Sometime later, Veal appeared atop a small cliff that stood right at the edge of the Outer Cradle. The Blood Desert was a kilometer before it.
He stood hidden within the shadow of a towering obsidian demonic tree. Facing him was the Vixen, whose entire body was clad in crimson thorn armor.
"Remember, everything must go according to the plan," she reminded him. "We cannot afford any mishap."
"Don't worry. I will do everything just as we have planned," he reassured her in a calm tone. He then blurred to the edge of the cliff.
she followed.
Standing at the very tip of the cliff, they cast their gazes towards the Bloody Desert. Their eyes penetrated the rolling ruby terrain and landed on the hordes of demons that congregated two kilometers away.
Numbering in the thousands, two thousand to be exact, there were almost three hundred Crimson Bone demons who radiated demonic savagery. They abused and devoured mindless Bloodlings who wandered about aimlessly, with insidious grins.
At the center of them stood a gritty building, crafted from bloody, mangled flesh, intestines, and bones of Bloodling demons.
This was their enemy's nest, flesh forged and vile.
This area wasn't the territory of their enemies. No, their territory lay within the depths of the desert. They had only recently migrated here, preparing to hunt the Vixen who they believed was hiding within the forests of the Outer Cradle.
"Shall we begin?" said Veal after casting his gaze upwards at the shimmering Abyss Sun that hovered above them.
"Let's begin," agreed the vixen. After which, boom! The spot where she stood collapsed as she launched herself into the sky towards the army of demons.
Her figure soared through the sky at great speed. Crossing the distance of about half a kilometer in a breath, and landed on the desert below gracefully.
There was no crater or even a slight footprint on the sand. She then turned into a silent afterimage that streaked towards the army at supersonic speed.
At that moment, Veal's body started pulsating with lust mist. He then stretched out his right hand, palm open. After which, the mist twisted and morphed into a three-meter-long, semi-solid spear.
He held it tightly, went into a throwing position. His upper body tilted backward, his right arm pulled back like a bow, his left hand outstretched as if he were grasping the sky. His long hair swayed as the wind blew it.
He held that posture for a moment before the muscles in his entire body started contracting.
'What a blissful day,'
He whispered in his mind before his entire body turned into a blur for a moment, and,
Boom!
He launched the spear with such force that it created a sonic boom that shattered the trees around and soared across the sky like a purple comet falling from the heavens.
Whoosh!
In just a few seconds, it arrived a few meters before the fleshy building at the center of his enemies' army. But right before it could make contact, a figure blurred before it and clawed it at supersonic speed.
PASH!
It shattered on impact with the figure's claws.
Veal smiled; that was what he hoped for.
The instant the spear was shattered, it burst into a cloud of mist that engulfed everything within a hundred meters, and it kept expanding, carried by the wind.
And it was akin to a lustful virus, almost everything it made contact with fell into a ravenous, lustful state, where they started fucking every and anything.
The figure was unaffected due to its protective aura. It roared out in anger, "WHO!" After which, a terrifying flame exploded from its body like a bomb, BOOM! immediately incinerating everything within a hundred meters, the mist, and some of the demons around it.
Right at that moment, Veal's eyes darted to the left, where he saw the outline of his army flanking his enemies; they were just a few kilometers away. His eyes then darted to the right, where he saw another small army belonging to the Vixen closing in on their enemies. He then slid down the cliff onto the sand, where he sank into it and vanished.
At that moment, the figure's demonic eyes glanced toward the direction from which it deduced the attack came, and unsurprisingly, its gaze landed on the cliff where Veal had stood, but it saw nothing. Its eyes drifted around that area for a few seconds before it stopped and frowned.
It then gazed at its army, which was in shambles.
It scowled.
Suddenly, another figure appeared beside it and spoke, "This attack, I've never seen it before… seems to be the doing of a Lust Demon, bu—"
It paused as both of their instincts screamed out to them, warning them of danger. They immediately gazed upwards, and there they saw it.
The danger.
Directly above them, about two hundred meters high, a five-meter-tall, giant crimson thorn fell toward them at supersonic speed, and atop this thorn stood boldly the one they hunted, the Thorn Vixen.
Clad entirely in armor that even covered her eyes, her body straight like a pillar, her arms folded neatly behind her, and her tails swaying behind like demonic pythons.
"It's you! " they roared as they tried to dodge the thorn, but it was too fast. And,
Boom! …
{A few moments earlier}
The vixen silently arrived at the edge of the army encampment. She crouched low, crimson armor seamlessly blending with the sand around her. Her eyes narrowed as her gaze penetrated the wandering demons, the fleshy wall of the building, and landed on the two lower sovereigns inside.
Both were on bony thrones, one of which was feasting on the corpse of a Crimson Bone demon that lay at its feet. Its vile paw grasped the bloody intestine from the corpse and shoved it into its mouth.
The other was sleeping, its body slumped, its chest rising and falling as it snored loudly.