[color=purple][h2][center]Sliske Arkilius[/center][/h2][/color]
Having found himself and his minions in the wrong location, Sliske openned up another rift to the edge of the Nexus.  Specifically, to the doorstep of the Alchemist where everyone else was gathering for the coming trials.  

He arrived just in time to hear the description of the challenge from the Alchemist.  While some either ignored the warning of what was to come or went off into their own conversations, the incubus was forcing some of the skin on his left forearm to change colors to an inky black.  This minor transformation was writing in the native tongue of most demons; Ozkavosh, and he was taking down every significant detail of what the Alchemist said.  He finished 'writing' a short moment after the head honcho of the oddly built castle before them ended her speech.  This was the last chance he would have to back out of something like this... and instead, turned to the Warfather beside him.  [color=purple]"Spawn us some imps, will you?"[/color]  His hand met the priest's chest and briefly assimilated into it, only to be pulled out a moment later as the monstrocity set to work bending magic.

Sliske's ears perked slightly when Henry decided it was a good idea to try and invoke his wrath, which would usually work.  To an extent, it did.  The taunt made him mildly annoyed, although he couldn't help but chuckle through it.  [color=purple]"Henry, if you really think I'll go out on a narrow bridge first, you're sorely mistaken."[/color]  He turned around as a fleshy growth started to form near the Warfather, soon bursting to let out five fresh imps.  Cannon fodder.  [color=purple]"Besides?  Why send a powerhouse when a minion gets the job done?"[/color]  His ambition of keeping everyone alive for a little while as a hulking member of Heaven's forces demanded that he cross the bridge first.  The incubus cracked a smile and relocated himself to the start of the crossing, bowing forward slightly and holding his right hand out, not unlike a doorman.  A classic signal to allow him the first cross.

[center][@floodtalon][@Lmpkio][@KoL][@Awesomoman64][/center][hr][center][color=sienna][h2]Syphax Gallus Aquilus[/h2][/color][/center]
At what could be considered base camp for the factions on the edge of the Nexus, the tension could be cut with a knife.  Syphax, however, appeared carefree as always.  He was pacing while listening to the Alchemist's description of what the whole challenge thing was about and what the challenges were about.  Nothing concerned him hugely, except the maze of frozen experiments, kept far below zero.  He was a harpy, and not one of the winterized kind, so he'd only be able to stay in that area for an hour at best...

All things considered, he could probably brute force parts of the maze and manage perfectly well, or stay near the demons and cripple them with misinformation.  They would probably be fine, most of them even radiating heat, except one that was chilling the air around him.  One other thing he wanted to test was the truthfullness of her claim to what was basically a gravity well around the castle.  His talons clicked while he strode over to the cliff and extended a wing over the edge, the increased gravity pulling hard on it.  Not even the sheer strength behind his strokes would combat this.  The bridge it was.  

[color=sienna]"Damn... well, I'm grounded.  And uh... Miyu, was it?  Mind if I steal a snack or two? Haven't eaten all day."[/color]  He came back from the edge and approached the mech, jumping into the air and hovering about where he guessed the cockpit was, at about chest level on the thing.  Sure, he was an amgelic being, but he still had a stomach and it was empty from his adventure in Hell.  Speaking of which, he noticed a familiar skeleton standing with the Machina's forces, to which he waved to.  If Deva was watching, she'd probably chew him out for that later.  

[color=sienna]"With who was have here, hell yeah we will!  The three of us will tear this up if we stick together, four if Dora shows up."[/color] He smiled down at the spirit berating Miyu, giving him a thumbs up.  [color=sienna]"Name's Syphax, by the way. Yours?"[/color]

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