Chapter 296 - First attack

As they focused their gaze on the left, they were quick to notice a little something reflecting the light of the Fire they have above their palm. Walking closer, they found a 2 meter long and wide Cobblestone slab elevated 50 centimetres above the ground.

"This place surely belonged to someone important, look at the size of this bed!" Clarry declared quickly, noticing that this is a bed even though there is no fur or leather on it. No animal skin can be preserved this long!

"Forget the bed, look at that gem. It is as big as my hand!" Jone tried to joke around a little bit but in no way did she exaggerate, the gem is big and shinning.

Letting out a green colour accompanied by a red core right in the middle that only shows colour in the inside, this is indeed like nothing they ever saw before. Typically the more rare the gem is, the more expensive it becomes. Depending on where this gem would be sold, the price can go above 1,000 Gold Coins.

"Bittore will sure love this necklace, this can single handedly improve our food situation." Clarry gazed upon the gold encrusted necklace once she lifted it closer to her face.

"Not to mention Osira and that new guy found many other gems, Bittore led us to more treasure than we bargained for." Jone showed gratitude and tried ignore the fact that whenever she thinks about Bittore, she thinks about how King Tamzar managed to touch her along with 14 of the Fire Controllers, it sickens her stomach.

Well apart from this gem, this room shows no other interesting contents. There is a kitchen full of silverware at the other edge of the room and there is a 8 meter long Book shelf stretching from one side to the other. As for the width it is a bit unusual, its only 4 meters wide.

With all this space offered by the mountainside and considering what position who ever this man or possibly woman... was. Why did they make a small room? Even if short of working hands, adding a couple meters of width wouldn't take months.

Whatever the case might have been, Clarry and Jone have completed their task here and in no way are they returning empty handed. All they have to do now is report to the Grand Leader and most likely get sent to the second tunnel in aims of exploration.

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Meanwhile, at the very end of this whole domain of best described the third section. Alcon Epke has made great progress over the past days, even though he became quite a handful for Ella Angloma. Because like Bittore predicted, he will work more than any other human would here.

The average working hours for Alcon stretched 16 hours, one day he even worked for 18 and Bittore had to intervene in order for him to stop. The crew he was assigned too, worked 10 hours at max even though they were assigned to work for 6-8 hours. Let's say that Alcon motivated them in some aspects.

"Grand Leader Bittore!" Alcon greeted with a little salute, by Salute I mean he lifted his little hammer a little bit and waved it once he noticed her presence.

"I see you all have progressed tremendously!" Bittore complimented right away knowing that nothing would make him stop from working in midday. "How many walls did you all built so far?"

"We are on the third!" Alcon answered proudly as he gently placed another brick, aiding to thicken the wall.

Half meter of the wall thickness has already been build, it is the safest way to build it without a failure or someone being victimized. Now the other half meter has to be build, but it still can be considered a third wall right now. Who could just easily break down a half meter thick wall?

"Well this is great, you'll get to the tenth wall in no time!" Bittore couldn't help but compliment, this wasn't a trick either. She for once gave out a genuine compliment, there isn't anyone in this domain working harder than Alcon does.

"Shush shush shush!" Alcon asked for everyone to stop talking, a bit too late to be more precise since Bittore stopped talking and everyone else remained silent.

"What's the matter?" Asked Bittore in concern as she glared upon Alcon having his ear attached to the walls. "What could possibly stop Alcon from working? He even dropped his small hammer!" She thought as she approached closer and closer to grab him by the shoulder.

"There are Demons!" Alcon shouted, alerting everyone as he reached for a bigger hammer a couple of meters close to him. Taking several steps backwards before he raised his 5 Kilogram hammer to face the demons.

"Are you sure they aren't Ratbugs?" Asked Bittore, but her question was answered when a wild scream echoed through the little side tunnels.

GIAAAAH!

Well that sums up how a crazed demon sounds like, and as the rest of these Stonemasons who don't have any powers froze in fear, Bittore took a peek at Ella before they both rushed to the sides of the tunnels.

They both knew what to do, but in order to assure absolute certainty in the middle of this madness, Bittore shouted. "Suffocate them!"

Last thing they need is damaged side tunnels, it is hard to fix them since it would require the destruction of all these thick walls.

A little shield like ray of fire surrounded their hands, signifying that whatever they are using to suffocate these Demons, they don't want it to reach the people standing behind them.

Afterwards nothing much of a show happened, or at least the two Fire Controlling ladies didn't put up a great show. It seemed rather blank, however the sounds were as deafening as much as they were traumatic.

In the middle of the screams, Bittore shouted. "Go get the other ladies!" Towards a few of the Stonemasons, since Alcon would provide quite useful if demons break through.

The rest are just traumatized and would just be slaughtered on the spot. At this rate they need as much Fire Controllers as possible, they are in a tight spot but it can be used as an advantage, these Demons are pretty burnable.

However apart from the screams, what annoyed Bittore is the fact that no one rushed up here until now. How would they not be able to hear it until now, she felt like even someone from outside of the Domain could hear it.

As the time passed, screams become smaller and smaller. However big the waves of Demons were behind these walls, it sounds manageable! One thing they know for sure is that the small space on the other side of these walls can be proven as a upper advantage.

Because thousands of demons can't fit in, perhaps just a bit over a hundred? And for more Demons to deal damage against the wall, they had to eat slash and rip their way through the suffocated corpses.

Which will cause a lot more trouble, because a lot of Demons can fall back in the portal and with a set of crazed rage they can damage the "Peaceful Demons" who are considered more sane compared to the ones who passed through the portal.

Furthermore, with so many demons already spread around the world. How much can they afford to send at a mountainside, they can't have unlimited Demons can they? The fact that they are sending more demons here might give a hint that the Demons behind this portal aren't quite aware that the Demonite is located all the other way to the edge of the Continent a few kilometers near the shores of Gaster Kingdom!

When about 7 Fire Controlling ladies arrived in the scene including Osira, Jone and Clarry. The Demon shouts have already calmed down, but to make it sure Alcon was asked to lend an ear.

He managed to hear their presence when they didn't even start screaming like the crazed creatures they are, he obviously hears better despite his age. Attaching his ear to the wall, and listening for nearly half a minute he indeed gave everyone crippling anticipation.

"They are dead." He finally answered with a sigh of relief, and decided to point out something of more importance for him. "And I think the first wall held off quite well, I didn't hear anything crash!"

"Well they can't dig through hard rock after all, they can only claw it." Added Osira who had the opportunity to see these Demons climb, small bits of rock often cracked off but none managed to rip off a large chunk.

"That was close, we need to build the rest of the walls as fast as possible. Who knows how many waves of Demons they might be sending our way." Urged Bittore and was already trying to figure out a plan, or more specifically she was picking out more people through her thoughts who can lend a hand here.