Chapter 116 - What A War Means

PRINCESS LIA'S POV:-

"27.8," I hear my brother shouting as he kills another 10 Supreme level enemies. A smile forms on my face as I kill another Supreme Devil and shout, "98!" My shout ends up irking him as he then dashes and starts madly attacking the other Devils and Monsters.

I look at another Supreme Devil and move towards him with a smile on my face as I think, 'being at a lower level really is a bliss. Brother gets only so much for killing so many enemies, while I got almost three times the points in killing way fewer enemies. Now, my 10 points, let's take you and cross my first checkpoint.'

I dash towards him but before I could reach him, another person takes his life and shouts, "109."

"Lucy, that was mine...why did you take him out?" I hear another person shouting back. Turning to the voice, I see Sir Albedo, shouting at her. Dumbfounded at their exchange, I almost couldn't believe my ears. 

'Are they crazy? It was clearly mine. How dare they claim it to be theirs,' I think as I glare at them, before moving to another target? Since they are clearing the Devils and Demons here, let's take out the Monsters.

'Yeah, there will be less...competition...there?' I turned my head in that direction, only to hear a faint voice. That was enough for me to change my mind.

"456," shouts Leraye as he crazily swings his scythe in all directions. Hos scythe are throwing manaless air blades all around the area. 

'And then...there is that guy too,' I look at the other old man who is silently walking and slashing everything in his path. Looking at him yawning half the time, it looks as if he is taking a walk in the park. 

"Just...what is this?" I hear another Elf beside me, as he looks at the scene in front of us in disbelief. Honestly, it's not really a war anymore. If anything, it is just a one sided massacre. Looking at the faces of the Devils, they are….huh? What!!!

"So, you have finally noticed, eh?" I hear the voice of Sir Cirdan as he stands beside me with a pitiful expression as he looks at the enemies.

Their...eyes are dead. It's as if they are in mind control. What...but then the others-

"They can't seem to realise it, because there is another magic at play here. A wide area of Mind Magic that makes everyone forget about the aspect of their enemies nature. If I am to correctly guess the reason behind this, then it's a distraction...this war you see...that is happening around here...is a distraction for some other plan." He speaks as he sighs as he shakes his head.

Then why are we fighting...ah! If we don't fight here, the Devils will attack anyway, so someone has to be here, huh? 

After pondering over it for a few moments, I finally realised something important, or maybe I already knew it before, but because of being in the heat of the moment, it slipped my mind, that is the one thing the Devils are really famous for.

'It is not their brute force that they are famous for, but for their cunning nature.'

"Let's clear everything as fast as we can then...since that is the only thing we can do at this point. I hope Father and Sir Morpehus have something planned for this too."

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4TH BRANCH OF ALFHEIM BAILEY'S POV:-

Walking after a considerable distance, I finally reach the distance where a group of people are collected. I look at them with an expression of disgust. With a mocking expression on their faces, they signaled at me with their eyes to sit on the empty space left for me.

"So, young greeny, tell me what you have for us," asks the Beast King as he looks at me with an interesting look. His face, that of a Lion, filled with ferociousness, gazes at my body as if he is looking at me, like a predator looks at prey.

"Everything is going according to plan. Party Grim Verdict and Elfs do not know the actual plan being followed. My clone is currently fighting in the war right now and sending me signals to what is going on there," I tell them as my head is bowed down to them. My eyes turn tired at this play, which I have been bound to for only the Almighty knows how long. 

"Is that so?" The other female, Fairy Queen of Dark Magic, looks at me with a curious expression as she channels her mana into my arm and burns it down to ashes. Enduring all the pain, I look at her and answer,"Yes, my Queen. That is all true."

'It's suffocating.' I think as I look at the place in front of me. I would have run away, or maybe died fighting, if it wasn't because of one person. The one person I can never go against, even if I had lived 10 more lives, who is silently meditating at a distance away.

Wearing a white robe, he looks like a real sage. His true identity...really shocked me, to think that he is still alive after all those years and even more shocking is...that person has achieved Godhood now.

Known by the name of The Sage, a God, is meditating right in front of me.

"I know that it's suffocating, but such is the fate of you lowlives. I fail to understand...why don't you guys just accept that? There is nothing you could do against us higher beings." A voice comes out of nowhere and then a child comes out of the Space in front of the Sage. 

Then...the sage bows!!!!!....To the Child..????

'WHAAAT??!!'

Looking at that 'child' not only him but all of us instinctively bow down to the Child in front of us. 

The child, then satisfied with our reaction, smiles before he looks at The Sage and says,"entertain me enough and I'll let you see my pet once before I kill you.." Then he vanishes from there, as if he never existed, in space.