Flying straight towards the goal, Hawk spotted the herd only twenty minutes into his flight. But they weren't alone. So impertinent Demons were already there.
Stealing his boar at.
[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 tres 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 ti for it." Karl instructed.
The boars were on alert now, and they imdiately 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 tre and a half tall. Hawk didn't mind. He grabbed one in his beak and roasted it with his flas 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 so of the smaller trees.
Karl moved forward with the Bodyguards by his shoulder, while the Epic Guard remained back with Dana and Lotus, protecting the healer.
teors were falling from the sky as a flaming storm began to form, along with dozens of [Hellstorm] tornadoes as Remi activated [Apocalypse]. Hawk wouldn't mind if the at was a bit pre-roasted, and this was the fastest way to deal with the pack of boars, who were already beginning to panic at the presence of Rae, with her new [Demonic Oppression] aura.
They were Overlords, but they were also a prey species, and their instincts were screaming at them that they were under attack by a predator of the most dangerous sort. If they couldn't win, they would have to run. So, Remi put fire behind them, while Rae put stone walls to their sides. Now that they were unable to run, they would naturally choose to fight. When driven into a corner, even the most timid animal will fight, and the Stone Crushers were not timid animals.
Karl hacked them apart as they charged towards the only open side, and noticed that while the Overlord Rank Soul energy was coming into the Haint Claw, it was nowhere near as intense or dense as the Life Energy that was going to the blade of champions.
That was the opposite of when they were fighting intelligent beings, and vastly different from when they were fighting the undead, who had no life energy, but strong soul energy.
The curious change in the flows of energy into his body kept Karl occupied as he tried not to focus on the continual gore of a battle against angry boars with extrely durable Earth Armour hides.
[Freezing them works much better. They break into nice storage sized pieces.] Rae inford Karl, impressed with her new skill.
Karl could sense Hawk's annoyance, so he knew that her version of storage sized pieces and the bird's were not the sa.
[Is the damage so good that you are still blowing up the boars?] He asked instead.
[Not really, but I'm learning many things about blood magic from this skill, and I can't do that without blowing things up. Give maybe two hundred more, and I think I've got another skill coming.]
Well, if that was the case, they could certainly keep fighting.
However, hacking through an Overlord Ranked barrier on an Earth Elent beast was not an easy feat.
They were being bombarded with skills, and taking area damage before they made it to the defenders, but still, the boars had their shields up and Karl had to put a significant amount of energy into cutting through it.
Even with the stacked damage from Rampage.
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-tre bird that had just snatched it out of the ruins of a rchant caravan?
Both seed 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 tres was simply gone. Dozens of boars had vanished without a trace, and nobody seed to know where they went.
Except one very smug Cara.
[Ha, advancents 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 tres in diater.
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.]
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