218 Stealing all the Headlines (2/2)

Reyne even nudged over to my side and rubbed me with her shoulder like she was a kitten, and used a respectful tone that was incredibly rare for her. It seemed to be her own way of acting spoiled and apologizing to me.

”Hmph! Don't even dream of me forgiving you so easily about using the powers of Chaos.”

Although I said so, even I myself was unable to say anything too vicious to her. Perhaps the moment I had discovered how similar Reyne was to Prince Roland from my past was when I silently admitted her independence and her right to make decisions for herself.

”…When we return to the mortal plane, arrange a time for me to have a discussion with Karwenz.”

Hearing this, Reyne instantly cheered up and was filled with a bright smile.

”Okay!”

”Hmph! You start shining as soon as I give you a little sunlight. Remember, power is only a tool, don't…”

”Don't be controlled by the power. Second Brother Karwenz also tells me this as well.”

Alright, just when did Karwenz become her Second Brother? It seemed that I still underestimated this girl's basic instincts. Some things I still had to remind her about, however.

”Never trust the Chaos, Chaos…”

”…Chaos is unpredictable. If it could be predicted, it wouldn't be Chaos. You must learn how to master Chaos, and not be mastered by Chaos. Second Brother says this as well.”

Fine, since I couldn't gain any verbal advantages here, I might as well just focus instead on the ”army that's just attacking all-out without any plan.”

Against several dozen armies' worth of demons, not a single individual would be able to retain their calm. From the very start of battle, things instantly fell into a cruel war of attrition.

Emordilorcan left methods behind to protect himself as I expected. As soon as the demons entered his territory, countless numbers of earth elementals came out from deep within the ground, and tremendous earthquakes created countless crevices. As the demons kept falling into the rifts, the shape of the land was transformed enormously. As for the demons that didn't fall to their deaths, they were now trapped in the newly divided land, facing against earth elemental creatures that were many times their number.

However, there were just too many demons.

The winged demons began organizing aerial assaults, and the earth elemental creatures mostly lacked the ability to fly. This made the combat situation quickly tilt in the demons' favor.

”This seems so easy. Rumors of that Emordilorcan's strength must have been greatly exaggerated.”

I only smiled upon hearing this. If Emordilorcan was truly so easy to deal with, I would have come looking for him the moment I arrived in the Earth Elemental Plane. Why else would I spend so much effort in preparing against him beforehand?

Even a sinking warship would still have a couple of cannons. As the most ancient Elemental God of all, even if he was greatly weakened, he would surely have many trump cards up his sleeve.

The demons alone would be able to take care of him? I wasn't that optimistic at all. I only hoped that it would force out a couple of his aces, and the best result would be that Emordilorcan personally came out.

But judging from the current development, I wouldn't be able to see him with just the power of the demons.

Suddenly, the entire area began trembling violently before the ground fissured yet again. This time, several dozen tremendous Giant Sand Worms came out of the ground.

Giant Sand Worms were low-intelligence earth elemental creatures that were several hundred meters long. All they knew was to eat and sleep, but no resident of this plane ever dared to look down on them. That was because they were big—very big, ridiculously big.

Just their heads were about as large as goblin bulldozers, but their snakelike bodies were well over one hundred meters in length. Fully mature adult Giant Sand Worms could grow to three hundred meters, and their bodies were as solid as iron. Normal weapons couldn't pierce them, nor did they have the sense of pain. Even if one was unable to devour you in a single gulp, they would definitely be able to drag you into the earth and strangle you to death.

If these creatures happened to appear, any unlucky place that met them would be forced to move its settlement, even those completed for a long time.

These ferociously strong low-intelligence creatures were always treated as a natural calamity of this plane. But now, it seemed that as the oldest resident of this plane, Emordilorcan had a way to control them.

Reyne's demon army consisted entirely of earth elemental creatures that had recently been demonized. Even though they were incredibly numerous, the demon army lacked high-level demon commanders. These demons still had the same earth magic and abilities as their original forms, which were basically zero threat to the Giant Sand Worms. The Giant Sand Worms' gigantic bodies literally ignored all the demons' physical attacks, and now, the newly-born demon army had met their most difficult opponent.

”How about having the demons retreat?”

”No need, we can't take them back to the mortal plane anyways, so we might as well have them expend their passion.”

Reyne's eyes were glowing with the dusky yellow of Chaos, its power under her control.

”My slaves! Show me your utmost loyalty to your master.”

She cupped the flames of Chaos within her hand, which transformed into droplets in the sky. It then turned into a demonic flash, illuminating the sky with blood red.

The demon army paused for a moment, then suddenly sped up as they blindly rushed towards those Giant Sand Worms. And then…

*Boom!*

Self-destruction was the most common ability to all residents of the lower planes. That attack contained all their life force and power, and would at the very least be three times stronger than any of their other attacks. Moreover, these demons knew how to group together before self-destructing, which only added to the explosions' power.

Even the strong Giant Sand Worms were unable to deal with this endless number of self-destructions. They rolled and thrashed around in soundless pain, and their green blood spilled everywhere. As if they had discovered the prey before them wasn't delicious at all, the injured Giant Sand Worms kept retreating into the ground and disappearing. It seemed that Emordilorcan's control over them wasn't all that strong.

Currently, there was still a significant amount of the demon army remaining. They grouped up and rushed towards the Earth Elemental God's domain, when a sudden dragon breath sandstorm appeared behind us.

The Inferno Demon Dragon that we rode on hurriedly turned around and dodged the dragon breath sandstorm, but its movements almost caused me and Reyne to fall off in the process.

”You dare to twist the proud will of my tribe! Invaders from another plane, meet your destined doom.”

That was the angry roar of a huge sand dragon. The skies were now filled with yellow-gray dragon wings. As Emordilorcan's allies, the sand dragons had arrived.

As for me, I had expected this as well, which was why I laughed.

”Amelia, the sand dragons were on Emordilorcan's side as expected. It's your turn… What? You won't do anything unless I promise to go on a date with you? My dear lady, please don't try to take advantage of the situation. Fine, fine, I'll agree to it all!”