Zona groaned as she regained awareness of her surroundings. The last thing she remembered was that a magic circle had formed beneath her after she begged that human to spare her life. She couldn't believe she did something like that. It was disgraceful that a demon like her would stoop so low. If anyone found out, she would be a laughing stock.What was more insulting was that he managed to knock her out with just one hit. Of course, she was heavily injured from the fight and interrogation she had gone through earlier, but she was still knocked unconscious for who knew how long. Anything could have happened while she was out cold. The thought of the humans touching her body with their grimy hands disgusted her.It was bad enough that she had spilled some information to the humans earlier during the interrogation. Even if the information wasn't exactly useful since they were going to die
The hobgoblin stopped in its tracks as it noticed the humans crossing its path. Immediately, the humans panicked and started running. It didn't hesitate to give chase. How could it possibly ignore such prey when it was right in front of it? However, it didn't take long before he spotted another hobgoblin also chasing after the same prey.Unwilling to share its prey, it took the initiative to tackle the other hobgoblin to the ground, barely missing the humans who scrambled out of the way to avoid being crushed. The other hobgoblin retaliated by headbutting the first. It became a struggle as the two hobgoblins rolled on the ground as they fought to see who would get to kill the humans first.They punched, kicked, and clawed at each other like animals until one managed to get the upper hand and draw its sword. It stabbed the other hobgoblin repeatedly until it was dead. Satisfied that it had won, it ignored its aching wounds to see where the humans had run off to. The last thing it saw w
Luke pushed those thoughts aside, as he still had time to think about them later. For now, he needed to focus on clearing out all the demons first. No matter how well things were going, they could still go wrong, so he couldn't automatically think that everything was going to work out just fine. He had to see things through before he could make any decisions.This time, it was a pack of goblins. The prophets must have missed them if they were being affected by the demon's illusions. They had agreed when making the plan that the prophets would handle all the weak demons, which were basically the goblins, while the demon handled all the other demons, like the hobgoblins. This was to divide up the work and make things more efficient.Since they were goblins and in such small numbers, it didn't take the group long to eliminate them. Luke huffed as he stared at the corpses. This was why the prophets were supposed to deal with the goblins by using illusions to trick them into fighting each
"Is that true?" Cedric demanded as he forced his way past the others to confront Grace.She flinched as she said, "Yes. He's been asking about everyone.""Lead us to him," Cedric ordered as he grabbed her by the shoulders.Before Luke could act, Theodore placed a hand on Cedric's shoulders and said, "Hey, how about you let her go first?"Despite how calmly Theodore said this, the tight grip on Cedric's arm made it clear that he wasn't going to accept no for an answer. It was actually surprising that he had asked nicely instead of punching the man, but perhaps Theodore was worried that Grace would get hurt if he did. Cedric glanced back to see the pain on Grace's face and quickly let go."I apologize. I'm just surprised to hear that he's awake," Cedric said.Grace nodded her head. "It's fine. He's still in shock about what happened while he was out, so be gentle with him."Cedric returned her nod as she led them to where Felipe was being kept. As soon as Cedric saw Felipe awake and sit
"I did it," Grace declared to the group after they returned from patrolling the town. "I completed the quest."They had just returned from inspecting the town with no signs of demons for the second day in a row. It appeared that they had finally cleared out all the demons. If that was the case, then they could head back to the capital tomorrow. It also meant there was no reason to keep the demon prisoner. The demon would be handed over to the people to get their revenge.Bobby and Chris clapped as the former said, "Congratulations.""What did you get?" Chris asked."It says I can keep my healing abilities," Grace said with a smile.Contrary to how happy she was, her answer was met with disappointment from everyone except Luke. Luke had already known ahead of time, so he wasn't bothered by the news. Considering all their efforts, they had expected something more from the system. They thought she would get an item or lots of gold for completing the quest. Instead, it sounded like her on
"I should have known the demon would try something," said Cedric as he tightened his grip on his sword.However, he didn't dare draw it as he didn't want to risk the demon acting on its threat. All he could do was watch as the demon held Grace in a chokehold with its filthy hand pointed at her head. Its nails scraped dangerously close to her eyes, threatening to pluck out her eyes for any wrong moves. Everyone else was doing the same as they observed the situation."What do you think you're doing?" demanded Luke.The demon countered with its own question. "Do you really think I'll let myself be killed without a fight? There's no way I'll let myself be killed by a bunch of humans.""Let her go!" demanded Theodore."You must be deaf. I just said that I'm not going to let myself be killed. Do you really think I would let go of my hostage?" the demon said as she slowly backed away out of the tent.Luke glanced away from the demon to study Jon and Rose. Their faces were blank, making it di
"See, it's your fault that the troll found us. If you had kept a better eye on your prisoner, this wouldn't be happening," Rose said as she pointed at Luke.Bobby got in between them as he said, "Hey. Knock it off. We should be focusing on the demon and not each other."Rose scowled, but she retracted her finger. While Luke had a serious expression on his face, he was actually smug on the inside. Things were going exactly as planned. None of them had caught on that all of this was a plan to smuggle the demon out alive. It had been easy to act angry about what happened because he didn't like how the demon treated Grace so roughly.Obviously, he wouldn't have involved Grace unless she agreed to it, and he was certain she would be fine. If he had thought for even a second that she might be seriously hurt, she wouldn't have even known about his plan. However, for this plan, it was inevitable that Grace would get hurt. The demon couldn't treat her nicely, or else people would suspect somet
This seemed to have set off Theodore, who said, "Says the one who had been fine with shooting her out of the sky just to catch one measly demon."The two of them glared at each other before Chris interfered, saying, "This is so not the time for this. We have a literal troll coming our way, and the two of you want to fight.""He's got a point," Rose said. "We can argue about whose fault it is after we deal with the troll.""How are we supposed to deal with a troll?" someone asked. "Last time, it wiped out three parties.""It's impossible," another said.Those words caused everyone else to cower at the thought of dealing with the troll. A lot of people had died fighting the last troll, so it was natural for people to feel discouraged. The thought of fighting the troll seemed impossible. This would make it difficult to get everyone to work together to fight when many were probably thinking about running away."Calm down, everyone. We need to work together if we are going to take the trol