Year: 1203 AD,
Due to absence of Derono Rial, Royal Empire was completely unstable.
The ones who were most restless were Rel and Blue of course. Anxiety was still a small concept to express their feelings.
They were terrified.
Before Derono's Aura disappeared,it fluctuated a bit and that was enough to make even Fuji tense about this situation.
According to Derono's plan, it was about time to march for alliance with other centre of DEITIC PLACE and any further delay can affect greater plan.
Blue was most calm among them all and here he was getting restless the most.
Finally a plan was devised to which Blue and Rel immediately agreed.
The soul of Derono disappeared from this world and all theories that were put forth currently made them suspicious about one particular society, Help society.
The plan was simple.
Blue and Rel will take initiative by trespassing Hell Society and track to Derono's soul meanwhile in Earth, Fuji along with Jerius, Martha with try to form an alliance.
Once Rel and Blue locate Derono's soul and get him out of prison, Blue will summon all forces within Royal Empire to the Hell Society.
Fuji and others will also rejoin them since they would have made alliance by then (possibly).
According to Blue, time flies different in Hell Society compared to Earth, 2 days on Earth will be similar to 2 hours in Hell Society.
Following that explanation was this plan devised.
Well let's forget everything and start the launch already!
Fuji , Jerius and Martha left for their journey while Blue and Rel too left for a huge moutain nearby.
The recoil of their launch would surely have a great impact on surrounding even if multiple absorbing barriers are created so they chose safer place.
It happened.
The launch...
It was just like they jumped however launch is slightly different here. They thrusted by focusing huge Mana at their feet.
They were tearing through the sky.
In the very instant, Blue tore the sky with his sword and entered it along with Rel and the tear in the sky recovered.
Hell Society sensed Aura that was above catastrophic level.
All Devil Lords understood what happened.
Rel and Blue crashed on the Northern part of Hell Society.
It is remote one though.
The impact was minimised by Blue however it still created a crater of radius 20 metres.
Blue stood up and checked his surrounding with calm eyes.
He was slightly embarrassed for how he acted impatiently infront of Fuji and others but now he will direct his anger towards his opponents.
Rel flew up slightly to match Blue's tall height.
[Rel]: What's plan?
[Blue]: I want you to be a distraction for them. Attract them here while I will find my lord and break through the prison (along with the bones of enemies of course).
[Rel]: That's simple! But wait, why can't I meet Derono?! That's unfair!
[Blue]: I understand how you feel kid Rel, my lord surely has such addictive presence that no-
[Rel]: Stop that crap. I understand. I will meet Derono later. But bring him back safely. His body must have been separated from his soul. During this phase, the will and consciousness of the person is at it's weakest.
[Blue]: Of course. I shall take my leave then.
Blue just disappeared.
With his speed, this surely was disappearance.
Physical laws vary a lot here so it doesn't matter.
If physical laws would have had mattered there then Hell Society would been in dust by now due to sheer presence each Devil Lord holds.
Blue was dashing towards prison sector at insane pace. It would reach there within few seconds.
"Oh how nostalgic...being here trespassing Hell Society for second time."
These were thoughts of Blue who had already entered Hell Society many decades ago along with Thunder Tusk.
The teleported site was 7 million miles away from the prison sector.
Suddenly a figure appears before Rel who was sitting on his flying cloud.
Rel jumps from his flying cloud and narrows his eyes.
"My name is Rath and I am here for a fight lil boy. Wanna test your strength?"
Said the figure.
[Rel]: You look strong, don't disappoint me.
Rath punched Rel far away.
This was first time in a while where Rel was punched, though Rel could have avoided it.
[Rel]: I must say that was a great punch.
[Rath]: You still alive? Looks like I should give more efforts.
With that, their fight started.
The underlings of Rath whom he had brought with him were stunned.
The fight was not something that was meant for normal devils.
Rel was trading punches with Rath without much efforts.
Their speed was insane. None devil there can match them with their eyes.
[Rath]: Devil Ability, (GIGA PRESSURE)!
[Rel]: (CANCELLER).
Though Rel cancelled much of the effect, the Devil Ability still acted and destroyed the terrain badly.
Rel's body wasn't damaged but if he had taken full attack, even he couldn't have left unscathed.
Rath(in his mind): This guy is insane. That thing could have had killed almost all Devil Lords if they had taken it fully on themselves. I wonder if I have a chance against him since I am the weakest Devil Lord here.
[Rath]: Hahaha...impressive, very impressive. Now take this.
Saying that Rath pointed his index finger at Rel and shot a high dense beam at Rel.
Rel dodged it but suddenly felt heat at his shoulder part.
There was a wound. He bleeded a drop of blood.
The temperature that beam had was enormous to begin with. It would be having 500°C temperature initially only to reach temperature of 20 million °C at contact.
It was also called Plasma Ray.
But Rel dodged it right?
It doesn't matter.
The attack would got target no matter what.
[Rel]: Hey my blood is green.
[Rath]: Huh?
Rel who hadn't ever wounded much was seeing his blood for first time.
[Rath]: Now face my most powerful attack , DEVIL LORD ability (PLASMA BEAMS)!!
Plasma beam attack/ability of Rath is just his previous beam ability/attack but with a huge series of beams instead of one. Thousands of such Plasma rays .
Rath could only activate when his underlings are nearby.
It's an ability that needs a lot of Magic energy and Devil Urja.
Blinding stream of beams emerge from Rath in all directions initially to later choose Rel as their target.
Rel had his eyes widened with fascination towards such visual he is having infront of his eyes.
In prison,
Derono was having a dark foam all over his soul.
Even he didn't realise when the foam completely swallowed him.
Derono's soul was drowning deeper into the darkness by each passing moment.
Derono closed his eyes recalling his life he had spent. He hardly remembers any good things that happened to him.
("Demons...they stole everything from me...why was I even fighting? What have I left with again? I have no one to protect, no one to love or cherish. This was always like this. After the death of my parents, I never lived like a kid. The burden was too much for me I guess. Even now... should I just give up? Rel? Blue? Fuji? I even dragged them. I think if I really wanted to fix this, I should have done it alone. Why did I drag everyone? I am not feeling angry or sadness right now. What remains with me is regret. Will I be born as Devil with no memories or be born asa demon with the curse or something worse? With the events that happened in my life, it can't be worse I guess.")
Derono's consciousness started to fade away slowly.
Suddenly someone caught Derono by his collar and started to swim upwards in this darkness.
Derono opened his eyes in surprise. It was someone...divine? The soul was bright and somewhat inspiring.
[Derono]: Wh...who are you?
"Well it isn't my real name but I think that is what famous sadly. I am Thunder Tusk..."
Those words left Derono stunned. The soul that is guiding Derono out of this darkness is... THUNDER TUSK!!