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"Do it."
Schlacht's eyes were cold and sharp.
With a gentle wave of his hand.
In an instant, hundreds upon hundreds of black-robed demon mages descended from the sky!
They launched an attack on Serie in perfect unison!
Countless spells, carrying a density that brought despair, poured out in a saturated bombardment!
They struck directly toward the area spanning dozens of meters around Serie!
There was nowhere to dodge!
But there was no need to retreat or dodge at all!
"Boom!"
First came a violent magical explosion!
Then, a piercing golden light and a mushroom cloud of mist rose from the positions where Serie and Stark were!
"Mistress Frieren!"
Fern, who was gazing at the battlefield from the balcony, could no longer sit still!
She immediately looked toward Frieren in anxiety!
"If it is only of this level..."
"It cannot hurt Serie."
Frieren shook her head calmly.
"This kind of attack, which is similar to ordinary offensive magic, is indeed impressive."
"But if they think they can defeat Serie with a saturated attack composed of only such magic..."
"I can only say that such methods are far too low-level."
"Unless, they have another plan..."
The dust gradually dissipated.
After a golden, solid defensive magic barrier flickered a few times.
It vanished from around Serie.
"Don't go thinking about throwing your life away at every turn, brat."
After Serie casually tossed Stark onto the ground beside her.
She glanced indifferently at the massive crater, dozens of meters wide, created by the bombardment.
With a trace of simmering anger in her eyes, she looked toward Schlacht in the center of the Demon King's army.
Schlacht was currently observing Serie's condition under the attack of the thousand demon mages.
Meeting those golden pupils, he slightly curled the corners of his mouth.
He gave a slight nod.
It served as a greeting to this existence at the absolute pinnacle of the human magical pyramid.
"This is truly making things difficult."
Serie looked back toward the direction of the Imperial Capital.
Then she looked at the demon mages who had already surrounded her and Stark so tightly that not even a drop of water could leak through.
She gently rubbed her head.
One after another, strange barriers suddenly emerged!
They completely trapped the demon mages who, just a second ago, had been poised to continue their attack!
"If I kill them, Yulian probably wouldn't be happy to see that."
Serie muttered to herself.
Although she was still unclear about the current situation.
For the time being, Serie did not intend to truly go all out.
Regarding the matter of the demons.
Serie was waiting.
She was waiting for Yulian to adjust his state from within the ruins and handle it himself.
"Well then..."
Serie suddenly slammed her doll-like arm toward the ground!
Following that, all the demon mages trapped by the barriers were slammed into the earth!
"I'll just let you lose your ability to cause trouble for a while!"
...
Within the ruins.
Yulian, who was already lying flat, felt he was a bit like a legendary hypocrite.
In the current situation.
He both hoped the demons would take down the unified Empire to end future troubles once and for all.
Preparing the way for a complete rule over the continent later.
Yet he also felt he was being somewhat too despicable.
To the demons.
As the King of the demons.
Not going to help the demons, but instead eating popcorn and watching the show in these ruins, wanting to enjoy the fruits of their labor was one thing.
He also suspected Schlacht, feeling that Schlacht had ulterior motives.
So he had Flenna and the others lead the army to watch from the outskirts of the Imperial Capital as a precaution.
To Serie, Frieren, and the others.
Yulian felt his original intention was only to save Serie from assassination and crush the Empire's conspiracy against the demons.
But now, as Yulian watched the situation evolve into a war between humans and demons that would only end in death.
He was playing the turtle here, refusing to go out.
He only wanted to wait for the demons to take down the unified Empire.
"This is what it means to be human..."
Sometimes Yulian felt it would be better if he were a thorough Demon King through and through.
Yulian had already dealt with the magic-sealing minerals that were suppressing him.
But he just stayed quietly in the ruins.
He didn't know how he should face such a situation.
What exactly.
Should he do.
How... to do it...
"Your Majesty..."
"The situation ahead seems a bit unusual."
"Do you think we should pause and rest for a moment?"
Qual slowed his flight speed slightly and came to Flenna's side to report.
Flenna looked toward the distance following Qual's gaze.
Sure enough, she saw waves of black air that refused to dissipate, shrouding the outskirts of the Imperial Capital.
There was a faint tendency for it to spread toward the capital itself.
"What is that?"
Flenna couldn't help but widen her eyes.
Her sapphire-like large eyes looked at Qual.
Filled with doubt.
As a snow girl who also controlled the power of the weather.
She knew very well that the black mist shrouding the sky was no ordinary dark cloud!
That dark cloud carried a sense of death!
And it was spreading incessantly like a plague!
"I have never seen such a thing."
Qual naturally sensed the strangeness of the black cloud as well.
But after searching through hundreds of years of memories.
He still had no answer.
Thus.
Both of them turned their gaze toward Macht.
"I am not sure either."
A second ago, Macht was still pondering if the Demon King's worries were excessive.
But seeing this strange dark cloud in the next second, a flicker of an odd thought had just emerged.
Seeing the two looking at him.
Macht's train of thought was instantly broken.
"Let's rest here for now..."
"We can send some people to scout the path..."
Although Flenna was somewhat anxious to reunite with Yulian.
Seeing that the situation outside the Imperial Capital was unclear.
And they themselves had plunged deep into this place as a lone army from the heart of the Empire.
Flenna did not dare to be careless.
Qual gave a slight nod and then personally led some people away.
A large number of demon mages also showed signs of fatigue.
After arranging people for guard duty.
The rest of the people quietly sat cross-legged and began to recuperate.
After all, while flying was an innate ability of demons.
If they wanted to fly fast.
It naturally required the support of magic.
Under the dark clouds.
Serie looked at the demons she had killed over and over again, only for them to reappear before her.
She couldn't help but darken her expression.
"How is it..."
"I told you that you cannot win."
Schlacht stood quietly not far from Serie, watching her.
Schlacht's tone was calm.
Beneath this calmness, if one tasted it carefully, one could sense a faint trace of joy.
The demons of the past had failed in the war between humans and demons.
Precisely because there were excessively powerful Great Mages like Serie standing on the side of humanity.
And now.
Watching the normally aloof Serie show such signs of fatigue before him.
Schlacht felt a sense of vengeful pleasure.
Power...
This is the pleasure brought by power...
"Schlacht, you are playing with fire and you will burn yourself."
Serie gritted her teeth.
Many tiny beads of sweat had already appeared on her forehead.
Originally, she thought she would only need to bind those troublesome demons.
She didn't want to start a massacre.
But she never imagined!
Those demons she had sealed within the barriers!
Actually committed suicide decisively after a faint, death-gray light appeared in their eyes!
What was even more bizarre was that in just a few short seconds!
They reappeared once again within Schlacht's demon army!
No!
It wasn't a demon army!
Serie scanned this endless gray-black tide between heaven and earth.
A trace of wariness appeared in her golden pupils!
It was—an undead army!
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