Panel 1: Bust of the still grinning Dovak, raising a curled fist. "You shall be a god among mortals. A legend. A hero." Panel 2: Vauruk matches the demon's energy, his own fists clenched. "Ha! You can save the pitch! This is what I summoned you for!" Panel 3: The camera zooms out, back over Dovak's shoulder, who watches the bat's enthusiasm intently. "I can take any challenge you throw at me!" Vauruk goes on, smacking his fist into his palm. Panel 4: "Then you accept?" says Dovak, holding out his palm to the camera: a rich, bloody red. Panel 5: Full body shot of Dovak and Vauruk as they clasp hands, illuminating them both in faint white late. "I'm in," says Vauruk, determined. Dovak grins.

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😈🤝🦇

Panel 1: Kneeling on one knee, Dovak wraps an arm around Vauruk's shoulder and pulls him in close. "You're something special, aren't you?" the demon says, face side by side with the bat's. Panel 2: Vauruk puffs up proudly, arms akimbo. "You bet!" he says, while Dovak watches on with an air of haughty bemusement. "Us Kalvad bats are tough! And I'm the toughest!" Panel 3: Vauruk steps back and jabs a finger at the kneeling Dovak. "And now that I won, you're gonna teach me! I wanna know how you moved like that. How to punch someone through a tree. I want you to make me unstoppable!" Panel 4: A shot of Dovak, still kneeling, one fist on the ground. "On my honor as lord of my realm -- I shall uphold our bargain and become your teacher." Panel 5: A headshot of Dovak, eyes bright among dramatic shading and a red background. "Return to hell with me, and your training shall begin at once." Panel 6: "It will be grueling," Dovak continues. We see Vauruk puff up again, confident. "Harder than anything you've ever known. But when you return..."

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At last, some respect! 👑

Panel 1: Vauruk gapes forward, wide-eyed. Panel 2: Vauruk coils up, trembling, fists clenched. Panel 3: Vauruk leaps up, pumping his fist and exploding with a giant "YEAH!" The color scheme turns light and golden. Panel 4: Closeup on Vauruk's overjoyed face. "I did it... I did it!" Panel 5: Reverting back to nighttime colors, we see Vauruk bouncing around in joy. "Hah!" he says, fists up and grinning, eyes two smoldering fires. "Told ya, didn't I?" he continues in the background, shadowboxing. "Demon, war, domination--my ass!" he hollers, doing a cartwheel in the background. "I got you!" he finishes, jabbing a finger at Dovak. "How's that for dirt, huh?" Panel 6: Closeup on Dovak's arms, hands clapping. Panel 7: Headshot of a smiling, patient Dovak. "Yes, you got me. You were remarkable." Panel 8: Dovak reaches forward and places a hand on Vauruk's shoulder. The bat, despite his bravado, stiffens up and watches anxiously. "Most mortals would have crumbled at my first punch. The rest would have begged for mercy when I stomped them into the mud. But you?"

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It's been a while, but the results are in! It's a W for the bat! 👑

when you manage to punch the abs of the demon dovak
Vauruk or king vauruk belongs to @vauruk.bsky.social and read the comic Deal with a Demon is pretty good
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Panel 1: In the background, a kneeling Vauruk looks over his shoulder. "Y--" he starts to say. "--YOU!" Puffed up but trembling, the bat squares up in the foreground, teeth bared, eyes wide. Panel 2: Dovak rises to his feet. "Haw haw haw!" Panel 3: "Be at ease," says Dovak, hands on his hips. In the background, Vauruk remains tense, fists up. "Stow your fists." Panel 4: Dovak smiles. "You won." Panel 5: Vauruk stays on his guard, fists ready. "I..." Panel 6: Surprise registers on the bat's face, and his fists start to drop. "...won?" His gaze lowers to see... Panel 7: ...a closeup on Dovak's muscled stomach, scuffed and bruised where the bat's headbutt had hit.

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The results are in! It's a bat win! 🦇> 😈

Panel 1: Closeup of Vauruk as his eyes snap open. Panel 2: Vauruk sits up, seemingly alone on the grass. "Huh?" Panel 3: From behind Vauruk, we see what he's seeing: a clear starry sky with a crescent moon. "It's... night? Was all of that just..." Panel 4: Vauruk wipes his bloody snout into his gauntlet. Panel 5: "Definitely not a dream," he remarks, seeing the streak of blood left on his dirty gauntlet. "All this blood... and gods, I'm filthy." Panel 6: Vauruk's, and our, focus turns to his knee--still bloody, but without any wound, thanks to Evelan's prior healing. "But I feel... fine?" Panel 7: "No," says Vauruk, curling over a rumbling belly. "Starving." Panel 8: Vauruk moves to a kneel, starting to get up. From this angle we see a silhouette with glowing eyes behind him--Dovak. "And why do I feel like I slept on a--" Panel 9: Vauruk's eyes snap open once again as a voice calls out from behind him. "Finally awake, bat?"

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The bat wakes!

Panel 1: Headshot of a frowning Evelan. Panel 2: "All I see is evidence of a reckless and talentless failure," says the pink demon, deadpan. In the foreground, Dovak snorts. Panel 3: "That is why you should leave the scouting to your lord," says Dovak with a sidelong look—cheeky but commanding. "Hm," says the pink demon. "Evelan." "Of course. As you command, my lord." Evelan turns away. "Let's hope you're right. Panel 4: Evelan's hands fly through a series of magical gestures, too fast for the eye to follow, leaving only a white trail. Panel 5: Evelan vanishes in an eruption of demonic magic, black and red. Dovak watches, cross-armed and confident.

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Disagreement among demons?

Panel 1: Evelan peers down his nose, unconvinced. "You really think he'll choose to come with you? After you beat him to death's door? Panel 2: A shot of Vauruk on the grass, still unconscious, bathed in sunset light. Panel 3: From the foreground, Dovak leaps back from his handstand onto his feet, joining an unimpressed Evelan in the background. Panel 4. "Look at these parchments, Evelan," says Dovak pointing to the foreground, where a handful of crumpled and uncrumpled parchments lie -- including the hero's guild advertisement from earlier. "Crumpled dreams, among which he alone challenged a demon of war to battle. I may have beat him to death's door, but he was ready to meet me there. Do you think someone like that would turn back now?"

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Panel 1: Evelan's hands come apart slightly, and the light between them begins to fade. "It is done." Panel 2: Standing in the dusk scene from the previous page, but slightly darker, Evelan watches as Dovak performs a handstand pushup. Between them, Vauruk still lies unconscious. "He will wake before long, with the customary hunger and fatigue," says Evelan. "Good!" answers Dovak. Panel 3: A closeup on Dovak, illuminated orange and blue by the dusk light and shadow. "No time to waste, then. Return to hell and make preparations. Our new champion must be welcomed!"

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Panel 1: Through Evelan's steepled fingers, we see Vauruk on the grass, surrounded in a pale glow and twinkling little stars and moons. Panel 2: A wide shot of Dovak, Vauruk, and Evelan, still casting the heal, before a midday forest background. Panel 3: A closer shot of Vauruk's body, still glowing. POP and CRACK go his ribs. Panel 4: The same wide shot as Panel 2, except the sun has descended, bathing the scene in the orange light of sunset. Panel 5: A close up shot of the gash on Vauruk's knee being sown up by glowing white tendrils. Panel 6: The same close up as from the last panel. The gash on the knee is gone, leaving behind all the blood. Panel 7: The same close up as from Panel 4, but the sun is nearly behind the mountains now, painting the sky red and purple and casting bluish shadows upon the scene.

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A full page panel with a starry purple background. Evelan stands with his eyes closed in concentration, his arms splayed, palms facing forward. A complex rune featuring an eight pointed star outlined with phases of the moon glows in front of him. Circling the rune are a series of symmetrical hand gestures.

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Panel 1: "As you wish," says Evelan, reaching under his cloak. Panel 2: A closeup of Evelan holding up a small purple crystal moon between his thumb and index finger. Panel 3: A stylish panel with a vivid purple background under a bursting black circle as Evelan, shadowed, crushes the soulshard in his hand, emitting a burst of light. Panel 4: A closeup of Evelan's upturned hand. A few lights glimmer above his palm. Panel 5: Evelan brings his fingers together in a steeple. Light gathers in the space between his hands. Panel 6: Zoomed in to the space between Evelan's hands, we see a white moon take shape, surrounded by glimmering stars.

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Panel 1: "And half dead by the looks of it," says Evelan, leaning down over the supine bat and pulling open his eyelid to check on him. "Concussion, broken ribs, internal bleeding... Without treatment, he may succumb to his injuries before long." Panel 2: Over an orange polka-dotted background, Dovak grins almost bashfully and rubs the back of his neck. "Perhaps I had a little more fun than was necessary. You can heal him though, right?" Panel 3: Evelan stands, dusting off his hands. "It can be done, but it will cost us a soulshard. Are you sure he is worth it, my lord?" Panel 4: A closeup on Dovak's face, eyes intent. "Do it."

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Panel 1: "Haw" says Dovak, turning to admire the unconscious bat with a grin, running his tongue over his teeth. "He *is* a delicious little morsel, isn't he?" Panel 2: Dovak holds up an index finger. "But!" Panel 3: The silhouettes of Dovak and Evelan look down the camera, cyan and yellow eyes bright. "He is fast, strong, tenacious... and most importantly--" Panel 4: The crumpled flyer from before lies a distance from Dovak's feet. Panel 5: Dovak steps up to the flyer and picks it up from the ground. Panel 6: Dovak holds up the crumpled flyer, expression confident and knowing. "--hopelessly desperate."

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Panel 1: Evelan gives an unimpressed, almost disdainful side-eye to the bat off-screen. Panel 2: "Surely you jest, my lord," says Evelan, gesturing to the unconscious bat laid out beside him. "This?" Panel 3: "I jest not, Evelan," says Dovak, snapping the book shut in his right hand. "This broken bat has passed my test. He is the perfect candidate!" "Not to cast doubt on your judgement," says Evelan, both arms clasped behind his back again, "but have you made this decision with your head, or perhaps some other appendage?"

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Panel 1: The silhouette of a demon, shoulders hunched and cyan eyes bright, stands shrouded in smoke. Panel 2: The smoke begins to clear, revealing Evelan, standing in his dark brown collared mantle. Like Dovak, the bands of color on his tail, thighs, and arms are gone. "My lord," he says, expression neutral.

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Panel 1: The summoning circle lies once more completed and glowing, reactivated. Panel 2: The circle erupts with a FWOOOM in a blaze of black and red.

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Panel 1: Dovak grabs the unconscious Vauruk's shoulder and begins to roll him over. Panel 2: Dovak presses an ear to Vauruk's chest, listening to the bat's heartbeat. Panel 3: "Oh yes," says Dovak, leaning back. Panel 4: Dovak squats before the supine bat, holding up the summoning book once more. "You shall do nicely."

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Panel 1: "Exhilarating!" exclaims Dovak, eyes wide and fist raised with passion. Panel 2: "Such grit!" Dovak slams a fist onto the book held out horizontally in his palm. "Such reckless abandon!" Panel 3: "And in one so small and unassuming!" We pan back to the faint smile of the unconscious Vauruk with a shot between Dovak's calves.

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Panel 1: A shot from below of Dovak looking down at the bat, the demon's expression unreadable as it is shrouded in shadow. Panel 2: A closeup on the demon's mouth parting, showing fangs. *Haw haw..." Panel 3: Dovak erupts into raucous laughter, large colored HAWs around him, arms held out. Vauruk continue to lie unconscious at his feet.

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Panel 1: Vauruk's gauntleted hand falls limp to the grass with a thud. Panel 2: A closeup of Vauruk's face: unconscioius, battered, bloody, and filthy, yet with a faint content smile. Panel 3: An aerial shot of Dovak standing just out of reach of the fallen unconscious bat's outstretched hand.

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🍃

Panel 1: A shot of the sky, leaves blowing the breeze, accompanied by a couple coughs from below. Panel 2: A low angle shot from just behind Dovak's feet as Vauruk, collapsed on the grass battered and bruised, raises a quivering fist into the air, expression dazed but triumphant. "Hah," he manages to say. "Gotcha."

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Gotcha. ✊

Panel 1: A closeup on Dovak's face as he narrows his eyes and grinds his teeth, a vain popping on his forehead. Panel 2: A shot of Dovak's claws as his feet slide back through the grass and finally find purchase. Panel 3: A medium shot as Dovak comes to a halt and thrusts out his chest with a "Hm!", sending Vauruk flopping onto to grass with a WHUMP.

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Panel 1: Dovak's feet slide back through the grass with a SHHHHHFF. Panel 2: A full-body shot of Dovak being pushed back, Vauruk a curled up ball rammed headfirst into the demon's midsection. They leave a trail of color in their wake.

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Panel 1: Vauruk crashes headfirst into Dovak's midsection, knocking the demon off his feet with a WHAM. "KHA-!!" gasps Dovak, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, curling over the bat, who balls his fist and grinds his teeth.

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💥❗

Panel 1: Silhouetted against a streaked blue background, Dovak catches Vauruk's punch. Panel 2: Silhouetted against a streaked orange background, Dovak's eyes go wide as Vauruk continues forward with his momentum. Panel 3: A headshot of Dovak's surprised expression, eyes wide, jaw agape. Panel 4: Vauruk's face scrunches up as he roars. "HRAAAGH!"

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Panel 1: A closeup of Dovak's mouth curling into a fanged grin. "Fool!" he roars. Panel 2: Dovak's hand shoots up to catch Vauruk's diving punch. "You'd squander your surprise just to—" Panel 3: A closeup Vauruk's narrowed eyes, glinting with determination... or a plan?

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!!!

Panel 1: A closeup of Dovak's raised hand, showing the magic around it dissipate. Panel 2: A shot of the summoning circle, whose magic, too, is fizzling out. Panel 3: Dovak turns to look behind him. Centered among sparse focus lines is Vauruk, flying towards the demon with a fist out front. Panel 4: Surprise plays across Dovak's face as Vauruk's shadow grows across his face. Panel 5: A closer shot of Vauruk, in his flying punch pose. "Face me!" he roars.

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Face me!! 👊

Panel 1: A shot of a glowing red circumscribed pentagram. Panel 2: A shot of that same pentagram, this time showing its position on the grass by Dovak's feet. Panel 3: Dovak raises his glowing hand, the sigil beneath him beginning to roar to life with a glow and rising wisps of black flame. "Rise, Evelan!" he says. "I have found--" Panel 4: "DOVAK!" interjects a large text balloon. Dovak blinks in surprise, background returning to the plain blue of the sky.

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It's time!

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