Triiffic-Soul: Can I Be In Control?-Chapter 89 – Clashing

Chapter 89 – Clashing

[Demon…] Luna internally muttered as she stared at the creature. Deep forgotten experiences yelling at her to kill it.

The situation jumped from simple and manageable to immediate danger and concern.

Demons and monsters—a child who heard scary stories about both without seeing either might think of them as the same thing, but they were so very different.

The demon appeared to be a long snake with over twenty long insectoid legs that dug into the mountainside, allowing it to ‘float’ above Anlesa. Its face was a squashed snake’s head with two large horns growing out the side.

Syrus’ experiences with demons were few and far between. Demons tended to live in their territories and rarely left them. So, because of that and there not being a territory close to where she lived in her past life, she never encountered them often. Her opinions on them were basically nonexistent; they were a living creature, and that was about it.

Eva’s understanding was even less.

Then there was Luna’s. She knew a lot from readings and practical experiences she chose not to speak about. Had her opinions of demons changed from passing over into a new life? That was a question she had been asking herself for a long time. Syrus’ neutral stance towards them was because she considered them a natural part of life. Luna understood that mindset because they were nothing like monsters that had affected her… but it wasn’t like the situation with Eva and her exotic attributes, that was something she always knew that treatment was wrong, they were still humans after all and her new life removed those negative feelings after a few road bumps.

“A little frightened, shaken by me, unable to process the sight of the me.” The demon’s neck slithered and turned ninety degrees. There was a gap between where the legs grew from and where the neck and tail started. The tail especially had quite the length to it.

The demon’s potential taunts were met with Syrus brandishing her sword as a crimson fire erupted from it.

She swung her blade upwards, and the fire climbed high with the motion.

“Danger ah danger, oh oh do we do.” The demon scuttled up the mountain just out of range. Its calm voice sounded like there was no danger, but the speed of its motion, the twitches of its eye, and the immediate small adjustments it made to stay balanced and out of range were all noticed by Syrus.

Syrus loudly declared, “Maybe it will do you better to sneak up on someone!”

“I see, I see, humans are always so difficult, troubling, complicated in a way that is not me.” The kind of snakelike demon sang and hissed.

[That’s… a demon……] (Eva)

[A demon. Don’t expect the next one to look anything like it.] (Syrus)

[I… see… are we going to… fight it?] (Eva)

[Maybe.] Syrus returned a non-answer. But she did adjust her sword to angle towards the demon. Her eyes twitched as listened for any sound it made.

[Is… it normal for demons to sneak up on us like… that…] Eva asked. The sudden appearance of the demon and the appearance of it frightened her, but the fact it managed to get past Syrus’ senses, which were already on high alert to navigate through the darkness of night, was the most terrifying.

[If it does not have a stealth ability, I will sell my sword.] (Syrus)

“Oh do we have, have we here, looks like the pesky is coming.” The demon called out, and Syrus noticed as well. The massive mutated deer tore through the trees and came running towards them.

[Hmm…] Syrus judged the situation and jumped towards the charging animal.

[Syrus! When do you want me to deploy the wire?] (Eva)

[When I give the command.] (Syrus)

Eva pulled from their experiences hunting normal deer to suggest a solution. It was what Syrus had been trying Eva with, this was just that, but much, much bigger.

The deer’s elephant-like legs stomped across the grass between the forest and the mountainside, pounding the ground like a drum.

Syrus examined the creature; her sword was long enough to clean through the whole leg, but she just needed the right angle. She angled the blade upwards, ready to poke the beast if it got near, but angled it in the right enough direction that she could bring it down in a chopping swing.

Sprinting at each other, the deer lunged at the Anlesa. Utilising its massive body to squash the bug.

Syrus pivoted around the legs, stabbing and dragging the tip of the blade like a knife on the edge of the beast's skin.

The deer barked in pain, and its eyes glowed red in frustration.

With its momentum, it had already passed Anlesa and so the deer turned and lowered its head to skewer the human attacking it. Making no note of the large demon watching above on the mountainside.

Syrus dropped the angle of her blade and gripped with two hands, ready to make a wide swing upwards.

The monstrous deer had veins emerge all over its body as its skin darkened and hardened.

[It doesn’t want to give me an easy cut, huh.] (Syrus)

[Syrus, I am ready.] (Eva)

The deer rammed towards them, its horns expanding further and rapidly growing in length, and additional thorny spikes emerged all over them.

Just before contact.

Syrus said, “Burst.” And a torrent of fire exploded around her, and she jumped with her Blood attribute, boosting her strength.

The flames were as nasty as normal fire, but nothing crazy, but it caused the deer to flinch. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

The deer lunged its head upwards, but Syrus had the lead.

Her blade swung with motions, and its length easily cleaned through the mutated creature's neck.

Drop

Bump

The tower body crumbled over onto the ground, and the head flew for a moment and plopped onto the ground a little bit away.

Syrus landed back on the ground with a loud thump, wiping off the flames that stuck to her shirt.

With the head cleanly separated from the corpse, Syrus turned towards the demon, who hadn’t made a sound to indicate it had moved.

“Now, now, I do greatly appreciate, the effort, the struggle, the taking of my position on this task.” The demon sang as its large body appeared next to the corpse of the mutated creature.

[Fuck, I missed it again.] (Syrus)

[How is it doing that! It’s giant?!] (Eva)

The demon wrapped its tail around the body of the mutated creature. “To home I shall go, to return I will go.”

Syrus swore, “Just fucking talk normally, you damn weird demon.”

“Rude and to me, how mean and not nice, may again the sides meet.”

“That wasn’t a sign to talk even worse.” Syrus in control showed no fear, not that she had any to show to begin with.

“Ah fuck.” Syrus sighed, “Let’s just go back with the head.”