VERNER: The Devil Hunter

My first devil hunt Part 2

"Uhm...uhmph...this thing tastes so good" Verner rushed his noodles into his mouth, digging through the dish with his chop sticks and gobbling them up like some hungry bear. "They call me the father of the sticks, I'm the best chef in the mountains" the chef replied, slicing two knives together with a devious smile on his face, Verner just kept eating, he could'nt care less about what was going on around him.

"You don't look like you're from here, are you a traveller?"

"Uhm..yes...sir?" Verner replied, his voice heavily muffled by the food in his mouth, the chef just kept watching him slurp his bowl of noodles. "So what brings you here young traveller?"

"Uhm...I'm just uh...exploring, I'm exploring the mountains". The chef smile grew bigger "then you've come to the right place,enjoy the meal my boy, if you need anything just call me"

"Sure, sure" Verner kept slurping up his noodles, the chef wiped his hands on a towel and hung it over his shoulder before going into the store, leaving Verner on the bench just in front of it. The street and market was still quite busy, the moon shined brightly in the sky.

'BELCH!!' Verner covered his mouth, slightly embarrassed, he looked around to check if anyone saw him, no one seemed to.

"Phew" he wiped sweat off his forehead and stood up to thank the chef, but started hearing some people murmur on the street, he walked out to check was was going on, everyone on the street seemed to be looking towards the sky, he looked up and noticed some sort of veil forming over the village.

"What is that thing?"

The veil was some sort of force field that covered the entire village. Verner and literally everybody else were very confused, he was here to fight devils, what in the world was this?.

"Tehevatah tensu don devilivus..."

Gustor was standing on a building, his two blade arms raised in a praying position, chanting incantations as the veil stretched until it covered the entire village, trapping every human being in it. Litira looked over the terrified humans on the streets, her hunger growing even greater. She could literally taste them already. Gustor completed the veil and put his arms down

"This veil will prevent any human from escaping into the mountains, and prevent any sounds from escaping from this village, this way we would devour every living human within it and be gone before anyone even notices".

Litira looked very pleased "you're the best partner anyone could ever wish for"

"We have to be quick though, this veil will dissolve when the sun rises, and we'll be destroyed along with it" Gustor warned, "not a problem". Litira replied very cheekily.

Verner was still trying to figure out what was going until he began to hear some people screaming from another street, and that's when he perceived it, the scent of both burning meat and berry fragnance at the same time

"Oh no, that scent!!" he leaped immediately and ran towards the source, he ran over the rooftops until he arrived on the street. They were hundreds of extremely long worm like creatures popping out of the ground, stabbing through every human they came in contact with and sucking everything out of them. Verner was terrified, it was a scene straight from hell. He stared in horror until he managed to snap out of his shock and dived down, drawing his sword out and slashing every worm tentacle he saw. He ran all over the place until he sliced up every single one of them, he stopped and looked around, saw all the dead bodies in the scene, and he started having flash backs of that night.

"Stop it!!!" he shouted as he slapped his forehead repeatedly, he didn't want to lose himself in the middle of a battle.

"My, my, a devil hunter..." Verner turned around and saw a tall female devil with pink skin and short white hair, Litira had a devilish smile on her face, stretching from cheek to cheek, her black and red eyes made her look even scarier. She was in mid air being lifted by her tentacles. Verner noticed many more tentacles that emerged from her back digging into the ground "that must be where they all came from".

"Gustor, it seems like your investigation wasn't thorough"

"He must have been inside the village before I dropped the veil" Gustor replied from behind, Verner turned sharply and saw the weird yellow devil with green hair and arms ending in large black blades, his legs were very thick and dark purple. "These must be the two red grade devils" Verner held his sword with both arms and grinned his teeth, he was right in between both devils and didn't know who to face.

"There's something unusual about you, I can't sense any Qi emitting from your body, is it some kind of stealth technique?" Litira asked, still smiling. "I can sense thunder Qi from the sword, but none from his body, what kind of hunter are you?" Gustor asked, raising his right arm blade and pointing to Verner.

The screams of the villagers could still be heard in the background, they were all trapped in Gustor's veil and help was not coming from the outside. Right now, their lives depended on Verner's abilities as a devil hunter, if he loses this battle this night, another village will be destroyed just like his own all those years ago, but this time, things will be even worse, because no single person will be able to run away from the devils. Verner sweated profusely, the burden of so many lives on his head, he has never been under this much pressure, he now had a thousand reasons to win, not just one. Rodric had given him the perfect test, and he can't afford to lose this time, too many people would die if he failed. "I won't, I can't!!" he muttered.

"Look kid, we don't want any trouble, so here's an offer, we'll let you walk away from this veil and give you a chance to survive, all you have to do is surrender and look away, you don't have to die"

Verner's eyes lit up after hearing Litira's request, these devils were going to let him live, and all he had to do was turn a blind eye and let them kill these people that he never even knew, he was sweating so much, he couldn't think.

"What's your answer, devil hunter..."

Litira's smile became even more devilish, Gustor only stood by and waited for him to make a move. Verner stood still in between both of them

"What I'm I going to do now?"