Wild Factor

[Third Person POV]

"Hmm, the little human girl succumbed to her injuries... Still too weak, as expected of weaklings."

The flaming devil spoke again in a distorted voice, being disappointed by the human girl that was about to unleash something unknown... when he had expected something to happen, nothing happened at all.

Aamon turned around.... 'Thomp! Thomp! Thomp!' With footsteps of a giant, he continued walking out towards the gate of the city.

"Hmm?" Sensing a shift in the environment, Aamon stopped and turned around.

The girl's Mana Aura while under control is really small, to the point of being unnoticeable. When knocked out however, she stopped holding back her Mana and her Mana Aura expanded into a large size, covering an entire section of the street.

But despite that, that is not the reason why Aamon was surprised. No... the reason he is surprised is because that Mana Aura is growing increasingly larger at the second, to the point of covering nearly the entire street.

"...What?... "

Simultaneously, her Aura also grew more intense, more aggressive, and more violent. Before this, it is like a calm lake's water, and now it grew into a super strong stream in a raging river, as if pure and condensed maliciosness is flooding out of her tiny body. Any creatures in her vicinity even without being fluent with magic would feel the intensity of this and get goosebumps.

The Mana Aura grew larger... until it rivalled Aamon's and even exceeded his Reserve Mana.

The unconscious girl that was lying face down has started moving. She pushed on the ground while still face down to get up, and then when she stood up, she pulled her head up, with her eyes still closed.

"...Her wounds are slowly healing by itself...?"

As if she has used a miracle magic on herself, her wounds are closing by itself.

Finally, the demon had gotten his answer for why the girl was healing... What she released has just took over her body, and when Kyrielle opened her eyes again, Aaron finally understood what it is.

Her eyes is now bright gold in color, and it glowed up like a torch, just like a serpent's eyes. The gaze from the girl sends all senses of the demon into alert, and making even the fiercest of predators feel intimidated.

"No way... a dragon?!"

The girl's wounds are closing, slowly but surely. This ability is called a Healing Factor, which naturally heals your wounds using Mana without casting any mircales. Only the demons and monsters have this ability because it is one that was born with, not learned, it is an inherent ability.

Somehow as this happened, rain starts dropping from the sky into a relatively big downpour. Straigh out of nowhere, the rain fall helped to stop the city's blazes, as if the gods themselves had blessed the city. However, it did nothing to the fire devil, as his body's fire is never ending.

This however helped the girl a lot, as she can now properly approach the demon without being burned by the fire leaking out from the demon's body.

After standing still and soaking up some amount of water, the girl with the sword in her hands immediately sprinted forward.

"Aggrahhh!!" Despite her soft voice sounding like a little sheep, she is yelling like a beast as she closed the distance to the demon.

"Impudent human!"

The demon raised and swung it's sword horizonally towards the girl.

'Clank!'

With the reflexes of a trained fighter, she leaped up and dodged the sweep of the sword. Just a single leap of hers could now reach meters off the air, not something that a normal kid can do, she had gained increased physical power.

She landed on the ground and immediately continued chasing after the demon. She quickly closed the distance as the demon raised it's sword and swung it down again vertically. This time she dived straight for between the legs of Aamon as the sword misses and slam down on the ground.

'Clank!'

Picking herself up, she immediately slashed at the leg of the demon.

'Clink!'

A loud noise of metal hitting metal could be heard. Even though when she transformed into a dragon form, it is still not enough to even scratch the demon's Mana Shield.

"Damned insect!"

'Boom!'

The demon lifted it's leg up and slammed in downwards where the girl was standing on. However, she quickly dived away from the stomp and went for the other leg. She swung her sword multiple times at the other leg as Aamom left himself open.

'Clink! Clink! Clink!'

Again, loud metallic sounds was heard, and yet not a single damage can be seen at all in the demon's leg.

Aamon realised that he can't hit her at this distance, and thus jumped backwards to create distance.

The girl quickly chased after the demon who's now back pedalling. The demon raised it's sword overhead and then slammed it downwards vertically, which was then side stepped by the girl.

'Clank!'

The girl stabs her sword into the ground balancing and stopping her momentum that way. As soon as she regain her balance, she immediately jumped up into the air towards the demon.

Her momentum carried her right towards Aamon's face, to which she slammed her sword right onto.

'Clank!'

However, it only made a metal sound and didn't do any damage either.

The demon raised it's free arm and grabbed at it's face to catch her. Seeing this, she jumped backwards up into the air and landed on the roof of the terraces, then continued sprinting along the roof of the terraces.

The Aamon seeing this quickly stepped backwards as well so that the girl couldn't get any closer, and to also increase the likelihood of hitting her.

The girl ran on the terrace's roof and then jumped again trying to reach the demon's face.

"Ggrraaaahhhh!" Yelling like a beast again as she flew towards the demon.

"Fool!"

But she had made a mistake, as the demon had already predicted this. The demon aimed his sword and then swung it sideways up at the air. Lacking any aerial movement options, her momentum carried her right into the great sword.

The girl swung her sword at the greatsword to intercept it's slash. But that is impossible because her sword bent and broke from the force alone as it connected with the greatsword, and then hitting her body behind as well.

'Clinkkk!' A loud ringing sound was made as their sword collided.

The slash didn't cleave her in half, and that is because the dragon also had a Mana Shield on her body.

But strong mana shield or not, she was hit with the force of a truck and then was sent flying backwards, landing on the ground while her momentum made her slid backwards. This made terrible cuts to her body and cracked a few bones.

"Gaah..."

After a few well timed dodges, the girl was caught right into a swing and now can't fight anymore. Though the dragon had put up a considerably decent fight, it still wasn't even strong enough to scratch the demon.

But if you give her more time, surely her Healing Factor would kick in and fully heal her wounds making her ready for Round 3.

"Tsk, what a mad dog. If I don't kill you now you'd grow even more dangerous. "

The girl took heavy damage and lied on the ground, she tried to stand up again despite her injuries, showing her immunity to pain. But she was simply too damaged to stand up again, as she immediately dropped back onto the ground.

"I have had enough of your little games, dragon. Now di-"

'Boom!'

Someone crashed down in between the demon and the dragonkin. A third party has joined the fight.

This person didn't come from behind, or from the terraces to the sides. No, they dropped down straight from the skies and knocked up a huge screen of dust as they did so.

A voice of a young woman sounded.

"I had rushed over here because I predicted that a monster has appeared and burned the entire city... But to think that when I got here I'd stumble across two monsters fighting, what a day!"

"You annoying humans just never stop coming do you? I'll just have to kill you all and get back to the front lines!"

"Oh, but you can't because there is no front lines. The war is already over, and you still slaughtered thousands if not tens of thousands of people here despite the truce. It's a capital offense, Aamon."

"That voice, there is no mistaking it....! Lynn! "

When the dust screen cleared, a woman wearing a with long white hair and eyes that glowed pink stood in place.

"Hello there, Arch Devil of Inferno... Demon King Aamon. Did you recognized me?"

[Magic God Lynn's POV]

I was just in my house right outside the Klada city, busy enjoying my afternoon tea before I go back to writing my review paper on two newly invented magic items.

That magic item was made by some kid from the Moonfall continent about 2 years ago and the technology have finally spread here. I wasn't kidding when I meant that a literal 12 year old kid invented two new magic items, it's crazy!

One was a sword, but it was made to vibrate by applying a thin layer of mana on the blade itself. This increased its cutting power and more than tripled it's sharpness for some reason. I was actually researching this fenomena because of the strange technology used.

And then there's a hollow metal shaft which they call a 'Musket'? It uses a small explosive magic to launch out a bullet which is made of metal to hit people with. Though it's not particularly destructive it is rather easy to use and really effective at killing unarmored targets.

It was then when all of a sudden, I felt some amount of tremor on the ground. I thought that it was normal, since the city sometimes do have magic accidents or random tremors here and there.

However, an extremely large amount of mana was suddenly released and I could feel it with my Mana Aura even from this distance. It was a large scale spell, one that only a few a individuals in this world is capable of. That's when I knew exactly what is happening.

You see, it wasn't just a coincidence that I live near the city. I knew that there was an archdemon, a devil, that was sealed there. Years ago, I asked the city's pope and duke for permission to unseal it send it back to the Bostnia continent, but they didn't listen.

They were afraid of the damages that might be done to the city if something as dangerous as an archdevil were unleashed there. Well, I don't blame them about that, but what I do blame is their disregard for th chance that the demon could be unleashed when the people are at their most vulnerable.

I quickly put on my white robe-dress, which looked really nice. I didn't even bother taking my coin pouch before I exited my house and took off towards the direction of the city. I didn't forget to wear my lucky amulet though, which a great friend once gave me. It has a one time use teleport enchanted on it though, which is stupidly rare in this world. I never know when I would need it after all.

Using gravity magic, I flew at my cruise speed and reached the city's sky soon. Before I arrived, I couldn't see anything at all because of the smoke getting in the way, but once I got closer I could see it clearly. The entire city was set ablaze, and everything is burning. I have to stop this somehow!

"...Storm Call!" I summoned up a storm using a water spell and created rain to help stop the fire.

When I scanned the city, I saw fighting near the front gate of the city. When I flew closer what I saw was a teenage girl holding a sword and fighting with the very demon that caused this fire.

She was hit by the demon and sent flying backwards. She stopped moving from the damages done to her, and that's when I get to see clearly.

She has red scales on her jaw, and her eyes glowed in golden colors with narrow irises, and the tell tale sign of the very presence of an evil dragon. There is no doubt that she is indeed a dragonkin, the prophesied one.

The demon approached the injured girl and raised it's greatsword up into the air, and my instinct made me rushed downwards to help.

I immediately flew down and landed right between the two, stopping the fight. That's why I'm here right now. Did I make a cool enough entrance? Ah, this is not the time for jokes but oh well.

"That voice, there's no mistaking it... Lynn!"

"Hello there, Arch Devil of Inferno... Demon King Aamon. Did you recognized me?"

"I have nothing to say to you other than go to hell!"

With it's raised greatsword, it swung down at me.

'Clank!'

I caught the sword with my hand. The force from the swing alone made the ground crack and dug my feet into the ground. However, he didn't even scratch me because of my Mana Shield, a magic technique in which you coat a thick layer of mana on your body.

"What?! How?!"

"Oh this? It's a Mana Shield. Yours may be strong, but it's nothing compared to mine."

Using gravity magic to boost my power, I shoved his greatsword back and he recoiled a bit from that.

"No way! The war have only lasted ten years at most, there is no way you can impro-"

"Are you asleep? This is already 32 years after the end of the Great War! I already told you that you violated the truce's law right? You demons just never listens do you?"

"That is a lie! Supreme King Baal would never surrender!"

"That's right, that bastard never did. That's why I killed him."

"Impossible! A puny mage like you?!"

He raised his sword again and and swung horizontally at me. I didn't even bothered to block it as it hit my body.

'Clank!'

The hit didn't hurt me at all but it did sent me flying to the terraces to the sides and knocked down an entire building.

With gravity magic I pushed away all the debris that covered me and walked out unscathed.

"What is that impossible durability of yours?! Fine, if physical attacks don't work then I'll just use magic attacks!"

He jumped backwards and created distance.

"My dark flame, turn my enemies to dust! Hel-"

"Oh I'll be needing that girl alive, so we should fight without her in the way. "

I gathered Mana with an outstretched hand and then in a swiping motion, I sent strong winds at the girl behind me, knocking her at least 20 meters back so that she won't be caught up in our fight. Normal humans would die instantly even if they were to only take the splashing of that Saint ranked spell.

"Die! Hell Fire!"

He threw the dark fireball at me. It exploded as it hit me and the explosion was large enough to blow up the entire area of a 4 cart sized highway, but it didn't do any damage to my Mana Shield whatsoever.

"Hmm, this is what you call inferno? How lame. "

"...Tsk! You leave me no choice then, Territory Expansion : Smelter Coffin! "

A large amount of mana unleashed from Aamon, forming a see-through dome about 15 meters in diameter using a magic crest that's embedded somewhere in his body.

"I see it's getting really hot in here... is this your Trump card?"

"Huhuhu... My technique creates a space that traps heat, where the use of fire spells is much more deadlier!"

The entire area heated up more and more until the air is hot enough to act like furnace and bake bread.

I see, as if the entire area is a smelter, the heat will be trapped inside this dome and the temperature inside would rise almost indefinitely until either his Mana runs out and the territory disappears, or when he dies. Most of the heat inside here comes from his already burning body because he is a Fire Wraith. That is only if he doesn't use any more fire spells which would further increase the heat.

Aamon poured Mana into his greatsword, which lit the sword into a flaming hunk of metal, further speeding the heating of the dome.

"Let's see if you can kill me before I kill you... Sorceress of the Highlands!"

"No one calls me that anymore, demon. "

"Spark, Ember, Fire, Flame, Blaze, Inferno. Become the very volcano, and set alight every living being! Be unleashed upon this world, Fire Storm!"

Large red circles formed on the ground heating up intensely and covering nearly the entire area inside the Dome. I calmly stepped to the side because I was standing on one of the red mark and didn't want to have hot flames spewed up my butt because I was still wearing a dress.

'Boom!' (30x)

He had concentrated about 30 blasts of fire pillars from the saint ranked spell 'Firestorm', and spewed forth dangerous amount of heat all in this tight dome. The air rapidly rises in temperature, and even the ground has started to melt. If that dragon girl was caught in here she would have died ages ago.

"No matter how strong your Mana Shield is, if this heat persists then even a defense of that level will be broken, unlike me who is naturally immune to heat! Eat this!"

He raised and swung his fire greatsword at me. I caught it again with my arm and then threw the sword back at him.

"Are you that stupid? You are right about the temperature rising until my Mana Shield won't be able to handle it, but it won't work because it takes a while for that heat to build up! You won't have enough time to build up the heat because I'm really strong you know?"

"Try me then. "

"Ok. Before your big flaming mouth starts talking again, let me give you one simple demonstration of a magic theory."

"What the hell are you talking about?!"

"Why, I'm talking about the properties of altering a spell's density! Black Spear!"

I chantlessly casted Black Spear and shot a spear of darkness at the demon.

"!!!"

'Boom!' 'Clank!' A sound of explosion and metal being hit was made.

He took the magic to his metal body, but that one only cracked his Mana Shield a bit.

"That was a mildly charged, normal unaltered form of Black Spear. Now, here I'll show you what happens to the spell if I condense it!"

I casted another Black Spear but I didn't shot it at him immediately. Instead, I closed my open palms while I focused on condensing the dark orb that is floating in front of the blue magic crest. I condensed it from a ball size orb into a pebble sized orb.

"This is what effect you can achieve by just modifying your magic, watch. Black Bullet."

'Bang!' I fired the spell. It came out with so much condensed velocity and power that shooting it caused a minor shockwave.

Aiming for his head, the bullet was shot and left a trail of darkness behind as it flew past. This is a much more focused and condensed form of Black Spear, perfect for those who have defenses that you can't get through easily.

Half of Aamon's head was blown right open, his flaming body leaks out fire from the half destroyed metal head. The bullet continued flying before hitting and completely shattering the dome. Finally it penetrated through the dome and continues flying into the buildings behind, destroying those as well.

"That is the theory of 'Conservation of Energy', you could've just used that to actually break my shield more easily.... Do give my regards to Baal in hell, I might be joining him sooner or later afterall."

"...No... Way..."

'Dhung!' The demon's body that is made almost entirely out of metal dropped on the ground and made a loud metallic sound like a bell, even making the ground tremor as he dropped.

(Chapter 36 end)