Chapter 72: Wooden World(8)
As the wooden beings began moving forward, towards the now clothes pair standing atop the stony shores, the only place were there, for some reason, hadn't been any wooden puppets that sprung out of the gravel, though the river had not even subjected to that same expectation, Cades cursed under his breath, condemning the archer for his rash actions.
But there was no time to fret about that, only to defend.
About a dozen of the creatures, those that stood closest to the one the archer had shot in his panic all attacked them, trying to rip them apart in a seemingly mindless rage, a rage that Cades knew too well, a rage that he still remembered from when he fought against some of the latter demons on the world before he was banished to this horrendous realm.
Yet, uncaring of that, they defended the attack of all these beings, each around the rank of apex, a rank that now that Cades had truly began thinking about it was horribly ineffective in every way.
The apex and lord ranks were similar to the first two sequences that come before them, in the first two sequences that which is summoned often looks incredibly powerful but is in actuality weak, this happens due to the simple fact that beginners of those tiers have no idea on how to hold their powers back.
And as such the difference was clear, as shockwaves resounded around them when the apex-ranks hit them while they themselves barely gave off any shock, instead directing the force into the enemy due to the simple fact that while they had regressed in rank they still had the knowledge and skills that came with the higher ranks, not much for those that had never truly trained, like Cades, except for a few years with his father, but still enough to cause an obvious difference.
Such a great difference actually that the hands of the wooden creatures that had met with theirs, those beings that had attacked taking the position of the first wave were completely blown apart, bent inwards, and pressuring the wood inside, though it was steadily "blowing" itself up once more, just like a balloon.
And within seconds they were complete once more, not during those few seconds, three in number, no, within those few seconds even more of the wooden creatures began fighting from, more collisions and more chaos, some of the smaller monsters, those resembling animals more than sentient, bipedal beings were pushing themselves through the wooden puppets that were somehow standing still despite being able to move without any problem.