Chapter 698 - Three Sides, The Three Ongoing Battles in the Mountains (1/2)
Day 151 - 11:45 PM - Mountain Farming Village, Barangay Mabini, Municipality of Viga, Catanduanes
The sudden gunshot from Mei made the center of the battlefield silent. It made the rampaging individuals even louder than before.
Legra fell with a gaping hole on her forehead. That fist-sized hole tore through her head from front to back.
And to that sneak attack, Lord Seis' reaction was to, unexpectedly, laugh out loud.
”Pfft! HAHAHAHAHA!”
Like a madman, the Lord of Demons let out his boisterous laugh.
”As expected of Pureblooded Demons!” Lord Seis turned to Mark and Mei. ”The kinds of Demons that see everything else below them! But it's unfortunate. Don't ever think that your sneak attack succeeded!”
At the sky, Mark did not say anything. Everyone saw that Mei's attack hit that old had that was riding that giant grub. However, the old hag's mental fluctuations did not vanish at all.
If she did die, the mental fluctuations that Mark was sensing would start to wane before vanishing. But it never happened.
It was when the old hag with a broken head stood up.
”Well, that hurt. Kekeke.”
Legra's voice sounded bizarre. It was as if there were several of her talking at the same time. There were also grating and snapping sounds in her voice. It was as if her words were not spoken with a human mouth.
Unexpectedly, the torn hole on her head was not bleeding. It was strange. Even a Demon's wound would bleed before turning to ashes after its death. And yet, this woman that appeared to be a human was not.
But then, she raised her hand towards her broken head. At first, it looked like she was trying to touch her wound. However, it was not the case as she put her hand over her head. Her left hand started to lose shape, revealing layers and layers of small maggot-like insects.
One by one, the maggots detached from Legra's hand and began pouring into the gaping hole on her head.
Legra's left hand was slowly reduced to a stump up to a few inches into her wrist. On the other hand, the maggots that filled the hold on her head wriggled into shape.
It took only a few moments, and Legra's head was as good as new.
”It looks like I have to raise more to restore this hand,” Legra said, looking at her missing hand before turning to Mark and Mei. ”How hateful.”
As Legra said those words, dozens of splatting sounds echoed across the battlefield. It sounded like some squishy toy filled with sticky goo that suddenly exploded after being inflated.
However, no one could see what the sounds came from because of the black mist covering the ground.
It did not take long, though, and they saw what created those sounds.
Buzzing sounds echoed as dozens upon dozens of winged-insects as big as three months old baby rose from the black mists. Most of them were still covered with sticky green goo, while some had the skin of worms still stuck on their bodies.
The insects looked bizarre. They had three pairs of dragonfly wings, a body of a wasp, two pairs of hind legs of a beetle, the fore of forelimbs of a mantis, the head of a fly, and the proboscis of a mosquito.
They were hybrid insects bathed in Demonic energy. And sure enough, their bodies were oozing with deadly poison like the Tiyanaks.
”So, it won't be easy, huh.”
Mark murmured, staring at the old hag.
A body made of shape-shifting insects was what Legra had. It was no wonder that someone like her, a Mambabarang, was not afraid at all to join the battlefield.
It was very likely that she already left her human body and became a Demonic existence.
At the current situation, Lord Seis smiled even more.
”Since none of you wanted to listen, then let's fight!”
In that declaration, the division of the Demon army was decided.
Lord Seis faced Diwata Iraya.
Legra was already staring at Mark and Mei.
Lastly, Muggur would lead the remaining Demons to slaughter the Spirits and Elementals.
”RAAAAAAHHH!!!”
Lord Seis roared. His muscled body started to bloat and pulse. Oozing with Demonic Energy, his body began to change.
His skin became covered in fur while his face started to contort. His two-meter tall body began to grow larger.
It took just a few seconds. The handsome-looking, buff-bodied Lord Seis turned into a four-meter tall ram-horned creature with monkey-like features, saber-tooth fangs, and batwings with a span of six meters.
With his gigantic appearance, Lord Seis became the ginormous centerpiece of the battlefield.
Lord Seis smiled sinisterly. His red glowing eyes were staring at Diwata Iraya with unfathomable hatred.
On the other hand, Diwata Iraya showed regret after seeing the transformation of Lord Seis.
This was his true appearance and not the other way around. That handsome and muscular human-like body was something he acquired after he became a Demon.
It was the appearance that Diwata Iraya was familiar with.
”Argrellius.” Diwata Iraya opened her mouth. ”Do we really have to end things like this?”
Diwata Iraya's voice was filled with remorse. She wished that things would have led to this situation where she was going to fight with a former Spirit. Not to mention one of her closest aides in the past.
”If only that incident did not happen.”
Diwata Iraya murmured after.
”It's already late, Iraya.” Lord Seis replied. ”You kept siding with humans, protecting them from my vengeance. Since you kept it that way, I can only kill you!”
ROOAR!
Lord Seis opened his mouth. A beam of black energy fired towards Diwata Iraya.
On the other hand, Diwata Iraya stretched her hands forward. Like Lord Seis, she let out her own energy beam, which clashed with the enemy's Demonic Energy.
The two energies started pushing each other back, trying to overwhelm their opponent.
”Wow, a Beam-O-War.”
Mark could not help but comment as he avoided the sting of the insect around him.
BANG! BANG! CLICK! SLASH!
Mei fired her sniper rifle, destroying two insects in her sight. As another tried to attack her from behind, she transformed her sniper rifle into a sword and slashed the attacker.