Modern World Warlock

After Megan and Sabelio's fight was interrupted by the chaos and flames overtaking the cathedral, a giant monster appeared from within, jumping up while trying to catch Dante.

Emerging from the cathedral's shattered facade, the monstrous entity began its relentless pursuit of the warlock, who was leading it further away from the plaza where Zac and Megan stood.

Zac was shocked by the sight, slightly shivering after seeing the sheer size of the beast.

"I can't believe this…" Sabelio muttered.

"You truly cornered us," he continued, knowing that the behemoth was their last resort plan.

Megan didn't reply and kept her gaze on the old man, with half of her body burning with shadows from Sabelio's previous attack.

In the blink of an eye, Megan took a quick step and appeared before Sabelio, slicing the air numerous times and generating air slices that caught her opponent's frame.

Sabelio took a few long steps back, releasing a barrage of shadow bolts to reduce the woman's speed. Still, they were of no use, as Megan skillfully avoided all of the projectiles.

Zac clenched his bat, ready to intercept the old man at any moment.

"Zac…" Megan uttered in a cold tone.

"Y-yeah?" The redhead asked.

"This one is mine," she replied, not taking her eyes off Sabelio.

Zac wanted to ask if she was sure of that, but seeing her cold and determined expression made him believe that it was useless to ask, as Megan had already made up her mind.

"Vile Taint!" Sabelio shouted again, releasing numerous explosions around Megan's location.

Nevertheless, the woman moved away from the area with a speed that Sabelio couldn't discern, landing a powerful kick on his demon heart.

Megan's kick wasn't strong enough to smash the heart, but it still gushed out blood as Sabelio let out a war cry, producing even more arcane pentagrams around him.

"I won't let Novis fall!" The old man exclaimed, releasing an abnormal amount of shadow bolts that shot all over the plaza, seemingly hitting random spots.

Zac and the banshee had to move away so as not to get caught up in the reckless attack, and when he looked up to see Megan's condition, his eyes widened in shock.

Without moving from her spot, Megan sliced the air in a quick succession of attacks and deflected all of the projectiles that came toward her, producing a wake of destruction and debris around her.

At one moment, her eyes sharpened as she barely touched one of the shadow bolts with her blade, and instead of being parried to the side, it went back straight to Sabelio, hitting him in the chest.

'She returned the spell!? How!?' Zac pondered.

Sabelio grunted as his chest started burning, making his demon heart pump to reduce the pain. Still, it wasn't as effective as the first time.

The old man wasn't sure why his regeneration wasn't working as effectively as before, deducing that Megan's attacks were so powerful that he couldn't heal them completely.

Moreover, he could feel his umbra drastically decreasing since he was using all of it to combat the woman.

'I'll have to do it…' Sabelio thought, extending his arms and merging all of the arcane pentagrams around him into a single, large one.

As Sabelio stood tall before Megan with a massive magic circle behind him, he pointed both of his palms at her with determination.

"Ultimate Shadow Bolt!" Sabelio exclaimed, producing a massive blast of shadowy energy that shot like a laser beam toward Megan.

The old man had his vision obscured by his own spell, seeing the black energy covering his front and making him smile with satisfaction, thinking that it was over.

*Shink!* A bright light cut the shadowy beam in half.

It was a moment that lasted a split second, but Sabelio was able to detail every move, noticing Megan appearing right in front of him after slashing his spell into two.

Her eyes were cold and uncaring—and half of her body was burning with shadows. Still, the resilient woman sliced upwards and slashed Sabelio's demon heart.

The force of the umbra in her strike forcefully pushed Sabelio into a wall next to the stairs that led to the burning cathedral.

Sabelio sat with his back against the wall, bleeding out from his demon heart that was struggling to keep pumping life into the old man.

Megan calmly walked up to her defeated opponent and stood before him, her body still burning with shadows.

"Heh… It's over, then," *cough, cough* Sabelio said, coughing blood.

"Disappointed?" Megan asked.

"Not at all… This is what Novis needs," the old man said before coughing more blood.

"Why? What made you do this?" Megan calmly continued.

"The Onyx Cartel, girl… Beware-" *cough, cough* Sabelio replied in his last struggles.

"Please… protect Novis," he said, hanging his head down as he let out his last breath.

Right at that moment, the shadows that were covering Megan's body and burning her dissipated into thin air as the caster was dead.

"You bastard… We are not doing this for you," Megan replied to the dead man before she collapsed with her back against the ground, letting out a tired sigh.

"Megan…" Zac called his teammate from the side, looking around him and noticing that they were still surrounded by a few demons.

Most of them were fiends and shadow demons, so Zac was feeling a bit confident. However, when he spotted two wraiths coming their way, he perked up with full alertness.

Suddenly, the two wraiths were encased in a large shadow orb, which made them disappear, wholly confusing the redhead.

'Could it be they were connected to Sabelio somehow?' Zac pondered, seeing that not all the demons were being whisked away.

*Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta* The sound of a rifle echoed loudly, making Zac turn to find the Gamma Team approaching them.

Maya was running at the front, shooting a fiend in the head with a heavy rifle while approaching Megan to check on her.

As the agent got to the brunette, she was relieved to see her awake, breathing tiredly from exhaustion.

"Let's get you out of here… We wouldn't want to be around if Dante and that huge monster come back," Maya said, carrying Megan in her back and making their way out of the plaza.