Without the burden of protecting the Knight Guard’s members, the five Demons focused solely on attacking, relying on Lith to recover from even the most grievous wounds in a matter of seconds.
Be them Awakened or not, even the heaviest Emperor Beast died from a single strike of Solus’ Fury and there were nine of them soaring the corridors at all times. Entire squads of Emperor Beasts were turned into a bloody crater by a single throw.
Ragnarök fought alone for the first time in its new life and found the experience exhilarating. When the angry blade won, the flesh and blood of its enemies would join its body and fuel its powers.
When Ragnarök lost, it always led to laughter and fun.
The Emperor Beasts mistook the blood construct as the real body of their enemy and after destroying it with magic or powerful blows, they claimed the angry blade as their prize.
The moment their claws touched the hilt of the murderous sword, Davross hooks pierced into the flesh and the Reverse Imprint enchantment killed the usurpers in a gory firework. What was left of their bodies became a new blood construct and Ragnarök resumed its hunt.
Those who witnessed such deaths lost their will to fight, thinking they were facing an immortal cursed object. The Emperor Beasts tried to escape, but it only aroused Ragnarök’s predatory instincts.
"Scream." The blood construct frothed. "You must scream."
As for Lith, even without his blade, he had plenty of weapons.
Different Flames worked in different ways, but they killed just the same.
His Spirit Spells made short work of regular spells and their casters. When someone managed to engage him in close-quarter combat, the blades of the Hands of Menadion diced them with ease.
The thing that baffled the beasts the most, however, was how Lith always took the quickest route. How he always found them despite their cloaking items. How his spells would turn around a corner and aim at their allegedly invisible targets.
Lith didn’t have enough power to create many powerful Demons but even the one-eyed ones excelled as scouts. They explored Lith’s surroundings, sneaking under closed doors and reporting everything to him.
He cleared the other breeding grounds and rescued the specimens while hunting down the Emperor Beasts. Everything happened so fast that by the time Kugoh noticed the disappearance of a few contact runes, more faded out of existence.
"Protect." Each Demon carried only one person at a time and they said the same thing before entrusting the sickly humans to the soldiers.
"Sorry." Unless the Demons carried the corpse of someone too weak to survive after being rescued.
"Gods above and below!" Thaas saw a line of living shadows that went around the corner. "How many people are down there?"
Once a Demon delivered a human, they went back to the nearest hive and returned to the back of the line.
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"East wing clear." A Demon crawling at Lith’s feet said.
He was standing in front of the door leading to the third underground floor, waiting.
"North wing clear." Another Demon hissed.
"West wing clear."
"South wing clear."
"No more humans left, but not all delivered." Once a Demon completed their task, they returned to Lith.
There were so many Demons surrounding him that they painted the entire corridor black.
"Good." Lith nodded, using that time to study the corridor in front of him with the Eyes of Menadion.
When he opened them again, seven eyes shone on his face, burning with barely contained power. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
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