Chapter 13

"I have a bad feeling about this….. Should we return?" One of the four star onmyoujis said through the communication channel.

"Negative, if we pull back now our army will look like a joke. Employing such a force only to retreat, it will be a disgrace!" Another four star onmyouji said.

"We'll just play it by the ear. Don't worry so much." The five star onmyouji said which decided everything.

'Whoosh' candles along the walls started lighting up, creating a pathway for the dear intruders.

"Oh boy… seems like we were discovered already."

"They have always been tricky folks, since they know we're here they can prepare their own graves." A confident voice gave great confidence back to the group. Vergil the youngest fifth star onmyouji was with them! Vernon the veteran fifth star was also with them. They had nothing to fear!

They started walking down the brightened path, fully wary and alert.

The end of the path was there but there still were no movements. Though all the onmyoujis frowned. There was something in the air, way worse than what was smelt above.

"What the hell is this!?"

An entire underground cavern as wide as the eye could see and there chained up were humans chained up like slaves.

They were all doing heavy construction work which was completely out of the norm for both monsters and the devotees.

The most eye catching part was the humongous looking gate at the far end.

The gate looked very simple but everyone felt it was nothing but trouble.

"Hey! How's it going?" A voice came out from nowhere.

Everyone was alarmed and the figure appeared from above the group. He was standing upside down like it was nothing, completely relaxed.

With a blink of an eye, one of the four star onmyoujis flashed over and swung his blade on the enemy's neck. Everything happened so fast that he completed his action within a few seconds.

"Good job blue." One of the onymoujis tapped blue's shoulder but blue was frowning.

"Something's wrong. My blade passed his neck without any resistance."

"So violent, scary scary. Oni-Kun! Please come save me!"

A group of people wearing a scary 'oni' mask came out slowly with a scary momentum, all wearing the devotee white clothing.

The warriors in front started the clash, but the 'oni' were truly strong. Some of the weaker warriors were flung back easily and some even crashed into rocks.

Some of the onmyoujis that were capable of summoning shikigamis did so and the battle became fiercer.

Twenty minutes went by and the battle was still at a stalemate. Rin did try to help with his chains only to find them easily broken. He's pride in using water barely made a difference but for a onmyouji who was not even a one star onmyouji that was already good enough.

So Rin always surveyed the battle with intense concentration and would interrupt the opponents at the most ideal time. Being as irritating as he could, like a mosquito who couldn't be slapped and yet biting at the worse times being extremely annoying.

Not being strong enough to be a threat to go after and yet not being irritating enough to run over there to swat him to death, a delicate balance was needed.