Chapter 18 - The Golden Demon Ape

Half an hour later, Ivy hand bonded with the seed and transformed into a small seed and was implanted into Cyrus’ prostate. Ivy needed time to fully merge with the new plant.

He placed her there because he wanted the plant to be a part of himself. 

Cyrus decided to return to the battle with the demon apes to claim the monster cores of the 6 demon apes he killed.

As he reached the battle scene, he found the area devastated by the golden demon ape. The trees surrounding the place were decimated and the golden demon ape left a trail of destruction as it left the area.

He quickly removed the cores from the 6 demon apes he killed and had a close look at the giant oak tree ent that was killed by the demon apes.

He extracted the heart of the ent which was an apply sized acorn and kept it.

Suddenly, he heard a loud roar coming several miles away. He quickly jumped onto his eagle and headed towards the direction of the roar, which coincidentally was the direction of the destructive path the golden demon ape left.

Not long after, from afar, he could see the golden demon ape battling someone and raging in a fury.

He watched as a insanely fast blur was avoiding all the projectiles thrown by the golden demon ape. Although the golden demon ape could not hurt the fast moving being, the being was being pinned back and kept on the defensive by the incredible destructive ability of the golden demon ape.

In a split second, the being attacked viciously as it stopped for split seconds to shoot arrow after arrow at the monster.

Cyrus could see that the being was and extremely attractive female elf. She had golden hair tied behind her, and was slim and elegant wearing leather clothing that showed off her curves. She was stunningly beautiful, and she moved with graceful efficiency.

It was as if every move she made was absolutely perfectly planned, every step, every dodge, every movement seemed as if it was choreographed to make her look good.

She was clearly a level 2 fighter, with every move completely efficient, with no wasted movement. 

However, all her arrows landed on vital spots but could not penetrate the fur of the golden demon ape. Even the arrows aimed at the eyes were blocked by the creature’s huge arms.

Suddenly the Golden Demon Ape clapped its hands together. The resulting shockwave caused 50 meters around the monster to be hit by damaging concussion waves. Trees in the affected area were all blown away.

The elf was effected and was sent flying into the trees, landing in a loud crash. The Golden demon ape immediately pounced towards the elf who lay badly injured.

Her pretty face looked dazed as her body was bleeding everywhere from the impact of smashing through so many trees. Blood was flowing out of her mouth and she had multiple cuts everywhere with flesh showing through her clothes.

Cyrus took action just as the monster was less than 10 meters from the elf as he used his right hand rune to pull the demon ape away while simultaneously the rune on his left hand shot out his 11 seals.

The seals shot at the demon ape fiercely, but none of them were able to penetrate its fur and instead flew around the demon ape and attacked in random patterns. Although they could not penetrate the golden fur of the demon ape, it was clear that they were causing it pain.

Cyrus rushed to the elf but she suddenly pointed behind him “Watch out” she whispered with her eyes showing fear.

Cyrus turned around to see the demon ape charging towards him. He extended his right hand and tried to repel the monster. However, to this surprise, the golden monster ape was slowed down to a halt, but suddenly started forcing its way forwards through pure physical strength.

“Such strength! This is the physical power of a level 3 demon beast?” thought Cyrus to himself as he exerted every iota of mental strength to will his rune to repel the monster.

The demon ape clapped its hands again, causing another huge concussion wave. However, the wave was distorted and repelled by the rune on Cyrus’ right hand.

That was not to say he wasn’t injured. Blood flowed from both his nostrils as the concussion wave was deflected, protecting the female elf who was blocked by his body.

His seals continued to attack the demon ape from every angle, but the monster ignored them only protecting it’s eyes. One of the newer demon ape seals tried to attack it through its mouth, but the golden demon ape chomped down destroying the seal.

Cyrus grunted in pain at the destruction of that seal, nearly causing him to faint, and he fell to one knee.

Besides his original seal, all the rest of Cyrus’ seals were created from the corpses of level 1 mages or demon beasts. As such, the level 3 Golden Demon Ape could destroy each seal as easily as it would be able to kill a level 1 mage or demon beast.

The demon ape continued walking forwards and was less than 10 meters away from Cyrus now as Cyrus held his ground, even though he was now on one knee.

The demon ape clapped again, causing yet another concussion blast, causing Cyrus to cough blood.

A split second after the concussion attack, from behind him, two arrows suddenly were shot and each one ended up right into the golden demon ape’s eyes.

The demon ape screamed in pain as Cyrus took the opportunity and all his seals dove into the screaming monster’s mouth.

The golden demon ape chomped down and destroyed yet another demon ape black seal, but the other 9 seals charged down the monster’s throat and started destroying the monster from the inside.

Cyrus collapsed to both knees as the destruction of the second seal caused even his eyes to bleed.

The golden demon ape screamed its final scream as it tried to pounce on Cyrus. It stumbled and landed less than 2 meters away from Cyrus, its huge arms managed to hit Cyrus, causing him to fly through the air and crash several meters away into a tree.

Cyrus tried to get up, but found he could not move. He looked down and saw a large branch impaled through his body, sticking out of his stomach. Blood was flowing out of his body profusely.

"Damn. I really miss my immortal body" thought Cyrus to himself as he remembered being Loki. 

Cyrus lost consciousness just as the monster died with all its internal organs ripped apart.