Eldritch Creature's Guide

Now that the demons had killed the leaders of the Human Brotherhood, the contract had officially ended and he could escape as fast as possible. He had prepared an escape plane, as he had already paid a Mind Flyer smuggler to smuggle him out from the 8th Floor of the Tower for an appropriate price.

Right now, he was heading towards the outskirts of the Selangrad, where his Mind Flyer smuggler contract should be already waiting for him, considering the situation on the 8th Floor of the Tower was right now. He was not stupid to let himself be killed for nothing, as he took what he could and ran as fast as possible towards the place where the Mind Flyer Smuggler was waiting for him.

Amidst the running, Arion puts his hand on the injury that was on his stomach, realizing that he had not had much time to live. He needed to get to the location as fast as possible to start the healing process as he had right now only something between twenty-five to thirty minutes to live.

As he was running through the streets of the Selangrad's Core Layer, Arion didn't even realize that the temperature around him was getting colder and colder, as suddenly, out of nowhere, hundreds of icicles shot toward severely injured Arion as they hit him at their fullest force.

Instantly not even several seconds later, Arion saw a bolt of greenish energy as an enormous waraxe appeared next to his head, as Arion managed to dodge the slash by the waraxe on the last second, while at the same time he dodged the attack of the waraxe, several more Spell Holding Wards have activated and tens of curses were released simultaneously at the Arion, as he felt his power weakening.

'This is not going to end well.'

Arion thought as he felt his power leaving him while barely recognizing the Necromantic Curses that were being thrown at him from the Spell Holding Wards.

***

Several minutes earlier, with Samiel and the Khaos Chapter

After entering the Core Layer of the Selangrad, Samiel was leading the merry band of the Khaos Chapter deeper into the Core Layer as they searched for something valuable. Samiel, as greedy as he was, refused to leave Selangrad without obtaining some riches of the city. It was no secret in the Tower that Selangrad was one of the richest cities on the Lower Floors of the Tower.

'What it is Nefertari?'

Samiel asked his familiar who was scouting the area before them to get information as that was a crucial aspect of any fight... information. Sometimes information may be even more important than brute power if the person holding the information knew how to use it. Samiel always used Nefertari to scout for information, and once again, she proved her prowess and usefulness in this aspect.

'There is an enemy ahead of us... several hundred meters. Gold-Tier human Professional, severely injured with his lifeforce weakening every second.'

When Samiel heard Nefertari's voice in his head, he was elated and scared at the same time. The Gold-Tier human Professional that was heading towards their way was not a good signal at the very least, yet at the same time, it could be an opportunity for them to kill some big fish and obtain a good amount of treasures.

For sure, the surviving Gold-Tier Professional of the Human Brotherhood would have some things of significant value on them. Even though the human was severely injured, according to the Nefertari, he was still a geniue Gold-Tier Professional, which made him extremely dangerous even in his current state.

So they would need to prepare an ambush and preferably use Dharzug as a heavy hitter because when he used his peak transformation, he could show combat prowess comparable to a weak Gold-Tier Professional for a short span of time.

"Severely injured Gold-Tier Professional is heading towards us. Nefertari told me that his injuries are critical and that he is barely half an hour to live. Judging by the speed he is heading out, he should be heading somewhere outside of the Selangrad and for some reason, he didn't do anything to heal his wounds. We need to set up the trap on him, if we kill him there is a very high possibility of getting some nice loot."

Samiel explained because this was an opportunity too good opportunity just to let it pass by, as he decided to kill the Gold-Tier Professional and obtain his wealth. He immediately started working by creating several of the Spell Holding Wards and at the same time, he was engraving into the curses of the Necromancy Arts.

While typically 1st Level Curses won't be able to affect Gold-Tier Professionals, but right now, the Gold-Tier Professional was already on the verge of death, and his entire system was doing everything to keep him alive as soon as possible. So, he wouldn't have enough energy to fight against the Curses that were cast by the powerful Necromancer.

When it came to Magic, even 1st Level Spell could be extremely destructive and powerful, especially the Curses in case if they were cast by the master Necromancer. If a master Necromance cast 1st Level Curse they could have such a strong effect to affect even high-tiered individuals.

Samiel managed to prepare everything within several minutes, as the Gold-Tier Professional was already near their position, as he ordered everyone to hide, while Dharzig was summoning the power of the Green Gods to enter his strongest state so he could be the front fighter against the Gold-Tier Professional of the Human Brotherhood, while the others would be acting as supports.

When everything was prepared, Samiel was using his Level 3 Ultimate Ability Winter Ruler as he was conjuring hundreds of icicles and shooting them all at the incoming Gold-Tier human Professional.

When the icicles started falling onto the Gold-Tier Professional, Samiel observed how the human attempted to dodge the incoming icicles, but unfortunately, due to the injuries that he sustained during the fight against the demon Gold-Tiers. Naturally, the icicles were not doing much against the Gold-Tier Professional, considering the fact that Samiel was still only a Bronze-Tier Professional, but his aim was not even to cause and considerable damage.

No... the real aim was to slow down the human Professional as the Spell Holding Wards activated themselves and released all of the curses that he stored in them, while simultaneously, Dharzug who was standing next to him, flashed in a green wave of energy and attacked the human Gold-Tier Professional with his waraxe.

Just in the last moment, the human Gold-Tier Professional managed to dodge the ork's waraxe that barely missed his head, and severed only a few strands of his hair. Not wasting any more time, Dharzug attacked once more, as he kicked the human Gold-Tier Professional with a powerful kick as he used the power of the Green Gods to enhance his strength.

Sending the human Gold-Tier flying, Dharzug didn't waste any second as he rushed directly after him, slashing at the defenseless human with his waraxe, this time, hitting him directly in his chest, as his waraxe cut deeper into his chest, but not causing him any severe injury.

It was still a serious injury that was caused by the ork, as the human Gold-Tier Professional coughed some blood from the axe attack, while Samiel used that opportunity when his guard was lowered, as he sent several 5th Level Spells of the Void Magic, Void Bombs, the second Dharzug jumped away from the human as series of explosions enveloped around him.

In a split of perfect coordination between them, Dharzug once again summoned the power of the Green Gods, as Samiel started chanting something in the R'Lyehian Language as he was calling down the Great Powers of the Void to give him the strength needed to best his foe in the fight, as out of nowhere space cracked around them and the Void itself started creeping out.

"And let it be known to all sheep of the O'Lord that the only salvation is in the Void, as in the Void we turn and everything there shall return! So I call the great powers of the Void, destroy this enemy of the great powers before me and let the world be cleansed of his filth!"

Samiel shouted as several tentacles shot out of the Void as they pierced through the body of the Gold-Tier Professional in a split of a second while corroding his body at the same time. Unfortunately for the human, before he could do anything else, only a 'clink' sound was heard as his head fell onto the ground, severed in one clean swipe of Dharzug's waraxe.

***

In the Core Layer of the Selangrad, in one of the destroyed streets of the city, a headless corpse of the Gold-Tier Professional was laying on the ground, while the entire street was half-destroyed

"That was a good one..."

Samiel stated as he watched how the head of the Gold-Tier human Professional rolled down and blood spluttered from his neck. This was indeed spectacular as they managed to bring down Gold-Tier Professional, albeit a severely injured one that was already on the verge of death but still it was geniue Gold-Tier Professional.

"It was the result of good planning and good work. Through careful planning and cooperation, we managed to bring down the Gold-Tier Professional of the Human Brotherhood..."

Samiel stated as he went to the corpse of the Gold-Tier Professional of the Human Brotherhood and took his Dimensional Ring. He didn't bother checking it out right now, as he planned to leave that for a later date when he would be in a much safer enviroment to check it out.

"We need to leave the city... logically speaking, this is already a better result than I could ever hope for."

Samiel muttered as it was already time to leave. Soon enough, this would be swarming with demon soldiers, not to mention, Smaiel was aware of the forces of Star-Moon Coalition that were heading towards the Selangrad and would soon arrive, meaning the real fight would just start.

And that was something that Samiel didn't want to be caught in because when the Star-Moon Coalition forces arrived, the real mess would start. When he checked the Holo-Brain several minutes ago, before the fight, he saw that the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition were already near the Selangrad.

"We need to leave the city... soon enough, the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition will arrive at the Selangrad and it will become absolute chaos here."

Samiel stated as Juulius and Yvraine agreed with him because neither of them wanted to be caught in the crossfire between two sides of demons that hated each other to death and would stop at nothing to kill each other.

Yvraine wasn't a fan of pointless fights because, according to her logic, it was a waste of time and strength. She was never fond of Samiel throwing himself into one fight after another because she found it stupid and pretty dangerous as hell.

Meanwhile, Juulius saw no point in staying in the Selangrad longer than was necessary because, in truth, he didn't even see the point of Samiel attempting to get resources from the Human Brotherhood. Still, he understood that this was probably one of the quirks of the Holy Son of the Hall of Kadath.