Chapter 991: How Can I Get to Safety? (1/2)
[Layer 2: Demon Invasion]
[Killed one Demon Soldier]
”Are you fucking kidding me?!” Krune couldn't help but curse out loud. ”That strong beast was just a fucking Demon Soldier? And how come I got a notification but didn't receive any Godly Point?”
Even though his Monster Gecko skin armor filtered out most of the miasma, some of it still got inside as the burning sensation in his body continued to increase. Krune hurriedly looked around using his Sonic Radar, noticing numerous beasts, or as mentioned in the tablet, demons in the valley.
There were at least hundreds of them that made Krune flinch upon sensing them. He dared not even peek with his head as he immediately backed away from the cliff, using his Sonic Radar to notice a hill located far away.
He jumped and landed on his two-meter-long Cloud Whale, riding it towards the hill as he noticed the density of the miasma decrease the higher up he went. He arrived at the peak of the hill, breathing in relief once he noticed the air in the area was breathable.
He looked below, noticing faint miasma circulating a couple of centimeters below his feet. Seeing this, he could not help but think to himself, 'Thankfully, I am barely above the reach of the miasma.'
”Now, how should I reach a city?” Krune wondered as he looked in one direction, emitting his Sonic Radar at its maximum strength, unleashing it at a sound level inaudible to the ears. Like a radar, Krune continued to scan in one direction alone, continuing as such by turning his head little by little.
This way, he covered the maximum reach for his Sonic Radar. Unfortunately, despite everything, he was unable to detect any city. Rather, the valley continued for as far as his Sonic Radar's range. And above the valley, there were only some crooked trees scattered around.
Everywhere he looked, there were demons marching about. Worst of all, the Demon Soldier he had killed had actually gotten up as its head finished healing. Then, it shook its head a little, looked around in confusion before jumping into the valley.
”What kind of phantasmagoria is happening here?” Krune was flabbergasted. The Demon Soldier he had killed by going all out revived within a couple of minutes and began to go about as usual. If he wasn't flustered by something of such scale, then it would be odd.
”Then again, where are they heading towards?” Krune wondered as he had been observing that all the demons in the valley were marching towards one direction. They seemed endless and were like a river.
”Wait…the title of this Layer…” Krune was just about to summon his tablet when an intense sense of danger enveloped him. He could see a figure flying towards him at tremendous speeds.
”Damn it!” Without any hesitation, Krune summoned his Cloud Whale around him and flew away, noticing another demon appear. It had a pair of wings and seemed many times stronger than the Demon Soldier he had faced.
It swerved through the air and closed in on him. Krune aimed his palm towards it, blasting forth a cold beam, intending to slow it down when he realized that the demon was hardly affected.
'Well, this sucks. Unless I go all out, it probably won't be injured. Then again, even if I attack and defeat it after using Ocean Turbulence, there's no guarantee another demon might not show up. With that, there's only one way.' Krune thought, increasing the size of the Cloud Whale to a length of 8 meters, his current limit.
Instantly, the air currents generated around it increased in quantity, propelling it forward as the Cloud Whale fully spread its wings, increasing its flight speed as it quickly expanded the distance from the demon.
Though, the demon had also flapped its wings and continued to chase after relentlessly, keeping pace without being thrown off. Krune was startled because he was traveling in a straight line. In a straight line, the Cloud Whale was incredibly fast.
So, he was confused as to how it was able to keep up. Not only that, but he noticed that it was still at ease, looking like it wasn't overexerting itself. Krune directed cold beams on it or the regular Neon Radiance to blind it.
But after the first two times, it simply closed its eyes and followed him. It seemed to possess high resistance against cold, so no matter what he did, it wasn't harmed. As time passed, Krune noticed that the reason it was able to keep pace with him was due to the miasma.
Even if he focused a heavily concentrated beam of Neon Radiance on its eyes the moment it opened them, it swiftly fell into the layer of miasma below and surfaced soon after, perfectly uninjured.
'Does the miasma have healing properties towards the demons?' Krune thought, realizing that it might very well be the case. He was just shocked at the intense speed of regeneration the Demon Solider he killed had shown.