After gan and Sabelio's fight was interrupted by the chaos and flas overtaking the cathedral, a giant monster appeared from within, jumping up while trying to catch Dante.
Erging from the cathedral's shattered facade, the monstrous entity began its relentless pursuit of the warlock, who was leading it further away from the plaza where Zac and gan stood.
Zac was shocked by the sight, slightly shivering after seeing the sheer size of the beast.
"I can't believe this…" Sabelio muttered.
"You truly cornered us," he continued, knowing that the behemoth was their last resort plan.
gan didn't reply and kept her gaze on the old man, with half of her body burning with shadows from Sabelio's previous attack.
In the blink of an eye, gan took a quick step and appeared before Sabelio, slicing the air nurous tis and generating air slices that caught her opponent's fra.
Sabelio took a few long steps back, releasing a barrage of shadow bolts to reduce the woman's speed. Still, they were of no use, as gan skillfully avoided all of the projectiles.
Zac clenched his bat, ready to intercept the old man at any mont.
"Zac…" gan uttered in a cold tone.
"Y-yeah?" The redhead asked.
"This one is mine," she replied, not taking her eyes off Sabelio.
Zac wanted to ask if she was sure of that, but seeing her cold and determined expression made him believe that it was useless to ask, as gan had already made up her mind.
"Vile Taint!" Sabelio shouted again, releasing nurous explosions around gan's location.
Nevertheless, the woman moved away from the area with a speed that Sabelio couldn't discern, landing a powerful kick on his demon heart.
gan's kick wasn't strong enough to smash the heart, but it still gushed out blood as Sabelio let out a war cry, producing even more arcane pentagrams around him.
"I won't let Novis fall!" The old man exclaid, releasing an abnormal amount of shadow bolts that shot all over the plaza, seemingly hitting random spots.
Zac and the banshee had to move away so as not to get caught up in the reckless attack, and when he looked up to see gan's condition, his eyes widened in shock.
Without moving from her spot, gan sliced the air in a quick succession of attacks and deflected all of the projectiles that ca toward her, producing a wake of destruction and debris around her.
At one mont, her eyes sharpened as she barely touched one of the shadow bolts with her blade, and instead of being parried to the side, it went back straight to Sabelio, hitting him in the chest.
'She returned the spell!? How!?' Zac pondered.
Sabelio grunted as his chest started burning, making his demon heart pump to reduce the pain. Still, it wasn't as effective as the first ti.
The old man wasn't sure why his regeneration wasn't working as effectively as before, deducing that gan's attacks were so powerful that he couldn't heal them completely.
Moreover, he could feel his umbra drastically decreasing since he was using all of it to combat the woman.
'I'll have to do it…' Sabelio thought, extending his arms and rging all of the arcane pentagrams around him into a single, large one.
As Sabelio stood tall before gan with a massive magic circle behind him, he pointed both of his palms at her with determination.
"Ultimate Shadow Bolt!" Sabelio exclaid, producing a massive blast of shadowy energy that shot like a laser beam toward gan.
The old man had his vision obscured by his own spell, seeing the black energy covering his front and making him smile with satisfaction, thinking that it was over.
*Shink!* A bright light cut the shadowy beam in half.
It was a mont that lasted a split second, but Sabelio was able to detail every move, noticing gan appearing right in front of him after slashing his spell into two.
Her eyes were cold and uncaring—and half of her body was burning with shadows. Still, the resilient woman sliced upwards and slashed Sabelio's demon heart.
The force of the umbra in her strike forcefully pushed Sabelio into a wall next to the stairs that led to the burning cathedral.
Sabelio sat with his back against the wall, bleeding out from his demon heart that was struggling to keep pumping life into the old man.
gan calmly walked up to her defeated opponent and stood before him, her body still burning with shadows.
"Heh… It's over, then," *cough, cough* Sabelio said, coughing blood.
"Disappointed?" gan asked.
"Not at all… This is what Novis needs," the old man said before coughing more blood.
"Why? What made you do this?" gan calmly continued.
"The Onyx Cartel, girl… Beware-" *cough, cough* Sabelio replied in his last struggles.
"Please… protect Novis," he said, hanging his head down as he let out his last breath.
Right at that mont, the shadows that were covering gan's body and burning her dissipated into thin air as the caster was dead.
"You bastard… We are not doing this for you," gan replied to the dead man before she collapsed with her back against the ground, letting out a tired sigh.
"gan…" Zac called his teammate from the side, looking around him and noticing that they were still surrounded by a few demons.
Most of them were fiends and shadow demons, so Zac was feeling a bit confident. However, when he spotted two wraiths coming their way, he perked up with full alertness.
Suddenly, the two wraiths were encased in a large shadow orb, which made them disappear, wholly confusing the redhead.
'Could it be they were connected to Sabelio sohow?' Zac pondered, seeing that not all the demons were being whisked away.
*Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta* The sound of a rifle echoed loudly, making Zac turn to find the Gamma Team approaching them.
Maya was running at the front, shooting a fiend in the head with a heavy rifle while approaching gan to check on her.
As the agent got to the brunette, she was relieved to see her awake, breathing tiredly from exhaustion.
"Let's get you out of here… We wouldn't want to be around if Dante and that huge monster co back," Maya said, carrying gan in her back and making their way out of the plaza.
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