in a blinding cascade, showering the ground around them.
'Oh shit! This is getting bad!' he thought as panic welled up inside before using Flash Step to get away from it.
The fiend rushed forward with a smug grin and swung the massive sword, but he ducked under it, feeling the air to brush against his face as it passed above him, making his hair stand on end.
When coming back up, he hit the enemy with a Lightningfire Blast, which made it roar in annoyance, and it started lashing out by swinging at him. He quickly jumped back and skidded before casting Hydra Blades, made from fire and wind.
The enemy charged at him once again, forcing him to throw the projectiles. They wizzed through the air, closing in on the fiend who attempted to block the attack. Raegar controlled them to drop and slice through its side, but they were just side stepped.
''It dodged it!'' he muttered with wide eyes.
He watched as the fiend destroyed the blades with a crushing swing, forcing him to rush in to fight. The unfolding clash is the fiercest battle Raegar had ever faced, a brutal storm that shoved him past his breaking point.
The devil's onslaught tore into him, each strike a searing agony as lacerations appeared all over his body, yet he cast the pain aside. With a straight face, he traded blows with the enemy, their collisions unleashing shockwaves that shot outward.
He used his skills and the Hydra Blades, but the fiend either dodged them or destroyed the projectiles with ease, causing him to mumble in panic as the fear gripped hold of him. ''There's barely doing anything! What the fuck should I do!''
The tide turned as the Devil Lord surged with unholy speed, overwhelming Raegar in a storm of power. Blow after merciless blow rained down, each one a thunderous hammer that battered his body beyond anything he felt with his grandfather.
Bruised and broken, he staggered under the onslaught, his strength failing him as the fiend's fury overwhelmed him. With a final, earth-shaking strike, the devil punched him to the ground like a ragdoll.
Raegar crashed hard, the impact splitting the earth, he coughed up blood as his vision blurred, but that's when a memory came to mind, while the enemy approached. During one training session Griffin went rough and hit him with powerful attacks which rocked his body.
By the time the fight was over, he dropped to the ground, bloodied and broken bones. The old man stood over him before crouching down with a smirk. ''You can't give up now boy! Do you want to learn the secret of how I've defeated stronger opponents?''
He nodded, prompting his grandfather to reveal with a big smile. ''To beat them, all you have to do is get back up and keep hitting until you're the only one remaining on your feet.''
When remembering that advice, Raegar's determination exploded as he used his Aether to shoot toward the Devil Lord and summoned his daggers before stabbing it through the arm, setting off the fusion.
''Take this!'' he roared.
Moments later, a volatile blend of fire and wind erupted into an explosion, shredding the surrounding devils, but something felt off as he spotted the lord smiling at him without a scratch.
Raegar panicked and tried to move but it was too late as its fist slammed into his chest. The abrupt impact hurled him backward, slamming him into the arena's wall with a nauseating crunch.
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Blood sprayed from his mouth as he crumpled to the ground. Seeing this, Tarrin charged at the devil with unbridled fury. ''Get up, Raegar and fight! Don't you dare give up now!'' he shouted while trying to keep the enemy away.
The devil lord lunged at the blonde, unleashing a mana infused slash, but two projectiles streaked through the air, hitting the fiend's arms and throwing the attack wide. As the blow veered off course, the enemy glanced up, a sinister smile curling across its face.
Raegar stood defiant, blood-streaked and bruised yet unbroken, drawing a proud smile from Tarrin as he turned to assist the others. His glowing red eyes locked onto the enemy, Aether crackling off him like wildfire.
In an instant, he vanished, reappearing behind the devil and driving a solid punch into its back. The sheer force sent the enemy tumbling forward. As it staggered, his voice cut through the air.
''I've trained my entire life to fight and grow stronger. You may be Tier Three, but I'm a Tetraarch Devil Killer and you're certainly a devil,'' he commented with a smirk.
After Raegar spoke, he channeled every ounce of Aether into his fists as the devil lord whirled around, throwing a ferocious punch, but he ducked beneath the swing. Springing upward, he unleashed a Fusion Punch.
''With the power I have, I'll kill you right here and now!'' he roared, his voice echoing as the explosive force erupted.
When his attack slammed into the fiend, the force took it by surprise as it was sent flying forward, just as Orin appeared out of nowhere and slammed his hammer into the devil lord's back.
An explosion shattered the air, sending a dust cloud over the arena, causing the others to stop fighting, but as the dust settled seconds later, Raegar noticed the fiend was pummeling the bear-man, who had been hopelessly outmatched in the brutal assault.
'Shit! I need to help!' he thought just as Tarrin's fury ignited, and he hurled himself at the devil lord, his sword slashing through the air.
The creature evaded each swing with ease, a mocking grin curling its lips as it taunted Raegar while battering away the sword. ''Why do you burden yourself with these weak warriors boy?'' it sneered.
After speaking, the devil lord struck, overpowering the older man and sent his unconscious form hurtling into Elaris with a yelp, who had been mid-cast but was taken out as she crumpled under her lover's weight.
Raegar charged forward to block the devil lord as it turned toward Lyra with a menacing expression. The elf woman bravely stepped up to face the fiend, but her defiance proved futile against its overwhelming might.
The fiend was suddenly struck by Orin who struggled to stand, giving Raegar enough time to cast Titanfall before sending it flying into the air. He used wind Aether to control it while it targeted the enemy.
In a sudden burst of speed, he surged forward, summoning the Hydra Blades and hurled the spectral weapons at the devil lord, their razor edges slicing through the air and driving the creature back.
Relentless, he pressed his assault, each strike aimed to draw the fiend away from the adults, which was successful as he pulled its attention onto himself. The enemy went crazy and started swinging in wild arcs.
Raegar evaded the devil lord's onslaught and he parried most of the strikes. He blocked all but one, deliberately letting a blow slip through. The impact launched him backward through the air, a fierce grin spreading across his face.
As he soared, he released his grip on Titanfall, letting the metal rod plummet. It struck the devil lord, erupting like a nuclear detonation. The shockwaves hurled everyone outward, the adults crashing hard against the arena's barriers.
Raegar plunged his blades into the stone floor, rooting himself. Minutes passed before the arena's quaking subsided, though the fiend's aura still pressed against him, its overwhelming presence now a flickering shadow of itself.
His eyes sharpened as they locked onto the devil lord emerging from the smoky crater, its body ravaged and covered in blood that stained the ground, with an arm gone and eye gouged out.
Rage contorted its ruined face as it staggered forward, then rushed at him with feral desperation. He felt the devil's power suddenly flared abruptly, a searing dark energy surging from its broken form.
Its aura crackled as it lunged toward Raegar. The air itself seemed to warp around the fiend as it moved, faster than the eye could track, a blur of shadowy vengeance. He barely had time to brace himself before the onslaught began.
The devil lord's remaining fist slammed into him with bone-shattering force, striking his chest, then his jaw, then his ribs in a relentless shower of blows. Each hit landed before he could register the last, the creature's speed defying perception.
Raegar tried to pivot, to counter, but the fiend was unrelenting. A vicious uppercut sent him staggering back, blood trickling from his split lip, his vision swimming as the devil lord pressed its savage advantage, its ruined face twisted with triumphant spite.
He sank to one knee, his body trembling from the immense drain of Aether coursing through him. Amid the exhaustion, a flicker of awareness sparked, he still had just enough left to unleash his final gambit.
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