LingQi blocked overhead strikes from three different angles with her left glaive and cut down the warriors in a single blow by using her other one to slice their guts open as she twisted her body to slay all her attackers. She deflected an attack coming from her side with her right glaive and thrusted it in the attacker's face. Instead of removing it she swung the glaive in front of her knocking the oncoming attacker over with the corpse as it slid off the blade. As the attacker could move the corpse on his face LingQi quickly stabbed him in the stomach, making him cease all movements as blood quickly filled his mouth. LingQi struck upwards cleaving an enemy almost in two upwards from the torso causing a huge gash which caused a fountain of blood to spray everywhere. She looked up to see more enemies charging her way, she smiled sadistically as she lunged herself further into the fray with a glaive in each hand.
She quickly takes two enemies in quick succession as she struck upwards on one enemy and immediately downwards on the next one using the same glaive but with different sides. She quickly thrusted her left glaive through an enemy's gut and struck upwards at another enemy charging at her head on with her right glaive. It pierces the torso slightly before splitting the front of the face clean in two before she withdrew her left weapon. She then used it to slay three enemies careening towards her with a single swing of her weapon. She stabbed another oncoming enemy and lifted them up in the air and twisted her body to make the body as well as the blade plant into a soldier coming in from behind. The blade that sticks out of the first body penetrated the top of the skull making them quickly drop. As she planted her foot on the skull to remove the blade, she quickly thrusted her free weapon backwards, impaling the soldier in the chest. He stood there as he felt his strength quickly drain away as he dropped his weapon. LingQi withdrew both her weapons at the same time, the standing corpse slowly fell backwards. LingQi quickly turned around deflected an oncoming spear thrust with her right glaive and followed it up with a quick swipe of her left glaive, decapitating the soldier almost instantly. The arms flailed as if registering what just happened before it promptly fell.
As soon as the swing is completed, she quickly reversed the swipe and lowered it to the hit the legs of the warrior in front of her, causing him to be swept off his feet. LingQi used her right glaive to strike upwards at his stomach, slicing it open and making the body fly forwards as a blood trail followed suit, even tripping one of the soldiers as they made their way towards her. When she twisted her body, she blocked an oncoming attack by crossing both the polearms to block an oncoming attack with a spear, the tip stopped inches from her face though she didn't flinch. She instead smirked at the soldier who looked terrified. LingQi put more strength in crossing the polearms together which shattered the wooden polearm of the spear. Thousands of tiny splinters of wood drop to the ground as well as the tip of the spear. The soldier could only watch in horror as his weapon is destroyed and LingQi crossed her glaives to opposite sides. Only to quickly turn them horizontally and cleaves her way through the warrior as the blades cut through the flesh from the shoulders upwards. Making that part off his body slide backwards due to the slight angle the cut made causing blood to periodically spill from the wound and sprayed slightly on her armour. The body crashed to the knees before falling in front of LingQi. She glanced at Gyuki to see how he was holding up.
Gyuki used his massive club to clobber a mystic on the ground, completely flattening him. He swiped the club across the floor to smash another mystic against the tree, causing the mystic cough up a lot of blood. Gyuki moves the club only for the mystic to lie down on the ground. He swung upwards to his side carrying the club across the ground causing some of the soil to be carried with the club's momentum, only to his a mystic high in the air and drop down the club on his comrade next to him who rolled out the way on the ground leaving himself vulnerable. He glanced to his right to see one of the warriors charged towards him with a spear. He quickly used his free hand to grab the spear and raised it high in the air. The enemy soldier clung onto the spear out of instinct however when he looked down, he saw Gyuki opened his mouth wide. He attempted to move up the spear and Gyuki's gaps between his fingers to escape his fate. However this was futile as he can't get a grip and if he dropped now he would only end up there faster. He could only delay the inevitable as Gyuki descended the spear down and loosened his hand as he chomped down. He quickly started chewing slowly as he could hear the mystic screaming in agony before a quick bite silenced him. He quickly started to chew again after he removed the now blood coated spear from between his teeth and threw it away like a toothpick.
Gyuki stomped backwards stepping on an enemy soldier's head as he was about to attack the back off his heel. He then stomped on the warrior in front who was about to do the same thing with his other foot, this time completely squishing him until he was a pile of organs surrounded by an ocean of blood. Gyuki swung his club horizontally, swatting away several soldiers, knocking them into trees or the ground with so much force that they can't move. He glanced to the side not moving his club to see an enemy warrior petrified of his stare. He raises his free fist high, prompting him to flee. Though it didn't matter as Gyuki crushed him as he pounded his fist down vertically. He lifts his hand to reveal yet another squashed mess of flesh and organs though some stick to the bottom of his hand. He licked it clean as he looked forward to see LingQi throwing one of her glaives at him while thrusting her left glaive behind her, stabbing a soldier in the gut. The glaive zooms past Gyuki who heard a grunt. He looked behind him to see the glaive pinned an enemy soldier to a tree as he dropped his sword to grasp the glaive. His mouth filled with blood as he feels his eyelids getting heavier. Gyuki removed the weapon with the warrior still on it. He puts the soldier's legs into his mouth with the body facing the ground. He pulled the glaive from under him and threw it at LingQi before gobbling up the soldier who didn't have the strength to struggle or scream.
LingQi caught the glaive in the middle of the polearm with her free left hand which stops the momentum in its tracks with a slight angle. Her arm was vertically upwards as the glaives blade penetrated the middle of a soldier's face before she forcefully brought that side in front of her, making the blade cleave through the top of the skull before it fell backwards. Blood was spilt and was sprayed in an arcing motion trailing the blade closely. She turned around to see a group of mystics standing behind her, clearly terrified of her as they saw how she cleaved her way through their comrades. Even the leader looked fearful of her as she tried to look brave, behind her men like a coward. She sadistically smirked as she planted her glaives onto the ground and motioned them to come over to her.
'Now…who's next!?' She questioned as the enemy mystic's kind of look at each other dumbfounded not sure on what to do. This leads to the female mystic leader attempting to be one and order them.
'Don't be afraid, its only one human. Slay her and then we'll slay the serpent for lady Ursa!' She yelled with some mystics finding courage in her words and charged at LingQi. She grabbed both of her glaives and raised them instantly, crossing over her arms to make the blade mimic the letter x, carving an enemy mystic torso in four parts, two were symmetrical on the side which fell first while his top and bottom half separated as the torso fell backwards while the legs fell forwards. She retracted her arms to their respective sides, slicing two warriors' stomachs in the process, one clutched their stomach while the other couldn't muster the strength to prevent a small amount of their innards from spilling out as they crashed to LingQi's side. She thrusted her left glaive in a soldier's chest while using the right one to slash another warriors stomach. Though he managed to keep himself standing, he hunches over as he clutched his wound giving LingQi a perfect opportunity to strike upwards using her other blade and decapitated the soldier, cutting through his neck cleanly. As the head bounces off the ground LingQi uses the same blade to stab another warriors face but quickly withdrew it. She blocked an oncoming attack from a sword wielder as they to do a horizontal slash at her back from her left. Though LingQi anticipated the attack and dropped the front side of the left glaive down to raise the other side, forcing the sword to hover over the shoulder. Before the warrior could react LingQi used the raised side of her glaive to strike diagonally downwards at her opponent. It cut through his arm due to his positioning, he screamed agony as he dropped to one knee holding wound to prevent blood loss…though it was futile. LingQi took a quick glance at the soldier before quickly striking him again upwards, slicing his jaw in half before the momentum of the blade made the body fall backwards.
The mystic leader simply stood back in horror as her right eye twitched. The hell did that blasted serpent do to her, this never happened in the previous incarnations, she remembered the opposite was true, that her enemies would simply cower in fear! Though this one is different, mercilessly slaughtering her entire squad along with that behemoth class demon. What did the serpent do to her to make her that powerful? She didn't like it, but she knew she had to fight her sooner or later, otherwise lady Ursa will be annoyed with her. She really didn't want to disappoint her. When a soldier under her commands, the last survivor attempted to flee past her, the mystic instead put her arm out on his chest and pushed him to LingQi who instinctually thrusted her weapon, penetrating his gut. As she does the mystic officer attacked from behind the corpse, aiming for her head. LingQi moves her head out the way and kicks the corpse away from her while withdrawing her blade. The corpse lands on the mystics who quickly pushed it away from her, they both got into a battle-ready stance, glaring at each other's eyes. Both waiting for the other to initiate the first strike.
Lingqi finally made the first move, attacking overhead with her right glaive as she took a step forward. The mystic officer side stepped the attack and thrusted her spear at her head again. LingQi managed to dodge the attack again and used her left glaive to swing horizontally in front of her. The mystic stepped backwards before the blade could hit her. LingQi used her right glaive to strike upwards, forcing the mystic to block the attack. LingQi lunged in and raises her left glaive high trying to stab the mystic officer in the face as she's pre-occupied. The mystic once again sidestepped to her right, retracting her spear backwards once she moved and rushed forwards past LingQi with the tip of the spear behind her she pulled the tip closer to her trying to aim for LingQi's neck. However, LingQi twisted her wrist to make the rear end of the left glaive face downwards and turned her body along with the to prevent the spears tip to cut her left arm. The mystic officer stopped her momentum and twisted her body and attacked again from the same side. LingQi deflected the attack and traded a blow with her other glaive which the mystic also deflected.
The two traded blows while trying to get the upper hand on the other. Gyuki meanwhile was dealing with some more grunts that surround him. He scoops up a soldier with his left hand and squeezes him while he looks around and slammed his club down on any other mystics, he was able to spot. Gyuki then proceeded to bite off the head of the soldier before throwing him away. He heard yelling behind him, he turned around to see three more soldier lunging towards him. He slammed his club down vertically causing a fierce gust of wind erupt from the impact. Forcing the warriors fly off their feet further away from him, though one made its way to LingQi as she was pre-occupied.
'Watch out!' Gyuki called out to LingQi who was in a deadlock with the officer. She glanced behind her to see the mystic flying at her horizontally. She kicked away the officer, twisted her body while bending her back leg and cut through the soldier's body in half, drenching her armour and snow-white hair in crimson red blood. She stood straight up and looked to the mystic officer. Her right eye turned crimson and her pupil turned slit shaped with a sadistic smile on her face, the urge to kill the officer in front of her was starting to overwhelm her. Just the very idea of her death gave her joy and a goal, she didn't know why but she didn't care she just wanted her dead! As soon as she saw the horrified look in her eyes she lunged forward and attempted to strike her down with a flurry of attacks. The officer managed to block the attacks though she was quickly getting overwhelmed and couldn't find an opportunity to counter attack. They initiated another deadlock though LingQi was able to push her away with her strength and thrusted her left glaive. She missed and accidently planted her glaive in the tree that was behind her.
'Finally, I got her!' The officer thought to herself as she finally got a chance to unleash her own volley of thrusting attacks though LingQi was able to block and deflect them with her right glaive while attempting to withdraw her left one. Though the smile was still there which unnerved the officer as she didn't know what she was, was this just a demon in human form? A hybrid? Though her thoughts were interrupted as LingQi forced the glaive out by cleaving her way through the bark, causing various splinters to fly around them as the blade cuts just below her chest. She used her left hand to try and make the blood stop, LingQi noticed that instead of the usual crimson blood she was now accustomed to seeing it was instead a golden colour, almost like a treasure in liquid form. The officer still stood her ground although the tree didn't as it slowly started to fall before suddenly dropping to the ground in front of LingQi. She put her left arm in front of her eyes to make sure the dust cloud that was created didn't go into her eyes. As the cloud cleared, she couldn't find the officer in front of her. She thought that her opponent may have been flattened by the tree however she walked over to the fallen tree while sliding her hands up the glaives to position them closer to the blade in case she needed to finish her off.
As she put her foot on the fallen tree to climb over the mystic jumped up from behind the log and lunged forward in a surprise attack. LingQi was surprised by this sudden ambush though she barely managed to deflect the attack with her left blade as it was inches from her face. Now LingQi found the perfect opportunity, she used her right weapon and thrusted upwards, piercing her neck as the blade points upwards coated in golden blood through the mouth. The mystic felt her golden hot blood pour down her neck like a river while running down inside her own throat. She attempted to pull herself up to remove the blade as soon a LingQi planted the glaive firmly in the ground, almost like a flag. Though it was futile as she felt her strength slowly but surely waste away. She looked at LingQi, the sadistic look and smile frightened her to no end, is this how she dies? No chance of redemption? She barely had enough energy to cough the blood that built up in her throat, only a small amount escaped which trickles down her chin. Darkness slowly consumes her vision and LingQi's eye returned to normal and quickly went down on her knees in exhaustion. She didn't understand what just happened to her or why she's so exhausted now of all times when she felt the thumping of Gyuki's footsteps coming towards her.
'You ok?' He questioned, concerned for her well being as he held out his large hand which LingQi grabbed onto to help her stand up.
'Yeah I'm fine. Just what was that though?' She asked Gyuki to see what he knew. He looked deep in thought before responding.
'I don't really know, if I were to hazard a guess It could Fledgling rage.'
'Fledgling Rage?'
'Yeah, what happens is when a Fledgling demon is spawned it has a bunch of rage that it needs to let out. After some time, it goes into fledging rage where it just suddenly goes out of control and attacks and even kills in a berserk like frenzy until it exhausts itself. Some control their frenzy to their enemies or animals, some don't and turn on their allies. Once the rage has subsided though they're ok. It's been a good while since it happened to me when I first spawned, that's why it felt so new to me as well and maybe why I'm not so exhausted now.' Gyuki explained.
'So…does that mean I'm a demon now?' LingQi inquired while examining her blood-soaked hands with curiosity.
'I'm not sure to be honest, humans normally never exhibit that. I'd say Lady Mitsuko have something to do with it, but I can't say for certain.' Gyuki replied. Suddenly LingQi remembered what was going on, what was she standing there wondering what happened to her? Mitsuko is in danger!
'Damnit, I wasted so much time with these mystics I almost forgot about Mitsuko. Gyuki we need to go to the castle right away!' LingQi demanded which Gyuki laid out his hand which LingQi climbed upon after pulling out her glaive and flipping it so that the mystics corpse would slide off the blade and was placed on his shoulder.
'No problem, we'll be there in no time.' Gyuki laughed as he picked to sprint to the castle, knocking down any trees in his path, ignoring the newfound steam coming from the wound of the mystic officer.