Last Day Bunker Chapter 7

The map to where other magical conclaves were cool and all. But getting across the country at this time with zombies, aliens, and other bullshit roaming around? Yeah not likely.

So it was likely I was stuck here in Vegas until I was able to defend myself against the horrors filling this world. "Now... It's time for me to go meet the local satans." I muttered as I flicked my gloved hands that had Mustang's ignition gloves seeing as I had a copy of all forms of alchemy.

With a flicker of flames escaping past the gloves as I used my alchemy to separate, compress and then ignite the oxygen in the air.

With my new goodies and my truck stuffed to the limit with said goodies, I made my way to the Earl Demon Lord Barbatos. As although Semiramis was a 'option' I knew that Barbatos was my better option in winning against whatever game he wanted to play.

Sadly, I wasn't going to be able to just flee out of Las Vegas with how it was so locked down by the demons. I needed to play by their games and 'earn' my citizenship in beating the demon lord in the game.

There however was a bit of irony in where Barbatos decided to take his base in the Gomorrah Casino which was a casino that was steeped in sin. Having a penchant for running more questionable escort businesses, along with having a history of having big winner's disappear every few years.

I drove my Jeep into the winding driveway of the casino and I saw a sign that clearly stated. [Mages/Supernatural get valet parking. Mortals must park themselves out of the way.]

And once I got to the end of the short line as the mages/supernatural who decided to drive instead of teleporting and whatnot were. I was respectfully escorted by a purple-skinned succubus into the blood-painted casino that had dozens of the Quiet Place aliens staked into the roof of the casino.

"Ah yes those aliens are but beasts, but they have a very rich life force and their suffering-filled life force will feed Lord Barbatos for several decades with how those aliens have an almost endless lifespan!" The succubus proudly exclaimed with her twisting her own nipple in joy that was barely hidden by the human skin bikini she was wearing.

"Lovely." I drawled out as I walked with my hood over my head as I heard someone scream as the doors to the casino were opened by a couple of massive Wrath demons that were covered in darkened bronze armor.

Even as the succubus tried to engage with me, I just ignored her as she was a worthless stray demon not even belonging to Barbatos's legion and thus had no protection, nor could she attack me an unattached mage yet.

Once I was in the casino another large Wrath demon, this one female with an amazon's body and large curved brutal thorn covered horns atop her head stomped over to me with her hefting a large double-headed great axe in her hand as she spoke in a voice that was like gravel being run over by a truck or something.

"You chose to challenge Lord Barbatos?" She growled in a not-at-all-feminine voice.

I nodded and said simply. "Helen and Semiramis would likely cheat me regardless of what happens. Barbatos at least will stab me in the front and cleave me in half. Rather than feed me to a legion of hellhounds."

The large Wrath demoness snorted with steam shooting out of her nostrils before she scoffed. "You should have picked the trickster whores. You will need to kill a demon of the Legion to prove your worth."

I remained silent merely staring up at the taller demon past my hood with her snorting again and turning on her heels crushing the marble beneath our feet before she snapped. "Follow. You will be broken after the next couple of challenges." 

I followed the Wrath demon, ignoring the succubus who bitched quietly about me not giving her 'just a bit of the tip' to make her feel better. And walking into the casino I had to steel myself as I saw beauty depravity happening clearly across the gambling tables, games, and other sites.

Humans were utterly desecrated, where I saw a man had been fused into a throne with his face seemingly put down at the bottom so the more powerful-looking demoness was just sitting on his face.

His entire body had been taken apart and fused into the chair as the throne's arms where his own arms and the legs were his own legs but half of the four legs looked like they were forcibly grown from his own body via some fleshcrafting horror.

Just a bit of flesh-crafting horror was just the top of the shit-filled bucket of horrors in front of myself. I saw a woman stuck in a cage that was surrounded by massive horse-sized hairless hounds that had rippling muscles that had to be hellhounds.

With the cage being just small enough that the hellhounds could only rip small rivets of flesh from her with how small the openings were. And she seemingly had an enhanced form of regeneration as she visibly healed the torn-off flesh in but moments.

Those were just two examples of the horror in front of me... And as much as I wanted to snap my fingers and make this entire place go up in flames. That would be the death of myself. It fucking sucked but I couldn't help these people... For now.

The Wrath Demon led me to the back of the casino and where the back of the casino previously had a horse race track for horse race gambling, it had been converted into a colosseum with her leading me up to a flight of stairs that led to a drop-off that would drop me into the colosseum.

The poor bastard down there in the pits already was cleary a Harry Potter magic-using magical and he was up against a smaller demon covered in bronze armor and I could see the demon was happily ignoring the curses and spells the frantic wizard was shooting into the demon.

'The demons. Or maybe the armor they are wearing are magically resistant.' I mused to myself as the screaming wizard as silenced as the smaller demon leaped onto the wizard and with his clawed gauntlets began carefully carving the hysterically screaming wizards face off.

"Got a preference for an opponent?" The Wrath demon asked with cruel delight at seeing my barely held in bile at the sight as the smaller demon jumping off the man who had passed out with his face a perfect circle of exposed muscles.

With the smaller demon cackling as it wore the other man's face as it ran a round, around the arena.

I took a breath, swallowed down the acid in my throat and said thickly. "That one. I want to kill that one."

The demoness tilted it's head to the side before shrugging and it barked in a foul tongue that made my ears hurt. The smaller demon stopped it's run and its sideway's demonic eye's landed on me as some imps dragged the mutilated wizard out of the arena to be taken into the casino.

For an assuredly terrible fate no doubt.

"Jump into the arena then little mage. Prove your martial favor to Lord Barbatos who is watching... Should you win, you will have all the status of a legion demon and have the right to play the bigger games against demons of actual note for anything you could desire, infinite lifespan, magical tomes, artifacts of great power... It could all be yours."

She finished with a hiss before I jumped into the arena as she stepped forward to push me into said arena.