The surroundings quickly cleared up as Lori returned, her powers being released as she pushed away the crowd, her gaze focusing on me as she spoke to me.
“Follow me, the matriarch will meet you now.”
To her words, I turned to look to the back, my gaze meeting Carmel’s who, along with the rest, got down from the horses. They slowly walked up to me, while the gathered crowd gazed at the gathering. The women before now were eyeing Nix and Melvin like men eyeing women, the whole scene looking a bit disgruntling to the two young nobles of powerful houses.
“Make way! We are going to meet the matriarch!”
Once Lori called this out, a sense of power enamored the whole situation as we started to walk, with me taking the lead and the rest following after me. The whole village had a much more backward feel with its own intrinsic look that matched their style, though what was more intriguing was that most of the ones herr has a powerful aura to them.
The women walked around in the lead, while the men looked submissive. The whole power dynamic looked quite weird as we kept moving around, soon reaching upon a large hut in the middle of the village, that looked to be the most luxurious one within the village. With a thud of the spear to the ground, the door to the hut opened up, us being led into the well-decorated hut.
Right in the center of the place, sitting on a throne of bones, sat a woman giving off a powerful vibe. Her presence filled the whole place as her powers seemed to be of the Origin level 9, while surrounding her sat several other women in an orderly fashion, all of them being more of the older age with powerful auras to them too, their eyes scanning us up and down.
Though the moment they saw me, their faces lit up. The demon woman sitting in the lead spoke up.
“Looks like you have grown up to be a fabulous warrior, Austin. Stunning, I have to say.”
To her words, with a smile, I walked up to her as she stood up from her throne, the two of us sharing a hug as I responded.
“Well, Chief Vick, you look fabulously strong as always. Did those biceps get even bigger?”
At my sly remark, she laughed as she buffed up her bicep, the woman looking quite intimidating with muscles growing all over her. After some small talk, her gaze landed on the ones behind me as she took a seat on the throne.
“I heard about what you need, but before that, don’t you know we don’t like visitors? Or have you forgotten?”
At the end of her words, the atmosphere got darker and more dangerous, to which I kept a light smile on my face as I responded.
“I wouldn’t have done this if it weren’t important, and you know me well. The ones here will undergo any trial to gain recognition of the tribe before they make any move.”
My words brought the entire focus of the women in the hut to Carmel, Nix, Melvin, and Nini, to which Chief Vick pointed at Nini first as she spoke.
“That one doesn’t need to go through any trial, the strength she possesses is more than enough to gain our admiration.”
At the words of Chief Vick, all the mouths of Nini’s gave a dangerous smile, while the pressure in the room focused on the other three, a glint passing through Chief Vick’s eye as she spoke.
“So they know about our traditions, right?”
To which I replied.
“Yes.”
“Then let’s get the party started!”
At her shout, the ground slowly started to shake, all three beings surprised for a moment after which they regained their sense of balance. All of us soon headed outside as a crowd had already formed. Several demon women stood their ground with all of them hitting the ground with their spears, the call of the wild activated as Chief Vick spoke with a smirk.
“Let’s show them our hospitality, shall we!”
With her shout, the ground started to shake harder. Thanks to me already having spoken to the three about the traditions, they weren’t surprised much, but there still existed a certain anxiety in all of them as the crowd started to split, forming a circle as a woman that matched the origin level of Carmel stood out, her pressure powerful as she taunted Carmel.
“Come to me, little girl.”
At that call, the expression of Carmel turned dark, Carmelia no doubt taking over as she nodded her head, walking in front of the woman. The challenge for battle being called as the mana started to rumble, both the women stood against each other slowly gauging the other one. Just as an eyelid flashed, the demon woman was in front of Carmelia, her spear gaining momentum.
But her attack couldn’t land as Carmelia dodged it, and before the demon woman could react, a certain arrow suddenly appeared and hit her in the shoulder, its power knocking her back. As she regained her balance, the lust of battle only ignited stronger in her heart as she roared back.
“This is fun!”
Carmelia now already standing with a bow in her hand tapped the ground, a certain vibration going forth as pillars rose from the ground which the demon woman dealt with, her spear breaking through the earth as hundreds of arrows launched upon her, several striking her body, while blood fell.
But to this tribe it only made them stronger, as the demon woman that deflected the attack grinned, the pressure around her getting stronger as she made a thrusting motion forward, space seemingly feeling a twist as Carmelia suddenly disappeared from her position, where a large scar on the ground had already been formed.
“Huff….fight me head-on!”
As the demon woman shouted this, her body started to glow, the several lines on her blackish skin seemingly gaining life as her power boosted forth, her pressure doubling as she in a blink of an eye appeared in front of Carmelia who quickly tried to dodge yet a hit landed on her pushing her back, to which Carmelia quickly gained her strength.
But her opponent gave her no more breathing space as she started to attack Carmelia rigorously, the spear moving in a zigzag manner, hunting to kill. But Carmelia isn’t one to falter, as she using the edges of her bow started to fight back, the special combat style developed by Eleanor coming into play as she went toe to toe with her opponent.
“Yes! That’s it! That’s how a woman should fight!”
The demon woman shouted, her frenzy getting higher as was her power. The sheer force in her body, not one to be easily trifled with but would Carmelia be a heroine without her being special? Hence the sky started to suddenly darken, a light of the moon shining from within Carmelia’s body as she spoke.
“Enough.”
And that was it. The light of the moon graced Carmelia’s body, a silver beautiful light covering over her, as even her hair turned to silver. Along with it, Carmelia’s body became a phantom, the attack of the demon woman, her spear just passing through her body as Carmelia floating lightly on the ground waved her hand.
She called out as the gravity around her opponent got wobbly, the pressure being irregular as the demon woman tried to get a hold of herself. Sadly Carmelia didn’t even give her a chance to adapt as she called her second move as she pointed to the sky.
With that, the sky got even darker as silver light projections fell down upon the opponent. One must know that currently with the special abilities of the Zixon tribe, the body and power of the demon woman is extremely powerful, enough to break and tank any defense and attack, yet those attacks seemingly as butter got easily penetrated.
The silver light flowing like arrows hit several parts of the demon woman’s body, she tried to dodge yet the change in the environment, made it hard for her to do anything as the attacks penetrated her body. Thus within seconds, she lay on the ground, her body riddled with holes, while floating lightly above the ground stood Carmelia as she stared down with several thousands of those moonlight arrows around her.
“I concede….”
The woman spoke lightly to which Carmelia turned back to her normal form, and just as she did this, a shout came from Chief Vick.
“Marvelous!”
Thud!….thud!…thud!…
To her words, the ground started to shake harder as the rest of the demons rejoiced at the battle in front of them, the situation turning even more blood-pumping as another demon woman took front as she beckoned Nix to her. Meanwhile, Carmel back in control took my side, a small smirk on her face as she asked.
“Huh…how did I do?”
“Not bad.”
That is all I said, focusing on the next fight at hand.
