Rise of the White Devil

Chapter 69 Calamity of Dread [3]

Appearing underneath the serpent was Lucas, swinging his blade diagonally while it was still in its sheath.

Surrounded by his aura, the blade of chaos formed a cut beneath the serpent's head, causing it to let out an annoyed shriek as it wasn't deep enough.

Lucas, teleporting back atop an old building, looked at the serpent, which was glaring at him with fury.

Green venom could be seen starting to drip from its sharp fangs.

The ground started to dissolve, with smoke beginning to rise from it.

Just as it was about to lunge at Lucas,

Seraphina jumped out of the shadow beneath the serpent, leaping mid-air as she was about to cut its right eye out.

Her dagger hummed through the air, leaving a trail of black and white behind.

Just as it was about to hit the serpent's eye, it twisted its head in time to the right, avoiding the strike as it swung its tail faster than she could react.

As it was about to hit her, Lucas appeared in front of her, his blade clashing with its giant tail, sending sparks flying.

'Shit, it's fucking strong,'

Lucas gritted his teeth hard as he tried to endure and push the serpent's tail back.

Suddenly, making matters worse, the serpent let out a shriek, tearing through the air and making their hair flutter.

It lunged with its head straight at both Seraphina and Lucas, its maw wide open.

'Just how is it so fucking flexible!'

Lucas cursed inside his mind while holding the tail at bay, making more and more sparks fly out.

Seraphina dissolved back down into the shadows, giving Lucas more space.

[Phase]

Using his skill, he let the tail pass by him as it absolutely destroyed everything behind Lucas' path.

Making the ground tremble, chunks of debris were sent flying everywhere.

Snapping its mouth shut, it met nothing but air yet again as it twisted its entire body to position itself properly again, raising its head and half of its body.

Appearing on top of one of those big chunks was Seraphina, bending her knees and launching herself straight at the serpent.

As she launched herself, the serpent did the same with its mouth open again, intending to eat the two.

As both got closer to each other, Seraphina opened her mouth wide as well, taking a deep breath in.

Suddenly, a high-pitched scream was released from her throat, disorienting the serpent, which looked away, shrieking, trying to avoid the deafening sound.

Lucas was suddenly in front of him, grinning, as lightning crackled around him as well, now using both lightning and aura.

Leaving a trail of red lightning behind, he was next to the calamity as he slashed vertically, taking out its right eye, making it release a screech of agony as blood spurted out of it.

Before Lucas could react, though, it swung its tail so fast, making it hit Lucas and sending him crashing through dozens of buildings.

"Lucas!"

Seraphina shouted as she watched him get hit for slashing its eye.

Gripping her daggers tighter, angrily as her aura shot out even more and went wild, she aimed her right hand at the serpent, which was shaking its head madly while blood still kept spurting out.

A sonic boom of soundwaves shot out of her hand, hitting straight the calamity's head, as an even louder shriek echoed throughout the entire city, sending it flying, crashing through a few buildings.

Not being done with the serpent, she teleported on top of it, slashing her daggers at its upper body extremely fast, so fast that most wouldn't even be able to follow, blood started appearing around its body.

The cuts weren't deep enough to threaten it, but it was still annoying.

It twisted its entire body as it managed to shake her off, as she lightly landed a few distances away from it.

Suddenly, spikes of shadows emerged from the ground, trying to pierce it, but the scales were preventing it from penetrating as the spikes broke.

Clicking her tongue, Lucas was suddenly teleported on top of its head as he placed his hand fast on the serpent as he spoke.

"Ignite."

Flames started to surround its entire body as Lucas jumped off and landed next to her.

Lucas could see her looking worriedly at him as a little bit of blood was trickling down his face.

But except for that and some dust on his body, he seemed perfectly okay.

"Don't worry; it's just a little scratch. Besides that, it didn't do anything else,"

Lucas said, calming her down as they watched the serpent cautiously, which was shrieking in agony and thrashing around, destroying the streets and buildings.

Suddenly leaving them, alerted, the calamity melted into the shadows beneath it, with the flames burning it.

Glancing at each other and instantly understanding the other, both teleported on top of another building.

The serpent emerged out of the shadows in front of both of them as its scales sent sparks flying around it, slithering towards them extremely fast, destroying the ground beneath it.

Lucas could see that the fire did some damage, but it wasn't that much.

Aiming his hand at the fast-approaching serpent, a red lightning bolt shot out, hitting the serpent but...

It didn't do any damage this time.

Narrowing his eyes, he felt something was extremely wrong suddenly.

'What just happened?'

Before he could think any further, it lunged at both of them straight again.

Lucas teleported away, but Seraphina did not.

Instead, she just stood there, grinning at the serpent.

As it appeared right in front of her, it snapped its jaw shut with her in it and pulled its head up as it swallowed her.

Or so it thought.

Suddenly, a sound bomb exploded inside the serpent, making its stomach bulge for a second.

It spat out blood as it looked furiously at Lucas and... Seraphina.

She created an illusion out of her shadow magic, making it think it had actually swallowed her.

But all it did was swallow a shadow copy of her that was being charged with sound waves until it couldn't handle the strain anymore and exploded.

'Even after all of this, it still doesn't feel like it has become much weaker... but it hasn't really done anything as we keep overwhelming it.'

As Lucas thought at the exact same time, the serpent pulled its upper body backward with its face as it looked menacingly at Lucas and Seraphina.

"What is it doing?"

He could hear her mumble as she was confused at its action.

[Danger sense] suddenly went off again, warning him that something disastrous was about to happen.

"Get ready to flee,"

Lucas warned as he was getting a bad feeling.

The serpent's entire demeanor changed.

It felt suffocating as it was starting to leak killing intent heavily.

Suddenly, it opened its maw wide open again, and...

A burst of black energy shot out of it straight at Lucas and Seraphina.

'A beam of shadow magic!'

As Lucas thought, he teleported some distance away, as Seraphina did as well, to the other side.

The beam hit their previous spot where they stood and kept going deeper and deeper into the ground as if it were never-ending until it finally did.

Glancing at the hole made, he couldn't see an end...

All there was, was pitch black darkness.