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[At the Demon kingdom castle]

[Aries point of view]

To think, there's someone who possesses both the power of Seraph and Iblis, in addition of being a witch. It's unbelievable, and yet, that person, that person. Because of the greed of the previous demon king, because of that person running away, and couple with the two traitorous princes struggling for the throne and power, the succession war of the demon kingdom happen. It isn't directly that person fault, but one couldn't help but to see how that person is indeed, a part of a prelude to the succession war

So if I get this sequence correctly, the previous, Druser casting some ancient spell related to Iblis onto his father --> His father now act like a half doppelganger (unable to die, unable to live) --> at death bed, found the person containing the power of a witch, Seraph and Iblis, --> previous demon king death??? --> That person escape --> Succession war happen

"So, what actually happened to the previous demon king? Is he really death? If not, why act now, and why act with his two son?" [Motra's little brother]

"There's also a question of why they wanted the power of that person to begin with. And since we can safely assume they're unable to track that person, they're having a backup plan" [Singa's grandfather]

"And that somehow has something to do with Druser casting the spell. If, going by what being told to you by the death demon king hold true, the fallen devil king Iblis will possess you, and..." [Aries]

"Together with Seraph, they will use the two power in order to achieve something" [New Paladin]

"But what is that something? Not to mention, why bother helping Princess Diana's eldest brother. Is it just to make monitor and make sure the ten heroes stay away from them?" [Demon Queen]

"Somehow, I don't think that's the case" [Druser]

While we did "figured out" or at least manage to assume one of their objectives, we couldn't come to any good conclusion. The meddling third party, just why did they have to act now out of all the time. There's no evidence suggesting they're working with Agnes and the other, and all the evidences thus far show that they really are working for another goal

"I guess the only way we can figure this out is by tracing that person back" [Motra's little brother]

"Agree. For now, how about we call the other and let them know about it" [Aries]

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[At the curse land]

[Lara and Nara point of view]

The temperature during the night at this barren land is cold. Since we uses our adaptability magic, the cold didn't really bother us, but we are sure, that if we deactivate the magic, the cold will pierce our heat receptor, causing us to shiver instantly.

With the light orb flying around us, and the bright illumination provided by the moons, the two of us, alone start to head back to the New Headquarters, taking the main middle road in order to avoid any unnecessary encounters with a monster

Unfortunately for us, it's no monsters that decide to pay us a visit, but rather

""Lara/Nara, dodge!!"" [Lara, Nara]

Sensing a poisonous fire breath from a devilish Cerberus, the two of us dodge and start taking out our scythe simultaneously. With Lara providing long range magic support, Nara started to imbued himself with acceleration and attack up buff, dashing through the three headed canine.

The Cerberus keep spitting out fiery poison, left and right, up and down. Hardly any corporation from the three headed dogs. While they did target Lara, the three heads barely work with each other, almost as if the fiery poisonous spit were spitted randomly, making things easier for Nara to dodge

"Soul pierce" [Nara]

Since attacking a Cerberus head will only cause their head to multiply, Nara decided to use the technique he and Lara acquired through the blessing from The God of Death. Striking not only physically, but also attacking the soul of the Cerberus directly. Lara's long range light arrow was also imbued with the same power

""There's more!!"" [Lara, Nara]

Just like back then, when the hunter devil with the rank of the ten commanders, pack of canine devils start to attack them. By this point, Lara and Nara grew rather accustomed on dealing with the canines. In fact, even if they're tired after unfruitful search of the holy beast, they're not currently protecting anyone, so they're free to go full offence from the get go

When Nara is attacking with his scythe imbued with his own mana, Lara will use support magic to help him such as buffing Nara, and debuff their enemies with various stat down and status ailments. She will also chain their enemies, and since they can use all seven elements of magic with neutral magic like Ash does, Lara will use chain magic appropriate to her enemies. If her enemies has a weakness to mirage magic, she will chain them down with mirage chain, with the added benefits of attacking their mind, causing frenzy and confusion. The same can be said true when it's Lara turn to take on the offence with her scythe. Nara will naturally start supporting her the way she support him. Buff, debuff, attacking through magic, chaining and restricting their enemies movement. They coordinate so well with each other, thanks to no small part by their time observing, sparing and getting their lesson from the pair S rank siblings, Anjin and Kucin

~Wolfs howling~

""Pack of mirage wolfs!!"" [Lara, Nara]

The pack of mirages devil wolfs, consisting of no less than 70 wolfs at a time, start encircling them. With the high concentration of mirage mana in the air, the devil wolfs have a easy time casting spells after spells onto the two of them. Not only that, mirages spell that were usually difficult to use by them, such as mirage mirror, can be use by more than half of the pack, causing

((They're multiplying!!)) [Lara, Nara]

Not only the wolfs, but other canine devils start walking out from the mirrors. Their numbers easily double than the initial pack of devil canines that attacks them