“A demon? Hell no, I don’t want to meet a demon! The gods hate me enough already.” Timothy refused, he joked partially, then again he was really curious about the matter.
Arvena helped maintain his curiosity, as she added. “It’s a caged demon, so don’t worry. Your gods have punished this demon a long time ago, so I’m sure they wouldn’t mind you talking to it.”
“Oh shit! You’re serious, aren’t you?” He followed along, “I thought you were talking about a statue or something? I didn’t expect a living, er, unliving demon!”
After that part, they swam towards the bottom of the pool without much of a debate. Considering that this demon somehow illuminated a big area, the team expected to see a huge beast, the thing of nightmares, even! They expected a lava-encrusted monster, and rightfully so, but that wasn’t nearly the case!
When they got there, the team got really disappointed, Timothy especially! He noticed that the ‘demon’ didn't even have any horns, so it was inappropriate to call it a demon to begin with, it was unusual. Then he noticed a few other features that made this creature less of a demon, and more of a fish.
Tim was the first to point it out, he said. “That’s no demon, Arvena! That fat motherfucker is an anglerfish of sorts.”
“An anglerfish with two lightbulbs? That’s rich.” She countered, “I like to think that those bulbs are its ugly horns.”
They debated over the creature’s origin for a little bit, they had to, and they did so quite freely as well, because the creature was truly locked away! These large, net-shaped, metal beams contained it, so it couldn’t either escape or harm anyone within its close vicinity, it was a prisoner! The team could discuss the creature’s origin, and even gender, for as long as they wanted, no one could interrupt them.
However, at some point they decided to move on with their day. Whatever this creature was, they were just glad that it was caged, because otherwise it would be near impossible to kill this thing, if the situation arose where they had to fight it. They wouldn’t be able to win without taking major, deadly damage, no, because this thing was truly huge! Its body was short, about twenty meters long, but the ‘demon’ was pretty fat, much like an anglerfish, so it looked huge! It had an overwhelming bodily girth of twenty-five meters, there was no fighting it!
“I’m glad that this fat motherfucker is just a night-light for us, we’re lucky that the gods imprisoned it or whatever.” Tim expresed, and then they moved on.
Arvena gave the team a bit of a scare there, and she did so purposely, because she didn’t want them to relax down here, not even for a second, it would be stupid. She had been down here before, and knew how dangerous this place could be, so one couldn’t afford to be inattentive in this deep body of water, not even for a second, it was too dangerous to do so!
She figured that if her guests looked a demon right in the eye, then they may be more cautious around here, and she was right! The team even started swimming slower, they slithered across the waters in a sneaky manner, as if they wanted to pounce on anything that was to cross their path! They were more cautious now.
It was great that they were cautious, because danger was really quick to find them. About five minutes later, they got attacked!
A group of fish attacked them. Now although that sounded better than getting pounced on by a demon, they were still in trouble nonetheless!
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“Is that a fucking snake!” Tim asked, in panic.
There were actually seven of these elongated creatures slithering around the team, and their appearance had been very spontaneous! These creatures could either camouflage really well, or it was possible that they were invisible, because there was no other way to describe their sudden appearance! The name of their species didn’t help make sense of things either, no.
“They’re whistling mana-muncher eels, not snakes!” Arvena shouted out, that’s what she called them.
“Kill them!” Her voice echoed.
Then, the team mobilized themselves to do exactly so, they were ready to kill, in fact it was their only choice! The three-meter long eels lived here, and they didn’t have the slightest sense of community, so they were ready to tear apart anything that they could. They had to be killed!
Timothy on the other hand, he was contemplative. “Munchers, huh?”
Regarding the name of this species, it was obvious that they consumed mana, perhaps a lot of it, so Tim tried to stay as far away from them as he could, which slowed down any attack that he could inflict against them. His contemplation reaped him out of the pleasure of killing them!
Timothy didn’t have much mana to spare, or in this case, hand over, so he tried to be cautious within this chaos, he avoided the enemies! He tried to preserve his mana, so he got really paranoid about the matter of losing mana, to the point where he forgot that the enemies had been invisible up until a moment ago, he forgot entirely. This was less than optimal because he forgot about a great fraction of their power, and if he was to truly avoid them efficiently, then it was stupid to ignore that core part of the enemy’s abilities!
Anyway, regardless of such circumstances, he remembered something for sure; He and the team had to kill these silver-skinned giants, there was no other way around it!
“I have half a mana pool, let’s see what I can do with it.” He muttered, “My fireballs are known to travel far, I think? Let’s hope that I can shoot ‘em down from here…”
Tim spammed a bunch of fireballs and thunderbolts from his tail, and this ended up being really effective against the enemies, though it was reckless. He could’ve hit a friend, for example, but thankfully he didn’t, and managed to clear the area a little bit instead, because these eels were very responsive to fire! Although he didn’t manage to kill any of them, the eels still swam away once they got burned, so he got that personal space that he so craved!
“Okay, I bought us some time…” He muttered, and then he yelled. “Shoot 'em now, kill those disgusting, long bastards!”
“You two shoot them!” Ortana countered, “Me and Skendus can’t shoot fireballs out of our asses!”
“Right,” He caught up, and then he chased after the enemies.
Arvena joined him, and this was good, because even though she was a tiny fish, she could shoot these huge fireballs, she bore most of the fire-power here! Since the quality of her mana was at level six, her fire burned especially badly, so she had managed to kill two snakes already!
Anyway, while she and Tim chased after them, two eels were clever enough to circle back. It was in their nature to be sneaky, and or a bit strategic, so the two of them circled back, and then they pounced on Skendus! They whistled this high-pitched tone as they attacked, which was very disorienting!
Their jaws were jerked outwards, bent rather unnaturally, and their intent was even uglier than that! They tried to kill him, and reap every drop of mana out of his body afterwards, that was their plan, but they met with a unique challenge instead.
The very teeth of the enemies shattered, as they discovered that Skendus’ skin was somehow tougher than metal, they couldn’t bite him. Skendus was surprised by this himself, but then in response to the attack, he swung his two-and-a-half foot long nose around, and slit the two eels into many many pieces! His nose, which was equipped with fifty pointy teeth, was very effective, he marked a milestone!
Four out of the seven whistling mana-muncher eels were now dead, and three of them remained. Ortana didn’t kill any of them, but she sure liked to toot her own horn nonetheless!
“I saved you! You’re welcome, fatty.” She said.
“Oh, that was you?” Skendus asked, “I keep forgetting that your shields are very advanced, thanks, lady! I thought that I was a goner there, these bastards are notoriously sneaky… very immune to my powers too, I could not frighten them no matter what I tried!”