[Ingra Kingdom]
After a week has passed soldiers from all direction started to clog up at the capital of Ingra Kingdom
I'm order to accommodate everyone King Simon instructed his men to protrude up a huge campsite outside of the Capital's walls
At the same time he had evacuated the citizens that wasn't sure if they can stay anymore due to the looming strength
As the campsite for the huge aided army started to settle down, not long after another huge army came from the north, as the Empire's troops finally came together with Raguel only
As for his party members, he instructed them to just be on standby inside the Empire's walls since leaving it defenseless might cause problems later on
Soom when the soldiers that were blocking the highway saw Raguel leading the army who doesn't seem tired at all, they somehow unconciously split apart to provide away for him towards the capital
After that he went and greeted the king of Ingra kingdom and was also taking this chance to observe his surroundings
When he got there he somehow explained to them on how he was able to boost the army himself to arrive early in the Ingra Kingdom within just a week, which is in fact due to the distances of the Empire's capital to the Kingdom's capital, you could say that the estimated travel time was 3 weeks at best
Just like that he was able to persuade the king before bowing down and returned to his post outside with his army
When he got out he somehow felt a tinge of a huge magical energy that was being emitted about far away from his current location
Noticing this he begun to spread his scope of radar from his surroundings to be able to find out on what's direction does the energy was creating
As time passes by 30 seconds or more, his scope finally expanded throughout the capital and was soon be expanding further beyond it
Unfortunately one presence suddenly came approaching Raguel from behind as it silently stood there and waited for him to notice him
Upon realizing that intent, Raguel involuntarily stopped his search and focused at the person at hand, apparently the other person who confronted Raguel was none other than Elijah the elven Hero
"You must be the Human Hero Hibiki" said Elijah
"Hmm?... . . Ah well yes I am! How can I help you?" Asked Raguel
"Oh how easy can you accept that? But don't worry I'm not here to ask anything of you... . . But there is something bothering and that is your a Human aren't you?" Asked Elijah
Hearing that Raguel for a moment was surprised from the kids sharp intuition this stayed vigilant of him
"Well yeah! I'm a Human!!! Just what kind of a question was that?" Asked Raguel
"A comfirmation type! after all I've seen the shape and texture of a human Mana, but for some reason your's different, it's like your not even a Human at all" answered Elijah
"Oh! Now that's an interesting fan fact" exclaimed Raguel
"It's not a fun fact! It's an actual fact! Elves are sensitive to Mana even if they are just an ordinary elves but for special type of elves like the hero, I can somehow see the form and shape of the Mana that is lurking from one's body and with it I can also discern whether such person is a bad or good guy" said Elijah
"Now that's an amazing conjecture!" praised Raguel
After awhile he suddenly approached Elijah as he asked
"And what kind of form do I have?" He asked
"Bright, with wings, and majestic" he answered
"Is that so? Hahahaha"
"That why it confuses me, perhaps I can ask you something right Hibiki?" Asked Elijah
"Sure thing!"
"I have a friend who just lost it's mother life cause of your actions, so pleased tell me whoever you are.whether your the one facing me or the one hiding deep within you, why did you kill my friend's mother?" Asked Elijah
At this moment Raguel stopped laughing as the atmosphere and mood around them turned grim all of the sudden which alerted the surrounding soldiers
"Me? Killing a mother of someone else? I don't know anyone whom it's mother died cause of my actions, maybe it's event was somehow useless to me" said Raguel
"I see, so it's useless after all... . . "
With that their distance from each other was so close, Elijah immediately pulled out his dagger as he swinged it towards Raguel
Unfortunately Raguel's wings was able to blocked that attack, but nonetheless Elijah wasn't finished yet as he immediately dropped the dagger to fall down quickly to the ground and enable him to kick it's hilt to push it towards Raguel's head
Noticing this Raguel immediately tilted his head just in time to avoid the kicked dagger, but just as he did this, he was immediately met with a straight punch from Elijah which surprised him by a lot on how strong the impact it dealt against Raguel the moment he tried to block it with his arm
With a punch alone Raguel was pushed back by five tiles, which actually alerted all the soldiers this creating a commotion
Soon a circle was formed around them as the soldiers observed on how two Hero's dealt against each other
"If such life was insignificant to you, then perhaps you ought to have atleast learn a little punishment... . ." Said Elijah
Soon Elijah ordered his system
"Raise full body enhancement to 10% percent!!!"
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As his system said that, Elijah once again charged towards Raguel as he delivered various punches towards him all aiming at his vitals points
"Not bad!" Praised Raguel
With that Raguel played along as he blocked and redirect the attacks of Elijah itself before delivering his very own counter
But as he did a roundhouse kick, Elijah surprisingly caught his leg and pulled him towards itself before giving him a straight punch to the face first
But this time Elijah putted all that limited strength of him on his right arm delivered it directly towards Raguel, causing the latter to actually got blasted off his feet and collide against some stalls on the street
Picking himself up, Raguel seemed to have grown interest of Elijah as he was the first one to pushed him back just like that
With a step Raguel this time was the one who took the initiative as he launched himself towards Elijah and delivered different hand to hand combats as he shows just how much inferior he is
After a full swing of his left hand, Raguel immediately followed it up by a back hand swing before giving out a kick
Seeing that Elijah tried his best to block it to the very best, when suddenly Raguel quickly pulled his leg to serve as a faint and delivered a downward chop instead aiming to dislocate his shoulders
Luckily Elijah reacted in time and crossed his arm over him to block the attack
With one impact Elijah was surprisingly brought to his knees as cracks from the ground beneath them started to grow due to the weight of the attack
What's more the attack that came from Raguel was so heavy that Elijah felt like he was forcefully carrying six fully armored and weaponized tanks on top of each other
At that time however Queen Vivian interjected in their fight
"Human Hero-sama! Please release your pressure on the Elven Hero!"
"Hmm? Your that Queen of elves! Well it should be expected, if you haven't left the country yet that is" said Raguel
After that Raguel released Elijah from the pressure and immediately respected the Queen's wishes and dispersed the crowd themselves
"Catch you later elf boy!" Said Raguel as he lost interest on him and returned to the Empire's army
At the same time Elijah suddenly got agitated as he complained to his mother
"Mom! Why do you have to interject like that? That guy... . . Based on Sui's story, we could deduce that he's the one who killed her mother, so why would you let the guy who called my friends mother an insignificant being that didn't need his attention go away?" Asked Elijah as he clearly showed his agitation
At that Queen Vivian answered him seriously
"It's not like your wrong or anything, it's just that he's more dangerous than you think he is, if the fight continues it would only be counter productive for you if it goes on for long"
"Counter productive? How come?" Complained Elijah
"How come? Simple, he's stronger than the time we met him, it's like he's in a completely different level now... . . "
Hearing that Elijah begun to complain as he stated
"Then how can we defeat him now?... . . If it were me I would have still fought have him since I grew stronger as more experience I earn after all"
"No he's different! And your wrong, you'll just get killed if both of you went serious against each other, the only way to fight a monster is through another monster, all we need now is to make sure that he won't go on a rampage first" instructed by Queen Vivian
At that their conversation ended with having Elijah withdraw from the place and follow Queen Vivian
By at night till midnight, the leaders of different army's have started to engage about the strategy they would use to recapture Screa Port City
Due to circumstances Elijah was chosen to be at the rear and provide support to the people on the frontlines, at the same time Raguel was assigned to be on the frontlines of the army and lead the close combat soldiers to charge towards Screa Port City
Of course in case of ambush Elijah was free to do any type of freestyle he could provide cover fire for the soldiers upfront
With that the rear of the Frontline soldiers were secured, the only problem was the flying Demon's and the Demonic living structures also it's impending navy of skeletal ship who could atleast be assumed have the capability of cover fire
At the very least their objective was to destroy the ships as much as possible
With that in mind Raguel would have to come into play if ever need to defend from the hail of shots
After planning up to that, they now focused on the much bigger threat and that was the Demon King's vassal "Sirius the Vampire king"
At first they thought of having Raguel deal with it, but after thinking about the danger of the ships cover fire, they somehow discarded that and instead have to be dealt with first by the crusade of the holy city to atleast buy time for Elijah to instead deal with Sirius himself
With that they're plan was set in stone as they now marched towards Screa Port City which took up another week to get there and engage against the Demon King's army
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[Demon King's Castle, Demon Continent]
~Few hours earlier before the battle in Screa Port City~
After few weeks of the serious engagement of the Demon's in the war, they managed to successfully create an Outpost on the three locations in the Elven Nation, Beastman Country, and the Human continent
Due to those achievements, the Demon king however didn't notice until late that the Human Hero had joint forces with the Elven Hero and planned to retrieve Screa Port City
With this looming danger he had a premonition that Sirius would most likely get killed upon confrontation with the two Heroes
At that he soon started to make his move as he used some kind of magic to contact a specific person
"Are you there? Do you hear me? Hiiragi, Asuto! Please comply"
At that words Asuto simply answered
(I'm here! What do you need?) Asked Asuto indifferently
"What are you doing now? Are you busy?"
(Not much! I'm just cleaning up the mess) said Asuto as he swept his sword that he used to kill off a bunch of rowdy Demon's
"Great! I've got something to request of you! I want you to save Sirius at all cost, can you do that for me?"
(What's in it for me?) He asked
"Simple! You'll get to observe them up close the potential of the heroes, and with it you can judge whether such heroes is enough to catch your attention, how is it?"
After hearing that Asuto seemed to have further grown interested to the Heroes but was unable to engage towards them without any proper reason
With this he will finally have the chance to engage against them and possibly dig up their true potential whether they are a threat to his existence or not
(Alright! Leave it up all to me)