Book 5: Chapter 31: The Warden

Book 5: Chapter 31: The Warden

The Frontlines

Close to the front of the frontlines, Axel Var Del quickly jerks his head around as he senses the approach of a Class V. And he isnt the only one as the Class V human hes fighting breaks away from him at the same time that he jumps back and turns his attention towards it as well.

Then both of them find a very familiar woman with red and black hair flowing down behind her with the wind as glowing crimson cracks slowly pulse across her armor, with an occasional vein of crimson showing on her skin. Her eyes are pure crimson and, as she spreads her arms out to her sides, slowly lose the whites within them, the crimson spreading out to fill her entire eyes as her whispered voice echoes across the frontlines, Release.

Her Highness, The Warden Axel mutters, the wolfkin a lesser version of a blood lycan gazing up in awe as glowing crimson blood begins to leak out of the Princesss body before shooting down like the humans bullets to hit all of the demons directly beneath her.

And the sight Axel sees directly after replaces his awe with abject terror.

All of the demons begin to show the same glowing crimson cracks across their bodies as the Princesss armor shows as the demons drop like dominos to the ground with each of them convulsing in the process. Their eyes begin to turn red just like the Princesss, and soon the convulsing goes silent as well while the crimson cracks grow larger and brighter.

The Warden of the Red Plague

Axel watches with fear in his gaze as cheers ring out from the humans. And the last thought Axel has before he sees all of the infected demons turning to crimson ash, only for that ash to then get absorbed by the glowing crimson blood that is left behind, sends a shiver down his spine.

The power of the Royal Family truly is absolute

But it doesnt stop there as the Princess quickly raises her hand, stopping the glowing crimson blood from devouring any more of the ash and instead raising it into the air while the blood seems to shake from indignation. Then she pushes her hand out forward while floating ahead, bringing the glowing crimson blood with her to infect more demons.

Terrifying and without equal.The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.

By now even the cheering humans have gone silent with the lone exception of murmurs of The Red Plague and The Warden throughout the frontlines.

This is a major pain.

Well, it is a mutation skill, Tar comments as I continue to slaughter demons. And mutation skills often come with a price.

True.

Law of equal exchange, was it? Something like that.

Great power comes at a price, or everything comes in exchange for something else.

Something like that.

Youre just making up random stuff to distract yourself, arent you? Tar points out, but I ignore him.

I grit my teeth as I feel the discomfort of burning my own life energy a feeling that I cant just diffuse with Pain Diffusion. And after a while, I begin to get lost in the slaughter.

So I try to snap myself out of it again, only to have that done for me when something crashes into my side and I find myself blasting through demons on my path to slam into a cliff.

After coughing out a good bit of blood that vanishes the instant it leaves my mouth, I turn my gaze to the demon that is responsible for my current state.

Then I grin at the sight of an outlet to vent my current issues on.

Five different Noble demons, all around levels 1150 to 1200.

Lets hunt.