From Player To Npc

Chapter 99: The rest of the battle

Cerberus had grown in power quite a lot since Shingi last saw him.

His aura was tenser than even Fire Whip or Shadow Whip's, even Master Whip's when Shingi first met him.

The speed of his growth was remarkable, but with a Guild giving him resources like that wasn't unheard of growing in power that fast.

He didn't seem to be the stronger among the six who made it, but he seemed to be more motivated than the rest to keep fighting.

Cerberus had his whip at the ready, while Shingi had his sword.

The whip was heading toward Shingi, but he could avoid it pretty easy with his current speed.

Cerberus didn't seem frustrated as he made another attack before Shingi made it within range of his sword.

The whip was almost above him, but Shingi continued his attack and not sidestepping this time.

The whip continued through Shingi like it wasn't solid, and it was really just an illusion.

Two more invisible whips were to hit the left and right of Shingi in case he sidestepped in either side.

But with his detection skills, Shingi was able to see behind that illusion, and even if he could see the invisible ones, he could estimate where they were heading at.

Shingi got a hit with his sword, but it wasn't enough to kill Cerberus, who jumped back right away.

He made his way away from the rest of the battle and tried to get Shingi to follow him.

Shingi charged at him as Cerberus focused on defending and not attacking.

When they were far enough from the others, Cerberus changed his tactic as he charged with a speed greater than before.

He got behind Shingi and got a free hit, or so he thought.

All his whips passed through Shingi like he wasn't there.

Then a blade appeared as it pierced Cerberus's chest from his back.

Shingi was behind him but also in front of him at the same time.

Then the one in front of him started getting transparent as at a point it vanished.

This was a MAJOR ILLUSION of Shingi.

During their battle, he got some hits with his LIGHT Spells to blind him for a split second which with his current speed was enough to make a switch with his illusion.

Cerberus avoided his attack and not deflected them so he wouldn't notice him not being solid and just an illusion.

At the same time, he used a spell scroll to make himself invisible and find the right time to attack.

This second hit was enough to finish the job as he used his LIGHT BLADE Enchantment on it.

Golems and his students have dealt with a few of the other Guild members, but there were quite a few, and the ones who were dying would soon be back in action since they would respawn.

His sword didn't seem to feed on Cerberus when he was using it at his Player form.

"'Would appreciate if you would help with your appetite at least. You know we won't have many chances to have a fest like that.'"[Shingi]

He tried to persuade the sword because if the players saw that the 'demon' had no penalty would ruin his plan when killed by him.

"'Me will eat. But no help, just hungry.'"[Sinhunter]

Shingi smiled at that as he started his hunting.

He couldn't know exactly how much health the enemies had or their stats, but even if they were wearing some rare pieces of equipment, he could estimate them.

He tried to get the final hit of everyone ready to die and saw that their particles were grey, meaning they got the penalty.

It started more gray than last time, meaning the minimum penalty got raised, possibly cause the sword was stronger now or more hungry.

Chaos started appearing among the players as they noticed the gray particles, as they were experienced Players and knew what this meant.

A few decided to run away but most continued fighting or had no choice as they were surrounded or didn't have a chance to escape.

It looked like a massacre as Shingi's side was looking of having the upper hand with no real damage dealt at them, but this was because they had the potions, Spell Scroll, and Mana Gems to save their MP.

The place was filled with ice from Mizuneko's Spells, or the ground being ripped by the SHADOW BOLT of Little Phoenix, who had raised the Spell to almost be at Base Grade power.

Anna was teleporting behind enemies who left their guard down. She paralyzed them or killing them on the spot, depending on their situation.

Wild Tycoon, like a madwoman, was shooting and charging to fight and overpowering her targets even if they had better equipment from her. She was wearing no armor, but because of her Class increasing her natural defense, the attack that hit her was either completely nullified or dealing very little damage.

Even Hineko, whose Class wasn't to focus on combat, seemed to have the upper hand, as with Soryn's training, he could move around and use his environment and find suitable weak spots of his target.

He and Soryn were playing hide and seek, but the lessons weren't only to find someone but also to detect everything around you and act accordingly.

Some more players started coming and joining the battle after a while but weren't against Shingi but the Master Whip Guild members.

Those were the ones Marcy had talked with, and after hearing that the Guild was back to cause trouble, they came to help.

The battle seemed not to be far from over as not many members were left, including their Guild Leader.

"I guess i have no choice but to use this. You are going to pay so much for making me use it now."[Master Whip]

He pulled out a vial from his Spatial Ring, which had a red gem attached at the bottom of it.

Shingi noticed it and tried to get to him to stop him from drinking what was inside the vial, but the rest of the members got in his way, preventing him from succeeding.

Master Whip drunk the dark liquid that was inside the vial in one swing.

He didn't seem to like the taste and then fell to his knees as he held his chest like he had a heart attack.

"Get away from him."[Shingi]

His students nodded as they moved right away, as well Marcy and Anna but the rest didn't as they didn't know why they should listen to him.

Then screams came from Master Whip as he raised his hand, and an explosion of dark energy happened.

Everyone touched by this energy fell to the ground as black flames had surrounded them, burning them no matter what they did to put it out.

The flames appeared only at anything living that got touched by the explosion, so the Golems weren't affected. 

Shingi and the others who listened at his warning were out of range.

Then as the dark energy cleared up where Whip Master was standing, there was another figure.

It was wearing broken pieces of the armor of Whip Master that it ripped apart what was left and threw it at the ground.

It had a humanoid form, but its skin was dark red and was a little more than two meters high.

A pair of horns were residing at its head. That, its claws and tail were signs of its true nature.

This was a Hell Spawn, a spirit from one of the Nine Hells that was summoned in the mortal realm and used the body of a willing individual to stay and use its power.

The vial that Master Whip had was part of a rare Quest that Shingi knew was giving the chance to grant you a vial with the blood of a Demon, which was needed to call a Hell Spawn.

Depending on the Demon's blood, different Hell Spawn would appear, but none of them were easy to deal with.

**Hahahahaha... at last I am here to have some fun. And all I need to do is to kill a fake one? Oh, this will be over sooner than I assumed, meaning real fun will begin shortly.**[Hell Spawn]

Shingi ran right away as he knew that even he couldn't handle a Hell Spawn at this rate.

**Oh, we are going to play chase? I will play with you then. I like some exercise before eating.**[Hell Spawn]

The Hell Spawn made a pair of bat wings grow at his back as he flew towards Shingi with incredible speed.

Shingi was giving everything he had, even enabling his Breaking-Limit state, but still, the Demon was keeping up with him.

It was almost ready to grapple him, but a pair of chains appeared from the ground, surrounded him, and pulled him down to the ground.

More chains started appearing and tying the Hell Spawn, giving it no chance to free itself.

The chains seemed to be made of Light Mana and had an Enchantment to emit Holy Energy, making it burn the Demon's skins in contact and weaken it.

These were the Enchantments Karemon had made to protect against Demon's attacking the place.

Shingi didn't run to escape but to lead it to them as he knew that he would want to end the reason it got summoned as it was compelled to do so.

They were outside the Mayor's office where the most substantial Enchantment was, and Karemon came outside as he got warned by the System that his Enchantment got activated.

"What happened? How did that creature come here?"[Karemon]

Shingi didn't say anything as he made his sword into a light blade and, this time, he used one of the Light Mana Gems to empower it further.

The Hell Spawn was unprotected and unable to avoid the attack as, after four of them, it burned and turned into dust.

The dust then turned into black particles, as this was a sign that the Player who turned into the Hell Spawn was permanently banned.

Usually, one would get a penalty as if killed by the sword of Shingi, but since the two got combined seemed to pass the upper limit and lead to a permanent ban.

The chains also disappeared as their target was dealt with. The Enchantment got weaker from being used on a target like that.

At this point, Shingi pulled out his mask as nobody was around but him and Karemon.

He pulled his cloak at his Ring also and dropped his whole disguise.

"Well, I guess we earned ourselves some drinks don't you think so, Karemon?"

Karemon was confused about what happened, but he nodded as he noticed the rest of Shingi's group running towards them.

When they noticed Shingi being with only Karemon and no sign of the Demon, they were confused, but Shingi explained what happened.

"It seems this battle ended with us victorious, as expected. Do you think they will return?" [Anna]

Shingi smiled towards her and the rest.

"They lost their leader and will take a while for a new one to be decided as I get the feeling that he wasn't the kind of letting others being on high rank other than serving him. But even if they do get a new leader, I think they got the message."[Shingi]

Even if they return with more people, Shingi would be ready to produce tools like the ones he used today would be in greater quantity and quality.

"Everyone did great today. Let's go get something to eat; all this battle consumed a lot from me."[Shingi]

Everyone headed towards the nearest inn as Karemon, Aneta, Volig, and Greg also joined them.

They left their worries for the rest of the day as even Shingi wanted just to have some good time of partying with friends.

This was a new thing for him, but he was happy of getting the chance of living a moment like that.