Alex Krueger and the Demon King

Minutes before that happened, Alex had found himself in a small Demon city that had been constructed rather quickly by the Demons, he could tell that. Although what was strange was that nobody was there, it looked like it had been abandoned just minutes ago. Not every Demon was a soldier so it was weird.

But then, Alex got his guard up again when a large figure had jumped and landed right in front of him. The figure was a tall male with dark red hair, wearing black armor including a golden sword in his right hand and a black shield in his left with the symbol of the Demons, a pair of fangs. The most apparent feature was a large horn sticking from his left temple.

"Ahh, so glad you could make it!" Of course, this was the Demon King Duron.

"You still hold a grudge for my Grand father killing yours." Alex asked.

"You know I do!" They both took fighting stances and it was as if they were waiting for one of them to make the first move. Duron got impatient after a while and charged in, striking his golden sword out but it was stopped by the fangs of a wolf. Alex had activated the armor with his own Pure Magic instead of borrowing from the others which was not something he could do in this particular situation.

Duron made a hammer fist and struck down at the wolf holding hard on his weapon but it changed into a thick liquid, making him smash and destroy the ground below instead. The Wolf appeared behind the Demon King and formed numerous shards of the liquid it was made of out of its mouth, however, Duron began deflecting all of them with his golden sword, not allowing a single one to touch him. This left him open for an attack from another side as Alex.

The Krueger Family Leader came with a large fist and punched the Demon King at the side of his ribs. At that time too, the wolf returned to Alex's chest. A bit of blood dripped out from Duron's mouth and he smirked, blocking another fist from Alex with his shield and shifted back.

Unfortunately for Alex, the Demon King's chestplate took most of the punch for him.

*Snap

As Duron snapped his fingers, three Demon Soldiers came out of apparently nowhere and threw out their weapons at Alex but his Wolf armor changed into a shield that blocked them all of and gave each one of them a punch to the head one after the other, killing them all with one hit. Alex's Boots illuminated and a red burst of energy came from them and within seconds, he cleared the distance between himself and Duron and gave the King a straight kick to the head.

His head was kicked off and rolled on the floor but there was no blood until his entire body just disappeared. A Clone Skill, he thought. He looked around for the real one but had no idea who it was as more came at him.

One struck at him with their golden sword while another performed a sweeping kick from below. Alex jumped in the air, his gauntlets became sharp and let out blades that he used to cut off the arm of the first Demon before it disappeared while smashing down on the other Demon below using the red energy and destroyed the other.

'So glad I switched to Alice's type of gauntlet.' Using a mix of the wolf, his gauntlets and his boots, he killed off the Demons one by one til' they were none left. He looked up to see the Demon King standing atop a building with another sword made of fire in his other hand and two other hands he grew from the side of his torso.

Alex stared at him eye to eye, "At least we sent enough animals and plant life down there so you wouldn't die of starvation!!" He shouted.

"Don't take credit for that. That was the Spair's doing, not yours!" Duron jumped down from below and slashed his sword across the air, creating small ripples that immediately became large waves of fire. Alex dodged one then another, then almost at the speed of sound, his wolf chestplate morphed into an entire suit around his body and he opened up a kind of black hole with his hands that was a borrowed energy from one of his soldiers. One that could absorb attacks which he used to stop the rest of the attacks coming at him.

Duron stopped using the long range attacks and got in close with Alex, striking his sword that was met with a sword that had been formed by his opponent. The two engaged in a fierce duel that was creating blast waves, causing the crumbling of what looked like a powerful building down to the ground like nothing. With each strike, destruction was imposed on a structure in the Demon town which was somewhat ironic because it had just been built and their duel had just begun.

Duron being the superior swordsman was able to hit Alex's sword into the air but the wolf turned along his arm and grabbed a hold of the sword with its fangs, returning it to his arm and he was able to catch the Demon King by surprise by turning and hitting his sword to the side. 'I planned on doing that anyway.' Alex threw another strike but Duron moved back and formed a clone in his place that took the attack for him.

"Ha!!" Duron punched the ground hard with his four arms, creating a crack in it with the intention of pulling Alex into it but he jumped in the air on time and then sent out spike attacks made out of a sliver liquid but Duron formed his flaming sword again and used his flame waves to counter the attacks sent at him.

Alex took time to create a blast of the liquid which had changed to acid at him but Duron performed an amazing technique, using his Shield to block the liquid then used his sword to deflect the acid blast back at his opponent. He tried using the sword in his hand to block the attack but it melted through his sword and pushed him back, damaging part of his chestplate which was already slowly repairing itself. It was at Stage 12 after all which was the highest out of the rest of his armor which were Stage 11 just like the others.

Duron threw out his shield at the Leader while he was still down but he rolled to the side, avoiding it by a hair's length. However, the shield uprooted itself from where it had crashed to and zoomed at its target again. Alex put his arms together in a shielding position and a white barrier appeared around him, it was Pure Magic. The Shield kept spinning and spinning ridiculously at him.

"Enough!" Alex activated his gauntlets, making the blades extra large and slicing the Shield away from him and far out into the forest, coincidentally slashing through a Stage 10 Rhinoceros-type Drach in one hit which went to show what a powerful shield it was and how much effort the Leader had to put in striking it away, 'He doesn't even use the shield to block attacks.'

Clones of Duron were sent at him each with their own two swords coming from different sides at him all at once. Alex's boots became a pinkish color as they were being boosted by his Pure Magic, a rare ability that he was capable of. Using it, he released a short powerful burst of energy that took out all the Demons at once. Alex sprinted in a single move and arrived at where Duron was who looked like he was catching his breath after using so many of his powers consecutively and the Leader used that opportunity to strike.

He struck out his sword and blood spilt but it was his blood that had been drawn, not the Demon King.

*Inhale

Alex turned his neck around slowly and could see a golden sword being held by a clone of Duron behind him, the one in the real Demon King's arm disappearing. When Duron made clones, they were weaker than him and that included the equipment they wore so the clone must have been given the real one in order to strike Alex when he thought he had the upper hand. The clone flipped Alex over the air and he fell on the ground, the sword being handed over to the real Demon King and the clone disappearing as well.

Blood came running fast out of Alex's body and was slowly making a small pool over the floor, adding to the wreckage they had caused that made it look like war between hundreds of soldiers took place but it was technically only two people.

"Smart!" Alex remarked even in the situation he was in, "But you forget, Combination Casting: Skin Bond!"

Orange magic glowed for a second on his wound but after a few tries, it just kept getting dimmer and dimmer.

Duron cackled, "I laced that sword with demon magic especially for you, you're not gonna heal."

Even in the state he was in, Alex was able to pull himself up and threw a box into the sky before he fell down unconscious, the box spelling out 'S.O.S'.