God of Internet

Chapter 89: Griffin vs Demon

- Adrian's POV -

Unlike the iMonsters I created using the three basic elements of Fire, Water, and Plant, which I had no control over and used a large amount of Divine Power to summon, after I made a deal with Zane and gained access to his Divinity, I also gained access to a new element that I could use to create iMonsters...

Dark Type!

With the Fear deity under my control, I could create iMonsters using this element as a base and greatly reduce the cost!

Of course, the cost was still not extremely low, since I was summoning a creature and giving it original characteristics in addition to the element itself, but just by using an element that I could actually control, the price was already lowered a lot, which was great.

So when I realized that the opposing Embryonic Demon was coming onto the battlefield, I sent a message to Arthur asking him to summon and control the new iMonster that the God of the Internet had developed.

Seeing that it was something new that the God of the Internet had developed, Arthur was excited as he excitedly summoned it and told the other commanders what was happening.

Hearing that this was something that the God of the Internet himself had proposed, everyone was excited and curious as they looked at the image of a small black crow appearing on the ground.

That crow's strength was only that of a level 1 iMonster, but using my divine power, I began to inject power into that little crow, and its strength grew more and more every second.

From the strength of an apprentice mage to an arcane mage, the crow evolved into a form where another pair of legs was born, its torso lengthened, and its body transformed into the body of a griffin-like creature!

After evolving, the griffin continued to receive Divine Power and continued to grow and evolve, rising to the level of a Master Magician, and soon after, to the level of a Wise Magician!

As soon as it reached the level of a Wise Mage, the little griffin evolved again, its body changing into an even larger form, with bigger and more toned muscles, a more elongated body, a new pair of wings appearing on its back, and its figure slightly resembling that of a small dragon.

Because of the element of fear I put into the little raven, it was supposed to be green, just like Zane's aura, but I changed it to purple because I thought it would be more appropriate for a creature with a low Divine Power cost.

When its power reached the level of a Sage Mage, the purple aura around the griffin leaked out and even frightened the people around it, but its growth didn't stop.

To deal with an embryonic demon, the power of a Wise Mage wasn't enough, so I continued to inject Divine Power into the griffin, which was now the size of a carriage.

This made the griffin grow even more, reaching the strength of an archmage, but it continued to grow.

By the time the griffin's strength had passed the threshold of an archmage to the strength of an embryonic deity, it was already bigger than a house, attracting the attention of all the humans and demons around.

Even more, with the aura of fear and darkness radiating from the griffin, and even a dark purple mist emanating from its huge body, the feeling the mortals got was as if they were in the presence of a god!

If this were a world where I drew inspiration to create the iMonsters of my previous world, this griffin would have already reached the level of mythical monsters!

"SKREEEEAAAAARR!"

The griffin let out a mighty roar as it flapped its wings and flew across the battlefield, staring directly at the enemy army commander who looked on in astonishment.

I only stopped injecting Divine Power into the griffin when its strength reached the level of the enemy commander, which was a Rank 2 Embryonic Divinity!

Was that a frugal attitude? Not at all.

An Embryonic Divinity had the strength of a few tens of thousands of Divine Power points at most, while I spent nearly 5 million Divine Power points to create a Griffin with that strength, but seeing the reaction of the believers below me at the sight of such a powerful iMonster, I smiled as I used my Divinity to record this from the beginning.

From the creation of the little raven as a lv1 iMonster, to its leveling up and reaching the power level of the gods, above the Archmage, everything was recorded and documented for me to post on the internet afterwards, further encouraging mortals to pray to me, and increasing my prestige in their eyes.

Between using a Sound Wave power and ending the battle in an anti-climactic way, as I did the first time I faced Zack, or putting on a great show to get my believers even more excited and loyal to me, as long as I had enough Divine Power for that, I would choose the second option every time!

And the reaction of the soldiers when they saw this was already an indication of what it would be like for the other believers on the Internet.

"What is this creature?!"

"I think it's an iMonster!"

"No way, I've never seen an iMonster like that before!"

"Holy shit! Can my iMonster evolve to be that strong?"

"Just looking at that iMonster makes me feel scared..."

"Little Sword, one day you will grow up to be as strong as that dragon bird in the sky..." A soldier said as he bent down and stroked his little squirrel swordsman, who looked up with an astonished expression on his face.

All of the iMonsters had the same reaction when they saw the griffin flying in the sky, giving the humans an even stronger visual impact.

The griffin, which didn't speak, didn't even try to talk to the Rank 2 Embryonic Demon, and just attacked it directly.

With his mouth open, a ray of darkness shot towards the demon, who quickly snapped out of his reverie and jumped aside to avoid the attack.

As the ray of darkness hit the ground, a powerful explosion erupted, knocking off balance the weaker soldiers and demons fighting around, showing the power of this attack.

The griffin's intelligence wasn't like that of a real creature, as I had used my divinity to develop a basic intelligence for it, but considering that the griffin only needed basic combat instincts like a real monster, that was enough.

Seeing that the lightning attack had failed, the griffin, flying overhead with its immense wings as black as night, flapped its wings with overwhelming force, creating powerful air currents as it pointed its front claws at the demon.

The demon, astonished at suddenly having to face such a powerful opponent, adjusted the black armor he was wearing and pointed his great sword forward, intending to use the griffin's descent speed to his advantage to drive the sword into the monster.

Despite the powerful gust of wind that destabilized the other soldiers, the battle between the demons and the humans was paused for a moment as everyone turned their attention to the main battle once it had stabilized.

The griffin's descent, which seemed to take a long time, happened in a split second, resulting in a loud clash between the iMonster's claws and the demon's sword.

When the claw and the sword touched, there was a momentary stalemate between the two, but it was soon broken by the force and momentum that the griffin carried with it as it swooped down from the sky.

The demon obviously hadn't expected the monster to be so powerful, so he had to take a few steps back before throwing himself to the side to avoid the griffin's beak as it reached out to bite his head off.

Since the ground was the demon's terrain, the griffin quickly took the opportunity to take to the skies again and flew back, firing bolts of darkness at the demon, who had to jump several times to avoid them.

The demon tried to send energy attacks at the griffin with his sword, but the iMonster's speed was too high for someone like him, who had no practice in this area, to hit.

With each bolt of energy that the griffin threw and hit the ground, a powerful explosion erupted, causing the ground to shake like a small earthquake, destabilizing the weaker humans and demons.

The battle seemed to be at a stalemate, as neither the knight nor the griffin landed any attacks, and neither showed any signs of weakness or fatigue.

But what outsiders like me could see, slightly obscured by the dust from the griffin's explosions, was that each attack the griffin missed left a fine black mist.

With each attack, more and more of this mist accumulated on the battlefield, to the point where by the time the demon realized that his surroundings were darker than normal and realized that something was wrong, it was too late.

"SKREEEEAAAAARR!"

The griffin, realizing that the demon had noticed the irregularity, shouted, activating the black mist and causing it to quickly fly around the demon, trapping him in the black mist that quickly began to dominate his mind.

At first, the demon tried to attack the mist with his sword, causing powerful cuts in the environment, then he tried to activate his demon power to drive the mist away, but nothing worked.

After 30 seconds, screams of rage began to come from within the fog, then those screams turned to fear, then terror, until the griffin sensed that the time was right and flew at the demon again, this time without resistance and ripping off its red head with its powerful beak.

"SKREEEEAAAAARR!"

With a proud roar, the griffin flew over the human army with the enemy's head in its mouth, raising the morale of the soldiers and restarting the war that now had only one possible outcome.