MERCIA
104. Devil's Portal.

"Mr Gerald, the man has come!"

"Where are Voss and Abigor?"

"We're here, sir!" Voss walked into the room followed by Abigor behind him.

"We want to bear witness to Mr. Gerald's strength as the one who received the power of the book, and I hope you will make us disciples." Said Voss bowing.

"Hahaha, of course, with pleasure."

"Now let's meet the boy, I'll make him suffer before finishing him." Said Gerald stepping out.

'Last your history Gerald, you despicable human beings do not deserve that great book.' thought Voss.

"You're coming too."

"Free my friend Gerald!"

"Hahaha. kneel down and serve me, and you will set them free!"

"The book fooled you! You're just gonna be the fall of the book, don't waste your life!"

"You...! How do you know?" Gerald jerked.

"Mr Gerald please stop, once you use that power, that's when your day of death, your soul will be swallowed up by the book, ordinary humans like us will not be able to master the devil's book!"

"The devil's book..? Ordinary human? Hahaha. Then how did you kill Gorran? How do you have that power?"

"If I could choose, I would reject it!"

"Cuih. If you give me your powers, I'll release the two women."

"I can't do that either."

"The foss..! Abigor..! Finish the kid..!" Shouted Gerald loudly, but neither of them appeared.

"Scottt...! Where's them?!"

"Sorry sir, all of a sudden they're both gone" Scott said.

"WHAT..!"

"Suck..!"

'Don't they go after the book? Is this boy's word true?' thought Gerald.

"Mr Gerald, your two friends aren't human like us, they're scorned by black magicians, I'm sure they're just using you to get the cursed book."

"You...!"

"Don't listen to him sir, I'm here." Voss suddenly appears behind Gerald.

"Where's Abigor?" ask Gerald.

"He was meditating, the wounds in his body were recurring I had to treat him, my energy was running out to help him, give me twenty minutes before I finish the boy off."

"I'll finish the boy myself."

'after that I'll finish you both off' Gerald thought.

Gerald struck his left hand forward, at a distance of about ten meters from Gerald and August, but August felt his neck being strangled by something invisible that made it difficult to breathe.

"Hegh..!"

Not until there Gerald's right hand punched the empty space several times, now August felt his chest tight like in a horse kick many times, the surprise attack really hurt him.

"Tu. aan.. Gerr. rald. ja. ja. ngan.. bun.. bun. noah. akk. ku..."

"Hahaha.you are so pitiful.., it turns out that I misjudged your strength, now accept your death."

Gerald opened his right fist, then closed his fingers, pointy black nails like iron immediately appeared and he stomped forward.

"Death to you. Cor exitio radium!"

As the invisible energy hit directly at August's heart, blood gushed profusely, his body convulsed for a moment and remained motionless, Gerald releasing the grip of his left hand, the body fell to the ground with a hollow chest.

"I can't believe he killed Gorran, he's too weak."

"Scott. Take the two women to my room, I want to have fun."

Gerald looked back, but he did not find Scott.

"Scott..! Where're you?!"

Silent.

"I don't think he can hear you anymore."

Suddenly a soft sound was heard but it felt heart-piercing. Gerald looked towards the source of the sound that was heard beside his right.he was very surprised by what he saw.

The four women standing around the big tree stared intently at him, the four women were Carrol, Amara, Hedya and Valery, respectively, on top of a large branch of the tree, August is seen sitting leaning against a black box.Seeing August who looks fine it makes Gerald tremble.

"K.. are you alive..?!" Gerald swiftly looked at the corpse he had just killed.

"Ti. can't be. You check who the body is." Gerald orders one of his men.

The man quickly ran towards the corpse lying with the hollow chest.

"Mr Gerald, this is Mr Scott's body."

"WHAT... SCOTT..?! ba... how is it possible..!"

Voss who saw the change of events was happy to see a thin smile even though he tried to hide it.

August immediately jumped down from the big tree.

"All of you calm down, Clara tells me that they haven't found the book, wait when we've seen it, Amara.., Carrol." Amara and the others nodded slowly, while August walked slowly closer to Gerald.

Seeing August's arrival, Gerald clenched his hand.

"You. This is all you did. You killed Scott..!" Gerald's full of rage.

"You killed him..!" august said slowly.

"How did you do it?"

"It's not just you and your friends that can do magic tricks."

"I'm really going to kill you!"

"Stop Mr. Gerald, before it's too late!" August throws the box in his hand at Gerald's feet. Close the box open the head piece rolls out of the box toward Gerald's feet and stops by staring up with glaring eyes.

"ABIG...!"

"I told you one of your heads would be in the same box."

"BUST...!"

Meanwhile, Voss who initially seemed happy to change drastically, when he saw Abigor killed, he stared intently August full of revenge.

Gerald clasped his left hand back to the front, but when there was no reaction from August, he was still unaffected, the bracelet that Helena gave him shone brightly, but only he was able to see it.

'this bracelet is like my light shield, I must continue to learn the secrets of this bracelet later.' August thought.

Gerald hits empty space, again August does not react anything. August hits the air, a trick he learned from Violet when she was last at Moonheaven.

test.test..

Gerald did not expect him to get a counterattack, he bounced back, his chest felt tight.he got up but again got the same attack.

"Suck..!"

Gerald took something from behind his shirt, a brownish yellow book was in his hands, August who saw the demon book immediately moved as fast as lightning to seize it but when it was a meter away from Gerald his body suddenly bounced back, the dome protective purplish immediately seemed to faintly protect Gerald. August alert.

Gerald remained within the protective dome, his mouth was busy reciting a barely audible spell, the purplish black energy circling his body lifting him into the air, a large black portal suddenly appeared a few on his left and continued to grow bigger pulling and swallowing whatever was around him. Almost all of Gerald's men had been drawn into the black portal.

Amara looked pale looking at the appearance of the black portal.

"Mercia. lest you be drawn into that demon portal!" yelled Amara loudly.

"Portal demon?" Carrol and the others were shocked to hear it.

Mercia nodded slowly, trying to jump back, but suddenly both legs seemed locked when Gerald pointed at her.

Seeing August's situation in danger Amara immediately jumps to help August to take him away, but his efforts are in vain, gerald learns his intention he is to stomp his palm forward, the protective dome is enlarged, and his, Amara bounces back to where she was when she hit the dome. Now the portal, gerald, August Voss and others are in the same dome, seeing that August releases a blue light towards Gerald, but the light could not touch Gerald, attracted by the growing power of the portal.

"Damn.., well there's no other way."

"Amara.revealed to Helena and Sylvana" August said, closing his eyes, a golden protective suit covering his body.

"Mercia.. What are you doing..?!"

August did not answer him, in his left hand appeared a shield.

"Nyx protect them." August gathered the energy in his right hand and he threw it on the ground.

DUARR...!

A large explosion occurred in the dome, the vibration can tear down the building several tens of meters around it. The dust covered the view inside the dome.

"Mercia...!" the screams of the four women were in unison.

It took a few minutes to see the situation inside the dome, when the view was clear, Amara and others looked limp, they found no one in the dome.

"what happened.Where is Mercia?" Hedya looked worried.

"Amara.. Where is Mercia?" ask Hedya.

Amara remained silent with a blank look.

"Mara tell me where Mercia is?" Hedya shakes Amara's shoulder.

"Hedya relax..!" said Carrol who in himself was not denied to feel anxious.

"He. entered into the portal.." Amara said with a trembling voice.

"Look above that." Valery said pointing to something hovering in the air.

"is that not his shield?"

"Why did he make such a huge protective dome?" Valery was astonished.

Amara looked in the direction that Valery pointed, she realized something.

"He's protecting us." Amara walked over to the golden dome that emerged from the shield.

"My name is Amara, I am your master's friend, I promise to take you back to your master."

The golden dome instantly disappeared, the shield then flew over and also disappeared, reappearing in Amara's left hand for a moment before disappearing again.

"What romance should we do?" ask Hedya.

"I had to go back to Proxima and seek help." a portal emerged from the ground, Amara's body vanished.

"We're back at Murcia's temple, maybe lady Lyra and the Oracle found out about this demon portal" Carrol said.

Valery and Hedya nodded.