Chapter 244 - Little Lady

This is no situation where she can get luck involved! These creatures have claws that can smash rock, we can't even imagine what they can do to flesh and bone. Her thick fur clothing is nothing but small protection! They even seem to have horns, she doesn't even want to see how powerful the Horns are.

Trying to be as swift as possible, she kept shooting foot wide Fireballs against these fast climbing creatures with screams similar to monsters in a horrible nightmare. But the more she shot, the more she attracted!

She has a feeling that it she didn't shoot that first creature down, more wouldn't have tried to climb up and claw her down! "What the hell are they?" She whispered swiftly as the cold fear of being clawed to death haunted her down to her bones, she was forced to take a different approach.

Leaving the comforts of the mountainside and blasting Fire out of her feet to fly away from these Demons, she found it best to take a sharp turn right at first to avoid demons as much as possible and afterwards fly straight down!

The comfort of the ground will keep her away from the mountainside, and these Creatures are far from making a safe landing unless they crawled 200 meters down. If they did so, she feels capable of handling them! It is different to blast a foot wide Fireball and it is far different to unleash slicers or 4 foot wide Fireballs, any battle down there is tameable.

While going down, she just tried her best to not look at the disgusting scene below. Red blood has rivered its way down the rocks and is reaching all the way to the bottom of all these rocks! If this mindless running continues, the blood will reach all the way down the Crater and even towards the Carved Path! As if all that destruction wasn't enough to leave a foul scene here.

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"Grand Leader Bittore, why did we leave the two enemies at the Cave?" Asked one of the Fire Controllers feeling bewildered, if anything they shouldn't leave them there where they can return and cause damage to what her team has been doing countless sacrifices for!

"Oh, do you have worries Mollara?" Asked Bittore, her aims here was to tease her partner in war at this point. She is damn sure of this lady's strength and loyalty, furthermore she is Bittore's closest friend.

Mollara Erk, a bit late to do an introduction but it is worth specifying. She is a mother of 2, Belet is her first born who has reached the age of 24. He doesn't have any powers, but has done a lot of contribute over the years especially when it comes to protection. Raze is her second child, a lovely lady who became 16 a bit before they made their way up here. She doesn't possess any powers either, or at least not now. Coming into power can be random!

Mollara herself is 49 years old, she is single even though her husband is well alive. She has revealed her abilities to him 6 years ago, and him being a firm illas believer, left her and even tried to have her killed.

A sad story indeed, but once she grabbed her Children fate met her with Bittore who already had a handful of friends along with her.

They met at the forest, Mollara was searching for a meal to fry while Belet was left at the Camp they've set up, to protect his sister from anything that poses as a threat. Coincidentally, Bittore was searching for food as well far from Camp. That is where they've met and exchanged burdens, 6 years ahead now they've found themselves having a strong bond of friendship and with a group bigger. They did loose some allies yes, but it was a small sacrifice to what they thought as eternal happiness and stability.

"Um. Yes I have worries, I'm usually not ahead of you with these things but wouldn't us leaving them this close eventually cause trouble?" Taking a look at the group behind her, she decided to deliver her final thought. "They will know where to find us."

"So you recommend to kill them? Kill Ignites who too have the abilities?" It was clever but yet simple wordplay for her to make her point, but yet her intend is still to tease. Mollara gets this small red patch underneath her eye when she gets a bit embarrassed, quite frankly Bittore enjoys it more than anything. Messing with this lady can be a mood lifter.

"No no of course not, I just think that we should have delivered them far away!" Her voice arose in embarrassment once she was publicly labelled as an Ignite killer, it is of course a joke and most are able to catch on, rather funny to see her reactions.

"If we directed them towards another domain they would at least be disoriented, giving us more than enough time to settle in. That's what I meant!" She loud spoke as she shook Bittore's shoulder, knowing what she is doing here, loving and hating it at the same time. "Don't twist my words!"

"Oh trust me little lady, I'm counting on them to find us!" Here at least, she shed a bit more light to these confusing steps she is taking. It made Mollara feel at ease, if anyone can figure out a good reliable scheme it is Bittore. She organized this whole thing to begin with, poking her nose everywhere and mostly staying invisible to the world has granted her such sensitive information. She didn't want to ask anymore questions, Bittore will guide them in the future towards her steps it is certain.

But why did she call her a "Little lady"? Bittore is 37 years old, 12 years younger than Mollara! Well it is explainable, she isn't exactly the tallest here. Although deadly power-wise, she(Mollara) just stands 5.1 foot tall! Bittore isn't the tallest either(5.6ft) but that nickname has been stuck on her for years now, hopefully it won't disappear.

The situation was going all well and dandy, until they saw Osira flying a few meters above the ground with these dark toned creatures following her right after. Apparently they are far faster than humans, interesting indeed but it just made the situation a whole lot worse.

Seeing that whatever is chasing her are not friends, Bittore shouted a firm command. "Battle positions! Cover Fire!"

Afterwards 8 ladies joined her side by side and performed the optional sumo squat to attain a firm footing to the ground, while the remaining 6 started grabbing two people at a time, flying them out of this hell hole! What was left on the ground, started running behind the 6 ladies.

They can fly far faster than Ignites can run, so this will make transportation to safety a hell lot easier now that the rest are running them! Osira flew up once she reached her teammates, which is an unspoken Command for them to attack.

The 8 ladies Blasted fire against these foul creatures, torched the few tens that were howling like crazed lunatics! Osira herself couldn't have shot all of them down considering their speed and agility, but 8 Fire Controllers have different luck because no creature could go past a wall of 8 ladies providing Cover Fire!

As for where the rest of her people are hiding, they have entered the Carved Path just a moment ago so the 6 flew them up over it, around 60 meters high! It should provide enough protection, but "should" can never be a 100% guarantee!

Noticing their fate, these Creatures took a different approach. They can think more than we thought! They started crawling up the Carved Path to slaughter what they see as enemies. Considering this rate of craze, every living being are their enemies. Chances are these Creatures would slaughter animals randomly aren't slim either, but I feel they would have a rather bad fate if they faced against Blue Eagles. Those over sized blow horns will eat anything, and there is nothing better than a meal coming to them!

Seeing that there aren't anymore enemies on the ground, the 8 ladies started shooting down as much creatures as they can who have already crawled up the Carved Path! Last thing they need at the moment is for these Creatures to climb up there and attack everyone or for them to drop down on the 8 Fire Controllers here!

Luckily, the Situation appears to be quite tameable! After shooting down 20 Creatures, they saw 7 more falling down from the sky, shot down by a few of the 6 ladies up there! Wait 7 actually, Osira is here too!

Once they saw that the enemies have been successfully defeated, Bittore approached Osira with actual concern and asked. "What happened here?" The last thing she wanted was for her daughter to get killed in this outrage, but this situation does not surprise her. It is all over her face, or maybe it is that she can be considered quite reaction less!