[Outside of Hidden City]
At the same day when the army from different nation's, races, kingdoms are marching down towards the battlefield up north in the Demon Continent, Nicholas the rank 1 of the order in the royal knight division was wondering through the plain field together with one other person
Since it was expected to be something big, one could just imagine what would happen in the war where killing is free for all
Currently Nicholas was walking down a hill as he somehow blindly follows the trace of mana that were a residue in the air
One particular reason for this was this Mana was so identical to the Mana from the dead person called Jack, even though it's slight Nicholas who was sensitive to Mana still managed to differentiate it
With that curiosity he followed the trace of the Mana while having one other person follow him all the way to the edge of Ingra Kingdom
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Name: Kelvin
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Job: 5th rank Royal knight
Title: youngest royal knight, munchkin, young genius
Skill: Healing magic, Light Magic, suppression magic, Mana manipulation, conjuring magic
Blessing: Blessing of Instinct and quick reaction
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"What are we doing here anyway Nicholas?" Asked Kelvin who was the youngest among the Royal knights
"Just follow me quietly, that would really help.simce you had kept asking me the same question for about 30 times already in a single day... It's pretty annoying you know..." Grumbled Nicholas as he straightened his position
Apparently Kelvin was coronated as a royal Knight at the age of six, thus he was called a genius by his peer
With his quick witted thinking and reaction, he was most the formidable among the 12 royal knights for he only follows what his instincts told him to do
With it his battle skills, movements, and etc. were very hard to predict even for a master swordsman
"You know since we can't participate in the war... Yet!!!... I'm quiet jealous of the guys below rank 6 to join them on such expedition" mumbled Kelvin
Unfortunately Nicholas clearly heard what he said as he immediately commented
"We will get our chance, we just need to wish that the enemy would be strong enough to force the hand of the church"
"I hope so..."
"Better yet why don't you just shut it, quietness is a virtue for me though" said Nicholas
But unfortunately Kelvin wasn't the one to listen to anybody
"Tell me how confident are you in fighting a demon head on" asked Kelvin
"Me? I think I'm strong enough, being 1st rank isn't just a number you know" replied Nicholas
"What a high self-esteem" he mumbled
As he continues to mumble, Nicholas soon continued his walking until he reached the forest who gave him such ominous feeling, of course this feeling instantly reached kelvin as he got up and pulled his sword with a smile if his face
"This forest is weird... Shall I cut it off?" Asks Kelvin
"Why would you? Don't! We're not here to cause a scene, plus were not going inside... Yet since I'm pretty sure that we will get overwhelmed" stated Nicholas
"So what do you want to do? Stare at it to death?" Asks Kelvin sarcastically
"No! We need to prepare... I'm going to mark this place with my magic, then return and gather an army to suppress whatever it is I side of that ominous forest" said Nicholas
After thinking for awhile Kelvin finally heeded and puts back his sword to its sheath before saying
"Then let's go and finish our preparation"
With that Nicholas used his own Mana and bursted it out at the barrier protecting the forest from danger, and marketing Ng it for his return
After that both Royal Knight's left the scene which turned the vicinity quiet except for few leaves rustling about
At the same time in the same place, some people's silhoutte could be seen appearing among the trees with a faint trembling voice
"We need to inform everyone... Quick tell everyone to prepare for war, we've been found"
"Yes sir!"
With that the expected battle against the citizens of hidden town will ensure
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Meanwhile on the demon continent Ingrid's group consisting of
- Sarah
- Anna
- Sui
- Melfina
- Luke
- Okou
- Zia
We're currently on a huge destroyed land with a sign of a instense battle has happened in this place
Due to the residue of Kaido's presence in the area, Anna has unknowingly led the group towards the battlefield where both Kaido and Fengris fought
Unknown to them Kaido also lost against a Calamity Class Being in this very place for the first time
As Anna continued to investigate Ingrid on another hand plump down beside a rock together with Sui and Zia who was in charge of taking care of Sui
Looking at Zia Ingrid herself was quite amazed
"I'm surprised on how diligent you are on your work, just make sure you get enough rest" said Ingrid
"It will be my pleasure Ingrid-sama but you don't have to worry since Sui-ojousama is not a spoiled brat, rather she is quite smart and calm for her age the is quite different from her peers" said Zia calmly
"I know and if I'm right then Sui is 9 years of age... That's pretty amazing on how much you are mature" praised Ingrid
"I know right? Sui is the best!!!" Said Sui herself as she even praised herself
After that Ingrid suddenly recalled something on what Zia said
"You know, you could drop the Ingrid-sama part since I'm really not the person your working under with... Why don't you call me by my name?" Asked Ingrid
"If that is what you want, but for now I can't do so since it is apparent that you like Kaido-sama, meaning there's a chance of you being my other master when the time comes that Kaido-sama settled down with his fated partner" said Zia with a blank face
Immediately hearing that Ingrid's face turned beat red as she quickly looked away to hide her Expression
"Ingrid-sama! Your quite hard to understand... Do Kaido-sama know your feelings? Have you told him that you like him?"
With that Sui looked at Ingrid with interest while both Luke and Okou turned their heads on the other direction as it seemed like they felt out of place when they listen
Filled with embarrassment Ingrid still said her piece
"I did... But he was in deep coma at that time"
"I see... Well that was pretty useless" said Zia bluntly
At that time Anna came towards them as she said
"Just like I thought something powerful had encountered Kaido-sama around this place, and if I'm right Kaido-sama lost this battle on this broken place"
Hearing her everyone present became silent as Melfina immediately stood up for Kaido
"Kaido-sama lost? But that impossible"
"It is as it is and if I'm correct the due to him losing... Those people did something to him to make him act like that when we saw him In recording" said Anna
Hearing that Melfina quietly clenched her fist in frustration as she quietly mumbles to herself that even those close to her couldn't even hear her words
But before the morale of everyone drops even further Anna said something that sparked to them
"But now I know where to go next, so follow me" she said
With that the group once more head out across the wasteland, unknown to them they are heading straight towards the Dark Forest where the residue of Kaido's presence was high
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[Demon King's Castle, Demon Continent]
As the army from the Demon race March down towards a certain path to meet up and join with the other races army, they somehow coincidentally bumped into kaido and his crew
But apparently they hid their aura quite a bit that even the vassal that were guarding everything and will move in immediate sense of danger couldn't even notice them
But upon seeing that a relieved smile could be seen on Kaido's face as he said
"Isn't this perfect?'
"How so?" Asked Fengris
"Well since majority of the Demon's were in that army, wouldn't that mean that the castle is pretty unguarded this time? This means that we could I filtrate their castle and kill the Demon king without any problem at all" deducted Kaido
Hearing that even Fengris brightened up as he was amazed, of course Argos was included on the people that were amazed
"Then what are we waiting for? Let go" said Aileene as she took the lead
With that they followed her towards the castle and started a ruckus not long after
Without any hesitation nor planning, they just barged inside the castle once the army was at far sight, of course there will still be guards and demons guarding it but against four Calamity Class Beings these demons we're like ants to them
Soon explosion rung out as some mages tried to attack them, unfortunately both Aileene and Fengris were too fast as they bypassed all of their spells and killed all the demon mages at the backline
With their strength alone they could easily take down such castle with only the four of them, of course if they go full power then they could take over the world as easy as cutting a pie
While both Aileene and Fengris were taking care of the mages and backline units, Argos on the other hand was taking care of the close.comabt related soldiers with ease.às bodies of demons started to pile up beneath him
As for Kaido he easily blasted an ogre away causing it to crash against the castle building, soon after a spoke suddenly pierced through its heart thus killing the ogre
Condensing black fire in his palm, Kaido soon tried out his darkness applicated fire
And with it a huge explosion rung out as it destroyed a part of the castle with ease while melting anything around it
Of course Kaido was surprised see that black fire was way much more hotter than his blue fire
After cleaning up the enemy that is guarding the castle, Kaido's group soon went inside the castle building and was surprised on how the castle was quite unguarded as they encountered nobody inside the infrastructure
Soon after Kaido seemed to stop at a certain portrait along the wall
What he saw was a person with white beard was sitting together side by side on what seemed to be his daughter
Seeing him stop the other four naturally stopped as well and looked at the portrait
"That's the current Demon king with his daughter" said Aileene
Hearing that they all turned their attention to her
"How come you know something about that?" Asked Argos
"Well I'm not a shut in unlike you guys... I'm quite sociable as I gather Information from other demons back in the days to overcome my boredom of long life" said Aileene with a smug face
Of course upon learning that both Argos and Fengris started chatting up with Aileene, while Kaido stared back at the Demon king's daughter for a moment especially every detail like her eyes before turning his gaze and memorizing the face of the Demon king
"Your checking her out" teased Aileene with a smirk on her face
"No I'm not" said Kaido blankly
"No I'm sure your checking her out after all you've been staring at her... Are you... Love struck" urged Aileene
"As I said I'm not, sometimes memorizing Minor details of a person is quite useful" said Kaido before brushing off past her
Soon after they suddenly barges inside the throne room and was surprised on what they saw
Apparently the throne was empty and upon getting close to the throne itself that was meant for the Demon king, Kaido in turn sorted on its throne as he started to deduct whether the Demon king joined the March
As he thought about that he suddenly felt the urge to slap himself for thinking that the Demon king would be left behind in the castle like any other isekai trope
As for the others seeing him sitting on the chair calmly, they somehow felt like Kaido himself looked like a Demon King if he sits on the chair with the three of them his vassals
But soon this curious and calm expression suddenly changed as they felt another presence heading towards them from the outside of the room
Soon after a person slowly opened the door and stood before the four of them with his whole black armor equipped and his purple aura exuding out of his body
With a Stern face Asuto suddenly glanced at the four Calamity Class Beings before fixing his gaze at Kaido who was sitting on the Demon king's throne
"I believe that you should get out of that seat" said Asuto
Hearing that Kaido begun to smirk
"And who are you to order me around?"
"You don't need to know, since you'll die anyway" said Asuto as he started to release his aura
"You want me to get out and kill me? Then make me"