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Blue and green mushrooms were glowing now, lighting the way into the quietest of tunnels. But beneath these silent halls were chambers and temples that predated man itself. If Cainas had never found these tunnels, if he had never awoken what was sleeping beneath here, the mortal world might have been spared quite a good deal of trouble. Now, however, the mutters of a man... captured by madness... completely buried in his own internal world... were echoing up from somewhere below.

It was a place of worship but there was no holy vow of silence here.

There was a hissing and a clacking, a cacophony of sounds, as monsters scrambled around in the black space there. A moment later Gray felt even his lungs constrict. By the Divine Concord, had they done it? If he had a heart it might have stopped in that moment. It felt as if he was in the presence of the God of Light once more, being cast down into the shadow, as he had so many years ago.

'When was the last time I felt this much power?' Gray was thinking.

And he didn't know if faith was really his forte, but he knew there was no room for doubt; Xetni, or something else, was in that room right now. It was there with them. They had summoned... something. It had enough of a presence to give even the Demon a pause.

"What do you think, my Knight?" Mona said. "Shall we stand fast once more?"

Gray couldn't stand the sound of her voice. He hated the way she looked any everything about her. If he was a Demon who had been cast down by the God of Light, then Mona and her kind represented those who had... unjustly... unfairly... been granted that favor. This idiot had been given the choice, and the chance, to continue living in a timeless paradise.

It was hard not to burn her to ashes and disintegrate her there just now, but he knew that she needed to be alive when he brought her to the altar. If it wasn't for that he would have killed her already. He would have killed the Knight, too, but he knew that severing the chain between them would have allowed the Angel to escape.

Turning back, Gray tugged on the chain and tried to smash Valter into the ground once more.

"Silence, you beast," Gray commanded.

CLANK!

The chain grew taut, rather than snapping and going limp as before. As Gray finished turning he saw that Valter was on one knee, now. With his hand pressed into the ground he was holding himself in place. The chain was tugging on his neck, but...

His powerful back and shoulder muscles flexed as he resisted the strength of the Devil, and stood firm.

Then, Gray noticed all too late, that his eyes were gleaming with the green starlight swirl of moons and stars above. The night sky was emanating from those eyes with a determination that did not bode well. His one-winged Angel was wrapped around him now, her bloody stump feathery and pointed away as the remaining wing curled down and held Valter within her sphere of influence. These next few moments were going to be crucial.

The Devil raised his hand and summoned a spell of piercing. Something that could be carefully applied, that he could use to skewer the human without killing it, though the trick here was going to be-!!

The passage lit up with a fiery blaze as the holy Purge swept outward and forward from where the chained man was kneeling. And in that action he rose to his feet and drew a blazing sword of fire and light from somewhere out of the darkness.

Oh fuck. Fuck me. Fuck me, fuck me.... Gray was realizing as he felt his flesh melt away... realizing it all too late... that this really wasn't the kind of situation where he could take his time and carefully apply his magic. The Devil felt his skull smack into the rocks as he bounced off of the ceiling and went flying through the darkness into the chamber below.
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