Even though they had the high ground, it didn"t exactly take them out of trouble as it rather made them a target for the demons that were now streaming from practically every corner of the city. But even in all the chaos, Louis was able to notice something that most people if not everyone would not have noticed with the sheer amount of panic in the air. Louis looked closer, moving his eyes from the plaza below them to the direction of the city"s entrance, then he turned to the others."Those men are like the conduits for the gates, as long as they"re still standing or alive, those demons will keep pouring out, but the worst part is all of these slaughter and bloodshed is just a front, the gates don"t really even matter, it"s that ma.s.sive spell circle formation slowly being drawn above our heads that"s really bad, if we let it get completed, I"m Afraid we"ll be ma.s.sively screwed over, I reckon something much worse will come through or happen to the people still alive in the city, us included. And based on the speed, it would be completed in under an hour if not less.
And look here, the demons seem to have split themselves Into three groups, I can see that there are other demons coming from different direction, and judging from the fact that there"s quite a few beams of light spread across the city, I was not say we"re dealing with more than one gate. Most of them are protecting the men generating the gates, others are busy hunting people down, and the third group are creating a perimeter and blocking all entrances and exits. They"re making a kill box, stopping us from leaving and preventing any help from coming in. We"re really screwed."
Khan shot off Alex"s shoulder, turning into a gust of wind that slammed into the chest of a demon that reached the roof. It was thrown down onto it"s comrades, sending most of them tumbling down like a bag of overripe fruit. The sisters turned to Louis and asked in tandem.
"""What do you suggest we do?"""
"To be honest I don"t know, we wouldn"t have known they were demons if others didn"t call out their name, we have no idea what we"re dealing with, and as such I have no idea how to counter them. The only thing I can say is that; so far these demons have acted in a manner that"s akin to wild animals, they"ve been killing indiscriminately, however they"re carrying out tactics and formations like a well trained cohesive unit. But nothing about the way they"ve fought so far proves that they have individual intelligence, and their movements are too cohesive, they"re not elves with their golden armies, plus they don"t have eyes or noses, but they move so we"ll and swiftly. My deduction is this;
Firstly those hair like feelers on their heads is what helps them to see and navigate, but I think it"s more than just simple feelers, like the whiskers of a mole, but rather like an Antenna to receive signals. If you look closely, sometimes they pause and look towards north west part of the city, before taking any other actions. So basically this species of demons are like a hive, I think they have a commander of queen they listen to that tells them what to do. It"s why they"ve been so efficient and no one, not even the forces of the city has been able to mount up a proper defense."
This was news to all of them, but what was more shocking wasn"t the fact that demons were invading, it as the fact that Louis was able to deduce all of this in just a few minutes into the invasion.
They knew he was smart, but this was just insane, but now wasn"t a good time to dive into the sheer absurdity of Louis"s deductive mind, Alex had ideas of his own that he needed to voice out, after all; in terms of study about creatures and weird energies, he was more learned than they were.
"I think if we can stop one of those men, we can slow down the creation of whatever spell formation these demons are trying to make. We need to split up into two teams, one team has to look for the commander of this demons, though it"s just speculation, I think what Louis said might be true, locate the commander, if we can take him, or her, or it out, we should be able to cause disarray within their ranks, making it easier to pick them off and kill them.
The second team would be responsible with either stopping that man.....or rather, we would be responsible for killing him and putting an end to this invasion. I believe killing one of the gate men would out a stop to the Creation of the whole spell circle, these things seem to be connected with each other, so it"s possible when one falls, they all do. But even so, if they all don"t die at once, I believe it should slow down the creation of the spell circle formation, and if not, then we make our way through the city and kill every single last one of them."
Alex had Avery determined look on his face, and even more determined mind, he and his friends have been through so much already, that the sight of blood and death no longer shook them that much, however as it stands, this amount of killing and death was not something they could condone, these were their people, and if they could out a stop to this, then they will. But unfortunately they all knew there was one thing wrong with this plan.
"I don"t think we can pull this off alone." Yun Fao finally opened his mouth to speak.
"You"re not alone….." a new and unknown voice suddenly spoke up from behind them. All six of them turned, coming face to face with more 10 individuals glad head to toe in a skin tight black armored suit, with a hood on their face that left only their eyes exposed. On the side of their black masks, was a taiji symbol placed in the center of a Christian cross, everyone here recognized it immediately, this was the symbol of the Zhang clan.
"Young Master Zhang Xiao Feng, my name is Kimiko, I"m in charge of this squard of the Zhang clan secret guards. Our orders were to keep an eye on you and help you out when your lives are in absolute danger, it seems to me that this is as good a time as any to show ourselves.
The thing is, it doesn"t matter which choice I make, all six of you will be in danger, but I think it"s better if you fought one enemy, rather than a thousand. My squad and I will out an end to the gate man, you six find the commander, if you can"t fight it, stay hidden and reach me with this communication seal, it"s a secure connection so you"ll be talking directly to me. Telecommunications are already down, so phones and the likes aren"t working at the moment. Stay safe."
And then she and her squad proceeded to jump off the roof and down into the rest of demons gathered in the plaza. There were so many of them that if not for the occasional flashes of steel that they could see, they suspected that this team had been swallowed by the demon board below. But this team were heaps stronger than they were, they all felt it, none of the ten people they just saw were within the mortal gate, but all of them were in the earth gate, probably all in the mid realms.
The Meeting ended just as suddenly as it began, but that was understandable, they were facing a very real threat, and it didn"t seem as if they could rely on any other person but their own, the city"s forces were also nowhere to be found in this Carnage, there were other cultivators and fighters mounting a resistance of one sort of the other across the city, but they knew it would be useless, these gates will keep on spouting more and more demons until every single square inch of the city was covered in them, they had to put a stop to all of this, and they were running out of time.
Alex took off across the roof, his steps so light they could barely be heard, but he was fast enough that he was akin to a speeding car rushing past a person. The remaining five followed after him as they jumped over twenty meter wide gaps between buildings, vaulting over statues and scaling walls as they made their way to the northwest past of the city. Alex had decided to lay attention to what Louis had said, it was not just their heads moving towards a specific direction, but their feelers would also point towards it. And so far Alex had noticed that they only faced three directions for a few moments to receive orders, before moving on to whatever task has been programed into their heads, it was like a hive, with all of them sharing one mind but with multiple bodies.
Alex was about to jump over a skylight when something slammed into his stomach and sent him crashing down through the gla.s.s ceiling, and into the extremely cold pool below. Khan wasn"t too far behind as a wild gust blew from his body and pushed the creature that just a.s.saulted them out of the sky was from his master. Alex jumped out of the pool, and turned to see what was basically the same demon, only this one had shorter arms, stout shoulders and it had wings and actually used a weapon. Yun Fao jumped down next to Alex, followed quickly by Louis and the sisters as they face the flying demon and it"s cohorts who were now encircling the building. Yun Fao narrowed his eyes as he said.
"Looks like the second wave has begun!"