Chapter 12 Demon Lair !!(7)

Eventually Alex reached his destination, a clearing with red leaves scattered all over the place. Along with Alex came an angry horde of monsters hell bent on killing him. Suddenly Alex came to a halt in the centre of the clearing with his sword pointed at the imps. The imps, not questioning why he suddenly stopped, ran towards their prey excitedly.

*Snap*

*CRASH*

Suddenly some of the imps fell as the ground open up and swallowed them. It turned out that Carla had purchased the [Trap Creation] which her knowledge on how to create certain traps one of which are pitfalls. At the bottom of the pitfalls weren't spikes however as when they tried to cut down the trees a crimson blood like liquid seeped out and they were too sca..-ahem-cautious to have any spill on them. So instead they decided to make them deeper, much deeper.

*SCREEEAAAA*

Alex heard the blood curdling scream of the imps that fell into the trap and shuddered, he didn't have to look to know that more than a few of the imps bones were broken. Suddenly out from behind the trees came arrows striking the imps with killer accuracy, along with them came [fireballs] that burned the imps causing them to scream in agony. Out from the side came Xavier with a loud battle cry as he swung his spear with a vengeance killing imps one after the other.

'You guys won't have all the fun.' Alex thought as he jumped into the fray killing imp after imp while they scratched at his armour fruitlessly not leaving a scratch.

'Since when does he have armour like that.' Xavier thought when he saw the [Impish Shroud], shrugging his shoulders he continued to slaughter the imps with hatred burning in his heart.

They continued to slaughter the imps while some fell into the pitfalls( they were that dumb) but an issue soon arose, they were getting exhausted. No matter how easy it was to slay the imps their sheer number was enough to overwhelm them.

"How many of these bastards are out here!!" Xavier shouted as he stabbed another imp in the neck and hit another with the butt of his spear.

Not long after Xavier's shout two larger than normal imps came into view standing behind the tide of charging imps smiling an eerie smile as they stared at the group.

'Finally they are here.' Alex said shooting a cold stare towards the Greater Imps and then he charged towards them followed closely by Xavier and Robert who was now holding a light purple saber.

"I'll take the one on the right, you two take the one on the left." Robert shouted as he ran past the both of them and swung his sword down on his target. Casting a subtle cold stare towards Robert the gears in Alex's head started to turn. Running towards his opponent Alex swung his sword down on the imp which was blocked by it's flaming claws. Next came Xavier who thrusted his spear towards it's head which the monster dodged by moving it's head. Channelling mana into his leg Alex kicked it in it's side causing it to slide a few inches across the ground.

Enraged the creature slashed it's claws in the air sending five blazing [mana slashes] towards both Xavier and Alex. Looking behind him for a split second, Alex dived under the [mana slashes] successfully escaping the attack, unfortunately Xavier wasn't so lucky. Panicking Xavier tried to block the attacks with his F tier spear but unfortunately for him the attacks were too powerful causing the spear to shatter when it came into contact with one of the [mana slashes] and two more slashed him across the chest and leg causing him to scream in pain.