Last Day Bunker Chapter 8

The demon in front of me hissed malevolently as it circled me as I steadied myself after falling into the arena rather than being pushed in by that large wrath demon I previously was with.

With my footing secured I strode over to the demon and it spoke with a clear hiss in its voice that rolled with it's S's and C's being used.

"Mages... You come to me for battle and glory! I can't wait to wear your flayed skin as a cod piece haha!"

"I have a question." I asked quietly but blandly.

The demon tilted it's head to the side and responded with amusement. "Speak, little mage. Speak your question, and I will attack you afterward." 

"Can a demon be burned to death?" 

My question obviously made the demon confused but then I just flicked my finger and the ignition glove created a spark which ignited the cone of compressed air I had created with my alchemy.

A deafening whooshing noise rang out as a blinding blue cone of super heated plasma bloomed to life and surrounded the demon in super heated air.

Then without missing a beat, I crouched down and my hand touched the blood and gore soaked ground and surrounding the demon I used alchemy to create a large cone of compressed silicon that could resist insane temperatures along with using all the trace metals in the sand including the blood to create blades that pinned the demon in place.

"Sorry... I didn't get an answer. Let me try that again." I spoke quietly before I snapped my fingers again and a continuous torch of white flames slammed into the purposefully angled half cone so that all the flames and heat would be channeled into the demon.

"I asked. If you could be burned alive?" I asked coldly as I looked into the cherry red hot construct where the demon's armor was literally dripping with the heat it was put through.

My question was answered with the suit of armor sagging in place as it's melted form was only held together by the charred bones of the demon that was previously within the armor.

I looked up at the wrath demoness who was looking at me with some interest at the railing and she smiled a toothy and vicious thing. "Good work there little mage. You are now a person, not a thing, or meat to be played with."

With that she tossed a medal towards me but I just let it hit the ground before I leaned down and inspected it as I felt the wrath demoness staring at me with rising wrath at how I didn't catch the medal she threw.

But after checking the medal and realizing the magic in it was just for identification I picked it up and tacked it onto my jacket so that any demons who saw me knew I was off the market.

"Well little Mage... Do you want to play another game? Do you dare defeat a real knight of hell and not one of its endless soldiers?" The wrath demon goaded me.

And I tilted my head to the side and looking at the arena around me I asked bluntly. "And what do I get from that? What do I get in a concrete manner?"

The wrath demon grinned and said in a hiss. "Everything you a human could ask for. Ask and odds are the demon will be able to provide it with ease. Lifespan, magical power, treasures, you name it. We can provide it." 

There was a pause before I grinned and said in a taunt. "Nah, I am good, I don't trust I would gain my goods if I kill the hell knight that makes the deal."

And I saw as her eyes glow with malice, but according to her lord's orders. There was nothing she could do to me unless she formally challenged me.

Then as she opened her mouth to no doubt possibly do just that... I had already walked to the exit of the arena and with a loud clatter, I closed the metal door behind me, and I walked through the tunnel, obviously leading back into the casino.

My assumption about this leading to the casino was all to true as I walked back into the main betting floor and all of it's horror's and debauchery was laid out before me again. And seeing it, I took a deep breath before I mentally swore to kill every fucking demon I came across.

Damn what my sponsor said about them being reason with or played with by exploiting their Sin origin. No, I was going to go on a literal crusade with these monsters that needed to be destroyed.

I then left the casino, and with after dealing with some BS I got back my still filled-up Jeep from the valet that thankfully hadn't been looted or anything.

Then with the reminder of what Sarah and Amelia needed in feminine products, I just went over to a trashed Walmart, and although some of the food and other stuff had been looted. Plenty wasn't as most people were still hiding in their homes.

So I just stuffed the back of my jeep the rest of the way with toilet paper, wet wipes, feminine product's and then I went and looted a dozen can's of ground coffee, and from the camping section I managed to loot a half dozen five gallon barrels of freeze dried beef stew and eggs.

"That will do... Now let's just get home without everything going to shit." I muttered as I could feel my bullshit meter starting to overflow. Like a game where a gauge would build up to create an event if your playthrough was going to simply.

As I could feel it in my very bones. I was cursed to live in interesting times in this new life of mine.

I got into my jeep loaded with everything I had looted and I drove out of Las Vegas itself then as I began driving out of the city I just stopped and stared ahead into the distance.

In the distance was a giant walking skeleton with bone spikes crossing over it's body... Which cool, a giant skeleton was something indeed. But it was literally taller than the Empire State Building as it's head broke through the clouds in the far distance.

And with each slow step it took, I could feel a dull rumble ring out now that I had parked my jeep.

"I fucking hate this world." I whispered as I wondered what hole that damned monster crawled out of before it hit me. That was almost certainly some escaped SCP monster or something that with all the chaos, had broken containment or whatever.