D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

Chapter 1665 Cave Stories

--- kat ---

"does anyone have any like stories? or things they want to chat about while we’re stuck?" asked kat as she stirred the pot. as in the literal pot for the stew. she wasn’t trying to create trouble at all even if she was a touch board.

meg shrugged, "i’ve always got more stories if people want to hear them... but not everyone finds them all that interesting... nor palatable,"

"i have similar issues with my own retellings. much of my hunts are simply a matter of finding the monster and killing it with various degrees of difficulty. i am aware of bards that are able to turn simple fights into epic tails but i have never been one of them. i can only recount my hunts, and while many were engaging and enjoyable in the moment most are not so in the retelling. i believe i have already mentioned most of the more interesting ones at this point," admitted hunter.

"hmmm... um... even though it’s not my story i suppose i could retell a few from my sisters? i can think of one involving the triplets and one for elmony. though um... with elmony’s powers her stories always did get a bit bloody..." mumbled kamiko.

"wait you’re related to the bloody wraith!" hissed meg.

"oh... um... maybe? i think that’s a title she has... but um... she el doesn’t really brag at home and i don’t really... socialise all that much. but um... it sounds right?" offered kamiko.

"she’s got blood wings and blood control powers? uses a few different weapons but mostly that... oh what’s it called... the scythe chain thing when she’s getting serious?" asked meg.

"oh... um the official name is a kusarigama but technically el doesn’t use the standard setup. because she can regenerate and naturally bleeds more to help fuel her abilities the chain is less of a chain and more of a series of spikes weaved together. it hurts quite a lot to wield if you’re a normal person but el can just turn of her sense of pain in specific body parts," answered kamiko.

meg nodded, "yeah i’ve heard rumours about her. is it true she took down a rank five demon in one of the wrath arenas?"

"oh... um... maybe? i think that was before i was born, but people have asked me that before. i... don’t really remember to follow up on it? i might have had it confirmed at one point or another but... eh," kamiko finished with a shrug.

"still they got the drakes... he kills one... and no big drake shows up. weird. el isn’t really sure what to do. qíbīng is bummed because he went through with it, and it comes out that he actually really likes dragons. wanted to have one as his spirit beast when he was younger. so it really hurt him to do...

"but no big drake. so el isn’t sure what to do, the people back at the sect were certain it would. everyone in the nearby area says it’s weird the drake didn’t show up. so what’s more important? this was a double contract. protect qíbīng and kill the drakes. ostensibly the same mission but apparently not.

"so el has to reach a decision. does she take qíbīng back to the sect, explain what happened and then head out on her own? or does she look for the drake. qíbīng insists on staying, el tries to send him home. in the end he wins the argument and they both head out.

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"it takes a few days of searching but the find the drake. it’s in the middle of transforming and el goes to kill it... only for qíbīng to stop her. they argue back and forth, and end up in a real fight. el has to go easy on him because of the whole ’keeping him alive thing’ but he does not hold back. they fight a bunch and eventually el smacks him into the drake, causing him to bleed over the thing...

"and completely disrupting its transformation. instead of transforming into whatever it was meant to be, the drake instead binds itself to qíbīng and upgrades itself with his affinity. qíbīng was an ice user, and both he and the dragon became frost-fire cultivators. it’s also capable of speech now. so technically a dragon...

"el wonders what she’s going to do. she’s worried because killing the dragon would now kill qíbīng, or severely injure him... when qíbīng asks for the wording,"

"oh i bet i know what the ending is!" jumped in meg.

kamiko startled at the interruption. "oh... um... yeah i’m sure it’s not hard to figure out... if you want to try go ahead,"

"i bet it was something like ’defeat the strongest drake in x area’ and now that it was technically a dragon your sister just needed to go off and find another strong one and call it good right?"

kamiko nodded, "yup pretty much," meg smiled like she’d just one a prize for some reason. kat of course just kept stirring the stew.