Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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As Gandalf's hands trembled while trying to get to drink a Mana Potion, the rest of the party was right behind him, unleashing spells and attacking the walls, skinning them apart to limit the expansion of the demonic door's attacks. Anna, Monica, and Tomas were fully concentrating on this task after Gandalf told them to do so while Elisa went to fetch Angelina.

Of course, Anna and especially Monica didn't like the idea at all, risking Elisa's soul getting cursed by demons and everything, but it was still the best strategy to minimize damage and create less chaos in the small and tight battlefield within the corridor.

"Elisa!"

Monica smiled as she saw Elisa rush towards them carrying Angelina who was slowly healing thanks to the Elixir's effects.

"I'm here! Let me help-"

"YOU'VE GROWN WEAK, WIZARD!"

The Demonic Door laughed, manifesting a titanic, red-skinned hand pointing at Gandalf, who was in the middle of drinking a Mana Potion while Tomas took the responsibility of firing magic missiles everywhere.

"Ahhh!"

Gandalf felt the immense pressure of the hand as it opened a giant crimson eye, a pressure only exuded from Demonic Energy Aura alone, making him drop his Mana Potion and become staggered for a moment.

"Master Gandalf!"

Tomas screamed in horror as he saw the massive hand rushing down, he ran to help his new "master" but it was futile, his speed was too slow, and his body was weak, he would only get crushed like Gandalf!@@novelbin@@

He fired magic at the hand rushing down, but it easily reflected the magic, as the Demonic Door put all its demonic soul into creating an aura to reflect most common elemental magic.

"IT'S FUTILE! DIE LIKE A COCKROACH!"

The hand went down, as Gandalf looked at it in disbelief, and then at Tomas, smiling.

"Don't worry kid, I'll revive later… Carry on the mission!"

CRAAASH!

"Nooooo!"

Gandalf was crushed, his body glitching and beginning to disappear into digital particles, it wasn't bloody, but it was still impacting, as his body had still been crushed, with his arms and legs twisted, and his head destroyed.

He said he'll revive later, and he wasn't wrong… But Tomas knew of a fact that made him still angered. A fact about Players that nobody knew except Merlinus and his most trusted magicians.

A truth that was revealed to him after Merlinus successfully managed to capture and experiment on a Player for a couple of days by killing him constantly.

As Players die, their souls weaken.

A single death might not cause any effect, but the way they die sometimes has an effect.

If they die against a demon, they might receive great damage, which would affect their everyday lives in that "other world" where they came from.

But despite all of this, there was another reason…

Another reason why Tomas felt so shocked and angered.

"He reminds me of my original master…"

A master that once taught him everything about magic, but that died tragically against the demonic wizards when he tried to expose their real identities.

A master named Gandolf, similarly to Gandalf too.

For a moment, Tomas had even believed that Gandalf was his reincarnation or something, as stupid as it sounded.

"You didn't have to do that!" Tomas screamed at the Demonic Door, tears falling from his eyes. "Master Gandalf…!"

He fell to his knees, as he glanced at the body of the Player slowly disappear.

"I couldn't protect you back then, and now…! Even now…!"

"Gandalf's dead?!" Angelina asked. "Dammit! He won't be able to revive in over a day now! We have to stabilize our formation or else-"

"Stop crying like a little girl!" The Demonic Door laughed. "If you're so sad, why don't you join your damned master?!"

"A-Aah…!"

Tomas felt paralyzed as he saw the massive hand's eye, a pressure that left him completely to the demonic door's mercy.

"I'LL CRUSH YOU TOO!"

Angelina, Elisa, Anna, and Monica panicked.

"No! Tomas!" Angelina screamed.

"Get back here!" Elisa cried. "You can't die! You aren't a Player!"

"We won't get there in time! Space around is warping, it slowing us down!" Monica said. "It's a risky move but the Demonic Door is using their bare soul to unleash this pressure! It's immense!"

"Dammit! {King of Four Elements: Speed Mode}!" Anna screamed, jumping over her Familiars fusion, which rapidly transformed into a huge motorbike-like magical construct.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

As it transformed, it rushed at lightning speed towards Tomas!

And yet, even then, as Monica said…

TRUUUM!

"Ah!"

Anna's eyes widened, space warped around them, as they were being pushed back instead of being allowed to move forward.

"Hehehe! Fools!" laughed the Demonic Door. "It doesn't matter if I have to expose my soul! It's not like you pathetic ants could ever harm it enough now that your angel is so weakened! GAHAHAHA!"

Indeed, by his words, it was already confirmed! His Soul was a warping space within his own body, making it possible for him to push foes back constantly, without letting them get close to his "main body", the door itself.

"M-Master Gandolf…! I've failed you again…!"

Tomas felt powerless as the Giant One-Eyed Demonic Hand rushed down to crush him as well, his hand trembled, his entire body trembled.

"I don't want to die but…! This is…! This is how it should be at the end, right?"

He kept crying, lamenting his own existence and the tragedies around him.

"I've done so many horrible things… I-I deserve… to die…" Discover hidden content at My Virtual Library Empire

"TOMAS! FIGHT BACK! GANDALF WOULDN'T HAD LET YOU KILL YOURSELF LIKE THIS, YOU STUPID KID!"

Angelina screamed, her words reaching Tomas' ears, as the boy woke up from the Fear Status Condition he had been inflicted.

CRAAASH!

He used Mana to push himself back, a second before the hand was to crush him, something Gandalf was unable to do as he had his Mana depleted in that moment.

"Damn cockroach! Stay put! Die like the pathetic vermin you are!"

TRUUUM!

The Demonic Door released the pressure once more, as Tomas vomited blood, falling to his knees once more.

"Aaargh…!"

As he faced the demonic hand coming after him once more, Tomas gritted his teeth, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Dammit…! Dammit…! Dammit!"

His heart was filled with frustration, with anger against his own weakness, against his own pathetic self.

"Why cannot I protect anything?!"

"It drives me… so mad!"

FLAAASH!

His eyes began glowing bright red, as something sealed within him started to awaken.

CRAAASH!

And his Inner Demon Awakened.

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