Modern World Warlock-Chapter 93: Crystal Shattering

During the night that Nihilor had controlled Lina’s mind, Dante and his group arrived at their homes and were peacefully hanging out in the living room, telling stories about their latest mission.

A few hours later, half of the residents in the house had gone to bed, except for Zac, Dante, and Megan, whose schedules were more nocturnal.

The two guys were playing video games on the TV when suddenly, a black mist appeared around Zac, furiously spinning around his body and making him disappear in a second.

As soon as Zac appeared in the park after Tommy shattered his soul shard, the man was confused and disoriented.

Still, the umbra flowing from the demon instantly shrouded his body and senses, making him perk up with fear and anticipation.

Zac quickly scanned his surroundings, seeing Lina crying on top of Jake, with June pointing her gun at her and the demon holding the impaled Alice in his hand.

’What the fuck is happening here!?’ Zac pondered.

At that moment, the possessed Lina went for another stab at Jake, but Zac’s reflexes made him move on his own, taking a quick step and appearing beside the girl, holding her hand from going down.

The girl instantly tried to attack Zac the same way she did Tommy, but the redhead easily kicked the knife off her hands and pulled her off Jake’s back.

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Zac held Lina by the arms, who shook and tugged with force, trying to get away from his grasp. However, Zac could see the tears on her face, and the man knew that the girl was suffering.

June took the opportunity to point her gun at the demon, her face showing evident anger as she detailed the body of Alice impaled in his claws.

"Bah, how boring…" the demon muttered, pointing his free hand at June.

Zac could see small trails of umbra coming from the demon, which he was only able to detail when the energy was very strong and condensed.

When the monster pointed his claw at the rookie detective, he could see the umbra gathering around the woman.

’It’s going to pull her towards him…’ Zac thought, analyzing the flow of energy by pure intuition.

Holding Lina tightly, Zac took another quick step that landed him between June and the demon, making the energy pull the redhead and Lina towards him instead.

However, before the demon could stab Zac, he turned mid-air while still holding the girl in his arms and kicked his claws strongly enough to break them, making the monster step back.

"Not bad for a human… You are quite strong," the demon said.

Zac didn’t reply, still holding onto Lina, who seemed to quiet down in her struggle to get away from him as she was in a state of shock from the quick and sudden movements that the redhead was making.

Even so, he couldn’t let her go, or she would keep trying to stab her friends.

"Hmmm, could it be…?" the demon pondered aloud.

"Dispell your mind-control on the girl, now!" Zac shouted at the demon, making him chuckle a little.

"I didn’t think that Hellslayer would ask me for something," the demon said condescendingly.

"Huh?" the redhead hummed with confusion.

"Let the detective down!" June shouted in desperation, her hands trembling as she aimed at the monster.

Still, even though her bullets wouldn’t do much damage to the demon, he placed Alice’s body in front of him as cover, wanting the rookie to shoot through her superior.

Zac took that brief second that the demon stopped looking at him to pull out a healthstone from his pocket and threw it to Tommy, signaling with his head to give it to Jake, who was still bleeding on the ground.

As Tommy caught the black stone and took a step forward, the demon pointed his claw at the kid, making him stop and brace himself with fear.

Nevertheless, the demon’s attack never reached Tommy, as Zac had rushed forward, still holding Lina, and kicked the monster’s arm back, interrupting him before he could cast any spells.

When Tommy got to his bleeding friend, he placed the healthstone on his palm and heard Zac yelling at him to squeeze it.

"Tommy… my crystal," Jake muttered as the green healing mist covered his body.

The redhead boy was perplexed by the magic from the healthstone but brought himself back to reality and grabbed Jake’s crystal, which he had been trying to pull out of his pocket from the moment they saw the demon.

*Prang!* The crystal shattered, producing the same black, revolving mist as before.

In the center, Dante’s figure appeared standing tall, calmly looking around and scanning the situation.

Tommy was sitting next to Jake, who was covered in blood, but his wounds had been healed.

Zac was holding the possessed Lina in his arms, and June was producing an incredible amount of umbra while pointing her gun at the demon.

’That’s the man who sensed me…’ the monster thought, feeling a minimal amount of umbra flowing from Dante.

The warlock took a single step and appeared right beside Zac and Lina, placing his hand on the girl’s head. "Dispell," he said, producing a gust of wind that enveloped them for less than a second.

Lina fell unconscious right after, making Zac let out a sigh of relief as he gently put her down.

When Dante stood up from his crouching position, he gazed at the demon with his eyes sharpened, noticing the impaled Alice in his claws.

"Hey, is this a joke?" Dante asked.

"Hmm?" The demon hummed, moving his head laterally with a puzzled expression.

"You dare show me a mere illusion?" Dante continued, his severe tone cutting through the air.

"An illusion? But… I definitely hit him!" Zac exclaimed, pointing at the demon’s broken claws.

The monster laughed loudly, saying no human had ever seen through his illusion magic. Moreover, Dante was able to dispel his mind-control over Lina in an instant, gaining the demon’s praise.

"How unfortunate to have those abilities but still be this weak…" the monster said, swallowing his words as soon as Dante released his suppressed umbra.

The pressure coming from the warlock made the air feel heavy for everyone around him, including June and the teenagers, who kneeled on the ground from the weight it posed on them.

At that moment, the demon saw Dante’s real power overshadowing his own umbra, as he could only see the man’s crimson eyes staring him down menacingly.

’This… this is the real Hellslayer,’ he thought.