NABC Chapter 834 Stone Crushers
Chapter 834 Stone Crushers
Chapter 834 Stone Crushers
Flying straight towards the goal, Hawk spotted the herd only twenty minutes into his flight. But they weren't alone. Some impertinent Demons were already there.
Stealing his boar meat.
[It's only yours if you got there first and killed it. Let them have their hunt, there is plenty left for us.] Karl reminded the easily distracted bird.
Hawk circled to the ground at the eastern edge of the herd, and let everyone down as all of the summons were brought out.
But he wasn't the first to act. That was Rae.
Suddenly, one of the boars began to spasm and twitch, then it suddenly exploded, wounding the nearby beasts and covering an area dozens of metres across in a deluge of blood.
"Really?" Karl asked as the proud spider went over to inspect her kill.
[I like it. I never got to do that before.] Rae replied, then got busy with her golems, butchering one of the wounded boars.
"Well, it looks like we're starting now. Remi, they're heavy. If you want to try out your new [Naga Swamp] spell, this is a good time for it." Karl instructed.
The boars were on alert now, and they immediately covered themselves in a thick earthen shield, then began firing Overlord Rank stone spikes at the group of invaders. @@@@
Surprisingly, the boars were not so large. Karl had forgotten that they were designated as "Pygmy" Stone Crushers, and they were only a metre and a half tall. Hawk didn't mind. He grabbed one in his beak and roasted it with his flames until it stopped wriggling, then gulped it down in a single bite.
[Pork flavoured big mice. This isn't half bad.]
Tessa mounted Thor, and Ophelia raged, expanding to the full extent of her Dire Bear form, towering over everyone else, and some of the smaller trees.
Karl was focused on keeping the tide back, when suddenly there was a living thing falling from the sky at him.
He was just about to activate [Rend] when he realized that Hawk had dropped a living Demon on the ground beside him.
[Dude...]
[Sorry, forgot to warn you. They were in the way over where I wanted to put my [Hellstorm]. The rest of their group scattered, but this one was too scared to run.]
Karl looked down at the terrified little Demon, still holding a dagger in its hand, but with both arms over its head.
Was it afraid of the boars? Or the twenty-five-metre bird that had just snatched it out of the ruins of a merchant caravan?
Both seemed like reasonable answers.
The Demon shouldn't be injured anymore, it was within range of Lotus' area healing effects, but it wasn't getting up, even when Karl and the Bodyguards pushed forward, leaving the cowering creature at the back with Lotus and Dana.
Then, there was suddenly nothing for Karl to fight. Every boar within a hundred metres was simply gone. Dozens of boars had vanished without a trace, and nobody seemed to know where they went.
Except one very smug Cara.
[Ha, advancements are fun. I should do this more often.]
{New Shared Skill Learned} [Void Blast] Totem Rank. Advanced form of [Disintegration]. Creates an area of destructive Void Energy up to a spherical area of the Caster's Rank x10 metres in diameter.
Hawk screeched in rage. [But where are the bodies?]
[Who needs bodies? When you blow them up, they leave the loot. We have plenty of bodies.]