Cave Demon Hunt

Today we went out on a quest again. What quest? Don't ask. That would be demon slaying.

We seted out early in the morning. The quest says that there was a cave filled with demons. Around fifteen to twenty of them.

For some reason, The Slayer seemed excited. Of course, he didn't really react. Just his movements were faster than usual.

Using my skill, I detected a few demonic presence nearby.

"Hey, I detected some demons, over in that direction. The cave must be close."

He simply nodded and walked in the direction that I pointed. I followed behind him.

Upon getting closer, I've detected more demons. Sixteen. Looks like the report was right.

Under the cover of shade, we watched their movements.

Demons mostly had low intelligence. Only their leaders or higher ranking demons have an intelligence almost or the same as a human.

If there are any that were not wandering around, that means that there was a demon controlling their movements.

I read all that in books since The Slayer won't say a word.

There were two demons at the mouth of the cave, acting like guards. This shows that there was a higher intelligence demon inside the cave.

For The Slayer, this was common sense. After a few seconds of observing, he immediately went out and cut down the demons at the cave entrance.

I caught to him by the entrance. He lit a torch and walked in first. The cave was dark and moist. The path was narrow but big enough to fit two people.

"Hey uhh Slayer? I'm kinda scared..." I wanted to hold his hand, but he rejected.

We came to a stop upon coming up to a fork. He looked at me.

"Uhhm, based on my skill, the demons are on the right."

He nodded and went down the right path first as usual.

The further we went in, we heard bones crunching and meat chewing sounds. Looking at each other, we both readied our weapons.

We approached closer. The sounds grew louder. Just then-

"Behind us!"

-Something was closing in fast.

Wielding his sword, The Slayer prepared for an incoming attack.

What cane out took me completely by suprise. A demon with two horns was crawling our way, fast. I could only turn around for a brief second before it was already in front of me.

I thought it would've been the end of me. Luckily, I had The Slayer with me. The slayer thrusted his sword right beside my left ear. I could hear the swoosh as the sword passed me.

His sword went right through the demon's skull piercing all the way to the back. It's blood dripped onto my clothes. I stood still. Frozen until The Slayer retracted his sword, dropping the demon onto the floor.

I sighed and said "Thanks." As I turned around.

He only nodded and faced back to the direction we intended to go.

"The sounds have stopped. The mass of demons shouldn't be too far anymore. Though, that shriek might've attracted some of them. They're moving slowly this way." I described what I could see using my ability.

He nodded and walked slowly. The demons were also making their way here, so The Slayer had his sword at the ready.

Soon, we encountered the demons. The Slayer immediately took care of them.

I always felt like I could've done something to help him, but every time I asked what I could do, he always pointed at me and patted my head. As if saying that me helping to detect the demons were already enough.

We reached into the deepest part of the cave. Where a big signature was lurking. I couldn't really tell what the demon was just by size and The Slayer wouldn't talk. So I just had to wait until I see the thing to know.

"So... It was you that had been killing my underlings. How irritating." A deep voice welcomed us from the depths.

"There he is. He's sound pretty ferocious." I said.

The Slayer threw the torch that he was holding, lighting up a small part of the cave in front of us. The light revealed something sinister.

Quite aways from us, stood a two metre tall creature. Its two horns were curled and long. It had the body of an abnormally bulky human. Its tail was massive and muscular. Its arms were big and reached down to the floor, but its legs were short. It wore no clothing, only its porcelain white skin was visible.

I gasped and fell down upon seeing it. The Slayer did even falter.

"Little girl, it seems that you are scared. But you..." The large demon turned his attention to The Slayer. "You are not even shaking. And what is this feeling? I feel like I am in danger, but against a mere human like you, I would've taken care of you in a split-"

SLASH!

The demon's arm was cut off.

"AAARGH!! You! Since when did you-?"

In a moment, The Slayer had already cut off its left arm. The demon screamed in pain while holding his stump. The Slayer was standing behind the demon.

"Impossible! I am an archdemon! A mere human cannot have done that to me! Raagh!"

The demon swung its other fist towards The Slayer.

"Watch out Slayer!" I could only watch from afar.

The Slayer moved to his left and dodged the demon's attack. He then swiftly ran up close to it and slice its leg.

"Raagh! Flame!"

Having its leg injured, the demons casted a spell that set its own body on fire. The Slayer retreated a few metres.

"HAHAHA! Come at me now! I'll have you burnt in no time!" The demon spread its arms as if to lure The Slayer in to attack it.

"I can fire a couple shots with... My... My hands... They won't stop shaking..." I was unable to move my hand for some reason.

"HAHAHA! Looks like you are too scared to even move! This is your end humans!"

The demon charged at us with its flaming body. But...

"Huh?"

The Slayer cut its head off with high speed. A demon of its stature, was clearly no match for The Slayer.

The body and head of the demon fell to the ground with a thud.

The Slayer who was still in the stance after an attack, slowly stood straight. He walked to me and offered me a hand.

I took it and got back to my feet. "Thank you."

We then went to the corpse of the demon.

"What... What happened... How...?"

It was still alive apparently.

"You never stood a chance from the start. He kills demons for a living." I said softly.

The demon's eyes met mine. "So you... You were the one that had been killing us. What the humans call The Slayer... Lord Jaldabaoth... I... failed..." Its voice trailed off as its mouth stopped moving.

Seriously, that was really creepy for a head to talk. Also, who's this Lord Jaldabaoth? There's no use asking The Slayer, so I assumed that he's like some kind of superior to this demon.

"That was creepy... Anyway, we're done here, right? Lets head back."

He nodded in confirmation.

Though he never talks and was mostly hated by others, his skills were proficiently unspeakable. Taking down a demon of that size swiftly was a feet no mere adventurers were able to do. Perhaps he was one of the gifted ones like me, but there's no way to tell since he never talks.

Well,one thing's for certain, he earned his rank as Gold in the system.

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