In the end, they talked for the entire day as they never seemed to run out of topics to talk about. Lily talked about different types of demons and a bit about Demon culture and history while everyone else told her about what Earth was like before the apocalypse started. Lily seemed fascinated with human technology, especially movies and she seemed surprise at how easy life on Earth was, as compared to the life in the Underworld, it was practically a paradise. When they finished talking, it was late in the night and everyone went to sleep as they were tired and Colin informed them that they needed to leave the very next day.
"Well don't you look cheery." Alice said as she looked at the smiling Lily.
"Of course I am, based on what you said, even without holy or demonic energies, humans seemed to have carved out a pretty good paradise in this realm. I'm curious to see all the things you described." Lily said excitedly
"That's gonna be hard, since the apocalypse started, most of our technology were destroyed and whatever is left will need some serious repairs." Colin explained and Lily became a bit crestfallen.
"Don't worry, I said it would be hard, not impossible. With Bartus' help, I'm sure we could figure something out." Colin said and Lily practically glowed with happiness.
[Are you sure you should get her Hope's up like that? From what you told me, this Bartus guy is a Demon from the underworld, so I doubt he knows much about engineering.] Alice said, expressing her doubts.
[I think we have a good chance of restoring some of our technology, as far as I know, the towns should have been left mostly untouched by the undeads. If we are lucky, M town will be the same. And if I remember correctly, M town was the most isolated town on the continent and had a hotspot for visitors, it has it's own power generator to supply the town and had a lot of shops and stores. I'm sure we can find usable electronic devices and such to use. And if we can restart the generator then we will half way there.] Colin said and Alice mentally sighed, choosing to trust Colin's judgement.
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The next day, a fleet of vehicles could be seen assembled infront of the city. The fleet was made up of military vehicles, a few buses and luxury cars found in Dracos Black's underground garage, just above the underground basement. Since they were going to pick up Bartus and the rest of his Guild, who had an unknown number of members, Colin decided that it would be best to bring as many vehicles along as possible. Colin also chose a bus with tinted windows for the three of them to traveling, in consideration of Alice's 'severe allergy' to the sun. Lily also seemed excited to travel in a bus for the first time rather than on the roof, and Colin thought that it was cute to see her act like a child.
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It took them two days to safely reach City F, the trip was mostly uneventful as they didn't encounter any tier 4s on the way, which was due to Ush'nar and his family's presence in City H and City G. Colin had allowed his subordinates to go out on hunts to gain exp and on these hints, they encountered many reptile demons. Colin ordered them not to attack them, honoring his promise to Ush'nar and this allowed everyone to safely evolve into tier 3s. As Lily had explained two days ago, the imps turned into Greater Imps, the goblins turned into Leprechauns, the spider kins turned into spider demons, the Lust Fiends turned into Daimonis, Leia turned into a Demon and Melissa, the nymph, turned into a Tree Nymph. Lily had told them that she didn't know much about a Dryads as they were pretty rare, and so, all of them were intrigued about Melissa, but she wasn't the only intriguing one.
Leia, who was already special for being a human turned true Demon, had the rare [Space Affinity]. According to Lily, this affinity was pretty rare in the underworld, but not as rare as Colin's [Hell Fire Affinity] which only a handful of demons had while over a thousand demons had [Space Affinity]. Next was Patrick, an imp who turned into a rare but powerful variant of the imp species. Greater imps are, atleast the ones Colin has seen, were muscular with red skin, a tail, horns, white tattoos and an Affinity to fire. Patrick had all of those features except that he had icy blue skin, blue flames dancing in his eyes and an [Icy Flames Affinity], a variant of the fire element. Apparently, it was an affinity that had all the properties of fire, such as it can spread when it comes in contact with combustible substances such as would, except that it didn't burn, but froze objects instead. Everyone had fun testing out the weird affinity as well as their own.
Colin also took in the appearance of each species as well, he had already seen all of them, except for a Daimoni and a tree Nymph. The Daimonis didn't look that much different from Lily in her Demon form with red skin, goat like horns, bat like wings, a tail with a heart shaped tip and glowing pink eyes. Melissa didn't change much either, except that her green skin became more pronounced and she seemed to emit a sweet floral scent. Colin also noticed that other than Leia, the others didn't possess a Transformation skill.