บท 10: Chapter 9 - Rematch

"To think that wild griffins are more common in the human world than in the underworld," I could barely keep my sanity from rushing in and ripping off her head the instant she opened her mouth, if it weren't for the small hands that were clinging to one of my front paws. "SKREEEEAAAH," a loud scream was enough for the girl to understand and, letting go of my paw, she shouted to the crowd so that they began to run towards the exit of the town, led by the mother and her daughter.

"Oh? Trying to escape? I'm sorry, but it won't be possible," raising her hand and with a cold voice she ordered the other demons. "Let not even one inferior trash remain." After that order, all the demons that had emerged from those magic circles that easily exceeded a hundred units let out a battle cry with a funny tone and then opened their wings, clenched their weapons and launched themselves to massacre all the humans. "RAAAAAAAWK!", also letting out a battle cry, I launched myself at the nearest wave of enemies to block their weapons with my claws, then with my tail to send them flying. Opening my wings, I flapped my wings strongly at the next wave of enemies, taking them by surprise to then tear them apart and pierce others' hearts with my stings.

"It's incredible that a wild griffin protects humans and even more so that it can face several of my soldiers... unless..." I could feel his sharp gaze as he fought his soldiers. "Are you that griffin that killed my subordinates a month ago?", when his words reached my ears, I was in shock for a few moments and then after a sword almost cut my throat I focused on the battle again.

'A month, I was unconscious for a whole month, I can't believe it'; stopping a sword with my beak, I destroyed him and then crushed his head and, opening my wings, retreated a few meters. "I guess you must have survived my attack back then, plus my normal soldiers don't seem to hurt you." With a raised hand, ten magic circles appeared and from them came out some demons with a higher grade armor unlike the others.

"Stop and let them take care of it," after that, the demons' attacks ceased and then retreated and with that the ten demons pounced on me. Clash, I was barely able to block the swords of three demons with my claws and my beak, and the attack of the other seven I managed to dodge with difficulty, getting them to only cut some of my feathers and fur. Opening my wings suddenly and with a strong flap, I caused a gust of wind that made the ten demons have to close their eyes, which I took advantage of.

Kraaang, Shriiink

With a disgusting sound I pierced the hearts of three demons with my claws and my beak; with a quick maneuver I removed my limbs from the bodies and taking one with my tail I ripped off its head, spitting the remains to the other six. I flew into the skyand with enough height I landed in a dive crushing two others.

Lowering my head, I dodged the slash of a sword and then rolled on the ground, avoiding several offensive attack spells and with a jump I lunged at one who managed to avoid my claws with his sword to fall both to the ground and begin to destroy both the armor and his body with my claws mercilessly…

"I've seen enough," words full of authority echoed through the battlefield, just when one of the demons was about to cut off one of my wings. "Go back to the underworld, I've had enough with seven of you dying pathetically." Magic circles appeared beneath them and with flashes they disappeared in an instant. "Now you, I don't know how you survived, but this time you won't be so lucky," raising her arm, a huge fireball appeared in the palm of her hand. "Die."

I looked at the mini sun in silence, remembering that that attack was powerful enough to leave me on the verge of death and with my limbs incinerated. "RAAAAAAAWK!", with a smile I ran towards the huge fireball resembling a mini sun. "To think that you have suicidal tendencies, I guess you want to die at the hands of the mighty Phoenix," I felt the heat start to run through my body, and even my feathers started to burn as I got closer to the mini sun and with force I jumped towards it. "Well, it's over, it would have been more fun if I had put more enduran… huh?"

Stab

A huge obsidian-black figure emerged from the mini sun and pierced the Phoenix Demon's stomach with a sharp object, then fell to the ground and was thrown against one of the stone houses with enormous force. "Rrrraaaarrr!" A powerful roar echoed throughout the town. Rising from the rocks destroyed by the impact, the Phoenix Demon looked in shock at that creature that had emerged from the mini sun while the hole in its chest was easily closed by an orange flame. "By Lucifer-sama, those things had not become extinct, rather, that griffin transformed into that?" Recomposing his shock, he narrowed his eyes. "But, its appearance is completely different."

Before him was a huge creature that, as he said, should have already become extinct a long, long time ago, a prehistoric beast. The size of the creature exceeded three meters; He had obsidian-black skin accompanied by magma-red lines resembling cracks. He had an imposing and muscular body, with four powerful legs, like living columns that support his enormous weight. Three long horns protruded from his skull, two on his forehead and a short one on his nose, which shone reddish like molten steel. In addition to having a large "shield" or bone plate that extends behind his head, something like a protection around his neck. His tail, thick and heavy, moves behind him, while giving him a look with murderous intentions.

"Time for the second round," with a manic smile, I kicked the ground with one of my front paws and charged at him. Taking out his wings of fire, he easily dodged my horns, but was hit by my tail, being sent flying through the air. "Dirty, shape-shifter, die at once," stretching his hand towards me, a magic circus appeared in the palm of his hand and from it came an immense flame of fire; Consequently, a small beam of blue energy ran through my body and then quickly died out. "No, it's still too early."

Planting my legs firmly on the ground, I took the attack head-on without flinching with the bone plate on my head. "Damn, I still feel the heat coming from their flames, even if I reinforce my skin with the same material that volcanic snail shells have." Staying firm in my position, I endured the heat that began to run through my body. "Damn it, just die!" I felt the flames getting more intense and hotter after I screamed. Little by little I started; My body began to retreat because of the power of the flames…

"I have no choice, it's risky, but I have to do it," quickly retreating, I took a little distance before changing shape as quickly as possible into a salamander, making the entire flame pass over me, while my skin protected me from the heat and hid me under the ground. "Mmm, did it disappear or did I incinerate it to ashes?" A few minutes after I shrank, the crazy Phoenix demon continued to use his flame incessantly until he got bored and began to walk around the place where his flame had devastated, looking for some sign that would give him a clue of my location.

"Tch, there's a reason they call it a sacred beast, damn monster." The closer he got, I tried not to move a single muscle so he wouldn't feel my presence. "Even if it disgusts me, let's see if your immortality is the same as in the stories, Phoenix." When he was on top of me, I prepared my legs and jumped out of the ground to transform back into that triceraptos with reinforced skin. "What?!" He barely had time to scream when I swallowed half of his body leaving only the torso and then bit hard and with a strong movement of his head to tear him apart throwing the upper half against the ground making it bounce several times until it crashed against a stone house.

"Let's see what your immortality is capable of," opening my mouth and with great willpower I swallowed the lower half that I had torn off the Phoenix demon. "You're a bastard!" An immense orange flame ran through the damage of his body and, in just a few seconds, his lower half was restored, and with a snap of his fingers, his newly restored naked body was covered by high quality clothing.

"I've had enough of a tasteless creature like you, perish like the trash you are!", a huge magic circle appeared in the palm of his hand and from it, an immense amount of fire came out; it was so much that his previous flare looked like a lighter against a flamethrower. "Shit, it seems he was just messing with me", I positioned myself as before ready to receive the attack, but this time a blue energy began to run through my body and the red lines that ran through my body turned blue. "I guess it's not time to use my trump card either." Unconsciously, an amused smile adorns my face.

"Rrrraaaarrr!", letting out a loud roar, blue energy began to form around my horns until it formed a huge ball of blue electricity. "I hope you like my, Lightning Strike!", I stood up on my two hind legs and forcefully lowered my head, causing the huge ball of energy to form a torrential amount of electricity almost the same amount of fire that the Phoenix released.

Burst!

Both energies collided with such force, that it caused a strong explosion that made the ground shake at our feet. "Shit, I know I should take this seriously, but, this is very exciting!", the adrenaline only increased more and more, causing the torrential amount of electricity to increase and cause that. "Damn bastard, trying to face the Phoenix, the immortal bird, you deserve to be incinerated!". Just as my torrential amount of electricity increased, the flare will increase, but unlike mine, his increased almost three times as much as mine.

"Now, what should I ha-", my words were cut off when out of nowhere, the night sky lit up with a white light and from it, several white circles appeared in the sky and from them appeared humanoid beings with white wings. "The angels have arrived."

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Well, people: here's another chapter and more on developing MC skills. Also at the request of a reader, this time I won't do everything with curved letters; Leave me in the comments if you like it like this or prefer it curved. Until the next chapter, see you, take care.

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