Draimon: Fracture: Erasend- Book 1: Deascension

Chapter 34: Earth And Water

Ben placed his hands on the ground and, sending earth energy through, turned it earthen, being sure to leave vine matter behind. He hydrated the ground, and after mixing, soil was created.

"Ok, Celica, that's another patch done!" he called out.

"That's great; this is for food, not your peppers, remember."

"Yeah, I know, but we still need seasoning," he said as he dusted off his hands then pulled the dirt off with his magic.

"Ben," Celica replied, "we can grow our own seasoning, the kind that actually adds flavour."

"Fine, go plant your seeds," he replied as Peter rose before him and at various other points in the village.

"Did you have to come through my soil? Come on, I worked hard on that."

"Sorry, but listen, a Devourer which Drydra and the wall-Dragons thought they destroyed has come back," Ben shivered at the Monster's mention.

"You mean those gross, flesh Monsters?" He asked, "hearing those stories gave me nightmares for months. Why did you have to tell us them?"

"They were for this very situation, this one is a Wyrm-torn, it has infected many of the Shifters, and they are coming here. They're all using rush, so they'll be here at any moment. They are those you knew no longer; they will not hold back and attack you on sight."

As he finished talking to everyone, the fleeing Shifters entered the village, an army of Monsters following.

Ben heard their coming set off countless screams the moment they broke through, and the settlement exploded into panic as the devouring began.

"Protect the Dragons; if one of them gets devoured, we are all gonna die. It will not stop here. It will devour every Dragon in this kingdom and go on to the rest!" Through his other bodies, Peter yelled, his words reaching all their ears. Splindra and the others, Ben thought.

"Ben, if Shifters are infected, then they likely have bio-fire. We should go and guard the Dragons; they can't burn our earth magic!" Celica called out.

"On it!" he cried, "you get the other Mancers, I'll go on protect Splindra."

With that, Ben charged off his Geoian nature, causing his speed to grow and grow, just as well her spot was right ahead. He wasn't the best at turning.

Biomancers stepped forth, unleashing a barrage of vines, bark and thorns. All of their attacks were turned to ash by the fire breath of a No-eyes. Peter stuck with many elements at once but might emitted from another, turned the ground to flesh. The moment elemental attacks entered the new area, they either fell or faded to nothing.

"Just one of them can create a physical zone, and here of all places, a Mage with brown skin and hair said, "what the **** are these things?

"Get the hell away from my children, you freaks," one of the parents said, with the others spouting similar threats before beginning their assault.

"Only kill them when necessary, they are still in there, and the Wyrm-torn's influence should lessen once it is destroyed. But, for now, keep them away from the Dragons," Peter said, his words echoed throughout the village. Unlike their children, they knew how to fight those with Devourer bodies as many focused on restraining them.

A Weapon-master with a large hammer flattened several of them into a squirming mass with a shockwave of might. Another bound them with tentacles. Though some were petrified upon seeing their children in their mangled bodies, they would have had no doubts if they were just face-less, roaring Monsters.