Okay, after much consideration, I agree. There are too many reviews to put at the beginning of these chapters. I'll answer any future reviews with a P.M. unless your review is something like… "More!" or "My dick is hard." Of course. That doesn't mean stop with the reviews of course, keep that shit coming; it's why this has been updating so fast. So hurry the fickity fuck up and leave some shit.

The Doom Slayer continued his mad charge through the forest, the blonde elf girl holding on for dear life on his back as his armored boots pounded against the wet mud. Rain still poured down from the gray sky, and the elf girl still shivered. She was wearing the ridiculously thick fur coat that he looted from that fat bastards closet, along with a change of a very loose fitting pair of blue trousers and a white shirt that was so large it could have doubled as a dress on her. Her other belongings were packed in a bag she wore on her back, which was worn under the coat.

It did a good job of keeping her from getting completely soaked in rain water, but the temperature was still cold for her. After leaving that fort, the Slayer decided that he couldn't leave the elf girl with those ex-slaves. They would be too weak to protect her, let alone themselves. The Slayer wanted to have them follow him to the nearest safe area he could find, but Vega translated their words for him… roughly.

"The no, many of a person don't want leave yet. Stay at fort for now and eat fatties food." Was the response he received after he tried to gesture for them to come along.

The Doom Slayer was amazed that they had the guts to tell him no, but he wasn't complaining. Bringing them along would only slow him down to a crawl.

He only hoped that none of the scourge would find them. He hadn't seen any gore nests in that general area, but there was always a risk. He was surprised with how much he didn't want to leave them behind to their own devices. Was it just because he didn't want them to end up as more demonic building blocks? Or was it because he merely wanted them to be safe after experiencing such injustices?

In any case, he made a mental note to return to that fort whenever he found the opportunity. Soon, they entered a massive clearing with no trees all around, nothing preventing the rainfall from pelting them. The Slayer almost slipped in the mud during his sprint, which annoyed him. He should have been above such fumbles, no matter the environment.

Besides, imp blood was much slicker than this wet dirt. They both continued on like that for a while, seeing no other humans or demons along the way. The scum must not have spread out this far, based on what he has seen anyhow.

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The Flame Dragon breathed fire upon its unknown foes, scorching them alive and reducing them to ash. Their glowing orange eyes still held their glow even as they were reduced to nothing. The Dragon was in a wide open green grass covered field with no trees. The sun had set hours ago, and so had the Dragon. It had wanted to take a brief rest here, as its wings had begun to grow tired. An hour after it had set down, the Dragon was beset upon by ravenous beasts that it had never laid eyes upon before.

Large red skinned monsters with black horns and goat hooves bombarded its wings with green balls of energy that splashed across its flesh. It melted through its hide, and it roared with pain. He swiped and clawed, smashing several smaller beasts into mush. The balls of energy still collided with its hide, and still melted through it with some effort, causing it horrible pain. No creature had ever injured it this much before, what were these things?

With its one remaining eye, it saw that it was surrounded on all sides by the very same creatures. Their numbers extended out as far as its eye could see. Floating creatures with a single eyeball fired more energy at it from their cavernous mouth. The dragon attempted to fly away from the hellish army, but found that it could not. Its wings were little more than scaly slag at this point. The membrane had all melted away, leaving only the bone structure that supported it.

It had never felt fear before today.

So it continued to fight on viciously, giving no quarter to any of the creatures that dare injure it. The dragon swung his tail in a wide arc, turning an entire murders worth of the eyeball creatures into nothing more than splats of gore on its flesh. However, more still took their place. It fought on like that for what felt like eternity, continuing to take continuous damage from their attacks.

Somewhere down below, another energy ball impacted its remaining eye, and melted it. The dragon roared in pain and went berserk, flailing about madly and breathing fire randomly. Still the bolts of pain impacted against his once mighty scales, and no matter how many fleshy bodies were crushed beneath his blindly swinging claws, only more would appear to take their place. Its body was sizzling now, and eventually the Dragons strength gave in, and it collapsed to the ground.

The dragon felt something tear into its underbelly, and felt several… somethings crawl inside of it.

It heard a pair of human sounding feet walk across the earth towards the once mighty dragons head. The dragon was able to pick it apart from the other little beast's footsteps, because they all decided to cease their movements, leaving only those two booted feet approaching it.

The steps ceased.

"This creature's corpse will serve well. Now do get on with it, I want this to be as expedient as possible. You never know when or where the Doom Slayer will arrive." A deep, booming gravelly voice said.

Thirty seconds after that sentence, the Great Flame Dragon fell dead beneath the might of the Hordes of Hell.

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"Pina… thank you for coming to join me today. We have a very important matter to discuss." Molt stated, placing a hand on his brow.

Pina kneeled before the throne of her father, the rug irritating the skin on her knees. Her blood red hair felt a little oily today, and her equally red eyes had bags surrounding them. She had been unable to sleep last night. Dreams of the demons storming the capital continued to haunt her. She took a deep breath, and released it.

Her white blouse was worn under a set of steel full bodied plate mail. Pina's father saw fit to outfit her with something a bit more substantial due to the threat of the beasts across the land. It was the same with her Knights of the Rose; their original outfits had been replaced with full body magically enhanced plate.

So her father did care if her knights fell.

The white marble pillars and guards between them still served to intimidate her, just as they did when she was a little girl, and the huge stained glass window behind the throne cast multicolored lights on the ground when the sun shone onto its glass.

The pattern in the glass reminded her of how she felt today, completely out of order. She couldn't even muster the effort to tie her hair back in its usual pony tail.

She still wore her gold crown atop her brow, but she did not find the time to apply her lipstick today. She felt and looked awful.

"Yes your majesty." Pina said, awaiting her king fathers orders.

"The man in green that we keep hearing about… I want him brought to me. So far, he has eluded every single attempt to retrieve him. He either ignores them, and runs away… or completely runs over them. He doesn't listen to any attempts to parley with the Empire. It's very disconcerting to me. I need everyone I can possibly send to go and find him. Understand this Pina; you and your knights are not to harm a single hair on his head. He could kill you all. Do not test him." Molt said, narrowing his eyes at Pina. "Make sure you inform your knights of my command, for their lives will be at risk as well, and if you encounter any of the demons, I implore you and your order to flee. Only fight if there is no other option. These monsters are strong."

Pina nodded.

"Yes emperor. When do we leave?" Pina asked her father.

"Tomorrow, no later than that. Gather your troops and supplies immediately." The emperor stated, placing a hand over his brow.

"On your orders emperor." Pina said.

Tomorrow? He needed them out this soon? The prospect of not only finding and getting the man in green to stay and listen to them sounded difficult on its own. Then there was the matter of the demons still roaming the land. The thought of actually encountering them in the field made her nervous. The reports said they were spread out far and in-between each other now, but soldiers were fighting stragglers every day outside of the major hives that the monsters built using the corpses of the fallen.

They were barely holding the line against the demons around those massive hives, and more were cropping up every day. Nothing was safe anymore, even the bandits and slavers are afraid to leave their dens. Not that doing that helped their kind much anyhow. She had heard several men say the demons had begun purging all life they could find outside of Falmarts major cities. She even heard some rumors from her own soldiers that the great red flame dragon had disappeared. She wasn't sure if the demons had anything to do with that or not. The way she saw it, they traded one blight on the land for one that was much worse.

When the dragon would attack, an entire village would be destroyed, and it would return to its lair for an intermediate amount of time. With the demons, they were unrelenting, and as soon as one village was destroyed, they would immediately move to destroy the next one. So many refuges have already made it into Italica or the capital. Other evacuees escaped into the sub nations, where the concentration of demons was much lower.

These accursed creatures were tearing apart the Empire, and no matter how many the Empires forces slew, more would always take their place from the nests they made of the fallen. Truly, this was one of the Empires greatest threats. If they could stop this invasion with the help of one green guy, then what was to stop her from seeking him out? The way he was described to her made it seem like he was invincible, that no demon could stand against his might.

Pina would find the man in green, and drag him back here no matter what it took. The fate of her nation may very well depend on it.

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Coda was burning. Lelei saw it from a fair distance away on a hill. She had gone there to practice magic in solitude, her mentor Cota had to run to the village for some supplies. Her eyes widened as the smoke reached her nostrils. She heard cries of terror and the sound of guttural monstrous shouting. She dropped to her knees, and grabbed at her light blue hair in panic. Her breathing quickened, what was she to do? What was happening? Was Cota okay?

She clenched her teeth with the realization of what was happening. It was the creatures that she and everyone in the village were warned about by passersby. The village was going to evacuate to the nearby city of Italica to escape them, but they didn't pack the wagons fast enough. They had been warned yesterday by several soldiers and victims of the monsters to leave as soon as possible.

They should have left that day, what were they thinking?

"Oh no… not these things again. They are such a bother." She heard a feminine voice say from behind her.

Lelei turned and gasped when she saw the demigod Rory Mercury the apostle of the God Emroy. She wore a black ribbon on her head that made it appear that she had cat ears. Along with a black dress with red trim and a skirt that barely covered her upper thighs. The rest of her legs were covered with black thigh high leggings that ended with red high heeled boots. Her long black hair reached down to her back, and her red eyes shone in the light of the sunset.

At the apostles back was a massive axe. The pole itself was thin, and had a purple metal snake curling around the hilt and another at the top of the pole of the axe. Most of the metal on the axe itself was purple, with a black blade beneath the hilt and normal white colored steel for the actual blade of it.

It had been a long time since her last visit to the village; her holiness might have been dealing with these monsters the same as everyone else.

"Killing these monsters gives me no pleasure aside from seeing their blood fly, honestly it's like they don't even have souls… But I cannot allow them to destroy Coda Village. I like you people. Lelei, are you able to stand?" Rory asked.

"I… I believe so." She replied.

Rory smiled, and patted her lightly on the head.

"Good, now run away. Somewhere that isn't here my dear… Oh my that rhymed! I'll take care of these demons, and save who I can. Now go." The apostle stated, sprinting towards the burning town with her axe at the ready.

Lelei stood up from the ground. She was hesitant to just flee away from Coda, but at the same time she wasn't sure if she could even help Rory in this situation. She told her to run… should she?

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The rush of human souls moving through her body sent jolts of pleasure through her body, but the fact that it was people she knew for years passing through her upset her slightly. Of course, there weren't many of those souls passing through her. The only human souls that could pass through her were the souls of warriors, or those who fight and die. Most of the villagers of Coda were most likely fleeing.

These creatures were going to die; she would make sure of it. Once she made it to the village, she saw several survivors scramble past her, not stopping for anything. It was like they couldn't even see her. Several human bodies littered the ground, and the little monsters she had been facing for days all glared in her direction. The large red horned ones proved to be the most difficult to deal with, what with their green death balls and all.

The smaller orange ones fell with just a single swipe of her axe, the floating eyeballs required a bit of jumping, and the tall humanoid ones with the magic metal flying backpack things required fast reflexes to dodge their explosive fireballs that shot from their little shoulder crossbow things.

The village was all but burnt to the ground. Most of the buildings were either collapsed or on fire… scratch that, either collapsed, on fire, or collapsed AND on fire. The first little imp creature charged her, only to be bisected in two by her axe. Five more surrounded her on all sides, and leapt at her at the same time. Rory smirked and jumped high in the air avoiding all five of their weak attacks. One of the floating eyeball monsters attempted to bite her out of the air, but she used her axe as a makeshift piton to keep the gaping mouth open. She gripped the pole of the axe, and using both hands, swung outside of the mouth, kicking the thing in the right side of its jaw. Her foot actually got stuck in its flesh, and she tugged out the axe.

Rory the Reaper cleaved through half of its face, and fell to the ground. Blood raining down on her as she landed on both feet. She wasted no time however, and cleaved five of the imps in half with a single swing of her weapon, showering her in even more viscera. One of the large red horned demons fired a green energy ball at her, which Rory deftly avoided by leaping to the left; hopping over the imp corpses in the process. She ran forwards, and the large demon swung a massive clawed fist at her. She leapt up, avoiding the strike, and ran up its muscled arm.

Rory reared back her axe, and once she reached the shoulder, she swung, cleaving the things head off with ease. Blood spurted out from the now stump of a neck, and she landed on the other side of the demon. She sprinted forward and continued to battle the freaks of nature, a freakish grin plastered on her face.

She chopped merrily through the ranks of the beasts, literally painting the town red. After five minutes of fighting, she noticed that the ranks of the demonic horde had begun to thin. All of the large beasts had already fallen, courtesy of her beautiful axe. The remaining beasts gathered en masse in front of her, most of them were the smaller imp like creatures. Their yellow flesh matched the flames surrounding them. There was a fat one with a small breast plate and metal arms that stood around eight feet tall, and one of the skeletal ones who stood around the same height jittering uncontrollably as it stared in her direction with those hollow eyes.

There were fifteen of them in all; the rest of them had fallen below her might. Perhaps they realized that they were dealing with the apostle of the god Emroy? Battle was one of the things she lived for, no weird looking goblins or skeletons would make her quiver with fear.

Many of them began to stare at her with what she could only assume was terror; if those wide glowing eyes were any indication. She smirked, and swung her axe towards the dirt, flinging the blood off of its blade. Rory then slung it over her shoulder, and soaked in the feeling of…

Rage.

Pure, unadulterated rage. Hatred for the creatures before her that wasn't the result of her own feelings. Such pure hatred Rory had not felt before… and that was saying something. Her jaw dropped partially for a moment as she attempted to at least comprehend the rancor she was feeling. Animosity like this took millennia to cultivate, not even fellow demi-gods or even full gods emitted such fury.

It scared her for a moment, and her cocky demeanor dropped in an instant. Her eyes widened much like that of the monsters before her. That's when she noticed a green blur rush past her.

The source of the unending hatred.

Rory then knew that the monsters weren't staring at her with fear.

I can't remember if Rory can actually feel feelings or not. Remember, I don't remember much about the series, but that's okay, we are definitely NOT going to be following the canon story here. It's fucking Doom Guy, not JSDF. Still though, tell me if she actually can or not, I could've sworn that she could… also, I can't remember jack shit about what Lelei can really do besides help people sleep and projectile swords into a dragons face. I also don't remember all the names of the order of Rose Knights, so if I fuck up there…

Then fucking deal with it.

I'm not saying they won't show up, or won't have a role to play, but I'll worry about them when they show up. Let daddy take care of it. Also, I will let ya know, I've only ever seen the anime series, when it comes to the manga, I know jack shit.