D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 2048 Mindless Poison

Kat ---

Kat and Lily were camped out on top of a house, gazing down at the nearby street. They’d figured out what happens to people who stay in the poison too long and it was at least a bit concerning. Milling around on the street below them was a bunch of people... though perhaps that was overly generous to their intelligence. The group was just milling about on the street, travelling in random directions and turning around. Usually when they hit something.

Their skin had taken on an odd green colour. Not like Thyme’s skin could be, and not as if they’d been painted green. The closest comparison Kat could give was as if someone had gotten neon green tattoo ink and spread it over their entire body. Even still, that wasn’t quite right either. Kat wanted to say they looked like plant people but they didn’t and that was perhaps the more disturbing part. Also they were acting like zombies.

Kat flicked her girlfriend lightly on the head. *

Kat sighed, but Lily was correct. She was no expert in potions and whatever was done to them probably wasn’t going to be an easy fix. Though kat did make a note to ensure that her skin didn’t start turning green. A quick check for that before they flew off would probably be for the best. *

Kat found her own body was the same as it always was. She technically had a slight greenish tint, but a quick brush through the air showed that it was simply the mist colouring things a bit rather then her skin that had changed. Lily was in much the same boat. So whatever was going on with the people on the street it hadn’t seeped into either of them yet.

Kat got back to flying, and it didn’t take them long to leave the street behind. What did cause an issue was when they got to a line of trees four streets over. Kat wasn’t flying too high to avoid being outside the gas an unable to see anything. When the trees were coming up, Kat simple angled herself to fly over it with a couple of centimetres to spare for clearance. This would prove to be a poor decision. As Kat flew over the tree, a vine whipped out and wrapped itself around her leg, tugging her towards it.

Kat tried to resist but she couldn’t put enough power into her wings to overcome the force of the pull and was yanked backwards. Hissing in annoyance, Lily sent out her claws of shadow to shred the offending vine but they were already travelling backwards. As Kat made contact with the tree, several dozen other vines reached out to tie her down and Lily shredded all of them as well.

Kat pushed off the tree and tried to fly away but was once again interrupted by a vine going for her. Three this time. One for each of her feet and one for her wings. Lily sliced through them with a soft huff as Kat sped away. The tree sent out a few more vines to try and catch up to them but they were already too far away. Kat kept going for a bit longer until she was absolutely sure the tree couldn’t attack them anymore, and gently set down on a rooftop.

Kat flew back into the air and returned to their old flight path, with some adjustments. Kat started to take slightly sub optimal lines to avoid any trees in the future. Just in case. Even if none of the other trees attacked them the time loss was minimal and they weren’t even sure they were heading in the correct direction just yet.

’Not-zombies’ got more common as they continued deeper into the poison. People who had less of a chance to run away, or perhaps simply hadn’t been scared enough of the mist to run, perhaps thinking it was some sort of mass pesticide plan. Kat couldn’t really comment. Especially when they approached the farms. The farmland was a ways out, barely visible at the edge of Kat’s ability to see. They’d been decimated.

Whatever had been growing there was gone. Completely flattened, and left behind were bits and pieces of pink slime scattered around the field itself and extending a bit into the land around them. No sign of the crops remained after they’d been used as fuel for Appoline’s experiments.