Chapter 84 - What a Coincidence

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

But before he could move down even an inch, a sound of explosion could be heard as the winds threatened to push him away, and when he looked at the direction where the explosion occurred, he can’t help but widen his eyes in shock as he saw towering ice spikes, higher than the tree line.

‘This kid is crazy!’ he exclaimed to himself and hurriedly landed on the ground and use his magic to locate his army, as well as send a message to his right and left hand in command who traveled back to their territory by his orders.

Not long has he located the two and sent them the message through telepathy, now he has to synchronize his magic with the rest of his army magic to help their forces in rushing back to a safe place as he had sensed through the ground that his army was scattered.

Coupled with the fact that he was fighting just seconds ago, he wasn’t able to organize his army. ‘Let’s just hope that Ken and his group can really help.’ Just as he had thought so, twelve colorful beams had simultaneously shot and targeted the area where the demon gate was near.

What made it even more surprising was the fact that all twelve beams originated from one area, and there he found, the twelve other people on Ken’s group, but where was he?

Seconds ago right after Ken had finished talking with the King, he did not hesitate to bombard down the battlefield with ‘Winter’s Curse’, an area of effect spell that let’s Ken encase specific targets in pillars of ice, and after fifteen seconds, the ice will shatter, breaking anyone or anything caught along with it.

Its magic circle appeared and disappeared just as fast for it dispersed to target the monsters fighting the lava wolves and mountain lions, the pillars were fairly tall but the ogres caught by the circles had much taller pillars hence the protruding ice pillars.

The animal beasts were caught off guard as they stared at the human before them, but their surprise where even more stimulated as Ken pointed at the direction where the demon gate was fairly located -since it was still covered by trees on the way, but he could see the gates fluctuating surface-,

And twelve light beams bombarded the area, even the trees weren’t spared, once the smoke cleared it revealed bodies of werewolves and ogres lying dead on the ground, along with the path cleared.

‘Great timing, the ice pillars should be done by now.’ He thought to himself.

*CRACK!*

*CRUMBLE*

‘Ah, great timing.’ Ken thought as the ice pillars did as what he expected as they all broke down breaking along with it the bodies caught in each pillar, there was no blood spilled, just pure ice falling to the ground and falling like grains of salt, even the smell was not spared.

“Everyone gather.” said Ken and his group jumped towards his location and positioned themselves behind him in a menacing aura, intimidating everyone around them at the same time made them all heroic to the look.

Even the monsters that were spared by the bombardment of spells felt fear for the first time, for those people, magical beasts, had not only destroyed almost half of their frontline forces, but also took care of their initial force like it was nothing.

But the moment was torn when Ken laughed, hard, the cause of his joy was the faces of beasts and monsters around and in front of him, they may not be people but were clearly animals, even their form, except for the twisted ones,

But he felt the tense emotion of fear and admiration in the air that he could not help crack up, coupled with his haywire of an imagination that made him remember all those silly faces of people he met in the past, yeah, made him all but laugh.

Growls, screeches and roars erupted in the air not from the lions and wolves, but from the monsters as their leader felt insulted by Ken’s laugh, recovered themselves and insinuated an order to castrate the creature before them.

But just as every monster was about to rush back into battle, Ken’s laugh that was disrupted from the roar, felt his mood plummet down to a negative degree, ‘Freeze’ was casted stopping all monsters, even the thousands upon thousands that seems to have kept on spawning out of the demon gate were frozen,

With the ‘manual input’ in effect, the ground and its surroundings did not freeze over, only the bodies Ken so desired to stop, along with a chill in the air.

The monster’s leaders -which are the twisted humanoid creatures that know how to speak in this area’s case- were frozen solid, unable to utter any word, or move a limb. A strong pressure descended on everyone except Ken’s friends and the wolves and lions, but they felt the emotion of fear as they could not gauge or measure out how much magic Ken is pouring.

Ken suddenly appeared a good distance in front of the demon gate, right at the center of the enemy’s army, in front of the leaders, they were twenty in total, and the pressure doubled in on them, and the one causing it was in front of them.

“I do not like being interrupted.” The heaviness of Ken’s voice added more chills to the spines of every monster nearby, for they felt like one of their demon vanguards are present here, and they know how fearsome those bunch are, others even thought that they’re seeing one of their demon Lords.

The leaders were even more petrified for they felt the familiarity of this fear even back on their world, they were just clumps of condensed beastly and human and other race’s negative emotions, they were either unable to talk or able to talk upon birth in the demon world.

They are a rank below demon vanguards and have been classified as demon slaves as they do not take any physical demon form only twisting energies of deformed bodies. Just as their name suggests, they are pawns to everyone of higher rank than them, as such they constantly feared those above them.

But being in this kind of situation reminded them of their fear, but an even greater fear than before the demon vanguards, others of them even compared the fear they felt exuding from Ken to be on par of those in the Lord rank, demons of insurmountable power, or so they thought, for the demon King still stands to govern over the demon world.

“But then again it would be rude to laugh at such a serious occasion.” The Slaves thoughts were interrupted by the now sweet looking boy before them, but they refused to be deceived again by this creature before them.

“Moving along, there’s nothing you can do but watch as your forces reduce to ashes.” and now Ken’s back to his maniac persona. “One thing I’d like you to know before I start wiping you out is that, I don’t like being taken advantage off.” his smile turned sinister.

Dark moon magic threatened to burst out of Ken as his emotions showed on the surface, but he jumped back, back-flipping once and then landing gracefully but then brandished his weapon ready for a fight, right where he initially was, a sword landed.

A figure walked out of the demon gate, bearing with it an oppressive aura.

“Oh, what do we have here.” said Ken, he jumped back again as the figure threatened to attack him, landing at his previous location -again-, cracking the ground beneath it.

The figure had demonic features ranging from claws, sharp teeth, dark red eyes, a buff body with armor like scales, and a black red sword, which is swinging towards Ken, he blocked the hit but got himself flung back towards his group.

He landed gracefully -again-, but before the demon could follow him he casted…

“Ice and Water Magic: Frozen World!” encasing the demon figure in water and froze over, but with ‘manual input’ and ‘concept of debuff’ he made the ice sturdier almost five times of the initial sturdiness, while he cursed the demon to have his power halved -for he clearly saw those muscles thus concluded that the demon is a male-.

Ken used ‘Telekinesis’ to fling the demon away and further back the demon gate to stall for time, for his spell will only last him about ten minutes, by then he must create a plan, for he deduced that this demon is different from the rest, even though it was only one.

“Guys, I don’t know what just happened but-“ he stopped abruptly for as he turned around only to be surprised that the group had grown, the wolf pack he had encountered earlier was with his group, staring at him, wide eyed.

“Alpha, hello.” he said cheerfully and enthusiastically approached the group, he bowed towards the alpha of the group while he positioned his scythe behind him to not deter his bow. The group was confused and stunned at the sudden change of mood of this guy.

As if he’s not in a serious moment.

“What brings you here?” Ken asked. The alpha, whose name Ken still doesn’t know, not that he minds, shook himself out from his stance and greeted back.

“Hello to you too little one, we’re here to help our brethren.” said the alpha gesturing to the wolves with red features that looks like streaks of lava.

“What a coincidence, we’re also here to help them.” replied Ken.

“But it seems you have helped them out before us.” Ken nodded. “What was that earlier?” the alpha asked.

“Oh, that.” Ken’s voice turned serious. “It’s an opponent whom I still haven’t closely inspected yet.” Yet again his demeanor changed as he held his chin in a thoughtful manner. His friends cannot help but slap their foreheads mentally and literally.

“Huh? What are you guys slapping your foreheads for?” said Ken.

“Never mind us.” said Celine.

“Oh, on a serious note, we have to come up with a plan for I fear that the opponent that I froze will not be beaten easily.” said Ken, just as he had said this, the King and the lava wolves alpha arrived simultaneously landing in front of everyone.

“Great, everyone’s here, now we can commence the planning.” said Ken.

“What seems to be the case Ken.” asked the King.

“I’m afraid we have encountered a difficult opponent this time your highness.” now Ken was all serious, indicating that he was done playing and is ready to commence a full out plan, his group noticed this and thus were eager to listen to what Ken has to say.

Or just prepared themselves mentally.

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