Yang seeing there was nothing he could do at the moment about the demon's actions proceeded to move on and take charge of the situation. And with how few their options were and given that they couldn't remain in the forest area, the twins had proposed forth an idea. Given the condition in which they all found themselves there wasn't a billion choices laying around for them to choose from so they just had to go with the suggestion on ground. But there were two factors that posed themselves as major roadblocks to this conclusion that they had come to.
"How are we going to carry all of them?. I mean with the way they are right now, I doubt any of them would be getting up any time soon" Luke pointed out. And he was right about this statement. The form they had taken was quite above them for their current level which meant they had expended more energy to get into such form. But not only that, remaining in their demon forms for such ridiculous amount of time meant that they'd need quite a long period to recover their energy back.
"That's what's bothering you?. I mean look, some of them barely have clothes on and they would sure need something to wear for the night.. " Shaw paused, then moving closer to his brother Luke before continuing what he was saying in a lower tone ..."From the display, we can't be so sure if they can handle the extreme conditions like we can. I don't think they've gotten to that level or at best are just entering our level" Shaw finished his odd form of whispering while taking a moment to look at a particular person with them, Yang who was the main reason Shaw had to go through all the trouble of whispering in the first place as he wasn't too sure he could trust him.
"I mean that's not a problem" Luke said laughing nervously as he saw Shaw and Yang maintain an odd stare at each other. "See, I told you buying those clothes would come in handy" Now it was Luke's turn to whisper slightly too. The back and forth between the brothers went on and this happened with Shaw still not dropping Mia.
"It's already dark, I suggest we do what ever that is needed. This hour is for the beasts in this area" Yang said briefly. And the twins needn't argue about that because they too knew Yang had spoken the truth. With how conservative of their energies that they were, they just weren't ready for another fight.
"Cast" Luke said holding his hand out towards Mia and almost instantly the sleeping girl had a shirt appear on her. And as this happened, Luke looked at his brother Shaw and delivered a huge grin again trying to remind his brother how wise of a decision it was that he had gone overboard to get more wears than required.
And the skill that was used by Luke currently was like the opposite of what the system equip skill would do. While the system equip skill could potentially adorn specific things the user imagines on the user's body, squarely if such material was to exist and be owned by the user in the first place. The cast skill did the opposite and allowed the user cast upon other objects some specific materials if available in the system storage. And right now the twins had loads of wears in their system storage. Although there was a bit of gender bias as there were only male clothes available. But in the situation they found themselves, there wasn't room for a lot of choices.
And Luke particular thought the shirt that had appeared on Mia suited her just fine. This was part of what had contributed to the grin appearing on his face. But not wasting anymore time, he went around and lifted off each sleeping person off the floor and gathered them all in one place. This wasn't an easy task especially considering the likes of Johan and Erwin who were quite big themselves. But then again, it was made easy for Luke as all he had to do was transform part of his arm making them not only look bigger but stronger as well.
And before long Luke had gathered eight of them in one place as he often picked up two at once. Now with that out of the way, he proceeded to cast clothes on all of them. And after these was done, the next part which was considered the hard part for them was to take all of them to where they could all rest as it was getting quite dark.
"We don't have much ep left again so if we are doing this, it has to be once. Come on, what have you got?" Shaw asked facing his brother Luke. All the while that this various interactions and activities went on, Yang had only stood watching. Not watching the activity per say, more like watching a sleeping white pale skinned Rodney.
"Just what did you do to have such powerful demon call you Master. I can only imagine the hurdles you must have gone through to look like this right now. The energy I'm sensing off this area when I first came in was quite the strong one. And even now I can sense both weak and strong fluctuation coming off from just you. You are truly special" Yang thought watching Rodney.
"Let's go big" Luke said with a wicked smile on his face. But Shaw was quick to disagree on that.
"Remember, doing something that drastic can put us just in the state they are in now. And moreover going big was what attracted that demon to us in the first place. I do not want to have to fight and run to survive for days again". Shaw said with a frown on his face. Luke was quick to understand what his brother was feeling as he also shared the same experience of having to run and hide from the said demon that now somehow was in one of the bodies laying on the ground.
" How about that bison thing?. I mean you want to carry all of them in one go right?" Luke said.
"Sure...fine" Shaw replied unenthusiastically. Then moving over to where Yang stood, he handed Mia over to the other and stepped back a few steps to meet his brother. Placing one hand on Luke's shoulder and with the other doing the same, they both began to emit alternate light of blue and red from themselves. And their eyes having turned red and blue themselves also began to shine brightly.
Yang who stood not to far away with the sleeping bodies of the legions stood watching the spectacle unfolding right before his own very eyes. As first he watched the twins somewhat merge to become one. Now Yang could only see a tall humanoid figure with one eye red and another eye being blue. But this didn't last for long as horns began to protrude from the head of the figure and the transformation followed like that with the figure formerly standing now going on all fours and that was when the changes took full force. And in less than a minute, Yang no longer saw the twins but strangely a huge two headed bison with long extended body and eight legs to the finish. And with some kind of "moo" sound which Yang took as them calling to him to start the process as planned.
Taking the cue he went towards the huge bison beast and with Mia in his hands, when he got close the bison beast knelt down closing the distance between its back and Yang's reach. Yang gingerly placed Mia on top and went ahead to pick the rest of the sleeping gang's bodies effortlessly and placing them on the beast's back. And when he was done, he gave the signal that the beast could now get up and move on but strangely enough, the beast remained in its position and wouldn't move.
"Mooo" one of the beast's head with red eyes cried out while nodding its head towards it's back. Strangely Yang had somewhat picked up what they meant and walked up to the beast's back before climbing on top. Now the beast got up and began to move through the forest quite slowly. Yang had guessed this to be an intentional effort so as not to let the sleeping bodies fall of it's back. He also found the power the twins possessed to be quite unique.
Minutes into the ride and the beast had stopped. Yang looking up ahead could see why and what they had planned all along. There was a cave up ahead and this was what the twins had meant when they said they could find a place to rest for the time being. At the moment, anything they found would do as they weren't really with a sack of options. The beast once again bent down and Yang got off the back and began to offload the "luggage" one by one. And as yang was done, Yang witnessed the beast transform back into the two twins yet again and it was quite majestic to watch.
Well that was what Yang thought but the twins thought other wise as they laid on the floor tired. It was particularly exhausting whenever they transformed a particular body part to suit a certain role. But then again it was even more tiring to change the entire body and then combine themselves to become one. And if not for the fact that the distance wasn't all too long and the effectiveness of the skill beat others forms of their transformation, they wouldn't have done what they did.
Now Yang had taken over and went into the cave. And after what looked like eternity to the twins, he came out and certified the cave safe for them to rest for the night. As the twins got up dragging to help Yang get the rest of the sleeping legion members inside the cave, they realized it was the last of them Yang had come for. And that was when it dawned on them that they might have fallen asleep within that short period. Again testament to how tired they were.
Now on entering the cave, they could see that a fire was already set in place and how that had come to be remained unknown to them. Also Yang had set each body to the fire. He passed by the twins and stopped at the entrance of the cave. And after the twins watched Yang for sometime and saw that he had no plans of leaving the spot, they gave up or more like their bodies gave up and they fell asleep.
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A certain red haired boy woke up to find himself in a strange place and a barrage of system notifications flooding his field of view.....
"Race??.." Erwin questioned in his mind.