As soon as the demon flicked his fingers, dark energy poured out of his body and created circles above everyone's heads. Shane looked at the complicated circle around his head that made him feel as if it were geometry art or something.
He tilted his head as the circle changed its color from red to black and shone brightly. Then it circled round and round at the fastest speed. He continued to stare at the circle silently, but after waiting for a while, nothing happened.
He blinked several times and turned around, only to see his teammates frozen in their places. Their eyes widened in horror as if they had seen something completely strange. Shane frowned, "Tess? Frank? Are you guys okay?"
They didn't respond, and blinked. They stood there with their eyes turning red. Shane could even see red veins appearing in their eyes as they stared at the blank space in horror.
He glanced at the demon, only to see that the turtle-neck shirt man was also having a similar expression to his.
The demon scratched the back of his neck and muttered, "The array should have been perfect. So what happened? Why…."
He even stretched his fingers and made a few gestures. Dark energy flew out of his body and emerged into the array that started wheeling faster, but still, nothing happened. Shane still had a strange expression on his face. If anything, the latter almost felt as if his entire body was being filled with some unknown energy. He raised his head casually as he narrowed his eyes at the array.
A thought appeared in his head, 'Am I sucking in its energy?'
Then he shook his head vigorously. It wasn't impossible, but he had never done that in the presence of other demons.
Shane frowned as he thought of something else. No demon had ever used an array on his body. They only used spells indiscriminately and attacked him through weapons and other things. Plus, his powers were sealed in his body. So his body never absorbed the power.
His frown deepened. Ever since he entered this dungeon, for some reason, he had started feeling his body getting more and more energetic. He had ignored this fact, thinking he might be feeling like this because his energy was unsealed and it roamed around in his veins. But now that he thought carefully, it could be that he was indeed sucking away its powers.
Shane turned his head toward the demon who kept twisting his finger as his expressions twisted more and more, "What the f*ck! Where is my power going?!"
Shane stood there, stunned out of his mind. His body felt even more energetic now, to the point that he could wantonly jump around without doing anything exclusive. He glanced down at Kinslayer as he put it back into his inventory and pulled out a normal steel sword.
Since he had so much energy in his body now, he could try to expand it to his sword and fight. After all, none of his team members seemed to be in the right state of mind to care about what he was doing.
A smile formed on the corners of Shane's lips. A cold, dark energy poured out of his body and entered the sword, covering it entirely with that power. It started glowing in glistening black energy as if there was a black fire around the blade.
Success!
It seemed that Shane could use his powers without any need of magical spells, arrays, or other special weapons, but he still wasn't sure. His intuition told him that he could definitely use his powers without any spells.
Shane frowned as he glanced at the demon who was getting more and more frustrated. Then, he stopped attacking the red-haired system in front of him and cursed, "Hah, you're actually using something to suck on my powers, aren't you?"
"Nope," Shane said and thought to himself, 'I'm not doing anything at all.'
His reply made the demon even more frustrated. After a while, he suddenly let out a laugh as he walked closer. He stood in front of Tess and raised his finger as he touched the girl's fair and red cheeks, "I'll just make this girl see what real hell means."
As soon as he said that, he flicked his finger as dark energy poured into the array above Tess's head. The girl's eyes widened even more. Sweat profusely dropped down her temples as her body trembled.
Shane's expressions turned serious as he raised his sword and put it on the demon's neck, "Take back your power, or I'll kill you."
"Go ahead," the demon bowed to the young man and even grinned, "You can try."
Shane didn't think too much about it as he raised his hand and attacked the demon. This wouldn't be his first time killing a demon, but this was the first time he had ever raised his sword against a human looking monster. His hands trembled for a bit, but he reminded himself that this wasn't a human being, rather a monster!
If he failed to kill him, Tess would be dead! This thought stopped Shane's hands from trembling. He gripped the hilt tightly as he slashed the demon's body, only to see that it passed through the grinning monster.
Shane's eyes widened as he stared at the scene.
Why did he feel like this was something like a hologram?
The demon chuckled seeing Shane's expressions and said, "Well, if I were here, you could have killed me, but sadly, I'm not, but I can definitely kill these minions and leave you broken hearted for sure. How's that for revenge?"
Veins popped up on Shane's forehead as a great sense of dread filled his heart. Even after getting his powers back, he was still useless! He glared at the demon standing in front of him and continued to slash his sword through the hologram thing, but nothing happened.
Instead, the demon's smile widened more and more. After a while, he flicked his finger as dark energy poured out of his body and entered Tess's, making the latter tremble even more. The girl fell to her knees as sweat dropped down her body. Her body seemed to be terrified to the extremes.
"Stop it!" Shane's grip tightened around his sword, "What do you want?"
"Now you're talking!" The demon clapped his hands and said, "I want your soul. Can you die for them?"
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