Beside him, Agne and Emilia had also swapped out their cloaks for armor.
"Any of you have some scrolls?"
Place asked as stared out his helmets slits, staring at the demon looking at them.
The first demon to emerge from the portal, it had horns and a tail with red tips, so it was at most a middle-class demon. It had no hair, it's skin was purple, and seemed to made of cracked stone.
Clawed hands and feet, the only thing it was wearing was a loose black robe that draped till its knees.
"I have a single-defense."
"None."
Place kept his eyes on the demon as it said something to Kolid.
"Emilia, use the scroll and take our bombs, Agne, you and I take the front."
Agne let out a hoarse grunt of acknowledgement, his voice altered along as his body changed.
Scales grew on his forearms and neck, his eyes enlarged and his skin turned a darker shade of blue.
The demon that was talking with Kolid seemed to be in charge, it barked out something to the others that came with it, and they started to scatter out.
Emilia started to chant, and Place felt the feeling of magic wash over him, he didn't resist it, knowing that she was casting support spells.
The demon's face snapped towards them, and Place tensed and prepared for a sudden burst of movement.
And it came.
Agne reacted first, he lunged forward, thrusting his spear forward into the demons path, making it divert mid-dash.
It had to to divert towards its left, and it slowed down enough that Place could actually make a move.
Place stabbed his spear a bit to the right, blocking the demons path to keep it from Emilia, and Agne moved to attack it from the side.
The demon leapt back, out of their range. It let out a grunt.
"Spell!" Emilia voice warned even before the demons magic started gathering in its hand.
Retreat wasn't an option, so the both of them moved to attack, Agne shooting forward before, and faster than Place.
The demon leapt up, and made to throw, but something flew and stabbed into its chest and exploded, which set off a second explosion as the spell lost control.
The demon fell and landed on its back, disoriented and bleeding heavily, and another blade stabbed into its side, and another explosion occured.
"Explosive throwing knives?" Agne asked as they retreated.
"A recent purchase." Place looked around as Emilia continued chanting.
A roar drew their attention, as the thrice-exploded demon staggered to its feet.
"Its still alive." Agne growled.
"Where are the reinforcements?" Place glanced around again, some demons had surrounded them hissing and growling. Lesser demons, little problem alone, but there were too many.
"It hasn't even been a minute. We need to hold longer." Agne let out a guttural grumbling.
The demon they had been fighting had some of its internal organ showing, and it was bleeding freely.
"If all of them are like this, we have a hell of a fight ahead."
Emilia finished her chant, and multi-coloured energies emerged from her and wrapped around all three of them.
"Agnaltham." She reported, and Agne and Place nodded.
"Bombs?" Place asked as the injured demon chanted something as it stared at them.
Emilia did not reply, she simply tossed them out.
One towards the injured demon, the others towards the demons surrounding them.
The injured demon saw it coming, but it couldn't move fast enough, and in a burst of light, its legs were no longer attached to its body.
A few more were also killed, and a space opened around them as the rest retreated from the bombs.
"Now what?" Agne asked as dozens more started approaching.
"Barrier, then we wait."
"Got it."
Place suddenly dropped his spear and pulled out a golden formation disc.
The demons retreated, feeling the energy from the disc and not knowing the reason.
Place held the disc out, and Emilia and Agne both grabbed it.
They channeled magic, and a white energy barrier emerged and surrounded them.
They demons realized what they were doing, and they started shouting and throwing demonic energy bombs.
"How long can we hold this?" Place asked, his experience was far too little in matter of magic.
"A minute, if nothing changes."
"Well, change is here." Agne growled.
The other two turned there head to see what he was talking about.
"Seriously?" Emilia frowned.
The portal had grown, and from it, a larger demon emerged.
It was almost three meters tall, and it's power was evident just from seeing it.
"Teleports at the ready." Place said as it started gathering energy.
Then the sky lit up.
A furiously bright light shone from above, all but blinding them as loud screams entered their ears.
The light faded, and as they tried to regain their sight, a loud thudding sound was heard.
Place looked towards the large demon, to see that it had tried to block a sword. Said sword had penetrated its hand and had stabbed into its chest.
The Custode had arrived.