Devil's Business

The Guardian Angel

 The vault of hell’s bank is erected on the western gate’s area of Selima City. Its building lies on the center of an island, encircled within the domain of lake Etma and its reddish water body. For a bank vault designed for human’s need, it has a rather-squared shape as a structure and abundant demonic statues on its front yard down the pillar of its entrance. However, it is seemingly peculiar that the bank does not have its own sentinel for protection of the bulge of gold inside the vault, or anyone that a person could perceive outside of such a massive and expendable structure. 

Every centimeters of the vault’s appearance, frankly speaking, could all be seen from the six-store building of Mia’s inn. The bank’s storage is soaring high above the very extent of the city's golden bastion, extending its majestic dominance to the entire ‘village’ under the hill. In fact, the reflection of sun ray from the vault’s golden wall is awakened the three of them in an instant after the rise of hell’s sun had arrived.

Yet after the sunrise itself bringing the morning sensation to their room, Juno rather less than energetic to awake. He is covering himself inside the well-tailored blanket for blocking the way of the sunlight to get into his eyes. He tucked within the soothing surface of it for a long-course of sleep, defending against the cold night of the desert and caressing himself in luxury underneath the moonlight shadow. The first week of his third tenure was crazy and enough to bring him a load of distress just after being re-surfaced from the “real” world he lives in, so having a costly amenities might make him recover from the nasty burden of his hell-ish life in hell.

On the other way, Zeke is neatly clutching the pillow that he had requested from the receptionist a day before. The pillow’s soft texture is far too delicate to ignore.

Because of the laziness from the two man of the team, Selena has herself wrinkled and sprung onto Juno to enforce the dawn towards the old man himself.

(Buak!)

“Juno, we have to go. The sun is rising!” She continuously knock her elbow to his cover, hoping for any reaction from the old sloth of their party,”Zeke, come on! Wake up! Urgh!”

Lastly to her effort, she launched the surely-devastating assault to the geezer to beat Juno’s c***k of impenetrable armor.

(Buak!)

She punched his crotch to lay down a murdering impulse of a man. Soundly deducting from the impact, even a rather-minuscule size of her left arm is sufficient to bring a hell down to his short.

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Right to the next hour of scorching damage from Selena’s fist, the three musketeer of hell finally checked out from Mia’s safety zone to pursue their reason of travel. Juno is still sensing the pulsing ache from his gonads when they arrived to the western gate. Their destination is gotten more blinding when they got across the border of Selima’s bastion.

“I presume that the architect is blind since birth. No one would dare to put a thousand death ray wannabe onto a deposit box.” Juno said while looking at the bank vault, right now with a modified goggles to oppose the shining gold itself in the battlefield.

“....”

On the rear of the old man, Selena and Zeke are both following his lead to the entrance of the bank vault. They appeared taciturn towards their own responsibility to recover their right over the earth’s embrace, for them to hide behind the old man’s shadow and covering themselves with obscure defense. Of course, this unapparent move from the two sibilings brought interest to Juno as well, hence making him slowing down and spring back from the formation to test them out when they are unaware of his attempt.

As predicted, Selena quickly rolls back to the rear side of their ranks, “What are you doing, Juno? Please, stay in front of us.” Selena spoke out after the impertinent action from the man. She also puts her hand to pull the tail of Juno’s semi-heavy armor, somehow showing her being afraid of something up front.

On the other hand, Zeke still fell in silent towards their own intention. It made Juno even more intrigued and giving the male teenager two pats to his back,”What’s wrong buddy? Mind to tell me?”

Zeke bobbed his head towards the input,”Yes, I should tell you this earlier, but- we have to face the dragon to obtain our rights for the exchange system.”

“What? I don’t know how to-“

“Verily. I have no idea about this, either. Lafath is too deceptive to play for, Juno.” Zeke answered briefly, then attached his portable shield to his right hand and preparing himself to fight when they got closer to the bank vault’s front yard. In regards to the vacant anterior of the flower field before them, which were ornamented the entrance with vivid red color of Rose, Zeke’s preparation is one strange action to be done.

“Red defense!”

For the relatively unique caution from her brother’s side, Selena braced herself and chant a protection magic to her brother. She also does the same with Juno, while pulling his undergarment to give a cue of something important.  Of course, Juno could not receive the message properly, but he choose to follow the example from the two and putting himself on guard.

They enter the golden-tinted glass door carefully, tiptoeing into the main lobby of the bank vault and trying to eliminate as much noise as they could. Ahead of the three warriors, there are two accessible doors to enter on the verge of the lobby’s desk. The sign above them stated ‘golden bank’, and it applies to both of the entrance. As it was obvious to the eyes of the unknown, the smell of trickery was beckoned right from the start.

“The information is useless, Juno. Behind those door is the hell’s dragon and its pile of gold, and we have to fight it for gaining the true permit for the vault’s use.” Muttered Zeke in dimmed voice.

“Roger.” Juno confirmed it with a nod,”Let’s greet that silky reptile straight away.”

They opened the left door, which was handpicked carefully under Zeke’s supervision. Juno has already sets the attributes to the maximum output that he could achieve from his remaining one billion dollars worth of cash, with extra focus to the agility and strength stats to counter the probable capacity of the beast.

Due to himself being engrossed with the internal stats system, Juno has a nudge of memories from the past battlefield. Fighting with the king of ghouls has incited him to analyze the weakness of his enemies, so does George of Heaven from the incident in Mooma city. His ability only beckoned extra attributes to his arsenal, but would that be useful to the parley?

He does know that nowhere to run at this point. Better fight it all out to find the answer right on target.

Just as foretold, a massive red dragon was sleeping upon the lump of golden coins and jewels of hell. It stretched out to over 30 meters in length, down to the hilt of its spiky tail. The wings span for much larger in diameter, which could be expanded to more than twice its length. Not to count on its line of teeth and claws, that are surely at the same size with Juno’s 180 centimeters in height.

“Grrr....”

(Cling!Cling!)

“Oh no....”

Selena mumbled to herself in panic. She accidentally kicked one to two coins down the valley of gold, producing a blaring sound from the clash against the round coins that somewhat immovable from where they stood. Luckily, their loud arrival apparently failed to incite the beast from its slumber. Despite the crashing sound They creeping down the aisle of the gold’s mountain, the beast is motionless and snoring down his throat.

With his heart beating by the storm, Zeke invites them to have a space with the beast and supervise it from afar,“Uh, I guess we have to walk away for now.” He ordered to the group in a slight noise down his mouth.

Rather than brusquely running to the vault’s two door entrance, they are glancing towards the sleeping beast to look for any short-course of weakness to beating it to pulp at once. However, none of the prompt are fruitful to locate the spot to kill at the time. The red dragon’s scale are all look sturdy and hard to penetrate. Its stomach is coated with durable skin and shimmering bright from a distance when they approached the dragon a little bit closer to its domain.

“Have you think of me, mortals?”

As the three of them moving back to where they firstly belong, a bold and menacing tone was blaring from their tail end. The dragon is somehow awake and taunting them to explore his body with ease, as the beast waved his right claw towards their end in one quick swipe.

(Bwoosh! Cling! Cling!)

The wide array of harrowing wind is arriving to the three of them in a flash, blasting them away as a result to scatter across the pile of coins nearby. Conversely, it seems that Juno himself has dodged the dragon’s ranged assault way earlier as he positioned his stance to the front side of the dragon itself without needed much stamina to spend.

The dragon smirked,”A valuable opponent for my morning work out, huh? Who’s your name, Mortal?”

“You think you can hypnotize me, reptile?” Retorted Juno in advance as he unsheathed the twin sword of his for the upcoming battle.  For the unexpected answer from the man, the dragon frowns,“Uh, no. I do wanted to have your name. There are none of weakling like you to adequately withstand my range prowess-”

(Blip!)

Without further ado, Juno springs against the floor to jump over the head of the beast and cracking it down by the momentum that he fashioned underneath. He dives to gain the upperhand across the beast’s neck and slashing it down with his entire force of strength. The speed and energy from his quick cut producing numerous bows of airstream against the beast’s impenetrable scale, but failed to dent the line and scratch them out from its structure.

“Uh, you’re cheating, beast!” Pouted Juno.

In return to the human’s flop over his first assault, the dragon rolls a blaze of fire inside his jaws and rapidly propelling them out towards the man on the air. For the two instances of blast from the dragon that he has to encounter, Juno brings two barrage of slashes for fanning them down with the gale he has made. Because of the exchange, the fire could explode in mid-air, but still not enough to prevent the heat of fire from reaching him upwards.

It is fortunate for Juno, however, as a floating screen of transparent shield is there to defend him out of harm. Under the insurmountable gold’s shade of obscurity, Selena gave her support by chanting her protection magic way back before the blast even begun. On the other hand, Zeke himself has absorbed into the long-term spell enchantment by the moment of Selena’s attempt to assist the close-range fighter of their group.

“-Water elemental, please come into our aid!”

At the end of his ritual, Zeke’s hand was glowing bright of blue. From the tip of his finger are summoned a flood of water that somehow turned solid in front of him, forming a creature’s body shortly after. The water elemental from Zeke’s magic is 7 meters tall. It does not have legs, rather a waist formed by the stream of liquid that propped it up to stand.

“Attack!”