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For Mason and Natalia, it was clear from the start.

They were doing this simply for Lucas.

Lucas thought that there could be a way out of this through talking.

The two had spoken about this in secret, they had decided to help Lucas and to talk to Ervas and Veronica personally.

They had decided to see if they could actually talk things out and treat them like normal people even after everything they did to them.

They really wanted to trust Lucas, and due to this, they kept looking for an ideal moment to speak to these two powerful beings that were once the clumsy and silent Veronica of Earth.

As they glanced at her two halves develop, speak, and more, they wondered how such a woman could have become… this.

It was as if she was not the same Veronica they remembered.

It was rather obvious that she would change a lot after living as a Demon Queen, especially because she tried to live her second life to its fullest and did not know that there were more like her within Kritias at that moment until very late in her life.

The life as a Demon Queen in the Demon Kingdom really changed how she thought and more, unlike many of the coworkers, who lived leisurely through their whole childhood, barely changing their personalities, and mostly remaining the same due to finding each other rather quickly.

Due to being surrounded by people of your previous life, they all ended up forcing themselves to simply be the same as in Earth, although some such as Fernando simply worsened and became sicker in the head because they were never given the chance to actually start over due to this.

Forced to be the same as their previous lives to not look weird or to not be seen as strange by their friends. Although they were reincarnated, they ended acting as if they were transported to the world instead, simply staying the same without actually developing as new people, without any opportunity to really start over.

This is why they found Veronica and Ervas so utterly strange.

It was as if the "Veronica they knew" had disappeared completely and had been replaced by completely different people.

But it was the same woman they knew, she had simply gone through too much shit.

Way more than these people.

And due to all the info, they got from Hekaton about her, Mason and Natalia who had become rather righteous and were still kind of the same even before killing Anastacia, could not stand how Veronica and Ervas were using the forbidden Death Magic to raise the death while having eaten Demon Gods and even killed one of the popes of Bestellen's church.

But because they still had a small glimpse of common sense, they did not want to kill her, at most they decided to leave her be and go somewhere else to live their own lives.

It was all due to Lucas that they decided to do this, and now that they saw how Veronica and Ervas told them that they would literally brainwash them, they could not stand this anymore.

They decided to do "Plan B", which was to unleash the attacks they prepared beforehand, stop the two split souls for some minutes and then run away for their lives.

However, they committed the mistake of attacking them.

If they had simply said "no thanks", Veronica and Ervas might have let them go away.

But they ended attacking them because they thought that they would attack them first… Which was not the case.

Ervas and Veronica had changed a lot since they were the same person on Earth, and now they held new lives with new people they treasured and wanted to protect. Hell, they even had romantic partners, and Veronica even had a daughter.

Why would they care about revenge at this point? They had a whole life ahead of them.

However, they had this rule.

If they attacked them, they would not doubt for a single second and go straight to slaughter them and eat their souls.

There was no way around it.

The moment they decided to attack them… Mason and Natalia would have to fight against them, who would relentlessly try to kill them in any way shape, or form, using every power they had cultivated through their third lives.

Veronica and Ervas flew towards the trio, surprising them by their amazing speed and the capability to fly without even having actual wings or some power such as being able to produce flames as a combustion to make them fly, or the ability to manipulate gravity such as Mason's.

No, they were simply using their ridiculous amounts of mana to float through the simple and incredibly costly Flight Spell, a Level 3 No-Attribute Magic Spell.

Veronica easily destroyed the gravitational forces that made up Mason's powerful barrier by coating her spectral soul claws with Chaos Attribute Mana, which had the property of setting any other attribute in disarray.

The gravitational forces made by Mason were still made through the use of mana and therefore were of the Spatial Attribute, which sooner or later distorted.

However, Ervas had put some of his claws into the attack as well right at the side of Veronica, using the Void Attribute which was similar to chaos but closer to spatial attribute, bringing the barrier down in an instant alongside Veronica.

In an instant, the barrier dissipated as Ervas and Veronica chose their targets.

Natalia immediately fell from her position after Mason's gravitation forces were not able to make her float anymore.

Meanwhile, Mason was still with Lucas, using his Gravity Domain and slightly falling to the left side.

Lucas seemed scared and unwilling to fight, so only Mason and Natalia were the real threat in this battle.

Ervas decided to target Mason as his Void Attribute was a good match against it, while Veronica decided to fight Natalia simply because she called her "As repulsive as a Demon God".

Natalia quickly began to regret her decisions and words at that moment, her remark really made Veronica quite angry, to the point that her crimson eyes were flashing eerily, and her entire soul was shapeshifting into a gigantic abyssal specter of the depths of hell.

She desperately unleashed her dragon soul flames against Veronica multiple times, but she quickly realized that they were not doing enough damage, Veronica's Health Points pool was rather large, her regeneration was also high, and more importantly, her defenses were outstanding.

Seeing how Veronica was completely unfazed by the flames that were even able to defeat someone like Leonia, Natalia felt utterly enraged and frustrated, as if this was some kind of joke.

She knew that Veronica was rather strong… but she did not know how strong she really was, thinking that her flames would be able to damage her to an extent.

The flames of her dragon soul which she developed since childhood of her second life, the little dragon within her soul that grew alongside her until reaching Level 10… It was nothing against her?!

However, Veronica did see her Health Points lowering as she received the damage, she simply used the Death Attribute Magic Spell "Undead Restoration" to heal back herself and resist the flames, finding that she did not even have to put much effort into it.

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