Jace in his base was going over what he had planned yesterday. 'First I need to test out my Flame Hex, check on the demon base again, and collect enough mana for curse creation'. Jace, satisfied with his plan, heads out of his safe house.
Jace on his way to the demon base finds what he was looking for. In front of him is a wide circle of bare ground that he can test his Flame Hex on without worry of catching brush and trees on fire. Jace starts to draw the hex in front of him.
After around 20 seconds the hex is finished and Jace steps away. Jace feels the same connection to the Flame Hex as with the exploding hex and activates it. Jace then sees in front of him a burst of flame and feels the heat.
To which after 5 seconds it disappears and Jace is looking in awe.'That was cool, it was bigger and hotter than I expected'. Jace, satisfied with his experiment, continues heading to the demon base.
Jace arrives at the demon base and climbs up the tree. What Jace sees confuses him slightly. Across the middle of the base there was a line drawn splitting it in two.
But on both sides there were demons working. Jace got his answer as he inspected the demons on both sides. 'On the one side it looks like they are infected with Splitter V2. The leader must have split the infected and non infected up. I wonder why the infected are still working though?'.
Jace stopped thinking about it too hard and started getting prepared for what he was here to do. Jace got out some throwing knives and set his sights on the demon's wood supplies. Jace started drawing the Flame hexes on the throwing knives and got in position.
Jace sent the throwing knives right where he wanted and climbed down the tree. Jace then once again while running sets off the hexes.
Jace, after arriving a safe distance from the demon base, turns around to see exactly what he wanted. Jace sees through the trees 2 pillars of fire and continues to finish his plan for the day.
At the demon base there was carnage. The Leader runs out of the tent and starts yelling "put it out!" All the demons however just stand there frozen. The Leader furious starts to smack the demons on the head which gets them moving very quickly.
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The demons seemed very used to putting out fires as they had a very good system to move the water to the fire. This system however didn't work with the amount of wood burning in fire.
After everyone at the base realized this they all watched as their supplies once again were destroyed. The Leader became even more livid and had gone crazy as they were never going to get back on schedule.
The Leader then stormed off into his tent. All this at the demon base however didn't bother Jace as he was training without a care in the world.
In another state at a hole in the sky the Captain stood with Charlie. "Have they still not stopped Charlie?" the Captain asked as more demons fell out of the hole. "No sir, the demons have stayed consistent, a hundred every 15 minutes" Charlie said.
The Captain then asked while guessing the answer "How are supplies Charlie?" "They are running very low, sir. I expect that we will last a week at most" Charlie responded while looking at a clipboard this time.
"How are the troops?" the Captain asked while looking at tents in front of him. "They are holding on, sir. But they get more tired and burnt out every day" Charlie said looking down. The Captain then said something that made Charlie shoot up straight.
"Charlie, are all the civilians evacuated?" "Yes, sir. But you don't mean?" Charlie asked, turning to the Captain. The Captain then turned to Charlie and said "Tell everyone to prepare to move out to the base."
The Captain then turned and started walking to his tent. This left Charlie in shock as the Captain he knew always won and never retreated. Charlie however snapped out of it and carried out his orders.
Like that it was night to which Jace took advantage of. Jace sitting in the middle of his safe house was preparing to activate insight for Curse Creation. Before that however he decided to make plans to take out the demon base.
Jace had a piece of paper in front of him with a diagram of the base on it. Jace then starts to draw a route around the trees that will get him in all the positions he wants while keeping safe. 'What I want to do right now is to throw a throwing knife with an Exploding Hex into all the tents. On second thought however the Flame Hex might work better. If their tents catch on fire then I will get all of them. Were as with the Exploding Hex because of the size of the tents I might only get one. The Flame Hex is also mana efficient'.
Jace continues to refine the route 'I won't need to worry about the infected demons because they look like they will die already. As well it looked like there was a lack of medical treatment for them. The thing is I also need to find a more efficient way to move around the trees than just getting down and climbing back up. Climbing would be too slow and will get me killed'.
Jace decided that he would come up with something tomorrow about the movement between trees.Besides that however Jace was satisfied with everything else about his plan when he had an idea.
'I wonder if I can prepare the throwing knives in advance for the mission?'. Jace then gets up and pulls out a throwing knife and draws a Flame Hex. Jace finishing this puts the hex face down against the ground. Jace, satisfied with everything waits till he has full mana and begins insight.