The Horde!
In a small cave, the very same one August and Seraphine have been trying to find for hours.
"Hmm. One of my underlings died?" A middle-aged man clad in black cloak said.
"UNDERLINGS! Kill that murderer who killed my underling!" the middle-aged man said.
Suddenly dozens of monsters surronded by Demonic Mana walked to him.
"ROOARR!" A bear roared, while the demonic mana around him magnified.
"AWWOOO!" A wolf howled.
Many different monsters surronded with Demonic Mana roared, howled or screeched..
"Good boys. Now go."
The demomic monsters ran out of the cave to where the Demonic Shadow Wolf last died. It seemed the Demonic Monsters and the middle-aged man have a connection.
"Hmmhmhmh" A muffled sound could be heard.
The middle-aged man stared at the young girl who looked to be around 15 years old. She was tied and her mouth was kept close by tape.
Everyone can see that she is captured.
The man moved closer to the girl and said;
"Little girl, you will be my sacrifice for the greater good!" The man boasted.
"Hmhmhmhmm" The same muffled sounds came as response. For som odd reason, the man felt annoyed and moved closer and ripped off the tape from her mouth.
"IDIOT BASTARD, LET ME GO!" The girl shouted.
"Aya, Claire. You are doing this for the greater good. Accept it and stop resisting."
"NEVER EVER." Claire, the young girl shouted again.
"You not being obedient..." The man muttered. He took another tape and put it back on her mouth, while she was trying to avoid it, but all was futile when was restrained.
"Why is this stupid so-called special physique so rare! If it were more common, it wouldn't this much time! It took me so many months to capture her..." The man frustrated muttered.
"Shitty Summoning Physique.." He quietly muttered and complained.
Summoning Physique is a rare physique, that gives the host of the physique higher potential in Summoning Magic. Summoning Magic specializes in summoning various monsters to help them such as battling, supporting or protecting.
They are much more adept and connected to the magic compared to other without. The best comparsion would be comparing a empty glass to a empty pool, being the outer layer(pool/glass) the starting point and foundation, while the water is the experience.
With the Summoning Physique, the middle-aged man or Demonic Mage that August called him. He can summon forth a demon from the Netherworld with the sacrifice of the physique. In turn leading to the young Claire's death.
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"Well, we are here again." August said after finally arriving where the Demonic Mana lingered.
"Why does it feel omnimuss and scary here...." Luna shivered.
"It's because the Demonic Mana lingering and affecting the area, making it more 'scary' looking and feeling." August explained in a simply way.
"What is Demonic Mana?"
"Demonic Mana is the demonised version of normal Mana." This time Elsa replied.
Luna nodded her head that she understood, August and the invisible Seraphine was scouting and searching for the small cave he mentioned.
Suddenly they could feel the ground shaking, almost like an earthquake.
"What's happening?" Luna asked.
"It's starting..." August answered.
"ROOAARR!" A loud roar resounded through the area. Right after that multiple different roars, howls or monster sounds could be heard!
[You have been stunned]
[Your ears has become numb due to high amount of Sound Stuns]
Two different windows appeared in front of the four people, two humans and two fairies.
Sound Stuns is possible when a powerful sound attack or multiple at the same time like roars or screeches are used.
August stared at the window, he reckoned it required around fifteen monsters to sound stun with just their normal roars(not powerful ones).
He made hand signals to Luna that she should follow him, because they numbed their ears, they had problems hearing each other, aswell the tense athmosphere coming towards them.
She nodded back at him, while he also nodded back in approval. He dashed to a certain direction, while she followed suit.
Because it was the mountain area and it was plain with no trees and bushes around. It made it easier for the monsters to run to them.
But luckily it seemed that both Luna and August has tricks up in their sleeves, for example [Mana Maniplutation] or Luna's Feather Boots, that boosted her Agility to compete with the monters.
While they were running off, he looked back and used [Inspect] on the closet ones to them.
|| S T O N E B E A R || (Demonised)
[HP: 245/250]
[Level: 8]
[Description: A bear who loves stone and used stone as their armor. Their defense power is even stronger than iron, making their stone unique]
|| P O S I O N V I P E R || (Demonised)
[HP: 90/90]
[Level: 8]
[Description: Posion Viper are long and slender, their deadly posion can kill anyone by just their touch.]
|| S H A D O W W O L F || (Demonised)
[HP: 160/160]...
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Most of the monsters were around seven and eight, meaning they pretty powerful, even more in group. He bet that the demonic mage wanted to kill them off fast, to lessen the trouble we could cause, that's why he sent a group of monsters to hunt them.
He then looked at the sky. Seeing three black birds, one who looked like a crow and other two like birds.
"I need to take the flying monsters down to make this work.." August muttered. Right after his mutter, he took out a Bronze Sword that Luna gave him, because she a spare one.
Immediently he filled the sword with Mana, and slashed behind him a slash that carried the filled Mana.
[Mana Slash]
A simple yet deadly move that whistled through the air, creating a phantom of mana that looked like half-circle towards the unexpected crow.
SLASH!
[CRIT -112]
It couldn't even make a sound before its head fell to the ground, its body turned into blue particles.
[You have aquired 22 XP]
The famous critical hit, it deals double the damage and has a low chance of activating.
It seemed that August was quite lucky to instakill the crow, luckily the crow had low HP compared to others.
Luna was quite astonished seeing that move, but she didn't slow down a beat and was still running close to August.
She didn't want to lose out to August, and seeing him killing off the flying monsters instead the ones on land, she made a tactic-understanding that the flying ones to be killed off.
She took her spear and utlized the mana in the air to condense to the tip of the spear. After feeling that the process was done, she leaped and twisted her back behind, leaning her spear on her soft shoulder. She threw it on one of the birds.
[Spear Throw]
[CRIT -72]
Unfortunely even after the critical hit, the bird was still alive with some of its HP.
After throwing her first spear, she took another same-looking spare spear and condensed the tip of it with Mana again.
August who saw her Spear Throw, wasn't suprised one bit. Because that was a common skill a spear user can get by visiting a certain retired Veteran Spearman, who lived in Levia Town. He knew she must have visited him and learnt it from him.
Self-created and Learned are two different things, one is creating a whole new concept that is through ones thoughts and compression. While the other is through practicing or learning from others.
August also filled his sword with Mana again and unleashed another [Mana Slash], but towards the uninjured one, because the speed of the slash was too fast for it to react...
[-54] A red number appeared above its head.
Luna seemed also to prepared her shot, she leapt again and twisted backwards before throwing the spear with mana at the already injured bird.
The bird was already injured by the suprise attack from woman, which in turn made it slower to dodge the spear throw heading towards it heads.
[-55]
[You have aquired 24 XP] A window appeared in front of Luna.
[You have leveled up] Another one appeared in front of her.
'Level 4, pretty good' Luna thought, while she glanced at August and wondered what level he currently was.
The mentioned party also received a window screen in front of him;
[You have leveled up]
'Level 5'
It seemed both Luna and August had a little XP from leveling up. August had the lead because of the undiscovered cheat quest, aswell his unrivaled hunting speed, but Luna was neither slacking off.
Suddenly August's [Danger Sense] Passive Skill alerted him from danger, he looked back and saw a gust of wind coming to them. August shouted at Luna and she looked back, luckily it seemed the hearing were coming back.
They tried to run away and dodge it, but the wind was faster. They gave up and raised their weapons for protection.
BANG! Sounds of metal being hit..
[-30]
August and Luna flew backwards and almost fell, but quickly balanced themselves.
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[AN: Taking a short break off writing for a bit for school and exams.]