The Demon-Human War [2]

A huge dragon emerged from the magic circle created by Haruto. His size was in a league of its own. Purple light shone within his eyes as his obsidian black scales seemed to absorb all the sunlight which fell on them.

"Th...Th-that's the BLACK DRAGON!" a soldier from the Ronze army screamed in fear.

He was not the only one; all the soldiers were terrified whether it is in the Ronze army or the demon army. The creature which appeared before them was the purely evil dragon they hear about in stories when they were kids.

Now that same dragon was standing in front of them.

"Now what will you have to say? Stop this war or it'll be a massacre on both sides!" said Haruto. His voice fell in the ears of each and every soldier, and not a single one dared to take a step forward.

"YOU CAN'T STOP US BY THIS FILTHY LIZARD!" Mammon screamed as he opened his wings and dashed towards Haruto.

He held his Lance tightly and pointed it straight towards Valethar as he traveled towards him with uttermost speed.

Flames covered the head of his Lance when he cast a spell on it. He was planning to stab Valethar and went through him to reach Haruto.

"Now die!" he shouted as a smirk appeared on his face.

—Bang!

—Thack!

Valethar slapped Mammon by his tail when he entered his area of attack. Feeling the impact of Valethar's heavy and rock-solid tail on his whole body, Mammon spilled a large amount of blood from his mouth as he was thrown back in the direction he came from.

"Damn, he sure flew long," Haruto mocked him.

Mammon crashed landed and rolled on the ground before Beelzebub stopped him by blocking him from his leg.

"Cough! Cough!" Mammon coughed blood while he tightly held his stomach.

"You fool! Underestimating your opponent is the lowest of the lowest thing an honorable demon would ever do," said Beelzebub as he looked down on Mammon.

Valethar was not feared for nothing, his strength was on another level compared to the other dragons. He was like a god to dragons.

Mammon slowly stood up. "Who is that man who can summon this fearsome creature?" he said looking at Haruto.

One blow was all it took for him to come to a "fearsome creature" from a "filthy lizard".

"What should we do now? He could pose a problem to our plan," said Asmodeus. She narrowed her eyes as she looked at Haruto.

"He says he wants to stop this war, I think we should wait and see what the humans do," Beelzebub replied. Despite the unexpected turn of events, he was calm and thinking rationally.

His manner of speaking could be hard and abusive but it was only to provoke his opponents, otherwise, he was the most strong and smart among the three demon generals.

On the other side, the situation of the Ronze army was much worse. As humans, normal soldiers were so scared by the dragon that they wanted to flee. Everyone was waiting for the other person to leave first so they were not marked as the ones who decided to flee first.

While the frontlines of the Ronze army were different, those who knew the person in the blue cloak were regretting their own decisions.

"Isn't that Haruto?" said Mary, she was trying to confirm her doubts with Zen.

"I can't say for sure, but the clothes he's wearing are the same as his," Zen replied. He was sitting on his horse but his back was dripped with sweat.

"No I'm sure he's Haruto, I recognize this aura. It's faint but I can tell," Alicia said. She was able to tell that the person they are referring to is Haruto by his aura.

"If that's him then he is stopping the war just like he said, I think we made a big mistake don't you think?" said Mary, her question directed toward Zen.

"…"

Zen didn't say anything. He was just watching Haruto and the dragon on his side.

"Your majesty, what should we do now?" asked Rolls.

"We'll wait till the demons make any move."

"Wait! What's that?" said Alicia as she pointed towards something in the sky.

***

"My my, no one is attacking. Looks like we stopped the war huh," said Haruto while he looked around and scanned the battlefield.

[Wait! Don't keep your guard down! I'm sensing someone strong is coming our way.] Valethar said to Haruto using telepath.

"What do you mean someo—"

—Thlacck!

—A sound was heard like someone two trucks clashed with each other at their full speed.

Someone punched Valethar in the face. The force behind the punch was so much that the scales on Valethar's face cracked and broke as he was knocked to the ground.

The person who delivered the punch landed beside Valethar who was now lying on the ground. He was not unconscious but the damage he took was keeping him from standing up.

As Haruto sensed the presence of that person he clenched his fists as hard as he could. That person was on the right side of Haruto so he wasn't able to take a look at that person's face directly but this presence. He remembered it.

The person standing on his right was a girl, with light purple colored hair and crimson eyes; she was the demon lord Hanako.

She looked like a girl in her mid teen but in reality, she was more than 300 years old. She looked young because her aging stopped after she received the title of 'Demon Lord'.

All the emotions vanished from Haruto's face, the mask was covering it but one could tell from the body language that this was not the same person as the one he was a few moments ago.

<Notice – Warning! Emotional pressure increasing>

A voice of a woman was heard in Haruto's head.

He didn't move, he stood still in his position.

"I had to come because there were some disturbances in my plan, who would have thought that I'll found you here, Haruto," said Hanako and she stood in an attack position.

Haruto didn't reply.

"Sorry but you have to die," said Hanako as she dashed towards Haruto.

Her speed was so fast that one could lose track of her if blinked. She closed her fingers into a fist, the force she was putting behind that punch was even more than the one she put in the punch used on Valethar.

It was because even though she believed she was stronger than Haruto, she considered him a threat so she wanted this to end in one blow.

—Boom!

—A sound of the boom was heard by every soldier present there.

Shockwaves were released as Hanako's fist crashed into something. The impact has caused dust clouds to form around them so she wasn't able to see clearly what happened.

As the dust settled, she saw that Haruto was holding her fist. He blocked that punch —the punch more powerful than the one which knocked out Valethar, he blocked it with his right hand.

A confused look appeared on Hanako's face, she wasn't able to process how in the world he blocked her punch without even looking at her.

"So what if you blocked this! I'm going to kil—" before she could finish, she felt like flying.

Tightening his grip on Hanako's fist, Haruto rotated her on a 180-degree angle, he smashed her to the ground.

As she hit the ground, blood came out of her mouth and the ground beneath her crumbled and a crater formed.

Looking at Haruto's face, which was covered by a wooden mask she heard a voice.

"Calm down, kid," said Haruto. His voice was cold and expressionless.