NOVPUB"If you are willing to cooperate, I can guarantee your safe departure, otherwise, I think you are clear on how this battle will end."
The gaze of the Demon Officer, Colonel Luka, fell on Lanci and Siegler, his voice calm and decisive.
Despite not knowing why the confidant of Duke Eduado, the Fourth Progenitor, had arrived early at their border with Demon World, and how an Earl of the Blood Clan could suffer defeat.
But he was certain that the mana on the human was mostly depleted, the already weak magic fluctuations were becoming more elusive, and this incredibly powerful wolf girl looked like she was at the end of her strength, about to run out of energy.
After defeating the Count of the Blood Clan, the two of them were in no condition to fight another round.
The entire Land of Perpetual Night fell into a brief silence.
The snowfield around them seemed to wait for their decision as well.
"Haha, hahaha!"
Count Gregory laughed maniacally, using up the last of his strength.
With the major negotiations between the Blood Clan and the Demon Race looming, a Demon World Colonel naturally would not stand by and watch his Count of the Blood Clan get harmed by humans at the border of Demon World.
Moreover, the human and the wolf girl obviously didn’t realize how high their Blood Clan stood in the Demon World under the current circumstances.
"..."
Lanci placed his hand on Siegler’s shoulder as a sign for her to loosen up a bit.
Siegler clenched her teeth tightly.
She was now worried about the fruits of a victory, so close at hand, being reversed by this Count of the Blood Clan. If they let him go, these Demons would surely restore his blood, and he would quickly recover and begin to hunt them down.
But before she could relax at the warmth of the hand on her shoulder, she heard Count Gregory on the ground shouting.
"Let me kill them, let me kill them!!"
Count Gregory screamed as if he had gone mad.
"..."
"According to the ’North-South Pact,’ in disputes involving humans and the Blood Clan, we cannot assist humans, and at the border of Demon World we should protect the safety of the Blood Clan as much as possible."
Hearing this, the Demon Officer, Colonel Luka, glanced at the Count of the Blood Clan on the ground and then explained and added to the two of them.
Siegler’s face turned pale again.
She never imagined that the victory within reach would collapse at the last moment due to the intervention of the Demon Race.
They were not only up against a single Count of the Blood Clan, but the entire Blood Clan behind him.
This was a kind of power known as the racial legacy of the Blood Clan.
Or perhaps Count Gregory had considered all possible changes and chose to hunt them near the border of Demon World, far from the Beastmen City-States.
"Help me capture her, she’s from the Wolf Clan! She’s the criminal who injured me, our mortal enemy of the Blood Clan, and you Demons have an obligation to arrest her and turn her over to us!"
Seeing the stance clarified by the Demon Officer, Count Gregory continued to command.
The Demon Officer fell silent for a moment.
Although the Demon Race had no enmity with the nearly extinct Wolf Clan, they were aware of the feud between the Blood Clan and the Wolf Clan.
"Young girl, even if you run now, you will soon be wanted by the Demon World. Make it easy for yourself."
The Demon Officer finally looked at Siegler and drew a dark red longsword.
Subduing her might take some effort, but if she ran, with the long journey to the Beastmen City-States without a vehicle, she had no chance of escaping successfully.
Once she started to run, the border forces of Demon World would deploy even more troops at the request of this Count of the Blood Clan, conducting an extensive search in this territory. No matter where she hid, she would soon be surrounded by the troops of the Demon World.
"Okay, human, please leave now."
The Demon Officer looked at Lanci.
This was the greatest concession he could offer the other party; as a neutral party, the Demon World had no need to offend the Palante Empire, and the crest on the overturned sled from afar made his nationality easy to deduce.
The attire and demeanor of this human made it clear he was someone fairly high up in the Palante Empire, and killing him could also bring trouble.
"Rocky McCarthy, I’ve marked you. No matter where you run, I will kill you and will slay everyone associated with you!!"
Count Gregory’s throat trembled continuously, emitting a sharp, hissing laugh.
He was now very satisfied with the Demon Officer’s handling of the situation; after all, under normal circumstances, the Demons would not necessarily fear their Blood Clan so much.
"..."
Siegler didn’t know what to do.
She could run, but she couldn’t ask Lanci to run with her, to be hunted by the Demons along with her.
If they let this Count of the Blood Clan go today, endless disasters would follow for both of them.
It might even implicate the brothers and sisters from the orphanage.
Duke Eduado of the Fourth Ancestor had already discovered her. There was no way he would allow her to continue living. He was a Ninth-order, the mightiest of the Blood Clan. No one could contend with him, not even her father, whom she thought of as the strongest, had died at his hands.
Siegler felt a chill in the palm of her hand.
At this moment, she wanted to kill the Earl immediately. If only she could kill him before the Demon Race’s attack arrived, it would be enough, but she also deeply understood that it was impossible to kill a member of the Blood Clan. n𝚘𝚟𝚙u𝚋.co𝚖
This was the unfairness of race.
The hope she had finally begun to see was gradually being overwhelmed and shattered by the cold wind and snow at this instant, dragging her from a beautiful dream back into a nightmare.
This despair made her feel as though her feet were cast in lead, with nowhere to run.
Unbeknownst to her, Lanci had already picked up her beret and placed it on her head, gently pressing it down.
"Don’t worry, leave it to me,"
Lanci said to Siegler with certainty in his voice.
Siegler looked up blankly.
The prospect of her defeating the Count of the Blood Clan earlier had been dreamy enough.
Could a miracle really happen once again?
Her eyes seemed to ask—Rocky, do you still have a way out?
"Good, very good! Catch him for me as well!"
Count Gregory burst into laughter.
If this human hadn’t resisted, the army of the Demon World wouldn’t have had a reason to capture him as well.
Now, even if this Empire craftsman had the favor of the Beastman Great Lords, he had no chance of escaping back to the Beastmen City-States anymore!
That spared him a lot of trouble!
"Human! Cease your resistance!"
The Demon Race’s troops sensed that Lanci was about to make a move. Although his magic power remained weak and stable, they were certain that this man had no intention of compromising with them.
His demeanor was not of someone trying to leave, but of someone who would protect the Wolf Girl to the very end.
However.
The demons only saw a man whose figure was shrouded in an electric cocoon-like luster.
Colonel Luka immediately raised his hands to shield his face, blocking any sudden burst of wind or snow that might erupt.
The next second.
At the end of that dim snowfield, engulfed in electric light, a vague silhouette emerged.
Like a lord standing atop a black reef, only his shining magical silhouette and the swaying green lights of his eyes shone distinctly against the night.
The luminous cracks on his body gave off the faint aura of a king.
His gaze was directed their way.
With a few clinks,
The weapons of the Demon World’s army fell to the ground, leaving only their empty, trembling hands.
The supreme aura of the Great Demon Clan was laid bare, and even if the Demon Officers did not know what had happened, they reacted immediately, kneeling before it.
"Now this is a matter for our Demon Race. That Count of the Blood Clan is my trophy. That should be fine, right?"
Lanci stood with his hands behind his back, as if he had returned to being the principal of the Purgatory Corridor Academy, kindly instructing his students.
"Yes, sir. Please forgive our impudence. We did not mean to offend you, it’s just that we truly didn’t recognize your true form just now,"
Colonel Luka of the Demon Officer corps responded with a trembling voice, his head bowed deeply.
This was not the kind of might possessed by Three and Four prints Greater Demons.
If there was even a slight trace of royal lineage, he had to be part of the Six-Seal Great Demon Tribe!
"..."
A look of astonishment reflected in Siegler’s eyes, mirroring the luminous presence of the demon.
For some reason,
she was not afraid of this member of the Demon Race at all, tightly clutching the back of his coat.
Even though she could not understand all the causality and the secrets hidden within Rocky at this particular moment,
She knew that he was unlikely to harm her, and to survive in the hands of the Demon Race after exposing her Wolf Clan identity, she would have to hold onto him and follow wherever he went.
