Chapter 352: Blood and Snow - Kordia vs Zazel
An explosion from the city drew Kordia’s eyes for a split second as she dashed her way through the battlefield, looking for Amarena.
Gods damn her... why couldn’t she wait for us?
Encke was a few steps behind her, everyone else was staying safe, sheltering in one of the warehouses of the lakeside docks. The giantess covered her back as Kordia cleared their front, her silvery shields a solid enough wedge to plow through the formations that tried to stop them.
Formations that were heading in Halie and Amarena’s direction until Kordia and Encke arrived.
No army was about to tolerate the appearance of potential enemies in their reserves. Spells and weapons alike were sent their way. Until finally one of Kainur’s generals finally cast a spell large enough to stop Kordia in her tracks, as the ground rose before her in a wall.
And atop that wall...
"Hmm... Spirit-touched. Such a rare opponent," a large demon, his mouth entirely covered in razor teeth, chuckled. The top of his face was domed, covered in seven small eyes behind the bone of its skull, which arced backward before splitting into dozens of spines. Three eyes were closed.
"Grigori," Encke warned. "Carrion demon."
"You know my kind but not my name... I am Zazel, the Watchful Eye of Pride. I would ask yours, maidens of power." His power, sheathed around him in his aura, was blue. The demons that had tried to close with them from behind kept their distance.
There was something strange about the mana around him. It was thicker beyond the edges of his tightly-held aura. Like there were people standing around him, only there were none.
If he would not let them pass, then every moment counted for discerning his weaknesses.