Chapter 244: The Two Little Devils

I helped Helga and Feran defending the other kingdoms. It wasn't really much a bother. It seems that they were using cursed magic. I did also sense a faint mana of puppeteering which was... interesting.

Whoever did this, they're intelligent enough. The setup of these every armies spread throughout the world, it was perfect.

Its the perfect army, they can't feel or do anything. They're all moving autonomously and without giving a care for their own health so that means that they are remote controlled from somewhere. But where...

To control a lot of these monsters, finding the source should be no problem. But for some reason, its just really difficult to pinpoint the locatio of where they're controlling these bunch of monsters.

And that's not the only mysterious part of these armies. The spawners spawned in demons. But they're not from hell. I can confirm that. So that means that it isn't under the jurisdiction of Zieglind.

But those are demons... so that means they're coming out of other places. But where...

Well, either way, if those are just our enemies, there isn't really anything to be worried about. They all seem to just be fodders so it was easy killing all of them.

I brought Helga and Feran with me back to Izgoy but as we were travelling back we then saw something insane. It was like the whole forest that they built to protect themselves from intruders... they were all toppled down.

The trees, the buildings and all the fake stuff to keep Izgoy hidden... gone. 

They were being overrun by enemies we landed on top of the castle in Izgoy and everwhere.... They were millions of monsters that we coudn't understand why they'd suddenly invade us. 

Was it due to their confidence in their numbers or is it because something or someone is controlling them.

I gave up on questioning my thoughts and just tried to help. "Cloud Creation, Magic Mystify." I spawned in a small bubble of cloud, I then asked Helga to imbue it with her regeneration and healing magic.

"Regeneration, Dull Pain!" Helga then casted.

"Entity Filtering, Cloud Disperse!" I then threw the cloud into the sky and as soon as it reached the required height for it to use, it then began to expand exponentially. It then began to rain. But with this rain, its basically recasting Helga's healing spell but a bit weaker depending on how many its healing.

For this one, its 50% weaker but its enough to boost our fighting prowess. With the entity filtering, I filtered out every enemy and only allowed everyone in the party that I'm in to get the buffs that me and Helga made for them.

"Flag of The Warlord." I then asked Feran to give it some buffs. This will automatically gives buffs to anyone who is at its radius. I told him to not include high level buffs since its going to be wasted.

He then added small attack boosts, speed boosts and stamina boosts. These spells and buffs do not stack with each other, so if this gets a 50% reduction with the high level spells, its just going to be a waste of mana.

So I flew to where the other two were and asked them about the details. It seems that the three of them over there, Zieglind, Zeraph and Herold doesn't want their battle to get hindered by anything.

So our enemies are the one that's attacking Izgoy huh... This'll be more difficult than I thought.

"My, my. The ones that protected the kingdoms on the other side are still alive? How capable. It seems that they've destroyed the spawn vestige too."  A woman's voice was then heard from behind us.

I didn't notice it at all. And just by looking at her, I could feel the absurd amount of mana swirling through her body.

"Lavenzla, your plans failed. You said it was flawless." A man's voice was heard next to the woman.

"According to my data, there shouldn't be anyone stronger than lord Ouroboros is there? Or anyone equal to him. I knew he was the only one that can destroy those vestige spawners, but to think that these... Huh? Arakarn! Look at their heads!" The woman then pointed at us.

"They're... non players..? How did they get incredibly powerful..? We must send this message."

"Wait, they're too powerful to be left alone." The man named Arakarn then pulled out a weapon out of nowhere. Can barely be called a dagger for how long it is.

He disappeared and reappeared in front of me. But there's also someone there in front of me. "What... are you trying to do?" That voice... it felt familiar.

But what's that form... it looks like... several elements inside of him. Like he's the embodiment of those select elements.

This man then brought out his own dagger. 

Arakarn couldn't get out of his grip. "What the hell are you..? Let me go!"

The mysterious man raised his dagger and then it suddenly disappeared. The next time I saw it, it was inside Arakarn's stomach. The sheer shockwave of the blast nearly knocked all of us away.

A large hole was formed and we could see through Arakarn's body. But somehow... he doesn't have a heart or anything. He didn't release any blood or anything.

Arakarn dropped down at the ground and silence filled the whole place. 

"Dispel." The one in that mysterious form was none other than Neco. His hands were shaking and it looks like he's going to drop anytime soon.

I'm pretty sure that it wasn't shock to killing him or anything. I think it was... something else. I checked his status using a skill and there's a lot of discrepancies here and there.

Starvation, dehydration and so much more. Wait... where did he even come from? And these symptoms... I read it somewhere.

I'll look on it later. But there's something wrong with him.

"I can't believe you beat Arakarn just like that." The woman named Lavenzla then said.

"You just had your ally die and you're calm..?" I replied.

"Well the two of you I'm pretty sure I can handle by myself. And this pretty boy right here seems to be incredibly... exhausted." She went in front of Neco and then flicked him off the nose which knocked him down to the ground. "Godspeed huh? I remember our lord Ouroboros using the same skill. But what a shame, you can't use its side effects."

"Rize!" I then casted, "Illusionary Wall!" Between us. Everything that passes through that on her side will turn invisible and will be unable to be detected by mana search.

"Mhm!" Rize stepped back and began to unleash barrage of arrows with her new... crossbow? I didn't know what it was but it was something attached to her arm.

"Eyes of Truth!" Lavenzla suddenly destroyed the illusionary wall that was in front of us.

It seems that I've underestimated her. I need to keep her away. It seems that she's focused on getting near us. "Wind Surge!"  A large blast of wind came out of my hands but she had something in mind.

"Rebound!" A small barrier was formed and the magic was then knocked back at me. 

"Dispel!" Since it was a spell that came from me, it was easy to dispel. "Damn... Hurricane Tem-" I stopped my casting since I saw someone in front of me. Arakarn..? Why is he in front of me?

I looked back and his body wasn't there. I was confused.

"YURID!" An explosion formed in front of me and we were both knocked away. I was then blasted into Rize's arms.

What are you doing!? Is what I wanted to say but somehow my voice didn't come out. I took a look at my arms and nothing. I couldn't move it an inch or anything. I then looked over at Arakarn... the one that I thought was dead.

His chest was burning with dark flames but he doesn't seems to be bothered by it. 

No... NO! HE'S... NO!

I took a look at myself and saw that my chest has also has a hole in it. NO! MY CORE! 

"I told you didn't I... I was just surprised that you beat Arakarn. You never killed him in the first place." Lavenzla then explained. "This is a blessing that our lord Ouroboros gave us. Our heads gone? It'll be restored. Hands? Feet? Our hearts? It doesn't matter. With his blessing, everything is possible."

"Gah... damn it. This feeling of pain is still uncomfortable to me. Its been a while since anyone other than lord Ouroboros hit me." Arakarn's flames on his chest disappeared and suddenly... its all recovered like nothing happened. Resurrection. A skill that's forbidden and impossible in the first place. A skill that only gods could use. But how... why are they using it like its nothing!? "That felt... refreshing and unique." Alright. Now tell me, who was that bastard that hit me?