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"Leon, order all demons to withdraw from the human areas and gather near the Demon Tower. Pierre, assist from the side and plan out the routes."
"Eileen, Dian, I'm leaving the defense around the Tower to you."
"Ulala and Eris, go prepare to receive and treat the injured demons."
"Hektor, Shermen, and Vielsia, follow me."
The entire demon race was thrown into chaos due to the sudden change with Saintess Freya.
They were full of unknowns about those faceless people spiritual warriors transformed from humans and were not clear about what exactly they were, so they were at a loss for a moment.
At this time, it was still Reji who quickly spoke up, pulling back the apostles one by one, guiding the direction, assigning tasks, and letting them return to their proper posts.
From the start of Freya's "self-detonation", the entire process happened extremely quickly.
Although Reji actually had mental preparations, he still didn't expect that Emperor to go this far.
The other demon apostles didn't recognize them, but Reji was not unfamiliar with these "faceless people" spiritual warriors.
He had already thought a lot before about which one of the Hero's Relics in the Saintess's hands belonged to him.
And naturally, this included... Sweep.
Sweep, as the name implies, was a very common and ordinary function in games.
As long as the player perfectly cleared a certain instance, then when going back to repeatedly farm it later, there was no need for the player to operate personally. Instead, they could sweep with one click and quickly complete it.
This function also existed in Magic Chronicles, and the animation presentation form of sweeping was precisely these faceless people spiritual bodies.
In other words.
The faceless people were actually a replica of the Hero, his game character from a thousand years ago.
And as someone who had fully completed all achievements, explored everything, and perfectly cleared the game, if the Sweep in the Saintess's hands really inherited the Hero's combat records from back then, then not only for ordinary demons but even for apostles, it might also be a problem...
Now, Reji brought the three apostles beside him and arrived at the human city right below the Demon Tower.
Originally, because this place was closest to the Demon Tower, a large number of demon troops were stationed here, and it was almost transformed into a military camp, so very few humans lived here.
But even so, the battle situation in this city now was also exceptionally fierce.
In the past, one demon unit could always fight against five or six on the enemy side.
When Shermen also retreated, the two apostles now had extremely gloomy expressions, and even Hektor's face showed a few traces of wariness.
They also roughly saw that these faceless spiritual people were simply a replica of the Hero from a thousand years ago.
Inheriting many of the Hero's combat techniques.
Although their individual strength was far inferior to the real Hero and posed no threat to them at the apostle level, they were definitely a huge threat to the lower-level demons.
And what was even more fatal was the number of faceless people.
It was many.
Too many.
Although the news from the front line had not yet arrived, from the current situation, it seemed that Freya's self-detonation, using the Demon Tower to spread some kind of radiation, had transformed the vast majority of humans into such terrifying Hero-like products.
If the Emperor had an army of faceless people on such a scale.
With thousands and tens of thousands of pseudo-Hero soldiers.
Then for their demon race next, it would definitely be a fierce battle, and even annhilation...
Hektor was not confident that the demon race could win.
Just as the Great Demon was frowning tightly and Shermen was also under great pressure, Reji was actually still fine because he was very clear that although the Sweep system was indeed powerful and could replicate the current Hero's behavior, but...
Similarly. It had a fatal flaw.
That was, if something "did not exist" a thousand years ago, then the replication of "Sweep" would not exist.
Now Reji understood why Freya paid special attention when she saw Vielsia at that time and even took the initiative to ask about Vielsia's identity.
Because among the Demon King's apostles a thousand years ago, there was only the Wicked Demon Lordan, not... the Flower Apostle.
"Vielsia, use the most basic Vine Bind to attack it."
After Reji gave the order, although the elf did not understand why, she still immediately did as told. Verdant natural mana surged from the elf's palm and turned into a spell. Then, at the feet of a faceless soldier, vertical vines broke through the ground and coiled around the faceless person's legs.
This move was actually very easy to dodge, especially since the faceless people had light wings on their backs and possessed flying ability.
However, what surprised the three apostles, including Vielsia herself, next was that it was seen that just such a simple Vine Bind spell actually forcibly trapped the faceless spiritual person in place, unable to move.
The faceless spiritual person, who could originally exchange a few moves with the powerful apostles Hektor and Shermen, now seemed like a clumsy novice.
It blankly looked at the vines tightly coiled around its legs, only struggling with brute force, and didn't even know to use the light sword in its hand to cut the vines, a solution that even the lowest-level adventurer could think of.