Chapter 466: From Hell’s Heart
Kordia looked upon the face of the monster that had appeared from nowhere before the city. There was something strangely familiar about it. Below, alarm bells began to ring and the people outside the city began to flee towards the walls. The guards who had been keeping them back from the demons turned their efforts to evacuating as many people as they could into the city.
"Terry, take the girls to the Academy and rally every capable mage," Lumin said before she opened the door and leaped out of the air carriage. A large flash of light and a surge of mana preceded the Chancellor’s flight towards the giant.
As colorful bursts began to fire off from the city’s defenders, Kordia watched as the gargantuan creature moved, turning and shielding itself from the barrage of spells that fizzled against its skin like sparks against a wall. It brought its shoulder to bear, almost as if...
"Lapins, Sin, I think we should help. Something seems off about this."
At the front of the carriage, Terry’s plumage ruffled with irritation as he resumed their course towards the Academy.
"Reiko?" Sin asked. Lapins and Kordia both nodded, and one quick joining of the hands later, Reiko stood up in the carriage, her bodies at the still-open door.
"Wh-what about me?!" Akane stammered as Reiko leaped from the carriage, landing on barriers made of her shielding spell before she shifted Kordia into her fox form, bearing Sin and Lapins on Kordia’s back as she made for the outer wall.
As her minds synchronized, she saw Lumin finish her flight with a massive blade of light formed at the end of her staff. She swung it up and brought it down, only for the creature to suddenly disappear and reappear inside the outer wall, amidst one of the larger construction sites.
Lumin was already upon it, swinging a blade of light the size of a three-story house. The monster seemed just as surprised as the Chancellor when the blade parried against the armor of its forearm. Though the sword carved a burnt line in its armor, the plates of what looked like chitinous bone held.
For a moment, Reiko thought she saw people in its hand before it brought its other fist to bear in a punch that sent Lumin flying back a hundred measures as her shield shattered. The maneuver caused her tail to whip out, destroying more of the construction site and sending a few stories worth of stone and steel scattering.
From the beast’s hand, someone started shouting indistinctly.