Corruption in Desierto

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Job Title: Corruption in Desierto
Rank: B
Job Location: Desierto
Group Word Count: 5000 Words
Additional Requirements: Juliet and Icarus must be on this job.

Job Description: According to reports, a group of slavers from Desierto has been sacrificing humans in order to amass enough dark power to summon a demon. This slow killing of slaves has caused a corruption of nature, killing the life in the surrounding area and slowly leeching power out of the land. The Magic Council has taken notice and has offered a reward to anyone who can stop this slaver and deal with any demon that has been summoned. It is important to rescue any and all slaves if at all possible, since there are several innocent tourists and citizens among them, along with some criminals who were enslaved as punishment.

Enemies:

• Weak Enemies: 5x Slave Catchers. These guys are trained to deceive travelers such as by offering their services as guides to help cross the desert. They also kidnap unsuspecting civilians and sell them to slavers. Although they carry few lethal weapons because their goal is to sell or recapture slaves for slavers, a few among the group carry pistols. The others only use blunt weapons such as staves.
  
• Normal Enemies: 10x Slavers. These slavers are used to dealing with disobedient slaves, and they are adept with swords and whips. Even though most of them do not use magic, among each group of five, there is one slaver who can cast B-Rank spells. He is able to send out spinning orbs of sand that stun upon contact. In addition, he can heal his comrades.
  
• Strong Enemy: The Leader of the Slavers. Named Shir Suruton, he is a B-Rank mage obsessed with dark magic. After completing many rituals to enhance his own capabilities, he can send out bolts of dark energy to attack and also use dark energy to shield himself. Every spell he successfully lands drains HP in addition to dealing normal damage. Suruton has marked all of his slaves with a dark rune that he can activate to cause organ failure within five minutes. Although he does not want to kill them all at once, if he thinks he is approaching certain death and has no choice, he will activate the rune. However, if he does do this, he himself will die as a consequence of the ability.
  
• Boss Enemy: The Demon. Suruton has been trying to summon him, unsuccessfully, for nearly two weeks now. Originally, this demon was nearly slain and was forced to return to the underworld to recuperate. However, thanks to the corruption Suruton has been spreading through his sacrifices, the demon has been able to leech power off of the dying life force of nature within the area. If several slaves are killed at once or if Suruton dies, a huge amount of life force will be expended, giving the demon enough power to materialize. This demon will attempt to slaughter everything in the area, particularly humans or similar sentient creatures, because they offer the most life force. For this reason, it will be important to protect slaves from him. He uses demonic magic to teleport around and is able to summon smaller demons that wield dark fire. He himself prefers to envelop his prey in dark energy, slowly sucking out their vitality. To do this, though, he requires melee contact. He can send out dark blasts of magic which not only deal A-Rank damage but also make the target more vulnerable to future attacks.
  

Reward: 1050 Exp and 40,000 Jewels or Strong(+) Equipment. The thanks and praise of the Magic Council.