Chapter 13. Devea!


They run over to HQ, and upon arrival, a guy with light blue hair greets them. "Oh, Mushroom head, what is going on?" Asta asks.
"Oh Asta, the name is Marx, remember? Anyways, it is good that you are here. We are facing a bit of a crisis."

"A crisis?"
"Yes, spectral beasts are attacking alongside the entire northern border of our kingdom."
"What do you mean, the entire border? How can there possibly be that many?" Zora chimes in.

"We do not know how or why this is happening. We have had the investigation unit on the case for a month now, but they have found nothing. And now we are facing a threat that we do not know the cause of, but we have to push them back regardless. I will assign you to this area," he says, pointing at the map. "This is where the most sightings have occurred."

"Right, got it!" Asta exclaims, 'good now go'' Marx tells them and they both does a Clover salute and head out.

"So this is why we saw so many Magic Knights heading out of the capital earlier," Zora says.
"Right, this sounds really big too," Asta replies, and Liebe looks at him and then over at Millie on the opposite shoulder. She has a concerned look on her face as unease crawls up on her, as memories of a past battle runs through her mind.

They travel for a couple of hours before they near their destination.

"What the heck," Zora utters, seeing a few hundred spectral wolfs heading into the village from the north.

"Aaah! Leave me alone!" a lady falls back as the beast lunges for her.

Asta jumps down and takes out his Dweller sword and cuts down the spectral beast before it gets its teeth into the lady.

"Thank you, sir," the lady says. "Right, just go with the other villagers. The Magic Knights are here now," he loudly states and looks around. He sees a ton of the wolves walking into the village. "Damn, there are a lot of them," Zora says and lands next to Asta and Millie jumps down from his shoulder as he lunges ahead into the wolf pack 'yeah but it is fine. We can take them,'' Asta extends his slayer sword with anti-magic and cuts down ten at a time.

Millie gets into her human form and starts to take a few of them out as well.

"Woah, get back!" she hears a man yell, and she looks behind her and sees where the villagers are gathering near a community building. And a man is fending the wolves away while villagers are getting inside for shelter.

A wolf lunges from the side and smacks into the shield that Millie puts up around the man. "Woah, thanks, miss," he says and looks at her. "please make sure that the villagers are safe, sir," Millie replies. "Right," the man utters and heads inside with the last fleeing family.

"There are so many wolves around. What do I do? Should I use my Crystal Heart on the house?" she wonders, reaching for her bell. "Heck yeah! I will slash every last one of you!" Asta yells, and her eyes dart between him and the house.

(maybe that would be too cautious) she thinks to herself and brings out her purple spear instead and goes in and hacks the beasts down too.

Then one of them opens their mouth as a bright orb of light blue mana gathers and ice spikes shoots towards the group.

'woah' Asta blocks and looks at the wolves.

'I didn't know that they could use spells too' Zora exclaims.

'me neither' Asta replies.

'they are learning and adapting? But how?' Millie wonders out loud.

'well it will work out in our favor' Zora chuckles and places a magic circle in front of him as more of them shoots ice towards him and they hit the magic circle, that absorbs the ice spells, it starts to spin and shards of ice hits the wolfs destroying them.

'hehe, well adapting or not, they are still easy to take out'.

'Nice Zora' Asta exclaims and keeps cutting them down.

But more and more shows up. 'Man there is no end to them!' Asta yells and Millie keeps aiding them.

(Millie) a voice goes through her mind (not now Thomsn I got this, I remember your teachings. adapt to whatever is in front of you, control my magic by letting it flow and focus on a moments notice, and keep my battle senses sharp) she replies to the voice in her mind as she summons life shield shards and sends it at a dozen of wolfs. and she gets surrounded by more and she spins slashing them down with her spear and by enveloping the spear with her shield magic she throws it of the spear cutting down more beasts.

('do it Millie'

'Thomsn I am trying' my shielded orb faltered and my magic fell to the floor of the dimly lit cobblestone room.

'Quit trying and just do it, your body needs to learn to handle the new stream of mana'

'Right Master' I kept trying but my magic and body didn't feel right after my appearance changed.

'... you keep failing, bah you will keep practicing this until sunrise, if you can not get the orb through the hoops with out it going crazy or faltering by dawn then your life is forfeit. do you understand'

'yes Master Thomsn'

'good I have no time to waist on a lost cause' he told me and walked out of the room, locking the steel door behind him and the impressive sealing spell illuminated the room for a moment)

Millie slashes them down and It takes them about an hour to clear them out of the village. 'Finally' the guys says panting a little.

They look at the hills surrounding the village, the sound is faint but they hear growling from different directions.

'Man this will be a drag but. We should go through the woods to clear more of them out just to be sure that they are gone' Zora tells him.

'right good thinking' Asta says and they look around them. 'Uh, um, Should we split up to cover more ground?'

'maybe, they are easy to take down' Zora replies. 'right' Asta says and they all go their separate ways.

(this uneasy feeling...) Millie ponders looking at the sky.

Asta walks through the woods and he sees some of the wolves and he runs slashing them up.

'something is up' Liebe utters.

'huh what makes you say that?'

'well it is almost like they are retreating for some reason'

'Hmmm, now that you mention it. You are right. Why is that?'

he stops and looks at the blue skies between the leafs that flows in the wind while holding on to their designated branches, the air is kindly brushing through Astas hair, as the skies melts into a light pink and orange as evening comes to greet the kingdom.

He blinks and a black shadow flies over the forest. 'what the? Did you see that?' he asks. 'I did' Liebe replies.

then some distance away:

BANG!

Millie braces and looks at the tree behind her as after she has just dodged the blast, and she sees, it is now charcoal and some left over slime melts away the grass beneath. 'This magic is' she utters.

'My, you actually dodged that. It appears you have gotten a little bit stronger since the last time, little Mill,' a mocking female voice say and Millie looks up where a devil with a slim body, black wings, and a linear face with slime-like patterns on each cheek smiles, while flying just above the treeline.

'Your appearance has changed quite a bit, but I never forget your soul or that face,' she says. Her eyes are blood red, and her horns are like a gazelle, with the left one slightly cut down.

Her white hair flows to her shoulders, bouncing at the front, and reaching the middle of her back at the back. She has a crimson scale-like corset hugging her huge bust, which is about to burst. Her body is otherwise coated in black, and her long tail has red scales running along the sides. and she has red lines on her hands that goes to her crimson scale like claws.

'What is wrong? Not going to even say hello? And we had such a nice time the last time we met.' the devil mocks with her voice laced with a mix of pleasure and amusement.

('Right, a good time... She killed Casimir,') Millie she goes into her true form, with her wings, horn, two tails, and ears showing.

'My, my. Looking at that horn, it appears Casimir has left quite a mark on you,' she giggles.

'You are right, he has left a big mark on me,' Millie utters while Devea looks Millie over.

'Hmm, aside from your eyes, you look a lot like a devil,' Devea smiles. ('I get a feeling that this girl is hiding something, just me trying to get a good read on her soul and mana; it feels compacted or suppressed somehow,') Devea thinks to herself, watching Millie take out her purple spear and changes to her tank top and skirt.

'How about we cut the chit-chat?'

'Pah-hahahahaha, look at you being demanding. I must say, it doesn't suit you. Hahaha, not gonna cower in fear this time?... Fine, I can toy with you for a while. Explosive slime magic,' she utters, putting her hand over her full lips and blowing a kiss, and upon exhaling she sends slime, Millie's, way. Millie jumps away, and the blast hits the trees behind her as she takes to the sky now flying thorough the air above the trees avoiding Devea's slime.

She looks to the side and puts up her spear, blocking Devea's claws. 'Your reflexes are faster too,' she says, and Millie pushes back and slices! She misses Devea, who flies high, and Millie goes in pursuit.

She gains on Devea. 'Life shield magic shielded shards!' she yells and shoots at Devea, who evades and throws the slime at the shards, blasting them to bits.

Devea makes a loop and flies towards Millie, who braces herself as Devea raises her hand. 'Explosive slime magic,' she giggles and blows a kiss. Millie flies away, and the slime explodes, knocking Millie back from the impact. She rights her self and flies as more slime pursues her.

('She is tricky. If I do evade the slime, the impact of the blasts is great enough to reach me regardless,') she does her best to fly steadily in the ever-shifting winds from the blasts coming her way.

'Here you go!' Devea shouts, and a huge blob of slime covers the sky above Millie as it lights up. 'No!'.

Meanwhile, 'Huh,' Zora utters and looks off into the distance. ('This is bad,') he thinks to himself and flies over to Asta.

'Hey shorty!'

'What is it?' Asta asks.

'I sense a huge amount of negative mana coming from that direction, and it almost feels like it belongs to a...'

'Wait, Millie is over there,' Asta says, bringing out his grimoire and heads out.

'Hey, wait!' Zora says, but Asta is already on his way. 'Idiot!' he yells and heads after Asta.

A huge explosion ensues, and the air is forced away from the blast. 'Woah!' Asta yells, almost getting knocked off by the force. 'Damn it, she better be okay,' he utters, and Liebe glances at him as he continues onward.

''Huh, my, you must be affected more than I thought if your magic had any effect of defending against that,'' Devea says, seeing the trees that have been blown into sawdust all on the ground beneath them.

She looks at Millie as she flies in circles around Devea. 'Oh, do not worry. I can do way more than that with what I was given,' Millie says, looking at her left hand, which is almost finished writing a circle with her mana.

She heads above Devea and dives for the devil, swinging the spear. 'Please, were you even aiming for me?' Devea mocks.
'Not really,' Millie whispers, as she heads straight down, and just as her hand touches the ground, her magic circle activates. ('Oh no, Asta is too close. He will end up inside,') she thinks to herself as the ring expands to a 2-mile diameter.

Zora looks down, seeing the circle move past them. ('That circle is huge and requires a lot of power.')

'Life shield magic paired with mana method technique becomes life shield magic-shielded-battleground,' she utters and looks up at the devil, who looks around herself as they are now in cased in a giant shield which makes it look like they are inside a big snow-globe without the snow.

'My, what a neat trick. Planning to keep me in here until the very end, huh? Well, that is fine by me since I aim to kill you regardless. Now, explosive slime magic, a thousand mini-blasts!' she yells, and Millie flies away as the slime pursues her.

'Damn it, I can't do much with this on my tail,' she quickens her flight and barrels ahead.

'Life shield magic shielded shards,' she utters and shoots behind her, and the blasts propel Millie forward as she goes for Devea.

'Ha! Your attempts are meaningless,' she muses and brings forth a huge clump of slime. Millie puts up a shield in front of her just as the slime glows.
'Woah!' The blast forces them both back, and they collect themselves.

'Your shield is sturdier than I thought,' Devea heads for Millie, whose eyes widen, and she goes to defend against Devea's claws with the spear. 'My, you are stronger since last time, and you are reinforcing your hands with your shield magic despite wearing gloves. What is wrong? Scared of getting your hands DIRTY?' she yells, swiping at Millie, who dodges back and falls. A light forms between them, and Millie is blasted to the ground.

'AAAAAARGH!' The devil dodges a black blade, as Asta swings the sword in his dark form. The devil flies to get some distance to figure out her new opponent. 'My, a devil possessed, huh?' she utters, intrigued. ('If this is the guy who defeated Lucifero, I might be in trouble, ... Huh, wait, he has zero magic. He can't possibly be a threat,') she thinks to herself.

'Your fight is now with me,' Asta says as his eyes flick to the side, seeing Millie fly into him. 'Millie, what are you?' he asks, as she brings him to the ground. Zora lands and stands next to them. 'Master, Forgive my selfishness. However, this battle is mine, remember? We made a promise,' Millie asks him.

"Wait, you aren't actually planning to?" Asta asks.
"I am, Master Asta,"
"Wait, so this is Devea?"
"Correct, sir," she says and looks at the devil flying in the sky.

"You can't possibly be thinking of taking her on by yourself?" he asks.
"I am,"

"My, I didn't realize you became stupid since the last time we saw each other, but here we are," the devil mocks.

(What is going on here? The magic she put into her spells to even stand a chance of defending against my blasts must have emptied out her mana reserves, and yet it is like her mana hasn't changed at all.) Devea thinks to herself Remembering Casimir's right arm that was filled with tiny red marks and symbols.

She looks at the crowd. "My, it is a rather unique assembly of oddballs that you are hanging around. And here I thought someone like you hanging out with someone like Casimir was bad enough, but—"
"Still your Tongue. You have no right to speak his name after what you did," Millie demands.
"Aw, honey, just because you didn't have fun that night doesn't mean that I didn't. Aaaw, and the setting was so sweet too."

Millie's mind goes to that night and the kiss on her forehead and what they were about to do, and her cheeks grows slightly pink.

"My, I was right. You two were about to," she giggles ''But it doesn't matter right? as I am certain you have done it with someone else later'' she giggles slightly and looks at Millie who slightly blushes...

"Wait, your face," ..."Don't tell me that you still haven't done it?" she asks, and Millie's face turns redder. "Pahahahahaha! That is too pathetic. to be over 200 years old and still be a virgin. What have you been doing all this time? Or maybe the question should be, if no one in this world wants you? Or does this world not have a big enough dick for you?" she mocks, still laughing.

"That is never the issue; it just hasn't been a priority," Millie pushes back, and Devea looks her over. "That is a lame excuse. Just say that you are unwanted. Pahahahaha, you sure are a pathetic little shit faced twat!"

"Yeah, well, you are still a dumb dummy, you meanie!" Millie stutter, and Devea raises a brow. "You can do better than that, honey."

"I agree. Is 'dumb dummy' and 'meanie' really the best you've got?" Zora asks as he, Asta, and Liebe share the same comedic expression on their faces.

"I panicked, sirs," she replies, looking their way, and Devea narrows her eyes, watching the crowd and whispers under her breath activating her magic.

Millie puts up a shield around the guys, and BANG!
It comes from behind the guys, and the force of the blast knocks over a few trees. Millie turns and locks eyes with Devea. "Rude!".
Devea smiles, and Asta takes a step, and Millie turns to him.

"Master Asta, please. This battle is mine," Millie pushes and locks eyes with him, and he sees the certainty and determination in Millie's being, and he grits his teeth for a moment. "Fine, but if things go sideways, I will be stepping in, got that?" he tells her.
"Got it, Master, and thank you," she softly replies and turns back to the devil.

She touches her bell, and the spear goes inside, and the moon-blade comes out. Just as she grabs it, Asta's eyes widen for a second (as soon as she touched that blade, her ki went up a whole lot).

Millie takes to her wings, aiming for Devea, who lets Millie get close and blows a kiss sending more slime. Millie is knocked away by the explosion.

She gathers and shoots off towards Devea, who smiles. Millie casts an eye behind her. "Shoot," she utters and brings out a shield, blocking the blast from behind, and continues ahead.

She brings out shielded orbs and shards, which she hurls towards Devea, who blasts them away. And the battle between shield and slime continues.

"Something is weird," Zora says. "Huh, what is it?" Asta asks as he and Zora look at the two clashing in the sky. "Millie doesn't seem to have a lot of magic, and yet she has just used strong spells and she's still shooting off spells with a real significant amount of mana behind them."

"Right, and so?" Asta says.
"Idiot. He is saying if Millie really had the same amount of mana as an average human, then she should have been empty many rounds ago," Liebe explains.
"What? Seriously?" Asta asks.
"Yes, and from what I am sensing, not a drop of her mana seems to be dwindling," Zora says.
"You are right. That is weird," Asta utters, looking at the two.

then a slime heads their way, and Asta braces to cut it with his blade but stops as the shields around them start to shine brighter in its white tinted glow. Millie sends another shield in front of them to cut the damage in half by the time it hits the shields around them.

"Huh, we are fine," Asta says as Millie flies in front of them. "My, you sure are quick," Devea utters, and Millie looks at the sky as it is starting to darken a little.
She looks at her moon blade. "(Come on, Moon.)"

"Man, you are way awesome!" Asta exclaims, but Millie is too focused on the battle to really catch it as more slime gets hurled her way and she puts up a shield to defend.

(I cannot do much unless I put these guys in danger, which means I will need to use the crystal heart) she thinks to herself, touching her bell, and out comes a big white crystal heart next to her that shines and sparkles brightly in all colors as it radiates mana.

"Uuuuh, you've got a rare relic, I see. Now what?" she asks, and Millie remains silent, looking at Devea flying in the sky while Millie touches the heart, and it heads straight inside the shield with Asta, Zora, and Liebe, who looks at it.
"What is that?" Asta asks.
"I don't know, but it holds an insane amount of power," Zora utters and shifts his eyes towards Millie, who goes for Devea again.

Devea grits her teeth and gathers a huge clod of slime and sends it straight for Millie, who places a shielded blade around her sword, extending its reach greatly, and goes to slash the gigantic slime ball.

"Pahaha, it is in vain." Devea snaps her fingers, and the blob explodes, blasting Millie to the ground. She sticks the blade into the ground, to break her backwards momentum, while another slime is sent towards the guys. The crystal heart glows brighter, and spins before a beam of pure mana is sent at the slime, making it explode some distance away.

"That is an interesting toy. How did you obtain it?" the devil asks. "That is a long story," Millie replies and takes to her wings, shooting for Devea again.

She shoots, and shoots, and shoots. (Come on, I am not landing a hit on her. Time to change strategy.)

She takes her orbs close as the slime gains on her. She changes direction, and just as they are about to blow, she puts an orb around the slime.

"I don't see the point; they will explode regardless," Devea mocks and looks at the orbs. "Why are they not bursting?"

Millie sends them towards Devea. "Right, what is that supposed to do?" she laughs, and the orb breaks.
The blast hits tenfold at Devea's face as she is hurled back, and another orb hits her spine and releases its powerful blast.

"What just happened?" Asta asks.
"Well, what do you know? The girl can be clever when she wants to be," Zora smiles.
"What do you mean?"
"Containing an explosion does nothing but increase its power. As the energy has no escape, it will keep building up until it breaks free from its containment with way greater force," Zora explains.
"Wow, that is really smart, using her opponent's magic against her."

Devea grits her teeth and unleashes a vast amount of mana. "You little pest, how dare you!" Her voice is cold and menacing. "No one, and I mean no one, harms this beautiful face, including you!" She forms bigger and bigger globes of slime that she hurls at Millie, who dodges to the best of her ability and shoots the slime that is getting too close.

Millie changes direction for a moment and forms a long sharp shield along the blade's edge. She puts great power into it and swings the blade, cutting past three layers of explosive slime. Devea dodges. "Damn it!" she lets out and looks at Millie as they both stop.

"All right, cut the charade. How the hell do you have this much power!? How did that happen? Tell me!" she demands, and Millie looks at the sky as it hasn't turned black yet and she looks at her sword. (The moon isn't up yet.)

She looks over to the group and sees that they have the same question on their faces. "I suppose there is no point in concealing it any longer. After Casimir and I sent you downstairs, and Casimir had his final moments, he cast a spell on me with forbidden magic. I did not know what it did until much later," Millie utters and brings her hand to her belt.

"In fact, the spell he cast nearly killed me, a few times. And if it weren't for some incredibly kind people of Mozo village, I wouldn't be here" (Meir's sister and grandmother in particular). "I owe them my life, and when I came to, it took me forever to get on my feet and to master what I had been given." She spins the cog on the belt, and the gem in the middle turns from crimson to white, and winds blow from her person across the valley. Zora and Devea's eyes widen.

"There is no way," she utters.

"Huh?" "Where did you even find her? The power she is holding is insane and incredibly dense.'' Zora utters in disbelief.
"Wow, that is so cool," Asta exclaims and looks at her.

Her power flows very differently than most other people. With a lot of mana, instead of oppressing or forcing away what surrounds her, it neatly flows up in a neat spiral around her, and the rest floats about like steam from a cup of tea.

(No way. This girl's soul is huge. It should be impossible. A familiar must live for at least a thousand years to get a soul even a quarter of that size.) Devea looks at the white-tinted soul surrounding Millie. Seeing souls is easy for some kinds, but very few humans can sense souls, and even fewer can see them unless they use some kind of item or have their sensitivity greatly enhanced.

(So the souls which that bastard was supposed to collect for me were given to this little feline trash. The last update he gave me was that he had collected about 8,000 souls, and thanks to the master he had, it was a simple task over the years those two were together. But at some point, he stopped reporting back to me. So, I possessed someone of this world to see what was going on, only to find that he was willing to raise his hand against me, of all devils. And all to protect and hold on to this little... Damn it.)

"You are such trash, a parting gift my ass. He probably hoped that you died, and you should have died, you miserable wretch. Casimir was my plaything, you thieving bitch-ass low-born TRASH!"

"If I should have died or not is something that I do not have the answer to. Regardless of that, this time I will cut down more than your horn."

Devea grits her teeth. "You are way too cocky over a tiny fluke that you barely pulled off last time thanks to Casimir's help. Powers or not, I will still wipe the soil with your insides!" With that, she fills the space with slime of all different sizes while releasing a vast amount of mana, which is making the earth crumble and the air sting like needles.

then the Devil creates a wast amount of slime that she has hovering about the battleground.

"Done holding back, I see. Good," Millie replies. "Life Shield Magic Body Shield." A transparent white-tinted armor forms around her, encasing her entire body, including her two tails, ears, wings, and even her horn. Her flowing mana and armor increases her speed.

Millie readies herself as the devil narrows her gaze and extends her hand. With her fingers, she snaps!

And every slime explodes at once. "Woah!" the guys exclaim, as her blast tear into the earth blowing up any remaining trees and rocks and dirt is flung everywhere.

'Woah!' the guys let out as a wave of earth flings at them but is never touched by anything outside the shield. They look up to see the battlefield is filled with smoke.

"Damn that pest, why doesn't she die already?" Devea says and ducks away from a shielded shard swiping past her. "My, your mana senses are great if you can detect me in all this smoke." She laughs, but Millie remains silent.

(It isn't just her mana I am sensing. Her entire being is filled with so much malice and blood-lust it is hard not to feel her.) She thinks to herself, shooting from random angles as she moves at great speeds.

"This is getting annoying." Devea lets out a whole lot of mana, and the smoke is pushed off.

then a voice goes through Millie's mind, ("Millie, when we first encountered each other, you shared the events that transpired and expressed remorse for not possessing enough strength to safeguard your friend. However, I proposed to mentor you, bolstering your abilities, and in exchange, I requested your commitment to serve as my loyal ally, accomplishing the missions I assign. Rest assured, once our training is complete—whether it encompasses physical prowess, spiritual battle, or magical aptitude—there shall be no adversary you cannot triumph over.") the smoke clears and Millie and Devea lock eyes as they both flap their wings in the sky.

'There you are. Are you done hiding now?' she giggles and sends more slime, and Millie smiles. 'Preparations are complete,' she utters and dodges the slime, heading straight for Devea. 'My, you are ballsy taking me head-on,' she says, readying her claws and swipes.
Millie rolls and touches Devea's gut. 'Life shield magic paired with mana method mana restriction!' she yells, and a transparent belt forms around Devea, filling up with magic letters. Millie jumps out of the way.

'You think restricting my magic is going to save you? This will only slow me down for a moment!' Devea yells.
Millie lands in front of the shield, keeping the guys safe. 'A moment is all I need. Now, mana zone pure life shield magic with mana method a thousand mana beams!' she says as her mana fills the battleground. Devea's eyes widen as she is within a big orb with circular plates, all over the walls with mana letters running alongside its edges, lighting up and firing off pure concentrated mana.

'GAAAAAAAH!' Her scream is deafening, followed by silence as smoke fills the air. 'Did she do it?' Zora asks.

'Ha. Pahahahahaha! You think this neat trick is all it will take!'

'No way, she is tough. Damn it, I want in,' Asta grits through his teeth and stops as Millie looks back at him. 'I got this,' she says with her calmest and softest voice.

'Hahahaha, right,' Devea says, and they all look up at her, covered in holes.
She pulls out something purple. 'What is that, and why is it pulsing?' Asta asks, and Devea smiles.
'It is a devil's heart,' Liebe tells him.
'What, seriously? what will that do?'

Millie narrows her eyes and looks down at her moon blade again. (Not yet) She looks up at Devea as a disgusting sound of her sharp teeth piercing into the heart's flesh. She scarfs it down, with green and purple liquid running down from her mouth as she swallows the last piece. She dries her face off with her arm and smiles as her red eyes glow.

'Man, her power just shot up,' Zora utters.
'What, seriously!' Asta exclaims and looks at Millie, who is staying completely calm, watching Devea carefully as her body regenerates quickly.

'To think that I would have to use this against you. You sure have come a long way from the scared-y-cat I met all those years ago, but now your time is up,' she smiles as more slime is produced with greater speed and is shot towards Millie, who is evading them at the increased speeds and she sends even stronger shards at the slime.

''woah, this battle is so'' Asta is in awe, looking at the battle as blasts and shields goes against each other everywhere.
'This battle just went from crazy to insane,' Zora utters, and Asta nods as more ground and rocks flings about.

The battle drags on, and the moon starts to climb in the distance. Millie dodges a blast and is sent into the next one. She defends herself, flies up, and looks at her blade.

'Finally, the new moon is up,' she whispers and shoots off shielded bullets at the devil. One lands a hit, but a slime comes too close, blasting Millie to the ground.

(If I didn't keep my armor on, that blast would have ended me. Oh no!) she jumps away and puts up a shield around herself.

'Playing defense now! Cute, but it won't save you, Pahahahahaha,' the devil muses in delight.

'Casimir, I will avenge your death,' Millie whispers, placing the sword on her arm and piercing her skin. She rubs the blade across the wound, leaving a trail of her blood along its side. The silver-colored blade with the blue letters turns dark and the letters turning red as well as the grips details.

'Moon blade, blood moon,' Millie says as her eyes turn red, and the blade's powers increase greatly as a needle jabbs from the handle into her hand. 'Enjoy your laughter while it lasts because I promise you the next strike I make will be your undoing!'

'Big words,' Devea mocks, and Millie flies away from the slime as it gives chase. Devea tracks her opponent. 'My, you really do look like a devil now,' she says, seeing Millie's blood-red eyes as she dodges the blasts. But Millie hears her loud and clear.

'Just give me a moment, and I will show you what more Casimir left me!' 'Oooh, intriguing. Let me see, because it won't matter!' Devea laughs and watches Millie, who whispers something in a foreign language. Devea blinks.

'What? Where did you go!' she yells, looking all around her. 'Where is she, where?'

'What just happened? Do you sense her with your ki?'
'No, I don't. It is like she is no longer here at all,' Asta replies as they all look around to try and find her.

'Playing hide and seek again? Well, fine. I will blast this place to bits!' she yells, creating slime everywhere and explosions fill up the area again, but Millie doesn't show herself. and Asta, Liebe and Zora is kept safe inside the shield.

Using Mana, Devea pushes the smoke away, getting uneasy. 'Don't tell me that she ran away?' she asks, looking around and behind her. 'UGH!' She looks ahead of her, seeing the blade piercing her chest 'gahck' she coughs blood.

'I can regenerate this, no problem,' she states with a weakened voice and grabs the blade to pull it out. 'Oh no, you do not!. This is your undoing!' Millie yells, and white flames run alongside Millie's shield protected hand and travel to the blade and start to burn Devea, who begins to push the blade further out. 'You pest, these flames,' she utters.

'That is right, call it payback from Casimir, who left his flames with me!' Millie tells her.

'Fuck You!' Devea, forces the blade out. 'No, you do not!' Millie pushes the blade further in. 'Damn you, little twat!' she yells, producing slime, but they do little against Millie's current shield, mixed with the sword's powers that she draws on.

'Now, burn away, with flames from literal Hell' Millie tells Devea as she screams while her body and heart burn along with her mana. 'These flames that Casimir left me can burn anything effortlessly,' she tells the devil as Devea screams while her last bit of self is burned away. Millie burns away the last mana from the devil that hangs around and she undoes the shielded-battleground spell.

With heavy breaths, she glides down to the soil beneath. The world around her seems fuzzy, and she places the sword into the ground in front of her. She tries to look around, but her feet give way under her, and she kneels to the ground, keeping her hands on the handle. She utters a few words in a different language and looks at her reflection in the blade as it turns back to its silver color and blue writing. She sees her beast-like features, her horn, and her red eyes.

(You really do look like a devil) Devea's words ring through her mind before her usual silver eyes come back. Her eyes falter. (I have heard those words before) she thinks to herself and her bell glows and her clothes changes back to her usual tights and sweater and she transforms into her human form.

She hears running footsteps and looks to the side. 'Man, you are way awesome,' Asta tells her.
'Uh thank you sir' she utter and spins the cog on her belt back to the way it was and pushes in the gem and it turns crimson. 'One should probably look to make sure that no debris got into the village or hurt anyone,' Millie offers. 'Right, good idea,' Asta utters and turns to Zora.

'My, this is turning into a drag, but fine. I will take the south side,' he says and gets on his broom. Asta stops and looks at Millie, who looks into her hand and the small tear in the glove as it draws on her mana and repairs it self. (I really overdid it with the blade's powers. I gave it too much blood) she wonders and touches her bell. The blade goes inside, as well as the crystal heart.

'Millie, are you?' she looks up and turns to Asta, and the world around her fades, as she falls over. 'Oh no, what happened, Millie!' he exclaims and kneels down beside her 'Millie!'.


Note: now that was Millies battle with Devea and I will be thrilled to read any opinions or feedback.

I am trying to show Millies past bit by bit, to explain why she is the way that she is and as you can probably tell there is a lot more to her and much more to reveal bit by bit.

Her flash backs to her story-line will jump a little back and forth but I will do my best to make what happens when clear.