Free Web NovelChapter 133: Deara’s Last Thoughts
Deara was on the verge of death as she stared to the side blankly.
It took her a while but she finally calmed down after getting slashed by her own summon.
Blood flooded from her open mouth.
"..."
She was thinking.
Where did it go wrong?
What was her mistake?
The answers were clear.
Mika Elbar.
It was her fault for summoning his greatest enemy.
In other words, she dug her own grave by using her ability on him.
"..."
Her eyelids got tired.
She remembered the time she fought against Zaran, who was at that point in time the number 3 among the A-ranks.
When she summoned his greatest enemy, an S-rank demon appeared.
In the first half, it looked like she would win but slowly she lost control over the S-rank, eventually leading to her defeat.
And today was the same.
But the outcome was more devastating.
She summoned someone, whom she could not even touch.
And now she was paying a hefty price.
"..."
She almost closed her eyes.
But one thought still remained in her mind.
Who was the person she summoned?
He was without a doubt a fellow demon but she had not seen him before.
Even though she knew that her ability also allowed her to summon future enemies, she still pondered.
The reason was that he was able to turn into a transcendental being in the middle of the fight.
He turned into someone on par with the Demon King.
However, there were so many holes in her theories.
Currently, there only existed four transcendental beings.
The Almighty One and his right hand.
The Demon King.
The Nightmare in the Sea.
And according to the demons’ folklore, a transcendental demon, like the Demon King, would only appear once every 2000 years.
The current Demon King existed for roughly 500 years already, meaning that they had to wait at least 1500 years for the next transcendental demon.
However, something did not add up.
If that was the case, then how could that demon be the greatest enemy of Mika, someone whom she expected to have the average lifespan of a human?
A weak smile formed on her face when she was thinking up another theory.
What if he turned int-
"..."
Her thought was cut off by Lereon, who cast his gaze down at Deara, whom he just finished off.
Concluding that the rampaging summon would disappear with her death, he killed her while she was suffering from the pain her own summon inflicted on her.
Back to Mika.
[0.]
Only a millisecond after the white-haired demon vanished, Mika returned back to his present self.
With the demon’s disappearance, its attacks were also stopped.
Mika fell to his knees.
His transformation was also undone.
[2 minutes and 43 seconds left.]
"..."
As if his energy was sucked out of him, he looked blankly at the soil.
"Is it over...?" he asked softly.
[You do not have to worry about that person anymore. He vanished completely.]
"I see..."
Mika was swaying to the back and then to the front.
He had to balance himself by pressing his fist against the ground.
"Then, how does the overall situation look like now...?"
[...]
A few seconds passed.
[From the south gate to the northwestern part of Loogam, I detected no enemies.]
[The east side is also turning the battle in their favor.]
[The people in the shelter are also safe despite being located in the vicinity.]
[Only the north gate is struggling but reinforcement is coming.]
"And what about Zaran...?"
[...]
[He is on his way to you. It is only a matter of a few minutes before you will see him.]
Mika exhaled deeply before he fell on his back with his arms spread.
"Wake me up when he’s in sight~" he yawned.
[You are unbelievable...]
He closed his eyes and dozed off.
"..."
Only a few moments later, Olivia appeared before the sleeping Mika.
"How can he sleep so peacefully...?" she muttered taken aback as her eyebrows twitched.
When the demon disappeared and Mika turned back, Olivia was freed from her paralysis and immediately rushed to Mika.
Like many others, she, too, had many questions to ask him.
Who was the demon? Why was he chasing Mika? In what did Mika transform into? Where was the demon now? And from where did it come?
Olivia’s curiosity almost led her to wake Mika up even if she had to be forceful.
"..."
However, she stared at his innocent sleeping face.
She sighed.
"What am I doing?"
She shook her head.
Olivia did not know anything but she knew that Mika was holding back the white-haired demon on his own. freёwebnovel.com
Therefore, she let him rest a little bit longer.
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But she instantly shifted her gaze to the direction of the person who was approaching them slowly.
"That woman finally kicked the bucket, huh?"
"From start to finish, she did nothing but annoy me..."
The one muttering vexedly was Zaran.
He was bleeding from his head and looked beat up as he staggered towards Olivia and the still-sleeping Mika.
"Because of her, we’ve lost Dayn and Cwon...!"
His teeth were grinding against each other strongly.
"I ended up in this pathetic state because of her...!"
He clenched his teeth.
"Oh, how much I wished to have ended you with my own hands..." he lamented wrathfully as he looked up.
Olivia took up her fighting stance.
But Zaran did not react as he stopped moving.
"..."
He still did not move an inch of his body.
"I see..."
"Everyone starts to fall..."
His voice was soft and disheartened.
He looked at Olivia.
"Let’s make a deal."
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"Hand over that boy and I will leave."
Olivia grinned maliciously.
"And why should I do that?"
"..."
He sighed.
"I may look beaten up but trust me, I can still kill you."
Lightning sparked around Olivia.
"It seems to me like you received the most damage in your head."
Darkness started to seep out of his sword.
While they were talking, one after another of his comrades was dying.
The grip on his sword tightened tremendously.
"..."
Before Deara activated her ability, the demons were close to conquering Loogam.
No one could have stood a chance against their army. Not even Olivia or Lucio.
And yet, he found himself in the worst-case scenario.
With his other hand, he ran through his hair.
"This time, I’ll be serious." he stated threateningly.
In the meantime, Ralph still barricaded himself with Martha inside his sphere.
The other teachers on the outside were fighting another B-rank demon but it slowly started to look like the teachers could win. freewebnoveℓ.com
"..."
Martha was pondering deeply after the heavy pressure, which was emitted from the direction of the academy, disappeared.
"Was that perhaps a comrade of yours?" Ralph asked.
Martha looked up at him.
"I don’t know. It was clearly the presence of a demon but still... I don’t recognize that aura...." she responded in thoughts.
She shifted her focus to the side.
"As much as I enjoyed my break in here, I have to do my part as well." she sighed.
"I suppose today isn’t the right time-"
Ralph did not react when Martha appeared before him and put a hole in his stomach by thrusting her hand through it.
Silently, he fell on his knees, puking out blood after she pulled out her arm.
The sphere dispersed and she was finally set free.
"Mr. Arma!"
The teachers expressed their concerns when they saw Ralph, a fellow colleague and senior, falling on his knees.
"Don’t avert your eyes from me, you idiots!"
The other demon they were fighting attacked them mercilessly after they lowered their guard.
"Jeez... What would you have done without me, Beatra?"
Martha shook her head.
"Shut up! I could have done it on my own!" the other demon, a woman, replied aggressively.
She had short and disheveled black hair. Her teeth were sharp and were similar to the teeth of sharks.
She had a toned body, which was stressed due to her skin-revealing outfit as she only wore black chest armor and tight black shorts.
"Haaa... Haa..."
Only a few teachers were left but they were on the verge of complete exhaustion.
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One of them accidentally looked into Martha’s right eye.
"Come here." she ordered with a sly grin.
"Hngh...!"
The teacher tried to resist but his body did not listen.
"Hands and knees on the ground."
"..."
"Good."
Contently, Martha sat down on the teacher’s back, using him as a human chair.
"What a weirdo..." Beatra muttered disgustedly before she looked to the front.
She sensed someone coming from the direction of the academy walls.
"Just so you know, I won’t lift a finger this time. Even if you are about to die." Martha said innocently.
"Tch. I won’t die before you, old hag."
Martha’s eyes sharpened.
"Huh? How did you just call me?"
"Mind your tone. Old hag."
The two were staring each other down.
"...?"
The person, who was about to approach them, stopped in her tracks.
The two demons did not focus on her for the moment.
"What is this...?"
Stopping before a small sphere was Lily.
Inside that sphere was an eerie-looking black wand.
Again, a voice called out to her.
It repeated the same words over and over again.
’Take me.’
