Angel had only ever seen these Demonic Beasts made entirely of sculpted mud in Where Are the Magical Beasts? This was his first time seeing them in reality.
The book recorded that mud-puppet fiends resembled elemental spirits both inside and out.
And that was indeed the case. By sight alone, it was difficult to distinguish mud-puppet fiends from earth elemental spirits. Only by "observing their spirit"—that was, examining their energy-ether bodies through spiritual perception—could one tell the difference between them and elemental creatures.
Though mud-puppet fiends had no direct connection to elemental creatures, it was said that they had been created by some earth deity. And that earth deity was itself an elemental creature.
Of course, that was only a rumor. Whether it was true or not, Angel could not say.
Still, elemental creatures being worshipped as gods was far from uncommon across the planes. For instance, Chen Chi World—a civilization world that had developed from flames—had certain highly aggressive Evil Fire deities. In essence, those Evil Fire deities were also elemental creatures.
That aside, mud-puppet fiends were rare mainly because their large settlements were all located in other worlds. In the Wizarding World, only a very few organizations kept mud-puppet fiends, offering them as bloodline options to earth apprentices.
So... after the Shallow-Sea Strongman, had another group of visitors from another world appeared?
Were the people who had attacked Bilen Tree Court and abducted Paradise truly from another world? Or were they advance claws extended into the Wizarding World by some colossal power from a different world?
These thoughts flashed through Angel's mind.
It was not that he did not wish to think further into the matter. It was simply that he had yet to truly see the attackers, so there was no point in dwelling on it.
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