Chapter 114 - Prelude To War

4 MONTHS SINCE MORPHEUS' PARTY GRIM VERDICT ARRIVED AT ALFHEIM

ZWAIN'S POV:-

'Everything seems clear here.' I think as I check the perimeter of Alfheim. These days, the tension among the higher-ups is at its peak. After all, the Devils can attack at any moment and if they really are going to fight against us on our own grounds, they must have something up their sleeves that is backing up their confidence.

Running around the perimeter as I sense everything, my eyes sharpen in a certain direction where I sensed something. My expression turns serious as I look in the direction from where two people are coming towards me.

I look at them with my eyes fixated on them as I sigh.' They are already here, uh? Well, let's proceed with the plan, I guess.'

"Look who we have here, the Youngest and the most dangerous Alfheim Branch, Zwain The Thread Dancer," speaks a female Demon as she seductively looks at me. Her red eyes, which compliments her red hair and black horns, look at me with fire in them. Wearing almost nothing on her body, she walks slowly towards me as her smile blooms with every step.

"Royal Demon, Allerisa. Succubus of Hell. To think that I would meet you of all the Demons," I speak as I sigh. Mind and enchantment magic isn't really my best point. I wonder if they planned this too. My eyes then turn at the other Royal Demon who has a book in his hand, which is probably the highest grade Grimoire present in this world. That book gave his identity as,

"Royal Demon Nergal, Librarian of Death," I speak those cringe as f*ck names that send chills down my spine. Hearing his name, he smiles a bit as he speaks, "So you have heard of me, huh?"

'Yeah, it's difficult to forget all the cringe names I have heard.' I wanted to say it but I had to maintain my serious face, to keep the atmosphere serious. 

They look at me and chant their mana as their faces turn serious.

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LILITH'S POV:-

I and Phantasos are currently walking in the forest because I wanted to eat a berry and Phantasos is here to help me out. He doesn't seem really motivated about it. I even wanted to ask his brother to accompany us, but Icelos just ran away without even saying hi as soon as he saw me.

"Sigh…and here I thought I finally had two laboure- I mean..uh..helpers to help me out to collect some berries," I say as I sigh with a disappointed face. I look at Phantasos making a wry smile as he mutters something along the lines, 'That betraying b*stard. I'll make sure you pay for leaving me here to suffer all alone.'

'So cute,' I can't help but think in that way when I look at him making that face. Awww it makes me sad to do this to such a cute kid but, I really want to eat berries, you know? So I can't really do anything about it.

-Boom

I move in front of Phantasos as I block a punch from a beastman, right at Phantasos. That punch hits my hand and both I and Phantasos get thrown at a considerable distance. After falling for a while, my body stops rolling and then I slowly stand up as I glare at the beastman who tried to punch Phantasos.

"Who are you?" The beastman asks as he looks at me with curiosity and continues speaking, "To survive my punch directly, you must be really strong. I just wanted to kill that brat and have fun with you, but looks like I have to deal with you first before I move to the fun part. Keke, it's fun in its own way.." the bull like beastman speaks with a creepy smile on his face as he looks at me.

I see Phantasos standing back up as well, as he glares at the Beastman. He looks really prepared to fight him. The beastman speaks,

"Oi! Oi! Oi! That's some dangerous look you got their kid" the beastman speaks and then blinks right in front of Phantasos, but I reach Phan before him and throw Phan as far as I can and shout,

"RUN AND REGROUP!! I'LL HANDLE HIM!!!" 

Phan is making a really scary expression, but he nods and then looks in the direction where he is going to land, which is the Main city.

"Now we are alone, my lady. Keke, let's have some fun, shall we?" The beastman looks at me with a scary smile as he takes out his double axed weapon and moves toward me.

I look back at him with slight pity before an angry expression comes on my face," You should have not done that."

The beastman looks at me before asking,"done what exactly?" he seems slightly confused too.

I sigh before speaking,"To touch my best friend's husband's brother, you really do have some guts, you know." —

LERAYE'S POV:-

Currently, Kaneto, Icelos and I are standing at the top of the Castle, as we observe the army of Devils, Demons, Monsters and Beastmans coming towards us.

"They are here, eh? Want to make a bet?" I speak as I look at them approaching. My smile deepens as I look at the army of Demons, Beastmen and the Monsters. Had it been only Devils, I wouldn't have been able to take part in this war. 

"You…haah…guys are here?" Lucy comes as she catches her breath before turning to the army and then straightening her cloak and then her white hair. Her eyes seem to be filled with fire, as a smile forms on her face.

"What kind of bet?" Icelos asks as he looks at me with a smile on his face too. He seems to be really excited about it too. Not something a 9 years old should be excited about though.

"Hey, where are the others?" Lia comes along with Istan as they have a carefree smile on their faces.

"Oi! Oi! Oi! It's your nation, at least worry about it," I say as I look at them with a carefree smile on their faces. They look at me, then at each other, before looking back at me as Istan speak,

"With Sir Morpheus here. The war is pretty much ours, and if there's an enemy who can actually defeat Morpehus, then there's no point in having this war. At least that's what Sir Morpheus told us, when we asked a similar question to him."

'...uh..alright…that does make sense, but..an enemy that can defeat Morpheus? I wonder if there is anyone like that within the enemy army.' I look at the enemy once again with a different intention than before as I ponder over their strength.

"Hey, Leraye…what kind of bet?" Icelos speaks that once again. I observe him making an extremely excited face. I pat his head, at which he takes his head back with an annoyed expression. I then say,"The one who kills the most enemies will win the bet. The point system will be simple, one point for an equal level enemy. For every lower level, the points will be divided by 10 and for every higher level, it will be multiplied by 10. Simple, right? What do you say?"

They seem to ponder about it for a few moments before nodding and smiling at me with a slightly expecting look.

"What's the prize?" Lucy asks with an interested expression and the others nod at it.

"I'll personally teach the winner for a week. How does that sound?" Morpheus joins as he appears right behind Lia, slightly scaring her.

The others then look at Morpheus and then take a step back to give him some space. Lia asks, "Sir Morpheus, can you repeat what you just said?"

The others observed Morpehus as they too wanted to confirm what they heard…even me and Kaneto.

'Ah, Kaneto was here too. Him being silent all the time almost made me forget about him.'

"For the prize, I'll personally teach you for one week. Am I loud enough?" He speaks with a smile on his face as he looks at us.

A fire burns in our eyes as we look at the army approaching us with a preying look. For a few moments, I felt pity for the enemy. 

ELVEN KING GERALT'S POV:-

I watch the Alfheim Branches and other Supreme Elves currently present in front of me and speak, "Show them what it means to mess with the Elves. They might have planned a thousand different ways to tackle us, so we will tackle their thousand different ways with another two thousand ways. Go and come back with the head of Ladros. Show him what it means to mess with the wrong enemy." 

"LONG LIVE THE KING! LONG LIVE ALFHEIM!...." they started shouting in unison before leaving toward the area where war was going to start.

I look in the direction where the war is going to start,'well, let's hope we don't need Morpheus to make a move, and everything settles down without his involvement.'