D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 2328 A Baller Pastime

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Previously on D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad...
Kat and Appoline prepare for the next stage of the tournament, with Appoline brewing a variety of potions. They enter the caverns but struggle to find the correct path, finding only dead ends until they realize smaller tunnels might be the answer. Lily volunteers to scout ahead into one of these smaller tunnels alone, only to be immediately attacked by a strange, unfeeling metal ball.

--- Lily ---

Lily was heading towards the centre. That seemed the most likely place for the portal to be, though there was an issue. As she got further in the balls increased in number and they got smaller. It seemed that the dirt and stone they were collecting along the way was somehow being converted into additional mass. This meant she had to switch tunnels a few times to make sure she could make it through, and Lily even had to teleport a couple of times to keep moving.

While Lily was managing, and Kat could deal with it... Appoline was going to struggle. They didn’t have enough ground softening potion to deal with this and it was unclear how well it would work on disconnected pieces of earth, or converting longer strands instead of the immediate area as it currently did.

Kat and Lily could likely break through a lot of it... but it was more time that they could potentially be spending on other things. There was also the balls to consider. The ones up close were very, very small. So small that Lily actually missed one as it slammed into her side. It managed to eat away at a good chunk of fur before she’d moved out of the way. It was so small and there was just... so much movement sounding out around her that she lost track of exactly what the closest one was. Annoyingly, it was the breaking down of the rock that actually made the movement. One flying towards her was nearly silent and it’s not like they smelt like anything.

Lily was tempted to follow up on that, mostly asking if Appoline had sampled many spirits, or if she tried to stay away from that sort of research in a more general sense but the portal had come into view. Mostly. The area around it was pockmarked by hundreds, perhaps thousands of little holes that made the area look more like a flyscreen then stone. Lily was amazed it hadn’t collapsed, or perhaps, it had and more of it had been eaten away until things sorted themselves out.

It wouldn’t be too hard to break through. A good swipe would be enough, so that wouldn’t stop Appoline... it was the other areas of this rock that would cause issues. That and the portal WAS there. Though notably... this one seemed oddly blank? Lily wasn’t sure if she was just at a bad angle or what but she couldn’t really see anything through the portal, not even the ground. That was worth mentioning at least.