Author's Note: This isn't the same fight scene it has been completely changed. I hope its better thank you for telling me it was bad. Hopefully this is an improvement if not I'll try again.
In the shadowed under belly of a teen centaur's bed he lay in wait. While the day passed, and his quarry tossed and turned Nero prepared himself. All the anger he'd saved was about to be unleashed.
He wanted to kill the monster. If he knew Greg couldn't be saved, then he would put him out of his misery and find the cult himself. Uncertainty and inexperience tied his hands. The demon would pay for that too.
A humorless grin stretched across his face. The justice he was about to deal out would be sweet.
Nero was surrounded by Greg's past. Greg had been any other teen. Massive used condoms covered the floor, along with books half finished, and dirty magazines. Greg had been a busy centaur before he'd been possessed. He would have liked to know the boy instead of the thing that acted like him. That's his second reason for not simply solving his problems the easy way. He wanted to save Greg if he could.
That didn't change the fact that someone would die tonight. His blood was aflame with the need to kill. Tendrils of a monstrous mesh beneath his flesh fought to break free and feed. Only his unrelenting form skill kept his human shaped. Flesh writhed because it knew feeding time was approaching.
The time was coming it flowed through the house like a gas leak. Death, sacrifice, and rituals hung in the air like rotting corpses left to swing. Tonight, someone would die, and things would change. The hairs on his body stood on end. Something was about to happen.
Nero didn't like his chances against a Syrian god. Old Babylon was known for its powerful deities. If it looked like a full avatar or even an incarnation might appear, he'd have to go all out. Even white form might not be enough against a true Assyrian deity.
The thing piloting Greg like a meat suit stood up from the bed. It shook itself before trotting out of the room.
When the door shut, Nero sucked in a breath and emerged from the bed. He slid open the window and used cling to lizard crawl across the outer wall of the house. When Greg left the house, he took off in a gallop. Nero dropped off the wall and followed.
He used mana sense to keep track of the demon while he followed it. Nero followed it through the flat lands until he stopped and watched it vanish into the side of a hill.
Nero sucked in a breath and let it out. He touched the surface of the barrier and felt a strange desire to look elsewhere. A flash of white form was enough to shake the barrier. Nero fed more energy into the barrier and watched it shake itself apart.
With the barrier down energy began to pour out of this place in vast amounts. The feather in amber floated while energy burst from it in the form of an upside-down cross. Light pulsed from the object stained the color of fresh blood. Nero felt a pulse shoot out from the object. The amber cracked around it.
Greg took hold of the feather and it melted into his flesh. Greg's head began to deform. A lone horse snout took over his face and green feathers sprouted from his tail.
"Bring forth my beloved's vessel. We have some company and she'll love entertaining our guest." The demon said with a cackle.
"Nero did you come for the flesh orgy. All you had to do was ask. Its open invite."
"No, I think I'm going to crash this party. Too many dudes for my taste anyway."
"Why don't you sit tight and I'll bring out the maiden of honor."
Chains were pulled by a dozen cultists and from a hole in the ground Jean was dragged out. Two robed figures brought urns up to Greg and Jean. Nero had to squint his eyes to see the symbols written on the urns. They were the same as the symbols on their parents. He picked up some rocks and tossed them. Before the urn's contents could be poured onto Jean it shattered and covered the cultist.
"No, I'm unfit." The cultist cried out before terrible fleshy red veins spread across his body. Tumorous growths covered his body. They soon grew too heavy and he fell back into the crowd.
"Sorry about that my hand slipped." Nero said.
Greg caught the second rock before it could shatter his urn. The blood poured onto him and he glowed red. His hands spread out and he began to cackle. Red light covered his body and green lightning sparked off. Cultists converged on the monster their flesh molded with its.
"You failed Nero these souls are pledged to me and are apart of me."
"Yes, offer your souls to your new god. Feed me, free me, and give me everything."
"Andramelech is here." The creature cackled with the voices of the cultists merging with it.
Green feathered arms rose from the teen centaur's body. Feathered arms rippled with powerful muscles, and its legs became a mix of humanoid and donkey. A donkey's beastly cock hung from its groin along with a massive set of testicles. It grew larger with every cultist that merged with its body.
Nero crossed the distance in an instance dodging a feeding tumor bulging from the cultist's flesh. The mass spread out reaching for Jean. Nero activated white form for a split second and unleashed a powerful blow. The tumor bulged in on itself before it shattered scattering its infectious flesh on other cultists. More tumors quickly grew on once clean flesh.
He grabbed the chains and ripped them apart. Even after being freed Jean stood there like a doe caught in the headlights. "What are you waiting for get out of here?" Nero yelled.
"What about Greg?" Jean asked.
"I'll save him you have to get out of here so I can work." He smacked her ass and her eyes went wide. Her hind legs shot out sending her into a gallop away from this insanity.
"Save Greg, his soul was digested long ago." The demon cackled.
Nero went into white form there was no sense in warming up. White lightning surrounded his fists while he slowly began to release his wrath.
"You can't save anyone not even yourself." A feminine voice said. Something splashed on his skin and he felt his flesh begin to change. He resisted the corrupting force for only a second before his arm erupted into tumors. Large fleshy bulges bursting with puss grew heavy on his arms.
"Olympians why have you forsaken me?" Nero asked.
The demons cackled together while his arm mutated.
"They can not see us here. The ritual has shielded us from their sight." Andramelech said.
"Good," Nero said.
A smile slowly spread across his face becoming a painful grin. He released his hold on the monstrous flesh beneath his skin. Red tendrils grew out from his arm devouring the mutated flesh and mutating his arm to another design. Horrible red and black blades covered his arm before slowly sinking back in.
Nero stuck Andramelech with a full powered blow throwing the demon off its feet. He took the monster's leg and slammed him back to earth. White light glowed around his fists and white magic circles appeared. He punched down while in the air, shattering the ground below, and obliterating cultists nearby.
"I see you are the final hurdle. If we can devour your soul, we can become gods once more."
Nero felt himself reel from the statement. They were trying to become gods again. He hadn't come into this halfcocked. He knew that Andramelech was already technically a god. He wasn't acting like one. What did that mean?
Andramelech closed the distance in seconds. It opened its maw. Its jaw unhinged revealing the mouth of a donkey. Nero punched forward with a fully powered punch. He slammed into the demon's chest and the force was delivered by cling guiding the surface area of the attack through the eye of a needle. The ground around him shattered and exploded. A few cultists were ripped to pieces by the force of the attack.
The dust cleared and the monster remained undamaged. It bit down on Nero's shoulder and he screamed. Bones cracked and splintered under the force of the demon's bite.
Nero punched with his good arm. Each blow had the full power of white form but failed to do any damage. Blood splattered from his shoulder and the demon shrieked.
"What is this?" The demon's body shook, and thousands of faces attempted to free themselves from the demon. Its skin stretched before they were forced back in. Nero felt his bones crack back into place.
He took advantage of his opponent's weakness. Nero kicked one of the demon's legs out and grappled him to the ground. Using cling he gathered all the surface area and used it to ground one foot into place. He placed the other foot on the demon's head and bore down.
A smile spread across his face. He felt what was blocking him break one after another. Nero couldn't contain his joy and cackled while his foot broke down the last of the resistance from its melon smashing purpose.
"Venomous Blood what a surprise. It won't affect me twice." The demon whispered. A sudden burst of energy to his left pinged off his mana sense.
"I am Anammelech." A feminine demonic voice shouted in triumph. A telekinetic force took hold of him and smashed him to the ground. Stones rose from around the destroyed clearing and smashed into him. Tons of sharp stones and heavy rubble snapped his bones and pierced his body. His blood smeared the ground while the storm of debris smashed him against a nearby hill.
White form redoubled his force. His wounds healed slowly as he punched his way out of the hill. The second he emerged he felt something high up. The rubble and dirt from the destroyed ground had been collected into a massive lump of stone high above him. It dropped down with the deathly cry of a meteor.
White circles appeared around him while he gathered his full power. He glowed with the blinding light of a thousand suns for a split second as he gathered every bit of white forms power. White form vanished from his body and a single white ball appeared in his hand. The circles moved converging above one another aimed for the sky. He pushed the ball up through the circles.
The circles shattered one after the other as the white ball flew through each accelerating ever faster. Ten circles later the ball connected with the meteor and the world lit up with white light.
Dust from the meteor slowly rained down covering the night sky. The dust was spread in such a fine powder that it could spread on the wind for hours.
A glowing spear lit up his senses. He twisted out of the way in time for it to slam into the hill. Heat and hot gases poured through the hill before it shattered pouring molten rock and steam out like a geyser.
The cultists were gone the demoness had devoured them all while he was busy with the meteor. There wasn't a drop of blood left on the ground. It was only a theory but he thought that was the true purpose for the cultists. Once they regained their physical forms, the cultist souls and bodies were needed to further fuel them.
He couldn't really tell what level these demons were at. Andramelech seemed to be immune to physical damage but toxic blood fucked him up. That was when they were both small. The demons had been gaining size. Each was around 14ft in height and they kept growing. He had to fight them now without white form. His body needed three hours to recover from using all of it in that attack.
Nero went on the offensive.
Nero felt like a fly buzzing around a donkey's ass. Every blow to Andramelech was pointless or he recovered too quickly for it to matter. He needed white form to do any real damage. The monster kept knocking every time he took a blast of heat or suffered a telekinetic blast.
"Awe the mortal is tired. Why don't you play with him while I give chase to my vessel? I still need her flesh and blood." Anammelech said.
"Sorry, Nero happy wife happy life. Well bro I planned to make you a part of my wife. I thought I'd make you her hymen so I could break you in every night." Andramelech cackled.
Nero changed to an old skill. Purple magic circles appeared in front of his hands before dispensing poison needles. The needles shattered before they touched the demons. He had a clear picture now and it wasn't good.
The demons had multiple barriers. They had the most bull shit defense out there. One of the few defensive skill types he could never find.
Each barrier was worth half their defense. Once destroyed they negate a second worth of damage.
There was a silver lining each barrier had an elemental weakness. Nero didn't have many elemental attack skills. Barriers also crossed the boundary between SDEF and DEF. When the demon bit him it allowed him through the barriers but only through the mouth.
He wasn't going to allow this bitch to get to Jean. Nero dashed forward and jammed his hand in the ground before tossing dirt in the bitch's eyes. He sent himself into a spinning roll and snatched one of her legs. She hit the ground and Nero leapt atop her. He punched with all his might breaking a few barriers before a wave of heat slammed into him. His skin cracked and burned while he punched. He planted his knees on the ground with cling and wrapped his arms around her neck.
Nero pushed her up in front of the flames and continued to throttle the demoness.
"Oh, you want to play sub and dom with my wife Nero. Well don't be surprised if I step in." The demon yelled. Powerful talons ripped through his back ripping away flesh. Nero let the monster out.
"Give in slave and I'll let you suck your master's cock." The demon cackled.
He crushed her arms against the ground while he choked her with all his might. The demon behind him continued to slash at his back ripping against his tough skin. Nero felt the barrier under his arms waver. More strength filled his body while his body changed.
"Wow you're ugly." Nero grunted and squeezed with all his might. Both of the demons cackle. "Even Heracles couldn't throttle his way through my wife's barriers. But keep trying I enjoy the fun. But don't be surprised if I turn up the heat." Andramelech said.
"Keep trying mortal I enjoy the attention." Anammalech cackled.
The slashes to his back didn't hurt as bad anymore. He felt his strength continue to increase. Flaming talons ripped against his back. Red hot pain shot through him, but he refused to release the demon in his arms. Even while the flames burned his back and his flesh was raked away, he knew if he released her then someone would die.
While there was mana, he had the power to heal. The pain from his injuries remained. The more monstrous he became the higher his strength rose. Eventually the final barrier fell, and he throttled the demoness in earnest.
"Shit." She cried out while he choked the breath from her. Blood fell down her neck from the blades covering his arms. Black blood touched his skin and the monster felt pleased.
"Impossible," Andramelech yelled. "Release her now."
Powerful flames slammed into his back burning into him. The more destruction we survive the more monstrous we become. Those words were never truer than in the moment he felt the flames slam into his back. The demon had ripped through his back and burned him for hours treating it as a game. They'd played with him up until now.
Hours after the fight began, she passed out and he released her. Olympus would want to question her. Having someone to take the heat off of him wasn't a bad idea.
Nero looked more like a monster than Andramelech. Crimson blades lined his arms ending in blades extending from his knuckles. Bone like chitinous armor covered his body from head to toe. His feet were wider than humanly possible and tipped with talons. Two outfacing bull horns stabbed out from his head and a third vertical eye remained closed on his forehead.
He kicked her body up in the air and released and powerful blow. White energy erupted from his fist. Before he could strike Andramelech shielded his wife from the blow. The demon stared at him with fear.
"Isn't the hero supposed to resist evil to the bitter end? You look more like a demon now than I ever did." Andramelech said in Greg's voice.
The wrath he felt before turned up to 11. White aura gathered around his body flowing with more ease and control than ever before. All the aches and pains that went with his humanity were gone and he could focus all his concentration on attack.
Nero punched forward smashing through several of Andramelech's barriers and before tiny circles appeared on the tip of his fingers and blasted the demon again. Barriers shattered and Nero went in for the kill. He reared back his fist gathering greater amounts of white form's energy.
"Dark Flare," The demon shouted. A monumental amount of heat blasted Nero in the face. Heat that melted stone, glassed the sand around him, and burned birds bats out of the sky from a distance singed Nero's armored flesh.
Nero punched forward shattering the rest of Andramelech's barriers. Lances of black flames fired from black and orange magic circles around the demon. Nero gave chase batting the lances out of the way. Each one burned his hands a little before the wound healed over. White aura erupted around his fist before he struck. The flames went out like a blown candle. White energy invaded the other magic circles before shattering them.
He approached the demon. The creatures backed away in fear.
"Wait, I can return the boy's soul and his body." The demon promised.
Nero took hold of the demon's powerfully built feather arm and snapped it. The bone stuck out of the elbow and the demon screeched. He took hold of the demon's horse head and slammed it against the ground before kicking its body across the ground.
"My wife and I will become gods when the sun rises. We can grant you any boon you desire. Immortality is yours if you spare us." The demon cried out. Nero kicked the demon's knee in and watched the joint snap in satisfaction.
The demon's wounds healed quickly but not quickly enough. Nero wasn't sure how much longer his prey would last before it died, and the game ended.
Unrelenting Form lvl5
Cellular Coolant System lvl10
Nero lvl25
HP 188.01k
MP 361.84k
ATK 113.83k
DEF 111.62k
SATK 15.82k
SDEF 18.41k
SPD 132.82k
ACC 2.53k
Fortune 203.01
As the sun began to rise Nero was busy ripping through the back of the demon. Occasionally the demon rebelled its treatment with a burst of flames. Nero treated the rebellion with another broken limb. The demon was forced to stand on bleeding stumps while Nero cracked open the back of its rib cage. With a final crack Nero managed to distend the ribs and pull the lungs out.
That's when he spied the demon's heart. Such a prize looked appetizing.
"How could such a monster like you exist?" The demon asked.
"You are the demon not me." Nero responded.
"That gives you the license to do this to me. I have a purpose what about you. What use is a monster such as yourself?" Andramelech asked.
"I am what keeps demons and gods in line." Nero replied before wrapping his hand around the demon's heart. Just before he ripped it out, he felt a sudden pulse to his mana sense.
He turned his head to see the female demon twist and change when the sun hit her. The black blood leaking from her wounds turned golden. Her eyes snapped open and blazed with the light of the sun.
"I am Ishtar." The goddess proclaimed with pride. Her form glowed with the power of the sun.
A human woman replaced the horse faced demon. She was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen even Aphrodite couldn't compare to her regal appearance. Long antelope horns poked out of the top of her head and long flowing golden hair touched her shoulders. The glowing intensified and all her attention fell upon him.
"Release my husband or feel my divine wrath." Nero clutched the demon's heart with his hand. The sun beat down on him and sapped at his mana. He couldn't hold on to it. The demon was in his hand. He'd gone too long without a proper meal.
At that moment he realized he'd made this mistake before. He had a chance to save Greg but failed because he didn't go the extra mile. One revived deity was bad. Two was worse. The decision was easy. He turned his gaze to Andramelech, and a smile spread across his face.
He crushed the heart. The demon opened his mouth and shrieked. Something glowing and black floated from the demon and slammed into Nero's chest.
New Skills Acquired
Black Flare II lvl1 INT Skill
Type: Beam
Attribute: Demonic/Fire
SATK: Skill lvl x 10 x SATK
MP Cost: 10,000/s
Fire Elemental II lvl1 INT Skill
Type: Passive
Attribute: Fire
Effect 1: +10/SATK Fire Type skills x skill lvl
Ishtar flashed with the light of a thousand thermo nuclear bombs. Nero whipped the corpse in front of him to shield himself from the explosion. Zeus finally noticed what was going on and unleashed the wrath of the heavens on the newly revived goddess. Out of nowhere a thousand lightning bolts slammed into her. He stared at her true form and felt his health and mana drain away constantly. She shot up into the sky. He watched her bat aside lightning bolts before chasing after the sun. Ishtar vanished in the distance while Nero felt his body return to normal. Then exhaustion finally set in and he stumbled his way after Jean to make sure she was ok.