66 chapter 66 - A Devils Monster Parade (1/2)
A single Fae Knight rode a heavily armoured Orange Velociraptor ahead of an army of elementals down Tariak's streets. With a lower body like a stone horse and an upper body of an especially wizened tree with several waving arms ending in bladed vines, the elementals were terrifying even without being so powerful. Lashing out, the strange Fae centaurs could skewer soldiers atop buildings or fire their arms like ballista bolts to crash through several ranks at a time.
Into the scene emerged Kenji, his main troll body destroyed and leaving him with the weaker [Forbidden Copy] version. Still damn strong, Kenji was able to strike one of the elementals in the back - fragments of shattered Rock blasting across the streets to shatter windows and lacerate flesh.
Humans cheers, then cried out as several tendrils plunged into Kenji's neck. Not having expected their reaction speed, he was torn to shreds in seconds.
From the other side one of the elementals collapsed into fragmented chunks, Jack slicing those tendrils that retaliated. From behind him danced the Flower Knight, her blade singing through the air as she dodged her way past another's defense and scored a direct hit at its chest. Pulling free a glittering gem, she smirked as the elemental crashed down behind her.
From the alleyways rushed adventurers, and soon the elementals were split into two groups. Angrily the Fae Knight turned and charged, his Velociraptor too fast too avoid as his lance skewered through a pair of adventurer heads.
Speaking in an alien tongue, the Fae Knight urged his beast atop a house and quickly ran away. His elementals similarly turned tail, while the masses of monsters and saytrs continued their endless charge.
”We need to pull them in further Kenji. I was told by Almanac to give you this too,” Jack said as he handed Kenji a blue potion. Sighing, Kenji released his mutilated troll form and allowed it to return to his [Forbidden slot]. In its place he became Dana, and after searching through her memories identified the potion as a mana potion.
”We need to take care of that knight,” Kenji said as he downed the potion, his mana reserves quickly refilling. ”He'll just attack wherever is weakest until his stopped otherwise, that'll ruin our organised retreat.”
”And we still need to buy enough time for Almanac's plan,” Jack said as he drunk a yellow potion, and watched the enemy continue to flood the streets as they were driven on to make battle with Tariak's forward line. The Silver Swan Knights continued to be worth their weight in gold, able to stabilise entire streets while the adventurers focused on downing only the most terrible out of the enemy's unleashed monstrosities.
As Dana, and with renewed mana, Kenji built up a new army of ghouls from the enemy dead. Adding a troll Ghoul that Jack downed, Kenji was finally ready.
”Get on, we're going hunting,” Kenji said, offering a hand to lift Jack and the Flower Knight onto the Troll Ghoul's warped shoulders. Once aboard, Kenji commanded the undead to climb to the roofs and begin bounding across them.
The roofs were chaos as enemy fighters continued to battle the warriors placed above. Hunters and soldiers made desperate battle with squads of enemy satyr, each commanded by a golden horned enemy elite.
Faced with the packs of fast moving Monster Ghouls, alongside Jack and the Flower Knight's on battle prowess, those golden horns soon fell into pools of their own blood.
The roofs retaken, arrows, rocks, and ghouls could be unleashed onto the unwitting streets of enemies. Behind their lines Kenji continued to raise and release more feral Ghouls, that would stalk, devour and grow with every kill.
His own ghouls had grown larger and more intelligent with the dead they had eaten thus far. Luckily the Ghouls appetites were insatiable, each crunching through a score of dead that quickly leveled them up into War Ghouls twice as large as the regular, with far greater intelligence and horns coating their limbs like ivory armour.