Chapter 949: A Horrible Misunderstanding

Chapter 949: A Horrible Misunderstanding



The cultist woman, gasped staring up with a shocked face. She had never expected Lunara's demon to look human, but what came couldn't be anything else. But now that she looked at him for a solid second, he was over two meters tall and as muscular as a bull, he couldn't be a human, this is a giant.

Arad's eyes looked around, spotting Jack and the murder paladins who were just making it out of the tunnel to assist him. It didn't take him a second to recognize that the cultists were attacking Jack and the rest, so he acted.

Arad's eyes flashed purple as a wave of gravity magic rushed out of his body, forcing all the cultists to kiss the ground. Even the werebear couldn't resist Arad's magic, his body felt several times heavier than normal, and the wound up his shoulder didn't help. He coughed blood, wanting to curse the giant demon that appeared, but still fearing Lunara's retribution. Jack looked at Arad with a confused face. Arad was supposed to be several weeks' worth of travel time away, even if Arad flew here as fast as he could, it'd take him a day to arrive and this one had walked out of the demonic gate.

"Arad? Is that you? How..." He looked at him, still worried that this might be a shapeshifting demon. It wasn't that uncommon for demons and devils to show up to mortals in human forms to trick or make them drop their guard.

"ARAD!" A sharp voice boomed from the still-burning gate and a long purple arm extended out, grabbing Arad by the shoulder. "This is my gate! Why did you jump in?" Lunara walked out and growled at him.

The cultists couldn't recognize Lunara's demonic magic as Arad's gravity magic had engulfed the whole place and muffled their senses, they could only sense him. To them, the one behind him was just another giant demon, this is only purple and has horns.

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One minute earlier, Arad and Lunara were still sitting with Hati and the pale mother in the healing quarter when a small gate opened beside Lunara's head, crackling with magic. This was a call for help from her cultists, they were pleading for her to send them a powerful demon to assist them in battle.

Lunara looked at the fist-sized gate, pulled it closer to her face, and looked closer at it. "I must go back to the abyss. My followers ask me to send them a demon to help." She stood and looked at Hati, "It's safe if I open a door to the abyss, right?" She didn't know if doing such a thing could trigger Kayden or the overgod, but Hati replied with a nod, "You can do that."

"It's dangerous to return to the abyss now." The pale night said, "You might get killed by your generals who want to rob your power and throne."

"She'll be fine. But do it inside the training room, not here." Hati waved her hand and opened a portal to her training ground. "I don't want the abyss's miasma stinking up my house."

As the two were talking, Arad looked at the gate with his void eyes, sensing something strange about it. It was faint, but he could see it, a familiar magic sparkling on the other side... bloody and fiendish, a devilish presence that always stuck close to one of his wives. There was no doubt about it, that was Pin's magic on the other side, which meant Eris might be there, facing Lunara's followers. Blood rushed into his head and a vein bulged on his forehead.

Arad threw his hand forward and plunged his fist into the portal. Lunara gasped, but she was already too late, Arad's whole body got sucked into the gate in a fraction of a second. Usually teleporting someone as powerful and magic-dense as he was quite taxing, but if he is willing to be teleported, it's almost costless.

Shocked at Arad's act, Lunara jumped after him, ending in them both inside the cultist's lair.

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"Sorry, this is my fault." It's better if she was the one speaking instead of anyone else ratting

her out.

Arad's neck twisted as if he had no neckbones, he turned toward her with a burning purple

glare. "Your fault? What did you do." She could sense that he was indeed angry, far more than before when she threatened his wives since blood had been spilled this time, but he wasn't attacking immediately which was a good sign. Yet, she couldn't relax, he was one word away from shoving his fist down her throat and pulling her heart out.

But, even with that good sign that Arad was willing to listen if she was the one speaking directly, she still felt like a stone was stuck down her throat. "Remember when you told me about your wives? I then tried to see who they were so I used small cuts as mediums to check who they were, so I can identify them from the common rabble." Pinching her fingers together, she couldn't look at him in the face.

"Cuts?" Arad took a step toward her and she gasped, feeling her stomach turn. She jumped a step back, waving her hands, "No! It wasn't a cut that I caused, I use cuts that already

occurred."

Arad stopped moving, and she felt a bit relieved, yet she couldn't relax just yet. One wrong word and not just her head would roll, but probably all of her cultists would end up

evaporating.

"When I identified Eris...a paladin that with her noticed my demonic presence and identified

me... I suspect they are here to attack my cult for that." She looked at the cultists with a

troubled face, her actions had led them to face several deaths without them even knowing why. If they made it all alive from here today, she'll give those who died a high rank among

her demons.

Pin was the one to speak after that, "Demon lords use their cults as beacons to spread their

influence. When Lunara's demonic magic appears on my lady Eris, the easiest and quickest route to make sure the demon lord doesn't reach her is to destroy all the nearby cults. That's why are we here to destroy this cult, murder every one of them so Lunara can't track my lady." Arad halted his gravity magic and released everyone, he only kept the ceiling floating in the sky. He was smart enough to guess this was probably a misunderstanding, but his aim was someone else.

As the magic lifted, the wearbear who had regenerated thanks to his cursed blood lunged up, swinging his claw at Arad's neck. "You aren't one of my lady's demons! Die, monster!"