True Deity

The young female Cleric shudders as she hears noises coming from about the cliff where that Demon in human skin Patches had been waiting. She looks up and opens her eyes wide, something light and bright was becoming visible from below the cliff, even from down here she can see the bald man Patches talking to two people, one in shiny silver armour with Blonde hair and the other wearing a strange wispy looking cloak atop foreign looking armour, this is only confirmed by the persons pale white hair that burns into her vision. The thing that causes her to strain her eyes however is the ball of glowing light hovering above the white haired man, "The Sun?" she mumbles curiously while shielding her eyes... No, it must be something else.

Suddenly without warning the white haired man kicked Patches into the pit she herself had been thrown in. He lands not far from her, somehow unhurt the man gets up while laughing and starts taunting the white haired man, that was a mistake she thought as the man leapt from the cliff and onto Patches, crushing his body while simultaneously stabbing his heart. The man... Reima? She vaguely recalls his name seems to whisper into Patches ear before he finally dies.

This.. This is the light, her light in the darkness that he spoke of, not only had he avenged her companions but he'd come to save her. Her chest feels tight as her heart beats furiously, her throat feeling hoarse despite not speaking for however long she'd been down here. This feeling, it's a sign.

She approaches the man from the darkness, becoming illuminated by the mans mini-sun before she drops onto her knees and starts praying. "Saviour! This humble servant dedicates her all to you!"

Reima had just killed that piece of trash Patches when a familiar person in dirty white tattered robes approaches and starts praying to him... What did he do this time? "Calm down, Rhea right? You're Ok now, I won't let anything happen to you." he tries to appease her but his words only seem to make her more fanatical.

It's only when she refers to him as the "True God" that he prevents her from continuing. "Alright, stop right there, I'm not a god, nor am I someone you should be worshipping."

Rhea shakes her head, "A being such as yourself humbling themselves to me? Please don't degrade yourself like that Lord! I've seen the folly in my ways, those false deities with their honeyed words will no longer sway me from the true path!"

Solaire shouts from above, "My friend, you're taking a while... Should I jump down and assist you?"

Reima "No, just wait there!" he shouts, hoping Solaire wouldn't find out about his new "Servant"... He sends Rhea a stern look, "If you respect me at all you will cease referring to me as God, Lord, Master or anything that elevates me above the common man... Do you understand?"

Rhea has a confused look for a moment before a look of realisation flashes on her face. She smiles and nods at him, Reima isn't really sure she'd actually understood him but as long as she doesn't give Solaire some ammunition it should be fine.

Reima "Alright, I'm going to take you up to my friend before I take you somewhere safe." he says, however before he can teleport them away Rhea speaks up. "Lo-Sir Reima, my two companions have gone hollow down here... Could you perhaps lay them to rest?"...

Aren't they undead? Reima mentally comments, they'd just come straight back to life even if he did kill them... He shrugs, whatever if it makes her feel better then he might as well do it.

He shouts to Solaire to wait for a moment while he deals with something before heading through a tight rocky formation, followed by Rhea who seems very nervous at being here. The floor shudder suddenly causing Reima to back up, only for a large disgusting formation of skeletons to burst from the floor, he questions the sanity of whatever created this abomination as he easily cleaves through the base of it with his Silver sword. He hears someone gasp behind him, glancing at Rhea he sees her looking at him with mouth agape, "How did you slay it? All of the creatures here are immortal aren't they?"

Reima looks at her weirdly, how did they get down here without Divine weapons? "See this sword?" he says gesturing towards his Silver sword, she nods and he continues, "This is Divinely enchanted to permanently kill the undead, it's practically mandatory for anyone venturing down here." he says giving her a pointed look.

Rhea looks shocked, "We were never told that... The church should have known, unless... They lied?"

Reima shrugs, "It doesn't surprise me, most religions lie to their worshippers anyway... I mean 300 virgins? Give me a break." he mumbles.

They continue moving until they find two men, dressed in the same armour as Petrus. Reima recognises them as Vince and Nico, unfortunately their faces look like beef jerky and they immediately start sprinting towards Reima and Rhea.

He steps in-front of the Female Cleric to block their advance and parries the heavy mace swung towards his head, once the strike of Vince was blocked he kicks Nico in the face, causing him to fall backwards due to the heavy impact. While Vince is apparently still recovering from the hard parry Reima flicks his sword, causing deep red lines to form, one below the mans knee on his tendon and the other on his jugular. Blood spurts out like a pressure hose as he drops to the ground like a sack of potato's, meanwhile Nico quickly gets to his feet, disregarding the broken nose and approaches Reima, only to be stopped when Rhea jumps on his back while shouting, "You will not touch my Lord!"

The hollowed Nico is as surprised as Reima is to the young girls sudden aggression and falters enough for Reima to deliver a swift stab to his heart, killing him almost instantly.

Reima looks at the physically and mentally exhausted woman, "Did I do well your holiness?" she mutters weakly from the ground. He can only sigh and nod, "Yeah, you did."