Suddenly, amid five slightly hoarse, eerie cries, the black fog churning within the summoning magic circles rapidly contracted inward, as though a great mouth had sucked it away in a single gulp. At the same time, Voidwalkers appeared in the centers of the circles, each standing between three and four meters tall, their dark-purple, obsidian-like bodies gleaming with dim reflections.
Although Voidwalkers and Infernals were both demons, and both were stone-like demons at that, their outward forms were very different.
Infernals were fully humanoid, with hands, feet, and heads. Voidwalkers had two arms, but no legs, nor any separate, protruding head.
Their heads and bodies were fused together, like enormous purple-black crystals shaped into cones, pointed at the bottom and rounded at the top. The pointed tip served as their feet, while the broad, rounded top formed both head and torso. Their two enormous crystal arms grew from either side of those great, bulbous heads.
Still, although Voidwalkers had no legs, they could move about.
Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say that Voidwalkers did not walk, but floated through the air.
Without legs, their bodies hovered above the ground. Even when moving, they seemed to glide along just above its surface, as though they weighed nothing.
Yet Voidwalkers did not truly float weightlessly through the air. Rather, some innate magic beneath them seemed to support their massive bodies, merely making them appear weightless as they hovered. This was also how Voidwalkers had earned their name.
As the five Voidwalkers slowly moved onto the muddy road, the sodden mud beneath them seemed to come under immense, invisible pressure. It was squeezed outward in every direction, exposing small patches of firm earth.
The irritating thing about this April drizzle, apart from the cold, was that the unceasing chilly rain