D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

Chapter 2119: Chapter 2119 Rotten Finale Part 1

--- Kat ---

What would be the final fight with the monster didn’t start with a bang. Instead, it was a slow build-up. The infrequent attacks from the walls started to ramp up slightly... but even that was only noticeable looking back. Instead of the occasional group attack, it was simply one strike after another. At first separated by a few minutes, then by tens of seconds, before things finally kicked off.

The group even made their way through a big chamber that seemed primed for an ambush without much trouble. A single attack from the ceiling and that was it. The tunnel after however? That’s when things started to change. There, attacks started to come one after the other. Kat started to glide between attacks and save demonic fire. Keeping it on her hand instead of letting it burn away at the monster. Lily was swamped. She needed to send out dozens of shadow spikes to continually impale hands, claws, and even a few mouths all trying to rip chunks out of people.

When the ground started to shake, Kat prepared for a large attack from below, thinking that one of the rocks would be pushed aside or something, but instead of that the entire floor fell away. Kat realised she could save herself, and perhaps one other person. Jamming a hand into the wall would work... but not for everyone.

Lily on the other hand, was having more success. Her shadow was stretching out to catch everyone except Kat, knowing that she’d be fine. With that in mind, Kat turned her focus downwards. Below her was horrifically writhing mass of sharp teeth and mouths. Not always paired together and with the occasional limb thrown in their for good measure. The occasional eye could be spotted, usually protected by a mouth full of teeth. To most it would be scary, to Kat, this looked like a clear solution to the monster problem.

Kat dropped down like a flaming comet, ignoring the wounds she was sure to receive. Crashing into the monster, Kat splattered the parts below her feet, and the many grasping mouths that tried to bit at her froze in the flaming aura around her. It cost a good chunk of demonic energy but that was fine.

Up above, Lily had managed to essentially reassemble the floor using shadows. It was costing more mana then she was regenerating, so this wasn’t something she could keep up forever but for now it was holding and everyone was safe up above. Chisel looked down and kept hefting the sword in his hand as if he was about to jump down and help... but shit was scary down there. For a normal person anyway.

The writing mass of teeth and jaws was transitioning into more locomotive options. As Kat’s demonic flames continued to burn on the remnants of what she’d already dispatched, the remaining functioning parts, which was still a huge carpet of monster flesh, were transforming further into things that were more efficiently able to attack at Kat.

The first birds started to dive down on top of her. Freezing into ice as they did so but still managing to scratch Kat as they died, slicing into her limbs with razor sharp beaks and talons. Wolves circled her, trying to attack as well, but they were more easily countered. Their large mass simply an easier target for Kat to take out.

Kat’s tail was a whip of mass destruction, slicing out with demonic fire and freezing things where it made combat. Her hands were usually fists, slamming into the things attacking her from the front and not just freezing them but shattering them as well. Kat was cutting down large chunks of the monster already and it hadn’t even been a minute yet.

Still, it was all about adapting and seeing that the birds were most efficient... but still too costly it switched tactics again. Weird tentacle-like growths started to sprout from the mass and throw spears of bone towards Kat. Launching them from the tips that opened up revealing rows of teeth and a long muscle throat-like thing that could drastically increase the speed at which the bone spikes were fired. Kat thought using air pressure would probably still be better.

Dodging the bones proved to be easy. They were shot from al directions, and they were fast... but not blisteringly slow. Worse, the monster wasn’t taking any time to lead its shots. They were constantly aiming for Kat’s centre of mass and always aiming at where she was as the shot went out. Simply continuing forward to slice down more of its body meant she was still dealing massive damage to it and avoiding the spikes...

However, Kat was realising a problem with this approach. Looking down through a small gap in the floor hadn’t properly prepared her for the size of the thing. The whole room was taken up by it, and the cavern wasn’t small in the slightest. It was even possible that this weird monster had continually eaten away at the rock to grow and expand its main... body? Nest? Whatever it was, the sheer amount of material that needed to be destroyed was excessive and Kat didn’t know if she had the demonic energy to finish it off.

She’d already used perhaps thirty percent of her reserves, and while some of that had been in the leadup to her dropping down, the problem came from the fact that she had MAYBE destroyed twenty percent of this thing’s mass and that number was likely to shrink as it gained better and better tactics. The bone spikes weren’t being frozen after all... and that might be a problem long term.

For now Kat simply kept smashing away, sending out waves of cold with every punch and slice of her tail. While the demonic energy burning around her might seem like a waste it didn’t cost all that much to maintain compared to what it really should and the few birds and wolves that still attacked meant keeping it up was probably necessary.

*Lily I could use some ideas.*

[We could drop down and work with you?]

*Not sure I can keep from freezing them. Especially Chisel. Would it even be safe to have you guys?*

[I can focus on defence... but yeah if your flames will still be an issue... hmm... keep working your way towards one of the walls and then we can use that as a base perhaps? As long as nothing breaks in from the wall behind us I think Bruce, Chisel, and myself can make some progress.]

*Roger that. I’ll focus less on clearing everything and more on making a path towards that wall.*

With the plan established they both got to work. Kat started to breath out the occasional shot of flame, freezing larger swaths of the monster in front of her and then rapidly smashing her way through to make a smaller, thinner line that progressed faster through its flesh. Meanwhile, Lily was playing shadow charades to try and explain what the rest of the group would be doing. They seemed to get it... which was good. Keeping everyone up on this platform was draining her own mana reserves... and they weren’t really using that height for anything more than to stay safe.

The monster had apparently also realised that single spikes weren’t doing it any good and had changed tactics. Now, instead of one bone spike it was shooting teeth at her. The construction it came up with for the job was particularly gross. A giant mouth that sucked in air and spat dozens of teeth that flew from its weak gums... before closing the mouth to replenish the missing teeth. Kat wasn’t sure how worried to be. The issue was twofold. The teeth were nearly impossible to dodge without turning into water. There was too many of them. That however, would cut off her demonic fire for a bit.

The other issue was that, the teeth didn’t have enough speed or mass to penetrate her skin. They just bounced off. Even the thin parts of her wings could withstand the attack without issue... but they were coated in a slightly acidic, or perhaps very acidic spittle that Kat could mostly shrug off.

Sadly, ’mostly’ wasn’t the same was ’completely’ and Kat wasn’t sure what would cost her more demonic energy. Wasting it to dodge, or accepting the hits and using her regeneration to fight off the acid. At the very least her succubus skin kept it sliding off. Even if it was meant to stick around and dig, the innate properties of her skin meant it couldn’t stick around too long.

Of course, there was always another wave of teeth and it was becoming a bit of a pain. For now at least, she’d managed to make her way far enough to the edge of things that she could start to clear out a landing area for Lily to drop the rest of the crew. Hopefully it wouldn’t be too effective against Lily’s shadow shields... and they could do enough damage to finish this thing off before she ran out of demonic energy.