While Tristan, Victoria, Vincent, and Yukino deal with the things in the south of the Abyss Tower location. Things didn't go well in the north as that section has not received any help yet.
*Trinia Army shoots*
" Attack those filthy demons at your 6! "
" Demon Hounds raiding us at five! "
" Hold your ground, the Hunters are coming! "
As the soldiers fend off their garrison, standing and shooting against the demons produced by the Abyss Tower.
" Commander, it seems the demons are really large in number this time! "
" Of course, Sergeant, the larger the Abyss Tower, the larger horde of demons it produced. " the army commander says as he shoots the incoming demons.
" Besides, the Abyss Tower is actually called the 'Gigantic Womb of Demons'... " the commander says.
" Do you know why, Sergeant!? "he says while shooting minor demons.
" Is it because it's a Demon Factory, Commander!? "
" Oh, not just a factory, young man! "
" The Tower, it actually created from the corpses of dead demons, forged into a living Tower. "
" I don't know how those Demons do it in their Abyssal Realm, but they managed to create a fortress that automatically produces armies by using the target realm's environmental energy. "
" That's what makes the Demons so great in invading us... "
" They managed to *shoot some demons*... create some large weapon of mass destruction that could even destroy us without them, especially their higher echelons, being present to invade us. " the Commander says as he explains what he knows to his young sergeant.
" Are you praising them, Commander!? " the Sergeant asked the Commander, wondering if the Commander's sanity is still intact after fighting many demons.
After hearing what he says, the Sergeant begins to doubt the Commander's sanity as it seems he becomes more brutal than he usually does base on what he knows about him.
"( Something is wrong..., the Commander is praising the Demons, now? )" the Sergeant codes his man to be careful using his sign language.
"( Be prepared, all of you... )" the Sergeant says as he and the others slowly approached the Commander.
As it happens.
" Bahahahaha!!! " the Commander suddenly laughs, bursting it hard.
" Oh, are you preparing to aim me, gentlemen? " the Commander turns back to them, looking at them with his strange eyes.
" What the...!? " the Sergeant and the other soldiers realized that the Commander might've been infested by something, as he was suspicious of him from hours of battle earlier.
As they realized it, the infested commander begins to show his demonic bug form as the bug legs burst and came out from it.
" Prepare your guns, people! "
" Shoot at my command...! " the Sergeant orders, assuming command after seeing the Commander's situation.
" But Sergeant, it's... "
" It's not the Commander anymore! "
" Shoot! " he orders as the shooting happens, raining the infested and demonized commander as his body turns to be demonic.
" Commander, no! arghhh!!! " the infested commander kills the soldiers he leads with his bug legs, growing from his body, his infestation begins to make him gone from his soldiers' reach, aside whenever he was infested.
[ Legion Infesting Spiders ]*
[ These spiders are known to infest a host in order to control their mind, they were all spawned from a Demon. But this time, the demons had infested their body into a state they could transform their body, adding some of the Spiders' factors into the host's body. ]
"Commander, snap out of it!!! " the Sergeant says while the others died because of him being infested, all of their men slaughtered leaving some left.
" Sergeant, what are your orders? what should we do? "
" We can't just shoot the Commander and wait until he dies before we do!? "
" Or else the monsters will get out from the Barrier and...- "
" They won't! " a voice says as it attacks the infested Commander.
[ Torrent Tight Grab ]
[ Blizzard Freeze ]
[ 1.000 Volt Strike ]
" GGRAAAHHHH!!! " the Infested Commander screams as he was killed by the help the soldier were expecting for.
" You're all... " the Sergeant says as he sees them.
" It's alright, Sergeant... "
" We're here to help!!! " Tristan says as he and two girls immediately destroy the Infested Commander.
As it happens, seeing the Hunters in action, the Sergeant falls to his knees down, realizing how powerless he and his soldiers were, all of them are either Ungifted or had Low Tier Gifts.
" This is just too much... " he says, feeling inferior as he sees the Hunters' might.
As he sees the butchered infested Commander by the Hunters, the Sergeant can only be silent as the Hunters deal with what he should've done to his Commander.
During his mourning, someone approached him and the soldiers, which made them surprised.
" Lord Artemis...? " the soldiers were surprised as they immediately bowed before her.
Artemis didn't respond and approached the Sergeant, seeing him mourning the slain Commander of his. Seeing it, Artemis could only see him mourning, while thinking in her mind about the situation.
"( I knew that I shouldn't let these people in the front lines... )"
"( But... )" Artemis thinks as she looks at the Infested Commander's corpse which immediately made her recount something back then.
[ Flashback. ]
" We need those low-Tier people to become our pawns, Artemis... " Loki says to her.
" After all, there are some demons that could've infested a mortal's body. "
" And letting them get into the bodies of the S-Ranks is out of the option...! "
" Shouldn't that be otherwise, how can you be sure that if you sacrificing those with weaker powers would help? " Artemis asked Loki about it.
" Of course, it'll help!!! "
" After all the infestation will be over after these bug-like demons have successfully infested and transformed the host's very body. "
" And went it happen, the infested bugs will stay, which made us easy to kill them! " Loki confidently says about it.
[ Present. ]
" Dammit, Loki!!! " Artemis says as she placed her hands on the Sergeant's shoulder while the three Hunters deal with the Infested Commander's body, making sure that it was destroyed completely, despite doing it in front of his soldiers.
As it happen, the soldiers' cried for the Commander, feeling guilty about how he died, and can't bear the shame of how it was done.
" We should've been the one that buries him... "
" Instead... " a soldier cries after seeing this as their Commander's body was fully obliterated by the Hunters.
" Make sure there's no trace... " Tristan says while still feeling bold after hearing the cries of the soldiers.
" Dammit...! " he says to himself.
" What the hell we faced right now...? "
" Gods...? " he says as he looks up in the skies, wondering in the Pantheons up there.
" Ohohoho... "
[ Asgard ]
" It seems, things are getting a little bit dramatic here...? "
" I wonder what happens in... "
" Oh, it's even better! hahahaha! " Loki says as he sees the scene with his eyes as he sees what transpired inside the Tower.
...
[ Abyss Tower, Top Floor. ]
" It seems you done well to deal with my Spawns... " Arachina says as she holds Galen's neck, as he and the Battle Maiden are webbed by her.
" You!!! " Galen shouts as he realizes her presence.
"( Wait a minute, this demon woman... )"
"( If I detected it with Ki, her presence is similar to the one in Raiden and Kara's location. )"
"( Too similar... )" Galen says as he was choked by Arachina.
" This aura, this reminds me from the one that killed my infested spawns before you mortals Raid the Tower.* " Arachina says as he tastes the Aether from Galen's body.
" Huh...? " Galen wonders what she meant while she chokes him more.
" Are you the one who did that to my dear spawns, mortal? " Arachina asks Galen, who still tries to break free from her.
"( Dammit! )"
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Extra:
* Infested Spiders in Chapter 75: Rendezvous (6)
* She is still angry, still wondering about the Hunter who had the 'Aether' and killed her Spider Pawns in Chapter 76: Rendezvous (7)