James on the spot created a lore on flame fiends with all the information on flame fiend he could think off. even though it was not detailed it enough cause there was much information on flame fiend to begun with anyway, as flame fiend is grude type ghost which solely exists feeding on the agony and suffering of the hundreds of thousands of souls it was summon off. only way to completely defeat this creature was with absolute strenght, it was invinsble in same level. The levels of Flame fiend are divide with number of suffering souls they are made of. for example Hundred Soul Flame Fiend is weaker than Thousand Soul Flame Fiend which is weaker Than Ten Thousand Soul Flame Fiend.Grudge type creature"s are very hard to deal with cause they are powered by one of the top tier power know, the Human Emotions to be accurate Negative Human Emotion. Even though Agony and suffering are not considered as the top of Negative Human Emotions like the Seven Sins they still way out of the legue of a bunch of rookie Terror walkers. James and team would hardly be able to match with Hundred Soul Flame Fiend let alone the Ten Thousand Soul Flame Fiend infront of them right now.
After hearing James"s made up lore, Hito thought for a movement and said " Are you telling me this creature is made of hundreds of thousands of innocent souls being tortured by the demon flame and powered through the agony and suffering of these souls. Than this creatures existence is more than just blasphemy. "
" Ten Thousand Innocent souls to be exact, but you are right it existence is blasphemous and we should put an end to it, more like you should put an end to it, to be exact. " corrected James but he totally agreed with him cause profane existence like it should never exist in frst place.
" Then I will do that, Hurricane slash " saying that Hito sprinted towards the Flame fiend and slashed at its skull, finally Hito displayed his perfect level kendo along with Ken Hosu (sword step), it was like he teleported right in front of the Flame Fiend within blink of an eye and cut its skull with a small controlled Hurricane, but to his surprise even though the sword cut through the fiends skull into two perfect half, soon both the half of skull joined together back to normal with not even a single scratch as if no damage was dealt.
" AaahHH! son of a ..... that hurt. that sword of yours is really my nemesis. if it were a normal situation you could have easily killed me but fortunately now we are not in normal situation, right now you people are in my domain and that sword of yours will bring me no harm in here hahaha!. " scorned Flame Fiend Rak looking at the humanling retreating.
Seeing the abnormalites in the flame fiend Hito did not charge at it blindly once agian but choose to retreat. Masako who was clamly observing the situation from the sides said " so this Fiery demon domain formation was laid by you some how i am finding hard beliving it cause even though you are demon your nature is aggresive but not calm and calculative enough to lay a trap and wait patiently."
" Whatever, This king is invinsible inside this formation array and you guys are like flowers in my garden waiting to be plucked. Hahaha! " laughed the flame fiend feeling its victory was close.
Seeing the flame fiends smug face Hito once again wanted to try killing it but before he could act on it a croaky voice sounded interrupting him, " save your breath, you cannot harm him unless you can cut open the formation array with you sword. he is using his flame heart as the core to power and control the formation array. "
" We my end technique I should be able to cut open the formation array if it is powered by the flame of agony and suffering, but I will require some time to gather my energy. " said Hito after some considerations.
" then what are you waiting for, I will cover you. " said Masako hearing that Hito could break the formation array.
" no, you end technique would have worked earlier but now its not possible. as who ever laid this formation array was really cunning and meticulous in their planning the used my soul flame to tamper and nuture the the flame heart of the flame fiend to Nether flame fiend.
they clearly knew that I would use my soul flame to overpower and break the formation array, so they used this fools flame heart as the core of the formation array which would evolve by consuming my soul flame, advancing the tier of the fiery demon domain formation array making it near impossible for use to break free of the trap.
forget about the flame fiend, I will deal with it you guys deal with the next insect tide while searching for the core before the flame fiend gets to the core because once the fiend gets its hand on the nether flame hear it will advance into Nether Flame Fiend than our doom is eminent. " said the croaky voice. as soon as the voice stopped a tranquil empyrean middle aged female figure dressed in ancient red onmyoji dress.
Looking at this Middle aged Female figure, Masako bowed with respect and said " grandma what do you mean by next insect tide. did we not kill all of them. "
" silly girl we are facing more than one lord level enemies and one of them is a insect type, so do you still think you have killed all the insects. do not underestimate the enemy girl" said the middle aged female figure but this time she no longer masked her real voice with croaky voice. her real voice was so melodious and dreamy to listen to.
" that"s your grandma, are you sure. " exclaimed Justin admiring the divine beauty of Tokugawa Sukehime.
" Humh! " snorted Masako
" so, you are the so called Fatherlands guardian. I thought you would be more intimedating and daunting. this trip would be disappointing if not for the Nether flame heart. " said the Flame fiend as he looked at Sukehime.
" sorry to disappoint you and congrats on advancing your demon flame heart to Nether flame heart. you must be really trust that person to offer your flame heart to be used as the formation array core and even confident in that persons abilites to defeat me. A enemy shrouded in mystery Hahaha I do like a good mystery. " Laughed Sukehime looking forward for a worthy opponent.
" Thank you Human, now offer your soul to this king. " saying the flame fiend rised his hand in air summoning a huge 5 meter long screaming human head shaped flame and launched it at Sukehime shouting " fire demon strike "
Seeing the Screaming human head shaped flame Sukehime sneer and waved her left hand at the flame forming wind ripple in the air which when coming in contact with Screaming human head shaped flame negated the flame extinguishing it completely, and then Sukehime said looking at the dumbfounded flame fiend" thats all you got than maybe I am the one who should be disappointed "
Even though Flame Fiends flame are powered by Agony and suffering of soul, they are still basically formed as the regular flame using oxygen, so strong wind can be used to extinguish it.
"humh!" snorted the flame fiend and said " their is more where that came from" as he rised his hand in air summoning 100 huge 5 meter long screaming human head shaped flames and launched them aimming at Sukehime screaming "100 fire deamon strick". facing all the Screaming human head shaped flames Sukehime similar to the previous time wave her left hand forming wind ripples but this time the ripples were more vigrous with higher frequency, as soon as the 100 Screaming human head shaped flames came in contact with the wind ripples they extinguished with a "poof!"
" boy aren"t you a disappointment, you really like to talk big for a no show. " scorned Sukehime looking at the flame fiend who seemed to be sweating flames as he slowly stepped back, clearly it was overwhelmed by the strength shown by Sukehime.
" so, what if you are powerful than me you still can"t kill me as long as my flame heart is the core of this Formation arry I am Immortal in this array. Hahaha! " laughed the Flame fiend maniacly and seemed to have gathered some courage as he stopped walking backwards.
" fool! so what if I cannot kill you for now, I still can seal you till I find the Formation core and then you know, dispair you foolish creature. " said Sukehime as she joined her hands in form of praying and shouted " Sora maiso (Sky Burial) "
The Air around the Flame Fiend started to rotate faster and faster forming tornado, with the flame fiend in the eye of the tornado...
Seeing that something far worse then death was awaiting it the flame fiend shouted " NooOO!! Hive Mother save me!! "
Sukehime did not care for the cries of the fiend and continued with her sealing, the small tornado soon started to contract slowly, the flame fiend in the eye of the tornado felt like he was being compressed from all ide with huge pressure and screamed in terror for being sealed.
Along with cry of the Flame Fiend second Wave of the insect tide entered the formation array, but this time the Insect that entered were smaller and weaker compared to the previous wave but made up for their lack strenght with their savage and bloodthirst nature.
Seeing the second wave of the insects come James and Janet entered the wagon to control the Machine cannons, choose to sit this one out as pervious wave had already consumed her of all her strength.
Even though Janet was not a proefficient as Malinda, she filled the gap with her perfect coordination and timing. unlike Malinda Janet did not focus in crowd control she supported James following his lead. instead of more kills she was more in to a.s.sisting James control the battle field.
Hito and Masako did not partic.i.p.ate in supperessing the second wave they choose to sit this one out knowing there are more enemies hiding and they need to guard Sukehime as she was sealing the flame fiend and also they thought firepower of 8 corspe puppet and two machine cannon was more than enough to take care of the second wave.
A partly human partly insect figure flew into the dome, hovering in the air it caught everyones attention, then it said in a hoa.r.s.e feminine voice " tuk! Rak you waste after all this planning you could not complete your task and even begged for a rescue too, you really are a useless coward. if I had not needed the formation I would have killed you myself. "
Upon close inspection the humaniod Insect was found to be a female it must be the Hive mother that the Flame Fiends cried help from, Being partly insect, her body was largely const.i.tuted of exoskeleton, but light enough to allow winged flight. Hive Mother is a tall and large woman and has the appearance of a humanoid insect resembling more like a crossbread between a human and a insect. she has 3 pair of limds of which 2 pair are arms and one pair are legs. she had long hair and a distinctly human face, her head resembled a Insect"s, including a second pair of compound eyes, two sets of antennae, and a shortened proboscis. Despite having a lower humanoid body, she still carried a banded abdomen from the small of her back. Her biceps and shins were covered in long bristles and striped akin to a hornet"s. She also had a rather voluptuous figure. her body leaked of resembling killing intent and blood thirst.
Flame Fiend was not in any condition to defend or retort for himself against the mocking of the Hive Mother, as he was being constrained by continuously shrinking tornado.