This is a multimedia webnovel with giant city-crushing monsters, a valiant man who dares to fight them, a hero who loses himself on a righteous path, and a darkness which conceives a profound love. But I suck at descriptions, so I strongly encourage...
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People dashed through the crowded streets of the island city Procella. It was once a calm, quaint city in the middle of the steamy sea, but now ash and dust tainted the ocean air. The wind felt weaker here than on the Agrideī mainland, but the pressure in the air had never been this strong. Though people desperately tried to run through blocks of homes and rows of trees, they all understood the grim reality that a simple escape did not exist. The city of Procella sat upon a lightly-forested island, meaning that people could only evacuate reliably by boat.
But as helpless citizens flooded the streets, relying only on speed to save them from the monster, Hatasuko and Vaida decided to fight the Interfectus themselves. They were the only line of defense. Vaida kept her twin swords sheathed in an X-shaped holster on her back. Both fighters kept a whip clipped to the left side of their lower back; they both kept their sack of rocks dangling from their right shoulders. Hatasuko and Vaida both clenched an Interfectus shield in their hands, though he refrained from drawing his sword.
"Hatasuko, are you alright? You look like you're hurting," Vaida whispered.
A grimace fell upon his face, but Hatasuko continued to glare at the golden eyes of the Interfectus. The demon levitated in silence over the rooftops of the city as smoke lifted from the buildings beneath it. The layer of transparent blackness hung as motionless as ever before; it almost looked like the Interfectus was in a state of deliberation.
Hatasuko answered, "I am hurting, Vaida. I think the tempest can sense my sensations. It knows that I feel more vulnerable than ever before. I'm still scarred by my failure last time, and they remember. The lost souls know that I probably won't win. They know that their deaths will be in vain, and they know that their sadness will never end."
"Is that the only reason you feel vulnerable?" she asked in her quiet voice.
"Well... no, no, it doesn't matter. The Interfectus is exposed; let's go."
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Suddenly, a golden shimmering symbol appeared on the dirt street beneath Hatasuko. As he glared at the demon from the other side of a row of homes and trees, a sudden burst of black fire erupted from the ground and engulfed his whole body. Vaida watched from a short distance with her eyes open wide as his glowing body accepted the energy from this array. Once the black fire faded, the glow and the symbol disappeared, and so Hatasuko was ready to fight again with his Astrodeus power.
