Chapter 81

The Dark One’s Respite 11

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It was a calm and beautiful night.

The moon was up, the stars were shining bright and the screams of pain flourished through the cold breeze with the symphony of gunfire as the accompaniment.

The Theo-Juno couple rushed into the building unleashing a maelstrom of violence.

The Reformants supported them from a distance by taking out any enemies they could find.

Due to the effect of the tear gas bombing, most of the cultist didn't notice the danger looming upon them until it was too late.

Juno flew into a berserkers rage as she bisected one cultist after another in a display of excessive use of force. A trail of blood and guts followed Juno wherever she presented her dance of death.

Theo was a few meters behind her, calmly dispensing a barrage of bullets. He aimed for those who were recovering from the tear gas and wanted to attack Juno.

Like taking pictures on a beautiful day, Theo aimed and took a shot. Everytime he did so, a cultist graciously gifted with a new hole to breath in.

Thanks to the smaller area inside the building, the enemies had very little room maneuver. They were literally funneled into Theo’s sights and Juno’s blades.

“~Freude, schoner Gotterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium ~ Wir betrenten feuertrunken, Himmlishce, dein Heiligrum! ~ ” sang Juno as her blade separated a cultist’s upper and lower body.

“Ode to Joy in Aeserian? I didn't know you could speak that language” said Theo while smashing a cultist’s skull with a backfist to the face and shooting another one in the head with his Beretta ARX160.

“Hahaha. I cant. I just remember the words and sing them without being sure if I’m pronouncing them right.” replied Juno

“I understand. I can sing a few anime openings but my Zifanese is bad. Not to mention I don't even know what the words mean.”

“Huh... Now that I think about it, I haven't heard you sing. After this, let’s go karaoke and sing to our hearts content! I’ll slip in a little aphrodisiac into your drink and I can finally live my fantasy of you raping me in public! I can't wait!”

“Er… you know that you said that second part out loud right?”

“I know. I’m telling you about my sexual fantasy and hope that you’ll find it appealing enough to actually do it!”

“*sigh*.... You never break out of character, do you.”

“Nope! I have no shame in expressing my love for you!”

Juno and Theo’s back and forth killed whatever tension they had for the operation.

Thanks to the excessive use of tear gas before the start of the assault, the vast majority of the survivors were too debilitated to fight back. And those who could put up a fight were feeling the full brunt of the chemicals in their eyes.

The half blind, disoriented and confused enemies were literally moving targets for Theo’s unit to practice on.

While the strategy did exactly what it was meant to do, it turned the entire assault into a cakewalk.

Cakewalks were boring!

The duo moved through the building in a relaxed pace, slaughtering any brave souls that was brave and stupid enough to attack them.

As they confidently moved through building, a sound akin to an explosion violently rocked the earth. It was then followed by a beastial roar with the decibel way beyond what was normally possible from a living thing.

“Monster has appeared on the east side of the compound! 3 meters tall humanoid and has 4 arms. Looks like it has super stre- GET DOWN! SCATTER SCATTER!” said a panicked voice through the coms. “It’s throwing rocks at us! Request instructions! Request instructions! WATCH OUT!”

The coms was quickly bombarded with voices of panic and confusion. As expected of an inexperienced military unit.

“Hold your fire and focus on hunting down the stranglers. Me and Juno will handle this monster.” said Theo in a calm manner

“Yes my lord!” replied the Reformants as they ran for their lives.

“Tch. Cowardly filth. How dare they retreat when they cary Theo’s name! When I get my hands on them later, I’ll make sure that they’ll fear me more than the enemy!” said Juno who seethed with anger.

Theo squeezed her ass to calm her down.

“Relax Juno. Their cowardice was within expectations of a prototype model. We’ll work on that later. And besides, we finally have an enemy that will last a little bit longer.” said Theo

“~fufufufu~ You’re right! We can finally have some fun!” replied Juno with glee.

Thanks to the multitudes of spydrones flying around, the duo was quickly able to find the thing that would alleviate their boredom. It was on the roof where it ripped concrete slabs from the building and hurled it at the distant Reformants.

It was 3 meters tall, had red skin, 7 eyes and 4 arms.

“Is that a ‘Demon Enchantment’?” asked Theo

“Yes it is. How do you know about it?” replied Juno

“I saw Nichola make a couple of these a few times back home. They weren't as sloppily made as this one though.”

“You really can't expect a bunch of amateurs to match a master at her craft.”

Demon Enchantment was the art of allowing a full fledged demon to possess a person’s body. For a massive boost in strength, the price was the sanity and soul of the possessed one.

Fortunately, their weakness was fairly straight forward. While they do have regeneration abilities, the demon’s unstable existence in this plane greatly reduces it.

Quite simply, keep hitting it until it stops twitching.

The duo was on the floor beneath the demon.

Thanks to it ripping the roof for stuff to throw, there was a massive hole that gave Theo a clear line of sight.

“Let’s start Juno.” said Theo

“Yes my lord!” replied Juno as she climb the roof and hid behind one of the roof exhausts.

Theo open fired from the second floor. His shots struck true as the demon’s face exploded in blood.

The demon roared in agony as it used its arms to shield its face.

Eventually, it spotted Theo and began throwing concrete slabs at him.

Theo jumped out of the way and began running around. He didn't bother using cover because anything he hid behind was instantly destroyed by the demon’s sheer destructive throwing power.

Unfortunately for the monster, Theo’s shots were still accurate enough to keep hitting the demon’s face at long range despite firing on the move. This resulted in the demon’s reduced accuracy.

A few second of this one sided shooting gallery eventually frustrated the demon. It jumped off its highground and charged at Theo with bestial fury.

This was exactly what Juno was waiting for.

As the demon ran past her hiding position, Juno lept out and aimed for the monster’s neck for a fatal ambush.

Unfortunately, the demon noticed Juno at the very last second.

The result was that the demon got to keep its neck while one of its arms became unusable

The demon was about to change target to Juno, but shower of led forced it to stop on its tracks.

Juno took this opportunity to lob all of her grenades at the demon as she retreated.

The demon howled in agony as 4 frag grenades tore through its flesh.

Theo decided to chime in and threw both of his pineapples as well.

And in a display of teamwork, Juno charged in a second later and cleaved one of the demon’s legs, forcing the best to take a knee.

Juno unleashed a hailstorm of slashes at the downed demon before ducking underneath a powerful backfist.

Juno danced around the demon like a bloody ballerina. Each of her graceful movement inflicted painful harm to the demon as the surroundings was covered in blood splatter flowers.

The demon swung in desperation to remove Juno from the face of existence, but to no avail

While the demon was distracted with Juno, Theo was successfully able to approach unseen.

By the time the demon noticed Theo, it took an archon battery powered uppercut right in the kisser.

It was blasted straight through the roof and landed painfully outside the building.

The only reason the demon didnt die was because it sacrificed another of its arms to mitigate the force of the punch

For the first time since the start of their battle, absolute terror could easily be recognized in the face of the demon.

He, who was praised as a god by the Man Eater cultists, felt a very human shiver go up and down its spine.

Despite its advantages in strength, speed and endurance that has triumphed against hundreds of foolish individuals that had fought him in the past, the duo facing him now was superior to him for some reason.

Whatever ego the demon had built up during his many decades of existence was completely destroyed in mere minutes.

Pathetic as it might be, the demon ran away…. Or at least he tried too.

Unfortunately, his body was beaten to a bloody pulp and the regeneration couldnt keep up.

One of his legs was a mangled mess, effectively killing his chances of ‘running’ away.

2 of his extra limbs hanged lifelessly.

With this in mind, the demon crawled as fast as he could to any direction away from the duo.

Naturally, there was no way the 2 would let such an entertaining prey to escape.

Theo crashed through a window with Juno following behind.

The two charged like hungry sharks desperate for their next meal

Theo slowed down and began firing on the move while Juno surged forward as if she was possessed by berserkers rage.

Out of fear, the demon threw whatever he could get his hand on at the approaching enemy.

Juno aborted her charge and went to the side for a flanking maneuver.

On the other hand, Theo completely sacrificed accuracy and ran forward with all of his might.

This confused the demon for a bit before he decided to focus on Theo who was closer.

Theo skillfully dodged whatever was thrown at him.

After he was able to get to a certain distance, Theo fired his grappling gun somewhere near the demon while dodging a kitchen sink that was thrown at him.

The grappling gun violently dragged Theo through the ground. If it wasn't for the power armor, Theo skin would have been shredded from his skeleton.

Theo let go of his grappling gun just before he entered the demon’s melee range. And in one fluid motion, he everything near the demon into hell with his Omni Directional Flamethrower.

The demon roared in agony as his body was incinerated by the hellfire.

The demon used a nearby refrigerator as a club and launched himself at Theo with his good leg. He swung desperately, but he couldnt see through the wall of flame that mercilessly charred his body.

A few seconds later, the flames stopped.

The demon could finally see Theo.

Unfortunately, this was the last thing the demon saw as Juno came in from behind and separated his head from his neck.

And thus ended the first of many many battles Theo’s group would wage within the scrapyard of Vermillion City.