CHAPTER XLIV
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The White Mist Demon King raided Eulali, the Green Dragon God was defeated and retreated, the Sky Demon King regained his freedom, the gods retreated into the dungeon to hold on, and the God of Light led an army to support - the Blue Continent, which was dominated by the gods in the past, is now breaking out in an unprecedented war between gods and demons.
"Lord Loki!" Loki, who has lost her right arm and legs, is brought back to the town of Rivera from the front by Bell, who has SSS-level agility and a talent for escape, and her followers rush to it in shock.
"Don't be nervous, people are gods, and the broken hands and feet will grow back on their own." Loki forced a smile to comfort her, and in order to prevent the believers from asking about her injuries, she took the lead in turning her head to the corner of the empty room and spoke, "Hermes, I suffered this injury to cover you, I should always be able to get first-hand information, right?" β
Hermes lifted the concealment spell and his limbs were sound, but he looked very embarrassed: "Can this be regarded as a favor for you?" β
"Bastard, how can the life-saving grace be so easy to repay, be mentally prepared to be a cow and a horse for me for a hundred years!" Loki said angrily waving his only arm.
Hermes was also a little sloppy, and he was still very grateful to Loki for saving him: "Okay, don't spread the word after you hear it...... To put it simply, Hades captured hostages and forced Little Sister Lining to perform a heavy slash, and the Mother of All Things occupied Little Sister Lena's body because of the Heavy Slash, and Lord Lyle summoned negative thoughts from a higher level existence than the Mother of All Things to attack, causing the balance of the Mother of All Things to continue and destroy the world out of balance, and the strength of the demons in the world skyrocketed. β
"A being of a higher rank than the Mother of All Things?" Bell subconsciously asked.
Hermes spread his hands and shook his head, "I don't know who it is, probably only Lord Destruction knows the answer to this question." β
"This is good news, at least the monsters are not on the side of the demons." Loki originally thought that Lyle was trying to destroy the world under the bewitchment of Gulakias, but now that the responsibility was all on the Immortal King, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "So, what is the situation with that monster now?" β
"Unharmed, in a good mood, living in the city of his own making, playing with the maidsβthis is the information provided by the beast god officer Geros." Hermes's visit was ignored, and he did not intrude on the city of maids.
Loki's eyes widened and he rebuked, "You don't think you can say that all your information comes from that guy who is full of lies like you, right?!" β
"It's too much, Lord Loki~ Didn't you have the same personality in ancient times?" Hermes chuckled, revealing the black history that the believers did not know, and then said in a straight voice, "However, because we are the same type of people, I know what information has no value in concealment and falsification, please believe me." β
ββ¦β¦ Tut. Loki no longer questioned.
The elven magician raised his hand and asked, "Lord Hermes, what is the attitude of Lord Lyle now?" β
Hermes held up a finger and replied, "Wait." β
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The Blue Continent is the center of the war between gods and demons, which does not mean that the White Continent is at ease. Under the leadership of the demon generals specially left behind by the White Mist Demon King, a legion composed of lower-level demons, monsters, and cultists launched an attack on the human countries.
The lord known as the "Dragon Slayer" joined the war with his eldest daughter who was eager to try and Al who was resistant to killing the enemy, leaving his wife and eldest son with the first inheritance right to take care of the territory.
The war is going well, and Al is in a country that has shown great combat power, defeating the invading demon legions...... The enemy's commander seemed to think that he should first pick a soft persimmon and change the target of the attack after the withdrawal of troops, and in the absence of a united front between the countries, Al was able to return home.
- However, what awaits him is a messy town.
"What's going on!" Seeing the return of the lord who had been called to go on the expedition, the townspeople came to greet him one after another, and the lord hurriedly asked the aunt of the townspeople who knew him best.
The townman's aunt said with a sad face: "A few days ago, a remnant army of the demon clan passed by, and it seems that they attacked the town in order to replenish supplies. β
βοΌβ Al next to him changed his complexion.
The lord asked in a deep voice, "What are the casualties?" β
"Madame has been hiring adventurers to find the traces of the demon army in time, and under the escort of the adventurers, most of the townspeople fled into the mountains in time......" The townspeople's aunt turned her head to look in a certain direction with a strange expression.
Most of the townspeople fled into the mountains in time = a small number of townspeople did not have time to flee for their lives
ββ¦β¦ Is it. The lord breathed a sigh of relief, judging from the words and expressions of the townspeople's aunt, his wife and eldest son were not in danger.
It's okay to call him selfish, but that's what he cares about the most.
βοΌβ Al suddenly turned over and dismounted, and ran in the direction that the townspeople's aunt had just hinted at, not even listening to the advice of his father and sister.
Out of sight of the townspeople, he cast a spatial magic to teleport to a church on the outskirts...... Not surprisingly, the church of the Cult of Light was burned down by the demons, and in the corner of the cemetery, there was a group of wooden stakes with names written on them.
"Don't, don't ......!" Al ran over to check the names on the stakes one by one, praying that there were no names of his acquaintances on them.
However, it backfires - the name of one of his friends, as well as the name of his longing village sister, appears on the stake.
Al forced himself to read the names of the remaining stakes, and then fell to his knees as if he had been stripped of his strength.
He has the combat power to crush the lower-level demons.
Different from his father and sister, who can rush into the enemy line and cut melons and vegetables to harvest the lives of their enemies, he can blast hundreds of enemies into slag by throwing a few high-speed rotating stones, which is the difference between a swordsman and a magician.
But he has never used all his strength on the battlefield, not even Issei strength, one reason is that he was born in peacetime in his previous life and does not want to use magic in battle, and the other reason is that if he shows too high strength, he will inevitably be regarded as the trump card of the kingdom's army, which does not match the salted fish life he expects.
As a result, the demon army, which should not have left the battlefield alive, survived, and one of the remnants came to his family's territory.
Of course, the casualties of the townsfolk cannot be counted on Ar's head, and the causal relationship cannot be calculated in this way, but...... Guilt rose in Al's heart, and that was another question.
[Only fate can decide right and wrong.] ββThe words left by Lyle became Al's nightmare.