Dungeons, Idiots, Treasures, How Hard Can It Be?

Fury bubbled within the demon's heart, a lusy for blood sizzled inside the demon's cold furious eyes, and a sense of urgency to destroy the Ragtag at once.

Slowly fire surrounded around the left hand of the balrog which slowly formed into a massive black jagged halberd which lit up with flames.

The stronghold quaked once more before Erick now the balrog rushed towards the group.

A massive barrier was placed up as soon as Erick slammed the halberd at the barrier everyone rolled out of the way.

Yuni took out her long bow aiming it at the balrog who got attacks by a storm of flaming swords that were summoned by Volhcard. 

Erick opened it's massive jaw wherein black flames came out spreading throughout the area as soon as it touched the wall it vanished into complete destruction revealing the ocean and how it was dusk.

"Anything useful you got, Theo?" Volhcard twirled his staff around in which ice started forming around it soon it shaped itself into spears.

Once the spears collided with the left knee of balrog Erick it barely left a scratch. Roots sprouted from the ground latching themselves on to the legs of the demonic Erick which slowly absorbed the blood weakening he's bones.

Thwack! Five arrows struck the back of demonic Erick which caused him to roar at the direction where the arrows came from. Then a slash struck his left Achilles heel from Yuni who rolled out of the way right before the halberd was struck down.

With each attack hitting him, demonic Erick lashed out in fury randomly striking with his halberd at the group only for them to dodge or the barrier would block it.

Clang! The sound of the halberd dropping to the solid black stone floor echoed throughout the area.

Everyone went silent from seeing a crimson light flicker in and out inside the body of demonic Erick.

Opening his jaw the light looked as if it got bigger and bigger before everyone realized it was... Getting brighter.

"May Glorious Life Bless Us!" screamed Volhcard as soon as he slammed the staff down a bright light flooded the room followed up by the massive breath of flames that came out of demonic Erick.

When both powerful blasts collided the stronghold shook frantically before the columns fell into pieces and the entire stronghold fell on it's own. Dust mixed with fog blindrd everyone, and afar Aldir floated while using his magic to keep him and the cage of Sticky afloat.

When the fog slowly lifted it revealed that the demonic Erick lost his upper half, however he started regenerating slowly, as blood, bone, and muscle formed. Volhcard quickly used this chance to send down hurls of large fire balls.

Theo quickly switched the barrel of his blunder buss to a automatic one and started bombarding the demon with his shots. Jae sprouted wings and flew above demonic Erick breathing out flamed at his body.

Yuni and Aralia took a step back waiting for any sudden course of action from the demonic Erick.

Even after all the attacks it only slowed down the regeneration, but not fully kill the demon as he finally stood back with only the upper left part of his face regenerating.

"We're fucked." chuckled Yuni as she internally thought.

Seeing the look of fear and annoyance of Yumi, placing her hand on both shoulders she spoke.

"Hang in there, we're gonna save your best friend, right?" Aralia said with a hopeful grin.

"Tch," hearing the hopeful tone of Aralia pissed her off, but what pissed Yuni off most was the fact she was of the Mole Rat subrace of the Rattians race.

Slapping both her hands away she walked towards the fully healed demonic Erick with her bow out and ready.

"Don't try to comfort me, especially you, rat.." she looked at Aralia before pulling on the string of the bow she hurled down a storm of arrows in a split second.

Theo's eyes only caught a glimpse of her pulling out 200 arrows at once as he silently commented, "Too fast."

All the arrows manage to cut some skin and pierce the hard body of demonic Erick. In an attempt to make her lose control of her senses he started to create hallucinations of Sticky.

Those small visages of Sticky made he stop her barrage of attacks allowing demonic Erick to swing the halberd down to split her in half, but he could feel his left arm cold and a sharp pain flowed throughout it.

Turning his head to his left he saw that Jae had transformed into a 20 meter ice wyvern that had frozen his left arm, and when a bullet from Theo's blunderbuss connected with said arm it exploded into large pieces and red mist.

Demonic Erick let out a roar of pain before snapping his eyes towards Jae and with his right arm he threw the halberd at her only for it to bounce of a barrier sending it back to his throat.

Right after he shot him, Theo gave demonic Erick a mocking grin before speaking while aiming the blunderbuss at his head.

"Where's all that strength, Erick?"

Those words made the demon within Erick furious causing him to go into a feral frenzy of rage dashing towards Theo while the halberd was still stuck to his chest.

Shling! Yuni clashed with Demonic Erick's claws with her daggers imbued with magic from Volhcard, and soon they deflected, blocked, and parried each other's attacks to no end while demonic Erick roared.

With each strike deflecting off each other the battle became more tiring from the increase of heaviness to the strikes and speed in which everyone who watched Yumi and demonic Erick fight thought they were seeing metal flashes only.

"Why don't you die! I'll let you see your comrades, Lord Commander of Kroma!" roared demonic Erick who slammed his right fist into her cheek only for to retaliated with barrage of slashes making gruesome gashes on his chest.

Demonic Erick took the halberd from his chest spun it around before swinging it in sideways towards her waist, however just barely Yuni deflected it with her two daggers and countered a with a slash towards his left eye.

She felt her body was on fire from the painful attacks she took while demonic Erick also felt the pain it was more lesser than hers due to his healing. And when his left arm finally regenerated back he rushed with full force slamming into Yuni crashing her into a pile of debris breaking many bones including her ribs.

Blood dripped down from her head, there was blood everywhere around her body but she didn't stop sending slash after slash at demonic Erick. Demonic Erick felt footsteps from behind and when raised the halberd to block the attack, there was nothing until there was something.

Aralia struck both war axes down to his eyes while sliding created a long trailing cuts which blood gushed out from. Jae started to freeze him slowly, yet demonic Erick still tried fighting back.

Spinning the staff roots came out of the ground latching themselves on to Erick while also piercing his skin due to the sharp thorns. Fatigue, demonic Erick felt himself weaning and growing tired from all the attacks, yet even after that he tried to fight back only for Theo to send thousands of grenades at once.

Once they collided with his half frozen and slashed body, only his lower half remained while still trying to reform himself back. However, Yuni had enough with this long tiring fight and walked over to his lower half.

She took out a sharp blue crystal from her pockets and shoved in the lower half before cutting it in half with her daggers creating a blinding explosion which sent her flying into the arms of Aralia.

"So that's where it went messing... Volhcard heal her quick!" Theo rushed over to he badly injured Yumi where he gave her a painkiller which she drank.

Soon multiple yellow halos hovered over her body as flickering faints of light trailed over it slowly healing her wounds as Volhcard closed his eyes focusing on the bones.

Even after all those attacks, demonic Erick was still alive however he was just now a pile of muscle and blood. Jae raised her claw trying to crush him only for a heavy gust of wind to knock her back. 

Looking over to his shoulder, Theo saw Jae laying on her back staring at Aldir who floated above her with the cage of Sticky right by his side.

"You bastard!" screamed Theo.

Pulling out his blunderbuss he shot at Aldir only for him to move his index finger at it destroying it before it could even touch him. With a cold smile he moved up his left hand forming a black ball which had swirling dark gusts of wind and electricity which he made bigger by the second.

Aralia stood up before Volhcard pulled her back his eyes still closed, yet she could feel the fear in him.

"Don't!"

Theo had a angered look but also a worried one, after all he couldnt just leave Aralia, Volhcard, and Yuni alone just to save his Jae. Suddenly a noisy whirring of cogs was heard ahead of them when bolts of light were sent at Aldir only for him to vanish and return to dodge the attacks.

"Oh? It's you.." he chuckled seeing Idol run towards him.