Chapter 423 - Puk pak puk puk

What remained of the Great-Headed Lizard has been distributed as food throughout the beautiful Gaster Kingdom, you would think that consuming a possible demon can be harmful, but no.

After all, this Lizard is just a rare species who has been mutated from Demon Meat consumption, it becoming food is completely safe for Humans.

The rules are weird, but at least they work for the Domain's favour. It would be a shame to watch a literal ton of meat going rotten, although it is just enough to feed these people for a week or less.

Security measures have become a must ever since the Demons first attacked Gaster Kingdom! Guards have been on their toes, most have been taking 10 hour shifts for the sake of protecting their families and slacking off is in no way an option logically or morally.

Since they had to work only 8 hours a day, it shows that most extra work has been put in voluntarily. Of course the salary spiking up to 200 Gold Coins a month granted some motivation, but most wouldn't choose gold over family.

Since it has been well proven that ranged attacks work best against these crazed Demons, all of the 205 Guards have been practicing Archery lately. Since all 205 can't be on the walls all the time, half trained and the other half were on patrol.

This situation isn't as bad as King Michael thought it to be in the heat of the moment, although one Demon can take twenty or so men victim in close combat, it can't even do half that damage to Archers.

50 Archers on the walls, showering these wicked beings with sun reflecting arrows is good enough to fight over ten Demons at once in short notice.

Now imagine if all 205 were to defend this place against 10 Demons!

The enemies would have been dead before even reaching a 50 meter radius from this Domain.

King Michael taught the Guards one simple rule. If any Fire Controller isn't yet in the battle field against Demons, the least these couple Platoons of Guards can do is prevent the Demons from reaching the walls.

If they reach the walls, the tides can be splashed against this Domain for the worst. These Demons have claws sharp, curled and big enough to be excellent climbers.

This wall would be but a short lasting obstacle, so the Guards have to be the main obstacle keeping these crazed beings away.

And they are succeeding, there have been small bundles of Demons attacking this nice Domain with hours and hours as a gap.

Archers were able to penetrate through their skin and bones, putting them down for good.

One Fire Controller always has to stay on the walls along with the Platoon while the rest would only join if the approaching Demons are too much to handle.

In other words Eric, Mogranius and King Michael are putting in 8 hour shifts at the moment.

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Having these Guards going an extra mile to protect this place is nice and all but eventually the numbers of Guards will drop due to these Demonic attacks. 

King Michael can't have these Guards only protecting the whole Kingdom alone, and he certainly can't have the Fire Controllers sleep 4 hours a day or so, sleeping with paranoia, waiting for another Demonic attack.

It is best to increase security measures! One solution would be to send a message all the way across the Continent towards the Hidden Domain and ask to bring more Fire Blasters here.

And of course another solution is to bring Calidum Lutum men and women here to aid against the Demons, that plan is already in process since Dilli is flying to the New Lan Zhe for recruitment.

But King Michael has another idea in mind, a little project that was active before these Demons started attacking. Mutations!

The King has done countless mutation experiments on Rats and discovered what no other Human put to the test, in Ignis at least.

Although he can't send Rats to battle Demons, one beautiful specimen has been mutated to perfection, battle-wise.

The Chicken!

Of course I would be talking about that 3 foot tall Chicken, a tremendously powerful bird capable to lift up to 100 Kilos once getting a firm grip of the enemy.

This is a good way to fend off enemies because one, losing a Chicken isn't as bad as losing a Human and two, this Domain has enough Chickens to mutate.

But before mutating more of them, this one Chicken has to be tested in battle and today a beautiful opportunity arose.

7 Demons are coming from behind the Kingdom, on the opposite side of the main gate and quite the opposite side from where they first popped up. They aren't directly coming towards the Kingdom but are running randomly enough to pose a threat.

King Michael flew towards the sky to end most of them while the Chicken stood firmly close to Commander Alia.

Her and the Chicken have formed a good bond, mostly because this is the same Chicken Commander Alia calmed down in the very beginning when they were panicking because of being in a net.

Commander Alia has it easy to bond with animals and grand peace with them, calm them down for the better.

I mean just look, a mutated Chicken powerful enough to easily break bones with her claws, is casually standing close to the Human lady, watching King Michael fly away.

Flying across the sky, King Michael saw a couple more Demons rising from the sea and following their brothers and sisters in craze. This firmly points out that the 7 other Demons also came out of the sea, although still uncertain why the numbers are this small.

These Demons aren't running together, and they are fast. Both of these facts equal to the soul point that these Demons have become hard to hit.

He shot a two foot wide Fireball, trying to be savvy with his Stamina for the sake of not wasting a 6 foot wide fireball to the ground.

He was right to do so as he missed his target by a meter, saw the Fireball burning a small circle of snow. Satisfying at best but he can't waste much time, the Archers can't help him much unless one Demon is far away from the King.

He started following a Demon, hovering 10 feet above it and trying to find the best time to shoot.

Noticing that other Demons started following him, or best described following the strange glowing Fire beneath the King's feet, his job has been made a bit easier here.

These Demons are running on their fours, so it has become a bit easier to inflict more damage to individual Demons with just one shot from above.

But that of course means that it's harder to shoot several Demons at once since them being on their fours takes more space across the snowy fields.

He first shot a Fireball against the Demon he was chasing, a nice three foot wide Fireball which hit the Demon through most of the spine and split its whole body in half.

A terrible scene to see, but considering the heat a Grand Master of Fire Blasting can pack, there are barely any internal organs to see. The snow has been mostly coated with blood, so that's the most disturbing apart from the stench that will follow shortly.

Slowing down after shooting that one Demon, he slowed down and flew about 5 feet higher for the sake of safety.

Counting, he saw 6 Demons jumping around below him. Trying to kill the strange glow above them, although they are hurting theirselves mostly instead since illogical Demons with sharp claws jumping around only leads to cutting one another.

Seeing the golden opportunity, he crossed away being savvy and blew a ten foot wide Fireball against them!

It howled across the air shortly before it struck one jumping Demon first, giving it no chance to howl in pain and then it took victim most of what was beneath him.

Noticing that one Demon is running away with a limb missing, he took the Demons disability to his advantage, being swift to shoot a two foot wide Fireball before the Demon runs away.

Most of the Demons have been taken care off, while two more are running wild.

One actually charging towards the Kingdom and the other running around the fields. He shot the closest easily and didn't rush towards the one rushing towards his domain. There are a bunch of Guards and this is when the Chicken can be put to the test.

Commander Alia tapped the Chicken's head lightly and encouraged. "It's your time to shine now girl."

The Chicken first leaped over the walls and afterwards spread its wings open, beautifully 10 feet across, proving how big she has become.

The Demon although fast, it wasn't quick enough to escape the Chicken's attack!

She swooped down from the sky, bashed its claws through the Demon's back flesh, lifted it up for about ten feet and tossed it with all its might about twenty more feet away!

The Demon ended up terribly wounded but it is still strong enough to stand up and fight, although it didn't really matter.

The Chicken swooped down again, this time managing to grab its head since the Demon was standing on its hind legs.

The Chicken's claws are strong enough to crush bones, so in this case it crushed the Demon's skull badly and caused a quick death.

Oh it would be terrible to look at it up close, there are six holes behind the Demon's skull and two on the sides.

She tossed the Demon again for another 15 feet, noticing how it's dead now she dropped to the ground and tip clawed towards the Demon.

Puk puk puk pak.

The Chicken spoke lightly amongst herself, assured that the Demon is 100% dead and started pecking on the carcasses neck.

Thankfully the Chicken didn't get mutated again, as its intent wasn't to eat the Demon and her beak is as good as closed.

Ripping the carcass' head off after a few pecks, she picked the head up and started flying towards the walls.

Eventually reaching Commander Alia, she dropped the bloody ugly Demonic head to the ground and went. "Puk pak pak puk."

A bit confused and no doubt disgusted too, although proud. She asked the Chicken, "Is this some kinda gift?"

"Puk puk pak pak puk."