“Eden” said Sain contacting him.

[You got out there alive? What of Alena?]

“She'll live, in fact she's living a bit too much here...considering she led out to a giant ant nest that almost caused us to be food. I have never seen someone get so lost...”

[Yeah....she gets the bad luck with monsters with me and the lost bit from Alexandra]

Sain thought about it and nodded even though there was no one in front of him to gesture to. But it made sense, from all the stories of him and the other two, they got in a lot of trouble without knowing or intending to.

“Anyway I'm contacting you since you wanted information about the reasons on why there are so many monster nests recently. Turns out Demon Worshippers were summoning them all over the place, they even summoned a High Demon in the end though Galeiran killed it.”

[A group that can summon a High Demon into this mortal plane? Did they mention anything else?]

“Yeah, one of them mentioned about the Seven Demon Kings and about something of freeing them, what's that about? I never heard of Demon Kings being sealed let alone seven of them at once”

Eden sighed.

[This is most likely...no, it's too early]

“Better early than later.”

[...Fine. Don't tell those other five about this though]

“I don't intend to.”

They had no reason to know about anything like this. All they had to do was depend on him on this...even if they did not know yet.

[The Seven Demon Kings refer to the Seven Demon Kings of Sin sealed somewhere. The seal is powerful, once Alexandra wanted to see and fight them but the seal prevented anyone from getting near. I have no idea how to get rid of that seal nor intend to since it would be troublesome]

“I see.”

[It seems judging by your report and the reports from the others who have cleared out monster nests as well, there seems to be a lot of them]

“....”

Sain did not say anything since he knew that Eden usually had a couple of people work on one thing at once. Better to find out things from multiple points, Sain was only one of the gears in the machine known as a guild.

“What's the difference between these Demon Kings and the other ones? Like the one you killed before.”

[The difference between the one I killed and those seven? Those seven were the first Seven Demon Kings, the originals you could say. They are the oldest Demon Kings and as such the strongest ones as well]

“And their connections to us?”

[Why would you ask that?]

“Summer. That Knight from that guild quest felt the same power of a Demon King on us as the power you gave us. What's that about?”

[….]

“....”

[That topic is something especially too early for you but seeing that you wish for this, except to work a bit harder to compensate]

“Fine.”

[You and them have similar origins]

That conversation stopped there.

xXx

And so roughly three months passed in a flash after the events of the abandoned church and demons.

There were a series of quests that Alena had them do. These included more eliminations of the monster nests that gradually been reduced over time in the Western Continent and other quests that seemed unconnected to each other as well.

Running to collect several items, killing certain monsters and so on; they were kept busy combined with real life stuff with school thanks to the trio.

“Sorry of intruding” said Sain opening the door and entering the Administration building which was also Alena's home with Miriel.

“Hey” said Lyndis seeing them walk in. Serena waved at them as well along with the child that was in her arms.

“You're early” said Alena looking at the two enter the place, “I thought you two were on a date.”

“....”

Sain looked away and he saw Miriel do the same as well. He really could not call that a 'date' but rather it was more like a run down of selling materials that they had collected over the time. Thanks to this, the amount of gold they had in total now numbered to roughly 5000 gold coins.

“Want anything to eat? I might as well make you two something while I'm making something” Alena added on.

She was making soft foods for her child which was right now playing with Lyndis and Serena. Raven and Shadow watched on as the three played house.

“Hmm....”

“What about some desserts” said Miriel in a happy mood, the amount of money she had increased after all, “Crepes or Ice Cream would be nice right now considering that it is getting into summer right now.”

“I don't have the tools to make those right now, especially in this season” Alena let out a laugh and suggested, “Maybe something else?”

As those two were talking about food, Sain looked at where Lyndis, Serena and Alena's child was. Sain would really need to ask of the child's name one day...but never got the chance and would be especially awkward to ask now...

“Right, and now you...”

“Yeah! Here's the food...”

Sain could have sworn that the child was a boy...and yet he was playing house with those two...

This was probably due to the influence of Lyndis again...

Alena would not be happy when she learns that Lyndis was influencing her kid to be...well from what he knew, Alena grew up in a family with only daughters so...

“Sain, any preference?” asked Alena.

“Not really...hopefully something cold” he replied in a bored tone, there was really nothing happening recently.

“We have nothing to do right now...” sighed Sain on the table.

“And no tasks that you placed on us that is to be completed as well..plus the training you put us through ended at last” added Miriel.

In these three months, several things happened. The first was that they all reach level 200 from the fifteen levels they needed before. This was mainly due to some dungeon runs and the quests that they got from Alena.

Another thing was that Sain forced them all to train their skills, as such all of the skills that were in the beginner levels were now in the intermediate levels now. Because of that, they got a bit stronger than before thanks to it.

Putting down some food on the table, Alena gathered and the group and with a sigh said, “There may be a lot of work coming through soon.”

“And what makes you say that?” asked Shadow.

If only they knew...that soon they would be so overworked in the next two years thanks to the events that was simultaneously happening right now.

It was soon time for the seal on the three fallen warriors at the capital city to break free.

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Author's Notes:

- This is the end of the 6th volume...annnd another time skip! Arc Epilogue will be posted tomorrow...