D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 2047 Enter Poison
Kat ---
Kat stepped into the mist and breathed in deeply, best to work out what this shit did sooner rather then later. Kat paid careful attention to her body as the poison went down her throat, settled on her arms and theoretically started to do its dastardly work. There were flickers of... something on the edge of her awareness but as far as Kat could tell the poison simply wasn’t strong enough. Whatever effect it was meant to have, unless it was quite delayed, it didn’t work on her.
Lily was in a similar position, though she was far less willing to test it then Kat. Lily had managed to make up a small shadowy mask for her Memphis form. It wasn’t perfect, it didn’t really keep the poison out and she didn’t know if it was touch based or meant to be inhaled but the mask helped keep her breathing calm. Lily was planning to fly directly up if things got too much. Which did bring up a question.
Kat started to jog at that, ready to look out for anything as the ran through the streets only to realise Lily’s warning was more apt then either of them new. Just as they past by one of the houses, it exploded, shrapnel going everywhere as a pink slime monster roared out of it, trying to tackle Kat immediately.
Clicking her tongue, Kat decided this was no time to waste on anything fancy. Not when it was a slime that could avoid damage if it wanted to. Demonic fire spewed forth from her hands and tried to freeze the thing solid. Recognising the issue, the slime threw up a wall made of slime to eat the impact. Kat let her fire burn until the wall was frozen, smashing through it to get to the slime on the other side...
It was gone. Kat stood in the destroyed street dumbfounded. Debris littered the road and frozen slime chunks were mix in liberally. She’d been ready to end a threat in an efficient and permanent manner... and it had simply ran away. *
Kat grimaced but started running once again. It hurt to leave a problem for someone else to deal with but she had to find Appoline before things got worse. It was possible the mad scientist was making more, deadlier potions right at this moment. Not to mention she might have a good percentage of her already made stock on her, ready to unleash them at some point.
Of course, just because she was willing to let the attack go, didn’t mean the slime was. Kat hadn’t even managed to get a minute of running in when the ground underneath her started to bulge. Kat took to the air right before it exploded, several chunks of debris flew right at her and were batted away to avoid being knocked off course. The slime seemed to have gotten a bit bigger in its short time away.
Grimacing, Kat summoned up more demonic fire and lobbed it at the monster, only for it to fight back by hurling a large chunk of concrete in the way. Kat’s demonic fire greedily froze the concreate block instead of continuing past. Kat grit her teeth, focusing on her flames and swapping strategies.
Kat flung a number of fireballs at the slime while continuing to fly away. In return, the orbs were matched by chunks of concrete and Kat found her control shattered. Even with her focus on the orbs, once they had something to burn completely around them they simply left her control, content to burn whatever had impacted them. *
So that’s what Kat did. Without any good ideas to quickly dispatch the slime Kat kept running. The slime was throwing a number of things at her to try and knock Kat from the sky but it was too far away now and dodging them wasn’t much trouble at all. Once she got more firmly outside of its range, the slime vanished into the ground once again. Kat wondered if that meant it was gone for good... but doubted it. She kept flying above the ground hoping it would be harder to track her that way.
Perhaps it was, but she’d neglected to do anything other than fly forward, never once deviating from that path. She’d made no move to try and divert her path and the slime capitalised on that. Exploding out of the ground in front of her. Kat gave Lily a signal, and decided it was time to attack. Lily’s shadows lashed out blocking the various debris as Kat slammed into the slime. It immediately tried to kill her. Its body highly acidic and eating away at her clothes while it tried to shove slime in her eyes and down her throat.
Kat put a stop to that by exploding into a demonic inferno. The closest bits of slime quickly freezing and the fire spread out without stopping. Kat quickly resummoned her clothes and started to smash her way through the frozen slime, not stopping her endless assault of demonic fire even as her reserves dipped lower and lower.
Kat eventually made a path all the way through the slime monster, and breaking out of the back revealed the entire thing was frozen solid. Or at least, a large percentage. Even still, Kat had to wince at the cost. Fifty percent of her reserves gone already. Sure it was refilling fast but this was just one slime monster. A big one for sure, but if she encountered three at a time then that might be a real problem.
Lily didn’t know what to say. She didn’t have a great plan either... but that didn’t mean it was time to give up. She could only hope that between the pair of them they come up with something better before the next monster arrived.