They arrive at the burning village with shock and fear in their eyes, they don't know what happened but they feel like the answer will reveal itself as they frantically search for any survivors in the village but are ultimately met with mountains of corpses all around them.

They run throughout the village and see more fire and smoke, with sounds of footsteps and clothes fluttering in the wind, the group stops to see a girl dressed in leather armor with some blue clothing on it.

The girl apears to be fighting a person in golden-black clothing, she is also swinging a sword made of water as well.

She suddenly jumps back to evade an attack from the man wearing gold, stepping right beside the group of adventurers.

"Annoying fool... Why are you the only one that refuses to die...? You're boring me to death..." The man in Gold says.

He notices the other people standing next to her, "you've got to be kidding me... There is more of you?! When will this cease?! Ugh... Fine, i might as well introduce myself..." Before he can introduce himself, the girl attacks and gets flung into a burning house by some force.

"Let me finish, stupid harlot! Anyway, my name is Mammon, the Principle of wealth and Principle rank seven." He says, still keeping a very bored expression on his face.

"D- did Lucifer send you...?" Johan stutters.

"Lucifer? Nah, he is busy... With other things... Anyway, i came here on my own volition, somebody is paying me great money for this and i simply cannot refuse." He says, still having a bored expression that quickly changes into that of slight excitement.

"Are you Johan? Ezra's accomplice? Well, this will get very interesting... And that man with you is blind i presume?" He says with a slight smile.

"Yeah? What of it?!" Qiang replies angerly while unsheathing his sword.

"Fool, that doesn't work on me." Mammon moves his hand and the sword's blade breaks in two.

Johan quickly summons his weapons with a single movement, And Qiang, not knowing what to do, throws the broken part of the blade at Mammon but it stops centimeters away from his face.

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"Useless." The blade floats in mid-air and turns, flying back at Qiang.

Qiang dodges barely and looks back at Mammon with a nervous expression on his face.

"Ferrokinesis: Golden shower." Mammon takes ten gold coins out of the pocket of his golden-black suit and throws them into the air, they stop and begin spinning many times over.

The group gets ready and the coins fly at them, most of them dodge but the coins follow them with greater momentum each time they miss, almost like they have a mind of their own.

Water stops and destroys the coins before they reach anybody in the group as well as Johan and Qiang

"Its impossible to dodge the coins, you will have to destroy them." Says the girl dressed in blue and black leather walking up to the rest of the group from the house she was thrown into.

"Who are you, girl?" Says Johan while standing beside her.

"I'll tell you to after the fight, right now, we have to protect these men behind us!" She says while pointing the tip of the sword at Mammon.

"What?"

"Don't you get it? The men behind us are fodder," she points to Qiang, "and that man is a blind swordsman without a sword."

'This couldn't get worse, the girl is quite problematic and that kid, from what i've heard, is very fiesty... I'll have to be careful.' Mammon scoffs with a less bored expression.

Johan looks at the girl and nods, they run in two different directions to try and get close to Mammon.

Johan runs through destroyed buildings in an attempt to dodge the coins which are being thrown randomly.

He finds a small stone wall of a destroyed building to hide behind, he throws a smaller slash of manna through the air as a warning but it cuts off Mammon's arm, leaving him open for the girl to cut his shoulder.

"Dammnit!" He yells out, after some time his arm regenerates but the wound on his shoulder stays the same as if his regeneration had been stopped.

"Ferrokinesis: Molten Geyser!" He flings coins at both of them and they explode in a geyser-like pattern.

'Killing the group of those idiots is sure to destroy their morale!' He flings more coins, this time targeting the adventure group, killing everybody in the group with Qiang escaping, his right arm badly burned.

Johan and the girl both look in shock as they witness the horrible sight of body parts flying off in the explosion.

The girl looks back at Mammon with uncontrolable rage in her eyes.

"No, please! Don't rush the attack!" Johan screams but the voice isn't getting to her, before she could bring the sword down to strike, Mammon shoots a coin straight through her chest and she flies back into the rubble.

"Shit!" Johan exclaims as he hides his body behind the small stone wall, 'is this how it ends? I can't defeat a Principle by myself... Maybe i should use the realm...' He thinks to himself and peaks on from the other side of the wall.

"will of iron, paper of a thousand words, un-slumbering nights resting on the clouds, endless ink to rewrite fate..." Upon hearing the words, a deep shiver runs through Johan's spine.

"Realm: divine scholar."

TO BE CONTINUED