"This little one has erred and deserves death. I only ask that you spare the others." The old village head said while touching his forehead back down onto the ground.
"Grandfather no!" The young man beside him cried out in sadness.
*sighs* "It's ok son, I have made a mistake and need to pay for it. I just hope that my life is enough to sate his anger."
'Grandfather …' The young man bit down on his lip as tears threatened to fall from his eyes.
"...."
'Why are these people so dramatic!???'
"Sighs everyone lets all calm down please for the love of god .. well for the love of me hehehe" hearing the voice inside their heads once again, everyone turned their attention towards the giant manta in the sky.
"Don't worry We aren't here to cause anyone harm. We were just passing by and wanted some information." An excited glint crossed some of the villagers eyes as they heard him.
"If that's true can you please help us?! O-omighty one" The chief's grandson nervously asked but quickly changed his tone once he noticed his grandfather's glare.
The large manta had already seen all the injured and was quite curious about what had happened to them. Some of the villagers had horrible claw marks on their bodies and some were even missing limbs.
"What happened?" he asked Jino with a frown.
"We were attacked! These strange monsters we have never seen before suddenly started to kill anyone they saw! My dad is still at the village holding them back so please save him!" The smart kid kneeled on the floor hitting his forehead onto the ground as he tried to appeal to the massive manta.
"Hmm ….. Well that is the general direction we are heading to anyways so I guess we could lend a hand however, we shall talk about your payment for my services afterwards. Nothing is free in the world after all"
'How was it little gold? Did I sound like a powerful divine creature?' The large manta asked the little crab secretly.
"Hmm, powerful" She casually responded as all her concentration was on watching these very interesting creatures called "humans"
All the villagers were nodding excitedly hearing the divine creature was willing to help.
"Of course of course! We will do anything you want!" The old chief swiftly answered. He was so excited that the blood that had left his face rushed back all at once making the old man look like he was blushing.
"Hmm then lets go little gold"
The large crab wrapped in a golden aura ascended back into the sky and quickly got onto the manta's back before they sped off towards the east. The speed at which they disappeared was so fast that some of the villagers that had blinked completely lost sight of them.
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"Little gold what do you think of the humans?"
"They are very weak"
"No, I mean did you like them?
"Hm.. they were funny"
"Yea, they were funny weren't they?" Thinking back to how they cared so much for each other to the point that they were willing to sacrifice themselves made the large manta feel all fuzzy inside.
At the speed they were moving at, it only took a minute of flying to what would have normally taken hours for the villagers for them to reach the village. It was also easy to confirm they were in the right place due to a part of it being covered in a black cloud and explosions going off every few seconds.
"There it is little gold! Lets see how strong these land monsters are compared to the fish in the sea!" A big smile grew on the mantas 2 faces as his blood started to pump in excitement
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"Ralfe! How many more times can you cast Fireball?!??" A big burly man standing at the wide entrance of the town hall screamed without looking back. He held up a big shield in front of his body with one hand while holding up a heavy saber with the other.
"10? Maybe 12 but i won't be able to move if i do! ARGGG! Why did this happen? I should be living the best time of my life right now drinking wine and sleeping with a different beauty every day! Yet here I am! Fighting for my life with a bunch of sweaty men!!" A pale and delicate looking, fat middle aged man that stood on top of a chair responded as he pointed a short wand with a red beast core at the tip over everyone's head.
"Who told you to sleep with the wrong woman???" The burly man retorted to which was followed by the loud laughter of the dozens of men standing in a messy formation holding some old weapons while most held everyday items as makeshift weapons and shields.
The fat middle aged man blushed as he shouted in anger. "Vall that was supposed to be a secret! And how was it my fault? That old monster has so many wives that no one can keep track anymore. Maybe if he was able to satisfy them they wouldn't be out looking for someone that could behind his back! Now Stop talking about this, you're distracting me! FIREBALL!"
A fireball the size of a human's head appeared in front of the short wand the fat man was holding. It quickly flew through the town halls entrance and over everyone's heads into the black cloud that was surrounding the building. An explosion sounded out soon after followed by the angered howl of a creature.
"Well we have to thank the old city lord then because if it wasn't for him you wouldn't have come to hide in this godless village. Who knows how long we would have lasted without you?" The burly man called Vall that was standing at the front said before he noticed a stirring in the darkness.
"Here they come!" He shouted prompting all the men to ready themselves
Three big creatures suddenly charged out of the black cloud that was surrounding the building a second the fireball exploded. The creatures were making short attacks, slowly wearing them out, taking advantage of the fact that the wand could only be used every few seconds. These creatures looked almost exactly like earth's bison if not for the thick legs with visible muscles holding up their big bodies. They had big paws at the end of each limb each carrying 5 large claws the size of an adult hand. The scariest part however was the extremely sharp teeth they were showing on their face. Though they lacked horns, their huge hard heads would act like a wrecking ball when they charged.
Normally beasts could never make use of such advanced strategies, but Vall had seen the clear eyes of a smaller one that was standing on top of a building calmly overlooking the fight and quickly realized they had an intelligent leader. It was surrounded by 4 larger than average bison beasts protecting him from all sides like bodyguards.
As the three beasts charged towards them with their heads lowered, Val hid behind his shield and using his full body weight he met one of the bison creatures head on. The beast was much bigger than him and was easily 5 times his weight but as soon as it hit the shield it felt as if it had smashed onto an iron wall. One of its claws broke as it got knocked 5 steps back slightly dazed. Once it regained its balance it was extremely angry but before it could do anything it suddenly stopped in place and looked back at its leader as if getting a command before forcibly controlling itself and jumping back into the dark cloud.
Even though Vall had easily held on the others weren't so lucky. Fortunately the other two beasts were not able to break through but they did a lot of damage before going back. The men that took the brunt of the impact were seriously injured and had to be moved to the back of the formation as a few others quickly took their place. The ones that were slightly to moderately injured stayed in their place ignoring their broken bones and bleeding wounds.
"If this continues we won't even be able to hold for another hour!" Shouted an elderly man that was treating the injured at the back.
'They already killed over a hundred villagers, it's definitely enough to feed them all so why are they trying to wipe us out? Their leader is definitely smart enough to understand that the loss will outweigh the gains if he continues so why is he still attacking?' Vall thought to himself as he quietly stared at the eyes of the small bison wondering what was going through it's mind.
"Just keep defending, we can only pin our hopes that they will give up befo-"
"CRASH!" A loud sound suddenly came from above them followed by pieces of broken wood and tiles.
"They are breaking through the ceiling!" The fat man called Ralfe screamed before swiftly pointing his wand up towards a creature that was breaking through the ceiling, the abrupt movement made his fat jiggle. A dark dense fog started to quickly flow into the hole created on the ceiling like water. Luckily the cool down for his wand was over so he instantly released a fireball towards the direction of the creature.
"Boom!"
The explosion brought down more pieces of the ceiling with it however as the smoke dissipated, Ralfe saw the monster using his forearms to block in front of its body. The place where the fireball had hit was charred black and the smell of burnt flesh assaulted everyone's noses.
"It's at least a tier 2 creature. The fireball isn't enough to stop it!" Ralfe shouted in surprise.
Hearing what was said, Vall turned back to look at the bison leader and noticed that one of the 4 of its bodyguards were gone.
'Sighs* It seems like they are adamant on wiping out every last one of us. Little Jino, looks like I'll be watching as you grow up from the heavens' Seeing as their chance of surviving is now completely gone, Val took a deep breath and shouted out loud for all the men behind him.
"Alright men! We accomplished our objective! Our families should have reached the shore by now so let's go all out and take as many as we can down with us!"
"AAAAAARRRRRR!!!" The few dozen men behind him shouted in response. Just knowing their loved ones were now safe raised their morale to the peak.
Ralfe frowned as he looked at the wand that would be completely useless for a few seconds before deciding to put it away into his belt and pulling out a sharp dagger at his waist which he held onto with both his hands.
Seeing they were on their last legs the small bison leader sent out an order as over 10 of the beasts jumped out of the black cloud at once followed by the big one breaking through and jumping down from the ceiling.
Time seemed to slow down for everyone at that split second before all the men suddenly lost sight of their enemies and were showered with blood and guts. They were completely stunned in place trying to process what had happened.
Vall was dumbfounded as he turned towards the small bison leader only to see him looking back at him just as confused. All of a sudden a powerful voice sounded out in the heads of every living being still alive.
"Uhhhh...….ok fine! I'm sorry ok?! How was I supposed to know they would be so weak!?"