"Kekeke…", a warrior hiding inside a tent lowly cackled.
He was a disguised demonic creature in charge of enchanting the warriors and creating chaos inside.
"Eh? A disturbance in mana?!"
He quickly defended himself but it was too late. A sonic explosion blasted his head away without any effort.
His innards washed the room in dark blood, emitting a putrid smell. The motionless corpse wiggled for a few seconds before collapsing to the ground.
On another tent not far away, a similar case happened. This time, however, the warriors sitting beside that demonic creature turned aghast and ran away in fear.
"What in heaven's name was that?!"
"I don't know, run!"
It did not take Veron a lot of time to quickly dispatch the 11 targets that Jinmu marked earlier.
"Whew!", he heaved a sigh of relief. While the demonic creatures would resurrect later on due to their special demonic essence, that period was long enough for them to defeat the remaining seven and purge their existence using High King Garron's divinity.
The High King may not be able to use it in detecting the presence of demonic creatures but that did not prevent him from completely killing them either.
Divinity was divinity. It was the most dominant power to ever counter the Otherworld's demonic essence.
"Uncle, did you just attack the demonic creatures?"
Veron nodded, "Yes, Haera. The young ones needed some help. Particularly this Jinmu brat."
"Ready yourselves, the-"
Roar!
The ground trembled violently, catching everyone off guard.
"What happened?!", Haera worried.
"It's the demonic creatures! They've shed off their disguise and are openly attacking now!", Veron sensed everything through the reverberating sounds.
"Let's go and inform the High King about this!"
They went outside and were shocked to see the utter chaos displayed in front of their eyes.
The warriors were fervently attacking one another without a care in the world. A few dead bodies have already littered the scene with death and gore.
In the middle of it all was High King Garron trying to suppress his crazed army before it was too late.
Olivia saw the ethereal figure of a large frostal polar war bear appearing behind her father.
"Sir Veron, can you form a sound barrier in front of us?!"
'Huh?', Veron was confused at first until he saw the High King gathering his breath and was preparing for a shout.
He quickly clapped his hands and formed a sound barrier on time.
"Uwaaaa!"
An ear-shattering shout more explosive than thunder echoed upon the entire encampment. Everyone else except Veron's party and the High King himself dropped to the ground unconsciously.
Carried along with that shout was an extremely cold breeze of winter. Icicles formed on the edges of tents and blew out all the lit campfires.
Veron was also having difficulty standing after what happened.
'What a loud shout! My barrier couldn't almost keep up with it!'
Radiant knights were truly powerful, as expected of the peak of chivalric will cultivation whose only rivals were the archmages themselves.
"Father!"
"Olivia!", High King Garron was surprised to see her daughter unharmed, "How are you still standing up until now?!"
That shout of his was uncontrollable and affected whoever heard of it.
"It's Sir Veron, he protected us."
Veron and the rest finally caught up. The former was panting heavily. High King Garron's shout stressed him mentally. He gathered himself and explained the situation to the High King in a blunt manner.
"I see. You're saying that my daughter and her classmates have a way of determining whether one is a disguised demonic creature or not?"
High King Garron was surprised about this revelation. What sort of master did his daughter meet anyway?
To think that this person could give their students the ability to detect the presence of a demonic creature, that feat in itself was nothing short of legendary.
"Yes, but that doesn't matter now. The demonic creatures have forgone their disguise and might be attacking any second!", Veron warned.
"Kekeke… you humans are truly dumb sometimes!", a mocking feminine demonic voice called out to them.
The youngsters were terrified, hugging one another in fright. Haera and the High King upped their guard.
"They're here…", Veron's voice faded as he weakly slumped to the ground.
"Uncle!", Haera examined him and discovered that her uncle was physically fine.
"Is he ok?"
"Yes, High King. My uncle is just mentally tired, probably because he protected us from your shout earlier…", Haera felt awkward after saying that.
The High King got perplexed by his actions.
"What's the matter, High King? Do you realize now how wrong you were to shout like that pre-emptively?!", the demonic voice resounded again.
High King Garron sensed the snow behind him vaporize into thin air. He turned around, followed by Haera and the others, and saw an unusually tall and slender demonic creature with limbs as wide as a wooden stick.
Her nails were long and sharp and her face was distorted diagonally, making it look like someone cracked her neck and left it that way ever since.
[ Demonic Creature, Seductra ]
[ Power Level: Karagero ]
[ Demonic Symbols: 890 ]
[ 340 Symbols of Magicka, 250 symbols of Asura, 100 Symbols of Baruchard, 100 Symbols of Sarandawa, 100 Symbols of Darhiwa, 100 Symbols of Alhastra ]
[ Type: Caster, Semi-Fighter ]
'8-890! 890 demonic symbols!', Lucan was speechless. That previous demonic creature only had symbols around the 700 mark and this random disguised one surpassed it by a hundred marks.
Seductra was indifferent to the Heavenly Magic Academy students' presence. She seemed convinced that she could defeat them all as long as no archmage was present.
A smirk formed on her face and slid her long fingers into her curvaceous mouth.
"But I thank you for clearing the obstacles on the way, High King Garron! With you and your measly group of incapable youngsters, you shall lay down on this ground alongside your army, cold and dead forever!"
"Attack!"
Six more demonic creatures appeared and joined the fight. They were all muscular and each carried a different weapon.
The six simultaneously jumped together and raised their glowing weapons, targeting Haera and the students.
Haera tried to conjure and cast a spell but she realized that her actions were too slow and wouldn't make it in time to protect the youngsters.
Fortunately, for them, Solordo was a seasoned warrior who remained unfazed by the impending danger. Rather than being worried, he was excited that he could finally stretch his muscles after cultivating for a long time inside Arahon's lair.
He leaped high, infusing his halberd with both chivalric will and fire magic before extending his arms and rotating in a 360-degree fashion.
If one looked attentively, red dragon markings were engraved on both his arms.
"Tail of the Flame Dragon!"
The halberd on his hands expanded three times its original length and became flexible enough as if it turned organic, like the tail of a dragon.
Solordo brutely whipped it out. It possessed both sheer dragon strength and the power of fire magic, striking the six demonic creatures in mid-air and repelling them all at the same time.
Not only were they repelled, but their weapons also started to break and fire could be seen burning their injured flesh.
"Impossible! What sort of a human are you?!"
The most surprising thing that happened was that the six of them were overwhelmed by a single human brat. Even High King Garron was shocked by it as well.
'Is his assimilated and imprinted beast that divine flame dragon from earlier?!'
He remembered a tremendous aura and heavenly light striking the heavens in the middle of the night a month before.
'Maybe this kid is the one who did that…'
…
Solordo landed, retracting the enhancement on his halberd, and patted the dust off his clothes.
"Surprised that a human could fight you head on?!", he mocked.
"Don't you dare think too much of your luck human! Your suffering only starts now!"
Seductra angrily took out a large red scroll made of unknown material. When Jinmu laid his eyes on it, a sense of danger arose within his mind.
[ Demonic Scroll: Clustered Planar Demarcation Formation ]
[ A magic formation is stored inside this demonic scroll. The Clustered Planar Demarcation formation divides a whole plane into multiple distinct planes for a short time. Can only be altered or destroyed by spatial magic users or the creator of the magic formation itself. ]
'A demonic scroll?! This can't be good!'
High King Garron dashed to Seductra and grab ahold of the demonic scroll before pulling it out of her grasp.
This dumbfounded the demonic creature, 'My trick didn't work?!'
She expected that the High King would begin to question himself, which would lead to his incapacity to act due to the pent-up fury of his previous disappointing actions.
"You think I'm a fool, you damn demonic creature!", High King Garron shouted before slashing his sword at the distorted head of Seductra. The sword's motion was accompanied by a chilling aura, showering her in frigid ice.
She lifted her hand to intercept his strike but Garron's tremendous strength as a radiant knight split it in half while still delivering the lethal blade to her neck.
Garron brutally severed the demonic creature's head accompanied by a shockwave that blasted the ridiculous amount of black blood spraying out of her decapitated body. He did it in case the demonic scroll needed some blood to be triggered.
This caused the demonic creatures to panic as they did not expect that the High King would actually fight back.
'Damn that Seductra! What a foolish plan of breaking a radiant knight's will!'
At the moment their morale was destroyed, a signal was sent out into their minds.
"Get out!", shouted a demonic creature who had already fled in the distance. The rest followed and scattered in all directions.
Solordo and High King Garron went out to track down the fleeing demonic creatures.
"You're not getting away!"
In the middle of their pursuit, space trembled uncontrollably and forced the two to return.
"Roar!"
A loud draconic roar, similarly as loud as Arahon's yet colder and darker erupted.
"Are they fighting against one another now?!", Solordo felt that he was missing out on a good show. Imagine how thrilling it was to witness first-hand a legendary fight between two monarch-level dragons.
The space trembled again, shoving their feet off the ground. Haera stumbled and faced the sky.
"No, wait! The skies, look at the skies!", she shouted.
The sky above their heads was shattering like broken glass in multiple spots.
The radiant light of the Morning Star vanished and was replaced by a red miasma that leaked out of those gaps. Its aura was terrifying, instilling fear in those who were unfortunate enough to see it.
"This... this is the end of the world...", Lucan's will plummeted into the abyss. His unstable mind was easily corrupted and was now experiencing a nightmare.
"Snap out of it, Lucan!", Solordo attempted to rescue him, but the former discovered that only he, Haera, Jinmu, and High King Garron was left with a sane mind.
Roars of numerous demonic creatures echoed from the other side of that crack.
A demonic beast's claw emerged a few seconds later. It was engulfed in flames and gleamed like the vein of a molten volcano.
[ Name: Hellhound ]
[ Rarity: Rare ]
[ Power-Level: Commander ]
[ Magic Affinity: Dark, Fire ]
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