D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 2222 The - Number just Looks Neat

--- Lily ---

Lily had half given up on properly walking and instead had a small platform of shadows that was moving her carefully and quietly over towards the hole in the ceiling that she’d snuck through. Lily still couldn’t really hear anything and her eyes were in good condition if you ignored the water from the tears. Luckily they didn’t obscure her vision too badly.

Lily had made it to the gap in the ceiling and was able to look down herself. Brook stood in the only clean area, and surrounding her was thick green goop that seemed be able to keep everyone in the corridor trapped. Vanilla was stuck against a wall, struggling against the substance but so far making no progress while Maryland was up against the back wall, head slumped unmoving, and equally stuck in goop.

Lily kept her breathing quiet and carefully moved back from the edge as she tried to plan what her next move was as she creeped around to try and get an angle that would just barely allow her to keep watching on everyone else in the corridor who wasn’t Brook. The rest of the enchanters were probably safe... if only because they were locked into their rooms by the goop.

For the moment, Brook seemed to be watching carefully, and Lily needed a plan. *

Lily glanced around once more. Brook seemed to be slowly clearly away the gunk leading back to the main lobby with some sort of powder, and that seemed like a good enough distraction. Lily summoned her spell... but as soon as the sigil started to form. Not when it finished, only when it started, Brook was already moving. Paper shot out at the same time as Brook ducked to the side and, in the same motion, threw one of those fucking grenades towards Lily.

Lily growled and jumped away. The grenade wasn’t aimed directly for the gap, it was instead aimed for the ceiling she’d been standing on. As Lily glided away that section of roof exploded as, instead of light, a bunch of stone shot through the roof breaking away pieces of it as it went and shattering against the rocks on the ceiling above. Lily was out of the way for the most part, but now Brook was aware of her again and the hole in the ceiling was a lot larger.

Lily was considering what her follow-up move was going to be... but Brook needed to waste no time with that. Three more grenades flew through the expanded hole. One went ’forward’ and left, the other went ’forward’ and right from Brook’s perspective... but the crazy one, was the final grenade which bounced against the edge of the hole and rebounded to fly back towards the area Brook was... but hidden by the roof to keep her safe. It meant that basically every direction Lily could have run was covered in one way or another.

Lily reacted swiftly, she didn’t know what effects these would have, but she didn’t want any of them to get close to her. Paper walls rose up from nothing to block the bombs somewhat... and of course the flash of light that came later showed her what kind had been used. Lily was hidden behind a wooden beam and two layers of paper. The light tried its best but what little made it to her hiding spot wasn’t enough to cause further damage...

But throwing up those barriers still cost mana. Mana that she did not have to waste. Five percent and change. Lily was down to about fifteen percent of mana and the worry was that only ten percent of that could be safely used. The last five carried a decently high risk to it, and after that? Well Lily would just need to rely on her teeth and claws. Getting up close to Brook still seemed like a bad idea but it was seeming like less of a bad idea then anything else she could come up with.

Lily was about to start moving when another set of grenades flew upwards, following the same trajectory. Lily debated blocking them again, but simply decided to use a single sheet of paper closer to her to defend it. Even if it burnt up it would hopefully take some of the light away... except that’s not what happened.

Instead of light, each grenade exploded into the same green goo that had trapped Vanilla, and Lily knew she needed to move. The paper shield had absorbed all of the stuff coming straight for her... but it couldn’t hold it forever. Not only was some of it already dripping down, but she’d used as little mana as possible and the paper itself wouldn’t last long. Lily tried to fly away, but her wings screamed in pain as she extended them out. Instead, Lily was forced to grab onto a rock above her with her shadows and continue moving away from the hole.

Which was when she got an idea. *