Chapter 73: Fervor of Battle
Dhampy and Luna were tired from killing after running through the forest. They killed their way into the village only to receive orders to go back and kill some more humans. At the moment, Luna was pushing her limits as she communicates with the rest of the daemons that went out to kill the enemies brazen enough to challenge their Priestess.
And with a simple quote from Lilith, reaching everyone's ears, it was easy to see just how much fervor the daemons became. Their eyes turned red like the burning fire surrounding them.
Without caring for their safety, they were willing to kill the ones trying to harm the one who protected them. Their Zeal had pierced the norm and their devotion had been reinforced multiple times over.
With a broad sword or a thin rapier, they will slay. With a stick or a rock, they will kill.
The human-hating daemons stepped forth, it was now the time to show their zeal and devotion; the time to let her feel their dedication to her is now, and as they went all rabid against the humans, the B, and B+ rank humans began to feel suffocated.
At first, it was merely from the smoke, but as the daemons found their strength and their fervor. Their strength increased, at that moment, it was created, a skill reflecting their unwaning cries to answer her call. The cries that let them execute her orders, a skill that turns their eyes red and the world blood red — Empress' Call!
A skill only activatable when everyone answers the call of the Empress when their will explodes to create a branching explosion of power stemming from the one simple order of a daemon.
But the most important part of the skill is how it is otherwise activated other than the previous methods. The second and most important layer of this skill lies in the fact that none knew of it even Lilith, and whether they will know of it in the future, no one truly knows.
Even Letza doesn't. But at this moment, the daemons answered her call, they answered with a cry and they presented her the death of dozens.
"KILLLLL!" The daemons were slaying everything and everyone without fail!
Lilith began to move quicker than before. Her paws barely touched the ground, and as screams echoed abound and thunder rubles, Lilith found it weird that so many high-leveled humans are present in this place.
'Everyone is a B+ Hunter, huh.' Lilith stopped as she stomped on one of the dead Hunters, ensuring that they are dead before turning to a loli and rummaging around their corpses in search of an HNP.
The HNP disappeared as soon as she touched it and the detailed information of that HNP flowed into Alpha. While Alpha processed the information she got, Lilith began taking the items of the kill hunter before selling it to the system to get some SP.
Her SP at the moment had reached rock bottom and needs to be replenished.
Sylva is still missing an eye.' She thought to herself.
[Hey, I think your guys had been killing an awful lot of humans. The extermination rate of the village is at B+.]
Lilith blinked repeatedly as she laughed wildly, "Haha, that's quite good. I was only an A+ when I was human. Oh man, that was the time, I'm slowly growing…I'm so proud."
[This is not a laughing matter, you idiot. The humans have marked us, what do you think will happen once we slaughter everyone here? No one is stronger than Chief, but once our extermination rank passes B+ we're all screwed.]
Alpha made sense. The situation may seem favorable but that's only if they can survive the consequences of what may happen. Colt looked around the burning forest and stated, "In every mission, there is known as a Captain who accepted the mission. Everyone should have contact with the Captain, do you think you can trace her location?"
[I'll try, but if I do that then that very same user will know what I'm doing.]
"Don't worry, just focus on tracking her down, I'll deal with the complicated stuff."
Alpha agreed and Lilith then began allocating the free points she has in the Tribulation Leopard Form. Right now, putting 185 points on AGT, 50 on STR, and 50 on PER Lilith flew off trying to kill as many humans as she could.
By the time she managed to kill two humans by sneaking up on them and severing an artery on their neck and then looting them, Alpha finally managed to get the direction she needs.
[East, she's at east...oh shit, she destroyed her HNP. I can track her no more.]
"Mark the minimap, I'm going to go there. Don't say otherwise."
[Okay.]
The minimap was marked and without a hint of hesitation, Lilith became a beam of azure light that pierced the bright light of the surrounding. And as thought of something her form changed into a Dragon and then connected to Sylva.
~What is it, Luna? I'm…~
~ Sylva, where are you? What are you doing, rather.~
~Boss head! Ah, it's true, you're actually – more on that later, I am currently heading to the village, I am down south with brother Killa!~
~Oh yeah? That's perfect then, you and Killa go slay the humans coming your way. Last time I check Killa should already be at the hundredths, there are humans escaping, make sure to kill them without fail. Don't let anyone escape.~
~Understood, boss head.~
As Lilith finished the conversation, she changed back to being a Tribulation Leopard and her paws that is coated by lightning circumvent the humans roaming around and then attempted to
Lilith moved about with haste. And as she entered the Southern Area marked in the minimap, Lilith smiled as she saw a female human fighting with her daemons.
She controlled fire with her staff and as Lilith kicked the ground and darted forward, her figure disappeared like a clap of thunder and reappeared adjacent to the human female.
Mirsha who was too busy dealing with the Praeries and Combat Pixies coming for her became shortsighted. As she waved her right hand that was holding the staff making the flames dance, she felt her world become blurred as she found herself on the ground facing the round moon and a tiny beast who had ripped her arm!
"AAAAAAHHHH! MY ARM!" She screamed as Lilith smirked.