As Jace goes to bed that night in another state the Captain is up talking to his assistant. "Charlie, what are the defense lines looking like?" "They are looking good sir" Charlie responds. "How are the children holding up in the fighting?"
The Captain asks gruffly "They are holding up good sir. They are switching to a new one whenever one gets tired to keep them fresh" Charlie once again responds.
"I see, keep up the good work, hopefully this will soon be behind us." "You can only hope sir." "Yes, only hope." Charlie then walks out of the Captains tent and the Captain goes to his desk to look over some papers before going to bed himself.
A few hours after Jace heads to bed, by Jace at the scene of his surprise attack there was a demon with one horn. The demon inspects the bodies of his fallen comrades and catches no scent. Until, under some of the tent fabric he finds the shards of one of Jace's throwing knives.
Before Jace had thrown the kives earlier in the day he thought about putting mana tethers on and recovering his knives. But when he thought about it more he realized that they would just explode also.
This led to him just leaving the scene with no second thoughts. This development however allowed the horned demon to catch the faintest of his scent.
The demon wouldn't be able to find Jace very fast or soon but it would know the rough direction of travel. The demon then sets off in the direction of Jaces safe house stopping and rummaging here and there to find his scent again.
Jace wakes up a little before dawn once again but this time to something other than the sun rising. Jace then hears the breaking of twigs and rummaging of leaves in the distance coming closer to him.
Jace immediately grabs his weapons and exits his safe house in the opposite direction of the noise before moving to get a better view from where the noise was coming from. Jace sees in the forest a black figure moving towards him and sees a status screen show up.
One Horned Demon (Level 1)
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Combat power-25
Notes-Most basic soldier demon. Weaker when alone but become powerful when in large numbers.
Jace, seeing this screen, starts to think about planning when he sees the demon start to sprint at him. Jace pulls out his throwing knife and layers it with mana throwing it at the demon.
The demon continues running towards him and Jace watches as the knife sticks into the demon and leaves it unfazed. The demon would be on top of Jace in a few seconds.
Jace realizes this, pulls out his karambits and prepares for combat. As the demon arrives within ten feet of Jace it takes a swipe at Jace. Jace sees this swipe doges it and using his Explosive Propulsion footwork jumps at the demon.
As Jace arrives before the demon he uses his Mana Latch technique and lands the karambits right between the demon's shoulders. This makes the demon pause and scream.
Jace thinking on his feet moves how the technique taught him and moves to the back of the demon. Jace then unlatches one of the karambits and stabs the demon in the head before it could realize that its prey had disappeared .
As Jace's karambit goes through its head it swipes back and scratches Jace leaving a few cuts. After this the demon falls to the ground and Jace hears the notification "Ding killed one, one horned demon xp gained 200. Due to the title effect xp increased to 240."
Jace, after hearing the notification, heads back to his safe house and gets his medical supplies and book out. Jace had practiced first aid before the invasion in case something like this happened. Jace takes out the antibiotic ointment and bandages out and bandages up his side.
'Man, this hurts' Jace finishes bandaging himself and heads back out to take care of the demon corpse. Jace staring at the body thinks of what he should do with it. 'I could use it as bait for a trap. I could also use it for food.
On second thought not for food'. As Jace is standing there a wolf-like animal is prowling in the forest near him. Jace hears something and turns towards the wolf-like figure.
What Jace sees irks him. He sees a wolf-like body with a head split in 2 and connected by red flesh. Its tail was covered in blood as well as its paws and 2 muzzles. Jace observes this beast when he sees the status screen appear.
Demon Diseased Wolf (Level 1)
Combat power-5
Notes-A wolf infected with a disease from demons. Same as a wolf but contains a deadly disease.
As Jace finishes reading the status screen he pulls out a throwing knife and throws. Before the wolf could doge it hits it in the part between the heads and kills it on the spot. This earns another notification "Ding, killed one demon diseased wolf xp gained 50. Due to title effect increased to 60 xp."
Jace then turns back to the demon and decides to take it to a place away from his house. After deciding this he picks it up and carries it for a few minutes before seeing a slope down from the hill he was on. Jace then rolls the body down and goes to pick up the wolf.
As Jace walks over the the wolf to inspect it and as he gets close to it he hears "Ding, user has contracted level 0.7 disease disease activating immunity… immunity successful, disease being put into disease storage"