Mama, I think they arent gonna attack us anymore. Mo Na stowed her darkness whip before pointing at the ring of fire elentals ahead, still in the midst of their eting. Curiosity piqued, she asked: Mama, what are those things?
They should be fire elentals. I tenderly rubbed her little noggin and hugged her with my other free arm. Im not sure what caused this situation but from the looks of it, they seem open to talks. I dont understand their language thoughhopefully one of them knows the language of the devil.
Just as I strongly wished for a chance to communicate with them, a fire elental with comparatively more distinct features, stepped out and stopped roughly 50 tres ahead of us after which ca a haughty, questioning voice. Because he spoke in the tongue of the devil, I heard every single word of his clearly.
That devil over there, state your purpose, why have you co to the Raging Flas Lake? The voice wasnt grating on the ears but neither was it pleasant either; mostly, it was an average-sounding voice.
The one who spoke was a fire elental roughly 170 cm tall (57) with a balanced, mostly humanoid physique and no particularly defining features except that his facial features were a lot clearer than the other elentals. At the very least, his nose had a bridge and nostrils unlike the other elentals who rely had two holes for a nose or just nothing at all. The elental had nothing identifying his sex but because his voice tended towards that of a mans, I assud he was man.
Were just passing travellers, we have no motives in coming here. If you feel that were intruding on your space, well leave right this instant. Having said that, I quickly threw a glance at No.3 and Big 4, signalling for them to leave this place post-haste.
Dont even think about leaving! Do you think this is a place you can co and go as you wish!? State your affiliations and motives, or else!
I honestly intended to make a break for it there and then but who knew that the haughty elental would be so unwilling to let us go. However, there was nothing we could do about his bully tactics either because of his overwhelming numbers advantage. I said so already, were just travellers with no affiliations whatsoever, neither do we have any special motives.
Still you lie! This place hasnt seen a devil appear in 80 000 years, the fact that you suddenly appeared here must be part of so conspiracy.
Ah, its that kind of person, isnt it? The kind of blockhead that never listens no matter how much you try to explain yourself. Looks like were in for a fight then, but how do we handle a crowd of this size
for the sake of our safety, Ill give it another try.
Suppressing the exasperation in my heart, I replied in a calm voice: Either way, I do not wish to fight you all so well leave right now, alright?
Hmph, youre just scared of us, arent you? The haughty elental folded his arms and then threw his head back, pointing his nose right at the sky as he did so. I bet youre worried that we might gang up on you.
I just said that we ca here by unwittingly, exactly how do I make you believe ?
Hmph, you may be right about that last part but theres no way Im admitting to that.
We hail from the Prison of the Dead, our original destination was Abaddon but because of so unexpected hiccups, we ended up in Purgatory. Having co here, we found no traces of any other devils so we had no choice but to wander around aimlessly in hopes of finding a thod to enter Abaddon.
You say youre from the Prison of the Dead? The elental had his fiery eyes open wide in shock as he evaluated us.
Thats right. I put on my most earnest look in hopes that it would be enough to convince him of the veracity of our claims.
Naturally, all that earned was a scornful laugh and a raise of his right hand in what looked a rallying signal to surround us. This mightve been the territory of the devils in the past, and like you said, the entrance of the Prison is near here, but do you know how long the Prison of the Dead has been sealed up? 80 000 years, thats how long! For 80 000 years, no living creature has been able to leave the Prison of the Dead! Do you honestly think I will believe your nonsense? Theres no way any devil can leave that forsaken land! Was his reply, delivered in the most scathing of tones as we well.
Ahh, why is it so hard to communicate with this potato, I guess we really have to duke it out then. I just hope they are a lot weaker than they lookhmmm, best if they just keel over from one hit.
No more excuses? Hah, I knew right from the very start you guys were lying. Bunch of audacious fools, I see those 80 000 years were enough for your race to forget the painful lessons they received.
Sohow, my silence ended up becoming all the proof he needed to confirm our guilt moron.
The intellectually handicapped elental then pointed at us and yelled, in the most arrogant voice possible: Well, what other excuses do you have?
Dont bully my Mama! Seeing that elental point at so rudely, my little baby imdiately flew into a rage and took up a battle stance. Then, without wasting another word whatsoever, she swung her darkness whip at the offending elental.
You dare to strike ?! Everyone, stay back, Ill be the one to handle these foolish devils! While he might have said that, the whip didnt actually hit him thanks to his impressive dodging skills. Clenching his right fist, he swung his fist in Mo Nas direction and fired off a ball of raging flas with a whoosh and a sizzle. As the ball of flas pierced through the air, it seed to suck in the air around it and grow bigger with every ter it flew.
Seeing that, Mo Na imdiately withdrew her whip and flapped her tiny wings hard to make a swift dodge to the right. The telltale sizzle of the ball rushed past her ears an instant later, its fiery energies not even coming close to its target. Knowing that she had easily evaded the ball, she leaned forward and shot off like an rocket towards the fire elental.
From a distance away, the fire elental clearly saw the speeding silhouette careen straight towards him but chose to do nothing about it, even when he saw her draw what looked like a tiny dagger from her waist right at the very last second. Faced with a potential dagger through his heart, he rely stood there arms folded and blurry lips curved into a smirk; his figure, a picture of absolute confidence.
The dagger plunged into the belly of the fire elental, and to our surprise, it passed right through the elental as if it was so sort of ethereal apparition. Mo Nas body lurched forward from the unexpected lack of resistance, falling right through the fire elental along with her dagger. An instant later, her robes burst into flas but that wasnt enough to startle the calm girl. She promptly gave her robes a sharp wiggle, and sent the flas flying away in a tiny wave that dispersed into the air soon after.
Seeing that, the fire elental didnt seem the least bit fazed by the ease at which she dispelled his skill, instead he gave an uproarious laugh of arrogance: Hahaha, we fire elentals are born favored by the flas themselves, even though you devils might have so pitiful semblance of fire resistance as well, dont think for a second that you are our match.
Like the haughty elental said, for the devils to hurt them or fight them was no easy task at all. Fire elentals were creatures born of the elents and could be categorized under the broad category of Elentals. There were two broad types of elentals in this world, one corporeal and one incorporeal.
Corporeal elentals were elentals who belonged to the earth elent, magma elent, ice elent, etc. Their non-corporeal counterparts include those of the water elent, the fire elent, the wind elent, the thunder elent, etc. The difference between the two were obvious, those of the corporeal branch had a fixed body of sorts while those of the incorporeal branch couldnt be interacted with physically as they had no fixed form.
Another difference, and arguably the biggest one, was that incorporeal elentals had the nasty trait of being able to remain permanently ethereal. Unlike undead apparitions however, their ethereal trait did not co with the side effect of receiving double damage from magical attacks. Notable, illusion demons also possess such a trait. For such creatures, they were able to remain immune to normal physical attacks while not receiving much drawbacks.
Long story short, the reason why Mo Na passed through the elental like that was because it was in a permanent ethereal state.
However, that haughty fire elental soon discovered that his gloating was a little premature as the seconds ticked by and the wound in his belly refused to heal up. Even more frightening was that his energy was draining out of that wound at a terrifying pace!
Youwhat did you do to ?!
The fire elental turned towards the smiling little girl, face aghast. Never did it ever cross his mind that there would actually be a weapon that could harm it like that. Such an unhealing wound could basically be counted as a mortal wound for these elentals since their bodies would start to lose their form after a certain level of energy was lost. Should that ever happen, death was the most likely outco.
Hah, scared arent ya!? Ca Mo Nas lovely sounding but disdainful scoff, her dagger waving about in triumph. Try guessing what this thing is made of, why dont you?
The fire elental was stumped but he dearly wanted to know the answer so he asked, eyes unblinking: What is it made of?
The teeth of the Fire Devouring Fish, of course, you dumbo. Having said that, Mo Na stuck her tongue out at the elental and even pulled a face at the stunned elental.
Fire Devouring Fishes, as the na suggested, were creatures who devoured the normally formless flas.
Fire Devouring Fish If elentals were able to sweat, I bet that elental wouldve been sweating buckets by now.
It was then that those behind ran up to the haughty elental to check on his condition. In the anti, I hurriedly beckoned for Mo Na to return quickly. She obediently flew over as ordered and stood there as if this entire scene had nothing to do with her.
Get behind , quick. I dragged her behind imdiately and reached for Shadowfang with my right hand. Once we start fighting, I want you to be careful. Well do our best to make a break for it in one direction.
Mama, Mo Na can protect you!
Quiet, this is a matter between adults, kids shouldnt ddle so recklessly.
Hmph, Mamas a anie. She didnt seem to take too well to my chiding and promptly snubbed with a turn of her head. Even though Mo Na is actually stronger than Mama.
I glared at the girl, telling her with my furious eyes to be quiet or be spanked for making lose face in front of my enemies.
Hmph, all Mama ever does is bully Mo Na.
Stop being so willful, nows not the ti. I ruffled her hair to placate her. Dont worry, Papa will protect you.
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