Once outside of the apartment, I gave a brief stretch and was about to turn when a vaguely familiar voice spoke up beside me, startling me. What was with these people today, or was my brain just that fogged and filled up?
"Do you remember when I asked you about becoming one of your…" Kieta, the Sphinxlin, started to say to me but then exploded with light brighter than I had seen yet.
I had screamed yes in my head, only in frustration at being startled again, but it seemed to have some kind of effect on the change and intensity of it. The light was so fierce that the reflection from off the wood made it impossible to even turn to look until it was over.
The moment it started to fade, I turned quickly to see the older woman because I was worried about how her body would handle the change. I was glad I did and grabbed Kieta out of the air as her body rag-dolled.
The half Sphinx, half Goblin woman, fell into my arms, but she now looked much younger. I
'Hey there, Hero, I have two questions for you. Why are there so many goddamn Gnolls, and why are they not demons?'I leaned to the left as I ran at the sound of a blade cutting the air from behind me, and a battle ax flew by me. There were thirty of the yipping bastards chasing me now, and I had been tempted to just turn and deal with them, but I decided to let them come with me.[The Gnolls hate demons more than anything after Doa tried to do what you are asking. The Gnoll population was taken down by other beasts, but the demons had tried to take some of them during this time. Dao had figured out what was going on by this time and had sent out Demons and Demon Orc raiding parties all over the island.]'Sure, but then why are there still so many of them? If the Demons couldn't capture them, I'm sure they would have just hunted them down. What did they do to avoid all of this?'I jumped and spun at the humming noise of a spiked ball on a chain that came
'Hey there, Hero, I have two questions for you. Why are there so many goddamn Gnolls, and why are they not demons?'I leaned to the left as I ran at the sound of a blade cutting the air from behind me, and a battle ax flew by me. There were thirty of the yipping bastards chasing me now, and I had been tempted to just turn and deal with them, but I decided to let them come with me.[The Gnolls hate demons more than anything after Doa tried to do what you are asking. The Gnoll population was taken down by other beasts, but the demons had tried to take some of them during this time. Dao had figured out what was going on by this time and had sent out Demons and Demon Orc raiding parties all over the island.]'Sure, but then why are there still so many of them? If the Demons couldn't capture them, I'm sure they would have just hunted them down. What did they do to avoid all of this?'I jumped and spun at the humming noise of a spiked ball on a chain that came
Ignored the pervert in my head and focused on my surroundings. The Undead Behemoths had already chased the Gnolls off, but I kept moving us away from the area that they were moving.The problem was two other groups were also in the area, the complete lack of trees and something like a fifty-foot wall to get over to even get into the town. This was not going to be as easy as I thought, but it was still far from impossible.The two of us managed to get to an area that was out of sight from the patrols, and I summoned Grogvel and Windorf. Once they were out of me, I started to explain the plan to them, and Windorf actually laughed when I was finished."You are going to get the girl to throw you over the wall? And then what are you going to do when you get to the other side? Pain the side of a couple buildings before you land in a battered pile of meat paste?" Windorf asked while trying to keep a severe expression that even he was having trouble holding on to.<
[Well, the good news is that you are going to make it over the wall. The bad news is that I think you might be going just a little bit past the target.]Kali had thrown me like a Hail Mary football pass and at a breakneck speed. All my plans and thoughts were lost as I was sent spinning into the sky.[You're going to have to get big, and then small, or you will completely miss the town!]I knew this, but I had difficulty grasping the Earth TsunaLily Totem as I cartwheeled through the air at subsonic speeds. I spun through the air like a ninja star facing, and I could somewhat make out the village, an impressive-looking Keep whirling around below.Got it! I clamped onto the power that had really been just at the tips of my fingers. The problem lies in that there is no training to prepare you for flying an airplane without the airplane.[Hurry up, and make the change only long enough for you to slow down, then get small!]I did as Hero instruc
'You know, this really isn't that bad. The looking down to my doom is not the greatest, but it's kind of relaxing at the same time.'[Yes, I have to give it to you, not a bad idea to grab a leaf to glide down on. I was almost getting concerned when you hadn't said anything about them, but then I noticed you grab the leaf and figured out what you had planned.]I was floating down as I used the leaf I had grabbed like a glider of sorts. The village was much better built than either of the two that Mex watched, and most of the buildings were around at least two, some even three stories tall.Mex had enough trouble taking care of himself most of the time, so I could see why it was better for him to have the villages separate. If they were like this, they would expect things from Mex, and he could hardly live up to his own expectations.There were orangish-brown clay-tiled roofs below me, and the village was very well organized, which surprised me. Considering
Harold… No, if I called him Hero, I must have meant it, and I was slowly getting the shape of the person I once was, or still was underneath it all.[Doesn't really matter, but what is your plan from here? I am sure you understand what you have to do, but how do you plan on doing it? I don't know if you have noticed them, but strange animated dead things are in armor walking the streets. They look like some kind of patrol, and your… Orgasmoura is having no effect on them.]I didn't see what Hero was talking about, but I was deciding if I should put away the Orgasmoura for now. That would make it a bit easier to hide in the crowd, but I needed to get moving, and I was already inside.This wasn't meant to take an extended amount of time, so I needed to get moving.'Can I take them?'[I don't see why not, and I would keep you Orgasmoura turned all the way up because it will keep Neft distracted until we get there, or it should.]I
Five Metalheads trailed behind me as Hanna bounced on my stiff steel shaft, holding onto me with legs and arms for dear life as I sprinted forward. I stepped to the side, narrowly dodging a spear that trimmed some of my shaggy hair, almost slicing my cheek.I had already destroyed each of the five by returning the spears to them, but each one had reformed at a blinding speed. My hand was still healing from the last spear I grabbed, and the first one I had tried to grab damn near took my fingers off.There were blades all up the shafts of each spear that had slicked them up. The Metalheads were able to summon them from holes in the air like Mex did to get his sword and was constantly dodging them.There was barely any pause between each one, and my Water Sphinx Totem was running on overdrive.I focused on making turns and moving faster than the Metalheads, but I was starting to get lost. The alleys and streets were not linking up where I assumed they shoul
Five Metalheads trailed behind me as Hanna bounced on my stiff steel shaft, holding onto me with legs and arms for dear life as I sprinted forward. I stepped to the side, narrowly dodging a spear that trimmed some of my shaggy hair, almost slicing my cheek.I had already destroyed each of the five by returning the spears to them, but each one had reformed at a blinding speed. My hand was still healing from the last spear I grabbed, and the first one I had tried to grab damn near took my fingers off.There were blades all up the shafts of each spear that had slicked them up. The Metalheads were able to summon them from holes in the air like Mex did to get his sword and was constantly dodging them.There was barely any pause between each one, and my Water Sphinx Totem was running on overdrive.I focused on making turns and moving faster than the Metalheads, but I was starting to get lost. The alleys and streets were not linking up where I assumed they shoul