Chapter 502 Initial Clash



After listening to Daimon's words, the elderly couple from the church gritted their teeth but, in a hurry, wrote what they were asked to, naturally that pair of old foxes didn't hand over the information without first asking.

"What do you want in exchange for this?", said Turner, to which Daimon handed him a small piece of paper, which Oliver recognized on the spot, since the contents of it will haunt him for some time.

"W-What, are you robbing us!", Maria caught a glimpse of the things listed on the paper and she nearly vomited blood, for a good reason, Daimon demanded double of what the Adjudicators had to pay him to obtain all the information Dilan had.

"Little friend this is too much...", Turner tried to take the soft way and negotiate a lower price, especially because he noticed that even Ben was surprised by the payment requested, meaning that they didn't have to pay that much, unfortunately for him, Daimon directly interrupted him on the spot.

"They got a "friendly" discount, miss Jeanne and Reyne stood up for me when your church came to kill me, I'm already being generous considering how you treat miss Emily, take it or leave it".

"Humph, do you think you can blackmail us, at most we'll retire and see you suffering from the sides, then what will you do", said Maria, only to see chuckling.

"You can try, but with the number of traitors I saw, I will be amazed if you survive to see the next month, of course you are free to believe that I'm making everything up", he casually said.Thi/s chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.co/m

After a moment of silence, Turner sighed in defeat before saying.

"I accept the terms, but I want one spot back at least, of course the one chose to go will be interrogated before, we'll give the Adjudicators half of our findings, take it as way to build a better relationship between our forces".

With how things were, the cool-headed Turner, realized that their useless internal strife with the Adjudicators could have brought the extinction of the human race, to begin with, both sides were founded by the first king and his lover, so they should have been working together.

"You can't take the decision by yourself, are you not seeing that they have that filthy thing on their side!", exclaimed Maria as she pointed at Emily, only the freeze on the spot at the sight of Daimon increasing the price, so that they will pay thrice what the Adjudicators had to.

"Enough Maria, she might be part flesh eating demon, but she didn't chose to be like that nor has she ever consumed human meant or even blood... in comparison our own people willingly entered that path and are enjoying it, how can we face our ancestors if we can't even clean our own home", said Turner with an angered expression, Felix was like a second father for him, back then when he was younger, he looked up to the man who was the closest to become the Pope, the shock was strong enough to change the way he saw things.

His wife ultimately conceded this time, because she couldn't argue against the cruel reality of the situation, everything that happened will be known by the public, if they wanted their organization to survive, they had to demonstrate that they fight for the sake of humankind.

"Fine, they are just material things anyway, we can get more with time, I'm also tired of the whole power struggle farce".

After signing that contract, Daimon handed the list of traitors to Turner, whose face became unsightly on the spot, there were more than what he expected, but at least not many were particularly high ranked.

Felix betrayed them to save his ass, his lifespan was about to end so he needed an extension, but the others that were following him weren't that old, but the ambitious relatively young who wished to increase their strength faster.

Daimon then nodded at the old Ben who then took over.

"Previously we were going to have a small pointer exchange between our young generation, to see who was going to wield the "key" that my Valleris family has been guarding, but now there is no need for that, it would be an honor if little friend Gabriel is the one to use it", said the old man as he smiled at Daimon.

"I have something to do inside that ruin, so I can't promise that I won't point my sword at you, depending on the situation you know", said Daimon in response, just to see the old man laughing.

"I believe you won't do anything too harsh, little Reyne will be entering with you after all", he said with a suggesting voice, which made the crazy girl who was still leaning against Daimon's shoulder glare at him.

"I will do what I have to and won't bother you as long as you don't target me, additionally I can tell you that I have a personal grudge against the flesh eating demons, so I'll kill them at sight if get the chance to", said Daimon as he endured the sharp piercing gaze of the crazy girl.

Old Ben casually nodded and then took out a black large case from his storage ring, then placed on the table in front of Daimon.

"That's enough, this was supposed to be given to you anyway... since you have the same qualities as the first king", he said as he opened the case to reveal its contents.

In front of Daimon laid a large white metal crossbow, carefully packed in the case, the design was exquisite with many decorations, it looked a bit worn out though and the mechanism was missing a few pieces that seemed to have been torn apart.

[You have found a lost relic and must return it to its rightful owner, the current designated hero]

The moment Daimon saw the crossbow, a fake notification was triggered making him grin, of course he wasn't going to give this to Adam, specially because there was a certain capricious sword in his inventory, drooling over it as if it was a delicious-looking candy.

"I know it doesn't look like much, but in the whole history of my family, not only we have never been able to repair it, we couldn't even dismount it, I have attacked it with all my might before and nothing happened to it, it's yours now so good luck", said old Ben.

Daimon nodded and then closed the case to sent it into his inventory, it's not like he was going to use the crossbow, once he accomplished his objective, it will be a snack for Disaster.

"If there is nothing else, we have to make some preparations to open the entrance of the ruin, so while the army arrives, prepare yourselves", said Antonio, and that was a hint for Daimon to take his leave, which he did.

A few seconds later, the scenery changed from the comfortable and modern main hall, to the scorching landscape of the volcanic area, for starters the temperature went up like crazy.

Besides a few exceptions, even with armors and equipment made especially for this environment, everyone below the Arch rank felt the shock of the blazing atmosphere of this place.

But they had no time to adapt, as they noticed a mixed group conformed by humans and flesh eating demons, approaching them.

They were led by Felix as well as other four people, two men and two women, the men had blond hair and red eyes while the women had black hair and red hair, they were quite the lookers, and appeared to be in their middle thirties at most.

The only downside is that they were eyeing the humans on the other side, as if they were looking a filth.

"It's been a while, you four look quite worn out if you ask me", said one of the two males, who surprisingly had a certain resemblance to Dilan, making Ben smirk.

"Yo, Eniz, I heard you lost one of your descendants, hope you find it sooner or later", he said, making the Ghoul's eyes dye red, literally, there was no blank or pupil even, only red.

"Don't worry, we'll share the experience", limited to say the Ghoul, he couldn't attack Ben, due to the contract anyway.

Leaving quarrels aside, Adam who was still holding onto Paula's waist, came out of the traitor's side and then said with an arrogant voice.

"I'm the Holy Son chosen by the Blood Justice Church who wishes to finally put an end to the wat between the two races, those among you who have the guts to die by my sword, come out", he said.

It's worth mentioning that Paula turned out to be the daughter of Felix, though he never married he had a lover who died some time ago.

Naturally the first one to stand up was Elliot, his group came out of the crowd and stopped a few meters away from Adam, who snapped his fingers making three girls from the side of the traitors approach him, followed by six Ghouls of the young generation, all guys, to also come out, though they kept some distance from him.

Noticing the gaze of disgust on Elliot's eyes, Paula laughed as she pressed her body against Adam to then say with a mocking voice.

"Oh my, poor you, you don't seem to be popular with girls, right", she said that because Elliot's group was formed only by men, the only two girls were both in the team led by the granddaughter of Turner and Maria.

Speaking of them, they also came out to the initial face off, but they were soon ignored, as all the eyes fell on a group of three that walked away towards the entrance hat had appeared on the hill to be more accurate.

"I have no time for childish show offs, get your ass here at once", said Daimon as he took out the black case from his inventory to then insert the frontal part of the crossbow into the lock that had the respecting shape.

Adam who was inwardly pissed off at the nobody who was messing with his demonstration, inwardly shouted.

'Hey, Ariel, can I kill that bastard right now?', he asked.

'Only if you don't want the inheritance of the Blue Hero anymore, the other party won't let you go and you'll have to use redeem another escaping ticket, needless to say but there will be a penalty as it will be the second time during the same mission', casually said the angel girl with an uninterested voice.

Adam clicked his tongue and then walked towards Daimon, he unsheathed his sword and pointed it at Daimon before he inserted it into the lock, oblivious to the fact that his previous conversation was heard by Daimon.

Though pissing off Adam was a bonus of him not wanting to lose time in useless word exchange with soon dead to be people, he also did it because when Adam lost his cool, he could basically listen to his thoughts, and it was really easy to do so.

"You are dead meat you bastard, handover that crossbow and the girl and I might let you live, once we are inside things won't be that easy", said Adam in a low voice, unfortunately for him, Daimon completely ignored him.

He was more interested on the hill which trembled as the giant stone gate opened, making it easier for him to feel Jasmine's general position, Daimon's eyes glowed behind his mask, as if previously discussed, both Sarah and Reyne held onto his arms and then the three of them jumped into the gate, only to disappear, since they were transported by the array engraved on it.

Adam felt a vein popping on his neck, he shouted at the three girls who had yet to come.

"What the hell are you waiting for, they are getting ahead of me!", the girls immediately rushed towards Adam and they also entered the ruin and were transported.

The other groups also woke up from their daze and rushed into the ruin, the scene of Reyne holding onto Daimon's arm, repeated itself inside Elliot's mind, making a cold flash appear in his eyes.

'That fucking bastard!!!', he inwardly screamed.

...

Inside of the ruin at a certain completely dark room, a mocking voice sounded.

"Did you see that, he already has other "things" in mind, poor you were put in second priority", said a black robed figure, to a girl who was trapped inside a black cage.

"I wonder if you will be able to speak with your head removed from your body?", was the only thing that could be heard coming from the girl.

'I wonder what your expression will be once he arrives here, you little stubborn bitch', thought the black robed figure.