Chapter 84: Red Flames

'Oh? He's buying time for that guy to disable the magic circle, huh?' Lucifer thought as he felt that the right-hand man of the Patriarch was fiddling around with his magic circle.

Well, Lucifer thought that was a good move for the 6 pillars to do in this situation when they are fighting against him.

The 6 pillars didn't know what the magic circle is for, and it seems like it wasn't going to explode at any moment so it was best to defuse it now that Lucifer was fighting against the other 6 pillars.

If the right-hand man of the Patriarch is able to defuse the magic circle, then that would be one less problem they have to mind.

Now that Lucifer proved to be a competent demon who could fight against the other 6 pillars easily, it would be best to focus on him.

Of course, they were still confident that they would be able to defeat Lucifer easily as they are still not serious in this battle yet.

They were just testing the waters with the move that they did earlier, and Lucifer...was well aware of that fact.

Right, Lucifer knew that the 6 pillars were not yet serious, but he still deemed them as useless and just sub-par.

Well, as they were against Lucifer, one of the strongest demons in the past, it was only reasonable that Lucifer would end up thinking that way about the 6 pillars who can't even touch him even though his body was literally weakened right now.

'Although that's a great move as the magic circle isn't doing anything right now, that's only because I am still trying to figure out their exact identities.'

'Did they really think they can just go and defuse a magic circle that I created?' Lucifer thought as his eyes...started to shine.

His eyes started to glow with the color of red, the same color that the magic circle had.

"Naive!" Lucifer shouted out loud as he clapped his hands.

Tap! The sound of his clapping resounded out in the room, and it made the 6 pillars become wary and tightened their guards as they churned out more of their mana to guard themselves.

However, that was a wrong move to do.

In front of the absolute strength called Lucifer, no amount of guarding would work. No amount of reinforcing would work.

No matter what kind of strength that they have, absolute strength is still absolute.

The only thing that they should have done in the very first place was...to run.

"Perish in hell, you ungrateful demons who dare to stand before me!"

"Come, Red Flames!" Lucifer shouted out loud, finally activating the magic circle on the ground.

And as soon as he activated the magic circle on the ground, the magic circle...disappeared.

It disappeared, and the room immediately turned dark. It seems that the light in the room was destroyed when Lucifer exchanged blows against the 6 pillars.

"What happened?!" Rouge shouted out loud, unable to see what was happening in the room.

Of course, he was extremely curious about this as he never expected that Lucifer, who he just thought to be a weakling who got a lot of potential from the slums, would be able to fight against the 6 pillars all at once.

However, that was not the important thing for Rouge. Rouge was...he was actually looking for an opening to stop the fight before it escalates.

He would stop the fight, and then beg for mercy for Lucifer. 

Right...Rouge wanted to save Lucifer at all costs even though it would mean his reputation would be dampened and connections being severed.

Now that Rouge saw that Lucifer could fight against the 6 pillars on even terms, he would definitely want Lucifer to survive this and represent the slums.

Well, it was just because Rouge thought that Lucifer and the 6 pillars were fighting because of what Lucifer said.

He absolutely had no doubts about Lucifer's background or origins. He really thought that Lucifer was from the slums just like him.

In a way, Rouge was very naive as he really loves his hometown which is called the slums.

Anyway, when the room got dark, the Patriarch, who was just watching the situation with keen and interested eyes, finally decided to take action.

He...lifted off the staff that he was holding, and began to wave it towards the darkness.

"Light," the Patriarch murmured. And as soon as he did that, the light inside the room turned back on and the place brightened up as if it were nothing.

And as soon as the light brightened up, the Patriarch and Rouge...all had their eyes wide open.

Their eyes looked like they were about to pop out of their sockets, and their jaws fell down to the floor just from the shock they received when they saw what happened in the room.

Well, that was only natural. It was only natural and right for them to react like this.

Right, even for the cool-headed and strong Patriarch, it was only right for him to react like this.

Why? It was because...all of the 6 pillars, who were all strong and were fighting against Lucifer, had fallen to the ground without moving even a single finger.

They didn't make a single noise, and it seems like they have lost their consciousness.

And that was just absolutely crazy!

After all, the Patriarch never felt anything that could have possibly knock out the 6 pillars. He didn't even hear their bodies falling to the ground.

The Patriarch, as old as he is, should have been able to sense what was happening in the room, and he should be able to tell if there was an attack strong enough to knock the 6 pillars out.

And the fact that the Patriarch was unable to sense what was happening at all...was even crazier than the fact that the 6 pillars were now lying on the ground, knocked out.

That was why the Patriarch was shocked. Of course, Rouge was shocked for the same reason as the Patriarch.

After all, there would only be one reason why the 6 pillars are lying on the ground, and that would be Lucifer.

It was just absolutely crazy for him to be able to do something like this without a long battle or a death battle.

This place should have been destroyed first, and the Warm City should have been dragged to their fight.

If Lucifer was truly on par with the 6 pillars, that should have been the case.

However...for the 6 pillars to be beaten so one-sidedly, that was just...beyond ridiculous at this point, which is why the Patriarch and Rouge were shocked as they looked at this sight.

And while they were shocked, Lucifer, the reason why the 6 pillars were lying on the ground, suddenly appeared at the very center of the room.

"Oh? They died right away. This is why I said you guys are disappointing," Lucifer said as he looked at the 6 pillars with pity in his eyes.

Well, it was a pity because...he didn't really expect that the 6 pillars of the Warmester Denoble House would die from a weak attack.

Right, from Lucifer's point of view, the attack that killed the 6 pillars was only a weak attack.

That was why Lucifer couldn't help but feel a little bit sad about it.

If this were the extent of the strength of the Warmester Denoble House, this would mean that...the strength of the Zacharath Kingdom would be way weaker than he expected.

Although he already knew that the Zacharath Kingdom was only a weak kingdom, this would make him snooping around and trying to lay low a completely useless move since he could just bring this kingdom to its knees in the first place.

In other words, the reason why it is a pity for Lucifer was that...he felt like he wasted too much time with the Zacharath Kingdom and overthinking things.

It was a pity for himself.

Anyway, when Lucifer appeared at the very center of the room, looking as if he was just taking a walk in the park, the Patriarch...finally felt fear for the first time.

After all, according to what Lucifer said, the 6 pillars are...

"D-dead...?" The Patriarch murmured as his body started to shake.

His eyes...finally started to realize how dire this situation was as he looked at Lucifer.

However, the Patriarch was no weakling either. Even though the 6 pillars were definitely his main subordinates in the Warmester Denoble House, they were, at the very end of the day, just subordinates.

And the master of the house was the Patriarch, someone who is way stronger than just subordinates.

That was why...the Patriarch was able to get a hold of himself after reassuring himself that he was way stronger than Lucifer. And that he would be able to kill the 6 pillars easily just like how Lucifer did.

Anyway, when the Patriarch finally got a hold of himself, he spoke.

"You...what do you want? Why are you doing this?" He spoke.