Location:
Cogsfell
12.000 hours
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Whatever Myrilla thought of Lucrecia’s words, she gave no indication as she’d stand at the side of the ship, watching each of maids dive overboard with their given mission. It was no doubt in part to see their judgment and function in the field, after all…even if the had all the information in the world, demons were rarely so easily dealt with.

As they fell, the could see demons. Some small, some larger, running through the streets. The smell of fire, sulfur and fell heat quickly met the maids as they’d fall, and Polina, saw fit to launch a pre-emptive strike on the demons that she saw, noticeably…the largest one she could currently see. Three shots from her rifle above the howls of demonic beasts and occasionally scream from an unlucky human.

Each shot would hit its mark, hitting the creatures centermass even if it was hard to tell what exactly it was this far away, or how much damage it did, but the moment the bullets pierced the creatures flesh, itd stop whatever it was doing, screeching loudly and beating the ground with large hands as it’d furiously turn in the direction of the shots fired.

It would not take long for the creature that Polina had antagonized to show itself. The unintelligible screeching and roaring was already heading in their direction. They could feel the ground rumble slightly, loud, fast footsteps as whatever it was charged right for them. A loud, demonic growl as it’d round the corner of a nearby building, slamming into it with its body and knocking what little remained of the building into rubble.

It was…some sort of large, black, hollow creature. The size of a tank, and built like a gorilla with shorter legs and large, massive hands used for walking as it slid to a halt, nearly crashing into the fountain as it’d turn its headless, hollow body towards Polina. Instead of a head or any seeming vital organs, it was replaced with a hollow that was as big as the width of its shoulders that was full of roiling, hot magma. Its flesh was black and tarry, smelling of burned flesh.

She could see the charred, quickly melting, remains of recently deceased in the beasts ‘stomach’, if the hollow space could be called that.

There was no doubt about it, this was a Greater beast. The shots Polina fired seemed to have done nothing but agitate it for the moment as it immediately charged towards the maid, seemingly aware that she was the one that had attacked it.

Katherine and the others could hear other demons howling. A group of demonic hounds bolted into the square, having heard the commotion, numbering about six. Odd, discordant laughter could be heard not far away, too and was slowly getting closer.

Seemed this little stunt had alerted a decent number of demons to their location.

Perhaps they should finish this quickly.

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"Bozhe…I still can’t believe you did that." Leoniya sighed. “And was it wise not to tell them more? They are just recruits, we should be helping-”

“I’m not coddling them, rat.” Myrilla tersely replied. “Better now they get acquainted with how brutal the denizens of Naraheim can be, especially those of the first circle.” She’d chuckle, watching as one of the maids decided to paint a giant target on their collective backs from her perch above. “If they can clean up and find out what happened here, then that means their training and skills are at least passable. If not…then I’m feeding every single one of them to my pet.”

“Prostite?”

“...Oh, nothing. I just have a lovely pet dog back home. He’s quite the vicious and voracious little thing.” Myrilla turned, dress fluttering in the wind as she’d bring the cigarette pipe back to her mouth. “That said, if things truly turn dire…you have my permission to use that toy of yours.”

“Pravda?! Oh great serpent I haven’t been able to use him in ages!” Leoniya smiled brightly. “I shall go make sure he’s ready to drop!”