"Alright, Kali, this is Hanna; I want you to take her back to the Keep. Grogvel, can Windorf and you escort them back? I need to go rescue Mex; Dao took him," I explained to everyone as my Elemental partners gathered around me.
"We can, but are you sure that it is a good idea?" Gorgvel asked me as he made a grinding sound scratching his chin.
"Don't have much of a choice; I have to go deal with Dao, but he has Demons surrounding the Keep, and I don't want to send the girls back there alone. You can also help defend if it comes to that. The rest of the girls are at the beach right now, but they will be coming back at some point, and they are being watched as well," I explained.
"What happened there? How did everything become so blown around?" Windorf asked in disbelief, but then his eyes went big. "Where is my daughter?!"
"She is with the girls, and she is safest there, so you two need to get there and make sure that the place is ready to defend if it come
'Is there any way we can mark this place? I want to come back here before we leave the island. I think this might be something important, but I'm not really sure.'[Done. I have it marked on the general map of the island I have. You also have access to it, but it is not detailed and is only a basic overhead view. I should have told you before now, but I had forgotten about it after you decided to completely ignore me.]I looked away from the Gnolls that were almost completely gone and sighed. I could have saved everyone a lot of trouble if I had taken things more seriously in the beginning.[more than likely, but that was yesterday, and only now and tomorrow matter. You are doing better now, but in the future, you are going to have to work on a base of operations.]I started to run again, weaving through the trees as I thought about Hero's words. I planned on making some kind of Ranch like my system suggested, but I couldn't do it yet.'Once we get
I looked over Crater City as I had dubbed it and examined the buildings, but most of them were typical brick buildings with clay tile roofs. I did count at least ten blacksmith shops, and that made sense.The most prominent things were three sizeable black circus tents that looked to be about one hundred and fifty feet across. There was a much larger one at the far end of the crater, and the bright red light was on top of it.That must be where I would find Dao, so I started to jog around the edge of the crater, and as I passed on of the smaller tent, I started to hear cheering and screaming. There was a crazy, frantic, wild, panic, but excited aura coming from the tent, and I knew it. The ring.That savage excitement of wanting to pound the other person down until they give up or stop moving. The crowd cheering you on to do that and so much more; the energy of the place was something I was familiar with.I kept moving and started to run faster, but I sta
I pushed past the opening, but as I did, I saw the red ten-foot cube in the center on a raised dais. I couldn't see into it, but I could see something that I didn't expect; a screen that was displaying a demon running from a tiger that was about eight times as big as it should be."So, you did come, and sooner than I expected!" I heard a voice to my right exclaim, and I turned to find a pale blue demon with a pair of colossal ram horns sitting on a throne.The chair he sat on was only a throne in its size because there was no grandeur. It was just a big tall wooden chair, but the craftsman did an excellent job of it.The man in the chair had very light blue skin too but looked younger than Mex, who was standing at the bottom of the platform. There were two tough-looking demons behind him, but they would be no match for Mex if he wanted.I walked around without saying anything until I was standing in front of Mex. He looked fine, and even his shorts were c
I stepped forward and into the red wall, and then the lights went out, and I was lying on some kind of dirt. I opened my eyes, and I was staring into a kind of purple sand.'Where am I?'There was no answer from Hero, so I pushed myself off the ground and saw Mex stand at the edge of a sandy ledge. Doa was groaning on the ground while grabbing at his neck, but I ignored him; Mex was looking at something."What is it?" I asked as I got up, and Mex whipped around."Wait!? Why did you come in! I thought that you just threw this idiot in here with me and be done with us! You're not supposed to die! The girls will hunt both of us down in our next lives and kill us both!" Mex said as he threw up his hands in the air in frustration."Yes, but we aren't going to die here, so calm down. There is no way that I could just leave you here, and maybe I should have just killed Dao rather than bringing him with us, but that's water under the bridge now," I said as
Mex turned and waved for me to follow and started a very slow jog. I was about to make a joke as I jogged up to him, but he was panting and pouring sweat."What is up? Did Dao do something to you before I killed him? I knew I should have killed the bastard faster!" I said as I looked back at the advancing monsters, and I noticed Mex looked at me.I turned back to him, and he had an incredulous look on his face. I looked back at the monsters that were clearly going to catch us and then back at Mex."Sorry, boss, but I am going to have to carry you; where are we going?" I said as I scooped a drenched and wheezing Mex.Mex didn't fight, he just pointed up, and I took the hint but wasn't sure what to do about it. I was still fresh with these abilities, but I couldn't take all three of these things alone with Mex like this."Valley… Gravity… Magic… Extreme... cough, cough!" Mex wheezed out and then started to cough.I ran for
The two of us started to walk into the stretching forest, but Mex didn't talk right away, but he probably knew that I would be distracted. If he did, the man was not wrong because I could stop looking at the strange birds and insects that moved so strangely.The insect stretched its legs along, reaching forward and then planting afoot, and another would stretch. More than once, Mex had to put a hand on my back to keep me moving as a small bird-like creature would float by.They were like feathered balls with rippling one foot streaming flat one-inch wide bands flowing out of them. Each time one would float by, I would become distracted by its impossibleness."The world is amazing, there is no doubt about that, but we took the beauty of its Impossible naturalness and perverted it. These creatures are all Demons, and now they wander mindlessly. Demonizing a species doesn't make them intelligent," Mex said and then stopped to point at two clearly different bugs.
Back on the beach, the girls were finally starting to make some progress on the Deep Sea Bottom Piercing Sucker Boat. Keri had placed herself in charge of naming the ship, and no one complained because that was the job she had to stick with.That meant everyone else that was helping was free to do their work without being asked question after question. Keri rarely even listens to the entire answer before asking about something in the answer.The name Deep Sea Bottom Piercing Sucker Boat did get most of the boat's features in it, but it was a bit wordy. The boat was a submarine of sorts that looked like a flat bottom feeder type of fish, but many other features were being added."Do you think that you will be able to seal the boat in one of your barriers and still make tight seals? I am worried about the moving parts on the outside of the boat. The metal on the outside and then your barrier, and the rest of the inside as wood is a good idea if we can keep it dry,
[ 8/150 mins until Dao dies 2:30 after entering the Challenger Gem]Nushi stood up, but so did Kimera and Nixi. Jilly was also looking at Nushi appraisingly, questioning what was going through her head.Unfortunately for Nushi, she was subject to all the horrible ways that the others thought she was going to die now, but that would not be the case. She was close and had been for a while now but had wanted to wait for Kazz."Stop it, all of you! I can see the wild concoctions you are all whipping up in your head, but Hydie and I will be fine. Both of us are more than capable of handling anything that comes our way. I am about to increase my rank as a demon as well, but I don't know what that will mean for me after I birth Kazz's memories," Nushi explained to all of them, and the Hydie spoke up."I can protect her; in the short time since coming here, I have been able to drastically improve my barriers, and my father couldn't even penetrate them before that