I followed the Wendigo, closing the gap with every second. It realized there was no escape from me and turned, preparing for a fight. I am a lot more powerful in this state, but the demons also realized I am not one of them, whereas the Wendigo is. Multiple presences started closing in; well, that was exactly what I expected to happen.
I grabbed the minds of a few demons and started taking their energy—the only thing these weak imbeciles were useful for. This is the time to show who is here a GOD.
I started turning my soul’s body into full, dark soul-fire combined with ashes and crackling energy. My body transformed into a horned being with claws and fangs. I looked at the army of demons standing around me.
Soon, a Demon Lord gave the signal to attack, and hundreds of demons started flowing out of the shadows. I threw my mind onto the first horde and took all of their life force, exterminating about fifty of them, but it didn't faze the others. They kept coming.
When they were around ten meters away from me, I summoned my dark sword and rushed to the fight, cutting the first red-scaled demon in half. Here, the mind is the energy; there is no tiring of the body because all movements are controlled by the spirit that created it. The mind can.
When I woke from my thoughts, I turned to the next closest demon above me. It swung its claws at me, but I forced its fingers to twist backwards and cut off its head while it screamed, followed by burning the next five of them on my right to nothing. The ones that were previously behind me already caught up, so I turned around. There was no emotion on my face.
In the next second, ten copies of me appeared—minions, you could call them—and each one rushed toward a different group of demons:
- One fought a group of winged demons.
- The second was taking on big, fat, red-skinned brutes.
- The third took a group of black, slug-looking demons.
- Three others fought armored, black-scaled demons.
The last four I commanded to keep the demons away from me as the Wendigo started closing in. I looked at the Demon Lord. He was not scared; he looked like he was cheering for me to win, as it would benefit him. He probably wanted to kill me afterward, consuming all I took from them while bathing in glory as a merciful lord who protects his subjects. I didn't care.
I started walking toward the Wendigo with a deep smile on my terrifying face. The Wendigo was uneasy when he saw me this confident, but he was in front of one of the Demon Lords. He cannot look weak; he will not BE weak. If he ever wanted to live in the castle of one of the Demon Lords set on the islands in Hell—where the lower they are submerged, the stronger the evil and the closer they are to their king at the bottom—he had to fight.
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The Wendigo called upon the last few armored demons that were not occupied to help him. When they reached me, he pierced the darkness towards me with his poisonous claws. I dodged to the side and kneed him powerfully to his stomach, stunning him temporarily. I looked at the shocked demons, waiting...
All of them rushed at me. The battle was everywhere; the smell of burning ectoplasm was in the air. As the first one swung at me, I ducked under it and sliced him in half, my fire so intense no weaker armor could resist it. I blocked the attack of a second devil and locked into a clinch. I moved our swords to the right and left, hitting him with the hilt of my blade. It screamed when soul-fire devoured its eye, and I finished it off by slicing its head clean.
The other three devils were shocked by the speed and power I carried. They looked at themselves and moved at me, this time together. I smile and wait.
The one on the left attacked first with its mace and I kicked it in its torso before it could react. At the same time, I was attacked by the other two. I locked the blade from the one on the right and caught the hand of the other with a tentacle. It gave me enough time to push away the demon on the right with my mind, giving me a temporary one-on-one while the other two tried to reach me before it was too late.
The demon in the middle swatted off the tentacle grabbing his hand and attacked me with his dagger he held in his right hand. I caught his wrist and it slashed at me with its sword in the other hand; I block it and start twisting its right hand, cracking its bones and forcing it onto its knees before pushing my sword into his mouth, extinguishing the fire in his eyes.
Both of them already had their weapons on a way to strike me down. The weapons were approaching my face, and when they were five centimeters from my face, they stopped. I forced at them so much pressure they couldn't move, breathe, smell, nor think. All they could feel is the pressure—the pressure of an ancient predator choking all life away from them.
Before five seconds had passed, their heads exploded with black goo. It happened at the same time the last copy that fought the armored demons vanished. From the twenty that were alive, only six survived.
As they started cheering their victory, their smiles faded when they saw the heads of their allies exploding. In anger, they pointed at me and flew toward me. The Wendigo was fully recovered by that time and started frantically slashing at me while commanding snakes made from darkness. I made another dodge and slashed its right horns clean off.
Its snake attacked in rage and launched at me; I used the portal to get behind the Wendigo and grabbed it with my tentacle. When I did, I threw him to the land below that belonged to the Demon Lord who stood on the balcony of his fortress, waiting at his own turn to join the fight.
I SMASHED the Wendigo onto the island and landed right next to it, cracking the ground. My eyes started to change colors between orange and grey; you could see the fire in them easily. The longer I stayed in this realm, my rage grew, my power grew... but also the pain.
The armored demons caught up by then. They landed around me, surrounding me. One thing they didn't know: I was done playing around. Now, I will show them what I truly am.