Chapter 24: Chapter 22: Raid on the Dark Guild
General POV
The team of five were following Salem to the direction to the dark guild after him and Jacob caught up to the three teens. It didn't take long for them to reach a very large mansion on the hill side of the forest.
"That's the place." Salem told them as he put his phone in his pocket dimension.
"That magic feels off." Jacob commented.
"How so Jacob-san." Greta asked the card mage.
"I feel the high magical power from the house similar to my cards. So, either the mansion is made from magic or it's a holder item like my cards." Jacob scratched his chin.
"Jacob-san we know where the demon is. We have the element of surprise. We can easily take advantage of this situation and finish things fast." Fausto said.
"We can't just rush in recklessly. We don't know what kind of surprises that mansion has. We need to think of a proper approach to this situation."
"Hey Fausto, are you sure you could handle this man?" Lorenzo asked the devil slayer.
"Yeah, especially with what Salem-chan said with that demon being a high S-class threat and with your magic acting up a little." Greta looked worried.
"Don't worry Lorenzo I'll be alright you just focus on your task on killing this Milotic and besides Jacob-san and I will be fighting." Fausto reassured his friends.
Suddenly the large front doors of the mansion flung open, getting all of them to jump to their guard. Suddenly red energy surrounded all five of them and they immediately struggled to get free.
"FUCK I SOMETHINGS HOLDING ME!!" Lorenzo yelled.
"Shit it's pulling us in." Jacob said as he struggled to break free and they were all pulled into the dark guild's mansion.
After a little while the five mages found themselves in an incredibly large area the space could be equal to that of a town hell it even had houses in them. In the room there was a group of people about 70 above and the five could sense most had small magic power to none. But the ones that stood out were two men in the centre.
The first one had a man who seemed to be in his forties wearing a grey robe, balding head and beard but also looked sickly. The second one was a man who looked to be in his thirties as well with black hair, grey eyes, and like a house cleaner even had the mask on but the man looked also really pale and sickly.
"Well look what we got here more puny light guild mages come here to stop us looks like they didn't get any message from the last one." A dark mage mocked the grants and just laughed. "Damn look at that hot piece of ass." He eyed Greta up and down in lust and licked his lips and the girl looked at him in pure disgust.
The old man just looked at the mages and grimaced as he recognized Jacob.
"Unchain the beast now!" The old man commanded the man dressed like a housekeeper.
"Already?"
"Yes, we should take any chances they have an s-class mage with them now do it!" He ordered and the dark-haired man nodded. "As for every mage, DO it!"
Jacob used his cards to knock the spears away from the other four. Once free Salem saw some of the dark mages taking out some green pill and his eyes widened as recognized it.
He immediately transformed his head into that of his Rathalos form and basted a huge stream of fire hitting most of the dark mages and causing an explosion and burning off the pills. The guild hall beneath him rose in a spiked pillar like formation about to impale his stomach but he dodged it. The houses then seemed to come to life but Salem didn't waste time in blowing them up.
"Guys don't let them eat those pills!" Salem yelled.
"Why?" Lorenzo asked.
"They're magic enhancing pills called emerald miracles."
"Got it!" Lorenzo gave a thumb and smirked. "Vermillion strike!" He yelled as his fist was coated in red aura with and shooting it at the other dark mages.
"Radiant devil's vibrant particles!" Fausto casted and small dark purple balls attacked the dark guild members and also hit some.
Greta personally blasted a white beam at the mage who made the sexual remarks.
Suddenly thirteen wood and cement golems were made from the guild itself to keep the mages busy.
"Lightning Stream!" She casted a beam of lighting at the dark mages but the ground beneath them raised and blocked the attack but was still destroyed.
"Card Magic: Blazing Serpent trail." Jacob produced five cards and large fire snakes came out of them. The guildhall seemed to shift as now the two were standing on the left corner of the guild and Gerata was standing where they were making the attack move towards her.
"SHIT!" She yelled as the attack was about to hit her but Jacob had good control and made the fire snakes switch directions landing on random parts of the guild destroying them
"WHERE IS IT!" The elderly man screamed at the dark-haired man.
"I-it's 'cough' coming up." He answered.
The guild building then shook as a large opened beneath them and the cyberdemon came out and roared in anger. The four crystal fall mages eyes widened at its sight; it was much taller than the picture while Fausto looked at it with absolute rage as his magic began surrounding his body.
'Obey!' The old man's hands turned green and he took an emerald miracle pill for a boost. "Where's the other one?"
"S-sir you're barely controlling this one it's unwise to bring the other one even though it's weaker."
"RADIANT DEVIL'S RAGE!" Fausto shot a large dark purple beam from his mouth.
The Cyberdemon intercepted by firing a laser blast from its arm cannon clashing with Fausto's attack but overpowering it but before the fire could hit Fausto Jacob used his cards to get him out of the way fast. The leaser blasted a large hole through the roof but then repaired itself and the dark-haired man coughed more violently.
"Where the other one!"
"Cough! It's still in the reserve tank."
"Bring it here quick!" The man then turned his attention to the mages. "Kill them all." He ordered but his nose and eyes began to bleed a little.
The cyberdemon than fired rapid missiles at the mages how were all doing their best to dodge and luckily it was a wider area but the missiles were still really fast highly destructive. Some of the unconscious dark guild mages got caught up in the attack and even those who were waking up and trying to run.
"Empty card Absorption!" Jacob used three cards to absorb the missiles.
"Vermillion Bullets!" Lorenzo shot large red aura bullets at the at the missiles making a big explosion good thing the guild hall was town size inside. One missile was still coming for him though fast.
"Lunar Barrier!" Gerta casted a barrier protecting herself and Lorenzo from the incoming missile attack but when it hit plus her own the impact bypassed some of the barrier and damaged the both of them. "T-that wasn't the best idea." Greta cringed at the damage she took getting up.
"Yeah, this isn't going to be a simply a one hit K.O like those weak ass dark mages." Lorenzo cracked his neck.
"Radiant Devils vibrant particles!" Fausto created the purple balls to intercept the missiles which was a success.
"Radiant devils violet slash!" He unsheathed his sword which was now coated with his magic and made the slash formation at the cyberdemon easily blocked with its own blade other arm and overpowered sending him flying but Fausto landed on his feet.
He dashed at the cyberdemon but than the demon used its rocket pack to fly at Fausto at high speeds. Before the teen could react, he grabbed by the face and slammed hard on the floor making a crater. It wasn't done as it roared and was about to blast Fautso who couldn't get out the demon's grip no matter how hard he tried.
"Tri Cards: Plasma cannon." Jabob mixed an elemental card of fire, wind and lightning and made a plasma cannon making the cyberdemon skid away from Fautso. "Damn this thing is tough." Jacob said but noticed Fautso going after it again but held him back.
"Fautso wait this thing is still much more powerful than you charging in recklessly will be suicide!" He told the teen who scowled at him.
"Do you have a plan?" He asked.
"Not but I know you have a bad history with demons but attacking recklessly like this is idiotic." Jacob scolded a little. "We need to be better coordinated in our attacks."
Salem had dodged the rockets but used some to blow up the house golems. He noticed how the dark-haired man coughed violently every time there was damage to the town like guildhall so it was obviously his spell. He understands that magic can take a lot out of you but the man seemed incompatible with the amount of magic he was using.
So, either it was an issue of the man having too much magic power for his body to handle or he was using an emerald miracle.
Speaking of the emerald miracle, he wondered if the elderly man was using it to give him the extra power boost he needed to actually control the cyberdemon? The floor breath he seemed to wrap around his legs to prevent escape and multiple spears came but Salem quickly burst out of the floor avoiding the swords.
The cyberdemon then made hundreds of tiny missiles from its back and launched them everywhere. There were just too many to dodge so Gerta quickly moved to the and made her shield for and her guildmates, Salem was too far away for that so he shifted to his ratholas form to at least minimise the damage. The guildhall seemed to be slowly fading as the dark-haired man vomited and was on his knees the destroyed houses slowly reforming but not as golems.
"Ipnosi-san please we have enough money to pay the enforcer of the Ouroboros Trap guild. These beasts were always too much for us to handle." The man tried to reason.
"I know Antony but we still don't have enough and you know what happens to people who disappoint Ouroboros trap don't you!" The older man now known as Ipnosi yelled at the man known as Antony.
"Card magic: Golden bind chains!" Jacob threw about ten cards and they surrounded the demon and golden chains came out and wrapped around it.
"Radiant devils Corrupt beam!"
"Vermillion typhoon!
"Lunar heavenly beam!"
The three teens launched their attack knocking it back but it was Fausto attack which did the most damage to the demon. The demon got up with its eyes blazing and it in anger and the old man coughed blood trying hard to control it.
The demon unleashed hundreds of mini rockets destroying the surrounding area and the bodies of the dark mages were burnt to ash the remaining two where in a shield by the guild's structures shifting and they were in another area of the away from the battle. But non noticed the ant on the old man's robe. Once the attacked Greta shield had already dropped and the three teens took heavy damage.
"Dammit this thing really isn't going to go down easily." Lorenzo smirked, wiping some blood off his mouth.
"But at least we are doing some damage to it. And where's Salem-chan." Greta commented huff as she used a lot of energy for that shield and looked around a little for the younger mage.
"MOVE!!" Jacob enlarged a card and pushed the kids out of the way as the cyberdemon unleashed some plasma slashes with its arm sword. The attack sent him across the large guildhall to a house far from the battle.
"ARCK!! Antony why aren't you taking advantage of your Town Domain magic in this place and help finish this!" Ipnosi yelled at his subordinate.
"Ipnosi-san i-it t-tak-kes am u-using a l-lot of magic to keep this b-building in o-one p-piece so I can't really help in the battle anymore. A-And t-the emerald miracle…" He didn't finish the sentence as he was getting more nauseated.
Salem who was in his ant form hanging by the old man's robe was about to sneak attack the two but suddenly the guildhall large door in the guild burst open and the Milotic appeared looking pissed off.
Ipnosi cursed he couldn't really control the first beast especially now since his magic is drained and he was thinking of taking more emerald miracles but now the situation wasn't in his favour. The creature turned to the two of them in utter rage.
Milotic roared and unleashed a powerful blast of water from its mouth which the room shifted again to let them escape from the attack. But the Milotic did not give up slide fast to get it's payback for being mind controlled by the old man.
"Antonny use the last of your power to get us out of here will find another way to get the money let the light mages handle these monste…" He didn't finish his sentence as Salem turned to normal and gave him a hard uppercut giving him a really bloody nose and some missing teeth.
"SHIT!!" The other mage yelled in worry but before he could pull any moves of escape Salem grabbed him hard at the back of his head and slammed it in the floor making a crater.
"Shitsiru." Salem mumbled and held the man by the collar.
"W-wait p-please don't h-have mercy!" Antony begged.
"Relax, I am not going to kill ya." Salem then dodged an incoming wave of sludge by the Milotic while still holding the dark mage but the old man wasn't so lucky as he got gobbled up by the sludge.
The Milotic was done though it's tail glowed blue which Salem recognized as dragon tail and smacked the old man hard so much so that it destroyed the building sized room and all that was left of the man was his upper half of his body. Salem's stomach turned at the gruesome sight as he was still getting used to all of it.
"I know it's a regional variant plus it was captured and forced to slave and all but aren't Milotic gentler?" Salem questioned himself at the viciousness of the creature. He then noticed the house was beginning to fade. "Hey werido mind telling me how your little domain can disappear?"
"O-once am completely o-out o-of m-magic." He struggled to speak.
The Milotic launched a hydro pump but Salem flew away with it after him.
"Okay what business do you have with Ouroboros Trap?"
"M-me and my employer get Emerald miracle from them but we owe them a lot of money. We came across a dying dark guild and so we killed the leader and took over it to help with our scheme to make quick money and pay them off."
Salem was then hit by a twister knocking off course letting the dark mage go and crushed into a house far away. The Milotic did hurry and jump after the dark mage and coiled its body around him hard, breaking his bones making him scream in agony and cough more blood. Milotic was then hit with a lightning kick sent flying by Salem in his hybrid Zinogre form.
The place than began to fall apart and Salem noticed that the man was out but he checked and he was actually dead. The emerald miracle must have caught up to him. Salem clicked his tongue as there were some things he wanted to ask.
"Fuck overdose."
The Pokémon slithered to Salem and glared at him and the white-haired mage got ready for a fight and the guild slowly faded.
With the Others
"Dammit this thing really is an S-class threat!" Lorenzo yelled and huffed in exhaustion. The battle had been going on; they were all starting to lose steam and not to mention the hits they took.
But the cyberdemon wasn't any better.
"Greta." Fautso called his teammate. His clothes were ruined, head bleeding, burn marks all over his body and running low on magic.
"I know." Greta then shot a Lunar heavenly beam at him which he ate and recharged his magic but it didn't mean his injuries were healed. Gerta herself was running low on magic and her clothes were a mess with her mouth and hands bleeding.
"Get ready kids." Jacob said looking much better than the teens. But then the place turned white and they were all in the forest hills again much to their confusion.
Suddenly multiple explosions began happening followed by shockwaves, the sound of lightning reached their ears and they saw a huge burst of lightning with strong winds coming after. And Salem comes flying to their side not before destroying some trees along the way. He looked like he took a good amount of damage and was bleeding a little from the side of his head.
"WHAT THE FUCK!!" Lorenzo screamed in surprise
"Easy it's me Salem." Salem reassured them.
"Salem-chan, what's this form?" Greta asked as she's never seen a creature like this.
"Later we got company!" Salem screamed as the Milotic came out of the forest. Salem really took advantage of its disadvantage with electric attacks but the thing knew coil thus increasing its defence it did it 4 times now. But at least there were several damages also.
It noticed the Cyberdemon and immodestly knew not to mess with it and left as fast as possible.
"Shit guys, I'm going after it." Salem declared to them.
"Greta go with him, we'll deal with the demon." Jacob ordered her and she nodded, then the two ran after the pokemon.
The remaining just stared at the cyberdemon which stood there charging up its cannon. So far in the battle it learns that Fausto's attacks hurt it more so it was extra cautious of him every time he threw an attack.
"Fautso, can you finish this in one more attack?" Jacob asked the devil slayer.
"Yeah, I can but keep it still as if I use this attack, I won't have any magic left."
"Don't worry Fausto we got this." Lorenzo was really low on magic but he could help as best as he could.
"Card magic: Scorching Sun!"
"Vermillion Supernova!"
Two huge balls of magic moved to the Cyberdemon one red one orange but it used it's rocket pack to fly out of the way and the attacks destroyed a lot of the hill and Jacobs attack blow continued to a mountain side destroying it. The whole area was shaking.
The flying demon began an assault of missiles but much less than before and it seemed to be surrounded by sparks. The male mages dodged but Lorenzo, due to the last attack taking a lot out of him, got hit, was blowing up and knocked him out cold but when the Cyberdemon saw Lorenzo down it took out it's plasma blade to finish him off.
It was temporarily distracted by golden chains wrapped around it making a roar in fury.
"NOW!"
"RADIANT DEVILS SECRET ART: HELL'S CORRUPT STAR!!" Fautso made a big ball of purple light and throw it at the cyberdemon and because it tried cutting the chains with its plasma arm sword but it was too late.
The attack hit the cyberdemon dead and with the devil slayer magic began to do its thing. With the added injuries it got the cyberdemon could barely survive the attack.
It laid on the ground grunting while Fautso passed out as he literally gathered all of his magic for that one attack.
Jacob just sighed as he sat down and waited for Salem and Gerta to finish their thing as the kid said he had a way to permanently take these things out but noticed the demon was turning purple. He used his cards to fly the two boys to the town to get medical aid.
With Salem and Gerta
It didn't take long for the two to catch up with the Milotic as it was slower than them. Salem had remained Gerta that if they wanted to finish it fast than they had to use lighting attacks but to also be extra careful with the poison.
"Lightning stream!"
The pokemon noticed both their attacks but was too late to dodge or intercept and they hit, making the pokemon scream in pain. It glared and began making sounds.
"Le lea alo ainer." Salem heard a faint voice detracting him, making him get hit by a poison tail smash him across several trees. Normally that attack would have poisoned him but his Zinogre was armoured so his chances of getting poison were very slim but that didn't mean he was going to be carless.
"This thing got more than four moves what the fuck is going on." Salem questioned and he moved back to the fight.
Greta jumped away from the pokemon and got in a striking stance. She thrusted her staff forward and it extended at a high-speed striking the Milotic then it was zapped by electricity. The Milotic then surrounded itself with a bubble then it faded. Greta didn't know what happened but it didn't let it distract her.
The Milotic created multiple twisters and their winds blew so hard that trees and boulders got blown away. Greta was blown away and Milotic jumped high and got a poison tail ready but Salem got her out of the way and hopped on about the blown away trees until he reached the ground carrying Greta princess style.
"You good." He asked the girl as he put her down.
"Yeah, but my magic is seriously on the low." She sighed. Salem noticed that the pokemon in front of him was slowly healing its injuries which wasn't good. Then it unleashed a poison sludge wave which Salem switched to an owl harpy and flew upward holding Greta by his talons.
"That's not good, the Milotic is healing itself."
"WHAT HOW!"
"Can you still keep going?" Before she could answer they felt an earthquake and saw a large explosion. A huge fireball also blew up a mountain side.
"Looks like the boys are really going at it but yeah I can still go."
Salem switched back to his Zinogre hybrid form. The two then began fighting the Milotic.
"Lightning Claw!" Salem's claws were clotted in lightning and Milotic intercepted his attacks with a dragon tail.
Salem also clothed her staff in Lightning and hit the pokemon so hard that it destroyed the ground beneath them while it was busy with Salem. The pokemon took heavy damage but it was still able to battle and twisted it's snake like body and faced Salem hitting him with a hydro pump directly while striking Greta with a dragon tail poisoning her.
Salem was blasted far away from the two, the damage he took was bad but not enough to keep him out. He came to a stop by a large boulder and used it as a spring to jump back to the fight fast.
Greta meanwhile felt a little feverish and her body and her movements were getting slower so when she tried to engage in close combat with her lightning clotted staff it was not performing performance wasn't her best performance. Before the Milotic could wrap around her it was hit by a lightning ball by Salem and he grabbed his tail span and threw it high in the air using his super strength.
"Lightning bomb!" His hair generated a huge amount of lightning morphing it into a 13 feet diameter ball and kicked it at the Milotic which was intercepted with a hydro pump but even though its injuries were slowly healing it didn't mean it's stamina was any better.
The large lightning ball was slowly overpowering its attack.
"Lightning crescent!" Greta fired a large lightning attack in the form of a crescent moon and fell to the floor bleeding heavily, the poison getting to her.
The attack hit the pokemon and gave Salem's attack to truly power through and strike it making a large explosion in the sky. The Milotic fell down with its eyes swirling.
"Huff finally." Salem transformed back to normal and was ready to take over the pokemon.
"No." He heard again but now fully female.
"No please no human. Please don't enslave me." He then noticed it was coming from the Milotic.
"I can understand you?" Salem was a little confused.
"Please I know you're one of those bad trainers with strange abilities. Please have mercy don't enslave or kill me. I just want to see my mom again." She seemed to be crying and didn't care that Salem could understand her.
"Am not part of them and why should I let you go? You killed people and basically tried to kill me and them." Salem really didn't want to drag this conversation out; he had to get Greta some help and deal with the Cyberdemon.
"I never truly wanted to hurt anyone one day I was by the beach having a nice day with my trainer who was basically my mother. The next thing I knew I was brought to this place full of other types of pokemon I had never seen before and humans who could use moves similar to us.
I searched for a way back home but I couldn't find one. Then I ran into those two men one day and they hypnotised me and forced me to poison the waters. They also feed me some strange pill giving a power boost but making me lose my mind. After I broke out from their holding tank all that was on my mind was red so I killed them out of pure rage and I thought you and the others were part of them."
"Fuck man." Salem said in frustration his original plan was to take-over the pokemon In Front of him though dumb it will fulfill a little child fantasy he had but knowing she actually has a loving trainer really switched things. 'Man.' He sighed.
"I could get you back to the trainer."
"Really." Her eyes lit up in happiness.
"Yes, just please bare with this." Salem then morphed his hair and arm to the Zinogre. "Lightning palm." The Milotic was already defeated so dhe went down easily but Salem didn't miss the betrayed look on her face.
"W-why." I then went down but not dead. Purple particles then surrounded it and Salem used his phone to send her to Morpheus.
Salem quickly picked up Greta and went to the others who finished their fight not long before him and Gerta he just found Jacob their. Before Jacob could ask what happened Salem sent the Cyberdemon to Morpheus as well.
"Jacob Greta was poisoned during the fight. We should get her some help." Salem told and Jacob nodded.
"I think we all need some medical attention."
Hours later
Salem was just sitting on a building, his head and torso in bandages, looking at his phone and asking Morpheus if the Milotic made it back to her trainer, which he confirmed. Salem just looked down at the town surrounded by medical stuff and the country knight force and Jacob explaining what happened. Since the dark guild mages were incinerated by the cyberdemon there wasn't anyone to arrest.
Meanwhile Lorenzo, Fautso and Greta were getting their injuries patched up in the clinc.
"Damn missed an opportunity to catch my first pokemon. I hat morality sometimes." He chuckled himself as he wanted to do the Ash Ketchum pose after he captured his first pokemon.
"Had a nice little adventure Junior." Salem jumped a little at the sudden voice and saw Morrigan sitting beside him.
"What the hell Morrigan what in the fuck man!" He yelled. "How did you even know I was here?"
"Junior, even if you're continents away I could still find you~." She smirked at him.
"Well, that's not creepy at all." Salem said with a deadpan expression on his face. "Why are you even here anyway?"
Morrigan just smiled and looked into the sky and snapped her fingers.
"What the hell was that?" Salem looked at her like she had a few screws loose.
"Oh nothing now, big sis just wants to show you what she got for you during her trip."
"What was that first part?"
"Nothing Nothing~." She chuckled.
Elsewhere.
A beautiful curvaceous woman with her long blonde hair extending to her hips. For attire dons a loose kimono with fur lining on the top while also having flower designs all over it as well as zigzag lines on its edges. She sat on a tatami holding an ochoko cup drinking some sake with a smirk on her face.
"The daughter of darkness and the enigma, what an interesting pair." The woman watched them through a portal until Morrigan snapped her fingers releasing a dark energy cutting the connection. But smirked as she still found something interesting.
"It's too bad that brute Acnologia is located on that continent." She sighed as she probably won't meet the two for a long time.
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