Terra Nova Online: Rise of The Strongest Player

Chapter 394: Language Barrier

( The demon camp, an average Demon Soldier’s POV )

“Man, I hate to be on patrol duty…. This whole concept is absurd. If a human army is trying to sneak up on us, we will see them coming….” The demon soldier said to his patrol mate, as he expressed his frustrations regarding the current system.

Before Eren took charge, the demons did not set-up camp in such a structured formation, nor did they have border patrols.

If the camp was under attack by a stray wild beast or an enemy army, the demons simply heard them moving with their excellent hearing skills, however, since Eren did not share these views, he organized the demon army in a more human way.

*Snap*

*Thud*

“What was that sound?” The demon soldier said, as he turned around and stared at the distance, completely unaware that the source of that sound was now already behind him.

“Gon, did you hear that?” The demon soldier asked his partner, trying to determine whether he heard the sound too or not, however, as he turned around to look for his partner, he found him lying dead on the floor beside him.

“Enemies!” He tried to say, however, strangely found no voice coming out of his throat, as it was at that moment that he realized that someone was choking his throat.

“@*@#@##” A strange shrill voice whispered in his head, before he passed out, as the last thoughts in his head before he passed out were ‘That sounds like human language’.

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( Ben and Leo’s POV )

Ben and Leo had no idea what the two soldiers on patrol were chatting about, as all they could perceive was them throwing wild gestures and making guttural sounds.

Those two were the patrol soldiers on the outermost perimeter of the demon camp and taking them out was supposed to be a swift and easy job.

However, since neither Ben nor Leo had ever fought a demon before, the two of them were unsure on how to take them out.

“I have heard someone say once that demons have two hearts…. So maybe taking them down with a dagger might not be the smartest option–” Ben said, as he looked at the tall and imposing demons walking around and decided to not take them out using weapons.

“I mean, even if they have two hearts, it’s not like they have two necks. Two bad boys into their necks and they will be on their way to hell” Leo suggested, as he pulled out two daggers from his Assassin’s belt and prepared to attack on Ben’s command.

“Let’s do this … you take one out using daggers and I’ll take the other one out using the good old choke hold.

It will also give me the chance to see just how good their hearing ability really is…” Ben said, as he began stalking his prey with a predatory gaze.

“Alright, let’s go–” Leo said, throwing his two daggers which immediately found their mark in the neck of the enemy demon.

*Thud*

With his vital arteries punctured, the demon dropped dead instantly, while his friend began gazing towards the direction from where Leo had thrown his dagger.

“@##@#” the demon mumbled something, pointing in the rough direction where Leo was hiding, however, by that time Ben had already sneaked up behind him.

*Gag*

Before the demon could say anything more, he was gagged by Ben and put to sleep as Ben whispered “Night Night, Fella” into his ears before he did.

Naturally, the demon did not understand a word of what Ben said, however, the look of fear in his eyes before he went to sleep was the same as that of any human, as if Leo understood anything from observing him die, it was that demons feared death as much as humans.

[ System Notification:- Congratulations player ‘TheBoss’ for killing a Level 120 Demon Footsoldier.

You have gained +EXP ]

Leo watched his experience bar move up by a whopping 10% from killing just one demon soldier, which was about four times as much as what he would have gained from killing a human of the same rank.

‘Whoa–, Demons are worth a lot of EXP’ Leo thought to himself, as he caught up-to Ben as the duo made their way into the heart of the Demon Camp.

“The demon’s hearing is not too bad, but it’s not at an absurdly good level either. They are as good as dogs at best” Ben whispered to Leo, notifying him of his findings regarding the rumored amazing demon ability to hear noises from far away.

[ Got it– ] Leo replied, by showing Ben an ‘Ok’ sign and nodding, as he did not wish to speak while being within enemy camp.

While scouting from a distance, the two had already made their strategy on what path to take to get to the Demon Whisperer’s tent and how many patrolling soldiers they needed to take out to get-in safely, and now that they had began their mission of sneaking in, they stuck to that exact plan.

With Ben leading the charge, they took out several low ranking demon patrol soldiers, smoothly making their way closer and closer to the inner circle where most of the high ranking demons and the demon whisperer resided.

Leo did not get to do much of anything except to make sure that no dead body hit the ground too hard, so that the sound of them falling would alert others nearby, however, all this changed when the two approached the inner circle.

Unlike the common demons, who could not hear them coming at all, the higher demon sensed their presence before they even got a chance to ambush him, as he seemed to get agitated and started to look for something, just when Ben and Leo were about to attack him.

“@#####@@@” the high demon shouted, making clicking noises from his throat that sounded like he was trying to beat-box.

However, with him frantically pointing in the direction of where Leo and Ben were hiding behind a tent and the two having no idea of what he was saying, Leo and Ben found themselves at a loss of what to do.