Ose laughed loudly and clapped after Matthew disappeared in front of him.

"Great move." The demon said turning around and throwing an ice shard at the floor.

When the ice shard hit a shadow, Matthew jumped out of it in pain. In his normal form, the ice shard got embedded on Matthew's shoulder, at the back.

"You can't hide from me, Matthew." Ose said walking towards him. "There is nothing in the realms that is a secret to me."

Matthew fend off a Cambion that tried to stab him while he removed the ice shard from his shoulder. On his next movement, Matthew used Aym's dagger to cut off the Cambion's head with ease. He was impressed by how sharp that blade was.

Ose's rapier found Matthew's vest before even the Cambion's head reached the ground. It carved a big hole on the protective equipment, but not enough to draw blood.

Matthew used that opportunity to kick Ose's leg, making the demon fall to the ground a retreat closer to where Aym was facing Beleth and his two Balor bodyguards.

Ose's form shifted on the floor and grew back on foot in a different humanoid form, this time that of a beautiful blonde woman.

With the new form, Ose's strikes got faster and more precise, but less heavy. Matthew was having a lot of trouble defending from each strike.

When Matthew tried a simple cut countering a stab that he parried, the demon in woman form did a hand-less somersault backwards, landing its feet on Matthew's chin and dodging his attack at the same time.

Matthew was thrown backwards landing on top of one of the Balors Aym was fighting with.

At first, that Balor reacted by trying to get Matthew out of itself. But Matthew held fast at its horns.

That gave an opening for Aym's viper head to bite at the other Balor injecting venom in the greater demon. That Balor immediately started to tumble trying to keep on its feet as if it were drunk.

Beleth, still in Douglas' body growled in anger looking at Ose.

"You bloody fool! Stop playing!" The Demon King said grinding his teeth.

And then, by the surprise of all, the Balor Matthew was wrestling with, gently took him on his hands and put him on the ground standing up.

Ose knew immediately what happened. Matthew used his Entice skill from the Dancer class, using his Witchcraft skill to weaken the demon's mental defenses at first and then Entice it to fight for him.

Now that Matthew had the Lingering Mana skill, he didn't need to keep hand contact with his target like he had to do with the Bashmu back in the Labyrinth.

Ose immediately threw an ice shard at the Balor Matthew enticed to his side, but the greater demon exploded it midair with its laser beam.

At the same time, Aym stabbed the Balor he poisoned through the heart. Its body started to incinerate. The Duke's sword fire was so hot, that it could even burn demons born from fire itself like the Balor.

Beleth took some steps back watching one of his elite guard die and the other change sides.

"Ose! Hold them! I need time to get back at my body!" He screamed looking at his real body that was being protected by thick mana walls conjured by the throne.

"Matty." Aym smiled adopting a nickname for him now. "Take care of that shape-shifting cat. The King and I have much to talk about." He added with a wicked smile on his face.

Matthew didn't bother to watch the fight between those two high ranking demons. His focus was on Ose who he had to deal with to close the gate.

Matthew's Balor shot a laser beam at the President who erected an ice shield to protect itself. But Matthew didn't lose that opportunity. Imitating how Faynn fought, he dropped into the shadows, using it to reach Ose faster than he would otherwise, and jumped out of it taking off the ear of the demon with an upward slash.

Matthew had aimed for the head, but Ose dodged at the last minute losing only an ear. The wound now covered in unholy fire.

Then the demon punched Matthew away from itself, but that only created space for the big enticed Balor to get close and hack its enormous sword at Ose.

A Balor who managed to cause trouble to Aym himself, who could be compared to a lesser god, sure would be very powerful, even for a President. And with Matthew fighting together with it, Ose was the one now who was in the defensive.

The President changed shapes again taking the form of an ogre with four arms. He took out another 3 rapiers with blazing blades from the air. Now armed with 4 swords, Ose charged at them.

But it was not enough. Even with more arms, he could not beat two people at once.

"Ose!" Beleth screamed as Aym pinned him against the ground with his foot.

Ose looked at that with wide eyes. But there was nothing he could do.

Matthew became a shadow again and, while the Balor hacked at the President, Matthew came out of the shadows taking its two feet out that started to burn in blue flames as it hit the ground.

It was clear for him now that it was all lost. So it turned itself into a crow and flew away with blue flames burning it as it flew outside a window.

When Ose left the room, the gate on the sky started to close slowly. The demon was no longer maintaining it open. Matthew cleared his objective.

Watching as Ose fled, Aym laughed loudly from his 3 heads.

"It's over, King." Aym said between his laughter. "Die." He added while taking Douglas' head off.

With the death Beleth, the other demons in the room that were loyal to him all started to flee as well. Aym paid them no mind. His attention turned to Beleth's real body on the throne.

Aym needed to hit the mana wall three times to bring it down and leave Beleth's real body unprotected. He then held the body by its hair and busted it into flames.

"Is he dead now?" Matthew asked.

"For a while." Aym said. "We demons don't really die. But it will take millennia for him to come back. And he won't be as powerful as he once was." The Duke explained.

"I see." Matthew said.

"I took quite a liking to you, Matty." Aym said putting his huge hand on Matthew's shoulder. "I couldn't have done this without you. My own troops were useless." He added looking around to the demons who were now having fun with the bodies on the ground and the demons who didn't escape.

"I had my own reasons." Matthew said offering Aym's dagger in return.

"Keep it. You earned it." The Duke said smiling. "You lost your window back home." He added pointing to the sky who was now clear from any signs of the gate.

"I know." Matthew said. "I couldn't reach it in time anyway."

"Since you're trapped here. Why don't become my second?" Aym offered. "You'll enjoy it very much."

"I just want to go home." Matthew shook his head no.

"Well then. Good luck finding a way home, Matty." Aym said turning to his demons who were having their fun shouting orders for them.

Matthew walked away being undisturbed by Aym's army.

"How do you plan to go back?" Ffyr asked

"I don't think mommy would get me there for a deal?" Matthew asked.

"No. Even if she wanted to help you, she couldn't come here to do it." Ffyr explained.

Matthew laughed at his luck and tried to use Purification on himself to get rid of the demonic mana inside of him. However, this time, instead of purifying himself, Matthew only felt pain.

"What happened?" Ffyr asked getting out of his necklace and looking at him.

"I tried to purify myself." Matthew said.

A cold shiver crossed his spine when he saw the face Ffyr was making when she looked at him.

"What?" Matthew asked worried.

"It's done." Ffyr said with tears on her eyes. "Your soul is fully demon now."

Matthew looked at his hands. His skin was now red like the skin of a Cambion.

"Wasn't it too fast?" Matthew asked trying to figure a way out of this.

"We're in hell. Being bathed by demonic mana." Ffyr cried. "I'm sorry Matt. We should have left then. I'm so sorry."

"It's not your fault." Matthew said strangely calm by it. "This might be fun." He smiled.

"Matt?" Ffyr called his name finding his behavior strange.

"Living in hell. I mean. We can travel. Fight. Kill. There are no rules here." He laughed.

"What about going home?" Ffyr asked him.

"Oh. I want to go home. But it doesn't mean I can't have my fun, does it?"

Ffyr hid herself inside his necklace again. She couldn't watch him like that.

"You don't need to be scared, Ffyr. I'm still me. Just… More fun."

Next chapter will be updated first on this website. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.