Benji and Adam felt their scalp grow cold.
'Holly sh*t!!!' Cursed Benji.
[Stay calm, we need to play it cool and retreat, one step after another!] Warned Adam who started mentally to sweat.
Benji didn't know why but he felt as if that all those pairs of menacing blood-red eyes were only glaring at him.
Adam was the first to take some slow steps back, very carefully...
Benji gulped down nervously, he too took a slow step back.
Suddenly the many pair of blood-red eyes widened in rage.
A storm of bloodlust crashed down on them, followed by an outrage of high pitched shrieks!
The air itself seemed to tremble under those shrieks.
Then they jumped down, pouncing at them.
"F*CK!!!"
Countless of shadows descended from the branches high up on the majestic tree, shrieking and emitting such a brutal bloodlust...
It reminded them of the tigress that became the Sixth Pillar.
The two fire puppets acted fast under Adam command, they stretched out their hands and created greater flames. They didn't hold back anything and a sea of fire engulfed the creatures.
They used that opportunity to retreat and watched the sea of fire rampaging.
Benji's eyes widened to the extreme when he saw how those creatures devoured the fire easely!
They landed on the ground without any injuries.
Benji got finally a clear look at the creatures when they completely devoured the sea of fire.
["Mutated Squirrel Monkeys! Watch out for those beams!"] Shouted Adam in panic.
They looked like Squirrel Monkeys but they were much bigger and had black fur, the skull like image on their faces was blood-red, just like their eyes. All of them had a single red crystal horn growing out from a part of their body. Some had one on the forehead, others on the shoulder and others on their chest...
Benji waited for them to open their mouths and shot out those beams like the mutated bear near Düsseldorf did.
He was on high alert when they opened their mouths but not to shoot out beams but shriek in frenzy.
There were so many of them...
The crystal horns of those Mutated Squirrel Monkeys that devoured the fire lit up, thick veins popped out all over their muscular bodies.
Then, they continued their attack.
The strange thing was that they only pounced at Benji, ignoring the rest.
Benji was about to act when he saw Adam step in front of him.
The 10 liquid balls floating around Adam took forms of many sharp steel swords, spears and circular saws that began to spin rapidly.
Benji recalled why that move reminded him of, it looked like the iconic attack from Gilgamesh of the anime series Fate/Stay Night!
Adam smiled, ["That's right! You mongrels, here comes GATE OF BABYLON!"] He waved his hands forwards and the weapons made of pure steel flew ahead at the horde of Mutated Squirrel Monkeys.
Benji was excited to see Adam in full action but their smiles vanished when they heard the clicking sounds.
The Mutated Squirrel Monkeys were only thrown backwards when they were hit by the fast and sharp steel weapons that Adam flung at them. Even worse those Mutated Squirrel Monkeys that had devoured the fire didn't care about the weapons. The weapons either shattered or bent sideways when they smashed into their bodies.
The two of them stared at them in disbelief, Benji gritted his teeth, pushing Adam aside.
He lifted his finger, creating a gravity field high above the monkeys that pulled them up.
It didn't matter how strong those monkeys were, they all became victim to Benji's gravitation powers and floated up in the air.
They sighed in delight seeing how helpless the monkeys became.
Benji created other gravity up in the air, catching all the remaining monkeys.
His brain was already working, thinking about a way to kill all these monkeys when...
They noticed how the monkey began to grab each other, starting to throw themselves out of the area of effect from Benji's gravity fields.
["You gotta be kidding me!"] Cursed Adam who recalled all the weapons that returned to metallic floating liquid balls.
The mutated monkeys that landed outside of the gravity fields began to spread and pounced again at Benji. Their ferocious nature seemed to have grown, what shocked Benji who thought that wouldn't be possible.
"Aren't they a bit too smart?"
Adam turned to the left, ["We have no time to talk, I will take those in the left, you the ones on the right.
Benji turned his body to the right, facing the group of Mutated Squirrel Monkeys.
A bright light erupted from his left eye, blinding the monkeys on the right side.
["Damn! I can't control them, my Radiant Mindlight will only stun them for a few seconds be quick!"] Shouted Adam as he reformed the balls into ten big steel hammers.
It was just like Adam said the monkeys froze on the spot, shaking their heads in confusion.
Benji didn't waste any time, taking out the smaller of the two long steel swords on his back and dashed at the group of monkeys to the right.
He stretched out his free hand, creating the most powerful gravity field 10 meters under the monkeys.
The gravitation did its work, causing the confused monkeys to fall and stick to the ground.
Benji arrived in front of the first defenseless monkey, striking down his long sword.
'I can't pierce through their tough skin but...'
The sharp tip of the sword pierced the brain of the first monkey through the eye socket.
Adam was also doing his work, ["I may not be able to cut you all...but I can smash you to death!"]
The ten big hammers moved fast under his control, smashing into the monkeys.
They were blasted away while spurting blood out of their mouths.
Adam didn't get all of them and recalled two big hammers, reshaping them into smaller shields that prevented the Mutated Squirrel Monkeys from ambushing him.
Benji turned his head around, his dark right eye spun as he created another gravitation field on the left side, right under them to help Adam out.
The monkeys slowed down a lot under the influence of the gravitation.
Adam gave Benji a quick thumb up before going back to smash the monkey down with the big hammers.
Benji created more gravitational fields under the earth, increasing the pulling force on the monkey from the right that had recovered from the confusion Adam caused earlier.
His sword stabbed down, every time killing a helpless monkey.
The Mutated Squirrel Monkeys that were still stuck in the air shrieked in anger but there was nothing they could do than watching their kind getting killed by the two.
The three elite puppets became basically useless in this fight. The fire puppets would only make the monkeys stronger and the physical puppet would get killed by any random monkey because it was weaker than them.
Benji and Adam worked together, killing off all the monkeys on their sides.
They exchanged knowing looks and stared at the remaining Mutated Squirrel Monkeys that were floating helplessly in the air.