The Demon Lord picked his sword up as he lay in the crater and threw it at Terra. The sword spun through the air very fast. Terra blocked the sword, but the Demon Lord had already moved from where he crashed.
He shot into the air and grabbed his sword. Blood-red lightning began crackling on the sword. He charged in with a flurry of attacks at Terra, but Terra blocked all of them and pushed the Demon Lord back.
The Demon Lord pointed his sword at her, and a massive bolt of red lightning shot at her. She made a shield of light, and the two collided. The shield shattered, but the attack was nullified.
At this point, their attacks were beginning to create shockwaves that were assisting Silva in destroying the realm.
Each collision sent out shockwaves that shook the entire realm—a fight that could only be said to be a fight against gods.
But from the looks of it, Terra was easily dominating the Demon Lord, and the Demon Lord was beginning to get frustrated. His attacks carried more weight as he put everything he had into them.
But Terra was not fazed. She took the attacks head-on and easily blocked them. Finally, after several rounds of failed attacks, the Demon Lord stopped.
“What are you? How are you capable of this?” he asked, but Terra didn’t say anything.
“Fine, have it your way. I’ll show you my true strength,” the Demon Lord said as his armor started falling off his body, piece by piece. By the time it was all gone, all that remained was a small demon girl.
She looked no older than Elsa, with black hair and crimson-red eyes. Her long black horns curved backward. She wore fully black armor. Her pale white skin looked like it would tear if touched.
Silva had been observing the whole fight while he was destroying the realm. When he saw the armor fall off and realized she was a little girl, he was shocked.
Zareth, who was close, also had her eyes wide open when she realized that the Demon Lord she had served for all these thousands of years was a girl. Never in her life would she have thought that the Demon Lord was a girl.
“This is the first time in thousands of years that I have been forced to shed my armor and take my true form. You have pushed me to the end, so now I’ll have to destroy you,” the Demon Lord said. She raised her hands into the sky, and a massive purple ball of energy began forming.
She threw the ball at Terra. Terra still seemed unflustered by it. She charged at the ball of energy and, in one slash, cut through it easily, continuing her charge toward the Demon Lord. The Demon Lord was shocked by this.
She had not expected her attack to be cut through like that. That was her ultimate attack—one that could wipe away entire kingdoms in an instant.
Because she was shocked, the Demon Lord didn’t have enough time to counter Terra. Terra’s sword struck right across her chest. The armor took the full brunt of the attack, but the force sent her flying to the ground.
Time had finally run out. The Demon Lord had failed to stop Silva. Silva’s attack on the realm had finally destroyed it from the inside, shattering its form.
The final hold of hell broke, and the entire realm crumbled. The skies tore, and everything faded into nothing.
“Terra, find any demon survivors here and remove them,” Aric said, and in an instant, she split herself into a thousand clones, flying in all directions with unbelievable speed.
She carried demons out, whether they wanted it or not, using the gate to take them out and coming back in to take out more.
Zareth watched in surprise. She was amazed by the speed at which Terra moved. But it didn’t seem like she would be done even with that speed because Silva had waited until the realm was fully destroyed before asking her to start saving demons.
Zareth was worried that Silva wanted to allow some demons to die, but that wasn’t what he was doing. Silva summoned his clones, and his clones made clones—all working together.
With the help of the clones and their speed as demigods, they managed to get every demon alive out of hell.
When the clones and Terra finished, they unsummoned their clones and faced the Demon Lord. The Demon Lord saw how fast Silva had saved the demons, and she became confused about what Silva’s motive was.
“Why are you saving us?” she asked Silva.
“Oh? I forgot about you, Demon Lord. That’s some impressive armor you have—to be able to take an attack from Terra like that,” Aric said.
“Are you insulting me?” she asked.
“Now, why would I do that? To what end?” Silva asked. “I don’t wish to remove the demons. I want to offer you all a second chance—live peacefully under my rule, and your race remains, or stand against me, and I’ll wipe you all off the face of Argon.
It’s a simple deal. There is no need for argument or disagreement. You refuse, you die,” Silva said.
“So you want us to bow to you? What makes you feel like I will agree to that?” she asked.
“Hey, little brat, shut up,” Silva said and walked to the Demon Lord. He looked at her with a condescending gaze. “You don’t have an option, brat. Stop this now. You have lost all rights to even make a choice.
You will do what I want, or I will drag you by your horn out of this place and make you watch as I drive a blade through your demons—all of them.
Now, those demons are waiting outside for you, so you will go, and you will tell them what has happened and the changes. I don’t have enough strength to go back and forth with you. Is that clear?” he asked.
The Demon Lord looked at Silva. She felt that he would do exactly what he said if she refused.
“Fine, I’ll come,” she responded.