The Black Saint is My StalkerCh50 - Time Record was in play

The large cold spot at the back began to simmer to boiling point at precisely 12:03 am. Everyone took to their positions.

Seoyun backed away from her array, giving way to their vanguard, Jayden Lee Jones. The tall, dark-skinned man uncuffed a thick silver bracelet around his arm. What appeared to be a piece of jewelry split into nine metallic wasps, swarming around Jayden in synchrony. Four whizzed forth, forming a pyramid shape around the cold spot. Lasers connected each wasp, creating some sort of barrier while the other five remained hovering by the vanguard. Three more rings were removed from his fingers and he played with them in his palm in anticipation. oNC4lP

Jayden and Seoyun were the closest to the cold spot, while Graham held his position further back in the warehouse, watchful if something went down in the three points of interest scattered about the middle of the building. Hugo was nearby, standing by with effigies in hand.

At the very end of the warehouse, away from the majority of the cold spots, Felix set up shop close to the exit. And lastly, Marie-Josianne patrolled the parameter just in case.

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It was 12:06 when the earth began to rumble, the miasma so thick there was a thin haze of darkness that permeated across the warehouse. Hugo used a hollow doll, raising it to pull in as much miasma as possible, but it did little to dent the stifling air that threatened to engulf them.

Graham had Clarent in his left hand and the Archivist in his right. His eyes were trained forward, watching darkness pool beneath Jayden’s prism. His eyes glowed gold as he activated his miracle. Time Record was in play. QrpFE4

Everyone held their breaths.

Seoyun brought out her fan and—

Marie-Josianne’s came over the communication spell, sharp and breathless, ‘Man down. Front site. There’s another one. Fuck!’

There was no time to be startled.

Especially not when time was being rewound. But unfortunately, Graham had only activated Time Record less than a minute ago and that was as far he could go.

Darkness sucked Graham in and when he came to, he was back several seconds prior. Time had reset. Exactly 14 minutes and 18 seconds were left on his Time Record.

No one said a word when he abandoned his post, rushing to the front of the warehouse. ‘Second breach. Outside, next to Sentinel A.’

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But this time, before its fangs could sink into Felix’s arm, Graham raised the Archivist and with precise aim, blew the serpent’s skull apart with a silver bullet.

Felix cursed, jumping to his feet as he realized his mistake. He was trying to quell the miasma instead of setting up multiple barriers, thinking that easing the atmosphere from the miasma was more important to help his teammates. Clearly, his position hadn’t been nearly as safe as he expected.

Without time to mull over his errors, Felix reached for the two bottles on his belt and unleashed the contents within. A veil of light formed around him like a bubble but also pulsed outward to ward off incoming evil. Another vial was plucked, this time from the other side of his belt. The fluid within was like shimmering sapphire. When it collided with the bubble, the thin water-like barrier solidified into ice. Felix repeated this process twice more. kQrhGe

Black snakes slithered in from the door, there were metallic whirls from Marie-Josianne’s gadgets, her voice sharp and breathless over their line of communication. ‘It’s outside. Almost fully summoned. Red halo, it’s a lord. Oh hell, I need back-up!’

At the same time, Jayden’s voice also invaded the spell, ‘First breach coming through. Halo’s black. Ain’t that our prince? Tsk.’

Seoyun’s orders were sharp and commanding, ‘Hugo, support the main breach. Graham, secure Marie and Felix. Marie, phone in for back-up and notify Miguel.’

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‘Got it, ma’am.’

‘I’m on it!’

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Graham did not look behind him, despite the alarming swell of demonic energy, and instead, put himself between the torrent of serpents and their sentinel.

The Archivist was withdrawn and Graham was thrust into full melee, cleaving through snakes that slithered towards him like an endless wave. lg1EpO

‘Entering Fortress Mode in 20,’ Felix’s voice cut through the spell, ‘Activating 2nd phase…Look, I get that my barrier’s pretty fuckin’ great but try not to let me die, right?’

Too late, Graham thought absently, you already died.

But it was inappropriate to respond so he didn’t. Felix’s second phase involved drawing in demonic entities and strengthening his sentinel’s fortress, meaning that Graham was free to disengage from the army of snakes flooding inside. He could focus on whatever was unfolding just outside the warehouse, where he could hear sighs of clashing and cursing behind the howling wind.

Graham bolted out of the door, leaving Felix and his barrier of frozen holy water behind. A powerful pulse rippled from that domed shield, attracting the demonic serpents closer. But when they came upon it, they were burned by the searing gust of holy energy that emitted from the barrier. Despite this, more and more snakes were drawn in, soon covering the dome-shaped barrier with their wiggling black bodies, each concerned solely with killing and devouring prey. MGmc4H

It was only when Graham left the confines of the warehouse, did he get a clear view of where those serpents were coming from.

There was a black void at the center of the parking lot, where a large female humanoid figure emerged. It was not fully out of the portal yet, with its navel just above the blackened pool where serpents swarmed like rippling water.

Her skin was slightly greenish, an elegant face frozen in repose, long lashes fanning over her cheeks. Her hair, unlike the rest of her, was animate, clusters of strands forming serpent heads that hissed and snapped and anything that dared to move. Below the demon’s navel, soft human-like skin merged with hardened scales, green with a hint of iridescent sheen. A disk floated above her head and it was a deep maroon color, signifying her rank and power as a higher being.

It was a demon lord. pQNa z

Marie-Josianne expelled a string of curses. Her enchanted knives had already been deployed. They had wrenched into the ground around the barrier from which the demon lord sprung, forming a tight, geometric seal, similar to the one that Jayden deployed.

But it did very little against the festering swarm of serpent demons that were pressed flush against the edge of the barrier, spilling over like the flood overtaking a dam. These strayed serpents slithered at lightning speeds, much faster than what was capable of normal snakes. Some zeroed in on Marie-Josianne, who was busy with a gun in hand, shooting as many as she could while the Seeker-X20 attempted to do its job from the air above her. But there were only so many shots it could make and so many bullets Marie’s gun magazine could hold.

She groaned in despair as her clip emptied. Instead of reloading right away, she reached for a small spherical object on her belt and tossed it into the sea of serpents. Upon contact with a demonic entity, the grenade exploded, first flooding the scene with blinding light before holy flames devoured the snakes that sought after her.

It gave her enough time to reload and re-orientate herself. But she couldn’t do much more, for another wave of snakes was soon upon her, seemingly endless. And worse, the demon lord continued to inch out of its blackened prison, her long lashes quivering as they struggled to peel open. 4VBMX8

Marie-Josianne would have cried from frustration and despair because there was no way a measly little scout was going to deal with a whole higher demon by herself!

Luckily, Graham had burst out of the warehouse before Marie-Josianne could cry into the communication spell to plead. His sacred sword, Clarent, glowed with divine light, emitting a warmth uncanny for a cold, killing tool. With a single stroke, the blast of holy energy was so acute in strength that it blew asunder the wave of serpents, leaving behind goo-like blood and heaps of meaty gore.

Graham took to position, wedging himself between Marie-Josianne and the demon serpents that crawled out of the portal. Though there were still a few wiggling black things that escaped his line of defense, it eased things up for Marie-Josianne considerably.

She finally took a sigh of relief, retreating an extra few steps back to readjust her position and assess her next move as a proper scout unit. 4jW67M

But before the Demon Lord even fully crawled into the mortal realm, disaster struck over the communication spell.

‘Exorcist A2 down—’ Seoyun’s voice was gasping and panting, and failed to muffle a pained groan over the spell. ‘keh…!’

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Following her was Jayden’s voice, vacant of the standoffish swag it usually carried, ‘Fuck! Exorcist A1 incapacitated. Saint Graham, you need to do that rewinding jazz, give us a full three minutes and tell Hugo that—’

Graham didn’t get to hear what he needed to tell Seoyun because the communication cut with a large surge of demonic miasma that boiled over from within the warehouse. Even if he couldn’t hear the end of the message, the Saint of Eternity obediently activated his Time Record. tr07VS

Reality disappeared into a dark vacuum and Graham found that he was still inside the warehouse, protecting Hugo while he was shifting into fortress mode.

11 minutes and 18 seconds remained on the Time Record.

And the only thing Graham had to offer for it was a simple transmission, ‘Three minutes. Main breach team gets wiped. Exorcist A2 first to go.’

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