"damnit, damnit it all. All of this is inanity."
He witnessed everything with his own two eyes. It was all too overwhelming for him to make sense of it.
It is just a Human. How can one human kill a Towering Devil spawn all by himself?
Between all of this was happening, he had already picked up River and made a run for it. Who would wanna stay and watch a crazy man fight a Devil from hell. He has no interest in becoming collateral damage of this battle.
All the devil spawns had already left to answer the call of that unrelenting bloodlust. The call just gave him a deep chill down to his spine. But atleast the path to escape this hell is sort of cleared.
'Also, what the hell? Why are they so eager to answer the call of death? What's the point? And what is wrong with that human man or woman or whatever? Why do you need more Devils when you are already dealing with a towering behemoth. Has the world gone crazy since I left? It has only been a month.'
He curses at the world, at his luck and at humanity.
Steel hadn't paid much attention to the rest of the battle between the human and Devil. But even he didn't miss that shock wave of destruction. Killing the Towering Devil spawn.
It was quite an awesome scene to witness. Even River spoke a little "woah" in his mind. But Steel didn't find it awesome cause that shock wave of destruction has caused so much damage to the rest of the terrain.
Shock wave had even reached to that crack where he was resting after escaping the fissure. His paranoia was right to make him run away. If not for that he would be dead meat.
But the worst of all, that human got a soul weapon. Devil spawns can have an imprint of a rare weapon or item in their soul or whatever they got. It can be obtained after killing one and holding the darkness left behind inside of a devil spawn.
So some of those dead Devil spawns bodies could be carrying soul weapon or items for anyone to grab. But he isn't crazy enough to check every dead corpse of these devils.
Steel grinds his teeth in anger cause he hasn't obtained even one soul weapon. It is true that he hasn't killed that many devil spawns in his life. But the number of his kills isn't that small. Why can't he have a convenient weapon that can be stored in his chest? It all just makes him bitter.
For now, he can only run and hope not to encounter any danger.
Soon after two or three hours, the night is near and he is outside the death zone. Entering in a forest of sort place.
These hours hasn't been easy. He had to hide from the astray devil spawns and running on land as destroyed as this had exhausted him. Sweat and blood was mixing together to make him reek like a dead corpse.
River would've made a comment on his condition if she could smell or see him. She was also not in the best condition. Just covered in dirt and blood of Steel.
But finally, he had escaped that death trap.
He sighed and thought of what he would do next. He had to find a place to spend the night. In the morning, he would have to find food. Maybe some dead devil spawn could be his breakfast. River doesn't need to eat so atleast he doesn't have to worry about her. Then he would have rest and wait for his body to heal, then make the journey back to his home.
All of this a bit overwhelming but right now, he just wants to rest.
But even he knows there's something else he had to deal with before advancing to his plans.
'that ugly slug'
Yes, even after leaving that Devil to fight against two bigger Devil spawns. it survived and also didn't succumb to the bloodlust of that human. This stubborn slug isn't giving up on steel.
Steel doesn't know when did it started following him again. Probably after the shock wave or maybe later. But whatever the case, it is following him.
Steel has a suspicion that even the Devil slug is aware of him knowing of his presence. So devil really isn't shy about revealing itself.
And then it happen. A limb is launched at Steel with explosive speed. However, it is much slower than the last time. So he was able to escape him without taking any damage.
Now in the light of sunset, he can see that the Devil slug is bleeding and is severely wounded. Few of its teeth are even gone.
'Ha, that's what you get for breaking my teeth, you bastard.'
Steel smiles weakly. The slug is already ready for another attack. Even after seeing the sorry state of the devil slug. He isn't in the best shape to deal with it either. Heck, even in his best state he doesn't have much chance to kill a devil spawn.
He had to come up with something to distract the slug and run away. But he really doesn't wanna do that.
He is so tired of running away from that damn slug. He really wants to take his own revenge for giving him so much pain.
After seeing that human killing that towering devil spawn and then get a Soul weapon. He is feeling greed and wanna try his own luck too.
Then as the devil's limb is just few meters away. Steel does something that even the devil didn't anticipate.
Steel threw River towards the devil. She is light enough so it isn't that hard for him to throw her towards a speeding devil.
Such an action even took the devil by surprise. Steel had noticed that this Devil is smarter than others. So it should have deduced that harming her severely is a death sentence for both of them.
Or probably not. Cause the devil has come to its senses in just two seconds and now bending his limb to throw her out of its way. Devil slugs is apparently only interested in Steel.
'it really didn't like that I called it ugly, i guess. Such an overreactor, didn't I say I would apologize? ..'
Steel needed those few seconds to get what he wanted. As the devil swat River out of its way. He jumps at the abomination and plunge his mundane knife into its big single eye.
Devil slug cries in pain but still not quite dead.