166 The Monster.

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(General P.O.V)

2 days. 2 straight full days. That's how long they had been fighting. Fighting to survive this...monster. Marofak charged with his clawed hand, his tiny wings beating fast behind his slim back, the spine and ribs prominent inside his grey leathery skin. His heart pumped as he swung out wide, his claws detaching from his fingers to shoot towards their enemy. One lone human.

Marofak watched in surprise as the human managed to grab a small imp like demon and use it as a shield to block the claws the former had shot out. The demon was perforated with the claws, followed by blue flames covering his body as he burned to ashes in a pitiful moan. The ash drifted away to reveal the cold eyes of Aden, watching Marofak with a scary intent.

The high rank demon instantly felt fear grip him and he scuttled back in terror, trying to outran the scary human. Aden slashed his hand out, sending a blue scythe of fire cutting down 100+ demons near his position. Marofak felt the heat burn his skin slightly, saved only by a spiked demon taking most of the damage in his stead.

'I...I have to get out of here!!'

Marofak thought, using the numerous numbers of his kind to duck and weave from Aden's sight. Then the world overturned. One minute his wings were flapping in a zig zag pattern, then the next a blast of yellow flame exploded from his left, the shockwaves washed him over, buffeting him to the opposite direction with a burnt left side and broken ribs.

Marofak tumbled through more of his species, his body bowling over a large number of the demons hurdling to reach the human. Another blast happened. This one was far from him yet his ears popped from the loud noise accompanied by a tremor that broke apart the land under him into cracks.

Marofak heard the groans and screams of pain from his friends and colleagues, while he struggled to get up, only to find out that something huge was blocking him. He heaved while blinking his eyes to see through the dust and managed to roll off what turned out to be the charred head of a behemoth demon. The huge detached head had landed on one of his legs. The whole limb was smashed to paste yet he couldn't find it in himself to curse his luck because he had managed to get away with his life yet again.

Marofak winced in pain while his wings flapped extra hard to counterbalance the effect of losing one of his legs. Everywhere Marofak looked, he was met with destruction. Charred bodies which was supposed to be impossible! They were demons dammit! Heat was nothing to them! Yet that blue fire not only managed to roast the skin off his left side,it managed to turn other demons into ash!

They should have taken the cowardly way! Marofak finally listened to that small voice at the back of his head. But it couldn't be helped now. Things had turned out bad, but there was a chance for survival. There were still thousands of them left! Yes! They...they could fight this!

"So you still survived that huh?"

The young voice intoned from his front, instantly startling Marofak into reaching behind his back and searching for his sword. A breeze blew through him.

The weapon that had been behind his back before was missing! How...?

"Looking for this?"

The human asked, wielding a long black blade that exuded a miasma of black from along it's length. Marofak was a demon of greed, so seeing his possession in the hands of another, not to mention a human no less sent his anger soaring, momentarily eclipsing his fear. That sword was made from so many precious souls! How dare he?!

"That's mine!"

He hissed with gritted teeth.

The human looked at him before casually splitting a demon trying to attack him from the side, top to bottom in a move too fast for Marofak to see. Then he aimed his hand towards the two separating parts, popping sparks sounded from the palm of his hand, then a vortex of swirling concussive force and thermal energy exploded outwards. The body of the demon along with hundreds more, were decimated in a fiery explosion that singed the last patch of hair off of Marofak's chin.

"Still too widespread." Aden complained, barely being audible to the shocked demon bearing witness to what had to be a disaster.

"Mon...monst...monster."

Marofak said before he could control himself.

"Mmmh?" Aden turned his attention to the demon.

"I suppose to you it would seem that way."

The human shrugged, his chest muscles rippling in casual power under the hanging threads of his torn t-shirt. His hair was ruffled and his skin covered in dust, sweat and soot.

"Yet to me, you demons are exactly that. The difference between me and other humans is that I have the power to push back."

Marofak blinked his eyes and the human disappeared from his sights. There was a pop of displaced air in his last position along with a loud impact from Marofak's back. The demon didn't think before swinging his hand backwards.

"Tsk. Combining Combustion into my high speed lightning movement skill, doesn't seem to be as effective as I thought it would be.". Aden mused, one finger raised to block the limb from a town buster demon. "The loud noise gives away my position to the opponent. Maybe using my sonic Subskill in conjunction with Lightning bending and Combustion bending to bleed out the sound might wield different results?"

Marofak finally found his voice.

"Ple...please..."

He pleaded for mercy.

"Oh." Aden's focus shifted to him.

"I forgot all about you." His smile turned deadly.

"What to do with you..."

He stated, stomping on the ground which resulted into cracks that blazed with blue fire.

The ground rumbled, destabilizing the demons and finally crumbling down to reveal a molten pit of blue lava. The heat was oppressive and did short work of the demons who fell inside. Aden on the other hand was left standing on a pillar in the middle of the 60 meter wide pit.

"Do you like it?" He asked Marofak who shakily nodded without looking down.

"Oh come on. You didn't even take a look." Aden grabbed him by the back of his neck and turned the demon to face the pit of death.

"I got the idea off a simple, almost childish thought. If my fire is yellow and I can now easily change my flame's color, then why can't I do the same with my Lava's color as well. I know, I know, it's molten rock and scientifically unsound but that's the thing," Aden chuckled a little. "Fuck science."

Then he let go.

The last thing Marofak saw was the quickly approaching molten blue death. He flapped his wings to fly up but instantly felt a wave of pressure fall on his back. He didn't need to look up to see the cold gaze of his killer. His last thought was, 'why did I choose to fight!'

Then heat.

Aden looked down at the demon who had been a nuisance up until now, it had been a tall spindly thing, content with taking pot shots at him from the side with it's poisoned claws. The claws doubled as the projectiles it used to shoot out and boy were they were painful. He assumed. Aden was running off a record of not getting hit even once. It was a way to test himself.

A blast of air, slammed down like a blanket onto the desperate demons trying to fly out of the pit, only for them to get pushed back. Aden looked around and noticed that only a fraction of the demons remained. And they were rallying for another pushback, all gathered surrounding a female succubus with her cohorts.

"He's only one human! We can take him out..."

They were having a party without inviting him? How rude. A highly concentrated explosion blasted out of his heel, throwing him forwards, cutting through the air like a speeding bullet. His flight speed above the lava pit. A small tap into his inner energy and streaks of lightning, escaped his feet, as he skated towards the hoard in a bright but too fast to register beam. 'Wonder if I can turn my whole body into lightning? Maybe then I can approach a quarter of the full speed The Flash has access to.'

Aden didn't bother with subtlety. He landed like a meteor, using the loud impact from his descent, to enhance the sonic properties of the move, sending forth a shockwave of noise that killed everything near him. Or so he thought.

"Now!"

The female voice shouted.

Undulating crystals had, in a timely fashion rose up from the ground, surrounding him. The blast of sonic wave hit the crystals and instead of crushing them, they bounced back towards the source. Aden raised an eyebrow as the shockwaves buffeted him uselessly.

"Using my own attacks against me? I am a Grandmaster aerokinetic. You want Power, I will show you power!"

He told them while waving away the dust that rose off the ground. Deciding that he had already seen the full effects of his Sub skills, Aden raised up a hand to the sky to finally end this.

The heat from the molten lava in the pit a ways off from them rose up in thick blue fiery streams, feeding into a massive sphere of fire. They lost all hope.

"You saw this attack before, bear witness to it's strongest variation." His face took on a solemn expression.

"You were all worthy opponents. Thank you."

A tornado of wind blew in from all directions to join into the gyrating ball of flame.

"Attack him! Kill him!!"

Magical attacks flew out at him from all conceivable angles. Flying demons diving in to attack him at close range as well. This was a last and desperate attempt to save themselves.

An air shield, the strongest one Aden could create, manifested around his body, taking on the city destroying attacks with barely any effect.

The blue sphere gyrating above them, a combination of the hottest blue flames and the most violent winds he could create turned white as it charged up. It pulsed and resonated with the sound of their pumping hearts, beating wildly. It was shocking that such a beautiful thing could pose as much danger as some of the more energy aware demons felt.

One of them, breathed out.

"Yeah... we're fucked."

Then the Avatar brought his hand down in a chopping mode. The white ball of superheated flames and turbulent winds fell down almost too slowly. As one, all the demons stopped their attacks. It was too late anyway.

A second sun unravelled in the burning wastelands of the Fire Dimension, destroying more than 50 square miles of the hard ground, leaving behind a lake of blue molten lava, a testament of one of the most intense battles that Aden had ever been in.

A few seconds later, the young man stumbled out of the portal into his room in Lux. His bed welcomed his sorry state as Aden immediately fell asleep. He did not even bother to acknowledge the figure seated on the lone chair in the room, watching him in interest.

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