Female Novel
Chapter 36
Some hours after Gravis left the Hunting Guild, he arrived at a destroyed village. All the wooden huts were broken into piecesand piled into a hill. This was The Demon's lair. No one could afford to place a bounty for a medium-grade demonic beast aroundthese parts. So, most of the villagers had fled the village, while only the old, stubborn villagers remained. Sadly, by the looks ofthe destroyed village, their end was not peaceful.
The Demon had made its nest out of the remains of the village to demonstrate its dominance. Humans had exclusive livingspace and were the overlords of this world. Only in the wilderness, could beasts thrive. By occupying an exclusive living space ofthe humans, The Demon was demonstrating its dominance.
Gravis spotted parts of The Demon poking out from beneath the rubble. The Demon was a gigantic centipede, about 30 metersin length. Hooked legs grew from the centipede's segmented body, which they could use to stab and grip their prey. Theirrelatively small front, together with their many legs, made them incredibly fast. On top of that, every section of its body wasencased in thick armor. Their bite was also incredibly venomous.
Speed, defense, power, and venom. All of this made The Demon a fearsome opponent. It was probably very powerful, even for amedium-grade demonic beast. All parts of its body were made to kill. At the start of their lives, centipedes were small and weak,which meant that this specimen had to work hard to get to its current strength. So, its will would also be very robust.
Under normal circumstances, Gravis couldn't even hope to scratch the centipede. It would outspeed him and surround him withall its legs. At that point, only death would await him. There were only two things he could rely on: His Formation Array, and hisElemental Synchronicity.
Gravis quickly retreated to the nearby forest and began his preparations.
About an hour later, he came back to the village. He could not win against The Demon in a fair one-on-one fight. This time, hehad to use his smarts.novelbin
Gravis slowly entered the village's vicinity. When he felt that he was close enough, he instantly released his Will-Aura and ranaway as fast as possible. His Will-Aura would provoke The Demon into attacking him since he had so arrogantly displayed hiskilling intent in its nest.
Just as he had thought, the mound in the village grew restless, and a big head with two humongous mandibles rose. The Demonfelt the direction the Will-Aura was coming from, and sprinted to it, not making a single noise.
Gravis ran with all of his power, but The Demon was about three times as fast as him. If it caught him before he reached theforest, he would die. Gravis felt The Demon coming closer, and cold sweat came rushing down his back. He hadn't been thisafraid since his fight with the tortoise, and he felt like he would die soon.
When Gravis went past the forest's edge, The Demon was only 20 meters behind him, and it was gaining ground, fast! Graviscontinued sprinting into the forest, and soon, the Demon entered as well.
It quickly reached Gravis and tried to bite him.
"This is it!" Gravis shouted and jumped upward with all his strength. The bite barely missed him, and the centipede quicklysurrounded the landing spot of Gravis, its legs ready to strike. "Let's hope this works!" Gravis shouted and threw the jade tokenwith all his strength in the middle of the surrounded area.
The jade token exploded, and many lines and drawings encompassed the surroundings in a ten-meter diameter. The centipedewas completely boxed in since it had curled itself into a ring while surrounding Gravis.
The centipede felt something was wrong, and a shrill screech left its mouth. Gravis quickly took the chance, while the centipedewas confused, and jumped through a gap between two of its legs. One leg completely bisected his left triceps, while the otherone tore a massive gash into Gravis' other side.
Gravis was badly hurt and couldn't release his full power anymore, but that didn't matter now. The deed was done, and theremainder of his plan would not require his combat power.
Gravis quickly ran around the forest and cut down tree after tree. Then, he threw every tree into the Formation Array. The Demonwas busy trying to break through the Formation Array and ignored the wood. Over a couple of minutes, Gravis filled nearly thewhole restriction with wood.
After he had filled the restriction, he cut some more trees and laid them beside the formation. That took him another couple ofminutes.
After a while, he had created multiple "streets" of trees that led to the Formation Array. Now, all preparations were finished.Gravis looked around and saw that a couple of trees had started burning already. In the hour, where he had retreated afterinitially seeing the village, he had created multiple campfires in the forest. After all this time, some trees had started to ignite.Now, it was showtime!
Gravis quickly controlled the flames and made them burn more ferociously. He expedited their fire, which made the flames growhotter and bigger. He willed the flames to start burning the "streets" of trees he had created, and slowly, the fire crept to theFormation Array.
It took a little over a minute until the roaring flames started igniting the wood inside the Formation Array. The centipede grewfrantic as the heat increased, and started thrashing around its body to throw away all the burning wood. It had some success, butsomehow, the fires were still angled towards the Formation Array, even if the wood remained outside.
Just beyond the range of the Formation Array, lots of burning wood was placed, with their flames angled towards the FormationArray, like they were in an intense storm. The Demon tried everything to throw those logs of burning wood away, but it couldn'ttouch them since they were beyond the Formation Array's boundary. After a while, it compressed its body into a tight ball andremained in the middle of the Formation Array.
Gravis saw this, and his brows furrowed. The centipede might survive like this. He did not know how effective the surroundingheat was, but the centipede did not touch the flames directly. This could be problematic.
Gravis quickly got another idea and started digging up the dirt around the Formation Array. Just as he had thought, theFormation Array was enclosing the centipede not in a dome, but in a ball. The Formation Array included the top and the bottom.
Using his Elemental Synchronicity, he broke the hard soil and began to move it away in vast swaths. Even with his ElementalSynchronicity and his incredible strength, it still took him about an hour to remove the soil completely. Now, the Formation Arraylooked like a flying ball. Half of the ball was filled with dirt, and the other half had the centipede.
Gravis quickly willed for the dirt to leave the Formation Array. He had control of the Formation Array, and he could decide whatcould leave. His newly dug hole was nearly full of dirt again, but now, the centipede was the only thing left in the ball.
Gravis cleared the dirt away again, but this time, it only took some minutes. He had already broken down the earth on theunderside, and it was not hard to push the dirt up the slope again. Gravis grew more frantic, as he only had about 30 minutes leftuntil the Formation Array would stop working.
The fire still raged, and Gravis threw more wood into the empty "pot" of earth. When he had finally filled the pot, only 20 minutesremained on the Formation Array. Gravis was breathing heavily. He had used all his strength for over 1.5 hours, but finally, it wasdone.
Gravis sat down and willed the flames to burn the wood under the centipede. It didn't take long until an absolutely furious pillar offlames was created under the centipede.
The Demon was madly twitching and moving around, but it could not grip or stab the Formation Array, so it could not climb it.This scene continued for multiple minutes.
Finally, after 15 minutes, thecentipede lost its strength, and it fullycollapsed into the\flarke’ GrSvisdidn't wa tto take any chances, sohe continued burning the centipedeuntil the Formation Array collapsed.The content is on NovelDrama.Org!Read the latest chapter there!
Five minutes later, the Formation Array collapsed, and The Demon fell onto the burning wood. Gravis watched it, and only whenit didn't move for another minute, did he go closer.
Gravis was immune to the flames, sohe simply waltzed through them. Hetook a closer look at oesand sa thghitscirisite rokethrough its shell on multiple places.The shell couldn't withstand theincreasing pressure of its insides andhad exploded. The whole body wasblack and burned everywhere. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!
The Demon was definitely dead.Gravis sighed in relief and sat down in the bonfire. He didn't mind the heat. It felt relaxing, actually.
The corpse couldn't be used foranything. Everything was burnedbeyond recognition and would coeturn to ash. Its headw@d sfillOretativelintact ee ae the lastthing that fell to the flames. Gravisquickly cut off its head, by sawingthrough the weakened armor on itsbody, and carried it out of the fire. Hehad to prove that he had completedthe mission, after all. The content ison NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
With this, he could finally temper his skin.