Walking into the luxurious building Lilly could see several rooms filled with maps and models, however that was nor what Lilly was looking for. At present the two sides were at a stalemate until the heroes were ready to fight meaning nothing she could do could give either side an advantage, what Lilly was looking for was information on the high ranking demons and possibly the demon king.

Afterall just like the demons had information on past heroes it made sense for the humans to have as much information on the demons as possible. Walking through the rooms silently no one noticed her prescence as she walked around at a steady pace with a purposefully manner.

Eventually Lilly entered a small unassuming room filled with cabinets, upon opening the closest cabinet Lilly found information on past high ranking demons "bingo." she whispered quietly as she smiled. Closing the cabinet she began to search the newer cabinets which held the most recent information.

Looking through the files she eventually found a large file at the back of one of the cabinets with the words classified: authorised military personal only. Ignoring the warning Lilly opened the folder to find descriptions of five demons, who the military believed to be the current demon generals, she smiled it was time to find out exactly what she was up.against.

Succubus violet

Ages: unknown

Level: unknown

Special abilities: seduction magic, soul magic

Description: she has black hair, black horns and violet eyes as well as white skin and is 1.7 metres tall.

Danger: labeled as highly dangerous, presumed to be one of the five demon generals she is one of the demons last line of defence and can absorb souls of those who fall under her spell.

Vampire Lucio

Age: over two hundred

Level: unknown

Special abilities: blood magic

Description: he has brown hair, brown eyes and lightly tanned skin, he is about 1.8 meters and looks like an average villager. He often uses his appearance to make enemies lower their guard.

Danger: labeled as highly dangerous confirmed to be one of the demon generals the Vampire Lucio has been around longer than the demon king he serves and has perfect control over other peoples blood allowing him to use someone's body against them.

Demon Laira

Age: 26

Level: exact number unknown last recorded at over one hundred

Special abilities: unknown

Description: red hair and red eyes as well as black horns on her head, she is 1.6 meters tall and has dark skin.

Danger: labeled as highly dangerous although Laira's exact abilities are unknown her name is synonymous to slaughter. Unlike the other generals she fights favouring a weapon over magic, she is deemed highly proficient with her weapon of choice, a scythe and all who come up against her have without a doubt died.

Name and race unknown: codename shadow

Age: unknown

Level: unknown

Special abilities: highly proficient in shadow magic

Description: shadow is an unknown entity who appears in a black cloak with a black mask on, their voice has never been heard and their face has never been seen making it impossible to classify as a male or female, shadow is about 1.7 meters tall.

Danger: shadow is mainly known as a non-combatent who appears when a battle is failing and evacuates all demons while defending against the humans without harming them. Shadow has only been seen actively fighting once and during the fight destroyed the full battlefield, due to this they are listed as a high potential danger.

Demon Navir

Age: 17

Level: unknown

Special abilities: only known holder of the Asura flame

Description: last known description was of a man with tanned skin, golden eyes, black hair and black horns

Danger: unknown, Navir had been confirmed as a general two years ago, however he has not been seen since the war broke out leading to rumors that he rebelled against the upper demon monarchy and was silenced because of it however due to these rumors being unconfirmed he is sill listed as presenting a threat due to his extremely tyrannical magic.

Lilly finished reading and stood still in silence considering what she had learnt, first if all she had seemingly confirmed Navir's story which put her more at ease but more importantly she had found another potential ally. Shadow, although they were listed as a demon general from the reports it seems they tried to avoid injuring either side.

Putting away the folder Lilly started to search to try and find more information on Shadow to see if there was anything useful, she was still looking through records when all of a sudden a soldier walked in "Who are you and what are you doing here?!?" growled the soldier as he raised the sword on his beast towards her.

Lilly smiled condenscingly and stood up straighter "name and rank?" she asked in an authoritive tone "What?" asked the soldier clearly confused "I said name and rank?" the soldier stared at her for a minute reluctant to answer before deciding he would do as she said "cadet Ryan." Lilly nodded "Well then cadet you better get out of here now."

Cadet Ryan looked at her in amazement "What the hell are you talking about you trespasser?!?" Lilly sighed as if greatly annoyed "listen here, for what reason do you think a messenger would be allowed into a record room? It's obviously if they're getting information to deliver, now if that messenger is meant to be finding and delivering highly classified information, who do you think has the clearance to see that information and will not appreciate the hold up."

The cadet paled obviously imagining all number of higher ups "not only that," continued Lilly "How do you think they'll react if they think an unknown cadet knew about this such information, wouldn't you be a liability?" the guard was as white as a ghost "b..but I didn't see any information."

Lilly shook her head sadly "you think they'll take that risk?" the guard shook his head and looked at Lilly with begging eyes "please dont tell anyone you saw me." Lilly paused as if considering then nodded "Ok but don't mention I was here it was meant to be secret and if the upper brass found our anyone knew I wouldn't like to think of the consequences."

The cadet nodded and left without another word, as soon as he was out of earshot Lilly let out a sigh of relief, in truth she had taken a gamble upon seeing how uncaring the king had been with the soldiers lives and assumed useless soldiers were just chucked on the front lines to die. A fate which all soldiers tried to avoid.

Going back to the records Lilly searched for several hours more before eventually giving up with the coming of dusk. Although she had not found any more information on the mysterious shadow she had however found and "liberated" a map that showed the suspected domains of the five demon generals, excluding Navir's who hadn't been seen since the war started.

Arriving back at home Lilly went to talk to Navir "Navir I found some information today that I want to confirm with you." Navir nodded "sure, what is it?" Lilly nodded "the identity of the other four demon generals." Navir looked at her a serious expression on his face "Ok what do you want to know?"

Lilly paused for a minute deciding what to say first "Ok first of all who were the other demon generals that were in power before the war?" Navir thought about it "there was the Succubus called Violet, a Vampire called Lucio, a Lich called Karma and a demon called Laira." Lilly froze "Wait a second a Lich?"

Navir looked at her surprised "yeah, why?" Lilly paused "apparently in recent years instead of a Lich a creature nicknamed shadow has been said to be the fith demon general. They're said to be a non-combatent who uses shadow magic to help evacuate troops, and also tries to avoid any caunities both human and demon however they're also listed as extremely powerful when they actually deem the situation necessary to fight ."

Navir sat down silently in thought "I didn't know anyone like that before my capture, shadow magic is common among demons due to a natural affinity with darkness however very few would be able to use it proficiently like that, and even fewer would be willing to use it to avoid conflict."

Lilly smiled mischievously "well if we're lucky they might make a powerful ally but anyway for now I'm gonna get some sleep, night Navir." Navir smiled tenderly "night Lilly."

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Author's note

Hiya just want to say a special thanks to metamorph for the review I'll try and improve the story as it goes on :) feel free to leave a comment or write a review so I know how you feel about the story hope you enjoyed the chapter!