Madness (1).

Without waiting for someone to protect him, Loki instinctively activated his Beyonder ability to steal space and vanished from the spot he was standing on. Appearing fifty meters behind himself.

That turned out to be an important thing to do because as soon as he teleported the ground underneath him erupted into an explosion.

Walls of lava erupted from underneath the spot and created a tight box of molten fire that rained hell inside it.

The altar where Loki had performed the ritual to gain Salazar's help was obliterated.

'I hope that doesn't cause him to be unsummoned.'

Loki licked his dry lips as he paid full attention to everything that was happening.

The portal to the abyss was still open but there were no devils inside it.

And this scared him.

Nicholas and Prenelle were doing their best to fell the absurd eldritch tree that was growing in front of them while simultaneously helping Salazar keep 'Her' influence out of the camp, but it clearly wasn't working.

In the group of rebels, Loki spotted a surprising candidate who was awake and kicking. Luna.

She was fighting off a group of devils that were moving towards the hostages by moving her hands and causing thick sprawling vines to emerge from the ground as she entangled them all with it.

A few of her vines were also helping Nicolas and Prenelle pull down the tree, but that didn't do much work given Nicolas and Prenelle were angels.

The rest of the devils were swimming through shadows, Loki stopped his instinct to teleport away since he knew there was no hiding from them anywhere inside the barrier. 

So as his brain fired in search of a plan to defeat them Loki spent time standing rooted right at the spot he'd been.

And it wasn't a surprise to him when he suddenly spotted an eye appearing behind his head and five more right underneath his feet.

But instead of panicking, Loki threw down the miniature roots he was holding.

Almost instantly, as soon as the roots left Loki's hands they grew back to their monstrous size, piercing right into the creatures that were looking to drag him into the abyss.

The roots grew a large forest of trees and impaled all the devils around him, pinning them to the ground, and causing some of them to explode in a showery flood of flesh and blood.

Loki extended his hands towards the roots and activated his ability to steal once again.

He hoped the get back the roots so that he could defend himself and attack with it once again.

But to his luck or misfortune, the theft failed.

With nothing left in his hands to put up a fight, Loki immediately chose to retreat. He quickly teleported to the top of a tent, looking at the entire situation to see exactly how he could help everyone get out of it, or at the very least himself.

'I need to fell that damn tree somehow!!!'

'But how!?'

Loki ducked on instinct as he dodged the swipe from a devil that had crawled out of an abyss portal that opened beside his head. But he only barely dodged it since he could see all around himself by remaking the scene around him using light and shadows.

But the danger wasn't over yet.

"DEATH."

Almost instantly as he heard the word, Loki's blood started to freeze. Loki felt his head suddenly become heavy as he felt everything in his body dying.

But he acted quickly.

Loki flicked his hand!

This time Loki wanted to steal away all the 'sick' cells in his body, and since he knew extremely well about his own body, Loki was able to target precisely what he wanted. He didn't need to rely on luck.

With a single twist of his hand, Loki pulled out all the blood inside his body that had started to clot and rot and tossed it to oblivion.

This left him low on blood, but Loki could do nothing else. Since his attention was already on the next devil that had already opened its mouth to speak in the language of foulness.

It wanted to curse Loki, curse him so that his blood would clot and he'd die.

But before the devil even got a single word out of his mouth, Loki shot backwards like a bullet and headbutted its throat. Crushing it with a satisfying *crunch*.

Teleporting once again, Loki realised he could only move around a few more minutes. The continuous usage of his beyonder abilities along with performing so many rituals continuously had left him lacking in the spirituality department while his most recent brush with death required him to get checked by a professional.

But that wasn't the only thing worrying him.

The constant nagging screams and curses that rang throughout the camp, ones he had pushed to the back of his head, ones that had already started to mutate all the people who had collapsed or fainted, continuously fought with his body, trying their best to induce corruption into him.

His eyes quickly scanned around until he saw Nicholas and Prenelle through the forest of mammalian trees, that he'd suddenly caused to spawn by tossing the root at the ground, tugging on the big tree that had merged with the random death eater woman, attempting to break it while it fixed itself into the ground even without roots using fleshy organelles to stay rooted.

Loki's eyes fell on the woman who was absorbed in it and then an idea struck him.

'That! I can just do that! I just need to get rid of her and then all this will go away? I think?'

A glimmer shone in Loki's eyes as he bent low and began to rush towards the portal.

He couldn't simply teleport around to escape the devils since he wanted to save his spirituality and the main tree was far out of his range or fifty meters, but not defending himself wasn't an option.

And so Loki pulled out his wand and flicked out spells that would take the bare minimum from him.

As Loki rushed through the area where he had replanted the roots, he found them attacking him at every turn. They grew out suddenly, at awkward angles like fractals, keeping him on his toes to make sure he dodged every single one of them.

Loki didn't want to risk even a single scratch or cut from them.

Suffering from being implanted by the will of a god once, was enough a lesson for him to make sure he wouldn't let it happen again, ever again.

Loki used Diffindo once or twice before resorting to casting a levitation charm on himself before he flicked his wand to create a rope that he could use to swing around like a spider.

The forest of trees which was initially scary because of its number, was suddenly his stepping stone as he swung around at a high speed while rushing towards his goal, the main tree.

But just as Loki was getting overconfident, one of the tree branches that his rope was attached to, suddenly flicked like a whip and completely changed his trajectory.

Throwing him like a ship that had come too close to shore, throwing him at a wall of spikes that would've left him riddled with holes.

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