It varies, but even the weakest yoma is stronger than a human, and an Abyssal One is far, far stronger than they are. And humans can't detect them unless they reveal themselves. That's why my kind were created.
[She considers for a moment.]
They could be if they wanted, I think, and some have wiped out entire settlements. I can think of one who ate her way through several villages in rapid succession and only stopped when challenged by an Abyssal One.
[Namely, Priscilla. Who had promptly defeated the Abyssal in question - Isley - and won his fealty. If she hadn't mentally regressed to her childhood right then, there'd be no telling what they could have done.]
I don't think most of them necessarily want to eliminate humanity entirely, though, if only because they'd lose their favored prey that way and have to eat each other, and anything with yoma flesh is known to taste terrible. The Destroyer is the only exception I can think of, but it was almost entirely mindless and acting on instinct - most yoma and Awakened Beings are at least as smart as a human. The most immediately dangerous are probably the newly Awakened, because that makes them ravenous.
[There's a short pause.]
There are... suspicions... about the Organization taking advantage of that. Villages who cross them tend to find themselves under attack shortly thereafter.
[retroactively perma-private; psychic protection ii]
[She considers for a moment.]
They could be if they wanted, I think, and some have wiped out entire settlements. I can think of one who ate her way through several villages in rapid succession and only stopped when challenged by an Abyssal One.
[Namely, Priscilla. Who had promptly defeated the Abyssal in question - Isley - and won his fealty. If she hadn't mentally regressed to her childhood right then, there'd be no telling what they could have done.]
I don't think most of them necessarily want to eliminate humanity entirely, though, if only because they'd lose their favored prey that way and have to eat each other, and anything with yoma flesh is known to taste terrible. The Destroyer is the only exception I can think of, but it was almost entirely mindless and acting on instinct - most yoma and Awakened Beings are at least as smart as a human. The most immediately dangerous are probably the newly Awakened, because that makes them ravenous.
[There's a short pause.]
There are... suspicions... about the Organization taking advantage of that. Villages who cross them tend to find themselves under attack shortly thereafter.