As he destroyed the heart of the lizard he was fairly satisfied but tired from the rough encounter.
'Damn my stamina is to low to be doing such crazy shit...'
He quickly left the reptile and lept back into the air to continue destroying the forest.
As he destroyed more and more of the forest he eventually began to get notification of consumed targets.
He did not really focus on it until he began to hear the screams of women in the swamp, he was about to go search for them before he stopped when he remembered the fact that only one of them told anything to their friend about her behavior.
'Let them burn...'
He chose to continue the destruction.
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As the group of infernal women explored the swamp they began to notice more activity from the creatures.
First they had to battle a tree viper and they were exhausted.
They eventually found a turtle, a creature that was known for attacking from the water with poison coated jaws to kill prey.
The turtle was moving faster than they had seen one ever moving and it was fleeing the same direction as the viper had been fleeing.
The turtle was more difficult for them but they were able to eventually slay the beast since it did not have the murky swamp water to hide it.
As they slew the turtle they left to find more prey but they heard a strange noise, the sound of crashing trees.
When checking the direction it came from they immediately got themselves ready but this specific monster was to much for the exhausted state they were in.
Because of this giant lizard charging them they turned to flee but then one of them saw a welcome sight.
"Black fire! Remember that male's spell? It caused black fire! He must be chasing this one down so let's take it out and help him."
"Absolutely not, he fled like a coward and is not using us as the distraction? Unacceptable!"
"Oh my god shut up Astra he just got sick of you I bet."
"Nonsense, he is a male and males must understand their place in our world. He will eventually marry and when he does he will not be able to handle the life of a husband and the life of an adventurer."
The group quit bickering as they began to battle the reptile but they quickly realized that they were outmatched and not only outmatched but they had other dangers to be concerned with.
The lizard was thrashing them despite the danger of the flames slowly killing it and they quickly realized that they were fighting a creature that was fighting for it's life.
Eventually the lizard gravely injured one of the demoness women and began to flee, this act surprised the women until they heard the cracking of branches behind them and upon turning around they screamed in fear.
A wall of black fire that coated every single living thing was consuming the forest which only left them with a single direction to flee.
"HEY! MALE! STOP THE FIRE BEFORE YOU KILL US!"
The four of them began screaming to catch the attention of their ally but nothing seemed to catch his attention.
For insects that were nearly a foot long with three inch stingers it made a significant threat.
They noticed the bugs on these animals and after a quick scan they remembered the name of these beasts.
"Psycho Ants!"
The ants were stinging the beasts in multiple places while they slaughtered one another and some even seemed to be attacking themselves.
"Look! That one is trying to hemorrhage!"
"Damn it's actually smart."
In this world if one studied long enough they would be able to understand the many details of damage over time effects.
Just like how burning an enemy can cause the cauterized effect which stops healing of the area for a short time, bleeding can also cause the hemorrhage effect.
Although cauterizing oneself stops healing it can also stop bleeding however.
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In a similar way the hemorrhage effect is able to reduce the effects of poison in the body as the tainted blood is removed.
Against an army of Psycho Ants this benefit is pointless however as the ants simply swarm the body and inject more and more venom which cannot be completely removed.
Despite the intelligence of the beast it could only bleed itself to death or succumb to the venom as it fell to the ground.
They watched this slaughter with a sick fascination until Jahlee spoke up.
"The fire is spreading on the ground!"
That was when they noticed that the mossy ground was being consumed as well.
"DAMMIT! WHAT IS HE TRYING TO DO?!"
The shadowfire spread across the ground in a slow creep.
"Astra you have to go find him and stop this! He'll kill us and destroy this run!"
"I'll make that uppity boy beg for forgiveness for what happened to Leanna!"
She began to spread her wings but Angelique stepped forward.
"You caused this! If you hadn't pissed him off with that backwards thinking of yours he wouldn't have left and he wouldn't be destroying the swamp!"
"My fault? MY FAULT?! HE'S A MALE HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM AND DESTROYING EVERYTHING WITH HIS DANGEROUS POWER HE DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE!"
"SHUT UP ASTRA! YOU WILL MAKE IT WORSE IF YOU SAY THESE THINGS TO HIM!"
As the two most outspoken infernal women screamed at each other they saw something odd.
Balls of dark energy were raining on the hoarde of rabid beasts.