Chapter 419 - Wake up your Highness.

"How has the situation been?" King Michael asked as he approached the three other Fire Controllers.

Trying to be more and more social by the day, Eric took charge of the conversation first. "Stable, a couple more Demons broke out of the Surface but they are practically fish food now."

"How are they fish food?" King Michael asked, thinking this through logically and added. "Fish wouldn't get beached for a bit of meat."

"Oh no, Mogranius hit them with Firewalls and then burned them down." Commander Alia continued to explain here once sensing that Eric hasn't thought of a proper reply yet and is mumbling.

Overall she loves bragging about her lover [Mogranius], but King Michael also knows that Eric isn't the most talkative so he doesn't mind anything here.

"Looks like we will be here for a while though." Dilli tried to ask once she smelled food in that sack.

"We will be here overnight, Woldemir is setting up the Army to protect the Domain against Demons. Until he prepares everything we have to shoot down any Demon from these lands, you know one Ignite or ill.u.s.tratian can't do much against just one of these Demons and if 3 or 4 Demons climb over the walls we could be looking at a minor massacre." The word Demon a bit overused, but the King is proving a good point.

Then the King opened another topic with Dilli before anyone else can speak. "I need you to go to new Lan Zhe, you will seek out Kazer and explain to him that we are in need of 10 men for the sake of fending away Demons. They Don't need to be Lava Controllers, although that would be nicer."

"Also tell him that I as their King approve of this request." Eric added, showing his consent. He most definitely wants to help, the Calidum Lutum are the only people who can fight off a Demon without any powers. F.u.c.k's sake, Kazer fought off a whole Cave Bear!

"Perfect then." King Michael smiled at Eric and got back to the conversation. "Tomorrow isn't guaranteed, and Mogranius told me you are tough as nails. You have what it takes to get there quick and return quick, we need any given forces here to aid our Arsenal."

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"It's almost midnight, I don't think any Demons will show up tonight." Eric pointed out, and to convince the other two to end this stake out, he added. "We won't be able to see Demons in this pitch darkness."

"We don't need to see them, we just have to hear them." Mogranius added, putting an end on Eric's complains.

Well Eric could be having a point here though, there hasn't been any trouble ever since they slayed that small bundle of Demons. We are talking about nearly 10 hours here, so it is a lot to consider.

"We could be blasting against snow all night long but if you say so." Eric ended his own complains.

They are camping near the Great-Headed Lizard and are actually eating portions of its meat too. It's completely safe to consume, meaning there won't be any mutations happening.

King Michael discovered this a while ago, when he fed one rat to the other... Insane at best but it's for the sake of knowing what will happen.

Mogranius discovered this a year and a half ago when his father made him eat Whale Bear meat. Where does this point out too?

Simple, consumption of a mutated animal won't mutate the consumer. It is just a wild guess but King Michael thinks that although the Demon Meat can change an animal, it is still categorized as a secondary species characteristic.

The primary species characteristic is how the animal was born, it does make sense. Because if you see a dog with horns, the first thing you will think is that this is a hell hound and not a horny creature.

Bad example possibly, but the primary species characteristic doesn't let the secondary additional characteristics compromise it's retro identity, therefore making this Great-Headed Lizard safe for consumption.

Apart from trying out this meat, they have also gotten a campfire going. Getting wood wasn't a problem with Lumberjacks hired a few months ago, plus this portion of light in the middle of a field swallowed by darkness will no doubt drag attention to any practically brainless Demons.

Furthermore, King Michael let out an order to shun every light in Gaster Kingdom be it on or around the walls, be it around the castle or be it in any individual house.

These demons are stupid and will likely chase what's shiny, King Michael now hopes that these Demons don't have a good sense of smell, that would be bad especially since the Guards can't see any Demon coming until it's too late.

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Dawn is close to breaking, due to the fact that it is very cloudy it will probably feel like it is still night even after the sun pokes its head above the Horizon.

That's not the most important case here though, there haven't been any Demons attacking all night. In one way it's good, because other Demons might not have detected this location as a place of life and might not come in bigger bundles.

However the bad thing is that the team of three felt a bit disappointed, they've stayed awake (Mostly) all night with no action. Boredom and drowsiness was the biggest enemy they faced through the night. 

But there is a saying, The enemy strikes exactly when you aren't ready. I have no doubt that these crazed Demons would be strategic, this is just terrible terrible timing.

Another bundle of Demons arose from the shores, some were running on their four limbs towards the group or most specifically towards the campfire.

A smaller portion is heading directly towards the Kingdom and the smallest portion are in debate of what to follow so they are spreading in between the two options, meaning on the snowy fields with no particular aim.

Drowsy but yet the most woke, Mogranius was the first to notice these Demons since they haven't yet shouted in the ear puncturing way they do.

He slapped King Michael across the face, woke him up enough and shouted. "Wake up your highness, Demons are approaching!" His wordplay obviously sarcastic, even at such a situation. But hey, it's not stupid if it works.

Although Mogranius yelled, Eric has fallen sound asleep while sitting actually so Mogranius took two leaps and smacked him behind the head. Well, that woke him up. "Demons! Demons are approaching!"

King Michael took a look around and was woke enough to notice that some Demons are approaching Gaster Kingdom and fast. To deal with this damage, they need someone who can bring the heat. Specifically, "Eric, shoot those Demons down!"

King Michael even pointed towards the direction the drowsy but yet panicking Eric is supposed to go, while Mogranius made his own orders and went after the Demons who spread wide on the fields.

Mogranius can shoot them down easier given his better accuracy as someone who has trained for decades, plus his job is the easiest so he might need to help Eric!

While the biggest job is left to King Michael here, it is up to him to burn down the biggest portion of this attack, specifically 20-30 Demons!

As a first step he of course blew Fire from his feet and flew towards the sky, facing these beings up close is nothing but stupid. 

He unleashed a 10 foot wide Fireball underneath him as a second step, while he was flying up actually.

The three men here have spent enough seconds to make a plan, King Michael figured that by the time the Fireball reaches the ground the Demons will already be tumbling the Campfire and jumping to reach the weird glowing and flying human.

His calculations, good enough I suppose! The Fireball managed to hit 3 Demons and kill them of course due to the intense heat provided by the Grand Master.

He shot too early, but at least the Demons aren't running off. They are leaping towards the sky, occasionally clawing each other when trying to land.

He started spinning on his spot a few times while blowing fire from his palms, if he continues like this he could be forming a Fire Tornado. He doesn't prefer those near his Domain, so he stopped after a few spins.

He gathered a lot of fire around him, the Fire is circling around him like a slithering TitanoBoa, completely under his control and with no intent to slowly fade away in the air, he is controlling every inch of this raging Fire.

He made another spin, the Fire spun with him although it is at an appropriate distance of 6 feet from the King. When he ended the spin he waved his arms towards the ground!

The Fire managed to torch leaping Demons before making impact with the ground, a couple of Demons were split in half even!

When hitting the ground, the slithering fire flattened and spread wide up to 20 feet! The Demons got burned so bad that nothing remained of them as an aftermath, even the ashes were burned down.

Behold, the power of a Grand Master. But he isn't stopping there, mostly because there still are around 10 Demons underneath him who don't seem to be showing any fear.

"Well at least we can handle these attacks for now." King Michael spoke to himself as he blew two Fireballs at once!