"Ok then, I'll go and tell the townspeople that you and your elf adventurers will help us in this war"
"Before that, will you treat this war as a quest from the guild?"
"Unfortunately we can't do that"
"why not? The previous lord's son who is a criminal escaped from the town and joined a group of bandits and lead them to attack the town and us adventurers destroyed them"
"hmmm….. I like your idea, and we also can interrogate them to find out the one who helped them attack us, after that we can publish the information using the guild's network to get back at him"
"it's settled then, but you should publish the information about the bandits attack now as a primitive attack against them, and we can publish the information about who is behind them after we find more about him"
"got it"
After finishing our talk with the guild master we waited for him to tell the people that the elfs will help defend the town, after that we went outside into the town and started walking towards the inn I stayed in before.
"let's go and eat something before starting the rescue mission"
"we will start now? I thought that we will rescue them after the war"
"me too"
"it's better to rescue them now before any traitors and greedy people appear and try to take the elfs for themselves"
"I understand now"
"you are right, even if we can trust the guild master that doesn't mean we can let our guard down with everyone else"
"that's right, that's why we will not sleep tonight so prepare yourselves"
"okay"
"no problem"
As we discussed away, we reached the inn and opened the door and entered the building, as we entered the building we were welcomed by the sight of people eating and drinking happily, I recognized most of the people in the inn, they are the people who helped me spread the information we got from those thugs before.
"you guys are drinking your asses off even at this time!!"
"don't be stupid!! Of course, we are drinking or didn't the news reach your thick skull, our saviour will be participating in the war with his elf friends"
"well, that's news to me"
"you must be an idiot then, wait a minute…..Ryo-dono is that you?!"
"took you long enough, you drunk geezer"
"hahahaha, it's really you then, come and drink with me well you"
"I refuse, what kind of punishment is that, to drink with an old man like you"
"tsk…. You are still no fun at all"
"Ryo-san!! Are you going to stay here?"
"sorry not today, I came to eat dinner before going to prepare for the battle tomorrow, there is no sleep for me today"
"will you be alright fighting without any rest prior to the battle?"
"no problem. I'm an adventurer you know, I can fight for multiple days straight without any rest"
"and what about your friends? Will they eat here with you?"
"ah yes please"
"me too"
"you two, you don't need to act so stiffly, and you can take your hats in here"
"okay"
"got it"
"you two are still stiff, are you that nervous to meet new humans?"
"wow they really are elfs"
"don't stand over there, come on over here and start eating before the food cool down"
"Barid? But we didn't order anything yet"
"don't worry about it! Since the news about you participating in the war tomorrow, we thought that you will surely come to our inn and started cooking the best we can offer for you"
"Well then, I'll take you up on that offer!"
"of course you'll!! Be sure to eat everything we have before going to do your preparations"
"Okay let's go you two, I'm sure you'll like the food here"
"it does look delicious"
"I agree"
We started eating the food that Barid prepared, there was a lot of dishes to choose from but we kept eating nonetheless. The two elfs were eating slowly at first because all the dishes were new to them but they started enjoying the food before long.
"How was the food? I hope you enjoyed eating humans food for the first time"
"The food was really good I really enjoyed it"
"me too, I didn't know that the humans' food could be this good"
"I told you that you'll like it we did our best to prepare it after all"
"but rather than that, I was surprised to find out that Ryo wasn't the only strange human out there"
"I know how you feel"
"what do you mean by strange?!"
"We thought that the humans were either hate and fear us or look on us"
"Yeah, we thought that the humans see us as nothing but slaves or an enemy that should be killed"
"I don't blame you for thinking like that, but the people who think like that are only the nobles and those who believe in the god of the holy church"
"and you are different from them?"
"of course we are! From their perspective, we are nothing but mere commoners, and they prey on us more than they do on you elfs"
"what? Do you mean to say that those humans enslave their fellow humans as well?"
"that's exactly what I'm saying, they prey on us and enslave us to make some money or just for fun, we all had friends and family members who were enslaved by the nobles and the previous lord of this town but we got them back with the help of our saviour Ryo"
"that's really surprising, to think that the humans you call nobles would sink so low to the point of enslaving their fellow humans. but the church you spoke of, why would they see us as an enemy and try to kill us?"
"according to them, all races other than the human race are evil and that they should die in the name of their glorious god, and as for the reason why they think that the other races are offshoots of the animals and monsters who don't know their place and should be killed for that"
"I don't understand what do you mean by that…"
"Lao, you don't need to think that hard about it, it means that they are so jealous of the other races because of their special natural characteristics like the long life span and special magic and magic eyes and so on to the point of wanting to kill you guys"
"that's absurd"
"yeah"
"at the end of the day, they just want to abuse their power however they like while using the name of God as an excuse"
After that we continued to talk about the church and who believed in it and why, and when it started to get late we went out into the town and started walking toward one of the mansions that have elf slaves.
After infiltrating the mansion we headed down towards the basement where the elfs are kept, after opening the door to the basement we entered and found a group of five elfs two males and three females, one of the males was inside the barrier that the elfs can generate along with two of the females, leaving one male and one female awake, I noticed that they were all put inside a big cell and chained to the wall by steel chains and wrist and ankle cuffs, and I noticed that the awake man was covered in whip scars.
"Who are you? …. You don't seem to be the master of this mansion, are you maybe a thief?"
"don't worry, I'm an adventurer who is tasked with freeing you and your friends"
"don't mess with me!! As if a human can be tasked with freeing us!! You must be some kind of thief who came to steal us to sell us to a different place!! Humans see us as nothing but a playthings, if not for the chains I would have killed you in the spot!! You bastard!!"
"This guy seems to be so energetic for someone as injured as him, it seems like I really needed you guys to help me after all"
"he was treated badly, so please forgive him for his rudeness"
"wha-!! Hay Clair! Don't go apologizing to this human scum!! What's gotten into you to make lower your head for a human! Don't tell me you actually believe that nonsense about him coming to save us?!"
"of course I believe him, look behind him you blockhead!!"
"what do you mean by you beli-… wait! Behind him….Lao-sama?!! .. wh-what are y-you doing in a place like this?! And why are you with that human scum?!"
"as he said, we asked him to save you guys, but then it was decided that both of us should accompany him in case he was faced by any resistance from your side…. And it looks like we did the right thing when we came with him"
"what?!.... what were you guys thinking giving this mission to this human scum!!"
"let me warn you if continued to insult him any more than that we will leave you behind in your cell, those who look down on others don't deserve any mercy at all"
"Guhh… b-but-"
"no buts you blockhead, it seems like you don't understand the situation so I'll explain it to you, him coming to save us means that he is risking his life to save us"
"e-even s-so he i-is still a human a-at the end of the day…."
"human this and a human that, don't go grouping all the humans in the same box, not all the humans want to enslave us or kill us"
"How can you say that after what happened to us? Wasn't it the humans who enslaved us both?!"
"of course I can say that I'll never forget what Nash-sama taught me, and here is the evidence of what he taught us"
The male elf averted his eyes from Clair's face and remained silent, I decided to ignore what I heard about Nash for now and started walking towards the cell door and cut it open with Scarlet which made everyone look at me.
I went inside the cell and braked the chains that restrained Clair to the wall, after that I reached my hand towards her neck, but she jumped back away from me surprised.
"… what were you going to do?"
"don't worry, I'm just going to remove the slave collar from your neck"
I reached my hand to remove the collar again and she didn't move this time, I touched the collar and activated {Overload} and the collar turned into dust immediately, she moved her hand to her neck to check if the collar was really removed.
"wow…. You really removed it, thank you very much for saving me"
"no need to thank me, I just did my job"
"….and sorry about before I thought you were to sexually harass me or something"
"me too, sorry for trying to touch your neck without asking for permission first"
After that, I went and freed the male elf, but he remained silent the whole time contrary to Clair who was quite talkative.
"hay you blockhead, did no one teach you how to thank people?"
"Guh…. t-thank y-you for f-freeing me….."
"Rex, I want you to help me by holding the sleeping elfs up while I free them"
"got it"
"How are you going to free them with the barrier still in the way?"
"like this …. {Hijack}"
"wha-?!"
"the barrier disappeared!!"
I removed all the barriers and the chains and the collars from the sleeping elfs, after that I healed the injured elfs and had them drink some mana potions to help them recover their mana.
The elfs who were sleeping inside their barriers were confused at first, but they calmed down after Lao and Rex explained the current circumstances to them.
"Clair, is there any beastmen slaves in this mansion?"
"yes there is, they should be in the next room"
"Okay, let's go and save them"
I used Scarlet again to cut down the door to the next room and went inside the room with Lao and Rex and the freed elfs, when we entered the room we saw a group of different kinds of beastmen, they were not chained like the elfs but all of them had slave collars, most of them were females and most of them were children, one of the males stood up and approached the cell door, he was a tall man with wolf ears and tail.
"you guys are the elfs from the other room, how did you break out of your cells? and what happened to your collars?"
"We were saved by this human here, he is an adventurer who was tasked with the job to save all elfs and beastmen in this town"
"my name is Ryo and I'm here to save you guys"
"r-really?! We are thankful for that!!"
"We can get out finally!!"
"mom!! Wake up!! He said we can be free again!!"
I freed all the beastmen and destroyed their collars, the men started thanking me none stop, and the women hugged their children and started crying happily.
"it seems like some of you guys are sick, here let me fix that for you guys…{Mega Cure}"
"wow… are you really a human?"
"is it not obvious enough by looking at me?"
"no I mean, you used such an advanced spell on all of them without any chant"
After that, I healed all of their injuries and calmed them down, and started preparing to teleport all of them.
"are you guys all the slaves in this mansion?"
"there were some human slaves in this mansion but it seems they were taken out from here some time ago"
"How did you know?"
"We noticed that the humans' smell disappeared from the mansion some weeks ago"
"that's a beastman for you, you really do have a very good sense of smell"
"you can talk later, everyone come closer to me and hold each other's hands, we are going to leave this place"
"leave? What will coming closer to you accomplish?"
"no talking back! just do what you are told to do, blockhead"
"alright. Let's go {Teleport}"
"wha-!?"
"We are outside already?!"
"no need to panic that was Ryo's space-time magic, he teleported us to outside the town"
"We are in the northern part of the forest, I'll prepare a bath and a change of clothes and food and a place for you all to rest"
I started using earth magic to make an instant bath and erected two big tents over the baths, and prepared some cloths inside each tent, I bought these clothes from the town before heading to the elfs village.
After that I took a lot of meat from my {Storage} and placed the meat on a metallic table I made in the past as practice, I got the meat from the monsters and animals I hunted when I was building my house, and after that, I lighted a big fire from some leftover wood I had in my {Storage} and placed a grill on top of it, and after that, I took out some condiments and placed them next to the meat, and finally, I took out an artifact that looks like a water tap, this artifact produces an infinite amount of water from water mana crystal.
"…everyone, why are all of you looking at me like that? Don't just stand around and go take a bath and change your clothes, after that come and eat as much as you can I'll start preparing a place for you to sleep and rest your bodies"
"first of all were did you take all of those things?"
"it's a skill I have, it's called {Storage} and I can store an infinite number of things"
"….and you had all of these things with you inside that skill?"
"yes, since time doesn't move inside my {Storage} I have been collecting a lot of resources inside of it"
"…and what about women's clothes? Why do you have them with you?"
"I prepared them before coming to save all of you"
"….*Sigh* okay I got it, thank you for considering our needs"
"is that all? Okay then, I'll leave Rex here with all of you, I and Lao will go to save another group of elfs and beastmen and will bring them here, and Rex I'll leave this with you it's a barrier artifact that can generate a barrier far stronger than the one covering the elf's village, activate it next to the fire and it will protect everyone from monsters"
"got it"
After that I took Lao and teleported back to the town and headed for the second noble's mansion, we infiltrated the mansion and headed for the basement to search for the slaves, when we found the elfs I freed them and healed the injured and cured the sick.
I was faced a lot of hate from the elfs but Lao's presence with me helped to calm them down, after that, I teleported all of them to the safe place and asked Rex to take care of them.
After that we headed to save more elfs and beastmen, we were faced by some resistance from some of the owners but I dealt easily with them using {Shadow Arts}.
We kept going back and forth between the town and the safe place many times, but we reached the end at least last, the final mansion was an empty one because the owner of this mansion was one of the nobles who helped the idiot son escape.
Right after entering the mansion I felt the presence of a strong person, from the presence I can feel it was clear to me that there is someone strong enough to defeat both the guild master of this town and the guild master of the elfs town at the same time, because of my skill {Presence Detection} I can see that this presence belongs to an (SS) rank for sure, I didn't feel any hostility from him but I placed my hand on Scarlet just to be safe.
"Ryo? What's wrong? You have been acting strangely ever since we came to this mansion"
"it's just that I have been feeling a strong presence from this mansion"
"is it an enemy?"
"I don't know, I don't feel any hostility from it"
"let's be careful then"
We entered the mansion and headed towards the place where the slaves are kept, we found only one elf child and tree beastmen women in the basement, so I freed them and destroyed their slave collars and healed them, but I could feel the strong presence from the next room, it seems like this presence belongs to another slave in the next room.
"There is one more slave in the next room"
"Is he the one you talked about earlier?"
"yes, so be on your guard"
"got it"
I used Scarlet to cut the door down and started walking inside the room, maybe because of the way we entered I could feel the presence getting tense and nervous.
"Who are you? You don't seem to be a thief, so can you tell me what is your business in here?"
"my name is Ryo, I am an adventurer who is tasked with freeing the elf and beastmen slaves in this town, and you are the last one"
"you don't need to be that cautious of me, I'm nothing but a weak old man"
"you don't look like a weak old man to me"
"I'm nothing compared to you, please, believe me, I swear! I'm not as dangerous as you think"
"then why are you so frantic like that"
"leaving the ones in your shadow aside, I don't want to anger a monster such as yourself"
"don't worry I'm here to free the slaves, and not to harm them, but can you tell me how did someone as strong as yourself ended up as a slave"
"my name is Sethrod and as you can see I'm a dragonkin, I'm here because I made a deal with the noble who owns this mansion ten years ago"
"what do you mean by deal?"
"ten years ago I was basing by a village where humans and beastmen lived together in harmony, I had a friend in that village and was visiting him, but the village was discovered by this noble and so he started hunting the beastmen and killing the humans, I tried fighting him but he took some of the villagers' hostages, and when he noticed that I was a dragonkin he offered me a deal, the deal was to let him capture me and he would release all the villagers go and I agreed, after that, I signed a contract with him to stay in this cage and to never break from it by myself and in exchange, he will keep the existence of that village a secret from the world, the contract we signed was bound to us by blood and the one to break the contract will face the consequences"
"what were the consequences for both of you?"
"for me, it was the death of my friend in the village and for the noble, it was his own death, but he died three years ago, but the contract was still active even now"
The dragonkin told me his story with downcast eyes, he seems frustrated because of what happened, dragonkin are the strongest of the beastmen and they have a very long lifespan, it's said that every one of them has at least three skills and that some of them even has the ability to transform into dragons, and that all of them have high resistance against curses, that's why slave collars don't work on them and that's the reason why there are no dragonkin slaves in this world.
And the blood contract he talked about is a magical item that forces the people who signed it to fulfil the terms they signed upon, the blood contract forced the people to fulfil the terms by the use of consequences, the consequences can be anything from pain and suffering to death, but when using this item you have to specify the end of the contract, and that is if one side died naturally the other side will be released from it.
"so you was desperate to save your friend and signed a never-ending blood contract"
"…regrettably yes…."
"Okay then I'll release you from the contract and this cage, is that alright with you?"
"…. Yes"
"Okay then,…. {Hijack}"
I used my skill to break the blood contract effect and then used Scarlet to cut the cage down, the old man started standing up slowly and then he started stretching his body.
Looking at him now, he was a tall man with a strong body, he had a white hair and red eyes and two black horns sprouting from the sides of his head, he had a strong and tall tail sprouting from his lower back.
I used {Analyze} on him to find out that he had five skills, {Truth Eye}, {Mana Control}, {Dragon Transformation}, {Scale Armor}, {Dragon Breath}.
"thank you for releasing me from that cage"
"you don't need to thank me, I was doing my job, but what about you now? Will you come with us or will you on your way alone?"
"I'll come with you"
"Okay then, let's go ….{Teleport}"
By the time I teleported the last group to the safe place it was already dawn, so I asked Rex if he had explained the circumstances to the people gathered in here.
"I have explained the circumstances to everyone and told them that me and Lao will accompany you to the battlefield and that we will take them back to the village after dealing with that"
"I would have liked to take them back to the village but that would have taken so much time and also I don't want to head to battle with a tired body so you will have to forgive me for that"
"don't worry about it, we are here to help you after all"
"Rex is right"
"Okay then, let's go and meet with the guild master"
"got it"
"yeah"
"wait!.... can you take me with you? I want to help"
"don't you want to rest?"
"I have been living in that cage for ten years now, I really want to move my body a little, and don't call me old man, you can call me Seth"
"okay Seth, if that's what you want then come along, but before that here change into this"
I took out a dragon leather armour and gave it to Seth, he was surprised by my {Storage} skill but he calmed himself down and took the armour and went to change into it.
"Okay, now that everyone is ready, let's go"
I used {Teleport} to take us four to the guild, the people inside the guild were surprised by our sudden appearance inside the guild, after they calmed down, the guild master came in front of us and asked about Seth.
"This is Seth, he is one of the slaves I freed last night, and he is here to help us"
"a dragonkin is here to help!! That's really reassuring"
"thank you for having me"
"so, do you have any informations about the bandit's army"
"yes they are attacking us from two different locations, from the north a group of more than a thousand and from the east an elite group of five hundred with Baris and his noble friends in the lead"
"so what is the plan?"
"my plan was to divide our forces in two and fighting them both at the same time, but I want to hear your opinion first"
"you can leave the elite group to me and my party and you guys use your full force to fight off the group attacking from the north"
"Are you sure? I know how strong you are, but can you fight against five hundred elite troops with just you guys?"
"We are honestly way more than enough to deal with them, the problem is with you guys, can you handle the fight against the north group?"
"it'll be tough to be honest with you"
"then how about I ask my tamed monsters to fight with you?"
"you have tamed monsters with you?"
"yes, one King Flare Owl and a group of three hundred Shadow Hounds"
"w-w-whaaaaattt!?"
"calm down"
"How can I calm down after hearing what you said?!, d-do you really have these monsters tamed to you?"
"yes, I do, and I'll lend them to you in the fight against the north group"
"that would be great!! With this lineup, we can fight ten thousand men and win easily"
"that's the plane let's win this battle without breaking a sweat"
Right now I was standing in the eastern plains alongside Lao, Rex and Seth waiting for the enemy to arrive, I changed the appearance of my armour into a long black coat over a black T-shirt and black pants, the coat was lined with the fur of the Shadow Hounds and had my crest on the back, the T-shirt was completely black with my crest in the chest area, the pants were black with some red in some places.
This time I'm wearing a glasses, these glasses were made from a Mithril and Adamantite alloy and I enchanted it with recognition inhibition and many other effects, the recognition inhibition can prevent anyone I don't want to recognize me from noticing who I'm, or I can make it so my enemy will forget how I looked like after one hour, and that's what I set it to do and the target was whoever is helping the idiot son with this foolish war, I did this just in case they were watching the idiot son using some kind of monitoring artifact.
After two hours of waiting they have finally arrived, they had knights and mages and some heavily armoured guys, the idiot son was in front of the lot riding a big horned horse, we waited until they came closer to us and the idiot son wasted no time and started laughing like a maniac.
"hahahahahaha, did you come to plead for your life, filthy commoner!!"
"I see you are still as incompetent as ever, idiot son"
"wh-!? is that how you beg for your life?!!"
"you are really as incompetent as ever I see or maybe you are worse now. Well, no change in the fact that you are still an idiot"
"you bastard!! No matter how much you beg for your life I'll never forgive you!!"
"in the first place we are not here to beg for our lives or anything, the four of us are enough to play with you and your stupid friends"
"you little-!! Fine, I'll bring you down by force!!"
"Sethrod you bastard!! Who did you leave your cell?"
"I freed him"
"you bastard!! How dare you steal my slave?"
"I did not steal him, it's just that I received the quest from the elf guild master to save all the elf and beastmen slaves in Donatis and he was one of the slaves I saved yesterday"
"you mean to say that you freed all the slaves we had in our mansions?!"
"yes, that is what I meant to say"
"you litt-!? But it does not matter where you take them as long as they have the slave collars we can take them back, hahahaha"
"you mean these collars? It's no use, I have a skill that gives me the ability to destroy them like this…{Overload}"
I showed them how did I destroy the slave collars, all of them were shocked at first but that changed into anger and madness for the group of the knights with heavy armour.
"you heretic!! You dare to side with the lowly demi-humans and go against the church!?"
"I don't care about your rotten church or your rotten god, if you have any complains then take them with my sword"
"you dare insult our glorious god!! We will purge you and your demi-human friends!!"
"lowly commoner, now if you think you can fight against these numbers then show me!!"
"you incompetent idiot son, no matter what you do you'll die here today, even if started pegging for your life I'll not spare you, I hope you are prepared for that"
"hahahahahaha, you sure can talk big, don't you see our numbers? How can a group of four fight against us!!"
"like this, I guess…..{Homura Bito}"
"wha-?!"
The moment I used my summoning spell a small army of skeletons that consist of a general skeleton as the leader, 29 skeleton knights, 50 skeleton paladins, 20 skeleton mage, appeared in front of me.
"if you think you can beat my summoned monsters then prove it"
"Guhh!! Get in formation and start attacking them!! We still outnumber them by a lot!! Kill the lot of them!!"
The idiot son started barking his orders and I ordered the skeletons to kill every one exempt the idiot son and his noble friends, my skeletons moved into formation far quicker that the enemy's army, the paladins were in the front and the mages behind them, the general and the knights jumped into the front lines and started attacking the enemy's directly.
Lao took out his longbow and started firing arrows at the enemies, he was using wind spirit magic to guide his arrows so they never missed their target, I noticed that sometimes he was shooting more than one arrow at a time, and the arrows he fires are moving by themselves and chase after their target.
Rex was fighting using a twine blades, one is red and the other is blue, the red one was leaving a trail of fire with each attack and the blue one was leaving a trail of water and ice with each attack, the fire was destroying the weapons and armour it struck, while the ice was slowing the movement of the enemy the water would cut them into pieces.
Seth was fighting using his bare hands, he was punching the air and suddenly a repel would spread across the space in front of him sending his targets flying, according to {Analyze} he is using a special type of martial arts, the essence of that martial arts was to control your mana to send it across the space you are attacking and affecting it in a lot of ways, he would sometimes punch his enemies directly in the chest which causes their armour to breakdown into pieces, then he would finish them off with a punch to the face destroying their heads completely.
"go surround and attack him from all directions!! He can't fend off all of our attacks at the same time!!"
I was surrounded by ten of the knights and the heavy knights, but… "{Shadow Arts}!! …and {Batto: Iai Enjin}"
I held them in place using their own shadows and then I beheaded all of them with one flowing motion, after that, I started attacking the heavy knights, when they saw me attacking, they all held their shields up to block me, but my attacks have reduced all of them to pieces, Scarlet was sharp enough to cut through dragons scales and bones, so cutting through some armour was no big deal.
"dame it!! These skeletons keep regenerating no matter who much we destroy them they keep coming back!!"
"another group of knights died!! How can we lose to a group of only four people?!! We are un elite troops for god's sake!!"
"GYAAAA!! MY ARM!! MYYYYYY AAAARRRRM!!"
In a matter of two hours, all of the enemy troops were killed brutally, leaving the idiot son and his friends staring at us in a daze, after a brief moment they started running away.
"Retreat!! Retreat!! We can't fight against those monsters!!"
"{Teleport} ….{Telekinesis}"
"wha-?!! GUHHH!!"
I teleported to in front of them and used my skill {Telekinesis} drop all of them from their horses to the ground, and then I started walking toward them slowly while leaning Scarlet on my shoulder, and Lao, Rex and Seth were coming from behind them as well.
"so,….. is that all you have? Coward"
"Impossible!! Impossible!! Impossible!! We can't be defeated!! We can't!!"
"what are you an idiot? You have already lost, you are defeated, you and all of your stupid friends were no match for us four"
"don't push your luck!! Commoner!! I still have my army to the-!!"
*KABOOOOOOMMM*
"Ooh, it looks like the other group have finished their fight as well, that was the signal of victory!!,...…erm, sorry what were you saying?"
The idiot son just stared at the fireworks we used as a victory signal with a dreadful look on his face, our fight was recorded and broadcasted throughout the whole town, so the other group saw our fight from start to end, we used this strategy to raise our army's morals while dropping the enemy's morals.
"well? are done running away? Are you all prepared to die?"
"s-stop p-please!! Please don't kill us!! Don't kill me!!"
"so now you are begging for your life? How low are you going to fall?"
"please!! I peg of you don't kill me!!"
"How can I forgive you for attacking innocent people? You escaped from the justice hold and gathered troops and lead them to attack innocent people, I can't forgive you for that, can I"
"N-No!! please hear me out!! I-I-It w-was n-not my fault!! I was ordered to attack Donatis and take it back!!"
"is it the same person who provided solders and weapons and had the church attack this town with you?"
"Y-Yes!! I-It was the same!! Believe me!!"
"who was it?"
When I asked him that question he averted his eyes from me and looked down, it seems like it was hard for him to reveal the one who supported him, so I decided to give him a small push on the back.
"if you don't want to talk then I'll not force you to talk but I'll kill you here and now"
"wait!! Wait, I'll talk!! I'll talk!! But will you spare my life if I told you?"
"I'll think about it at least"
"Guhh,…..it was Nezil Morten Kazar the second prince of the Kazar kingdom!!"
"well, thank you for the informations"
"t-th-then yo-!!"
"here, I'll introduce you to my tamed monsters,…. *whistle*…. Kage!! come over here and bring all of your family with you!!"
"HIIII!!"
All of the Shadow Hounds did not waste any time and appeared immediately from the shadows all around us, the idiot son and his friends were frightened by their sudden appearance.
*did you need anything from us, master!! WOOF!!*
"you all worked very well this time, so I prepared a snack for all of you"
"w-w-wait!! Y-Y-You s-said that y-you w-would spare our lives!!"
"I didn't say that I said I'll think about it, and after thinking about it I still decided against it"
"NO!! NO NO NO!! STOP IT!! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!! NO!! GYYYYAAAAA-…..!!"
"NO!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!DON'T!!DON'T!!DONNNNNN-!!"
"HIIIIIIIIII!!I DON'T WANT TO DIE!! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!LEAVVV-!!GYAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
After dealing with the idiot son and his noble friends we headed back to the town, the method I used to kill the idiot son and his noble friends might seem cruel, but when he was at the top of the food chain in Donatis, he would kidnap women from the town and would use them as playthings until they breakdown mentally, after that he would always either kill them or throw them out to the monsters in the forest, and then he would kidnap more women from the town, and when their husbands or parents try to protect them he would either kill them or sell them as slaves.
He was a man who deserved to die in the most horrific and cruel possible.
After reaching the town we were welcomed by the celebrations of the townspeople, the whole town was singing and dancing cheerfully, we went straight to the guild to meet with the guild master.
"so? How did go in your side?"
"no one died, but we do have some injured people"
"do you need any help treating the injured people?"
"no, you have done enough for us, we can deal with them by ourselves"
"How did the interrogations go in your side?"
"We have interrogated some of the soldiers and they all gave us the same name…"
"Nezil Morten Kazar?"
"yes"
"then, I want you to publish the informations about our victory and the fact that these bandits received help from a high ranking someone from the capital, but don't revile who just yet, I have an idea about how to deal with that information, but I have to head to the elf's village, for now, we can talk about my idea when I visit you again after finishing my quest there"
"got it, the reason we got this information in the first place was you, and I have many things I want to discuss with you but I'll wait for your visit, and by the way, this morning I sent a letter to the guild master in the elf village using the guild information network explaining to him your circumstances, I wanted to tell you earlier but I forgot"
"thank very much, that really helped me a lot"
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Let's go back in time a little bit.
Early in the morning in the elf village Elvens, all the elfs in town were assembled near the west gate of the village, they were waiting for their freed brethren, the guild master here tasked a human with the quest to save the enslaved elfs in the human town Donatis.
The elfs were sceptical about if they can trust a human with the lives of their brethren, but when they heard that the young master of the village will accompany him along with an (S) rank elf adventurer, they could only expect good results.
But it seems not all of the elfs were happy to know that their brethren were coming back home.
Lanzen Berlarn is the head of the council that advises the elder of the village, and he is the big brother of the current elder of the village who is bedridden at the moment because of an unknown illness.
He and most of the council members were clearly not happy about the return of their brethren, they were looking from the direction of the gate to the faces of their fellow elfs.
The elfs in the village waited for the human to come back for three hours but he didn't show up, the human told them that he will come back by the sunrise today, but more than two hours had passed since then but he was nowhere to be seen.
"See?!! See?!! I told you we shouldn't trust the humans!! And there you have it!! After trusting him with your young master he went and disappeared with him!! He must have taken them as slaves by now!!"
Lanzen saw this as his chance to incites the people of the town against that human, and he started inciting the people against the adventurer's guild as well, and then he started blaming the guild master for all of this, but suddenly one of the elfs who worked in the guild came running and calling for the guild master.
"Shalden-sama!!Shalden-sama!! a letter arrived for you!!"
"a letter for me? From who?"
"it's from Mark-sama the guild master in Donatis!!"
"let me see, hmm...…hahahahahahaha, I see!! I see!!"
"what does it say?"
"hear me everyone!! Ryo, the human adventurer I sent to free our brethren have freed all of them, but the town was under attack by an army of bandits he had to stop and fight them off in order to protect the freed slaves, they will be on their way back after dealing with the bandits"
Lanzen was glaring at Shalden while Shalden was looking at Lanzen with a huge grin on his face, he people were relieved to hear that their brethren were freed and protected.
They continued to wait for one more hour before they could see a huge group of elfs and beastmen marching toward the village.
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Ryo's POV…
After going back to the safe place where the elfs and beastmen are waiting for us, we found that they have cooked a lot of food for us while they were waiting for us.
"We have cooked some of the food you left for us for you guys, we thought you must be hungry because you didn't eat anything since this morning"
"thank you for that, we were really hungry after that battle"
"Ryo is right, I'm really glad to find this much food prepared for us"
"thanks"
"Hoho, this smells really good"
We started eating while watching the beastmen children playing around and running after each other, and the elf children were inspecting the barrier and hitting it with stones and stick to see how strong is it.
I noticed that some of the elfs were talking happily with the beastmen, but most of them were sitting in the corner of the barrier and looking at me with an unhappy face on their faces, Lao noticed that and was about to scold them but I stopped him from doing that.
Then I felt someone was watching me intensely, and when I looked in that direction I saw a beastmen boy who is around five years old looking at us with a mouth full of drool, so I singled for him to come closer.
"do you want to eat with us?"
"…can I?"
"yes, go ahead"
"yay"
The boy had a fox ears and tail, he was a fox beastmen. His father saw him eating with us and came to apologize, but I told him that I was alright with him eating with us, the boy's mother was chatting happily with the elf women Clair.
After eating I carried the fox boy who is named Kon on my shoulders and called out to everyone inside the barrier it was time to leave, I put all the tents and the leftover stuff inside my {Storage}, and then after that, I had everyone help me clean the place before taking the barrier down.
I asked everyone to come closer to me and used {Teleport} to take us to the vicinity of the elf village and from there we started walking toward it by foot.
After reaching the barrier I used {Hijack} to make it so beastmen could pass through, and we were greeted by the scene of every elf in the village waiting for us.
"Lao can I ask you to provide an empty space for me and the beastmen, I'll set a camp there and I'll provide food for all of us"
"got it"
"and take this hairpin and give it to your wife, it's enchanted in case she was in danger"
"is it time already?"
"yes, a huge fight will break out in the next couple weeks, so be prepared"
"Okay, got it"
The guild master was the first to come and greet us, and the freed elfs started running towards their families and friends.
"Ryo, you really did it!! I'm really happy to see that you have succeeded your quest, hahahahaha"
"glad to see that you are pleased by my work, not like certain someone"
"about that matter, what you told me turned out to be the truth, I can't believe all of that was happening near us without anyone noticing"
"Just leave it to me, now that I'm here I'll deal with it without any fail"
"got it, I'll leave it to you, for now, can you give me your guild card"
"here, and before you three go, can you guys fill these small containers with some of your blood"
"We don't mind, but what do you need blood for?"
"I'm a blacksmith skilled enough to make soul weapons, and I want to make powerful enchanted weapons for you three"
"Umu, I like the sound of that"
"me too"
"that would be great"
I took the blood containers from the elf guild master and Lao and Rex, after that I took all the beastmen with me to the empty space provided by Lao and we started making a camp there, Kon helped me erect my tent and he seemed to be having so much fun doing that.
After erecting all the tents and making a place to cook in, I erected two baths and covered them with big tents and I hanged up two signs by the entrances of the tents, the signs had men and women written on them respectively.
I was in the same tent with Seth, he said that he wanted to talk about something with me, Kon also insisted to stay with us which caused his parents to come and apologize to me again but I told them I was fine with him staying in the same tent with us, it seems that he had become attached to me.
After that, we started cooking lunch for everyone, and after eating our lunch I assembled all the beastmen to talk to them about what are their plans from now on.
"We don't really have any plans, to be honest, most of us used to live with some of the humans of this country, we lived in harmony with the humans in those hidden villages"
"hidden?"
"yes, there are villages were humans and beastmen lives in harmony, but the royal family of this country attack and kill all the humans and enslave us beastmen, naturally no one should know where these villages are located but they are discovered by coincidence from time to time"
"what about the others?"
"We used to leave in the beastmen cotenant, but we were captured by the solders of this country and we were sold as slaves"
"the holy theocracy attacks the beastmen continent every year, but sometimes this country sends its soldiers to help them and they always capture beastmen and use them as slaves"
"if you don't have anywhere to go how about you guys come with me to my village, I grew up in a village that had people from all the races living in it, we have an elf and a beastman, we also have two demonkin and a giant and some humans as well"
"Is there really a place like that?"
"yes, the village is protected by a barrier far stronger than the one protecting this elf village, and everyone in that village is monstrously strong, I was trained by them since I was a small child"
"is it really alright for us to immigrate to that village?"
"yes, no problem with that"
"then, we will go to your village, thank you for freeing us and now introducing us to a place we can live in, I don't know how we can repay you for all you did for us"
"Just make sure the village prosper with all of you living in it, and for the people who want to return to the beastmen continent you will have to wait until I make my way there in a couple of years, the downside to my teleporting is that I can't go to places I have never been to"
"We are fine with that, we will live in that village until then"
"it's settled then"
We spent our time talking about our future plans and getting to know each other, and when it was finally time to sleep, I was setting in my tent with Seth facing each other, Kon was already asleep with his head on my lap.
"Seth, you said that you have an important matter to talk to me about?"
"yes, I'm one of the strongest dragonkin out there, and I have lived for more than two thousand years and I have visited a lot of places and I also worked for more than seven hundred years as a butler for the royal family of the beastmen country Hartia, and I was the one responsible for teaching the kings of that country about how to fight for generations, but I retired from that job to travel around the world, and when I reached this country you know what had happened to me"
"you really have lived for that long?!"
"that I did, we dragonkin have the longest lifespan among the beastmen"
"then why are you telling me about that?"
"would you like to employ me as your butler?"
"what!!? you want to become my butler?!"
"yes I do, if that is alright with you of course"
"may I ask you why?"
"because you have so much potential within you, and also I like how you went and saved all of us from slavery, and I'm curious about the huge number of skills you have, that's why I want to support you with everything I have"
"you can see my skills?"
"honestly I can't, but I have a skill called {Truth Eye} and I can use it to see how many skills you have and how strong are they among other things"
"was that the complete reason you have to become my butler?"
"so you saw through me?, actually that reason I gave you was half the story, the other half is that you remind me of a story my grandfather used to tell me about when I was a kid"
"a story?"
"yes, it was about a war that happened in the past, it was known as the grand holy war, the war was between a human who had the ability to make any type of weapons and artifacts with ease, and on the other side was another human who had the ability to control any type of monsters and beats regardless to their strength, that war continued for so long with one side using an insanely powerful artifacts and the other side using an armies of strong and fiendish monsters and beasts, their war started to effect the countries other than theirs and the people of the these countries tried to reach to them to stop their war or to take it somewhere else away from them but they refused and started attacking said countries, but after some time another human who had the ability to see through everything and anything appeared and worked together with the beastmen and the demonkin and the dragon and the elf countries at the time and killed the other two humans losing his own life in the process, but the people of the two countries who used to fight in that war were angry at the other races because they killed their kings, the kings were worshipped as gods in their countries after all, so the two countries became one and that was the start of the religion that hated all races other than the humans and the start of the holy theocracy, and because the one who actually killed their kings was someone from outside their countries, they hated those who don't believe in their religion and promoted killing them with the people of the other races"
"…..Create, Control, Analyze!!"
"Oho, so you have heard of this story before?"
"…..no"
"But, how did you know about the names of the skills they had, the one who was able to make the powerful artifacts had the skill {Create} and the one who had the ability to control monsters and beasts had the skill {Control}, and the one who had the ability to see through everything and anything had the skill {Analyze}, how did you know about the skills they had without knowing about the story? Or were you able to meet some people who had these skills?"
I was completely speechless, it's my first time hearing that my skills had this kind of history behind them, skills are unique for each individual, which means that if you had a certain skill then no one in the whole world has the same skill you have, and when someone dies his skills would be inherited by random newborn babies, exempt me, because I can create new skills whenever I want.
"I don't know how to respond to that question, your last assumption is almost correct"
"Does that mean you have met with people who had the skills? but what do you mean by 'almost'?"
"' almost' because I did not meet with people who have the skills, but I am the one who has all of the three skills"
"what!!? You have the Create, Control, Analyze skills!! And all of them?!"
"yes, you can use {Check Skill} if you want to see for yourself"
"… I'll try, {Check Skill}.... You are right!! You really have all of them!! And what is wrong with all those broken skills you have?!! At this rate, no one ever is going to defeat you!!"
"I originally had only the three skills Create, Control, Analyze, and then I created the other skills by combining the abilities of the three skills"
"you really are a monster are you not!!, with this my desire to work as your butler has intensified!!"
"… okay, I accept, do you want to sign a master-servant contract with me?"
"yes, of course"
That night I signed a master-servant contract with Seth and with that he became my butler, in the morning I was finally able to convince Kon to stay with his parents after promising him to play with him for the whole day tomorrow, I told the beastmen that I was going to hunt for more food supplies from the forest with Seth.
We started hunting for wild boars and fanged deers and some giant birds but we finished hunting in three hours, having two people this strong hunt together is almost unfair, after that I handed Seth one of the keys I made so other people could enter my interdimensional house.
"What is this? Key?"
"yes, channel some mana through it and you'll understand"
"like this?.....wha-?!!"
The moment he channelled mana through the key he was teleported to the interdimensional house immediately, and I went after him right away.
"Just where in the world are we?!!"
"We are in my interdimensional house…"
I explained to him about my house and how it worked and about all the rooms and about how I was able to create it, after that I took him in a tour through the workshop and lab, and then I started working on the weapons for Lao, Rex and Shalden, a bow for Lao, a twin blades for Rex, a Warhammer for Shalden.
I worked on the weapons until early noon after that we left the workshop and had Seth choose a room for himself, he decided to take the one near the kitchen, after that we headed back to the camp and started preparing lunch with everyone and after eating I spent the rest of the day playing with Kon and the other kids.
One week have passed since we started staying in the elfs village, Lao and Rex would come to visit us from time to time to check on us, the guild master was busy with some work so I have not seen him for the whole week, but he came to visit us today along with Lao and Rex.
"Good to see you Ryo"
"you too, it seems you had a lot of work to deal with"
"hahaha, that I did, and I'm here today because of that as well"
"did you need my help?"
"hahaha, no, I'm here to give you your guild card, here"
"… but this.."
"onii-chan!! It's gold!! Is it for you?"
Kon was right, the guild card that Shalden handed to me was gold, this means I'm an (SS) rank now.
"congratulations Ryo!! With this you are the first human in history the reach (SS) rank, with this you have the authority of a king in all the countries that have the adventurer's guild in them, I have been working on this for this whole month, to promote someone to (SS) rank you need to get the approval of all the guild masters in the world, but after I told them about your powers and that you tamed more than three hundred Shadow Hound and that you freed more than twenty elf slaves and fifty beastmen slaves from Donatis and, that you helped in fighting an army of bandits all of them agreed to promote to (SS) rank, Mark the guild master from Donatis helped me too"
"thank you very much"
"There is more!!, you have gained the title The Divine Blacksmith for your ability to make soul weapons, and the title Liberator for freeing the elfs and beastmen, all that's left is to publish your name and titles to the world"
"about that, can you only publish my two new titles and crest and keep my name a secret for now?"
"no problem"
"thank you, and now that the three of you are here, I want you to check your new weapons"
"Are you done already?"
"yeah, and they are ready for you guys to use, here. A bow for Lao, and twin blades for Rex, and a Warhammer for Shalden, Lao your new bow doesn't need any arrows, you can use it to shoot out magical arrows and physical ones on demand, Rex your new twin blades work the same as your old ones but the new ones are far stronger and sharper than the old ones, and you can use them to fire your attacks from a distance you don't need to touch your target to hit it anymore, Shalden you can change the size and weight of your Warhammer as you attack with it, and it's enchanted with earth magic so you can use it to attack from a distance, I also enchanted all three of the weapons to take mana from the atmosphere directly so you can use them indefinitely, and I enchanted them with {Teleport} so you can call for them and they would appear in your hands instantly, and no one can hold them other than you guys so no fear of them getting stolen"
"are you serious?!..."
"Wow!!.."
"truly the work of a Divine Blacksmith!!..."
We continued talking about the weapons and what they can do for some time, the three of them wanted to test how the weapons performed and started playing with their weapons, but after some time we noticed a group of angry elfs coming towards us, they all had weapons with them and the guys from the council were with them.
"there he is!! Never let him get away and kill him!!"
"you guys!! what are you doing here?"
"young master!! Our patience ends here!! No matter what you say we are never going to let this human live our village alive!!"
"uncle!! What's the meaning of this? Why are you doing this?"
"We came to eliminate the human threat from our village!! You can't go calling yourself our leader while you are siding with that human scum!!"
"and for what reason are you doing this? What did he do to deserve this?"
"reason?! Him being a human is enough reason for us to kill him!!"
"that's right!!"
"and you guys, wasn't it Ryo who saved you from being slaves?"
"it was the humans who enslaved us in the first place!! This is our retaliation!!"
"so it's no use...*sigh*"
"so it's finally time…"
"yes…"
"so the fools have finally decided to move"
"you bastard!! Don't push your luck!! The fool is you if you think you can leave this village alive!!"
"yes, you guys are fools, you don't know anything about the one guys are dealing with"
"you are just one human!! What can you do in front of all of us!! Go, kill him guys!!"
"{Fear}"
Lanzen Berlarn their leader had no intention to listen to me from the beginning, and all the elfs he had with him hated the humans and were not interested to hear me out in the first place, people from throughout the village started to assemble in here after they noticed what was going on here, Lanzen ordered the angry elfs to attack me and they all started running at me, but all of them stopped in their places stunned by my skill.
"Let us start from the start and let explain to you guys why did I call you fools, I'll start with you Clair, can I ask you a question?"
"yes go ahead!!"
"what do you think about what these guys are doing?"
"I think that they are being foolish, trying to kill the one who saved you is so shameless to the point of it making me disgusted by their actions"
"then, another question, you are an adventurer, right?"
"yes, I am!!"
"adventurers are the only elfs allowed to go far into the forest, right?"
"yes, that's right. That's how I got captured by the elf hunters after all because I went too far into the forest"
"then here is a question for all of the elfs present here, how were the children and the elfs who are not adventurers captured?"
All the elfs were looking at each other with eyes full of confusion, some of the angry elfs were looking at me with shocked expressions on their faces, Lanzen and the other members of the council started looking between themselves and Lanzen with fear in their eyes.
"let's start with you Ria, what were you and the other children doing deep in the forest on that day I meet you and Lao?"
"We were collecting medical herbs"
"Clair, is it not the job of adventurers to collect medical herbs?"
"that's right, because it's a dangerous job, because of the monsters and the elf hunters"
"then, why were Ria and the other kids collecting herbs in the forest"
"w-we were asked to do that!!"
"Lanzen-sama told us if we go to that place and bring him the herbs he needed he would reword us!!"
"he said he needed those herbs for the sick people!!"
When the kids said that, all the elfs started looking at Lanzen with faces full of surprise and confusion, and he was looking at the people with a terrified expression, and since he is under the effect of my skill he can't talk and respond to that, and then he started glaring at me as the people's looks changed into suspicion.
"did not the guards tell you off?"
"no, when we told the guards that we were going to collect herbs he allowed us to go immediately"
"do you remember who were the guards that day?"
"yes!! Those five!!"
"my uncle's followers, huh….they are the ones who told me that Ria and the kids have went into the forest"
"now then, you over there!! You are not an adventurer are you?"
"yes, I'm not"
"then what were you doing in the forest when you were captured?"
"I was asked by a member of the council, Sak-sama to look for some mana flowers"
"and you?"
"I was asked by Las-sama….."
"me too….."
"me too!! I was asked by Nok-sama…."
"me too…"
The elfs who were captured as slaves started pointing out the ones who asked them to go into the forest, Lanzen and the other members of the council were looking at this unfold with eyes filled with despair.
"so all of you former slaves were captured because the council members asked you to go to certain places inside the forest and each time that happened those five were the guards"
"so what you are saying is that the council members were working with the elf hunters to enslave us!!"
"no, they are not working with the elf hunters, but they everything about the movement of the elf hunters, and all they have to do is lead their targets to the location the elf hunters are at"
"if they are not working with the elf hunters why would they lead us to become slaves?!!"
"that's simple, they did all of that because all the elfs living in this village are fools"
"what do mean by that?!"
"Lanzen is the big brother of this village elder, but he wanted the seat of an elder for himself, that's why he placed a curse on his brother and his supporters, the curse slowly eat at their mana reserves and placed them into a state of coma, but the next in line was not him but his brother's son Nash, that's why he forced him to leave the village, but Nash started to suspect their actions and he knew about that, and he was afraid that Nash might have passed his suspension to his students and started targeting them and lead them to be captured as slaves, and next came Lao's turn, he started by targeting Lao's supporters and finally Lao himself, and now he wants to kill me because I ruined what he has been working towards all this time"
"but what does this have to do with us being fooled?"
"the elfs of this village is isolated from the rest of the world, and that only made you guys trust each other completely and distrust everyone from outside the village, and that only helped that greedy bastard's plans, no one of you idiots suspected his actions and did what he wanted from you to do and believed his claims about all the humans were evil while in truth he was an evil traitor"
"b-but i-if what y-you s-said is true how did h-he know about the elf hunter's movement?"
"that's simple enough, he used the abilities of his pets"
"what do you mean by pets?"
"the creatures hiding in his and the other council's members' shadows, the same creatures he used to place the cures on the elder and his supporters, and the main reason why he was after the position of elder"
After that I deactivated my skill to give them their movement back, I did that to provoke him to attack us with his pets when I looked at him he was shaking with anger, and all the elfs were looking at him with hateful looks on their faces, after a short period of silence he raised his face and looked at me with eyes full of madness.
"Fine!! Now it came to this I'll kill that human and take over this village by force!! Come out!!"
"Come out!!"x6
At his call the other council members moved in formation and started calling out towards their shadows, and then suddenly seven creatures came out of their shadows, six of the creatures were two meters tall and the one Lanzen called was four meters tall, the creatures had humanoid bodies with long claws on their hands and they all had mouths filled with fangs all over their bodies, they had heads filled with eyes and tentacles, they were demons, low ranked ones to be exact.
"Kyaaa!!"
"w-what are these monsters?!"
"these are demons, he used the mana from the cursed elfs to feed them, and he wanted to become the elder so he can curse more and more elfs without anyone noticing, all to make them stronger"
"No matter what you do now you'll become food for my demons!! Human!!"
"you think you can beat me with your weak pets?"
"hahahahahahaha, of course I can!! I have been feeding these demons for more than two hundred years after all!! And in case you try something funny….catch that woman!!"
"Kyaaaa!!"
"No!! Roa!!"
"hahahahaha!! You seem to get along a lot with that bastard Lao!! If you try anything funny his wife is the one who would pay for that!!"
"dame it!! Roa!!"
"calm down, Lao. Did you give her the thing I gave to you?"
"Ryo… yes I did, look she is wearing it right now"
"Okay then, hold your arms up in front of you"
"yes, that's good, now…Roa-san channel some mana into your bracelet!!"
"I g-got i-it!!"
"Lao!!"
"Roa!!"
Roa did as I told her and channelled some of her mana into the bracelet and then she suddenly disappeared from the demon's hold and appeared in Lao's arms, he was carrying her princes' style, when the two noticed what had happened they started hugging each other.
"wha-!! How?!! What did you do?!! Human!!"
"I teleported her into her husband's arms"
"Impossible!! Impossible!! Impossible!!"
"Okay, now is my turn…{Shadow Arts: Shadow Domain}"
"wha-!! I can't move!! What did you do to us?!! What did you do to my demons?!!"
"This is still the start… Kage come out!! And bring your whole family with you!! I have some snacks for you!!"
*AWWWOOOOOOOOO*
"go and eat those demons they are your snacks, but leave everyone else alone!!"
*WOOF!! Got it!! Master!!*
I used {Shadow Arts: Shadow Domain} and transformed the whole area into one huge shadow and used that shadow to hold the demons and their summonses in place, Kage and his family started eating the demons one after the other, the demons had the ability to regenerate but the rate they were eaten at was way faster than their regeneration, it didn't take more than five minutes for Kage and his family to eat all of the demons.
"No!! No!! No!! My demons!! Noooooo!! This is impossible!! How can this happen!!"
"And this mark your end, fool!"