Chapter 291 Two Weeks later(1)

Two weeks have passed since Colin proposed his rail way system idea to the werewolf mechanic. The railway system was created within a week and during the period of production, Colin transported the cursed ores to the town. This allowed the leprechauns to proceed with creating the weapons and items needed for the family, which increased their abilities to hunt beasts nearby. The overall levels of the members of the family skyrocketed as they hunted the abundant beast that roamed near the town. Alice created an arena outside the town where everyone could practice using their weapons, and by this point, the arena looked like a deep pit, stained with blood. During the first week, a tremor shook the entire city and a large wave of demonic energy past by the city, and they were quickly able to deduce the source of the demonic.

"Any hunting must take place within a kilometer of the town." Colin said after the earthquake past and no one argued. Just like the demonic beasts, they could sense the power behind that wave of demonic energy, as well as the foul stench it carried. The number of tier 4s in the area has dramatically increased as the lower tiered ones have either migrated or were killed by the stronger beasts. Also, the species of beasts that could be found in the area have also changed, most of them were types that could only be found in the underworld. Tougher, more terrifying and powerful beasts.

"We're heading over to town O." Colin announced two days after the earthquake passed. He and Bartus decided to investigate the source of the wave demonic energy, town O. Giving Alice a passionate kiss before leaving, Colin flew towards City O which took them a day to arrive. Bartus has successfully evolved into a tier 5, which from the evolutionary guide, Colin knew was a gremlin. His skin has become pale, his eyes shown with a dark golden colour, his ears became elongated even more and he grew a pair of grey butterfly wings on his back. He gained the skills [Inventory], [Curse Affinity] and [Treasure Finder]. The other two skills were easy to understand, but [Treasure Finder] was a bit weird. The description said the skill allowed you to sense anything of value, which is a pretty wide category. Gold, diamond, etc were certainly things of value, but they didn't hold much value in a world like this, so would the skill allow Bartus to sense them.

Once they arrived, the two of them floated above the town with their stealth abilities activated and the two of them were shocked at what they saw. Below them, was nothing but dust and ash for kilometers, as far as the eye can see, and within the once prominent and populated town, was an army of hundreds of monsters. These monsters ranged in sizes, some of them looked like humanoid reptiles with bone spikes extending from their backs and joints, others looked humans with bat like wings on their backs, large fangs extending from their mouths, claws atleast 30 cms long, completely red eyes and a long disgusting tongue. These monsters roared and growled noisily, showing hostility to each other, but they dared not fight, as a group of monster suppressed all of them with their mere presence alone.

This group was fourteen strong, all of them were tier five and just looking at them, Colin could tell that they were even stronger than the Wendigo Elite he fought over a week ago. He also noticed that twelve of them represented each of the twelve different species of monsters that made up the army, while the other two...were strange. One of them wore a white mask, with a pair of pink butterfly wings on it's back and wore a large black gown. The other one was even stranger, it was a tall green skinned woman, with two small fangs extending from her bottom lip and a black horn extending from the left side of her forehead. She had a pair of black feathery wings on her back and carried a dangerous looking black scythe with her. Her eyes were completely black and she had red runes all over her body, even on one side of her face. But what made her look strange, was the fact that she was wearing a pink mini skirt, short black tights and black, bloodstained blouse.

'Since when do demons dress like that.' Colin thought as he looked at her.

[What the fuck?!!!] Bartus shouted in alarm through [Telepathy] and Colin reeled and covered his ears.

[What? I know they look scary, but you should be used to seeing monsters like that since you lived in the underworld right.] Colin said while massaging his temple

[It's not that, check out the aura of those two.] He said, pointing to the two strange demons at the front, obviously alarmed by something. Colin quickly activated [Aura Vision], and he trembled at what he saw. The auras of the two strange demons was a mixture of golden colours of holy energy and the red colour of demons. At some places, both these aura meld, creating a distorted dark orange colour.

[What the hell are they?]