Chapter 119 - What A War Means#4

LUCY'S POV:-

A FEW MOMENTS EARLIER:-

Walking in the battlefield with a reddish golden fire covering me all around and spreading in a circle with a radius of a dozen metres or so, I observe the battlefield as I kill each and every Devil present around me. They look sad, but I couldn't care less. They look really pitiful, but I couldn't care less. They look like they want to die. I don't care at all. All I know is I have to kill the Devils with my new power as much as I can. Honestly, I am quite satisfied with my role in this war. To kill all the Devils with my reddish-golden fire. Heck, I don't even understand how I am doing this, but it's soooooo satisfying.

Though, since I am thinking about all this, I wonder what really is happening at this point. Leraye is killing the Monsters like crazy, and Kaneto seems to be doing something different altogether. Oh! Leraye stopped killing the Monsters!! How rare??!! Then I see him running towards the city of Alfheim. 

'Isn't that where Phantasos is? Did something happen?' I think as I observe him running as fast as he can. My eyes then turn to the sky where the Elf King is fighting with another entity who is equally powerful as him. I then observe Sir Cirdan glaring at Bailey, who has probably betrayed them.

'So we have a backstabbing guy on our side? How foolish!' I then shake my head and look ahead, where Lia and Istan are fighting 10s of Supreme Demons at once. Well, it doesn't look like they need any help, though.

Then what should I do next? I turn to Sir Albedo and others, hoping to be able to help them but they look much crazier than me as they kill the Devils as crazily as they can, they seem to be laughing and smiling too.

'Scary,' I think as a wry smile forms on my face. Well, I can understand why they are happy about it. 

-Boom

Then I hear a loud voice from the forest a bit ahead of us, only to find 2 entities flying at high speed towards us. One of them...no, both of them seem to be Royal Devils or something.

Then I see a familiar face coming towards us with a scary expression as he looks at them. They seem to be on the defensive against him. Curious at their exchange, I observe the situation as I kill another dozen High Devils around me. 

'I wonder what could have happened,' I think, and a voice comes out of Zwain's mouth, "I once again dare you to say what you said about our leader." My expression changes at his words as I observe the Demons. The others who are fighting crazily also stop at this and turn at them.

One of them who has a book in his hand looks at Zwain with an angry expression as he shouts,"How come you are so strong? You are just an Elf who hasn't even lived for 2 centuries. Just how are you so powerfu-

Zwain then spreads his threads and attacks him, pushing him away and then binding him completely. He then looks at the female Demon and asks her the same thing with fury in his voice,"I once again dare you to say what you said about our leader."

She looks at Zwain with fear in her eyes as she gulps and takes a step back before crazily laughing and muttering,

"It's a bluff. Haha...yeah, that is what it is, isn't it? Of course it is, otherwise how can it make any sense? Haha...or maybe...it's an illusion, I must be trapped in an illusion…" She kept blabbering nonsense as she looked at Zwain with a deranged look.

'Well, Leader's Circles must have reduced their power by a lot and increased Zwain's power at the same time.' I think as I look at her with slight curiosity. Just what did they speak about to make Zwain use Leader's Circles, which is supposed to be one of our Trump Cards in this war?

I then observe them with a curious look before losing my interest, as one of them is not making any sense, and the other is bound by threads. I sigh as I recall what the Leader said to me before.

A WEEK EARLIER

Morpheus: Lucy, I need you to do a simple task in this war. Kill every Devil you can.

Lucy: Yes, Leader.

Morpheus: Won't you ask the reason behind it?

Lucy: Leader must have a reason for it and I believe in the leader. Although, personally, I don't mind killing the Devils.

Morpheus: Well, since I am going to explain the task and its reason to everyone, it would be proper to know why you are doing this. Especially in this war, as it will be necessary in order to complete the task without any mistakes.

Lucy: Yes, Leader.

Morpheus: Okay, so kill all the Devils present on the battlefield. Kill as many as you can. I have installed a few circles in the areas where the potential of the war to happen is maximum. Those circles will react to your mana and will trap the souls of the ones you will kill. So, make sure you spread your fire near to the ground and don't let the enemies fly in the air.

Lucy: Yes, Leader.

Morpheus: I'll be drawing a circle on your back now. This circle will allow you to use a special type of fire that will ease your work there.

Lucy: Yes, Leader.

---

After that, Leader sighed before shaking his head with a small chuckle and drawing the circle on my back. 

'He really is a soft-hearted guy, though.' a smile forms on my face as I think about how careful he was while drawing the circle on my back.

Shaking my head with a chuckle, I look around the area before moving forward as I once again kill as many Devils as possible.

'I wonder what the leader is doing right now, though.'