Things were about to get interesting which was saying something since we've been dealing with demon possessed cows and undead vegetables for most of this week.
Slap in the middle of the evil in the ranch, we had raced up to the barn to free Chica and anyone near her. Demon cows and sheep were to our north and west. Hell Hands were at our backside. Then there was some big side of walking beef in front of the barn.
That last one had me the most worried.
But we had to tackle this one problem at a time... and we needed allies. So I hurled an entangle spell at the Hell Hands. Waving Lee Chung in, I raced after him. My thought was that Lee Chung could get some rose wafers into the Hell Hands. Afterwards, I quiz them to see if they were willing to resist the demons. If so, I help them up. Otherwise, I try and knock them out.
It was a plan anyway.
Naturally things went sorta sideways.
With the hell hands was a bunch of other people. Being questioned? Not sure. It was a bit more than I had planned on but with everything going on, well, I was bound to miss something.
The first Hell Hound spit out the wafer then tried to hit Lee Chung. I ran in to hit the guy to distract him but missed. Looks like it was going to be a bad fight.
Back at the barn something bad was happening but I was too busy to deal with it. In front of Lee Chung and myself, we managed to free one Hell Hand from the demon. Another two seemed to free themselves? Or at least chose themselves over everything else. But this means they were getting the innocents out of range of the fight. So, that's something.
That left one Hell Hand.
So, I took the direct route and bear rushed him. I hit him like a runaway landslide. Lee Chung follows and we grab the hell hand. Lee tries to shove a wafer in the man but it didn't quite work.
Meanwhile Yathue raced out and away from me and for Rowtag. That's when I remembered ... we didn't prepare anything to catch the other demon that we did shake out of the other hand. Yathue grabbed the demon and yanked it out of Rowtag. Once out, she chained the thing with a holy spell.
Which gave me an idea. I grabbed the Hell Hand and dragged him toward Yathue and the ice chains.
Meanwhile, the demon prince? Leader? Laughed then ordered his people to kill us. No surprise there.
I tried tossing the Hell Hand at the holy ice chains, but couldn't tell if the holy magic did anything. But Yathue did a bunch. She took the staff from me then proceeded to beat the ever loving snot out of the demon and the Hell Hand. I yanked the ranch hand out but he was battered enough that he wasn't a problem now. But through that, I earned getting my heel sliced up by the damn hand.
Were we winning? I couldn't tell. It was a war and I wasn't sure we were winning. On a good note, Lee Chung did use logic on the hell hands which got them debating about what to do. That left the demon cows and demon sheep.
It was going to be a long fight. Hope it wasn't about to be our last.