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

Chapter 1533: Chapter 1533 New News!

--- Kat ---

After the beach party things were a lot more relaxing. Everyone had a good time, and everyone except Bower spent some time floating around on the lake resting. It was a fun day, and when they woke up the day after it was easy to leave the bubble. From there, things stayed pretty casual. Looking for the drake was taking a backseat to killing time.

They wandered around through the mist, encountering bubbles of varying uniqueness but nothing too deadly. Certainly nothing like the glass bubble.

They checked up on D.E.M.O.N.S during their breaks and got back the regular 'no idea keep looking' which was just expected at this point. Bower was offered more chances to leave but he stuck around... though with the caveat that he really was running out of ammo. If this continued much longer he'd need to return home.

Perhaps not permanently, but the fight with the drake had drained his reserves, and the regular searching afterwards had started to drain more once they entered the mist.

Of course, things took a very strange turn when, four days of searching since the beach party they got some very different news from D.E.M.O.N.S. It wasn't good... though it certainly wasn't bad either. Perhaps annoying was the best descriptor. The news arrived when it was late in the afternoon, and everyone was prepping for dinner when Hunter put in the call.

Instead of the generic messages they'd been getting, demons instead had something new.

Incident Report compiled. Please read for further information and be ready for mission updates.

Needless to say nobody was expecting that. When Hunter focused on the question a massive amount of fiery text exploded into existence, making Kat's eyes swim just to behold. There were a number of words used that she didn't naturally understand, and when so much of that understanding tried to force its way into her mind... well let's just say it wasn't comfortable.

Lily was no better, hissing at the text.

Hunter quickly dismissed the notice. "I can see this is slightly above your reading comprehension level," stated Hunter. A bit rudely, but not necessarily untrue. "I can tell it is causing you pain. I shall leave move a short distance away to read over the report. Once I have completed my readings I shall return and explain what appears to be going on,"

"Sounds good," said Lily after Kat prodded her girlfriend. Kat would've said the words herself but she wasn't entirely sure she would be able to. This way they could both be polite about it. It was lucky that Lily was in her human form for once.

"No idea the report didn't say," answered Hunter with a shrug.

"Are the pieces likely to be nearby?" asked Bower. "I don't mind sticking around but I know I could be slowing you all down if you're required to leave the mists,"

"The report was unclear on that as well. There is definitely one shard here in the mist. The report was clear on that much. It is also the largest piece. The question is how many other smaller collections of time energy have turned into pieces large enough to revive the drake instead of dissipating.

"The paper debated over the 'critical mass' of energy necessary for the drake to continue to 'exist' in a particular location and did not reach a proper conclusion. As such, I can only say that at least one within the mists exist, and a potentially larger number nearby. They are all within the kingdom at least," explained Hunter.

"Well I'll stick around for that much," said Bower. "Not sure what I'll do once all the stuff in the mist is taken care of. Probably let ya'll deal with the rest of it by yourselves. Specially if there's no more serious fighting ta be done,"

"That's fine Bower, thank you for the help," stated Hunter with a nod.

"You skipped over the details of how things went wrong with the drake splitting apart... could you go into that a bit?" asked Lily.

"I can. Without going into the even more specific data with numbers and charts... I shall outline the three major theories. The first is that the explosion violently destroyed the space bubble which scattered some pieces into the void between worlds, rendering them down into nothing. With missing pieces the drake was unable to reform.

"The next two ideas have the same beginning theory, wherein they postulate that the bubble collapsing spread the parts too far away for them to properly recognise each other. Causing all of the pieces above a certain try to reform the drake right where they are. The two theories split at this point.

"The first postulated that there simply wasn't enough energy and the process broke down because of that. The second postulates that because multiple pieces were all trying to reform at once their energies clashed against each other preventing them from reforming," explained Hunter.

"Huh... did it say one was more likely? And which one do YOU think is the most likely?" asked Lily.

Hunter shrugged, "It was postulated that they could all be true and I think it more likely than not. I personally think that the first theory is at least partially true for I think it likely pieces of the drake were lost to the void. The question for me is how much of a difference that made, and which of the other two is more correct.