"Phew... Fine, let’s do this." Leon spoke as he stood up and noticed a figure coming towards him from the mist.

As it got closer it’s size grew bigger in size.

"What in the fucking hell is-" Before Leon could’ve completed his sentence, he noticed that the creature was completely white and he eight hands with two legs.

The creature’s head was missing but it had two huge eyes on it’s chest and that shined brightly yellow and continuously stared at Leon.

*Swish*

Suddenly it disappeared and re-appeared behind Leon.

"Fuck-" as soon as Leon tried to move away he noticed that his legs were trapped inside the ground and he couldn’t get them out.

The creature raised one of it’s hand and brought it down upon him with full power.

Without wasting another second, Leon raised both of his hands and covered his head with them.

*THUD*

*Cough-Cough*

He coughed up a mouthful of blood, as he felt his body crushing under pressure.

’How the fuck am I feeling real pain in a fucking illusion !!????’ Leon thought with a serious expression as he felt his rulibs breaking.

*Raise*

The creature didn’t wait and immediately raised another one of his hands and got ready once again.

"I can’t take it... Nexus, can you hear me ?" Leon asked.

’Yes, Sir Leon... I can hear you.’ Nexus’s voice resounded in his head.

"Pull my consciousness into the soul realm... NOW." Leon commanded in a heavy tone.

’As you say, Sir.’ Nexus replied in a neutral tone.

Suddenly Leon and the creature both disappeared.

"Hmm...? Intresting. Let’s see how far can you run away." The mist spoke with a smile as she observed Leon’s consciousness disappearing from her illusion.

Inside the soul realm,

*Blink-Blink*

Leon slowly opened his eyes and noticed that he was standing near a flowing river and the moon is shining brightly in the sky.

"I greet you, Sir Leon." A sound came from behind.

Leon immediately turned around and noticed that a man in his thirties with black hairs and black moustache was standing behind him, he was wearing a butler like dress and holding a glowing blue stick in his hands.

"Nexus ?" Leon asked with a confused expression.

"Yes sir... Although I don’t have a real form. This form seems suitable to serve you or should I change it ?" Nexus asked with a confused expression.

"Keep it... What happened to that demon that was attacking me ?" Leon asked with a serious expression as he looked around with a confused expression.

"You mean this bug ?"

*THUD-THUD-THUD-THUD-THUD-THUD-THUD-THUD*

Suddenly eight white hands came rolling down on the ground, clearly belonging to the creature that Leon pulled into the soul realm with him.

As soon as he looked up towards the source of the heavy voice, Leon noticed a demon standing over a huge rock near the river’s bank.

The demon had six red eyes on his face, the upper two eyes pointing down diagonally, the middle ones horizontal and the lower ones pointing upwards diagonally.

He had a lean but muscular body with eight-pack abs and long hairs coming down to his legs.

He was holding two blood red swords in his hands and there was an evil smile on his face.

"Is he... Ragal ?" Leon asked with a confused expression.

"Yes, Sir." Nexus replied with a neutral expression.

"Damn... He wasn’t looking like that when I last saw him." Leon spoke in a low voice.

"I spent around nine hundred years in hell until I got summoned into that weak demon, I don’t know how he even got the sacred seal to summon me into his body.

When you killed me- no let me rephrase that one. When you deceived me and then forced a sacred ritual to kill the body that I was in, I was pissed off and believe me I was pissed off enough to breakout of hell and come back just so I can kill you.

But... Then you stole my soul fragment as well and locked me in here with this motherfucking crazy bastard." Ragal spoke as he raised his sword and pointed towards Nexus.

"Hmm...? Him ? Crazy ?" Leon asked as he looked at Nexus with a confused expression.

"I tried to kill him thousands of times but this motherfucker just doesn’t die. He traps me in time loops and leaves me in them for thousands of years.

I hate that and that’s why we made a deal... I will live freely in your soul realm and do whatever I want in exchange for protecting it from any attackers just like the one that I just killed. It’s been a while since my blades tasted blood and it felt good killing him." Ragal explained as he looked at Leon.

’Damn, so that’s how he is re-shaping them into protecting my soul realm.’ Leon thought with a neutral expression as he looked at Nexus.

"Someone is invading the soul realm, Ragal." Nexus spoke as he looked at Ragal with a neutral expression.

"Hehehe... Just tell me the location. I have never felt like this in years." Ragal spoke with a maniacal smile as he licked his blades.

"Northern mountains... Thousands of monsters are coming towards this direction. They might be here for Sir Leon." Nexus spoke with a neutral expression.

"Will be back in a bit..." Ragal spoke as he immediately disappeared.

"Can you take me there ?" Leon asked as he looked at Nexus.

"As you command, Sir." Nexus replied as he waved his hand and suddenly the water from the river started floating into the air and made a circular portal that opened up on top of a mountain on the other side.

"Hmm... Cool. Can I do that as well ?" Leon asked with a neutral expression as both of them travelled through the portal.

"It’s your soul realm, sir. You can travel to anywhere with just a mere thought, but I would restrict you from doing that as it de-stablizes with the basic rules of the realm.

The more stable your soul realm remains, the stronger it will become. That’s why I have given it the form of a real world destination." Nexus explained.

"Hmm... Understood." Leon replied with a neutral expression as he looked down and noticed a huge cloud of white fog covering the mountains in itself and thousands of deformed demons were coming out of the fog.

"Come on motherfuckers... Grandfather will teach you how it’s done." Ragal shouted as he taunted the demons.

"Should I go down there ?" Leon asked with a confused expression.

"Sir you haven’t trained your consciousness to fight yet. If you were to go down there right now, you will get killed immediately and if your consciousness dies in here, you will die in reality as well." Nexus explained.

"Fucking Hell."

"But don’t you worry, sir. I have faith that Ragal will be more than enough for them as we are fighting in our own terrain." Nexus spoke with a smile as he waved his hand.