They haven't noticed this by now since they were busy with something big, but the streets were littered with various types of demons, humans as well. The smell was unbearable, you could feel the stench act like metel spikes sticked up all the way inside your nose.
"aaackkk! The smell, are we near the castle yet" Sarya urgently asked
"we should be near the castle by now" Lily notified
However they ran into a problem, the gate was closed, climbing the castle walls wasn't an option either because its surface was too smooth, they stopped for a while until Kai decided to stretch, like a sprinter. The party got confused for a while and then, he jumped for it, he did it first try.
Lily just floated using her staff, Ferris used shadow travel on a shadow leading all the way to the top of the wall, which surprised the others. Sarya stood there like a person who doesn't have any clue what's she's doing. She decided to follow Kai's plan, she didn't know why, but she felt she could do the same samething, she jumped, surprisingly even higher than that of Kai's.
"I feel like im getting more active" Sarya said to the others.
"strange.. Me too, I fell much stronger" Kai also said
Still, after going on top of the no one was there, except for two guards that were similar to the beast that Ferris fought. The bodies were different, one was skinny and had the head of a praying mantis and the other guy had an stupidly and over the top muscular body with a lion head. Indeed muscular bodies are appealing to some, but this... It's disgusting honestly, it looked like it ate steroids like a normal everyday meal, it's veins unnaturally looked like they were about to burst into a fountain of blood.
"I think we should strike their vocal cords" Ferris said while pointing at his throat.
They couldn't risk the chance of them alerting the others, this way they shouldnt scream or make any sort of sounds. Ferris used shadow travel again. He's right next to them, just under the lions neck, it's neck was huge for its size, Ferris even had some difficulty looking to where the actual neck was.
He went out of his shadow hole, using his long sword to slice its throat, almost cutting all the way through, he was surprised of how soft it was. He felt like it was weaker than the other one that Ferris fought. It wasn't even a beast to him, or his level was high enough to finally cut it with the required ATK Stat.
The other one noticed, before it began screeching, it's thin Mantis neck got destroyed by an ice spike, both of them fell to the ground at the same time, the huge one landed on the head of Ferris, the huge body covered the bright sun in the sky, like a large boulder falling to you.
"oh.. Shi-
The huge body slammed against Ferris, silence struck for a while, the huge body got raised bit by bit, Ferris used his amazing strength to carry the entire weight of the huge body. He struggled a bit ofcourse but nevertheless he did it.
" thank God that guy wasn't sweaty..." Ferris said with relief
"there, an open window" Sarya said while pointing up.
It's an open window alright, but its way high up and it will be difficult for them to successfully jump it, well that only applies for Kai and Sarya, Lily and Ferris did the usual. Kai was the first one to jump for it, barely even making it but he made it with the a helping hand, litteraly using his hand to grab onto Kai's hand. Sarya made it too, without any help but she struggled a little bit.
Not much demons where there, only a few, it's not surprising since you could see them in the numbering hundreds outside in corpse form.
They made there way up to the castle, sneakily killing any demons they find. Finally they seemed to have made it to the final floor, it took them a long while since they were moving slowly and carefully.
They made it. in front of them was a circular floor, not much designs compared to the surrounding area, ontop was an open dome, letting the natural air in the castle covered from nature. The most suspicious one being a woman in the middle of the circular room. She wore the same dress as Diane, perhaps another one of Azazels aids. She stood there eyes closed, it looked like she was dozing horse.
[Note]
That's because horses actually doze while on their feet and lie down for REM sleep. To protect themselves, horses instead doze while standing. They're able to do this through the stay apparatus, a special system of tendons and ligaments that enables a horse to lock the major joints in its legs.
©Straight from Google my friends, lol®
Ferris quickly borrowed Sarya's sword and threw it like a spear. it streaked like a straight lighting bolt, barely even making a sound. Ferris expected the sword to just peirce like paper, who wouldn't want to do this on a vulnerable sleeping demon but what they didn't expect came true. She dodged it, she slowly and gracefully open her eyes, her eyes almost looked like they were revealing the sttary night, her eyelashes perfectly curved in the perfect direction. She softly said.
[Intruders]
"ohh... This aint good" Ferris exclaimed to himself
[End]