24 hours later after Alan entered the Demon Field
William POV
It is interesting to watch a phoenix ascend in the air. But it becomes repetitive if he does it every time when he needs to catch his breath.
"Sven, bring the rest of his group here"
Sven looks at me sceptically, probably wondering why I am doing this. However, he still complied to my order and dashes to our headquarters.
'Now she can appear'
The crows in the sky, build a formation or more to say an array to block all monsters above C- rank to enter.
My Mana and pressure would have done the trick too. However, our Queen, as we all in the mercenary group call her like that, wanted it as safe as possible for Alan.
'What is so special at him despite his multiple fire?'
I understand his phoenix bloodline is strong, and he is technically already a king of a dead race.
Similar to the Dragon lord, who is the only real dragon remaining in the world. Anyone else with dragon blood or dragon form is a half-blood.
The closest to becoming a dragon is the fire steel dragon who appeared yesterday, together with this water dragon I saw in Lojodon, who is the sister from this phoenix, I think.
"Queen, is this what you wanted?"
A crow landed next to me, its shadow stretching far and wide across the demon field. It has its two purple eyes, almost looking like amethysts, watching Alan intensely.
"We need to train him for something I can't tell you right now"
'There she goes again, I guess Kim Yong gave her a task'
Despite my dumb appearance, I am pretty smart to figure stuff out. Likewise with weaknesses of enemies and how to increase my strength.
I simply don't do it because of Kim Yong, as he gave me a task too. I should really push my body to its utmost limits and fight in this state for three days against hordes of demons.
'Well, he gave everybody, even the tacticians, a task they need to finish before he returns'
Nobody can tell the task to anyone, although we all know we have different tasks... we can't help even a bit.
"You guessed it already, so continue to guard him and his friends"
"Haaa, no one is an idiot in our mercenary group."
I confessed, a bit jealous that Lucas can go hunt demons at rank A and more. Contrary to my expectation of not getting a reply, our queen starts to explain it.
"He is a fresh S rank individual, moreover is his bloodline based on something that doesn't exist.
The closest to his powers are demons, so we let him find out his limits and skills he has with his bloodline.
In addition, he is one of the most effective against demons, right behind you and equal to Leyna."
The high rank demons fear her, as well as me, and never go near her territory. I am the definition of the Usurper for the demons, someone who stole the territory and claims it as his... so all high rank demons try to attack me once a month or so.
"Queen, do you expect them to become like Kazuo?"
The crow simply flies to the hundreds of crows in the sky. Not even glancing at me, leaving me standing there in silence, observing the demon field I can see.
"This is really a harmless territory in terms of aesthetics and monsters"
The rest of the demon field has huge trees with human bodies still alive and tormented to this day, demonic elves who ride a chimera they created, demons with enough intelligence to build a kingdom with other intelligent monsters. Plants who are so huge that can kill you in a second if you enter their forest, flying plants and monsters fighting for supremacy in the air and drop meteors on you from time to time.
They are plant kingdoms, demon kingdoms, Demonic mutated animals kingdoms, Demonic elves' kingdom. There existed a demonic bird kingdom too, but Muzio killed the queen and the princess who took over was killed by me. As a result, it eradicated itself by the greed of power hungry demonic birds.
And beyond the demon field is it surrounded by 5 huge mountains, each with one SS- rank on top of it. I fought one of the princes and killed him in the most gruesome way I could do with my hands and a sword.
"These were good times"
^roar^
A Demonic beast outside the array is annoying me since the beginning that he wants to fight. I never paid it any attention, only watching Alan using now four different fires.
^Boom^
The sand is whirled up next to me, covering my vision for a second. Sven along with the rest of the group started to emerge behind the settling sand.
"Now, please go down there and help him fight the incoming demons"
Sven pointed with his huge shield at Alan flying in the sky, breathing heavily and covered in dirt from head to toe. The demonic mutants started to figure out his pattern with their instincts, some drag him down with their impaled bodies, some used their skills and created chains to drag him down.
"How long is he fighting against so many demons alone?"
Mi Sang Hee, a girl with the theme shadow in her genes with obsidian like hair and eyes, is agitated by Alan his weak appearance. In comparison to her, The rest remained calm and lightly released their bloodlust.
"He is approximately fighting them for a bit longer than a day"
I shared the truth, seeing their expression turn serious. They all start to release their mana directed to me, getting a bit too arrogant.
"You all have two choices, either you help your colleague down there or"
I released 20% of my mana, and it was enough to not just suppress them, it overwhelmed them entirely.
"You die by my hands here in the Demon field. Now choose"
I needed to remind them how weak they are, how far they are from really threatening me. Their hatred is directed from me to the demons currently overwhelming him.
"Good decision"
I remarked, withdrawing my mana, while they slowly stand up and pull their weapons out of the space rings. The concentration, they show right now, is what we wanted to achieve. They just have their goal in their eyes while observing any movement around them.
"Now go and hunt"
They leaped from the small hill we are standing on to Alan, slicing the demonic monsters to pieces with various attacks and magic.
They landed all on the ground with a thud, and obliterated the horde which came through an hour ago.
"Sven, you watch over them while I kill these pests outside the barrier"
"Alright"
I jump high in the sky, unsheathing my swords, who are ready to tear them in the smallest bits ever.
???? POV
My mission this time is as absurd as the one before, spying on a mercenary group known for their good jobs and good demon killers. I am not a demon, yet I still have demon blood because of my father's freaky nature.
"Well, If they trained their recruits in such a purple barrier blocking anyone higher than C- rank. Then I am safe."
Besides me telling myself I will be safe, I feel myself being watched by someone strong enough to tear me to pieces. For this reason, I didn't take a step closer to the purple barrier.
'Why didn't the spies before me returned and told about the purple barrier?'
I never understood why we spy on such a small mercenary group. Moreover, why we fear them so much, instead of eliminating them right now.
A lot of weird stuff happened to me, first the mission near the city, second the encounter of a woman in the holy halls of our organisation, who is the boss of my boss. Then the deal I accepted in my dream right after this.
"Haaa... can't I have a simple mission for once?"
The hope in my organisation is high for me, since I withstood the pressure as a C rank. So then, why am I getting missions for cannon fodder candidates, when I am a hopeful candidate chosen by the boss?
My eyes turn blurry as the barrier seems to come closer to me.
^Boom^
"Ouch!"
My one eye is covered by blood, everything is spinning in my vision. Not one day after the city, which works in my favour.
'The only thing left is to knock me unconscious, and I have a hat trick of such events happening'
^Bam^
As soon as I regained my consciousness, the barrier was gone, and the gut feeling I had that a lot of time passed. I check my watch, seeing that two weeks passed in a blink of an eye.
'Seriously, who knocks a person out for two weeks?'
I stood up and used the artifact they gave me to return to the base and tell them about... what exactly again?
I only remember hearing a conversation that the mercenary group is busy with tasks for the next two weeks... probably this can save my life, I hope so.