A Nexus Devil

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Knight pieces weren't known for their strength and Jake, who naturally had more reserves, was actually managing to push the Stray devil back.

However, the Stray devil had two sword arms for a reason as it raised its left hand and tried to swipe at Jake from the side.

Jake jumped back quickly to dodge the blow as it just barely managed to slice through his robes. "Not bad, kid," the Stray taunted, "but I could tell from that one clash you're clearly not a swordsman."

Once again, the Stray charged forward head first, this time swinging both of its arms at once from the left and right, trying to bisect Jake as if with a giant pair of scissors.

Jake formed spell circles in both of his hands as he quickly fired multiple ice spears in rapid succession at the charging devil. The devil was fast though, and it reacted as it swung its arms up and started knocking the spears out of the air.

Its momentum barely slowed down as it was almost on Jake, ready to swing at him again!

"Let's see if you're so fast when you're freezing," Jake said as he took a page right out of Sarah Fall's book and instead of firing spears from both of his magic circles, blasted an icy cold wind.

The icy wind was impossible to block with his swords and the Stray devil was charging right into it! It tried to dodge out of the way but the freezing wave still temporarily engulfed its entire body.

The Stray immediately started to slow down as its muscles seized up from the sudden near hypothermic state it found its body in!

"Geh! Damn you!" the Stray shouted out angrily as it was now shivering from the icy cold. "That's some pretty decent ice magic you have there, but it's not going to stop me from getting to my meal."

The Stray knight, realizing that maybe Jake was too much for it to handle after all, tried to run around him to get to his initial targets… Misla and Sairog!

Seeing the Stray devil trying to slip past him angered Jake. He felt his power inside him rise up as he fired a blast of ice straight at the stone ground beneath him. The ground quickly froze over and the ice spread to cover almost the entire floor of the chamber!

The Stray knight, moving at a high speed, now found that the ground underneath it had turned to ice. It immediately slipped and fell, sliding along the icy floor and slamming into a wall. Jake didn't give it any time to recover.

His spell circles flared back to life once again and he immediately fired another barrage of ice spears at the now collapsed Stray devil slipping along on the floor.

With its hooved feet, the Stray found that it couldn't form any traction on the icy ground at all, there was no way it could avoid the incoming spears.

Two spears immediately slammed through the upper thighs of the Stray, causing it to scream out in pain, while the third spear lodged right in its gut. The Stray was still alive but it wasn't moving anywhere anytime soon…

With the battle won, Jake vanished all the ice from the ground so he and everyone else could now move without slipping themselves.

"That was well fought, young man. Might I have your name?" Misla asked.

"No problem," Jake replied with a smile, "I'm Jake." He chose to withhold his last name. Not that it particularly mattered. The Gremory family's red hair was pretty iconic in the Underworld.

Not that Misla chose to comment about it. She figured if Jake didn't want to say his last name then it wasn't her place to ask. He did just sort of risk his life to protect them after all, even if it wasn't necessary.

Misla walked over to the Stray devil collapsed on the floor with three ice spears lodged in it. She was extremely angry that someone was arrogant enough to send an assassin after her and her son!

Her demonic power flared around her and Jake was actually shocked by how strong she really was. She easily felt like she was ten times stronger than him!

"Now then, you and I are going to have a small chat," Misla declared to the Stray. And then she started furiously whispering to it, too quietly for anyone else to make out.

Jake was still reeling from how much power the seemingly docile woman had though. He wondered to himself if this is what ultimate class felt like?- And then he realized that she didn't actually need his help in the first place.

He turned and gave Luna a small glare and she just winked at him in return. "You needed the combat experience, Jake. Plus doesn't it feel nice that you just defeated a being that was on the same power level as the dragon you lost to in the first challenge?"

When she said that last part, Jake suddenly felt elated. He really had gotten stronger! He wished he could fight that stupid dragon again and give it a solid thrashing!

There was a flare of magical power in the room and Jake turned to see that Misla had blasted the Stray to dust. She had apparently finished her interrogation with it.

"Well then," she spoke up, "I have some urgent business to attend to back in the Underworld. Come along, Sairog, we have to go now." Sairog, who had had stars in his eyes the entire time as he witnessed an epic battle for the first time in his life, wanted to be that strong one day, just like Jake!

He ran up to his mother and took her hand as the two of them headed back to Salazar's office to return home via the summoning circle on the ground.

"Bye, Luna!" Sairog called with a wave. "I promise i'll get super strong and help out Jake in the future!"

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