Chapter 20: An Uncertain Demon

I exhaled, the slight tension in my spine vanishing, even though I already had a plan; nothing could ever compare to the moment you stand before a charging demon that could tear you to pieces in seconds.

The demon was on the ground and not moving, and I had roughly thirty seconds to decide what to do about that.

I knew it was thirty seconds from the single observation I made in the last loop when I used a Surge Spark combination. Thirty seconds of complete collapse before whatever internal system the combined cast had overwhelmed began its recovery attempt.

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