God Of Gluttony: Runestones Give Me Unlimited Abilities

5 The Attack

The priests and paladins reacted instantly and professionally to the explosions.

Most of them tried to huddle all the children together like sheep and encircled them to protect them.

The rest jumped to assist the Royal guards in protecting the king.

The sudden fear and panic that came with the sudden attack had caused many of the children to subconsciously retract their abilities — including Alex. In fact, they did not even feel like people who had just recently awakened, they felt weak and helpless.

A few moments ago, a large blood-red dome had appeared in the sky. The presence of that dome prevented anyone from teleporting in or out of the town square.

"A magic barrier dome? Shit, they mean business." Alex overheard one of the paladins mutter to himself in panic.

People had been running helter-skelter since the explosions and now with the appearance of the dome, there was nowhere to run to. There was no way to even tell where the enemy was coming from because no hostile figure had appeared yet. Still, there was panic because everyone knew that something was terribly wrong.

All of a sudden, some of the people in the crowd began to melt and shift into hideous creatures that had scaly skin and horns. Some of them had red skin while others had black skin. Some held weapons while some were empty-handed. However, one thing they all had in common was that there was a sinister, blood thirsty smile on their lips.

"Demons..." Everyone gasped almost simultaneously.

The people who were beside the demons before they shifted suddenly began to scamper away but they were instantly cut down before they could move.

A few of the guards, priests and paladins jumped into action and tried to protect the villagers but there was only so much they could do. They were few in number because the majority of their forces were protecting the children and the king who were the kingdom's most valuable assets at that moment.

It wasn't too difficult to guess the motive of the demons at that moment. They were trying to kill off the next generation of the kingdom's magic ability users thereby weakening its military force. It was a neat plan — infiltrate the Awakening then nip them in the bud.

One would wonder why the demons did not attack before the Awakening ceremony began. That was because they did not plan to kill all of the newly awakened, they would take away the ones with interesting magic abilities and groom them to become double agents but if they were uncooperative then they would extract their magic and kill them.

The guards, priests and paladins who jumped to the villagers' rescue were getting overwhelmed. The sheer number of the demon forces was too much for them to handle. However, they couldn't give up. They had to hold on for the sake of the future generation that they were trying to protect.

The chief guard who was protecting the king watched the entire debacle with suspicion. There was something terribly off about this attack. He noticed that there were only demon foot-soldiers, there were no demon commanders or generals — and that was strange because you could not find demon foot soldiers without someone commanding them nearby.

The moment he realised this, there was a sudden shift in magic energy around them and from his peripheral vision, he caught one of the guards melting away to morph into a demon commander.

"Got you."

With a wide swing of his sword, he struck the demon commander and the two of them were sent flying in different directions.

The chief guard gritted his teeth as he tightened his grip on his sword.

This demon commander was no joke.

Although he had caught the commander while he was vulnerable. His tough skin had still made it impossible for the sword to cause any damage at all even though the chief guard had augmented that strike with 100% of his magic power.

The demon commander stood unhurt a few metres away from the king where he had been knocked down. His aura made the chief guard feel like a fly in his presence.

The chief guard didn't need to be told that if he tried to engage this demon, he would end up dead, but he had no option, he had to do his duty and protect his liege.

He looked at the king from his peripheral vision. He was a handsome, soft-faced, kind man with yellow hair because of his affinity for Yellow magic. The man looked like he couldn't even kill a fly.

The chief guard knew that it was dangerous to have such a king in such perilous times but the man was fair, honest and treated them equally, so it did not matter that he was not a magic power house like the other Kings. He would make sure that he laid his life on the line for the sake of the man and the sake of the kingdom.

His attention went back to the demon commander and it was then that he knew that he had made a terrible mistake. He had lost his concentration while a demon commander was standing before him and now that his concentration was back, what he could see was a huge longsword in a vertical slash coming for his head.

The attack wasn't that fast, he knew he could dodge it but before he could react, he saw himself completely out of harm's way with the king holding his shoulder.

The sword that was supposed to have cleaved him in half struck the ground and got stuck there.

"You shouldn't lose focus in front of an enemy Alfredo." The king said,

The chief guard's eyes widened as he looked at his king. He had never seen this side of him before, in fact, he had never seen him in combat ever.

His yellow hair was glowing, his pupils were glowing yellow too and there were crackles of yellow electricity snaking through his entire body.

The Royal robe had been cast away to reveal a sleek yellow and white armour that clung to the King's toned and muscular body.

"Y...yes sir." The chief guard responded. He was apparently oppressed by the King's flashy display of magic.

As a Grade 6 magic ability user, he always believed he was fairly powerful but seeing his king who looked like he was easily a Grade 8, he felt weak and useless.

The demon commander grinned contentedly when he saw the King's sudden change in appearance.

"Good... a worthy opponent."

"Shut up." The king replied apathetically, and before the demon commander could blink, his headless body crashed to the ground while the king stood a few metres away with a yellow-bladed dagger stained with demon blood on his left hand and the head of the demon commander on his right.