[Back at the Keep ten minutes before the monsters reach Kazz]
"You just left him there with her?! ARE YOU THAT STUPID?!" Nixi roared and expanded, snatching the cowering Mex up off the ground with one hand.
"Lani won't hurt him!" Mex yelped.
"I am not worried about her, she is a far better demon than you, and she actually does the job she was given! Has it been so long since Hammond, the Bearman Hero killed, was here?! He went to the village after getting strong fast to try and leave? Don't you remember who was waiting for him?!" Nixi growled, squeezing Mex harder, making his eyes bulge.
Then it hit Mex almost like a hammer to the head, realizing what the power was he was feeling. Nixi was forced to drop, and Mex glared at her, now almost as big.
"Port me there, now. I am an idiot, but I need to get there now, so take my left wing for it; that will grow back. I need to get back there before there is nothing left of everything, but I should have known that the Kings would be starting to come for him!" Mex roared in a fury at himself for being so thoughtless.
Nixi reached down without a thought and tore his wing off, causing him to scream out in pain. Nixi needed something of his body to send him this far away with her Necromantic Blood Magic, and then just to be sure, and then ate them both.
Pink runes started to appear all over Nixi's body as black blood poured down Mex's back as he gritted his teeth. With her sharp teeth that had devoured the wings, Nixi bit off her right thumb, but the blood that came out was the same color as the glow pink runes.
"The price has been paid, but you have no wings, so prepare yourself for the drop. Do not let that boy die, or I will kill you!" Nixi growled and drew a glowing circle and then reached through it and pulled Mex's massive body that was sucked until he disappeared into a single point.
"Are you sure that your son can handle this? There is a huge force out there waiting; I know you can feel it. I can feel the Demon King as well; while he is only a D Rank, there are hundreds of creatures the same rank as your son and granddaughter!" Clesh said to Nixi as she was shrinking down, but once she was back to her diminutive old lady size, she waved Clesh off.
"I sent five of the girls to help; this is what he has been collecting them for and giving them strange abilities. It's about time they got some actual battle experience, or we will never make it across the ocean. You remember how many ships we had when we left Gardania, and how many we arrived with? This time we will be alone on the open water, so all of the ones that he is collecting will need to get stronger, and we shall serve them," Nixi said with a tired voice like she was explaining to a child for the fourth time.
"Serve? So then you are fine with submitting to him? You, of all people, would be the one to resist this, but you aren't. Why what has changed?" Clesh asked with an oblivious tone that made Nixi angry, but she held herself back and looked out through the castle when Lidy kicked Kazz.
The apartment was there, and it was getting bigger and full each day, but it was more than that. That man drove Nixi wild because he stood up for the other demons, and he had felt back after having to kill some.
In Nixi's mind, this was the stupidest thing that she had ever heard of. Even the higher Ranked Demon only acted civilly, but they were all the same kind of monsters.
Nixi knew she was a monster, consuming her kin to use magic and herself. Even though the limbs grew back, that didn't make her any less of a monster.
Somehow, this man was doing something to everyone. It was like everyone was changing by just being around him, and it was even happening to Nixi.
"It is because of him. That man keeps breaking the rules and then writing his own before you even have time to blink! Suddenly everyone is moving around more and talking! Even that jackass of a guard, Trig, is standing up straight! Who is this Kazz? Why is he so much different than every other Hero that has come through that portal? How many have we killed for treating us the way we see ourselves?" Nixi asked, and Clesh nodded.
"Quite different; look at how the grandmothers are acting? They have everything packed and ready to go, but they also watch him from the ball you gave him whenever you let them. Even Lidy is starting to change; she stopped and let the energy go, she lost it at first, but then she was able to stop herself! Have you ever seen that?" Clesh asked as they turned back to Nixi's tower and went inside.
Closing in on the village was four tall monster girls and one little one that was squealing in excitement on the back of Victoria. The Sphinx flew above the road with her sister, Candice and the other two women ran at top speed, arguing since they laid eyes on each other.
"Why didn't you stay with him? You loose Fire Witch!" Jilly shouted as she weaved to help her move faster.
"Shut up, you big-headed Cow Bug! He told me to go with Mex, and he is the master, or do you just not ever listen to him!" Lizy screeched as she galloped on her spider legs.
"You have better hope that he is okay!" Jilly shouted, but then Veronica swooped down to their heights.
"Stop it you two! Use the energy to get there; the attack is already starting! They are rushing up to the beach, so get a move on it. We will fly ahead, so hurry up and don't complain!" Veronica ordered them and then lifted them back into the air with Keri.
The two glanced at each other but then faced forward and redoubled their efforts.
Somewhere about a quarter mile down the coast, Mex was spat out of a pinhole fifty feet about the tree line and started to fall. He was not having a good day, and this was about the time that Kazz started to tap his foot to the song in his head, and the Mutalisk boys were closing in.
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