Chapter 38: Monster
’Good!’
Vlad smiled as he saw the signal, pleased with the soldiers’ quick response. Of course, he was still in great danger, with demons coming from both ahead and behind him, but now that he didn’t need to draw their attention, escaping wasn’t too hard.
He made a sharp turn, darting to the side and blasting through a door into a building. The demons immediately chased after him, but they were so numerous and the space so limited that they ended up trampling over each other.
Vlad’s smile widened as he saw this, but he didn’t wait around. He immediately started his ascent to the rooftop as the monsters began to chase after him. The building trembled as some of the stronger demons started breaking the pillars and walls, but Vlad only needed it to hold until he reached the rooftop.
Once there, he planned to jump to the other buildings and move away from the horde. Some might chase him, but most would give up once they lost sight of him.
The building had ten stories, and Vlad reached the seventh in less than a minute, a smile radiant on his face as he felt sure of his success. Suddenly, everything began to tremble. It wasn’t just the building due to the destruction caused by the demons, but the ground itself. He looked through the windows on the side and saw the cause, causing his eyes to widen in shock.
"What the hell!"
What shocked Vlad was simple: a hippopotamus, one of Terra’s many natural life forms. However, this one was nearly seven meters tall and was charging forward with such momentum and power that it made the earth tremble beneath its feet, shattering all the houses in its path!
Although Vlad was shocked, he recognized the creature’s nature thanks to Asmael’s memories. It was not a Champion demon like the Abyssal Mantis, but an actual life form of Terra, a hippopotamus.