"This energy is on a whole different level." Bolt says as he starts sweating out of anxiousness. "Impossible, to think there is this much pressure at the entrance of the gate. We actually may have a fight on our hand inside this gate. Daruri says as he starts to sweat from nervousness. "What are going to do?" Himawari says to Daruri. "We keep moving, what do you mean?" Debiddo says as he walks to the gate entrance. Debiddo struggles as he tries to move through the gate, however, he is able to get his footing and proccedes through the gate. "This kid is something else, no wonder the council chose him for this mission," Ishho says as everyone struggles through the pressured area. "Man, this pressure is greater than what I thought!" Issho says as he moves through the swampy terrain. The team trek through the swamp for 45 min before Debiddo notices something going on with his body. "My body...it's getting heavier." The pressure is so strong that it causes Debiddo to start to sink.
Himawari uses her wind ability to lift Debiddo saving him from sinking. Whilst saving Debiddo, Himawari notices Mizu, Ralphael, and kori all start sinking as well. "Why are you guys the only ones sinking?" Himawari says as she attempts to try to save everyone else. "This is the gate of greed, those who have any form of greedy tendency will feel the strongest form of pressure." Says an unknown voice as he walks through the gas of the swamp and appears in front of the team. Each step he takes shakes the ground under everyone's feet. The appearance of the voice becomes clear as the gas surrounding his face dissipates. An 8-foot giant ogre demon towers over everyone staring at everyone. "Is that...the ogre Plutus?" Debiddo says as everyone else prepares to fight. "Whoa Whoa little ones. Why so quick to fight? I like to play with my prey before I eat them. It makes the meat taste better. I don't need you guys to ruin the fun too soon, I want to savor your despair first. so, you will have to deal with my pets first. If you can survive them, just travel your battered bodies down this pathway and you will get to the gate and to where I live. There, I will happily kill and eat you all." Plutus says as he turns his back to walk away.
While his back is turned kori uses her ice abilities to freeze him in place. "Do you really think we are going to play your little games?" Kori says arrogantly. "We are going to kill you right here and right now!" "Ah little girl, I smell the greed on you," Plutus says as turns around destroying the ice surrounding his body effortlessly. This takes Kori by surprise as she steps back. Debiddo jumps out of Himawari's wind, lands on the ice that kori created, and stands in front of the towering ogre. "Hey, ogre!" Debiddo says as he fights the intense pressure. Plutus looks down at Debiddo with intrigue. "We will play your little game, but just get ready to be the one that will be gettin' their ass kicked!" Everyone looks in shock as the ogre laughs. "Hahahaha, I like you. Never in my 300 years of ruling this circle, have I ever seen anyone come to me with such confidence. Well then, pass my trial and prove me wrong then!" As Plutus walks away, Himawari, Bolt, and Kori all try to go out to attack Plutus, however Debiddo stops everyone. "Wait, let him go." Debiddo says. "Are you crazy Stupiddo? He is right here!" Himawari yells. "Yeah Debiddo, why are you trying to stop us from taking him out?" Bolt says as he pulls on Debiddo's collar. "No, Debiddo is right," Daruri says to Bolt. "Huh?" Bolt says letting go of Debiddo's collar.
"We still are trying to fight through the pressure of this swamp. Right now we are at a major disadvantage." Daruri says as he walks up to Debiddo. "We should use this time to train and adjust to this strong pressure," Issho says as he wipes swamp muck off of his shoulder. "What is interesting is that you guys have some form of greed in your heart." Gus says as he points at the ones who sunk in the swamp. "so doesn't that mean you guys are a liability in this fight?" him saying this made Debiddo, Mizu, Ralphael, and kori look at Gus with peering eyes which makes Gus back up in intimidation. "No matter what the reason, we are going to need to make it through and defeat Plutus," Issho says as he walks toward Daruri. "This is a good way to make it to the next gate. If we would have taken him out right then, we wouldn't have been able to fight him. he has the advantage right now. Let's just let him go for right now and let's just get this test out the way." With this everyone continues to struggle through the increasing pressure as kori makes a pathway out of ice. 15 minutes in, Daruri stops everyone as he hears rustling in the trees. "Everyone, get ready for an attack," Daruri says as everyone proceeds to get into a battle-ready stance.
As everyone looks up they see more and more of the trees start to rustle violently. "They are coming," Debiddo says as a large amount of rat-humanoid like demons charge in and start to attack the group. Back at the gate of gluttony, the team of Jesson, Crystal, and Poketo are still fighting hard against Cia, who has the upper hand in the fight. Poketo, badly beaten, stands up to continue the fight as Crystal and Jesson both are lying on the ground knocked out. "oh, so you can still fight I see." Cia says as she creates a barrage of ice spikes, launching them at Poketo. Poketo then uses his fire to melt away the ice, leaving nothing but water on the ground. "My spiritual energy Is running low," Poketo says out of breath. "I got to find some way to revive these two and replenish my spiritual energy at the same time, but there isn't alot fire left for me to use. Poketo then starts to look at his surroundings and sees a lot of the surrounding ice turning into water. "I got it," Poketo says as he creates steam to hide. "Don't think you can hide in this steam, my dog Cerberus will find you no matter what," Cia says as she points to Cerberus. "Sick em girl." Hearing the command, Cerberus then starts to run into the steam, smelling for signs of Poketo. Poketo then fires a blast of flames that burns all three of Cerberus' noses. The impact causes the dogs to whimper and roll around in pain. "Cerbi? Baby, what did they do to you?" Cia says trying to comfort the injured Cerberus. "How dare you?" Cia says as her spiritual energy starts to spiral out of control. Cia creates a wave of snow to clear up the steam, but before the smoke could clear completely, Poketo charges out the steam getting ready to attack Cia.
"Fool, you are running to your death!" Cia says as she creates an ice spear. When she tries to stab Poketo, however, it turns out to be a clone made of hot steam. The steam temporarily blinds Cia who starts to scream in pain. "My eyes, my eyes. Damn you!!!" Not being able to see, Cia starts flailing, shooting ice spikes in all surroundings. Poketo then appears behind Cia and places her in a headlock. "who would have thought I would be using the same move Debiddo used in the chaser exams." Poketo says as he starts charging his spiritual energy. "Oh well, it works so I'm not complaining! im going to have to use the last bit of firepower to end this!" Poketo then creates a circle of flame that surrounds Poketo and Cia. "Agni's Kamikaze!" The circle of flame collapses within itself, engulfing both Poketo and Cia in a pillar of flames. "DAAAAMMMMNNNN YOOOOOUUUUU!" Cia screams as she disappears inside the wall of flames. "Poketo!" Jesson and crystal say as the fire explodes pushing melting away all surrounding ice. Crystal uses her Genki abilities to form a crystal wall that protects her and Jesson from the initial impact, however the strength of the blast is so strong that it starts to slowly melt away the shield. "This attack...has he seriously been holding it this whole time?" Jesson says as she fights through the winds. As the explosion ceases, and the smoke clears, Crystal and Jesson run to the explosion site to check on Poketo. "Poketo!" Crystal says as she sees Poketo walking towards them before collapsing. Jesson picks Poketo in her arms as his vision becomes clearer.
"Did we do it?" Poketo says coughing up smoke. "I believe so," Crystal says as she looks out the remaining smoke. "But geez Poketo, that was completely reckless!" Jesson says to Poketo. "I know but that was the only way to win," Poketo replies. Just when everything seems calm, a massive amount of spiritual energy shakes the foundations of the three. The energy is coming from the direction of the explosion site and this brings fear in the three. It was Cia who is enraged. "I...will..kill you, I..WILL...KILL YOU!" Cia says as she grabs Cerberus and consumes her. "She...is eating Cerberus?" Jesson says horrified. "No way.." Poketo and Crystal says in shock Afterward, Cia transforms into a large beast-like demon with incredible spiritual energy. The three fall backward in despair as they witness their possible downfall. "Heh, Captian Daruri, it looks like I won't be able to keep our promise. It looks like we may die here." Poketo says as he stares at the power of Cia. Back at the gate of greed, around the same time, Debiddo and the crew begins the attack on the demons that charge in at them. Raphael prepares to use his flame Genki before getting stopped by Issho. "Stop, if you use your fire here, you will end up blowing us all up," Issho says as takes out another one of the demons. You too Bolt!" "so how are we suppose to take out these guys?" Bolts says as he punches one of the demons in the face.
"Me, issho, Mizu, Gus, and Kori will stay behind and take them out. Debiddo, bolt, Brock, Himawari, and Raphael, you guys continue the trail and take out Plutus. If everyone has no more questions, then get moving. "Yes sir!" The group says as they powered through the swamp. Brock creates a pathway of stone and the group runs on it to get to plutos' living quarters located deep within the swamp. The air is thick with the putrid smell of rotten eggs and fecal matter. So the smell is so pungent that it makes the group cover their mouths with torn pieces of cloth. "Good god! This smell is getting more and more awful." Debiddo says as tries not to gag. "Smells like husband's sour shchi. " Brock says as looks as the swamp sludge falling off the trees. "Stop complaining about the stench Debiddo, we got to get through this if we ever want a chance of taking out Plutus." Bolt says. "Shhh. Sparky, Brock hears a rustle in trees." Brock says covering Bolt's mouth. Coming out the trees were more of the rat demons that immediately attack the group. "Ah, we don't time for this!" Debiddo says impatiently. "I agree, it's hard trying to fight while also trying not to blow ourselves up!" Himawari says as she blows away two demons from Raphael. "Hahahaha Think of it as great training going forward. Raphael says punching one of the demons in the face. "This way we can hone our physical abilities more."
"You can say that all you want, but I still don't like it," Debiddo says as he punches another demon rat. Raphael tries to move out the way from a demon attack, however the pressure causes him to stumble for a brief moment which catches him off guard. Before the attack could land, Himawari uses her wind ability to push the demons out of the way. "Thank you, Himawari," Raphael says as he shakes off the mistake. "This way we can hone our physical abilities more," Debiddo says mockingly. "We need to take out these rat-like pieces of crap because I am getting tired of dealing with them," Debiddo says taking out two other demons. "What do you plan on doing to fix this?" Bolt says as he fights off two rabid rat demons at once. Debiddo moves around taking out more and more of the demons, and then for a brief moment, he felt the pressure from the swamp lighten up. This is where he notices he was in the location where Himawari used her wind abilities to save Raphael. Debiddo then thinks back of when he started to feel the pressure of the swamp, and with remembering this he came up with a major revelation. "It's the gas!" Debiddo says loudly. "What are you talking about Debiddo?" Bolt says fighting off more of the demons. "The swamp gas is causing this pressure on our bodies."
"That's crazy, how could some gas make us feel this amount of sinking pressure?" Himawari asks. "I don't know, but if I am right, we will be able to take all of these pain in the asses down and finally get to Plutus," Debiddo says as he points up to the trees. "Hima, can you create a large tornado to shoot all this gas and upwards past the trees?" "I can, but it will take a lot of spiritual energy to pull off," Himawari says to Debiddo. "That's fine, ill give you plenty of time," Debiddo says as he charges his spiritual energy. "Hikari-art, Shining Flash!" A blast of blinding light is shot through the trees stunning all the demons nearby. The demons all fall to the ground as Himawari prepares to use her attack. "Fujin art- Grand Tornando!" she says as a large tornado forms out of thin air. The tornado spirals crazily sweeping everything in its way. "Everyone grab on to Brock," Brock says as he creates a barrier of stone to block the intense winds. The winds sweep up all the demons and gas in the area and shoot it upwards. "Raphael now! Fire away!" Debiddo says as he tosses one of the demons in the air. "HAHAHA, you never cease to amaze me!" Raphael says as he shoots fire up in the air, igniting the gas, causing a major explosion. The explosion causes all the demons to get incinerated at once. Everyone, after getting rid of all the demons, celebrates exhausted. "We did it, I don't know how we did it, but we did it." Bolt says kicking the dead carcass of the demon. "We did it, but we can't let up now," Himawari says. "Yeah Hima is right, we need to keep moving. Debiddo says as he and the rest of the team move forward to fight Plutus.
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