Awakening: Book 1 of the Vanquisher Series [GxG]

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Ten minutes earlier

Zemeron spat out blood as he glared at the smug demon. Though the royal demon quickly regenerated every time Zemeron struck, they seemed to be wary of Zemeron's elema and did everything to avoid it. Their fight had gone on for long enough and they both took a short break, gasping for breath. Zemeron's water elema hovered around him like the wave of an ocean, while the demon stood far from the clutches of his water elema.

"What do you want?" Zemeron asked. "Are you working for Edicles?"

"Who do you think you are talking to, vanquisher? I'm a royal demon. You will respect me."

"I will not." Zemeron scoffed.

"Then I will kill you."

Zemeron raised a brow. "You're stalling."

The demon chuckled. "So you've figured it out. You're not totally a lost cause, I guess."

Zemeron clenched his jaws. "Whatever you and your demon lackeys have planned isn't going to work."

"We're going to find it no matter what."

Zemeron paused. "What?" What could a group of demons be looking for in Draghein School? "Speak now?"

The demon's voice was as cold as ice. "I told you to show me some fucking respect, you insolent worm."

They morphed their black demon energy into a torrent of spikes and hurled them toward Zemeron. His water elema suddenly converged around him like a huge globe. When the thick black spikes landed on the large globe of water, the spikes disintegrated into a puff of black mist. Copying the demon, Zemeron transformed his elema into thick water spikes, sending them straight to the demon. But the demon was ready with a gigantic sword in hand, cutting through the endless barrage of spikes at mind-blowing speed.

That should keep the demon busy, Zemeron thought. "Kurowa," he whispered.

The demon seemed quite confused by the sudden disappearance of Zemeron's elema. But then they smirked at the large blue savaz Zemeron cradled. Aiming at the demon's chest, Zemeron fired his savaz. Just as he thought, the gaping hole in the demon's chest inflicted by the savaz, quickly closed up. He fired it over and over, the demon watching him in nonchalance.

"Do you think you can harm me with this weak thing?"

"Actually no." He fired the savaz. "It was just to distract you from that." He nodded at the lone spike racing towards the demon like a bolt of lightning.

The demon narrowed their eyes. Just as they turned around, the long spike of water elema pierced the demon in the neck. Right in the weak point. Zemeron covered his ears when the demon roared.

The demon pulled out the spike from his neck while their hand burned upon contact with elema spike. Thick purple blood gushed out from their neck, the wound refusing to close up. But that did not seem to be enough to vanquish the demon.

"You will pay for this." In mere seconds, the demon's body completely transformed, their entire body now covered in diamond scales. Massive diamond wings sprouted from behind their back. They held a giant diamond axe while fury burned in their purple eyes.

Zemeron's eyes almost bulged out of his head. He had seen fast transformations, but this was certainly the fastest he had ever seen. And this had happened in spite of all the injuries the demon had endured. He didn't even get the time to stop it. He balled his fist, his heart thumping.

Could he really fight this monstrous being? Even before the demon had transformed, all his attacks had been totally useless. This lowblood royal was far stronger than the last one he fought. And now that they had transformed, things would get even more complicated. He could only stand a chance if he too used his most powerful attack.