THE ARCHDEMON HAS RETURNED
"What are we going to do now, Mistress?" Lord Brathnok asked Eirot.
"We go claim more Pools of Sufferings", she replied to him.
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The armies of the five clans lost their entire army without a single survivor to report on the devastating battle. They also lost a rare hero, Archdemon Vogron in the battle.
"It's Lord Vogron, he's returned", a guard announced to the generals as a Demonlord flew into Castle Saaru fyling on a Flame Wyvern.
"Lord Vogron, weren't you leading an army of allies on a quest to conquer the upstart army in the plains? Can you tell us what happened there?" a captain of Saaru clan asked his lord.
News of the battle of the five armies did not reach castle Saaru and her people were eager for news. The return of their leader would explain the situation to them.
"So many questions. I have work to do. I need to summon a beast from the Pool of Suffering for the battle", Lord Vogron told his captain.
"What beast are you looking for and by the way where did you obtain this magnificent beast?" the captain asked Lord Vogron while pointing at his newly acquired Flame Wyvern.
"Did the King give you the magnificent beast?" another captain asked the Lord.
"The King? Who is he talking about? The Devils?" Lord Vogron asked himself.
Hell was controlled by four Demon Kings or the Devils from the four directions of Hell.
"Who else? you are asking stupid questions", Lord Vogron replied to the captain the obvious.
"Now, I need to return to the Pool of Suffering", Lord Vogron told his captain.
"Of course, Lord Vogron", the captain replied to the lord as he ushered him into the Pool of Suffering.
The Lord of Saaru sent all the guards away from the Pool of suffering and went toward it alone.
Suddenly, two women appeared before the Pool of Suffering together with a wolf.
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"Why must you waste my time coming here just to bring your wife here?" Sara complained to me.
"Because only you have invisibility magic that can conceal Eirot", I replied to her.
"There are dozens of methods to obtain this pool. From my calculation, if you put that Archdemon's head at the gate to this castle they would open their gate to you immediately", Sara told me.
"This is a safer way to capture this pool. We don't want anything to damage this pool before I captured it", Eirot told Sara who said nothing more.
There were very few people that Sara would not be rude to. Rinna was one of them and Eirot was another.
Perhaps it was because in my previous life, I was married to both Eirot's previous life and Rinna, and Sara might have kept a trace of our lingering love in her consciousness from that time. Sara still possessed the enhanced body of my previous life.
"I Eirot, the Savior, shall claim this Pool", Eirot said to the Pool of Suffering.
Suddenly an Incarnate of Xerrus leapt out from the pool to face Eirot.
"How dare you come to claim this pool human", Xerrus said to Eirot when suddenly Alfred appeared before him.
"It is a long story", Alfred told his fellow Incarnate as he shared his memories with him.
"Will you submit to me without a fight?" Eirot asked Xerrus.
"That is not according to the rules", Xerrus told us.
"You do not talk about rules to me, the Savior because I make the rules", Eirot said to Xerrus as a crack appeared over the pool.
The crack in the sky poured out an immense bright light and the body of a woman appeared inside the Crucifix.
"Crucifix of Damnation"
"It is true the Savior has returned", Xerrus told us.
"What do you say? There is no need to fight fate", Alfred told the incarnate.
"That is true", Xerrus replied to Alfred.
After Alfred convinced the Incarnate to join Eirot, the Savior, they jumped into the pool again together and out came Alfred with an additional wolf head.
"The pool is already yours", Alfred said to Eirot after he emerged from the water.
"Will you have a hundred heads if Eirot captures a hundred pools? You wouldn't be able to move," I asked Alfred.
"I've never thought of it like that, but we will find out when we reach there", he replied to me.
"Now I know why the Unholy Grail gave you the Wyverns. We captured this pool without a battle", Alfred said to Eirot.
Eirot could summon demons again without a pool of suffering. She could now summon them from the fountain of the Unholy Grail.
The Flame Wyvern was the first demon that she managed to summon from the Unholy Grail fountain.
The Wyvern wasn't a powerful demon, but she was a quick ride, and she was much faster than our Hell Tanks when traveling in Hell which made her the fastest ride available to the demons.
It was a long way from the canyon where we defeated the armies of the five clans, so coming to the Saaru castle with the Flame Wyvern would allow us to return here before any news on the battlefront reaching back here.
Besides taking on the Lord Vogron's face, the Flame Wyvern was an important and convincing prop that convinced the guards in Saaru castle that their lord really returned.
Only powerful Demonlords or Archdemons could ride such a Flame Wyvern.
"I'll take the pool now", Eirot said to us.
Eirot held out her hands in an open embrace as the magmas from the pool of suffering quickly turned into magic that flowed into the Unholy Grail before disappearing inside. Then the Core of the pool of suffering emerged and was taken by the Unholy Fountain.
"It is done", Eirot said to us.
"What are we going to do about the demons in Saaru castle? Will they surrender to us easily without an army backing us?" Alfred asked her.
"What do you think?" Eirot asked Sara.
"These creeps are stupid. Do as you wish", Sara replied to us.
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