An Adventure With an Immortal Mosquito

Chapter 20: Demon Extermination

Even though the demons are born physically stronger than humans, their consciousness is not given the same treatment of enhancement.

From what Ichor can understand, it would take the demon a while to gain consciousness of its own. And before that time comes, they will choices based on instincts and not much more.

They can still learn, they can still understand. Their understanding may be above that of animals if given enough time. But without a proper consciousness, it would always be worse than that of a human.

And this is what Ichor is trying to manipulate right now.

Since he's trying to lure the demon to a certain area, he can simply use himself as bait to lure it into the place it needs to be.

Mainly, as long as he keeps letting his Vitality out bit by bit, it would be more than enough to make the demon focus on him instead of the rest of the group who are sneaking to surround the two.

This worked wonders since due to his physique, Ichor's blood has a lot of vitality in it. So, the demon just kept attacking him to make him bleed out those sweet sweet vitality even more.

As for why Ichor cast the Purification Gloves... You can take one look at the demon and find out the answer yourself.

Ichor thought about it while he was dodging another claw attack coming at him, getting a new slash on his arm this time.

But due to <Life Aura> skill, Ichor didn't feel pain or bleed from the wound. At most, he would feel like someone had just pinched his inside.

Even then, Ichor still wonders about something regarding his situation.

 'Why did I even do this again?'

Ichor had never been an outgoing person. Heck, he got the police called on him once because he had locked himself in his apartment for a whole week without any contract to the outside world.

So for him to try this near suicidal plan on himself could be caused by either his depression managed to get control over his thoughts, or that he simply can now let free of all the stuff back on Earth and experience this new world like an RPG character.

Either way, Ichor feels calm about it. Even if he never knows what the answer is, he would still try and make the best out of it.

It does help that due to the Purification Gloves, the demon's choices of attack are limited since Ichor can just put his hand on the path of the demon's trajectory and deal with it that way.

While this doesn't mean that the demon is completely suppressed by Ichor, it's more than enough to make it focus more on him than the others.

Suddenly, Ichor saw a movement from the corner of his eye.

'Something's moving?'

Dodging another attack and grazing the demon's side this time, Ichor looks away to see Lumi and the rest moving to surround both of them in a formation.

'Huh, they already are moving in position. Guess it's easier to just cast the spell directly on the signal than spending time running.'

Ichor can also see that Lily is preparing to cast something in the distance. But he doesn't know what it is so he just puts it away and focuses on the demon first.

Punching out to the demon's chest, Ichor got another injury as the demon turned itself into smoke in time to dodge the fist.

'Blood! Lumi said she's ready!'

'Huh?'

Ichor looked at the coat pocket where Crimson should be and found her missing inside of it. It may be a blessing in disguise though, since that part of the coat is ripped out by the demon claws already.