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Meanwhile, as Blake and his allies confronted the Demons and Beelzebub's Second Vessel, Erika's party was moving as fast as possible towards them. After receiving an alert of an enormously overwhelming Demonic Energy source coming from the area that Blake and his party was going to explore, Erika and her party, who had finished their hunting tasks quickly decided to go offer them some help.
But moving from the Jungle Area to the Arid Steppes was a rather hard thing to do, and even while riding the Fenrir given to them by Blake, it was taking them a while. Evelyn Scarlet, Umbra Darkbound, and Sasha Henrieth, the instructors in charge of these three parties ran at the side of their students, panicking about how badly Blake's party could be right now.
"Agh, I was too reckless! I was too confident that he could take on everything! But this amount of Demonic Power is incredibly strong! A Demon Lord is not something those children can take, not even in a million years!" Evelyn sighed, riding her giant Blazing Lion King, one of her strongest Spirits.
"Honestly, I am not confident we could take a high ranked Demon Lord even if we gathered all our strength." Sighed Umbra, a handsome long-haired elf. "If we had some of the veterans with us, things would be much different, however…" He was riding his Abyssal Bat King, his strongest Spirit.
"I am worried! I hope they're okay! But knowing how Blake's personality is, according to what I've heard, I am dead-worried!" Cried Sasha, a gentle-hearted blonde human with green eyes. She was riding her Greater Nature Faun Queen, her strongest Spirit.
They were not wrong, Instructors were below teachers as they had yet to attain that level of authority in the Academy, but were working towards becoming one. They not only had to gather enough merit in raising students, but also they had to constantly strive to grow stronger by visiting the high level dungeons at least three times a month.
However, at their current level, if they combined their forces, they could probably take down a low to mid-level Demon Lord with much effort, but against a high ranked Demon Lord, who might be as strong as Demon Overlords… Things became much more complicated.
While Demon Lords could reach almost B- Rank, Demon Overlords could go as high as A+++ to S Rank! They were so strong they could destroy entire cities. And then, the Demon Kings, with five known so far governing their own Demon Towers around the world were simply untouchable monsters and embodiments of destruction.
Erika, Elizabeth, Chris, and Elfriedden were incredibly worried as well. They had never battled a Demon Lord before at all, and the strongest monster they had taken down so far were at most D+ Rank, something as strong as C Rank was doable, but C+, C++, or even C+++ was total insanity, with the gap in stats between each rank becoming wider and wider…
"Blake… Blake! Please be safe…!" Erika cried, gritting her teeth. "No, I know you'll be safe, so please hang in there!"
"We are getting closer!" Elizabeth said in surprise, pointing at the distance.
"W-What is that?!" Elfriedden was shocked when he saw the scene.
"T-That's a giant… demon, alright." Chris sighed.
The rest of the students panicked, as the three instructors opened their jaws wide open in shock… The gigantic entity of over a hundred meters, resembling a monstrous chimera between many insects in a humanoid shape, and an army of hundreds of Demons led by dozens of Demon Generals, alongside a giant fleshy and monstrous Demon Gate summoning more and more… It was utter chaos, and something totally not planned for the students to even face!
"A-At most they were going to fight D Rank monsters but this is too much!!!" Evelyn cried.
"T-That giant demon… It is the vessel of an Archdemon…" Said Umbra. "I can feel it, the power of the Archdemon of Gluttony, Beelzebub! W-Why?! Why is this entity here?!"
"A-And Blake and everyone else are fighting it and the demon army!" Cried Sasha.
"What are you waiting for there?! Move!" Erika angrily said, quickly jumping off Fenrir and rushing on foot, her entire body started overflowing with enormous quantities of Mana, Ki, and Spiritual Energy as she suddenly grew dragon-like wings, scales, claws, and horns made of spiritual wood. "[Draconification]!"
FLAAAASH!
She flew across the skies, flying as fast as possible to reach Blake and help him out.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth, Chris, and Elfriedden didn't mind the shock of the others, rushing to help out their friends.
The three instructors panicked as they saw him move closer and closer to the incredibly dangerous demons!
"W-Wait a second! You can't simply fight them by yourselves!" Panicked Evelyn, chasing them down. "U-Umbra, take care of the kids here! Sasha, come with me!"
"E-Eh?! Why me?!" Cried Sasha, being dragged into the deadly battlefield.
"Because you're a light and nature magic wielder, idiot! That's the best match against demons!" Evelyn sighed, she had been friends with Sasha and Umbra since she was a young student.
"Uwaaah! Umbraaaa!" Sasha cried, as she was dragged away.
Umbra sighed.
"I'll protect you, students. Remain in here, you don't need to jump into this dangerous battle, you've completed your task now." Said Umbra.
"But those fighting are also our friends!" Said one of them.
"They're also part of our party, we cannot simply leave them there…"
"Yeah!"
Some wanted to join their party, mostly the water-wielders. However, there was the other party with them led by an Instructor that had yet to come which was led by Rosen.
"T-That crazy idiot is fighting an Archdemon? T-There's no way I'll risk my life for him…" Rosen sighed. "Though… this damages my pride as a warrior… Ugh, whatever, let's go take on the small demons at least! If those brats are doing it, then why not us?!" Rosen said, riding his White Horse Spirit as he galloped into action gallantly, his party of admirers quickly came behind him, and then the rest of the students followed…
"W-Wait! Ugh, dammit!" Umbra sighed, having to join the fight as well.
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