Chapter 117: Chaos and More Chaos Part 2

"Ha! Me? A coward? Yes, you..... Of course, I am! I am the embodiment of your repressed feelings. So even if you keep on saying different kinds of rude words, you are only cursing yourself." the entity laughed.

He was indeed me and I was him. I just failed to accept it, but that is not the point here. Why is he showing up now?

"Ha... you can't be helped. I will aide you this once. But after that, I will not interfere anymore, even if you die already."

Before I knew it, I was returned to reality, the pain came flowing back to my nerves. However, this time around, the blood stopped flowing out of my body and the magic circle that formed in the rift is now formed.

"NO!" the demon priest is shouting in grief as the rift's entrance is slowly covered with blood-red chains jumping up and down like snakes on the rift. They are not flying and diving into the ground though, the chains are currently acting as a thread that will eventually sew the rift shut.

Soon, the rift was no longer be seen and a howl so hollow that might have come from the depths of the earth, echoes throughout the whole Phantasmal Reality. The lesser demons stopped fighting while the other high ranking demons opened their own portals and escaped in the heat of the battle.

The female demon fighting against Voltaire is quite messed up but Voltaire is also the same as her.

"Heh... I never thought that I have to go all out just to fight a puny magician like you. I commend you with that, heh..." the female demon said as she wiped the blood from her mouth.

"Hmph, I am just not in the proper condition right now, but if I ever am in full condition, I will slay you down, demon."

"I am going to wait for that and the next time we meet, you will be dead!" the female demon said before she flew up and disappeared on the horizon.

All the other battles happening also ended. The higher demons that were supposed to help the priest defend the rift are nowhere to be seen resulting in the lesser demons to die without any sort of power and morale left for them.

The magicians immediately killed the remaining demons without hesitation. Even those who begged for their lives did not manage to live. All they could do is escape, but that is also not a guarantee.

"I refuse to accept this! I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS!" the demon priest raises his staff into the sky and a large bolt of lightning struck his staff. His scream echoes throughout the whole Phantasmal Reality.

Inari-sama healed me again and all the lost energy from earlier due to the spell was recovered allowing me to stand up and ready to go if there is a fight going to happen.

"I have a bad feeling about this," Titan said as he approached my side alongside with Moonlight, Erina, Maple, and Anya.

"Is everyone alright?" I asked.

"Not that great Kazuma. All our mana are used up and we can't have another fight unless we force it. More importantly, are you alright? You didn't die right and this is not your soul we are talking into?" Moonlight frowned and immediately stare at me with daggers.

"How rude, I am still alive and this is still flesh and bones, not some ethereal being floating around. It takes more than that to kill me."

"Guys, this is not the time to squabble, the enemy is charging up and looking dangerous!" Erina said and pointed the demon priest that got struck with lightning.

The other magicians started to gather up too and saw what was happening to the demon priest.

"Crap! Eliminate him immediately! He is trying to morph!" Zan shouted and started chanting a magic skill that invokes a great explosion.

"Zan! Don't casually do that! But he is right guys! We can't let this demon complete his transformation cycle or we are going for one heck of a battle again!" Tsukoyomi said and swing his staff above his head and started to spin it while chanting.

Yuri and Yuto also came back to me, looking at their status, they are too tired to do anything, let alone evoke strong magic skill.

"Good job you two, go back and rest now guys," I said to them and was about to recall them when Yuri stopped me.

"No, master. We have yet to defeat the enemy and we will not just run away without finishing the job. We will rest for a little bit but we will return to the fight. Don't recall us just yet."

"Hey, don't push your bodies too much. Just because you are my familiars doesn't mean you two are safe from injuries and death and I don't want the two of you doing that."

"Forgive us, master, if we are strong enough, we would have already eliminated that guy down without having him allow to power himself up," Yuto said.

"Now, now, guys. You two did wonderfully. Kazuma-sama is safe from him due to your valiant efforts to protect him. It takes a lot just to properly do it and you two did it without doing much. If the two of you didn't manage to do so, closing the rift will just be a different topic and it would not be closed until now," Inari sama consoled the two of them.

Just like what they wished, I didn't recall them yet, but I have to let them rest for a while. Letting them fight in their state is just a suicide. I let Inari sama look them out for now so that they won't engage in battle with their situation.

After making sure of that, I joined in with everyone ready to unleash their magic skills out of and beat the enemy down which is the demon priest that is currently doing a morphing process. Voltaire shot the demon priest some lightning bolts and some other skills but it seems like the enemy absorbed all of them without getting any sort of injuries.

"This guy is absorbing all our attacks! We can't damage him!" Voltaire said as he frowned when his last lightning bolt disappeared as soon as it reaches the body if the demon priest.

"Damn! He is already in the protection of his demon god that he is worshipping! We have no choice but to wait for him to finish his morphing process! All our attacks will just be absorbed and will be part of his strength later if we bombard him with attacks!" Tsukoyomi said.

"Getting the blessings that fast!? Doesn't it take quite a lot of time just for a demon to gain the recognition of a demon god that easily?!" Yaya frowned.

"Kill!" Raigaki is ready to attack anytime, he was just being restrained by Tsugimoto and Rena.

"I think he was one of those demons that has the title of the demon god beloved. Having that trait will allow him to shorten the time if gaining the demon god's blessings!" Zan analyzed as he stares at the demon priest while still readying the spell he was going to throw for later.

"Can't we do something about it? Like, remove him from the blessings while he is still immobile?" Titan suggested.

"You are underestimating this one Godou, the demon has a strong faith to his demon god and if we did what you suggested, we are just looking for more trouble. We can't just do that casually," Moonlight interjected.

I didn't have anything to say. I don't know what will happen after this demon gets forcefully removed from the blessings his demon god bestowed him with. I decided to ask Blue about this one.

"Blue, do you know what to do with this one?"

"No. Just like what your fellow magicians are saying, he will not be stopped and he will be immune to all damage thrown to him. All you can do is wait for him to finish his morphing process and hope for the best outcome."