Chapter 306 A Demon Lord's Pet, I
While Elisa danced through the swarm made the enemies, a chill went down Mark's spine.
"Elisa!" He shouted.
She noticed right away.
It was still pretty far, but it was approaching.
'What...'
A gigantic wave was traveling through the body of water they had just crossed.
'Just how many of those...?'
Elisa immediately imaged hundreds of Krishrens crossing moving just slightly below the surface at once, causing the enormous wave.
"It's that thing. Did it win against..?"
As soon as she heard those words, Elisa exited the swarm skillfully and started running away from it.
Meanwhile,
'It couldn't have won against that Commander easily. It must be injured. If so, then maybe-'
"RUN! NOW!" Elisa shouted.
Mark and the Lioness by his side did as they were told.
"Don't you think we could beat it now? After it's-" He asked after running for a couple of seconds.
"Are you serious?" Elisa interrupted. "You want to fight that thing AND all of those we've been barely keeping at by?? At once??"
"They'll probably run back into the water once that thing arrives-"
"What if they don't? They have the same objective after all, don't they? If anything, they'll encircle us. And we'll end up dead. Dead! And for what?"
"..." Mark grumbled something, but Elisa couldn't hear it.
"There's no way we can beat that thing anyways."
"But what if that Commander tired it out?"
"She didn't. At the speed that it's going, it doesn't seem that way. Their fight mustn't have gone on for too long if it's already that close to us."
"..." Mark grumbled something again.
Elisa sighed, guessing that it was something about being hungry.
"What makes you think we can beat it anyways?"
"Why would I think otherwise?"
"Because we saw it! And because it's... It's..."
"It's what?"
"I can't remember what the Commander said exactly. She told you anyways, so you should know! She said that it was-"
"The Pet."
"That's right. Something's Pet. Only thing we can assume is-"
"The Demon Lord?"
"Exactly. And we can't fight that."
"Huh? Why not?"
Elisa sighed. She wanted to massage her forehead, but focused on running instead.
"Because it's Demon Lord's Pet."
"So?"
"So... So that's a pretty scary Title, don't you think?"
"Oh. You mean in that way... Is it though? If it's just a Pet."
"Ugh! Listen here! Pets are nothing to laugh at, okay? Plus, this is a Demon Lord's Pet. You can't trust Pet to mean Pet in that instance."
"Why not?"
"Because anything could be a Demon Lord's Pet!! If anything, you could have twin Demons. One a tiny bit stronger than the other. One becomes Demon Lord, the other its Pet. Get it?"
"Uh... You sure?"
"Yes! They're Demons, okay?? They're freaking Demons, Mark!"
The white-scaled Monster grumbled something.
The Demons it had seen were those inside the Dungeon.
On the outside, everything is different, so even the definition of what a Demon is might change.
'Those inside were just like any other Monsters... Or Beasts.'
One becomes Demon Lord-
The other its Pet-
Twin Demons. Siblings then.
'Yeah...' Mark nodded silently. 'That does sound demonic, I guess.'
"Get it?"
"Yes. But Pet can also just be Pet."
"Well, we're not betting on that."
"I'd like to."
"We're not."
"Well, I'm not sure." Mark grumbled in a voice barely audible.
"Just... I don't know. Just think of anything with a Pet."
"Anything?"
"Yes. Anything with a Title. A scary one. Then think of its Pet."
"Mmm..." Mark wondered for a bit.
It didn't take long for him to find a suitable example.
"Okay." He nodded in agreement.
The example wasn't hard to find.
Mark had used the Pet's Name once after all.
"Let's stay away from that thing."
"Finally." Elisa whispered, and the three continued running.
The next second, another chill went down Mark's spine.
By this time, they had crossed quite a distance.
Still, a Demon Lord's Pet's presence wasn't easy to miss.
It was hundreds and hundreds of meters away.
Its body hadn't let the waters separating Sloth and Lust.
Still, Mark knew something was coming.
And he knew that that sensation came from the High Elven Pupil in his right eye.
That eye widened as he quickly roughly pushed away Elisa, who was running to his left.
As he pushed her, Mark had lowered his body, which allowed him to the Lioness away with his lower back after jumping away.
With a confused expression on her face, Elisa started falling as she lost her balance.
Before her behind could reach the ground, her eyes widened too. She could feel it approaching.
Elisa immediately folded her legs closer to her body.
This allowed it to pass through.
It left away for the thin and dark beam covered by a pinkish Aura to pass between them.
The attack hadn't been shot like an arrow.
Its trajectory wasn't a line, but a plane.
A vertical one.
The Calamity had shot its attack at the the water right in front of it at first, then rapidly raised its aim, as if to cut the white-scaled Monster who had been standing at the center of the group in two.
The dark beam with a pinkish hue hit the ground between them, and continued further.
After pushing Krista with his lower back, Mark was now facing in the beam's direction.
The same was true for Elisa.
The two were facing one another.
The white-scaled Monster suddenly spread its wings.
There was no need for words. n--o.-V/(E)-l.-b./1//n
The dark beam had drawn a line on the ground. It had both dug into the ground and burnt it.
The burning, too, had a slight pinkish hue.
Wind Blast-
And the entire path drawn was covered by clouds of pinkish smoke as terrible explosions followed the straight line with great speed.
By using the Magic Skill "Wind Blast" without having stable footing, as Mark had jumped back to push Krista, he managed to increase the distance.
This did mean shooting the "Wind Blast" Magic Skill in Elisa's direction, but he wasn't worried about that one bit.
He trusted her to deal with it, and she did.
"No need to be so rough." Elisa teased as she wiped the dust off her body after pushing herself off the ground.
Mark didn't hear those words.
He was too focused on the Calamity far in the distance.
It was getting dark, so the Monster's full body couldn't be seen clearly.
Still, its silhouette was enough.
Tentacles?
No. They resembled snakes.
Six gigantic snakes protruded from its body.
