***
A clearing in the same forest groaned.
Not literally, of course, it was more like the air itself shivered as Divinity warped around the thing standing across from Ulv and Nora.
The Nulity Daemon.
It was tall and vaguely humanoid.
Clear in their eyes, its body kept peeling and re-forming like smoke, refusing to decide on a shape. They saw its face as a smear except for two bright pinpricks of white.
Two holes in reality.
And when it spoke...
"Ah, two at once. How efficient."
It didn't sound like a Demon, far from it.
"Annoyingly casual..."
Nora flicked her wrist, and three knives appeared between her fingers.
"Just like someone we know, hm?"
Ulv planted his greatsword into the ground with a thud.
"Sure, now stay behind me."
"Don't order me around."
"Then stay beside me."
"…Fine."
Their banter ended the instant the Demon stepped forward, and their surroundings... dipped into quiet.
A ripple tore across Nora's lightning, snuffing it out.
