Chapter 199- Trip to the East 18

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As the rays of the Sun cascaded down the sandy, dry, slope mountains and rocky peaks of the earth, a monstrous arm protruded out of its giant magnificence while the laughter and giggle of a baby echoed in the air in a glorified tone of horror and dread. Three figures stood held back by a dome, controlled by Cruz, a mercenary, who was now stuck in an endless loop of pain while his gaze flickered with horror as he stored into Raph's eyes. This quickly occurred within seconds, and Cruz's expression was twisted into dread and agony as his body froze in place. While this happened, Rodrick was mesmerized by the facial features of the figure he was staring at, while Colyn had his attention drawn to somewhere else. His face showed signs of confusion and fear as he noticed the loud, distorted baby giggles get louder and clearer with each passing second. Soon, another monstrous arm, green in color with fur and sharp claws, emerged from the Rocky Peak, breaking and smashing the Rocky surface into bits of stone. "Hey! Hey! Hey!!! Rodrick! Care to explain?!" he asked with a raised tone laced with fright, but it seemed like Rodrick was focused on something else to have heard him. "Take it down!" Raph ordered and Cruz quickly released the dome, causing the dome to dim into silence and fall into Raph's hands just before it hit the ground. He turned towards Colyn. "Pick him up and run!" he instructed before rushing off ahead. Colyn and Rodrick glanced at each other with baffled expressions before rushing off towards him while Colyn flung Cruz over his shoulder. "What the fuck is going on, Rodrick?!" Colyn asked in confusion as they ran towards Raph with all their might, away from the creature that pulled itself out of the tall Rocky Peak. "What is that thing?!" the familiar baby giggles echoed and forced him to turn back to find the source. The demon's head had slammed through the Rocky Peak and emerged into the outside world, its ghastly giggles echoing stronger than before. "Holy shit! That's a fucking Mountain baby!" he cried out in shock and hastened his steps ahead, leaving a trail of dust behind him. "We slept with a fucking Mountain baby!" he cried out in realization and snapped his head towards Rodrick. "The fuck?! Did you know this, Rodrick?!" Sadly, Rodrick's attention was fixed on something else. Something ahead caught his attention in a whiff. Colyn noticed his gaze and clicked his tongue. "You bastard! That's a dude!" he cried out 8j annoyance while Rodrick, for the first time in a short moment, snapped his head towards him with a disgusted expression. "How dare you talk like that?! That's a woman you bastard! A beautiful one at that" he said, before snapping his head away. "We only found out about the demon this morning. Why do you think you saw us coming out from the inner cave a while ago?" Colyn's eyes bulged open in surprise before his brows furrowed deeply. The series of events that had occurred played out in his head, and he soon began to grow annoyed. 'Those merchants kidnapped the captain and lucky....' He then glanced at the man, who seemed fixed in a daze over his shoulder. 'And Cruz betrayed us? Just what is going on?' He wondered before the ghastly laughs pierced his ears and snapped him from his thoughts, followed by a swooshing sound, like that of a beam. Just then, Raph suddenly turned around while they rushed towards him. "Duck!" he cried out, and the two men, without a moment of hesitation, jumped into the ground while a beam of red light scraped the hem of their hair before passing them by a hair's breadth. Explore hidden tales at My Virtual Library Empire He turned his gaze behind him to find the mountain baby frantically chasing after them, and catching up quickly. Unlike the name, these creatures were as tall as ships and possessed the face of a baby. The rest of their body was an unorthodox mixture of an ape and wolf. Their trunk was like apes, but their arms and feet were of wolf origin. Their unique appearance made it particularly difficult to forget their image, and their ridiculous strength and mobility made them one of the most difficult to deal with. 'Not to mention that they are parallel to a 13th to 15th star or circle.....if any exist at all'. Just one alone would lead to the destruction of a kingdom, and you would require at least three 11 stars or circles to deal with them. 'It's absurd'. He glanced at his surroundings and marked any major changes. At the moment, they were being chased by a demonic Mountain Baby. Creatures that run on their four feet instead of two like a normal baby, and their terrain was a sandy pathway, broad enough for the demon to move smoothly, yet relatively if it were to turn. Mountains and Rocky Peaks were located on either side of the pathway, and this was the source of its restriction. He turned towards Rodrick after analyzing it and asked. "Until when do we leave the Twin Peak?". Rodrick's gaze flickered to reality as he shook his head. "About an hour, but at this pace, we might not make it. Mountain Babies are faster than their appearance. It's going to catch up to us" he explained while Raph clicked his tongue. 'That's why I asked, you bastard'. At the moment, his options were limited; after all, its laser beams had destroyed his Aura field of Vision in a single blow. '....luckily they only use it every 5 minutes'. It had been nearly three minutes since it fired out its beams, but it had one more skill it had yet to use. '....Mountain drop'. Raph thought as a cold shiver ran down his spine. 'If it decided to use that skill now, it would spell trouble, even for him'. He gulped loudly when Rodrick's alarmed voice snapped him from his thoughts. "Oi! Oi! It's fucking jumping!". He cried out, and Raph immediately snapped his gaze to the demon, as a shadow of dread nearly took its place in his expression. "Both of you! Stand behind me!" he cried out in anger as he bit his lip. 'The bastard decided to use it when I was just thinking about it! Fuck!'. He halted in his tracks while Rodrick and Colyn slid behind him. He stumped his right foot to the ground as the Sun's rays cast a silhouette of doom upon them. 'This better work!'. "Come to me; Cold Steel!" A cold wind swept into the air in front of him, forming the hilt of his blue, glowing double-edged katana. He grabbed it and pulled it out in the next second, and in the following second, he stabbed it into the ground. "Chapter 4! Sonic Surge!"

Chapter 199- Trip to the East 18

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