It has been a few hours since Noah and Saturn left the bar. They've spent a lot of time talking about various matters, with Noah constantly asking questions after questions to the Association officers in which she answered without giving a second thought. But matters regarding The Association classified information are kept hidden from the man.

The two pair seem to get along just well. During their time walking towards their destination, Noah learnt a lot about the girl's background. From what she had told, Saturn was born without parents. One of the Association member found her abandoned in a ruined cities, during investigation missions, which she later was taken and raised within The Association.

Noah also found out Saturn wasn't her real name. She explained that Cerberus officers, are given a code name which follows the name of a planets. Hearing the word 'planet' is something that Noah or anybody he knows, never heard of. It was a bit confusing for someone uneducated as him, which she later told that the planet they live in are called Earth.

The explanation took a lot of their time, which each one gave him a lot of surprises. He learnt a lot of things such as the galaxy, the sun and moon which he saw everyday, the planets within the solar system and the outer space. He learned matters that are hard to acquire in this period of time, ordinary mercenaries most don't have a chance of gaining knowledge of the world unless they work for The Association or by pure luck.

"How did people weren't given access to this information? And does everyone in the Association knows?" Noah asked curiously.

"Not everyone knows to be precise, most people that knows are from the Augustus's Lab. They're a freak one regarding knowledge of the world aside from Primordial studies."

She walks in front of him, taking a very careful steps of avoiding tree branches. She tried to make as little sound as possible, which were turn useless since Noah just walk without a single care. The sound of tree branches break apart and leaves echoes in the woods. They've already walked for a few hundreds of kilometers, far from the town borders. But it seems their destination is still far from their location.

"If so, then where did you learnt about this? Reading from a documents or something?"

"Of course not, who in their right mind willing to read thousands letter of words?" She turned her body facing to him, giving a shrug.

"I've learnt this from my devil's contract through Demiurge's Pact."

The Demiurge's Pact, which are common knowledge in human civilization today. According to history, after the heavens left humanities to their destruction. Their sworn enemies- The Devils which were chained in the pits of hell started reaching out to humans. The reason behind is, the devils were also being annihilated by Primordial Beings. Thriving to also survive their destruction, they seek ways to humans civilization- breaking free from the tortures of hell. The first devil to do so are known as Demiurge, the Devil of Contracts. Demiurge sought out the king of Camelot, which the devil later offered a contract- promising him great power to resist the terrors of Primordial.

The king later, used the devil's power to defended his kingdom and emerged victories although suffering great losses. Since then, humans started to received formidable powers from the devils through a pact known as The Demiurge's Pact. The contract, which deemed devils are free to lent their powers in return for their tiny bit of freedoms while the humans later are able to gain various power and abilities but also had to pay great sacrifices. Before magic were discovered, humans rely on the devils to survived and fight a one-sided war with the Primordials.

"I see, that make sense. But what kind of devil is that?" Noah rub his chin, as if thinking hard to remember any details of the devils he knows of.

"I don't know the exact name or what they're called, but people in Augustus's Lab refers to them as the Night Devil."

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"They?"

"Yeah, apparently it's three devils combined. They shared their power together; the cosmos, dream and soul to make a formidable one. Weird right, I can't imagine devils having the same interaction as us humans. Maybe they have siblings relationship."

Saturn chuckles, amused by her own words. They are currently walking near a lake, climbing up to the cliff. The scenery are quite beautiful at the lake, with stars reflected by the waters and the sound of waterfall sound pleasant to the ears while the air smelled pristine. If not for the mission, she would've like to jump in the lakes and taking time enjoying herself.

"They're one of the trickiest devils to deal with, forming a contract with them and mastering their abilities is almost impossible. Most who tried, lose their sanity and lives while the rest are considered lucky."

Saturn took a turn to the left, avoiding a huge chunk of stone blocking the way. She then climb her way up through a couple of bushes growing out from a fallen tree. She supports herself with Noah's help, afraid of stepping wrongly. She then pulled Noah up, exerting every bit of her strength. Heavy... she almost lose her footing.

When Noah finally climbed up, she sat on the ground. Taking her breath, feeling a little tired after walking for a long time. A hand, handing a bottle of water shows in her sight. She received it, open the bottle's cap and chunk a mouthful of water in. They took turn, satisfying their thirsty mouth and catching a breath. After a while, Saturn got up on her feet and proceeds walking. Noah's a little bit of reluctant, hoping for more time to break but still he followed her close behind.

"Back to the topic, as I said earlier. Only a few manages to succeed, and I'm one of them I guess. That's how I got promoted to Cerberus, but as far as I know, one of the Saints manages to fully control the devil's power and the result? It's so much more powerful and destructive, no wonder they're the leaders of the Association."

The Saints, founder of The Association is considered as the strongest humans in the world. Originally consist of nine people with formidable powers, they has a huge influence and power in human civilization. Leading human organizations in surviving the apocalypse, while also suppressing the devil's influence and fully utilizing their powers without dealing with huge prices. They're the hope of people.

Throughout the thousand of years in war with Primordials, human witnesses the very great battle of survival led by the Saints. Such events were recorded by The Association, which later were made known throughout the world. The most famous one and considered as the peak of human's prowess acknowledge by many, The Reclaim of Athens.

The events which gave a spark of hope and caused an uproar within the people, led by a powerful Saints of the time, reclaiming the city of Athens from the hands of Primordials. It has burn the people's heart, determined than ever from what seem like a hopeless battle of survival throughout centuries has been changed completely. It was later known as the Age of Saints.

"Who cares really. Can't you just tell me where we headed to exactly?"

Annoyed by Saturn's praise of the Saints, Noah stop walking. His tone, seem angry at the thought that they've been walking for a very long time but without knowing where they headed to. He look at the girl in front of him which also stopped walking and are currently facing him.

Saturn only gave him a smile as a reply, then she turned her head to the edge of the cliff and points her finger.

"There, Once we reached the edge, you'll see."

She then continued walking without waiting for Noah's reply. Noah only manages to let out a long sigh and mess with his hair, frustrated. He then continue to follow her without muttering a word anymore. Saturn also did the same, they both didn't speak and just continue to walk towards the edges of the cliff.

What has been a really long hour of walking, they both finally arrived. The stars look magnificent in the sky, Noah almost praised the sights he sees not until what shows below horrifies him. Uncountable numbers of Dentist, as if there's thousand of hordes of them. Pale-white creatures which look like a mantis seems to be walking in circles, thousands of them. What's in the middle of the circle is not something he wishes to see even in his dream.

The thousand horde of Dentist seem to be circling around a huge round white object- what seem to be like an egg. What's more horrifying is that, hundreds of Dentist seem to be produced out of the white object- like a queen ant producing out larva. The Dentist which came out later also follows the others, forming in line and started to walk in circles, surrounding the egg.

Noah look horrified, If this many Dentist were to attack, the town will be annihilated in seconds. Stream of sweats start to trickling down on his face. He look at Saturn, the girl were silent and her face look cold. Noah wishes to speak but his mouth were shut tightly, he couldn't find what words to utter. While he was still horrified, the girl beside him speak a words.

"The Sixth."