Chapter 8: The Devil of Battle
(Thanks to the book friend 20170210163747677 for the tip!, anyway, why is it a number!)
The process of locating the demon was surprisingly smooth, and even without detecting the evil spell to locate it, the group could easily find each other's lair from the smell of sulfur in the air.
Entering the abandoned village, Vivien easily used magic bullets to deal with several screaming cowards, and this demon that had just evolved from an abyssal worm to a humanoid form was not dangerous at all. To put it mildly, even a slightly stronger adult can win. The premise is that they can restrain their fears.
But as you walk through the village and follow the smell of sulfur up the hill behind the village, the demons you encounter become more and more powerful. Not only did the regular soldiers of the abyss who had good strength but were as timid as rats appear, but even the super-large abyssal creatures such as the Demon Hunting Spider had seen one.
This abyssal demon hunting spider is a spider-like spider with a large body that hunts other demons for a living. The Demon Hunter is roughly the size of a horse for ploughing, but its legs extend outwards up to 14 feet. It weighs about two tons and cannot speak, but is able to understand the abyssal language. They are able to use telepathy to communicate with any other living being.
Demon Hunters will attack any creature they see. Usually they will pick an opponent and focus on destroying that target, separating him from the rest of the enemy with a cobweb. Once the Demon Hunters are met with strong resistance, they will try to bite more targets before retreating, allowing the toxin to take their place to eliminate their opponents.
These were the exact words recorded in the Abyss Demon Illustrated Book, and if Vivien didn't understand what it meant at first, now she had a good understanding of the horror of this monster.
Even if she was close to the fifth ring, the abyssal predator like the Demon Hunter Spider made her scramble for a while. The Demon Hunter used a spider's web to separate Charlotte and the others, and attacked the slender food with all its might. When its shell was scorched black by Vivien's fireball technique, it changed its strategy and instead of using its massive size to attack, it used its agility to weave through the woods in an attempt to inject toxins into Vivien's body.
However, years of training and hunting in the underworld have given Vivien a good combat experience. Unhurried, she used her greasy spell to limit the spider's range of movement, while using her flying spell to soar into the air, keeping herself in a safe spell casting range.
In terms of combat power, the Demon Hunter Spider, which is technically large and has cobwebs and toxins, is stronger than Vivien. But a mage never relies on sheer strength to determine the winner, and a true battle mage knows how to use spells to his or her advantage in order to achieve the final victory in battle.
Constantly restricting the opponent's movement in the air, Vivien won the final victory by bombarding with magic missiles and fireballs. After three fireballs, the trees in the back mountain forest were destroyed beyond recognition by demon hunting spiders and spells, and the monster that was scarred by the bombardment knew that it could not deal with this cunning human, and the evil compound eye bone spun around, and finally planned to retreat strategically.
However, it had barely taken a step before Charlotte easily reaped its life. The Master of the Eight Rings just raised his hand and pointed at it, and the demon, which was enough to destroy a team of elite soldiers, turned his back to the sky, and his limbs twitched and he lost his breath.
Vivien fell from the sky, and despite the intensity of the battle, she looked bright-eyed and in good spirits.
"You've done a great job!" Charlotte rarely complimented, "casting the right spell at the right time, that's how a mage fights." ”
But Vivien still looked a little unhappy with her performance, especially after seeing Charlotte easily deal with the big guy.
Her voice was small, but her tone was firm, "I could have done better!"
Not only Charlotte, who is a teacher, but even Vivian's best friend Lolita is very surprised. They had never seen Vivien so competitive, perhaps because the scene of Yi Zi's cannibalism had a huge impact on Vivian, and she no longer held everything to herself as before.
Although this way of growing up is very cruel, Charlotte feels that it is a good change before winter approaches.
Incidentally, the mage still doesn't want to believe that he brought about the so-called winter.
"I know you can all do better, including me, and we're all going to grow, aren't we?" Charlotte felt like she couldn't pat the head of the growing girl anymore, and gave her a thumbs up.
Vivien is different from Lolita in that the former needs constant encouragement to grow better. And the latter, if you don't suppress her, she can reach the sky with her tail like Charlotte when she was a child. This made him more or less appreciate the good intentions of Lawrence and Rebecca as a child.
"But the rest of the battle is up to me. ”
Charlotte already vaguely felt that there was a strong aura in front of her, and it was not an enemy that Vivien and Lolita could fight against.
He pointed to his scarlet eyes, and Charlotte, who didn't want to hurt the confidence of his disciples, said in a roundabout way, "It's time for me to test the magic eye's abilities in battle." ”
“…… Yes!"
As we got closer to the demon's lair, the stench intensified. It was out of the realm of abyssal sulphur, and resembled the stench of spoiled food mixed with stinky socks and sewers.
No, a hundred times more disgusting than that, to be exact!
The group cast a spell in disgust to block their sense of smell, and Vivien, who likes to read, reacted and asked Charlotte, "Teacher, it's a berserker, right?"
Lolita reacted too. Along the way, Vivien, who is no longer entangled in fighting alone, accepts Lolita's help, and the sisters solve many demons together.
"That smell is out of the realm of words!I thought the book was exaggerating, but now it seems that the description is not in place!" Lolita said indignantly, feeling that she would have to soak in the pond for hours after the battle, and she would not be able to wash away the smell of her body.
Berserker, the fearsome warrior of the Abyssal Tanari. It is a true elite force in the Abyss Legion, and the monsters that are good at fighting are violent by nature, and have the ability to emit stench, summon demons, and other spells.
Charlotte confirmed the disciples' guesses, and he stood at the mouth of the dark rumbling cave in the back mountain, and immediately released the spell to detect the terrain.
After making sure that there was no other way back to this cave, he put his right foot on the ground, and in an instant, countless small pieces of frost spread out from the center of his right foot. The frost spread into the cave like life, and it lasted for nearly a minute before Charlotte stopped casting the spell and looked indifferently at the deep hole with her scarlet magic eye.
"Haven't you come out yet?" Charlotte asked, and after getting no response, the mage smiled coldly, "I see!"
Syllable!
Snap your fingers!
"Then don't come out!"
The frost instantly turned into countless ice edges, piercing the entire cave, and the dark blue ice edges replaced the originally dark cave, turning everything into a beautiful ice and snow world.
Frightened howls and screams echoed through the cave, and almost in the next second, a huge black shadow rushed out of the cave panting and roaring!
Its upper limbs were large and deformed, its body was covered with hard bumps and barbs, and its face was flat and cruel like that of a monitor lizard, its fingertips webbed, and its muscles as strong as twisted flowers.
It is the elite force of the Abyss Battlefield, the Berserker!