The Black Saint is My StalkerCh100 - Go bald from stress alone

Edited by dreamandwonder

When it came to the theory of witchcraft, Valtteri was rather confident in his knowledge.  Quantifying lifeblood energies, the formula for different mana type conversions, and theory of spell crafting and rune-writing? Yeah, he aced all those subjects with flying colors. Even his mummi sang him praises for his extensive knowledge. r M6g8

But no matter how much Valtteri actually knew about rituals and spell crafting, technically application was always a bit difficult when his blood was so desaturated that he could hardly pull off anything more than some low-leveled spells.

The chance to use such oppressive and staggering amounts of miasma to fuel his witchcraft was something that he definitely could not miss out on! Not to mention, he didn’t even have to give up a limb or body part to do so! How convenient. 

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It was so odd and probably a bit terrifying to have a higher demon grant him such immense powers…

Putting aside his apparent excitement and intrigue, Valtteri drew runes over the area around the dark pulsating object. He may or may not have gone a little overboard, but how else was he going to expend the surplus amounts of miasma that saturated the air around them? Zdegcv

Valtteri closed his eyes. When he drew breath, he funneled the miasma into his body. And though the miasmic energies didn’t fight him; powers given readily, Valtteri might have miscalculated a little. Because a wrath demon’s powers were particularly volatile and for a moment he felt like he was being seared, boiled from the inside out. But the young man grit his teeth and endured. The runes that he littered over each and every blackened vein began to glow an eerie blue.

Han Li watched, his heart stirring with inexplicable emotion. He felt as though his mind was teetering on a balance that he couldn’t put a name to. With nothing to do, he could watch as the little witch consumed his miasma and used it to fuel his little spell.

…Wait.

Little? Did Han Li just mentally refer to Valtteri as ‘little witch’ when the man was almost a head taller than him? Dizzied, he cradled his head, running his clawed fingers through his locks. Seriously, he needed to get a grip. But the more Han Li stared at the little— big witch and his funny little spell, Han Li found that his hunger only grew. Frustrated, he turned his vision elsewhere, trying to spot anything else of intrigue littered around the room.

But the control room itself was nothing of interest to him. Aside from the unconscious researcher that lied as though dead on the floor, there were odd machines that lined the wall, their screens dark. The alarm system still blared, emergency lights were abundant and flashing and carved a space in Han Li’s brain in the shape of a migraine.

Good to know that higher demons could get migraines, Han Li thought with deep lament. The blackened tangle of ancient magic stretched much farther beyond than just the basement. In fact, Han Li could see figments stretching upward like growing veins.

That was right, there was still a Heavenly Layer, wasn’t there?

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Valtteri gasped, suddenly, summoning the half-demon’s attention. “You done?” he asked, putting his clawed hand on Valtteri’s shoulder. “We gotta go.” kqoPHf

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“Ngh,” Valtteri cradled his hand, a scowl forming on his face. “No…call the others…to deal with this…I’m exhausted. The flow of magic…should be secure for now, so we have the time to call in experts…”

“No,” Han Li cut him off, “there’s still the Heavenly Layer.” l1CtpZ

“Voi vitun vit— You’re right.”

…

By the time that Oscar and co finally arrived on scene, everything had devolved into madness. While Leonie was busy making calls, frantically trying to find channels to get them the proper licensing into the Edelstein Pillar, Oscar had gone the exact same route as his fellow guardian and slammed down heavily on the gas.

“Huh? No,” Leonie said hurriedly, her voice crescendoing into a yell, “I need it now, dear! Can you please contact the Greater Board at once? Jonathan Walker is your associate, is he not? No, no I can’t wait, the situation is dire—“ xYtzwV

Her words were unfortunately cut short. Leonie jostled with the rest of the car, squeaking when she saw a poor man caught in the headlights, shouting at them to stop before the cones and the yellow tape.

Oscar had no such conscience and sped right through the wreck of the old boom barrier, leaving the poor worker with even more crap to put up with. The car swerved, tires screeching against the lawn. A horde of demons was just up ahead, explosives thundering and sharp cries.

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“Oscar!” Leonie yelped, her limits pushed, voice nearing hysteria. “Just what are you doing!?”

Said offender practiced cold apathy, completely ignoring his screeching captain as he continued to drive. Perhaps worse was the loud exorcist, who guffawed loudly in the back seat. “You going to keep yakking, love? The chap ain’t going to listen, so what are you going to do about it?” VR6EJg

The helpless glare she shot him only gave Trevor more life. Soon he was chortling, booming with laughter even as Oscar outright rammed their car into an unfortunate demon.

The guardians were surprisingly not startled but the answer to that was rather simple; another black Hunter’s Association car was haphazardly parked on the lawn. It had been used as cover, the black metal frame abused from demonic attacks, featuring deep scars and rough tears.

Excitement flared in Leonie’s chest as she struggled out of her seatbelt and almost got pelted by acidic spray coming out of some demon’s deadly maw. She just managed to dodge with a surprised squeal as she wrestled to pull her lance out from the vehicle.

“V-Valtteri and…Han Li are here!” she announced to no one in particular. Trevor had already run off, joining the guardians in their defense line, fending off the swarm of demons that seemingly rose from the earth itself. Gmictd

Oscar had abandoned them as well and instead was being fed critical information from one of the defending guardians.

“Something breached the wards, some weird magic we’ve never seen before. The state sorcerer should be arriving soon to take a look at it but we need to clear out the breech first. It’s proving a bit more difficult than expected, sir.”

“Hang in there, we’re here to help.” Oscar gave the man an encouraging pat on the shoulder, “Going to show these bastards what real hell is like.”

The guardian perked up at Oscar’s encouragement, “Right, sir!” A crash distracted their attention, desire demons charged recklessly at the line of defense. The young guardian was quick to respond, springing forth with gun in hand. u5FMgE

“Oscar,” Leonie said again, clearly not having learned her lesson despite the number of times the paladin guardian ignored her instructions.

He scoffed, annoyed at the sound of her voice, already readying his weapon to join his fellow guardians in the fray. “About the kid and Val? Yeah, I bloody heard you the first time around.”

The petite woman had to jog to keep up with him, lugging her heavy weaponry with her. “But then…!” She struggled to hold back her exasperation, “We ought to find them! We’re a team—”

Oscar really didn’t have time to talk to this useless person, but his nerves had been grated ceaselessly by her voice and he wanted nothing more than for her to stop chasing him. “Look, I get that Val can be a bit of a dick head but the twat’s an A-rank guardian for a reason. He can hold his own, yeah? If he really needed our help he would have called.” UWKtDO

And just then, like some sort of sick joke, Oscar’s phone began to ring loudly.

“…” Not even a demonic roar was enough to muffle the sound of rock and roll blasting from Oscar’s chest.

“I think that you should pick that up,” Leonie pointed out.

With a scowl, Oscar braced himself and twirled his weapon, tapping the trigger just as demon breath trailed his way. Shotgun pellets rammed through the demon’s skull, the creature crashed right at his feet. Mw8T2u

Annoyed, he fished his phone out of his pocket and there was Valtteri Hopeaharju’s name flashing at him offensively. He begrudgingly picked it up, letting Leonie take over to fight any demon bastards that dared to approach.

“And now you call me, you fucking twat.”

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“Um.” Heavy breathing mixed with words. “Yeah, um. Sorry. Left the radio in the car…”

“Professional,” Oscar scolded. Leonie, that incompetent bitch, couldn’t even stop a stray tentacle darting his way, and Oscar had to deflect the blow with his staff while he balanced his phone between his ear and shoulder. “So what did you want?” msd4OU

“Um…So about that…There’s a magical bomb planted on B13.”

Oscar reeled so sharply that he almost got bodied by the desire demon charging straight at him. “What!?”

“Don’t know what happened with surveillance but…yeah…uh… It’s contained…for now…probably? Anyway, you should really get an expert to check it out just in case.”

“Where are you now?” Oscar asked. Demanded. vW5CT8

“Elevator. Uh, going up to the 25th floor. Han Li thinks…there might be one on the Heavenly Layer too…”

At that moment, Oscar thought he was going to go bald from stress alone.

Author: since there were comments about Han Li’s demon appearance the last chapter, I decided to draw it to share my own rendition ; w ; e-enjoy!!

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