Wind blew through the silent castles as pools of black blood filled the streets. Inside the buildings were corpses of people frozen in their poses. Soldiers were dead and stacked on each other like a twisted painting.
Valyha looked over the edge, using a single hand to latch on to a woman whose neck she had freshly broken, sharp black nails digging into the hairy skull.
White smokes of clouds covered her view below, prevent her from seeing anything beneath.
In a breath, Valhya dropped the dead woman down the edge. She fell through the thick smoke and even after a minute, there was no sound of she hitting the bottom.
Valyha raised a brow. jumping down was not an option.
She seemed to have woken up in a strange city of floating terra, with high towers and buildings, resembling that of castles. It expanded across the cloud like mini islands of its own. It made her wonder where she was?
Could it be? Could it really be that she had migrated to the heart of her enemies' land?
Oh what good karma!.
On Earth it had always been complicated mudering demons. Here however, things were... simpler. There was no talisman to hinder her attacks. That made a lot of difference..
A snicker escaped her lips as she stared up at the buzzing vibration of aircrafts circling in confusion. Metallic Ships scattered in the dark sky.
Non had spotted the killer.
The pilots knew not what was happening. People were dropping dead like flies. All except those who were already in skyships. Whenever someone hatched open the shuttle door to observe what was happening, they were met with a clean slice to their throats and their heads went rolling.
Whatever did it, was unseen and untraceable.
Dark Spirits could be the only answer to the mystery of the massacre. They existed, but, nothing like this had ever breached the Strongest Empire's borders before.
For a long time they thought nothing could.
She watched as the floating lights in the sky moved away to search elsewhere. Just as she was stuck here, they were stuck here with her. Her tongue clicked, but she never really could penetrate through aircrafts. The exterior was made of a material that not even a ray of light could pass through. No reflection to infiltrate. It seemed to be protected by a powerful talisman as well.
For now, they were safe. That annoyed her.
Demons.
Extremely smart creatures who feasted on humans like mere animals. She detested them to the depths of her core. Like cockroaches. Until today, she had always believed that these creatures called demons came from a different world. But she thought the idea of multiple worlds to be crazy. Now however, that suspicion was proven correct today.
She could only guess that this was just one of the many worlds that probably existed. It was all tying together now. Which meant there remains many more demons to be killed.
Since the day she made up her mind to kill every single demon in existence. She had always believed this day would come. The day she'd gain access to the their homes and vanquish them all.
But she had not expected their lands to be this different from anything she had ever seen before. She had travelled a lot so her eyes had witnessed many. But a sky decorated with three ringed moons was simply bizarre. She wasn't too moved by the floating terra as she had seen it in certain Elves kingdom. But she was impressed by the sheer greatness of the castles. The aesthetic, architecture and mass of these structures were a big indicator that they belonged to a civilization far advanced than any fae kingdom. With beautiful blue and yellow lights filling every space in a style than even her own kingdom had yet master. Even stranger were the screens of light with some of illusion technology that showed people's faces. Again bizzare.
It was true what they said. Demons were on another level. Both in magic and technology. All along her kingdom had only seen one part of the Demon's might. Oh she could already feel tingles thinking of all the other unique places she could destroy and new demons she would kill.
What stood out the most to Valyha was the fact that everywhere was overwhelming filled with the Command demons. The rarest and most powerful ones.
She had never seen so many command demons gathered in one place as this before without metal machines hiding them. The demons her people were used to were the lizard demons, nine to ten feet tall that violently pounced on Earthmen, especially the faes. Their skin was protective against attack magic and had to be killed manually with a jinxed-blade. They were given the name Beasts because 'Lizard-men' seemed offensive to some Earthmen. Then there were the demons that preyed on humans a bit more discreetly. They looked eerily like humans, but if you looked closely you could tell that there was something wrong with them. Either their arms were too long or their legs or they had an extra eye, but their biggest give off was the creepy aura that came with the failed mimicry of the humanity. They were called the Abnormals.
Then the rarest and the most dangerous demons, were the ones who commanded the Abnormals and the Beasts. The command Demons. They were the most powerful and hardest to kill. They actually mimiced humanity to perfection, being indistinguishable from any Earthman. The had the beauty of faes and the bodies of shifters. They could walk among any race and go unnoticed. They were responsible for the most damages.
For millennia Earthmen thought them impossible to kill. Until it was discovered that a direct stab by the right person, with the right weapon in the right spot could permanently end their lives without a ressurection. But the margin for error was too high.
It took Valyha years before she learnt how to properly kill one. Until today not everyone could master how to kill one command demon.
Those five years she had fought against the demons control, was not a war. It could never be called a war. It was a one sided hunting arena. Demons were the ones doing the sport. Her army had only postponed what seemed like the inevitable.
There was no foreseeable end to the war that spelled anything good for Earthmen.
Which was why she had to figure out a way to stop the war from continuing because it was impossible to defeat Demon's. Not when only a few soldiers could actually hold them off. And they were running out of resources for attack spells.
Destroying the portals to prevent the Demons from ever passing seemed to be the only option. Impossible at the time but she pulled it off. Little did she know that she would be sentenced away with them as the price.
But what a price it is. Her deepest desires, granted in an instant. Even if it took a a thousand centuries, she would kill them all.
As Valyha looked around to see the mountain of corpses that had piled, littering the gardens and castle ground. The place was filled with an eerie satisfying silence as she drew out her sword. Her eyes scanned for any other signs of life. Then she saw it. A hand twitching from beneath a heap of corpses. Just when she took her first step towards it. she noticed the arm was dismembered as it suddenly flew passed her to attach itself to a body. A lady.
She tilted her head in confusion.
Suddenly the lady's knees bent as its bones cracked.
Valyha stepped back a bit training her eyes on the moving corpse like a hawk.
This was weird.
It began getting up with his head low.
"Necromancy?" Valyha whispered to herself to avoid getting distracted by the lady's lilac shoes that glittered under the moon. She forced her eyes away.
She didn't like it one bit. Her work getting undone.
That was not all. The blood that had been spilled began rising to the sky as the people who she kissed with her blade started to wake up. All of them.
Valyha tightened her grasp on her sword. Alright, she would simply kill them again.
However things didn't go as she expected as the corpses began to move in reverse. The bubbles of blood floating in the night sky rushed into the the body of the corpses at once.
Valyha's shoulders dropped to her side like noodles as her jaw dropped. It was now Valyha truly started to get scared. And intrigued. But mostly scared.
Not just the corpses but branches, swords, shoes, everything that had been moved by her even the slightest, started to swirl in reverse around her like a hurricane. Faster and faster the objects flew, polluting the air with debris.
"Wait...? No." Valyha realized what was happening
The things she had destroyed, the people she stabbed, everything. They were rearranging themselves.
"No!" Anger radiated in her throat for the first time as she swung her sword in an attempt to break every object. But as she sliced her sword, it went through like air.
Everything was changing. The houses she had stormed, the placed she had cleared. All of it going backwards.
Until..
Valyha had found herself back in a metal room. With the eleven men she
had once killed staring at her. And she in a puddle of water.
"Answer!" Those words repeated itself.