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
Luke, Cedric, and Theodore rushed down the path as they called out for Grace. None of them were worried about the troll hearing them. Given its low intelligence, it would at most think they were noisy bugs and ignore them. Even if it did decide to pay attention to them, it would lose interest in them as long as things went as planned back at the camp."There," said Luke, as the other two also saw Grace on the ground hovering over the demon's body.Theodore rushed past everyone else to grab Grace by the collar and pull her away from the demon as he demanded, "You idiot, what are you doing?""Wait," Grace said, but he wasn't listening to her.He was looking at the demon, ready to attack it, when he saw the demon's condition. The other two soon caught up and also froze at the sight. Limbs were bent at awkward angles, and blank eyes stared up at nothing. It was very clear to them that the demon was dead. While Luke was grimacing on the outside, on the inside he was impressed with how real
"Our attack just now wasn't enough to knock the troll off its feet. How about we focus on one foot first?" Luke suggested.Cedric nodded his head. "If we work together, we should be able to force the troll to its knees."With that settled, they both charged at the troll's left foot. They slashed at the previous cut, making it deeper. The troll roared in pain as blood poured out of its foot. It looked down and swatted at them again. The duo dodged its hands as the troll became distracted by the arrows again. Once the troll looked away, they launched another attack and nearly cut its foot off.This time the troll fell onto one knee as it clutched its left foot. Unfortunately, this wasn't the time for it to be distracted by its injury. More arrows were launched its way, and a lucky one managed to hit it in the eye. The troll roared in pain as it raised a bloody hand to touch its injured eye and fell on its back. Then, like a child, it threw a tantrum, hitting everything within range.Luk