30 poisonous Demonic beasts. (2/2)

Li Yang mused over the possibilities as he continued stalking the Demonic beast. If it was decided by the Demonic beasts themselves, did it mean that the various Demonic beasts agreed to it, or was there a single leader, other than the guardian of the area?

Before Li Yang came up with an answer that seemed plausible, he heard a loud neighing sound. From behind a large boulder not far away from the toad-like Demonic beast, a large horse-like Demonic beast came running, its eyes gazing hungrily at the toad-like Demonic beast.

The horse-like Demonic beast was slightly smaller than the toad-like Demonic beast, its entire body covered in silky fur that was brown in color and had a slight green tint. But unlike a normal horse, this Demonic beast had seven sturdy legs, as well as two thin and long appendages, almost like whips that ended in small nubs, growing out from its back.

With the horse-like Demonic beast attacking, the toad-like Demonic beast also got into a battle position. Before the horse-like Demonic beast managed to completely close the distance, the toad-like Demonic beast opened its maw. Just like Li Yang thought, the toad-like Demonic beast could open its mouth 90 degrees, its lower jaw hitting the ground as it fully opened its mouth.

A purple orb of thick jelly-like liquid gathered in the mouth of the toad-like Demonic beast, who spat the orb towards the approaching horse-like Demonic beast.

The horse-like Demonic beast lowered its entire body, its knees scraping against the ground as it continued sliding towards the toad-like Demonic beast. The purple orb flew over the horse-like Demonic beast, hitting the ground a short distance behind it. When the orb hit the ground, a faint sizzling sound could be heard as the ground beneath the orb started vaporizing, the grass around the orb slowly dying.

As the horse-like Demonic beast straightened its legs and reached the toad-like Demonic beast, the two appendages on its back struck out, producing faint whistling sounds as they moved. The small nubs at the tip of the appendages started emitting small drops of deep green liquid that released a strong fishy smell, the liquid was clearly highly poisonous.

The appendages struck down on the toad-like Demonic beast, one of the nubs hitting an eye, while the other hit and punctured one of the pustules on the back of the toad-like Demonic beast.

Both Demonic beasts let out loud screams of agony. The toad-like Demonic beast screamed because its eye was completely crushed, streams of deep green poison slowly invading its body. But the horse-like Demonic beast was not much better off. The pustule that it had punctured released a large amount of purple liquid that quickly started corroding the appendage and other parts of its body that had been sprayed by the liquid when it punctured the pustule.

Both Demonic beasts were just about to move away from each other when the ground suddenly started trembling. As the ground started trembling, fear and terror flashed past the eyes of both Demonic beasts. But before they got the chance to escape, the ground not far away from the two of them opened up.

A large tunnel into the ground was revealed, a spider that was smaller than either of the two Demonic beasts, only around one meter in length, ran out from the tunnel. Its entire body was covered in a black carapace, light purple dots decorating the carapace.

The spider ran even faster than the horse-like Demonic beast, reaching both the Demonic beasts almost immediately. All eight of its legs exerted strength, and the spider jumped up from the ground, landing on the back of the horse-like Demonic beast. The spider sank its fangs into the back of the horse-like Demonic beast, the flesh around the area where it bit quickly melting and revealing the spine of the horse-like Demonic beast.

After it bit down on the horse-like Demonic beast, the spider jumped onto the toad-like Demonic beast, who was currently trying to flee. The spider did not avoid the pustules, puncturing several as it landed on the toad. But it seemed completely immune to the poison within the pustules.

The spider sank its fangs into the toad, which quickly started melting as the spider's poison started coursing through its body. After both the horse-like and toad-like Demonic beast had completely melted, the spider started slurping up the soggy mess that the two demonic beasts had become.

”So it's poison, huh? I can't remember any of them having any Demonic beasts specialized in poison though?”

Li Yang had spectated the entire battle from his location, noting down the strengths of all three Demonic beasts. Had it been just one of them that used poison, it could be a coincidence, but with all three of them using strong poison, it was likely that the guardian of the emerald volcanoes was a poison type Demonic beast.