NOVPUBIn Poson’s Demon World, even as the ground kept trembling, some daredevil Demon Race journalists were still insisting on filming at the front line.
With the latest equipment, they captured the tremendous battle through numerous obstacles, though the image was blurry.
The camera kept shaking, occasionally emitting a buzzing noise, and was accompanied by a blurred glitch, even flipping completely black for a few rolls.
If they were too close to the center of the battlefield, they could be swept up by two humanoid calamities at any moment.
At the extreme distance, they occasionally captured only some blurry images.
"The battle in the North Shore Demon World is escalating!"
A bedraggled Demon Race journalist’s voice trembled as she read faster and faster,
"Floral City Pariel Broadcasting Company, until the very last moment of life, will bring you the latest reports..."
The female journalist hadn’t finished speaking when a loud bang suddenly came from behind.
Following that, the filming equipment shook violently, the entire screen cut out, and one could faintly hear the sound of breaking glass.
A few seconds later, the screen stabilized once again.
Surprisingly, the Demon Race journalist was still alive.
"Sorry for the interruption just now, it seems the battle has reached my location, I need to keep increasing my distance!"
She started running in the video,
"But no matter what happens, we will persist until the very end, bringing you the most timely and truthful reports..."
Thus, among life and death, the channels that were still broadcasting live footage of the battlefield became fewer.
There was still an angle from which one could witness the North Shore battle, and channels in the rear were constantly relaying the shattered fragments of imagery.
In the distant South Bank, countless eyes were witnessing all of this through projection devices.
People watched with bated breath, moved by the bravery of the Ninth District Lord of the Demon World, Aitio, and the executioner Nigel, outraged by the chaos instigated by Tenth District Lord Perlman, but more than that, they were fearful.
Because by the time the Assassin General from the Aquidan Territory returned, it would probably be too late.
All they could do now was to hope that they could miraculously overcome Perlman.
South part of Pariel.
In the torrential rain washing over the South Bank.
A figure in a gray cloak stepped on the blood-red ground and then vanished from sight.
He first headed to Duke Tiffany’s residence, where the executioner was absent.
However, after removing the Barrier that shielded against detection, he did not waste a second more on breaking through the deep-seated Eighth-order Protective Enchantment before heading toward the next duke’s location.
"Perlman, Duke Tiffany’s Crystal Key is not within the residence’s Barrier. This woman is ready to face death, and my search Magic can’t find the key,"
he communicated to Perlman, who was currently in the northmost end of the Demon World Tenth District in Floral City Pariel, via encrypted Communication Magic.
After Beelzebub finished, he ended the communication.
He believed that Perlman would understand his implication without the need for further explanation.
Such a key, if Duke Tiffany had not placed it within the Eighth-order Barrier, definitely must have been entrusted to a trusted powerhouse.
And the only one she would trust unconditionally was the executioner to whom she had entrusted her life.
...
Meanwhile, at another location.
Demon World Tenth District, Poson.
The night sky was overcast, with clouds churning, occasionally cleaved by dazzling ice-blue lightning.
Perlman lightly touched his ear, as if he had received some communication.
Aitio’s unique Magic Power was indistinguishable from the thunder of the stormy night or her Magic, which upon hitting a target, would instantly freeze everything around it, creating an electric cocoon that would then explode into thousands of ice shards.
Countering it was Perlman’s invisible psychokinesis.
It sometimes formed vacuum strips the size of fists in the downpour, whistling out at speeds beyond what the eye could see, melting steel and vaporizing rock, all twisted into vortexes.
"Boom!"
Another psychokinetic strike hit the Poson Demon World Memorial Building, which, in an instant, melted and deformed like a candle, and finally collapsed thunderously.
The deafening roar echoed across the skies of Poson’s Demon World, shaking the earth to its core.
Aitio realized she had to use her most powerful Spells without holding back, or she might not even get Perlman to take her seriously.
Determined, Aitio took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
In an instant, the temperature of the Poson Demon World plummeted.
At first came a howling wind with hail, and then, in the pitch-black night sky, the torrential rain began to turn into falling snowflakes.
Soon, large swathes of snowflakes gathered into a blizzard, and the entire Tenth District of Poson’s Demon World was engulfed in this unprecedented cold wave.
Aitio, with her primary Lightning and secondary Ice elements, found it easy to counter elemental-type enemies due to dual elements, but Lord Perlman, who was purely a control type, was tougher to fight.
At this point, all that was left was to pour in damage and compete in Mana consumption.
Aitio suddenly opened her eyes.
Her pupils had turned entirely ice-blue, like two cold stars.
Thousands of ice crystals formed behind Aitio and then shot towards Perlman like a violent hailstorm of steel needles.
Each of these ice crystals was like a bomb.
However, faced with this terrifying ice storm, Perlman remained completely composed.
Aitio slowly raised her hands, and in the next moment, all the raindrops and snowflakes stopped mid-air.
As if struck by a freezing spell, the howling wind abruptly ceased, countless ice-blue beams sliced the sky, and accurately penetrated Perlman’s surroundings.
Perlman smiled easily; his psychokinetic force swelled around him in an instant, forming an invisible energy sphere that enveloped him.
The moment the rain of ice crystals hit the energy shield, they shattered against an invisible wall, dispersing into a sky full of electrical light, to be dissolved there and then.
