369 A Total Massacre
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“Battle Demon Arts: Double Grip!”
BAAAAM!
The two wolves were thrown into the ground as Erdrich amazingly showcased his physical strength. Steam began coming out of his body as he was spending countless calories and energy to maintain his demon transformation, but it paid of quite well, his strength was tremendous.
“T-That’s a Half-Demon?!”
“So the Half-Demon came to our hideout…!”
“We are getting massacred! Where are the Vipers?!”
“We should tell our master about this!”
I suddenly heard the whispers of the Imps as they gritted their teeth and fought against my group. It seems that they recognized Erdrich as the “half demon” and that there were… Vipers? Alongside a “Master” of sorts. Hmph, just as I thought, all of this was too shady to have been naturally formed in such a short amount of time, there’s a culprit behind this.
“What?!” Erdrich muttered. “Blake, did you hear what they said?”
“Yes, I did. Let’s leave one of them alive while we crush the rest.” I ordered everyone.
“Got it!”
At their response, the aggressiveness of our attacks intensified. At the same time, I decided to summon my Familiars, quickly surrounding the remaining four pairs of wolves and imps with six Fenrir and six Orcus. Huginn and Falco were offering aerial support by attacking using their long-ranged attacks from above, while Fenrir used [Shadow Step] to meddle with the shadows and bite the legs of the enemy wolves putting them on distress. Meanwhile, Orcus charged furiously at the other beasts, burning them in the process through the flames over his back.
All of that combined with ten Fire Salamanders which I ordered to unleash Fire Breaths constantly while Shell began to spin using his [Spinning Shell] attack quickly made all our foes grow desperate. The others that were watching a few meters from afar quickly decided to step in when they saw their comrades were not enough for us. With all four of the wolves crushed by the combined attacks of my Familiars and friends, coupled with the other Imps which were struggling to even evade our blows, they didn’t had any other option.
“SHAAAA!”
A group of five Demons emerged. These were Demons I had not seen before in this world, but that I could surely remember from back then in my previous life. They were Vipers. These Demons were snake-like in appearance, with a human-like torso covered on scales and the head of vipers. Usually they had two to six arms depending in the amount of arms and size of their bodies, they could be Low Ranked, Mid Ranked, to High Ranked. They all held black and red weapons imbued with demonic blood as well and seemed fairly strong.
There were two groups of five members each, each group of four members with four arms with a six-armed leader leading them to battle. The leaders seemed to know magic, as they held several magic accessories around their bodies which enhanced their mystical prowess.
“These damn wolves and Imps are useless to even protect our territory! Shaaa!”
“Kill these stupid kids, shaaa!”
“SHAAAAA!”
The two groups immediately charged at us without even waiting for us to regroup. Vipers were more vicious and incredibly fast, even faster than the Demonic Wolves. My friends struggled to intercept their attacks, and I had to put my Familiars at full power to support them, ending up sacrificing a few in the process.
And that wasn’t the worse part about Vipers.
“I’ll poison you to death! Demon Magic: Hellish Poisonous Smoke!”
They knew deadly Poison Magic.
POOF!
Suddenly, an enormous cloud of purple smoke emerged out of one of the six-armed Vipers raising his staff. I quickly called everyone to step back and not get closer to the smoke.
“Don’t touch that smoke! Step back!” I ordered.
Everyone quickly stopped engaging the Vipers as the last surviving Imp ended getting caught in the poison and died while agonizing, blood spraying out of its eyes, mouth, nose, and other orifices. I see, so it is a Bleeding Poison. It causes constant Bleeding the moment it infects a target, they’re deadly for most people.
“Elizabeth!”
I called Elizabeth as she ran to my side.
“Summon your Spirit, let’s create an Anti-Poison Field.”
“Eh?! How can we do that?”
Elizabeth seemed clueless, but I only required her spirit’s powers.
“Just summon it, I’ll do the rest.”
“A-Alright!”
Elizabeth didn’t doubt my words as she summoned her Spirit, a small and young-looking angel, a Cherubin wrapped on white clothes.
Elizabeth quickly held my hand as I channeled her power into my own body, mixing it with my Ki and Mana and her Spirit’s Spirit Energy, fusing it together and then invoking a field of white and bright light surrounding us.
FLASH!
The poisonous smoke was quickly consumed by the light, dissipating, as the rest of the Vipers were bathed in the light, feeling weakened out of the sudden, their movements became slower as well.
“SHAAAA…! A-Angels?!”
“This is Angelic Magic?!”
“G-GYEEEEHH!”
“It burns! SHAAA!”
“C-Cowards, don’t step back!”
One of the leaders tried to stop them from acting so cowardly, but this was the perfect opportunity for us to strike! Without even needing to tell my friends to attack, they charged forward without faltering. Erika was the first to strike down a Viper that gave her his back, slashing the demon in half mercilessly with her massive sword as Blood Aura emerged from the weapon and her necklace, the sudden roar of a dragon was heard, as the phantom of a wyvern emerged from her necklace after it drank enough blood. This was thanks to her Necklace’s special Ability [Lesser Draconic Aura], which mine also had.
“GROAAARRR!”
“Nnggh?!”
“S-Shaaaa…!”
“Gryeh!”
The Vipers suddenly felt completely paralyzed in fear. I combined Erika’s effect with my own [Lesser Draconic Aura] by feeding my necklace Blood Ki and activating it at any moment I wanted instead of the occasional activation that happened with Erika, fused with the [Intimidation] Skill and my [Demonic Eyes of Paralysis], four more Vipers were caught up in this mess and left to our mercy.
And I had taught my allies to have no mercy against Demons.
Chris unleashed a storm of flames and consumed one of the Vipers until it turned black as charcoal.
Eric fired a barrage of arrows which the Viper’s blocked with their tough scales, only for the arrows to explode into black vines that wrapped around them and drained their energy.
Erdrich furiously crushed them while they were being caught by Eric’s attacks.
And Elizabeth shoot down another by firing a ray of light into their face.
SLASH!
CLASH!
BOOM!
CRASH!
It was a total massacre.
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