Preview: Yhaele was at the side sitting crossed-legged and closing his eyes as though contemplating. His set of moves hasn’t been perfected yet and he needed to strengthen his flesh and blood through eating more demonic meat. The three were gradually embarking on a path of improvement and empowerment. Their goal of conquest doesn't seem to be too far anymore.
Ketus and Magma Golems were wrapped by dark metallic appendages as they got closer to another habitat where groups of demons lived.
Another take over was taking place as the three Lords weren’t satisfied with just them. Although they collected many kinds of blood in the Lava Swamps, they still needed a few more to incubate the egg.
Herundira took a glance at Zenolith, its fellow leader of the Magma Golems. He couldn’t help but remember the mission this time. They were tasked to subdue a race of demons living in one of the Underworld Forests.
Underworld Forest is just a general term. Occasionally, underworld plants would grow in a specific peculiar area. And once they are left alone, they tend to grow rapidly and form a special environment in the Underworld.
Despite the scorching and harsh environment, they would always survive tenaciously and manage to form their own unique ecosystems. One perfect example of this would be the First Level of Hell’s Muddy Swamp Region. Although it was a swamp, it had unique ecology as underworld plants thrived like the carnivorous vines and other exotic demons.
And in this Underworld Forest they’re going to, they are to subdue and collect different kinds of blood from many demons here. The ruling force in this forest are demons called Tikbalang. They were humanoid demons with a horse-like head and lower body. But they are bipedal so they walk on two legs. Their torso is human-like as it doesn’t have the fur nor body structure of a horse but a humanoid creature.
Their special traits could be summed up in that; They have a very high physical resistance and agility. The only weakness they have is a single strand of golden hair on their horse heads. Plus, they have innate advantage in terrain like the Underworld Forest and places with similar layout.
Locating, annihilating or even subduing them is a lot of headache for the two tribe leaders as they thought long and hard about the non-existent strategy prepared.
Herundira stared at Zenolith and asked the problem lingering in his mind “How do we subjugate them and make them pledge allegiance?” His rough voice was laced with obvious frustration as he asked the rock monster wrapped in roots besides him.
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Zenolith shook his head and gave a negative reply “I don't know too.”
The two could only stare at each other as they wondered what plans their masters could possibly have.
As they quickly arrived at the entrance of the forest, they felt the scenery flash past very quickly. It felt as though they were traveling in a high speed bullet train as the buckles of the seat took off and they flew.
“AAAAAAAH” screams rang out in the originally peaceful forest as demons rained from the pitch-black sky of the Underworld.
“Magma Golems! Go!” Sunirae threw the b*kugan-like Magma Golems and alongside them are the Ketus.
“AAAAAHHHHH?!!? WHY WERE WE INCLUDED!” they shouted in despair as they traveled in speed they never could have imagined achieving before. They watched as the trees and plants unfolded in front of their vision and rapidly expanded. They panicked as they were about to land as they did not have the rock-like physiques of Magma Golems.
“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!” Screams sounded from a different direction. But unlike the other one, the screams this time was filled with battle intent and excitement. The Magma Golems were curled up like boulders. They resembled the siege weapons that humans use during wars. Yhaele took in all of these in amazement and tsk’d. “These Magma Golems actually have this use too. She’s really resourceful.” he softly mutters as he charges out with his flaming spear dragging a flaming tail on the ground towards the forest.
The siege began and screams rang out from the forest. Many unprepared demons were hit by the demon rain from above and were killed. They did not even have the time to scream as they were struck by the sudden aerial attack that came from above.
Sunirae was satisfied with her actions and her big brain strategy. Heh. I am really a genius to come up with such an idea! She thought happily as she looked back as to how she came up with this.
During the first time she brought the Magma Golems along with her, she already had a vague idea. When she managed to take a break from all the fighting and increase her strength, many thoughts and ideas appeared in her mind. And this is one of them. To use her troops as siege weapons to ambush and assault her enemies on a large scale.
“Mwuahahahahahaha! Muda muda muda(futile futile futile)!” Her laughter echoed outside the forest as it rang sweetly in the ears of the demons from the forest ahead. Her cute voice distracted the demons momentarily as they didn’t know where it came from.
They became wary and looked around when the boulders that hit them suddenly opened and transformed into demons! They were actually living beings! Magma Golems!
A scream sounded in a different direction as the Ketus that fell down started their massacre. Although they were still feeling the pain from having fallen at such a height for the first time. They still did their job diligently and killed the demons that entered their sight.
Regardless if they were Tikbalang or not, they killed whomever as they collected the blood of various demons needed by their master. And due to the unique environment, it directly nurtured a diverse ecosystem with many kinds of demons.
There were demons with cow-like heads and flames would spurt from their noses when they snorted. They had a humanoid body that is 4 times bigger than a human and full of densely packed muscles. Apparently they are well-known in the Underworld and in the Human world.
There were also demons with snake-like lower bodies and humanoid upper bodies. The environment and ecology in the forest somehow nurtured demons that are either humanoid or half humanoid.
Such a unique sight stunned the Magma Golems and Ketus as such scenes are usually rare. Humanoid demons possess intelligence surpassing normal demons and they tend to bear grudges and more cunning.
But regardless if they were humanoid or not, they couldn’t avoid nor dodge the surprise attack of SPY’s personal troops as blood flowed in the Underworld Forest.