THE DEMON PLAGUE IN NYMERA
Aside from the awkward reunion between Rinna and Eirot, we still had an urgency to attend to.
"What is the situation with the demons?" I asked the court.
"A month ago, an army of demonic creatures overran Nymera kingdom, and they are now besieging the fortress of Anio. The Duke Gregoire is defending the fortress", Raven said to me.
"Godfather. I must see him", Eirot said to us.
Duke Jean Gregoire was Eirot's godfather, the closest person she would call a relative in this world. After she was abducted by the Apostles, she hasn't seen Gregoire for so many years and she missed him so much.
"What demons are attacking?" Aluva asked the court.
"They are generally weaker demons and imps, but they are numerous. The Demon Queen and her generals aren't with them though", Sara explained to us the situation.
"Who is the Demon Queen?" Eirot asked Sara.
"She's Emerald, the False Prophet who brought an army out of Hell to conquer more than half of the Ten-Kingdoms", I replied to her on Sara's behalf.
"She's also the other girl that you remembered about although she was reincarnated again in this world", Rinna told her about the Demon Queen.
"What is the story? Erin is also reborn like us?" Eirot asked us.
"It's a long story", I told Eirot as I explained to her before I continued, "The Demon Queen was reincarnated into this world like me…"
In her previous life, she was the Blood Queen Euaemon who killed millions without batting an eyelid. She possessed a beautiful and sexy girl called Erin, the first girl that I had feelings for then. She used my feelings for Erin to manipulate me.
In the end she died after forcing my previous life's soul into the Door of Rebirth to be reborn. She was also taken by the Door of Rebirth and was reborn as a dark elven princess, Princess Emerald.
Later, I killed Princess Emerald in the deserts of Arrakis. Her soul migrated to another and continued her reign as the Demon Queen.
"So, did the Demon Queen brought her demon army to attack our kingdom?" Queen Mistral asked.
"This doesn't seem to be the work of the Demon Queen. It doesn't fit her pattern of conquest", Sara told us her opinion.
"Then who else can summon an army of demons to attack us?" Queen Mistral asked us.
"I wouldn't call the invasion by a regular army", Sara replied to her.
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We flew toward Anio Fortress where Duke Gregoire was commanding a defence from the demon invaders.
Suddenly, we saw a large group of demons attacking a group of cavalry riders who carried the flags of the Gregoirean army.
"Let me deal with them", Chash said to us as he relinquished control of our chopper and went down to combat.
After I returned to Istiopolis city, Cassandra, Meera and Chash quickly came back here to join me. Chash most obviously took control of our ship at the first instance to pilot it.
Suddenly, large swathes of creatures were frozen by a mysterious force in the air.
It was Chash who cast his ice beam on the demons. Before the demons could be unfrozen, another beam, this time hot and fiery landed on the frozen creatures, destroying them like shattered glasses.
"Wrath of Ice and Fire"
The demons were stunned by the powerful being with a fiery head who descended from the sky, and they quickly retreated and ran.
Our ship quickly landed to meet with the Gregoirean knights. To our delight, Duke Gregoire was here with his army.
"Jean", Eirot shouted out as we came out of our ship, and she ran toward an old man who was riding on a horse.
"Is that you little Eirot? You never aged a single day after so many years", Jean Gregoire said to her as tears fell from both of them.
"You don't have to come down to the fight yourself. You are not young anymore", Eirot said to the Duke.
"Oh, this old man will rather die in battle than on a sick bed. Come let's get back to the fortress", Gregoire replied to his goddaughter.
We returned to Fortress Anio as the Duke and the Generals explained the situation to us.
"What happened here?" I asked the duke.
"About a month ago many of our people in Nymera were stricken with a strange plague. After the sick died from the plague, their dead bodies mysteriously exploded and little demons with three horns on their head came out from them", Jean Gregoire explained the situation to us.
"What caused the plague?" Eirot asked the duke.
"We don't really know but the plague first started in the fishing villages on the coast in the east", the duke replied to her.
"Whatever caused the plague could be on the coast or came from the seas", Sara told us her reasoning.
"We will check out the eastern coast but meanwhile you must stay in Anio fortress and don't go out to fight with the demons again", Eirot told her godfather.
"I'll take care of myself now that you are back. I want to have a few peaceful days with my goddaughter", he replied to her obediently.
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We flew toward the eastern coast of Nymera and alighted at one of the villages to inspect.
"There is nobody here", Eirot told us.
Soon, our whalechopper squadrons came to meet us and together we scoured the entire east coast of Nymera for clues to the plague.
"We've checked every village. Everyone is bloody gone, either dead or evacuated", Sara told us.
"Is the plague caused by a curse?" Meera asked us.
"There are no spells or curses found in the villages, so it rules out the possibility the plague was caused by a curse or spell", Rinna told us after her shamans checked every village in the coast.
"So, if the coast is clean, the only place that can spread the plague to the fishing villagers must be something they caught from the seas", I said to them.
"How are we going to search the oceans?" Cassandra asked me.
"We search wherever we can", I replied to her.
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