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Chapter 29: Demons in the Kingdom

As soon as Kieran arrived in the Guild Hall he received notice that his presence had been requested in the capital by a Marquis, since they seemed to disapprove of him using teleportation magic he was instead put before several mages used floating board to create a barrier platform for Kieran and Mithril ranked adventures to sit on before the mages used fly to carry them all over the countryside to the capital. They barely explained what it was they were suppose to do, though according to Balloma's message they were suppose to be fighting a army of demons tonight. That said unless demons was all of a sudden another way of saying trees there weren't many down there right now.

"Master is there something wrong?" Hamsuke asked looking at Kieran who was sitting in front of the giant rodent.

"I can't help but get this nagging feeling like I'm being punked." Kieran stated scratching his chin.


Balloma was back in the mansion, it's security measures restore minuets ago, alongside the top ranked vassals of Nazarick.

"These are our objectives." Balloma stated denoting eight separate buildings that were being shown on a giant Crystal map she had Demiurge prepare. "Each one of these locations represents a base of operations for one of the executives from Eight Fingers. So that we can take each base and each executive quietly, we will launch a full scale demonic invasion of the capital as a smoke screen." The individuals that Balloma was talking to consisted of Demiurge, Shalltear, Sebas, Pandora's Actor, Aura and Mare. "Under the cover of this smoke screen there are four key objectives we need to complete. Demiurge, you and your subordinates will use 'Armageddon Evil' to spawn the demon army. You will also summon a high tier Demon to serve as the commander for the army who will be defeated in battle by either Koriander or Kieran."

"At once Mistress." Demiurge nodded to Balloma's instructions.

"Secondly, we are going raid the kingdom's warehouses for their supplies, a task that I will leave to Shalltear who will transport the materials back to Nazarick." Balloma stated directing her attention to Shalltear.

"It shall be a pleasure." Shalltear replied smiling warmly.

"Sebas will go to the meeting with Six arms as planned and wipe out the security division." Balloma instructed directing her attention to Sebas.

"Understood Mistress." Sebas stated nodding his head.

"Mare, Aura, I leave the task of clearing out each of the head quarters of Eight Fingers and securing their division heads to you and your subordinates and bringing them back to Nazarick: alive would be preferable." Balloma stated looking at the shortest person in the room.

"Yes!" Aura and Mare stated simultaneously.

"Pandora, once the demonic attack begins we will begin using teleportation magic to move people out dividing them into two groups, Nobles and the citizenry, I want you to lead the evacuation effort using your shape shifting abilities." Balloma stated eyeing the doppelganger in question.

"Consider it done!" Pandora stated locking legs together and giving a salute.

"My it does sound like you were busy." Balloma looked over to the entry way to see Koriander standing there. "Tell me something sister, has these Eight Fingers done something irksome to you?"

"Ignoring my personal stake in these matters, it occurred to me a method by which in debt this kingdom to us and force a alliance: we will simply fake an invasion, and then defeat it." Balloma stated shrugging simply.

"Hmm. That does sound clever doesn't it." Koriander asked her grin twisted sinisterly.

"If I could interject mistress." Demiurge stated raising his hand. "But I was wondering if it would be possible to abduct some humans for experimentation?"

"With the exception of Sebas's pet, you can take any human from within the Security division of Eight Fingers for experimentation." Balloma stated as she altered the image on the crystal board, producing the picture of a young man with orange hair and Mythril armor.

"This human is not to be harmed: Under any circumstances am I understood?" Balloma instructed prompting those present to let out their own cries of acknowledgement.


The adventurer's gathered from E-Rantle were crowded together in the Re-Estize Capital Guild house, Kieran was sitting on the stairs leading into the top floor of the guild hall.

"Adventurer's of the Re-Estize Kingdom, I apologize but you have been gathered here under false pretenses." The Marquis, Raeven as Kieran recalled his name was earlier, explained gesturing upwards with his hands. "You are not here to guard the residences of noble family's as the job advertisement describes. But rather we have gathered you all here to ask, or plead as the case might be, for your aid to exterminate a plague that has wracked our kingdom for many years now. One that snatches people from the streets, floods it with poison, and leaves ruin in it's wake. We have brought you here to help us wipe the group known as Eight Fingers from the map." Many of the adventures started to discuss that matter among themselves. There was so much noise going on that Kieran almost missed the racket that the horses were picking up outside. "We know that it may seem unreasonable to you, after all your guild forbids that you take part in squabbles among humans but..."

"But Blue Rose has already pledged their loyalty to the Kingdom's Cause!" A woman who to Kieran's irritation wore armor with the decoration of the Unicorn on it, Lakyus, stepped forward. "For Tonight only, I consider anyone who partakes in the defense of this city a member of Blue Rose, if any of you are asked to leave, then everyone of us will as well!" The gathered Adventurer's all cheered pumping their fists into the air for Lakyus's declaration, all except for Kieran who was looking out the window.

"If I might interrupt." Kieran commented prompting those present to look at him. "While your speech writing abilities are obviously second to none, I don't think anyone will be asked to leave the Adventurer's guild today." Saying that, Kieran took out one of his blades and lit it on flame, before using it to tear down the wall beside him.

Kieran's random act of destruction soon made sense when a hand reached through the smoke and dust to grab him and pull him to the other side. Most of the Adventurer's rushed outside and for good reason, for high above the city seven magic circles the size of city blocks had appeared and demons of all kinds were dropping down from the sky.

"What the hell!?" Lakyus muttered watching the demonic parade that had appeared.

"Denizens of Re-Estize kingdom!" An Evil Lord Wrath, a huge hulking demon built like a dragon with huge wings coming out the back and head made out of flame. "I am the Demon Lord Jaldaboath! You have taken a artifact that threatens our existence, for this crime you will be annihilated swiftly and without a singular ounce of Mercy!" Then, the fire balls started to drop.

"Well I guess I got work to do." Saying that, Kieran plunged his blades into the ground all the way up to the Hilt.

The ground beneath Kieran exploded shooting him straight up into the air at break neck speeds. Then Kieran ignited the blades as he twisted his body around, creating a storm of fire and he drew in every demon around him and butchered them like some frenzied blender. Only when the Demons stopped attacking him did Kieran find trouble, for with no foot hold in the sky gravity started to resume it's natural course and he fell back to the city below.

"I'm coming Master!" Shouting that, the Adventurer's watched as the Wise King of the Forest used fly to take off into the air and catch Kieran on her back.

"What are you moron's standing around for!" Kieran shouted to the crowd of Adventurer's below.

"Most of the Demons can't Fly, hunt them down! Send word to the Knights and the Mages! Evacuate the Citizenry!" The adventurer's would feel shame for their own stunning astonishment had they the time but as it stood they did not, they split themselves up and they ran about putting blade to demons. "Hamster! Throw me at that hot head in the middle of this mess now!"

"Yes Sir!" Following Kieran's commands Hamsuke picked Kieran up by one of his arms and chucked him as hard as she could at Jaldaboath. Kieran cut deep into the demon with his blades and quickly made his way around the beast to the other side and grabbed a hold of it's back wings before ripping them from the self proclaimed Demon Lord's body, causing the beast to plummet to the earth while Kieran floated gently down on make shift parachutes.

"Ugh. Retreat! Grab every Human you can carry!"

And they did, ripping homes asunder the demons carried off one or two humans at a time giving zero cares to the Adventurer's as they made their escape, and just to show how badly they thought of the adventurer's another rain of fire came down to stop their chase. As if stating 'you will not pass' after a certain point a huge barrier of flame was erupted in the middle of the capital cutting off anymore would be rescuers. While adventurer's high on the magical buffs of the Magician's guild rampaged against the demons a meeting was called between their greatest warriors, the leaders of the Adamantine adventures and the city's guild master alongside the guild masters of mages and Knights guild. The last to arrive to the meeting was as typical the most important, Balloma and a masked Koriander were escorted inside by a group of knights being led by Gazef and the royal family Prince Zanac and Princess Renner.

"So it was you." Gazef commented recognizing the distinct blackness of Adamantine armor and the capes born of Wolf skin. The warrior captain stretched out his hand for Kieran to shake. "I never did thank you for saving that village."

"It was nothing." Kieran stated shaking the other man's hand and not letting him know the true context of those words. "I assume that we have a meeting to start then?"

The Kingdom's network of intelligence agents summed up the situation: Seven Demons presumed to be of lord class including Jaldabaoth had used magic to summon a hoard seven hundred demons strong into every facet of the city. After witnessing the Adventurer's dispatch so many of their numbers they decided to press their flight advantage as they tore through the city plundering it of every human that wasn't strong enough to fend them off. After all, for demons humans were a rare delicacy. The adventurer's responded any way they could, grounding as many of the demons as they could and letting the stronger among them finish them off. The Seven Evil lords response to this strategy was to use magic to dump more summoned demons into the city as they sought to overwhelm the adventurers with numbers and quality, in some places they were succeeding.

"This cannot be allowed to continue!" Over come with outrage the King slammed his fist against the bar of the guild hall. "These demons are toying with us!"

"Father please calm down." Renner took her father by his arm and led him to one of the tables of the bar.

"Endlessly slaying these demons as they spawn will get us no where. What must be done is to find the ones responsible for this and end them." Kieran stated as Balloma threw up a map on the table.

"We've been able to identify demon lords located here..." Balloma followed up with several more here's as she identified the places where the demons lords made their roosts. "Unfortunately knowing where they roost is only half the battle. Not even Kieran can fight his way through that many Demons." Kieran raised his finger to protest that particular claim. "In a timely enough manner to save this kingdom from collapse." Kieran retracted his finger and the point he intended to make with it. "We must deploy a anvil and hammer strategy." Illustrating her point Balloma drew a anvil in the courtyard of the palace, and then a hammer above each of the circles that she had drew earlier. "Gather together all of the demons in one place and leave the Evil Lords open for attack."

"A sound strategy, but what do we use for the bait?" Gazef asked scratching his chin.

"Perhaps Lord Kieran can draw them in?" Renner asked putting her hands together in a begging type motion. "Recall the opening attack against Lord Wrath? They're as infuriated with Lord Kieran as they are afraid of his power. They'll want him dead but they'll realize that they'll need a huge number of Demons to do it." Sudden realization dawned on the faces of the others but they quickly nodded their heads agreeing with the assessment of Renner.

"But if we use Kieran as our Anvil, then who will play hammer?" Zanac was the one to pipe up this time.

"Please, do you think that Kieran is the only one to have our father's blood in his veins?" Koriander asked laughing at the prince's seeming foolishness.

"You mean to say that not only does one exist with lord Kieran's power but..." The King was so stunned he couldn't even finish his sentence.

"My King. I have personally witness Lady Koriander exterminate one of the Six Scriptures of the Slane Theocracy single handily, if she claims that such beings are within her power to destroy then I see no reason why not to believe her." Gazef stated the look on his face full of confidence.

"We must also send a unit to rescue the people that the demons took with them." Climb piped up that caused those present to nod their heads.

"I suppose that will be my job then." A somewhat annoyed Balloma stated rolling her shoulders.

"Can you fight?" Climb felt his question was quite legitimate considering that of the three siblings Balloma was the only one not dressed for a fight.

"You will find me strong enough boy." Saying that, Koriander threw Balloma a wooden stick that she subsequently snapped between her fingers.

Balloma was enveloped in light, replacing a noble woman's clothes was the armor of a rogue, a cuirass made to resemble lightning coming down from above, shoulders that had lines spreading off of them like wings, a armored skirt depicting a serpent and boots made to resemble hurricanes. One gauntlet was a pristine almost angelic white, and the other blood red with gagged lines, as if they were pride off of a archangel and a demon lord respectively.

"I thank you for your confidence but I'm afraid that even I and my siblings can't be in anymore than three places at once." Saying that Koriander tapped her staff and a dark portal appeared at her feet, from which little hands of brown, green, red and blue emerged and pulled themselves out. "Fortunately, we have our own forces to contribute."

These Minions were known as redcaps, named so for the red berets that each of them wore that served as the equivalent of a metal of distinguish service among the goblin like creatures. The elite forces of the Gown siblings and they proved it with the reckless enthusiasm that they took to with dispatching the demons. In one instance a group of beleaguered guards bore witness as two browns catapulted a Warg with skin hanging between it's legs like a flying squirrel and took down a flying demon. Other's reported hearing the distinctive howling shriek of balls of fire arcing through the air at high speeds and crashing down on the demons with a thunderous boom. Many bore witness as demons simply dropped dead, their throats slash and arteries torn by invisible blades. Dozens of adventurer's, Knights and Guards found their bodies filled with the magical power of buffing type spells while their wounds vanished into thin air under the light of healing magic. Some even reports of fallen warriors getting back up in perfect health to strike back at the demons. Within hours the Minions had turned the rag tag army of humans who had been struggling against the demon hoard into a capable fighting force that charged ahead without fear.

"Well at least the minions are having fun." Kieran noted in a displeased tone, having been made to act as live bait against their own demonic horde.

Still, the night wasn't a complete loss, the minions pulling the people's collective tails from the both proverbial and literal fire should have deepened their since of comradely with the little psychopaths, and the experience points they were racking up from fighting so many powerful demons would give the Shining Justice reason to pause in concern when the time came. Now to do his part, Kieran was to act as live bait and if these things came from where he thought they came from he had the perfect thing to get their attention. First Kieran placed a hour glass into his mouth, Clock of Stolas, a magic item that Koriander had made at great cost, one that could instantly accelerate time by just enough to complete a attack with a couple minuet long charge time. Holding up his blade straight into the air Kieran concentrated, and let green colored Ki coated the blade. The bright light attracted the attention of many demons and several of them started making their way to Kieran, only to be intercepted by the fire of sniper type reds. Then the demons saw the distinct color of brown Ki mix into the green in a swirling mass, and they spread word of what Kieran was doing, recognizing the build up of the super tier martial art when they saw it. By the time the blade turned blue the demons renewed their attacks with a rampant vigor and even the adventurer's and citizenry could see the mass of multicolored light through the horde of other worldly monsters. By the time the light turned red, they were hurling everything they had at the invaders of their kingdom, trying desperately to buy Kieran the time he needed to finish his attack, but it was too late, the demons had already broken through the assault. A gargoyle was a mere foot from Kieran's face when he held his head up and revealed the hour glass locked in grinning jaws. Then the demons shrieked in terror as said jaws snapped shut. In that instant, the power of the damned and divine mixed into the blade and Kieran unleashed it's full power on the demons who had competed for the right to rend him limb from limb, the horizontal slash ripped the roofs off of the tops of the buildings throughout the city and many on the ground found themselves being blown away.

"What's the matter!?" Kieran shouted even as surviving demons fled in terror and the Evil lords stared in shock at the display of super tier Martial arts. The Demons attempted their tenth tier magic again to summon their hordes once more but someone was having none of it.

"Na, ah, ah." Koriander stated slamming the butt of her staff into the ground as she was enveloped in the light of summoning magic. "I can't let my brother have all the fun now can I?"


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rmarcano321: That they are. Oh not true, at the rate they were going infighting was going to do them in before anything else. Velvet and her lack of interest in magic means that old age eventually did her in. Oh same old story, bunch of thugs get together and set up a protection racket where they get a bunch of monsters to attack human settlements and then they heroically chase them off, then a unicorn gets in on the action and it all goes down hill. It lobotomizes people what do you think is so bad about it? No.