บท 188: A Slaughter
"Prince Aerendyl! A demon army is quickly approaching! Please order us to fall back!" A wood elf said hurriedly as he helped Prince Aerendyl deal with Sir Rayne and Lord Aaron.
"Don't tell me..." Prince Aerendyl still remembered how powerful those brown-skinned demons were. In fact, if Jay haven't arrived and killed the brown-skinned demon back then that invaded Fisnar's Great Forest, Prince Aerendyl might have been dead already.
"Everyone, retreat!" Not even hesitating any further, Prince Aerendyl shouted and took out a war horn from his storage ring and blew it three times, to signal all of the wood elves to retreat.
Seeing the wood elves suddenly retreating, Lord Aaron spat on the ground and shouted, "That all you can do losers? Keep running a**holes!"
Hearing the taunt from Lord Aaron, Prince Aerendyl looked at him with a pitiful look before fleeing at his full speed.
Sir Rayne and Lord Aaron continued their fight, ignoring the wood elves. Then after a few sword clashes, they suddenly heard the pleading shouts of their men.
"Help me!"
"Nooo!!!"
"Save us!!!"
...
Somewhere else on Kagruu Plains...
"What the...hell...are you..." Barton tried his best to speak. One of the octopus-headed demons was currently holding him by the neck. As for how this happened, Barton had no idea. Everything happened in a split second.
"Don't struggle old man. Just watch as your men fall prey to my kin." The octopus-headed demon said as he dropped Barton and forced him to watch his army getting slaughtered by some gray skinned demons.
As for why the people in his army did not even scream for mercy or beg for their lives, it was because everyone in Barton's army were under an illusion spell. In truth, these people are just unlucky adventurers, mercenaries, knights, etc.
Bits and pieces of guts flew everywhere. Blood splattered everywhere and dyed the grass red. Instead of corpses, there were piles of meat paste scattered.
"No! Please, don't!!!" One of Barton's most trusted allies and one of the few people he did not control with his illusion spell cried out in mercy while a gray-skinned demon pushed her to the ground and ripped her clothes off. If Jay was here, he would recognize this lady as Alfreda, the guild master of the adventurer's guild in Murkwood Town.
"No..." Barton tried to speak but the octopus-headed demon shoved his face to the ground and caused him to unintentionally eat the soil.
But even though his face was shoved in the ground, he can still hear the screams of Alfreda.
...
Just like Barton, the Naga King, Severus, was not faring well either. The beastmen army acted on their own the moment the demons arrived. Some fought and miserably died. Some ran as fast as they can. As for Severus, the moment he tried to flee since he felt the abnormal power coming from the demons, one of the octopus-headed demons blocked his path.
Severus used his ultimate skill, 'Ocean's Fury,' the moment he saw the octopus-headed demon. This skill of his summoned a gigantic wave of water that swept down everything in a large area. Every living creature caught in the wave will obviously drown.
Severus did not use this skill as an attack, but rather a way to retreat. By riding the waves, he thought he can escape and run off easily. But sadly, his plan failed.
The octopus from the demon's head suddenly jumped off and dove straight into the gigantic wave. Then after a second, the gigantic wave slowly gut sucked in by the octopus.
"WHAT?!!" Severus knew that he was in a very grim situation now. If his ultimate skill just got sucked off just like that by an octopus, then what about the demon in front of him?
Not even having another chance to use another skill, large bony spiked popped out of the ground and pierced through his tail, two arms, and his stomach.
"AAHHHH!!!"
Severus screamed on the top of his lungs. It was just too painful. His blood started flowing on the ground.
Then suddenly, the demon in front of him appeared in front of him and forced his mouth close .
"I wonder how tasty you are... but how the hell should I cook you? Boiled, roasted, burnt???" The demon said as he licked his lips in delight. At the same time, the octopus went back on his head and covered his face with its tentacles.
Just as the demon was about to end Severus' life...
'Black Sacrament!'
Aisleen suddenly dropped from the skies and immediately used her strongest spell. She was currently in her beast form and had a displeased look on her face.
Just at the same time she landed on the ground, the shadow of the demon started shaking violently.
"Oh... what do we have..." The octopus-headed demon was about to say something before he was forced to kneel on the ground and a purple-colored liquid flowed down from his head.
Trying his best to look at Aisleen, he ripped off the octopus from his head since it was dead already.
"Who...the...hell...are...you..." The demon tried his best to speak as his purplish blood continued to flow out from his eyes.
Aisleen just looked at the demon with an angry and disgusted look before making the demon's shadow vanish.
The moment the demon's shadow vanished, the demon instantly died, with his eyes open and still in a kneeling position.
"Queen..." Severus tried to say something but suddenly lost consciousness due to blood loss.
As for Aisleen, she suddenly dropped to the ground and gritted her teeth due to the pain she felt in her right eye. This was the cost of her using her strongest spell.
It was as if her right eye was being pulled off and an electrical shock was sent to her head over and over again. Aisleen cannot control her voice anymore and started to scream in pain as she lied down on the ground.
...
Meanwhile, Izumi and Jay were currently rushing towards Kagruu Plains at full speed.
"Damn. Just how the hell did an army of Shurym Demons appear so suddenly?!!" Izumi shouted and gritted her teeth while she carried Jay and flew at the fastest speed she can.
"Hey, how did you know that there is an army of Shurym Demons at Kagruu Plains?" Jay asked since Izumi suddenly dragged him along with her the moment he got teleported to this continent.
"As the one in charge of this continent, I can feel and sense it if something is out of place. So far, the only ones that give me that certain vibe are the Shurym Demons."
"I hope we arrive on time..." Jay said with a weird look on his face. He knew that Kagruu Plains were filled with newbie players and was worried about them.
"I don't know if you should worry about the people there or not since there is some kind of war happening there..." Izumi started telling Jay about the current events on the battles happening at Kagruu Plains.
"What?! They still haven't agreed to make peace?!" Jay was surprised since King Arturus and Aisleen already saw how powerful the demons are. For them to still continue their own war, Jay did not know what he should feel about it.
"We're arriving in 2 minutes. Go to your chicken form since I will drop you off immediately the moment we arrive. As for the plan, you take care of the gray skins and brown skins. I will take care of the Demon Generals." Izumi said as she pushed herself to increase her flying speed.
...
Back on Kagruu Plains...
"Brother!!!" Purgatory Saberlord shouted in pain as he hugged the lifeless corpse of Axel. He was currently surrounded by brown-skinned demons. As for the rest of his guild mates from White Fang, he was not sure if they are still alive or not since they got separated when they were fleeing a while ago.
The brown-skinned demons around him laughed hysterically and crept closer. Just as one of them was about to grab Purgatory Saberlord by his neck and strangle him to death...
~Shu, shu, shu...
Four large crossbow bolts dropped down from the sky and each one of these bolts hit the brown-skinned demons on their heads. At the same time the lifeless bodies of these demons dropped to the ground with their eyes open, not even knowing the cause of their death, Jay suddenly appeared in front of Purgatory Saberlord.
"Your friends managed to flee an are currently hiding somewhere. Hurry up and leave." After saying this, Jay stored Azure Storm back on his storage orb, took out Night Sky and equipped it on his right hand, then charged towards the gray-skinned demon near him.
...
"Great sir, save us!!!"
"AAHHH!!!"
Together with the shouts of the people from the five different armies, the shouts of the Shurym Demons were also heard.
The moment the Demon General that was 'toying' with Barton heard his men shouting for their lives, he frowned and decided to stop whatever he was doing and check the situation.
At the same moment he let go of Barton and tossed him to aside, Izumi suddenly appeared in front of him.
Not wasting any words, Izumi suddenly clapped her hands and large specks of green light surrounded the Demon General.
"Die."
"What?! How..." The Demon General did not even finish his line of thought before the green specks of light around him expanded and the moment it touched his body, he slowly disintegrated into dust.
"Fate...lord..." This was the last word he uttered before he was wiped of from existence.
...
After a few hours later, Jay and Izumi finished clearing up the demons and gathered all the remaining survivors.
There were only less than a thousand survivors. Some were knights from Wildergreene, some were from Holtheim. There were even some wood elves and armored werewolves that survived.
As for the casualty count, after Izumi checked the entire Kagruu Plains, she found out that almost 20,000 died, no matter which faction these people were from. Jay even asked her to check if any important people have died or what their condition was.
"Three lords and a viscount from Holtheim died. The leader of Wildergreene's black knights is dead.
Prince Aerendyl, the prince of the Wood Elves, he lost his right arm and is currently being treated by his men somewhere.
The Naga King is currently unconscious. Aisleen is currently in a weakened state and cannot move her body. They are currently under the care of the surviving beastmen.
An old man named Barton, the leader of some kind of militia army, he is alive. But whether he still has his sanity or not, I do not know. Who knows what kind of thing he had to go through when that Demon General was still alive..."
When Jay heard Izumi's report about this, he was having mixed feeling about the matter. But he set all of his thoughts and feelings aside as he faced the survivors gathered in front of him.
"All of you saw and experienced the cruelty of these demons. I hope none of you plans to continue your pointless war and lend us a hand with dealing with these demons in the future." After saying this, Jay used Shadow Phase Rush and went in front of Aisleen.
"What...is it?" Aisleen tried her best to speak and look at Jay.
"You saw the power of those demons already but you still commanded your army to go to war..." Jay said softly and sighed. He even had some kind of disappointed look on his face before going back to Izumi's side.
"If you still want to continue your pointless war, then I myself will throw you all out into the ocean! We Fatelords have too many problems already. I have a lot of problems already! If you keep this up and create more and more problems for me, then you can all just piss off!" Izumi shouted furiously at the survivors. After this, she led Jay somewhere else and talked to him privately.
"Jay, go to Wildergreene and convince the queen to make peace for now. As for the Divine Being at the floating island, I want you to tell him this phrase: 'Eclipse is upon us brother.' He will know what to do when he hears it."
"Then what about you?" Jay asked immediately since he saw that Izumi was about to fly off.
"I will take care of those small brains from Holtheim. And it is about time to wake up the Divine Being that is sleeping somewhere around those parts." After saying this, Izumi flapped her wings and flied away.
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