D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad - Chapter 2124 A Bit of Greenery

Chapter 2124: Chapter 2124 A Bit of Greenery

— Green —

Green stepped out into the sunlight, massive grin on her face. “Freedom!” she whispered with as much intensity as she could manage. While screaming at the top of her lungs was the goal… Green recognised that giving away her position like that was a bad idea. Hunger might also be getting to her a bit. Her food had run out yesterday and while sleeping helped reduce needed calorie intake, and her own Rank 2 body offset it a bit more… that didn’t mean her stomach was happy with her.

*And I still need to cross the desert. Looking for food inside of it is probably doomed endeavour, or at least, I’d be hot, miserable, AND hungry if I did that. I’m lucky I managed to trade for food during my duel. Almost makes me feel bad for beating Ash up afterwards… but she’s the one who decided it should be a proper fight. Even made the mistake of trying to sneak attack me.*

Green shook her head and sighed knowing she couldn’t take THAT much credit for the win. The truth of the matter was that her adventures up here in the abandoned city had given her so many resources. Few of them food, but obviously she didn’t trade away any of the best stuff for it. Just the ones that seemed quite strong but had some less then obvious limitations. Ash had decided to take a bunch of the enchanted grenades for example, especially the blinding ones…

And Green had a set of fancy armour that blocked the flash. Green chuckled as she remembered Ash dropping the enchanted bomb and jumping backwards, expecting her to be blinded. Getting shot in the chest as Green’s retaliation nearly took Ash out immediately. Only the fact she twisted out of the way somewhat lessened the blow, and it was still crippling. A short chase around the area afterwards and Ash was finished.

*I wonder how annoyed she is about that? On the one hand I was pretty brutal about it… but on the other hand she attacked me first and we were in that dueling arena.* Green was going to continue to ponder her thoughts. It was something she’d gotten good at after being trapped in that pocket dimension… but instead the sound of something exploding reached her ears, and now that she was paying attention… quite a lot of barking.

Green decided pretty quickly to investigate. Monster meat wasn’t the best food source… and some of it was just straight up toxic to fae like herself… but she WAS pretty hungry and Thyme would be able to heal her up if things went bad. So after double checking her weapons and whispering some basic instructions to Timmy, Green leapt into the air and started to make her way across the nearby rooftops towards the noise, making sure to keep herself to the shadowed areas. She didn’t want to be attacked on the way after all.

Notably though… despite the noise she couldn’t see any of the monster birds that attacked her before flying around. Not even around the area the sound was coming from, something she KNEW would draw them in. It’s what happened before after all. Still, the sounds got clearer as she got closer and it seemed like a fight was going on, just not with the birds.

Green eventually stopped a street over from the fight, right at the edge of it so that she could glance down into the neighbouring street. The house she’d chosen to rest on was high enough to see what was going on, and she found out what caused the lack of birds. Two people and Two Dogs… or perhaps three dogs? *Does a two headed dog count as one or two dogs?*

Regardless of that little detail, there were four bodies fighting a number of monsters. Long and his ’dog’ Bonesworth alongside Shoal and her wolf Surge. Littered around them were the corpses of the bird monsters, quite a few of them. There was also golems of some sort that apparently they’d triggered and they were having a much harder time taking them down.

There was three of them, and the familiars seemed to be keeping one busy as best they could. Neither seemed to be able to damage them, and based on the burn marks on the golem’s body, they’d tried some more extreme measures that failed. For the most part, it seemed that the golem would attack whoever hurt it last and the two canines were simply attacking it lightly one after the other, usually biting at its feet and then backing off while it was turning around.

Shoal had her own golem… and wasn’t doing much comparatively. It seemed they weren’t that smart, or too fast. Shoal was simply leading it around in a circle doing her best to keep it occupied. She wasn’t even trying to attack it anymore, or at least, she didn’t attack it even once while Green was watching. Perhaps her weapon couldn’t stand up to the damage? Regardless, she was simply circling around the area and trying not to interfere with the other fights.

Which honestly made it pretty funny to watch. All of the golems were boxy metal things that shined slightly purple under the afternoon sun that was already mostly set. The metal seemed completely fine, but the logic behind its movements were awful. The golem would run after her, at about twice the speed Shoal was moving. Then it would try to attack her using one of a few very obvious presets. A closed fist slam from above, a double hand clap directly in front of it. A stomp that seemed more about destroying nearby terrain or finally a quick slap.

The problem was that before every attack the golem would stop in place, plant its feet obviously and THEN unleash the attack. Simply watching it a bit let you know what attack it was about to perform and it didn’t matter that it could move faster when it would completely stop to do so. Even still, Shoal’s armour looked like it had taken a few hits so she probably took some time to learn the attack pattern.

Long Crackfist on the other hand, seemed to be the only one actually trying to take the golem down. His great sword was chipped but Green could see it visually mending itself as the fight continued. Long would use it to strike at the golem in an attempt to damage it somehow, then chip the weapon slightly, wait for it to repair, and then strike again. The longer Green watched, the more attempts at destruction Long made. He was strike at weak points and finding no success… but didn’t seem to be giving up.

*Well this complicates things. I was curious as to what was going on and planned to perhaps interfere with a bunch of monsters fighting each other for food, or possibly a person. A team of people, complete with two competent familiars is a bit much for me to fight even with my upgraded gear.

I could theoretically try to aim my bow… but I might need to be a bit to exposed for that. Currently, spotting half of my face looking around the corner is difficult, spotting me standing on the roof aiming a bow would be a bit much to miss. Plus… there’s no way to know what the golems will do in response. They seem to be locked onto their current targets… but how did they get that way?

Like, did they try to enter one of the important buildings, get attacked, and try to run? Will the golems disable themselves after their targets are taken out? Do I count as a valid target? Heck, I wonder if they know I’m here. They have eyes sure but they’re just gemstones so I have no idea how they’re actually seeing. Probably not heat based because Bonesworth can spit fire and if it distracted them he probably would’ve kept using the fire…

The other issue is that those guys really don’t seem to be making any progress in the fight… but I’m not sure if it’s really taxing enough to wear them out any time soon. I could wait around watching the fight for a good opportunity… but I am STARVING and I don’t know if I can justify waiting the hours it might take for an opportunity to arise. I’m more likely to weaken first considering it’s been nearly two days since I had anything to eat. Then again… they probably can’t fight through the night.

Could I sleep with a command for Timmy to wake me up if they either win or take a certain amount of damage? It’s a bit of a risk… but I don’t see any reason Timmy would be incapable? Unless it’s considered too difficult a command? Could I just make it time based then? Wake me after X amount of time or if they get too close? That’s probably simple enough… but do I really want to risk not eating tomorrow morning?*