“Attention Villagers, Lord Null speaking! Monsters are trying to invade the Crater, please hurry into your Houses, lock the Doors and go into the Cellar to seek shelter. Again, Monster trying to invade, please hurry into your Houses and go into the Cellar to seek shelter. The Gate is still holding, but might break later.”
While Snow has Ava inside her Shadow for storage, I echo Reds Voice with Miasma through the Village and the Farms. With that ready I need to hurry up to start more precautions.
The first Gate was already broken through by a Rock Bear, which directly fell into the moat. A Rock carapace does not really swim well, so he might not be a problem anymore. While the dart throwers are working better, the sheer amount makes them rather inadequate. At least they hold them at bay for a little while.
“Children and Caretakers inside the Castle, this is Lord Null. Please go to the Bunker, the older Members know the way. Do not worry, it is just for a precaution and right now there is no danger. Please keep calm. Oros wake up, I need you outside the Castle, Loopy lock the main Gate right behind Oros and barricade it for extra security. Petal keep Leafy with you and open your dream Flowers, as a precaution.”
Oros is happy to go out a bit. His two heads are huffing in delight and the flames out of his snouts are intensifying. Oros was the dog I got with all the other animals. His transformation is rather extreme as he looks like a Wolf from Hell right now. Albeit only two heads, he can be really frightening if you do not know about him. By the way he is as big as a fully grown Stallion.
“Rott get out of the sewers, some insects might need culling.”
Rott moves himself right out of the Septic tank and perches onto a House nearby. The roof tiles needed restoration anyways, so I do not care them starting to age under his talons in fast forward.
I myself drag the Portal right into the front of the Gate into the Crater. At first I wanted to take Twin out but decided for Prototype One. It might be finally time to try it out in real battle.
Out of the Portal black tar like substance oozes right onto the pavement. Forming a semblance of a two legged form, the void slime holds the form I tried to gave him with my will. Sadly it is still wobbly and does not really work as I want, and therefore I go into a four legged form. With the appendages the movement is better than the slime itself had. I can throw myself at anything that comes by, so I hope of good combat ability tests.
The Rock Bear I thought useless wants to make me a liar, as he crawls half drowned out of the water with its claws. That thing is close to losing consciousness and still wants to rage, what is going on?
While it can hold itself only barely, others use its head as a place to stand while ripping into the Bridge. Well It was nice to have you, as I put the core into the hidden circle and the whole bridge just falls after the hinge was liquefied. The steam from the water shows how hot the metal bar was.
THIS time the Bear is gone. Finally it has drowned as it was stuck below the drawbridge.
Sadly I could not do much as the barrage of Magic they threw ripped right through the second gate. As the gate was breaking down the last trap was activated and hot Metal was thrown out of the trapdoor right before the entrance. Screams were heard and after a while nothing, then they came out of the steam jumping the rest of the way into the Village. Close combat time!
Oros bit into one of the Wolves while the other head spewed fire right onto the oncoming Rock Bear. It distracted him long enough for Oros to throw the wolf right onto the Bear which disoriented him.
A Blade Deer came directly to me brandishing the razor sharp antlers in his rush at me. Piercing right through my body nothing happened. This Body does not even have a core, physical damage is nearly negligible. Throwing the Deer right into the Portal I let him stay there until I have the time to take him over. I want to understand what makes them so manic.
A wolf starts to throw wind blades at me. Sorry magic is also not working, this body is rather cheating. Hammering down with one of my limbs I slap the head right onto the pavement and crack the skull open. Except twitching the wolf does not do anything anymore.
As I expected the insects came too. Rott was already ready and hunts them down with prejudice. They are nearly as big as him, but when they touch him they get damaged and not him. Rott is such a sadist sometimes, rotting away one of their wings and then throwing them into the moat to drown.
While the Rock Bear got pinned down by Oros, he starts to melt under the concentrated barrage of two heads. I got attacked by some Mosquitoes which then stuck to me like flypaper and were either thrown into my Portal or crushed outright. The worst thing was, one even escaped my Portal. I forgot they could fly and had a way to just zip right out of the zero gravity. I have to find something else to keep them inside there, dang it!
Two more bears came right over with a mighty vault. One got punted right into the moat by me, the other was enveloped by me. That thing is rather hardy, but with finagling I got one into my Portal. Rott melted the wings of one of those insects and I took it from him and threw it right into my Realm. He was really indignant for stealing his prey, but I need that thing for later. I get you something other to play later, okay?
Another horde of Wolves got into the City. Some spread out and searched for other targets while I was wrangling three until I heard their spine break. Even if you scratch at the doors, there is nothing inside for you. All of them are in the Cellars and secured away from you bastards!
Taking one of the wolves and slapping him multiple times on the floor like a child would do to a doll when hyperactive it stopped moving and I got to the next one.
Mice started to appear, but while their shocks were annoying Oros, no one else gave two hoots to their tries. As he was incensed Oros became a roundhouse flamethrower and turned the streets into a sea of fire by spinning around and breathing out all his Miasma he could. Who would have known, Fire beats lightning.
Right afterwards I heard something massive raging inside the tunnel from the outside and started to relax. Snow is here.
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Now to the aftermath. The Gates are gone and so is the bridge. Some Houses have scratch marks but held up way better, than I would have thought. Great engineering from me! A pat on the back for me and a gold star.
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The streets… Well they are there, under the pile of burnt and mutilated corpses. Rott is happily decomposing them and getting his nourishment through it. I do not understand that thing at all sometimes…
Oros is right now really happy to have his time outside. Sorry boy, but while I would like to let you out sometimes, you are a bit too aggressive. Enjoy it while it lasts... I will think of letting you out once in a while, when everyone is sleeping, okay?
I never saw Snow panting so much. Seeing her demolish the back lines in her true form was awe inspiring, she ignored nearly everything and just ripped all of them to shreds.
‘Oros, Rott. Better go back to your dens. I will seal the entrance for a while so no more come through. Thanks for helping guys.’
With a massive howl and an ominous screech both of them said goodbye and got back to their posts. With this it is done for a while. I already started to take over the Creatures. They are somewhat different than the other Monsters. I need to look into it.
‘Can you get Ava out? I would like to get back into human form to tell the People everything is alright’
Squeak
And with that Ava pops out of her shadow. Right afterwards she slowly transforms back into her human form.
Putting back Prototype One I have seen the potential. Now I have to just test if I really can go out with him. The body is not from this World so it might be rejected.
“The Front is now sealed, I seal it a few times more to make the tunnel more secure for more time, if they come again.”
“hah… hah… That was a rather big horde. Hah… hah… Is everyone alright?”
“Well yes, but some of the children were seeing Loopy and Oros. They got a mighty scare from them. Otherwise no one was injured.”
Well I should tell all of them, that the danger is over. They might still be scared. Oh! The Portal, back into the Castle with you.
“This is Lord Null speaking. The Danger is over. All Monsters are eliminated, I am sorry for scaring you like that, the Entrance is sealed for now, nothing can invade for a while.”
Slowly the people got out of their Cellars. Looking through the tinted glass they watch for Movement and some of the more brave start to unbolt their doors and look through a small gap.
Scorch marks can be removed later, but I might need help to clean off the blood and gore. With so much purple even Snow seems to be disliking the look. The cleaning is throwing the pieces into the sewers, so the Villagers would help me hopefully.
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“All of you can relax tomorrow. Sleep long and tight, we are safe. When the Sun is high, we will search for the rest of the pieces and clean our Village to make it beautiful again. Thank you for your hard work.”
The Villagers are relaxing. This was a rather scary day, for Monster to invade like that. Luckily no one was injured, just scared out of their wits when they heard the heavy scratching on the doors upstairs.
For Tomorrow there is just cleaning and maybe some repairs. While explaining the Crater is sealed for a while the whole Village sighs out of relief. I need to create an alert for the Village. The best would be two different Bells. One bell for Alert and another for notifications and telling the danger is over. Will be working on that.
The Village is done, now to the Castle. I need to see if the Children are okay. Snow is with me, but still panting a bit. Did you sprint the whole way here? Seriously you should try to at least keep some of your energy. What would have happened if you pass out right in the middle of the foes?
In the front of the Castle I can see Petal has already stopped using her Flowers. Oros is waiting in front of the door… Wait why are you not already in… Darn, I forgot!
“Loopy you can open the door again.”
While looking inside I see the door ram shackled with nearly everything. Did he put more and more in front of the door the whole time?! Ugh, better helping him with pulling the crates from the Gate. This will take a while…
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“What were the things the children saw?”
Annette was the first demanding answers. I do not even know what she means specifically.
“Can you please narrow it down more Annette? What directly?”
“Wait, are there still more things… I mean the scary big dog and the strange man coming out of the jail area!”
Ah, yeah some saw them.
“The dog is the guard dog of the lower levels. The man is the janitor of the Jail. Better not letting it get dusty, right?”
“And why did some children swear that dog had two heads and others said the man had a gigantic mouth and scary eyes?”
“Maybe they saw wrong?”
“Did they?”
“Maybe…”
“Did they?!”
“...no, they are Monsters living under the jail for guard purposes.”
“Why under the jail… you know, never mind. Are the Children safe in their vicinity?”
“They are mostly tame. Those two do not come up unless I allow them to. So no worries.”
“That ‘mostly’ makes me worry very much, but it seems they are not dangerous for now. Are there more things we need to keep our guard up?”
“You already saw the Bast and with that, there are not many more living inside the Castle… You can relax, there is not much to worry. Just do not go to the third Floor please.”
“You have a real talent to say things about not to worry with the worst words.”
Not my problem? Well a bit my problem, as she will nag me even more if there are more surprises.
While we are at it, the children are fine. No danger and no problem. While Annette complained about the slightly insecure stairs, she stopped after seeing the fully equipped Panic Room.
For now we are isolated in the Crater, but should be fine, as no one is visiting us anyways. The Root were here last time already, so nothing to worry. I have three weeks, and when they see the solid wall they might understand, we are not open for business anyways.