The Wrath Demon expands, his wings growing black and tattered, his face scarred and somehow even more angry looking. No longer is it an Elite Wrath Bringer, the title now says Avatar of Wrath.
[Form Requires Summon Elite Golem]
"Well it was worth a shot." Cain thinks to himself. This thing, half again as large as the Trolls with Plate Armor and a vicious looking axe would make an amazing Tank.
With a roar, that intimidating axe is covered in dark red fire and a red mist begins to form around the Avatar of Wrath.
"Careful, it's an Enrage effect." Vala calls, before the axe crashes down into a Troll. The hit takes a huge chunk out of its health and knocks The Troll over, another quickly taking its place.
Mythryll has shifted to her Demonic form and the Treants are doing their very best to restrain the Demon, but it keeps breaking the Vines with pure brute strength.
The commotion has brought over move demons from the surrounding areas so the Valas and the Dark Nymphs break off to deal with them.
"Full damage on the boss, Enrage effect is ending." Char calls, channeling her strongest lightning at the Avatar of Wrath.
Even with all their damage output focused on it, this Demon still isn't dying in any hurry. It gains life when it does damage, much like Vala, and it does a lot of damage. Cain has instructed the Trolls to switch to defense when they're targeted, blocking as much as possible, but it still hits incredibly hard.
"Extras are down." Vala calls, returning to attack the Avatar of Wrath's back.
Slowly they bring the Wrath Demon down. At ten percent health it Enrages again in one last flurry of damage that drops all the Trolls twice before the Demon can finally be killed.
"Well, that would have sucked if we had a living party." Misha pants from the exertion of rapid spell casting. Mythryll and Char have slumped to the ground, while Elmira is snoring happily in Cain's pocket now that the fight is finally over.
It must be something about being a pixie, every time her mana gets low, she gets sleepy, and she's flat out of mana now and has been for a while. Not even the mana totem could keep anyone from running on empty, though it's filling them back up quickly now that the fight is over.
[Summon Lesser Demonic Companion] upgraded to [Summon Greater Demonic Companion] release and Summon Companion to begin upgrade.
"Vala, are we ready?" Cain asks, hoping they're still going to have Vala after the upgrade. It's not guaranteed, but it didn't say anything about changing or removing the gear, so he's hoping it's just an update for their loveable Demonic Companion.
"Let's do this!" Vala cheers and Cain dismisses her before casting the newly updated [Greater Demonic Companion]
[Analyzing Existing Companion]
[Calculating Future Requirements]
[Completing Calibration]
"Okay, it looks like we are ready, we might need to Summon her twice though, if it's like last time. It sounds like the process is completed though." Cain says nervously.
Two figures appear when Cain casts the summoning, still pale skinned and winged, but taller in stature now, closer to 180cm with long black hair and bright green eyes, the pupils sideways slotted like a goat. The plates of the armor they're wearing is jet black and smooth, with an added jacket instead of the former spiky pauldrons.
Under the plates on their upper legs and knees seems to be skin tight leather pants, and the lower legs are covered by calf height black leather boots with Spiked heels and interlocking black steel armor plates.
The upper body still has a solid chest plate that only covers the ribs and up, but it's now smooth with an exaggerated bust and black chain mail underneath that stops just above the belt of their pants showing a hint of pale white stomach. A black leather biker jacket with Brigandine plate lining and smooth black armored gauntlets finishes the ensemble.
The pale face with long black hair and long back horns definitely belongs to Vala though, even if the horns now curl above her ears instead of being spiky.
Behind her flaps the familiar white leathery wings, now with black steel plates along the outer bones, formed to create sharp blades.
Cain checks the gear in his status screen, and it's still what Vala was wearing, the outfit just changed appearance.
"Vala, is that you?" Mythryll asks hopefully.
"The one and only. Well, two and only, since I've been cloned." The Demon laughs.
"So, how's the upgrade?" Misha smiles, glad to have her back, even if she's technically a Summon.
"Good, my damage and HP have doubled, my Wrath Aura gives twice the damage increase, and my self healing almost tripled. Other than that I'm still me, but better." Vala responds.
"Don't forget, we have [Hellfire] too." The other says, equipping her sword and shield. Flames flicker in an aura around her and her sword lights up with wicked looking dark red Demonic Fire.
"A flame shield and extra fire damage with a burn effect. I like it, we look extra cool with the Flaming sword." She declares with a giggle.
"Should we let you try it out?" Cain asks and the Vala twins smile before sneaking off to go attack a nearby patrol. That's definitely new, they couldn't, or wouldn't pick targets without a direct command before, it seems like now that they're Greater Demonic Companions they have the ability to make their own decisions.
The patrol is made up of 4 Incubi and a Lamia, the first snake woman they've seen, if you don't count the Naga, who are much more snake than person with their fully scaled bodies and cobra like heads. She's got dark purple scales, turning almost black on the under side and purple hair with dark Bronze colored skin and horns. Wearing a black sarong and bikini top, she's almost pretty. Only Cain's innate aversion to snakes prevents full marks.
[New Form Gained: Lesser Golem Lamia Scourge Caster]
"Watch out, the Lamia is a Caster." Cain calls, but didn't send any of the other summons to intervene yet, letting Vala show off her new abilities.
They both go for the Lamia, kicking the Incubi to the side and blocking the tail strike with a shield. The Lamia has a Spiked flail ball on a chain at the and of her tail, and the effect is savage. Cain is a bit shocked that this counts as a Lesser Golem, but maybe if he tries he'll got smaller and weaker ones?
The Scourge Caster rapidly swings her sword, throwing blades of Red energy at the Black clad demons to no avail, it scars their shields, but fails to overcome the new Hellfire flame barrier and they quickly overpower it, the scales offering little resistance against their blades, and the soft flesh even less.
When the Vala twins have finished the Incubi, they're still at full health, despite having faced a patrol a few levels higher than themselves.
"Hard to argue with those results." Char smiles. "You've earned your Greater Demon moniker for certain."
