Serana arrived right on time. She saw how Scorch was struggling while she was in her bat form as an intense heat created light all around a section of the wall.
She knew she had to help, but the strong flames dispersed the shadows in their wake, making it impossible for her to stealthily enter.
"Scorch, stop so I can help!" she called out to Logan's strongest beast, the red dinosaur who took on more than a hundred enemies by himself.
He looked battered and injured, and seemed to be making a last stand. Luckily, Serana was full of energy, and she and her minion were ready to enter battle as soon as Scorch finished using his streams of fire.
Knowing that she needed to be fast to catch the demons off guard, she used her wolf-like Garmr form, which was dark and able to melt into shadows. She appeared behind the strongest of the demons she could sense.
Using this form, she could somewhat change her size and made her jaw large enough to take a bite out of the demon's torso, splitting the top from the bottom before it knew what had happened. His companions did not even see how he had turned into this state, as they were quickly taken care of by Serana's minion.
Her assistant created a large two-meter human-like creature with shadows, giving it long blade-like nails that tore through all those in its path. It then made the stomach of its form open a mouth and pull in those it killed with tentacles.
Serana did not know how her ferocious minion knew how to fight so well, but she thanked the heavens that it was on her side.
Without wasting more time looking at what her assistant was doing, Serana kept lunging at all the demons that still needed to be dealt with. Now that they knew they were being ambushed, they directed their attention to both Serana and her follower. But what they did not know was that with each kill, both of them got even stronger. Demon blood was particularly concentrated with mana, especially when they harnessed the power of the blue mutation stones.
What the demons thought would help them was actually making both Serana and her minion stronger. Each of their kills not only let them recover the mana they used but also brought in so much more. Serana had to control herself from losing her sanity. As for her minion, she had no sanity or mind, so it did not affect her in the slightest. Well, at least her primal instincts told her to keep eating.
Within minutes, the last group of forty that were attacking Scorch were dealt with easily. Most were already too weakened by Scorch's assault to continue fighting, which made everything much easier.
"Scorch, how are you doing?" Serana said, feeling invigorated after taking care of the last one who tried to attack the injured beast.
[Need… to recover, I used too much mana…] Scorch said while limping, trying to keep itself up and ready to fight if needed.
"Don't worry, we have killed all the ones found here. Stay with my minion while she cleans up the place… I will go help the others." Serana patted the large dinosaur, who roared in response as his dim flames began to slowly recover.
Without wasting any more time, Serana turned back into her bat form and took to the sky. She sent three forms in different directions, each one able to turn into her main form.
One of her forms noticed an empty town with demons fighting with Noctur, so she decided to act. The large weasel was a sly one that loved to play with his enemies. It used earth magic splendidly, creating traps sinisterly and guiding its prey into them. The thought of being its opponent made Serana shudder.
She knew the creature would not like her butting into its game of tag, so she took care of those the weasel did not have time to fight with.
Being in the dark but still, town made things easier as she used the shadows and the quiet streets to find her prey. Demons were busy looking for survivors. Within one of the buildings, Serana heard a battle taking place. It was with soldiers and adventurers trying to save a few who did not have the time to enter the shelter.
"Don't run, fight me!" said a burly middle-aged man who tried to keep a demon's attention on him.
Around him were various soldiers who were hurt. One of them even died trying to shield the four women behind them.
The demons did not speak; they were busy casting magic spells that tore through the defensive spells the soldiers tried to maintain. There were three demons in total, all clad in armor, with two horns protruding from their foreheads and an aura of blue radiating from their bodies.
They were not like those Serana fought before; these seemed much more trained and capable. One of her bats, who was closing in on Silis and Valeria's fight, saw many of these types of demons who were giving Logan's monsters a hard fight in this war.
Serana did not waver, though. She did the same as before and tried stealthily entering the shadow of one of these demons in her garmr form, but as soon as she was about to chomp on its torso, the demon teleported away.
"Damn it, they are well trained," Serana thought as she now knew why Noctur was taking so long to kill her prey within the walls.
Those humans who saw her form did not know why, but felt joy seeing help arrive.
Serana, on the other hand, had to switch to her bat form to avoid two spells that sent both fire and blades of wind in her direction.
She swiftly dodged and leaped into a shadow near her before appearing behind the one she found weakest within the demon group.