[At New Headquarters]

Most of the portal stone that were responsible for maintaining the barrier made by the devil have been destroyed. Most as even after destroying them all, the barrier is still standing strong, albeit Ultima Iero Fragma starting to the upper hand, but what disturbing is that

"Another one?" [Charlotte]

"Another one" [Karon]

"I see. Since Zerolith is currently there, I take it he must have realised their true intention" [Charlotte]

"He's no longer the rash Zerolith we used to know back in the day, so I believe he does" [Karon]

Good. We should destroy all the remaining portal stone and

""!!"" [Karon, Charlotte]

This Dark magic. It's powerful... No doubt about it, someone with the blessing from The Holy Beast of Dark is currently using a high level dark magic spell, and judging by the distance

"Zerolith..." [Charlotte]

"I wonder what's going on" [Karon]

"Should we head there?" [Charlotte]

"Yes. Let us head there and see what happens" [Karon]

"Just when we wanted to deal with that mass of ball made up of the canine devils up there in the sky" [Charlotte]

"True, but we can sense Mara, Birdie and Mr Kana there, so let us trust them to take care of that strange thing" [Karon]

"Right!" [Charlotte]

Not wasting anymore time, Karon and I took one of the Sea Hippo golem that's nearby and make haste to the source of the dark magic.

"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!" [King Behemoth]

"The King Behemoth, it's absorbing the barrier!" [Charlotte]

"And not only that! Zin. His eyes! He started to blink rather strangely!" [Karon]

"That Canine Ball in the sky also seems to absorb the barrier" [Charlotte]

"Just why... Did Saintess Angela suddenly change her plan..." [Karon]

"I can only think of her doing something dirty to gain the upper hand" [Charlotte]

Just as we are discussing about it, the Canine Ball up in the sky begin firing random miasma. Thick intoxicating cloud of miasma that erodes all that it touches

"My armor!"

"My eyes! Somebody help me!"

"It painful! It painful!"

"Look! The Canine Ball! It start to concentrate fire in the middle!"

"It charging up something big!"

"And the Mini Garuda! It disappear..."

((NO!!)) [Karon, Charlotte]

Are they alright? Please tell me they're alright

"Hoi! Hoi! Hoi! Hoi! The Devilish King Behemoth! It started to move towards the castle!"

"Is it me or does the King Behemoth look even bigger!?"

"Yes! You're right! It sure look bigger!"

"It act more aggressively as well! The Empress Behemoth of the Heroes is basically getting drag by it"

"No. More like toward where the giants and vampires are sleeping!"

"Even that enormous giant. It acting rather strangely!"

"It's like, he is disobeying a command?"

And more trouble come

"The canine devils! They aren't focusing on us anymore?"

"But rather, they are trying to bring down the Holy Beast of Wind!"

"Everyone! Help the Holy Beast!"

"We can't let the Holy Beast of Wind being eaten by those devils!!!!"

""""CHARGEEEEE!!!!!""""

""""""YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!""""""""

I see. Saintess Angela must have ordered them to concentrate their power on two things. The Holy Beast itself and the mainly the slumbering vampires and giants. She wanted to gain back the advantages that she held, and thus decided to use whatever remaining energy from the barrier, channel them to other fellow devils and let them rampage. Since we are all here anyway, and none of us are likely to run away from this country, the barrier didn't serve much function, and rather than wasting it away, she would rather use it for something else

(In which case, forming a barricade around the castle and holding it off should be my top priority now!) "All Marine Golem! Hear my command! Protect the castle and the slumbering place of the vampires and giants!" [Charlotte]

"Clay Puppets! Unite and help the Holy Beast of Wind!" [Karon]

And now, the haphazard situation throughout the entire country are finding themselves gathering toward the centre of the country, more specifically the castle.

"Even if they fail to get ahold of those vampires and giants, there are still citizen in the evacuation center, if they could get control over that place, they will have large number of hostage, but seeing as they're acting extremely aggressive, it isn't far fetched to say they plan to kill them all, with or without those experimented vampires and giants" [Karon]

"The Ball Canine up in the sky charging up an extremely powerful miasma laser, the Devilish King Behemoth trying to get into the castle, the canine devils preventing The Holy Beast of Wind from acting, and lastly, Zin. He's a strange one" [Charlotte]

"It will all be over once he decide to act" [Karon]

"That's right" [Charlotte]

It really is. Should Zin decided to act according to Saintess Angela plan right from the start, I have no doubt her plan will go smoothly, and they must be celebrating our death by now, but somehow, something happen that causes Zin to act strangely. I don't know what but I can only be grateful for it

"Kanji! You're here!" [Karon]

"With the other as well" [Charlotte]

"What's the situation? You two seems to be in rush" [Alaric]

"We can say the same about all of you as well" [Karon]

""Well..."" [Linda, Charlotte]

We exchange information in hand

"I see. If Saintess Rumia is here, then she can definitely do that!" [Charlotte]

"True. She's out only hope in this dark hour" [Seo Ah]

"But we also should defend this place" [Kanji]

"Please leave it to us!" [Charlotte]

"True! Do whatever you can to get Saintess Rumia back!" [Karon]

"Agree. This seems to be the best way to deal with our current situation" [Alaric]

"Then Alaric and I will go! All of you, please, take care" [Linda]

"The two of you as well" [Charlotte]

As they both leave, Karon and I combine our Ice and Steel magic, forming our own barricade around the castle

""Ice and Steel magic: Ice Steel Fortress!!"" [Karon, Charlotte]

Protecting those inside, while holding off countless attack from outside. Oh Goddess Achalasia, please, let this fortress prevail!