Chapter 418 - What about Matilda?

"Shoot them! Shoot them. Shoot them..." Ladia repeated over and over and flapped her hand towards the Demons as if it will stop them.

King Michael took command over the situation, or at least over the kids. Pointing at Eric and demanding, "Grab Ladia and get her out of here!"

In that break of a second, Dilli and Mogranius are already up in the sky and aiming towards the external offenders. Without asking questions, Eric grabbed the little lady underneath her armpits and flew off. 

"What do we do?" Woldemir asked, with his two meter long Sword already up and ready to slice.

"We can handle those Demons!" Commander Alia backed up Woldemir's words.

"Just hide behind the Great-Headed Lizard, fighting these Demons with a Sword would be a bad idea. They can rip you apart!" King Michael pointed out the obvious and demanded for them to not do anything, finally adding after. "Besides, there are just a few of them. We can handle them, no problem!"

A raging Fireball sliced through the wind and bits of snowflakes, unleashed by Mogranius the quickest and heading towards the bundle of Demons in front of them! 

Boom!

The 4 foot wide Fireball finally reached the crazed enemies, and limbs were blown off from one Demon and the other one behind the first victim got its head blown off! Dangerous no doubt, but one Fireball alone can't tame this situation.

Dilli Flurry unleashed a long tailed 3 foot wide Fireball, and when I say long tailed I mean that the Fireball stretched 6 feet long!

As it was raging through the air, the Demons actually ran into it. As if between a break of a second Dilli could predict where the Demons will be once the Fireball reaches them. 

The intent of this Fireball is in no way random, it burned the first Demon's spine and inevitably halted its momentum, pushing it back actually!

The Fireball continued to rage through the second Demon, then the third and fourth! Powerful indeed. It shows that Dilli has put effort to make these Fireballs burn hotter, in other terms she upped the heat scale in exchange for more of her Stamina!

It proved useful, she killed 4 Demons with one shot! And the situation is thankfully not that bad yet since this threat is over a hundred meters away from this beautiful Kingdom!

As soon as King Michael took a better look at the numbers in this situation, he figured out that in the short term this won't prove as a problem. The Demons running wild on his lands now don't even seem to count up to 15!

But in the long term this can become a problem, because first an almost extinct mutated species breaks to the shore and now there are a handful of original Demons.

In the long term, more and more waves of Demons might breach towards Gaster Kingdom. Their numbers can be unpredictably random, they will either be a group of 10 or 1,000.

We can never be sure how many will strike and when they will strike, that's the disadvantage of not knowing where that god forsaken portal is.

King Michael shot a 6 foot wide, short tailed Fireball against the Demons and witnessed two of them losing one shoulder each along with their arm(s) of course, while one Demon who was behind these two got its head blown off along with portions of its chest.

A limb or two isn't enough to slow down a whole Fireball and this Demon was practically standing in the middle of the two who lost their shoulders although a few more feet behind.

Half of the approaching Demons are already gone just by three shots, and it is fair to say that they have left an awful scene. Disgusting is the best word to describe it and it would make a soft skinned man or woman throw up all across the field.

There are intestines, body parts, other internal organs and blood, a whole load of blood spread all across the white snow and pieces of land where the white snow has melted due to the Fireballs.

If Osira was here she would at least help clean up the scene, she has burned thousands of human corpses before in the Carved Path, this type of job won't make her hurl.

Anyway, apart from the bad stinky scenes they are leaving behind, these Demons are really easy to kill. A Fireball can burn tremendously bad and the Fire Wizards and Witches here are unleashing ranged attacks.

If they were to face Demons with a Sword their armour along with their torso would have been ripped, thankfully they don't have to and thankfully Fire Blasting can make one superior in battle.

A few short Fireballs later, all of those Demons were shot down. This situation was easy to tame, by the time Eric came back there wasn't anything to shoot down actually.

He congratulated them by shouting a compliment since Fire blowing beneath their feet tends to deafen other sounds. "You all are quick! You couldn't leave one Demon for me to shoot ha!"

"What about Matilda?" Mogranius the less hearing shouted back, it isn't a surprise that a man who flew a lot in his lifetime to have trouble hearing.

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"I need to get more Guards, more than ever." King Michael thought to himself as he marched towards the Castle.

He has left the three other Fire Controllers as Guards against Demons just in case of another badge of them head towards this Domain. Of course he Isn't leaving all the work up to them, he just needs to make a few touches in order to make this place safer from Demons.

"How many employees do I have again? 300? 350? 400? Why can't I ever remember numbers god damn it." Even his thoughts are fast paced like his walking at the moment, but to clear all confusions he needs to talk details with Alama.

Reaching the Castle a couple of minutes after, she noticed that Alama just walked out of it. Seeing King Michael she asked, "I heard there is a large Lizard dead near the shore. Is that true?"

"Most definitely, but the situation is a bit worse than that." King Michael answered as he marched towards the Castle with no sign of stopping, grabbed Alama around the shoulder and pulled her in. "A little group of Demons attacked us too, their remains are being burned down at the moment."

"Demons?! That's new." Alama dared to add, she has lived here for a while now and although Demon talk was common, she did not expect them to attack Gaster Kingdom, not this quick. "Are there more coming?"

"For that I'm not sure, but it would be stupid to wait and find out." Finally starting a topic of why he is here in the first place, he asked. "How many unemployed people do we have?"

"Ummm... 135 if I remember right. Why?" She asked, understanding that it has something to do with new employment but still a bit blurry towards his vision.

"We need to hire all of them as Guards, I don't care even if we pay them 250 Gold Coins a month, I need to protect my Domain!" It is certain that he has become a little hit emotional here, but he definitely isn't exaggerating the possible danger. 135 new Guards might not even be enough to fight off 30 Demons.

"250 Gold Coins is a good motivator to hire them all, but we can't handle paying that much for Guards. What if we scale it down to 200?" Alama recommended, she does understand King Michael's worry but most definitely doesn't want him to do dumb economical mistakes.

"Sure, well now old and new Guards will earn 200 Gold Coins. I need to talk to Woldemir, we should mix up the two Platoons so new recruits work alongside with older Guards. That way there won't be any weak platoon in an upcoming battle." His decision is wise here although it will make Woldemir's job harder when assigning training for portions. He will basically have to remember what 100 people individually have to train.

"I will need at least a day to put everything together, will you be able to fend off Demons in the meantime?" Since she hasn't been on the battlefield alone, she can't really tell what they are dealing with so asking questions is the best solution.

"Unless a hundred of them attack, we will be able to handle them. If you have time write a letter requesting... wait no I'll get Dilli up to the New Lan Zhe." As he walked into the Kitchen to grab a sack and fill it with food, he walked out again and said. "We will pull an all nighter, getting employed in the Army is not optional. We all need to do our parts into keeping our homes safe!"

A rather strong decision, unfair at best. But the monthly profit will meet a big shift for the sake of safety, 60 Guards died a day ago as well. The last thing this Domain needs is for Demons to tear down other civilians through the shade of the night.

Well on the upside at least the average salary tomorrow will be 200 Gold Coins, while before it was all the way down to 127. The employments in process and Salary Raises did their job.