[Colin, where are you now?] Synthia asked for the umpteenth time. It was currently flying through the night sky over the forest. I have been traveling for an entire day now, with breaks in between of course, and I still haven't reached City J yet. While traveling, I have encountered many interesting things, well mostly beasts and a few ore deposits here and there that had a high amount of demonic energy inside of them. By far the most interesting thing I've seen so far was a tier four black panther with red stripes streaking through it's fur. This panther leaked a very powerful aura that made most of the beast in the surrounding area cower in fear whenever it moved past them hunting prey. This panther was incredibly fast, almost as fast as I was, and whenever it ran through the forest sparks of lightning seemed to eminate from it's body. Sadly, due to the time sensitivity of the mission, I wasn't able to fight this strong panther or even take any of this mysterious ore.
[No Synthia, I'm still in the forest but I should reach the city before daybreak.] I said a bit annoyed. I know that she's worried about her friend but that doesn't mean she should call me every five minutes.
[Have you found anything interesting? Like a gift for me perhaps.] Alice said in an amused tone which made my eyes twitch. Before I left, I had managed to create a small telepathic group with Alice, Synthia and I so that Alice and Synthia can communicate with each other. Since they were an entire city apart, I thought it was a logical move so that they can share information with each other and so Alice could have someone to talk to while I was gone.
[Alice, have you seen anything while I was gone?] I asked
[No, but I'll still keep an eye out for anything.] Alice replied
[Ok, I'll tell you guys when I reach City J.] I said. I continued flying towards the city with [Stealth] activated and as I did I watched the myriad of demonic beasts below me fight each other with beastial ferocity, unaware of my presence. As I got closer and closer to the city, I noticed that the amount of demonic beasts I sensed became less and less until the forest was devoid of demonic beasts as far as my [Aura Vision] stretched, and that's when I saw it, City J.
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Sera POV
*Crash*
*Boom*
*Boom*
*Skitter*
This entire city has become a war zone, well, an even worse war zone than before. A few hours ago the spider demons launched an attack on the city with renewed ferocity and....hunger. Most of the city was in shambles as all kinds of rained on the city from both sides leaving nothing but destruction in there wake.
'I can't believe these guys are everything in the forest already.' I thought as I stabbed another spider demon in the chest causing it to writhe in pain as holy energy flowed into it's body until it eventually died. Although they were called spider demons by the system they almost looked nothing like a spider and mostly looked human. They were humanoid in appearance with a thin but hard as hell, black chitin carapace covering most of their bodies and two big eyes like a human but they had three slits surrounding each eye that when opened, showed smaller eyes. The rest of their face was human in appearance so they weren't that scary looking physically like I was expecting them to be.
I looked around the battlefield at the incoming swarm of spider demons and then I looked at my soldiers. I had started this fight with ten saints and thirty three priests and somehow non of them died although a few of them probably wished they had. I could see two saints who were hit by the demons foul acid and they were screaming in pain, the others were injured and a few of them seemed to be missing a limb or two that the gluttonous demons ate. As for the priests, they were fine as I stationed them inside the [Holy Territory] to attack from a far using [Holy Arrows].
"Everyone fall back into the [Holy Territory], carry your injuried comrades if you have to, leave no one behind!!" I shouted before sending a large wave of water towards the incoming swarm of spider demons.
'That took a large amount of Holy energy.' I thought as I watched the water envelop the entire swarm and suddenly I felt thankful that they didn't have wings. I quickly flew back to the [Holy Territory] to better command my small army.
"Archers load your arrows!!" I shouted and the priests pulled back their bows and soon [Holy Arrows] formed within all of their bows. This is a weak yet useful application of [Holy Energy Manipulation] I drilled into them to be used in battles just like this.
"Fire." I shouted and all the arrows flew towards the incoming demons and...most of them missed. The demons were just too agile and those that hit barely slowed the demons down. I stepped forward, and just as I was about to release another wave of water, a rain of fireball rained down unto the border of spider demons.