Chapter 442 - Arem, the much known.

February 17, not much has happened today. It is currently 2pm, the sun hardly shining but managing to melt more snow, forcing puddles to occur in and out King Michael's domain. March is close yes, so it only makes sense for snow to be taken victim under the sun's rays, as their rain of territory Dominance has reached an end.

I'm talking about the Snow of course, the war against Demon's isn't over at all! Although not experts to this matter, everyone feels that the Demonic invasions are just starting above the surfaces of Ignis.

But as mentioned a tad earlier, today has been slow. Eric is taking the Patrol shift, walking around the Kingdom's walls making sure that he has a better vision of what's happening around him. This is the easiest part of the job come to think of it, as the Walls aren't endless Kilometers long. Although holding 700 people, Gaster Kingdom is only 70 meters wide and long, capable of holding 200 Houses although that length sounds small.

That fact under consideration, it means that he only needs to cover 300 or so meters of walking across this lumpy but almost circular wall, in order to check the area of a possible Demon attack.

Not the hardest thing to do really, but after walking around over and over, it tends to get boring and he actually wishes for ten or so Demons to attack so he can finally do something else.

Currently at the Kingdom's rear side, close to the ocean, his boredom finally managed to meet an end as exactly four Demons shouted their way out of the water, taking victim anyone's sense of hearing.

At first, these Demons just randomly ran around away from the Kingdom and across the fields. Not the oddest thing to see, considering that they are just crazed animals in their own realm.

Eric blew fire from his feet, wanting to torch the Demon and fight off boredom a hunch more later when he will need to burn these Demons whole. Not the best thing Stamina-wise but someone has to do it.\

As soon as he elevated 10 feet over the 10 meter walls, he saw Arrows enslaving the sky and with an intent to pierce flesh or bone.

One Guard shouted, "Get down, we can handle these."

Admirable enough, Eric spotted that over 30 Guards have noticed the Demons by now and are taking action, explains how so many arrows suddenly whistled against the wind.

For a Fire Blaster to hunt Demons while Arrows are soaring across the sky, well it's nothing less but a deathwish. Just 30 Archers managed to shoot one running Clawed Demon over 10 times, it's nailed to the ground now posing like a broken statue.

Eric flew down, a bit upset that his boredom will continue soon enough but at least he can watch this battle and burn the dead Demons later.

Spotting Iron Gauntlets and Helmets reflecting the midday's sun, the Clawed Demons started chasing what looks nice and shiny. 

10 more Archers joined the battle half a minute later, aided completely butchering 2 more Demons before they even reached the Kingdom's 30 feet Radius.

One of these four Demons however, is far from joining the battle. It has ran over 100 meters away from the Kingdom. No Archer can be skilled enough to hit a running target at such a distance.

Now naturally, Eric would be asked to go and hunt this Demon down. It isn't the brightest idea if a blood craving crazed creature ran randomly around especially now when deliveries from Bale Town and Pameres Kingdom reach here for exchange through Gaster Kingdom's port.

Eric blew Fire from his feet again, rising from the walls until he heard another shout. "Sit this one out, the Battle Chickens need training."

Giving out a long sigh, Eric answered. "Okay." And flew down to the wall, sitting over it and watching the Battle Chicken flap it's feathers 50 meters above the ground. That Clawed Demon won't know what will rip it's head off.

Reaching the Demon over 200 meters away from the Kingdom now, Battle Chicken forced her claws against the Demon's spine and as she pulled the Demon off the Ground, she heard the Enemy's spine crack although she has no remorse whatsoever.

Tossing the Demon 15 feet above the ground, watching the enemy bash the ground a second after and collecting a pool of blood. She landed 7 meters away from the Demon and started running towards it, leaving claw prints across the snow.

Breaking another bit of the Demon's spine although it's dead by now, the Battle Chicken pecked the Demon's head off but the neckbone took her a few shots.

Returning back to the Kingdom, carrying the Demonic head along with her and handing it to the Guard who released her. Eric could hear a little celebration within the Guards, the one who unleashed her congratulating. "Good job Rebecca." And even giving half a Kilo of Barramundie meat as a reward.

...

As if scheduled to tire out the Archers, 20 more Demons rushed out of the salty Sea Waters with Gaster Kingdom as a primary aim. It appears that they have no intent to randomly run around!

Although hating to be babysat, Eric approached the Guard who kept telling him what to do and asked. "Can I fly now Sir Guard?"

Trying to avoid formality even at the Heat of battle, the Guard favoured. "Call me Arem, Sir Electus."

"This is the Arem my father kept talking about?" Eric thought, but didn't want to discuss such topics now and answered. "Okay Arem, can I fly?"

Pulling back an Arrow and enjoying the Bow's relief once his Arrow flew against these enemies and nailed a Demon right to the leg. Arem added, "They are too close, it is best if you stay here and try to shoot them down. If they start climbing the walls, you have an advantage to shoot them down quicker."

As they've had this little chat, most of the Demons are only 10 feet from the walls now, ready to climb! 

But thankfully, with over 50 Guards at this side of the walls now, 40 of them rained the Demons with arrows almost at the same time, which killed 12 Demons!

4 Clawed Demons have already been killed earlier so now 4 more Demons remain!

Spotting the closest one, Eric howls a 5 foot wide, short tailed Fireball through his palm and looks away once assuring that the Demon will be shot. Although he was bored up until now, watching a Demon split in half isn't the kindest to his mental wellbeing.

The three other Demons were stupidly agile enough to escape that large scale ranged attack and have dug their Source damned claws against the Kingdom's walls.

Half of the Archers now are ready to shoot, so aiming against these fast climbing Demons, they managed to kill two of them although these beings still remained hanging on the walls. Their claws are just too sharp and powerful.

That one Demon who managed to escape all of these attacks, poked its ugly head and faced Arem and Eric.

With his arrow already pulled back, Arem murmured. "Die you demonic s.l.u.t." And relieved the bow's tension, releasing the arrow and watching the Demon's head pierce through and through.

Out of muscle memory, Eric unleashed a Fireball right when Arem shot his Arrow. A one foot wide Fireball broke, since he can't risk accidentally burning any nearby Guards.

The Demon remained hanging on the wall, although dead. But Eric striking the Demon, has forced skin and bone to obliterate which forced a hell load of blood to burst.

Before they knew it, Demon blood painted Arem and Eric's faces along with their torsos and even slipped through clothing, reaching the crotch but at least they both had their mouths closed.

Sarcastic, although unintentional. Arem added, "Good job."

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It's about 3 pm now, the Guards have settled down after that last attack and managed to calm their nerves as hearing crazed Demons shout isn't always the easiest thing to handle.

Eric has been given the Honour to burn the Demonic bodies. Although King Michael advises to be savvy with Stamina, it is best to scale up the heat behind his continuously blasting Fire in order to avoid both traumatizing smells and views.

Eric is the Electus and it gives him an upper advantage heat-wise, especially since he is an Ignite and had his outburst based on Fire instead of any other power. 

He can burn a complete Demonic body by scaling his heat up to the middle while for someone like Dilli it would require triple the time or a bigger scale of heat.

Mid way through burning the Demons, taking a little break. He heard Guards shout for backup from the other side of the Kingdom, specifically from the front.

Feeling sure that Demons are attacking although uncertain how many, he jumped first and blew Fire from his feet which instantly elevated him towards the sky, saving a couple of seconds.

Rising 20 meters above the ground, he stopped bursting fire from his feet so he can quickly adjust his body to fly horizontally and finally blasted off towards the battle field as fire stretched a meter wide behind him.

Arriving, he thought to himself, "9 seconds, not bad!"

Flying 10 or so feet above the Guards, noticing a lot of Demons from a 300 meter distance he thought it best to fly there and shoot as many as he can. Arrows can reach that far, but chances of hitting a Demon are slim.

Reaching a 100 meter Radius near the Demons, he started blowing heat packed Fireballs, knowing it would take a while for the Fireball to shun against the wind.

4 of the 20 or so blown Fireballs, actually managed to hit Demons and ease the Burden of battle. Having a quick guess that 40-50 Demons are in this group when he got closer, he thought. "Glad they didn't emerge near the Kingdom."