The Geared Immortal

Demon's infiltration part 9

/*unedited*/

The golden rays of the sun brighten the surroundings, but inside the forest, everything is a bit dark and dreary. However, just in the borders of the forest is a wide clearing basking under the golden lights of the sun. The scene is truly awe-inspiring and tranquil, yet, hidden in that astonishing place is the danger that's lurking in some unknown corner.

Qian Li at this time is currently observing her surroundings while trying to find any traces of the enemy.

She can see no danger or any evidence of the enemy they are tracking even with the use of her goggles.

However, no matter how to advance her gadgets and gears are, experience and instinct would always be an advantage in these kinds of situations. So, in Qian Li's case, though she has reached mid-stage swordsman, she is still considered as inexperienced when it comes to hunting and tracking. Her experience in tracking beast in the daemon forest would be considered as a child play to their new enemy.

So unknown to her, a dark shadow has been observing and lurking behind her. She could not even detect the being as it is already dead and is being controlled through bugs.

Suddenly, Qian Li saw Shin Jiao appearing near the boundary of the clearing. Showing a happy smile, she immediately wanted to rush to his side. But suddenly she noticed his expression and knows that there is danger behind her.

Although it was already too late, her quick reaction and reflex as a mid-stage swordsman enable her to at least react.

Shin Jiao showed a horrified face as he unconsciously jumps out on his own accord and ran towards Qian Li activating shadow steps.

Screech!!!

The sound of a metallic object scratching another metallic object reverberated through the air as Shin Jiao's robe is slashed. A long white line can be seen on his back.

Luckily for him, his physique has already reached the middle stages of the gold core realm or else that strike would have been fatal.

With Qian Li on his embrace, Shin Jiao stood with his back exposed at the enemy who suddenly reveals himself from the shadows.

And when it talks, Shin Jiao immediately understood his words.

"Magus Language!" Shin Jiao muttered as he slowly turns around while still protecting Qian Li behind him.

When he learned about mage spells, he has already learned their basic language which was taught by Phoenix/Meng Shiaoning. So, he immediately understood the demon's language. This also applied to Qian Li as she too learned about mage spell through Phoenix.

"You are fast for a mere human… This is interesting. I want the two of you to be my puppets. Keke… This would be fun!" the demon said.

This demon is the Shadow Fiend named Lik.

He has already discovered that he is being followed, and has deliberately set up this trap. Although he was born as a lowly demon, as time went by his intelligence went higher as he absorbs the knowledge from his victims.

And in this land, he has already determined the strength of their enemy.

His goal after this infiltration is to report to the demon queen so that they can prepare against the cultivators in this war.

With the data, he had gathered he knows that the demons can win this war, and he would stop at nothing to accomplish his goal.

"You want to turn us into your puppets?... Dream on!" shouted Qian Li from behind Shin Jiao.

She took out a handgun and a short curved blade.

Through her training, Qian Li has already improved her fighting prowess and is able to fight even a gold core realm when it comes to techniques.

Although her strength is just equal to a core-forming realm cultivator, her technique is truly superb along with her physique and hard work. In the compression of 50 years of time, she has practiced and practiced her fighting technique as hard as she can because she is not talented when it comes to fighting.

So with her effort, she reached the large success stage with her swordsmanship, along with her Shadow Steps and Perfect Defense Sword.

Even without Shin Jiao, she would not be wounded fatally with that demon's strike.

"Keke… Little girl, you look pretty. I haven't had my first human mate yet. After this fight, I will plant my seeds on you and you will be their host… with your blood, my sons and daughters would be stronger!" Lik shouted as he raised his thin hands.

Suddenly from his hands, multiple small needles flew out flying towards Qian Li who is behind Shin Jiao. The needles seem like heat-seeking or smart missiles flying towards their target automatically.

Shin Jiao immediately waved his hand and threw out a shield towards Qian Li.

The shield suddenly expanded and emitted a strong Qi field which protected her whole being. While doing this Shin Jiao dashed towards Lik and waved his hand in a slicing motion.

When Lik saw this, in his crooked expression that looks like a combination of a human and a bug face, he showed disdain. He quickly extended his hand planning to block that hand sword strike.

However, his expression changes when he suddenly noticed a black object appear in Shin Jiao's hand in a blink of an eye.

He wanted to dodge, but it was already too late.

Shin Jiao's strike suddenly became faster and a long slender arm fell to the ground with a thud and a green liquid dyed the ground.

Rooaarrr!

Lik roared in pain and anger as his eyes turned red while looking at his arm. Unlike some demons, Lik does not have the regenerative ability as he was trained and created to infiltrate the enemy lines. His ability to sneak attack and control his enemies is something that causes many of his opponents to be put off guard. Yet he didn't expect that a human would successfully throw a sneak attack on him cutting his arm.

Upon receiving a heavy wound, Lik immediately threw some small bugs in the air and burst of smoke suddenly erupted.

Then from the ground, hundreds of figures suddenly shot out.

These figures were the cultivators from the village and most of them are already not breathing and lifeless. Although they were mind-controlled by bugs, Shin Jiao was truly hoping to be able to at least save them. But, who would have known that the demon was truly vicious as to kill the cultivators under his control?

This is also one of the reasons why they were unable to detect any enemy. It's because the enemy are already corpses with their Qi and life gone. Hence they are cold as the environment, a perfect camouflage, a perfect assassin.

Shin Jiao and Qian Li immediately fought against the horde of puppet-like controlled corpses.

"Keke, try to fight against your kind humans, let's see if you can…" Lik was very confident of his own style in fighting and the poison his bugs can emit.

But he didn't expect to face someone like Shin Jiao who is immune to these low-level hallucinogens.

However, Qian Li is different.

She has been affected and right now what she is seeing are people looking at her with pleading gazes while trying to ask her for help. So she didn't strike those corpses and just parries their attacks while trying to dodge their claws.

When Shin Jiao saw this, he quickly made a move and cut-off the heads of the cultivators who are attacking Qian Li making her eyes went wide in disbelief.

The Shadow Fiend, Lik upon seeing this scene showed an angry expression on his face. He needs to quickly escape and would just finish his mission.

But what he could not accept is the fact that he was defeated by mere two cultivators when he is able to bring down a whole kingdom of the beast folks. This mission was truly an unlucky one and they also realized what would happen if the cultivators work together. Like their invasion in that small town which failed because of something really powerful breaking the massive defensive shield, they took time putting up using the most powerful cultivator turned demon underling they had.

So his goal is to send this information to the queen, and halt the invasion for the meantime so that the cultivators would not unite. This way, they can infiltrate them slowly and can send spies all over the cultivation land to open gates and after that in one fell swoop invade the land with their massive army.

Almost 90% of the demons have already entered the gate and is currently in the Beastia Northern parts. They have not conquered the whole of Beastia because of the resistance from those powerful beast-men.

While Lik ran escaping the scene, he quickly began chanting while activating the small gate he has set up in a not too far distance. This time, he felt a pang of regret for being too cocky and facing the two humans. If he hadn't stopped, he would have sent the information and has escaped this place.

As he ran, his arm continues bleeding and his vision slowly turns blurry.

"I must push through, I must persevere…" he muttered.

However, he suddenly saw a figure appearing in front of him, and with a quick movement, sent out a palm strike towards his chest.

Lik wanted to block it with his other arm, but he was too slow and that palm strike hit him square on his chest.

However, he was not thrown out because he forcefully countered the force with his feet kicking on the ground.

Bang!

Green blood oozes out of Lik's mouth as a sinister smile appears on his face.

Then Lik suddenly turns around, but Shin Jiao once again appear in front of him.

Lik sent out a punch towards Shin Jiao and it was met with Shin Jiao's punch.

Boom!

Lik's figure was thrown through the air for a couple of meters and his sorry figure came tumbling to the ground.

Forcing his body to stand up, Lik wipes the green blood on his mouth.

"Your kind might be very strong, in fact, stronger than mages. But you are not united. This would be your failure and the downfall of your entire race. Keke… Cough! Cough!"

Lik exclaimed as his figure slowly vanished with a wide grin on his bloody face.

Then Shin Jiao noticed that on the ground there is a small vortex-like hole.

It was a small gate.

…

When Lik appears on the other side, he is now directly standing weakly in front of a large gate.

A demon guard immediately blocks his path and pointed their spears on him. However, when they saw that he is the hero Lik, they politely guided him inside.

When Lik arrived in front of the demon Queen, he bowed and greeted her.

"My Queen, the invasion in the human land was a failure, but I discovered something about them… their weakness…"

When the demon Queen heard his words, she was thrilled.

"Tell me! What is it?" she shouted.

However, Lik didn't say anything and just stood there. Then suddenly he showed an ugly expression on his face as his chest suddenly turned red and started to bulge.

"Lik! What is happening?" shouted the demon queen as her face showed a confused expression.

"…"

Suddenly…

BOOM!!!