Great blue forest. There is a reason why this large forest located on the border between the Ervania Kingdom and the Republic of Gharan has that name. And one of the biggest reasons is because all the trees, leaves, and all the plants that live in the forest are all blue for some reason.
Therefore, this forest has also become one of the most beautiful forests in this world. However, it was just in its outward appearance.
Although the Great Blue Forest has extraordinary natural beauty like a mystical forest that often appears in fairy tales. This forest is also a perfect habitat for monsters because of the dense magic energy that exists in the entire forest.
The monsters that have lived long enough in this forest will mostly begin to evolve into mutants that have beyond reason where just one of them is enough to destroy a small town.
Moreover, it has also become common knowledge that the Great blue forest is included as one of the 3 birthplaces of the 'Behemoth'. In other words, this forest can also be said to be hell itself behind its beauty.
However, on the other hand, maybe that's why a place like the Great Blue Forest which is known for its dangers is actually a perfect hiding place for demons who are not afraid of monsters. They can keep an eye on human movements where humans would not be able to reach.
Almost all demons have dark magic since they were born. So they got one of the high-level dark magic called Wild comuflage which can make them merge with nature and will reduce the chances that they will be attacked by monsters by 79,10699% as long as they don't attack first.
And, Lalaine came to one of the hiding places of the demons - or rather the Necromancers, in that forest.
"... I have something I need to report to Gafuel." Appearing out of nowhere before the Necromancers who were standing guard at the time using her teleportation magic, Lalaine said it with a cold expression that was completely different from her usual self.
"A-ah, A-as your wish...!" The two Necromancers immediately ran into their small fortress to summon anyone named Gafuel.
Lalaine is indeed just one of thousands of human slaves captured by the Demon King to spy for him. However, on the other hand, she was also someone who possessed strength that at least surpassed any Necromancer in existence.
So, even though their status should be above Lalaine's, they would never dare to do anything stupid to her. At least, not directly.
Before long, two figures came out of the fortress along with the sound of their footsteps.
"Ah! It turned out to be true, isn't this really a little Lalaine right there~?"
"-?!" Lalaine's eyes widened immediately when she heard that voice. It wasn't from Gafuel, the Necromancer she wanted to meet. Rather, it came from a blond boy with two horns on his head.
"What a coincidence, right? We can meet in this kind of place~" This boy who always had a disdainful smile on his face, he was not an ordinary random boy and certainly not a boy lost in this forest.
That blond boy is... The biggest reason why Lalaine should be a spy for Demons like now.
"LYCROS!!" Lalaine's killing intent instantly instantly filled the air around the place.
"Uwah, scary~ scary~ don't put on a face like that... We are... Colleague, isn't it~?" Although he said that, the boy's face was still full of smiles that looked down on Lalaine's figure very much.
"BASTARD!!!" At that very moment, Lalaine's figure disappeared from where she stood.
The sound of a sound explosion filled the air, making a puff of dust that made the Neromancers in that place lose their ability to see for a moment.
"-?!"
When those Necromancers were finally able to look back, they were shocked by what they saw.
Lalaine's figure was suddenly in front of the Lycros before they knew it, with her legs that are now right in front of Lycros' neck.
From where they stood, even the Necromancers could realize how terrifying the power contained within Lalaine's kick was.
"Kuh!"
"Ha ha ha... Bwahahahahahah!!! What's wrong, Lalaine?! Don't you want to kill me?!"
They knew that even Lycros, who was laughing at Lalaine, wouldn't be able to survive if Lalaine didn't stop her leg before touching his neck.
However, they also knew that Lalaine would not dare to do such a thing. After all, if she did, at that very moment she would lose her life because of the slave seal that was on her.
"..." Biting the bottom of her own lip to suppress her anger, Lalaine began to lower her legs slowly.
"A-are you okay Mr. Lycros?!" Finally regaining consciousness, Gafuel, who could only stare blankly at Lycros and Lalaine, began to run back to Lycros' side and stood in front of Lycros as if to protect him from Lalaine.
"You bitch! Even though you're just a slave of the Demon king, how dare you intend to harm Lord Lycros who is a 4th general of the demon king's army?!"
"..." Lalaine did not answer to the words of the skull man who dressed like a witch. Lalaine just stared at the two of them coldly while thinking that for the time being she should calm down.
That's right, with the plan Arisa has prepared... Fu fu fu~ I can even get this Brat killed without having to dirty my hands!!
She began to imagine all kinds of horrific scenarios inside her head when a faint smile began to grow again on her face.
"That's right. Here is a report about the heroes and human forces of Ervania Kingdom that I have successfully investigated for the time being." Impatient to make everyone who was there erased from the face of this world, Lalaine immediately took out a scroll and threw it at Gafuel before disappearing using her teleportation magic.
"A-ah, w-wait!! you bitch!" While he painstakingly attempts to catch the scroll thrown by Lalaine, Gafuel shouts to make Lalaine stop.
"That bitch... She planned something." On the other hand, Lycros notices that there is something strange about Lalaine's behavior.
Although his body still looked very young, Lycros was someone who had lived over 300 years as a high-level Demon. He is also the reason why Lalaine became a slave – or rather, the main reason why she and her ancestors were able to be caught and eventually become slaves of the Demon King.
Lycros is the one entrusted with managing every human prisoner captured by the demons since his ascension as a general.
In other words, he was the one who arranged whether those prisoners would become the food of magic beasts or the toys of the demons. Because at that time that was the only use of Human that Demons could find.
However, Lycros suddenly realized it was too boring to just eat or play with the humans they caught.
With that, Lycros began experimenting to get several dozen human women to conceive his child. With his stamina as a demon, Lycros was able to get all of those women pregnant in just 1 month with only a few killed in the process.
He feeds every woman who manages to conceive his child. True, he began to treat them like cattle.
As demons, Lycros does not recognize the concept of loving and being loved. He certainly has parents. But he had killed and eaten both of them when he was only 2 years old just because he felt that the meat served on his dinner table was lacking.
Therefore, he also felt nothing at the moment when he saw some of the women he impregnated start tearing their own stomachs with their hands while screaming in pain. He just thinks that they are a failed product, so it's only natural that they can't survive.
Finally, several months passed. Because demon babies grow faster than humans, some babies begin to look like they will be born soon after 5 months.
However, perhaps due to racial differences or for some other reason, babies are born in a very weak state. They have magic power strong enough to be similar to a demon baby for a newborn baby. However, they couldn't withstand such huge magic power with their fragile bodies that seemed to come from human traits.
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Fragile, so fragile that it even looks as if it will disintegrate with just a touch. Because of this, Lycros destroyed it. He crushed it all thinking it was trash he had accidentally made and collected it into a giant ball of meat that he would later feed the women of his cattle.
Experiment after experiment he did. Everything is a reflection of cruelty. Most women who become Lycros cattle would rather commit suicide than have to live life that way.
Until finally, all the female prisoners he had died. However, an unexpected event suddenly happened at that moment. Despite the dead condition of the mother, a baby was successfully born.
It was a different baby from the others. The baby was born with great magic power and a powerful body, like a demon itself but in the appearance of a human.
However, soon Lycros discovered that even that baby would die because her body could not survive longer than 20 years.
Because of this, Lycros also impregnated her when she was 14 years old.
Perhaps because of the frustration he had accumulated due to the various failures he encountered, Lycros continued to molest the girl even after she became pregnant.
Until finally, after several months passed, the girl gave birth to 5 twins before dying because of the severe damage she received to her fetus.
One of the babies was Lalaine. She was like a masterpiece to Lycros. In addition to having magic power that even exceeds him since childhood, Lalaine also has a body structure that is more similar to a demon and has a life length that is estimated to be more than 200 or even 500 years.
Therefore, Lycros decided to train Lalaine. However, apart from Lalaine, her younger siblings are just failed products who will die in 40 years. All of them are female for some unknown reason. So Lycros also decided to continue his experiments until he had even made more than thousands of children who were at least close to Lalaine's abilities.
Day after day, Lalaine can only listen in silence as her siblings are killed or molested by Lycros. Hatred, resentment, anger, despair. All those feelings began to grow in Lalaine's heart.
Yes, all because of Lycros. If only, if only he died... This suffering will be over! Lalaine smiled at her ability to realize that.
Therefore, she destroyed the cell in which she was confined. She started killing, killing, killing, and continued to kill every demon that come to stop her. Nothing can stop her from killing Lycros.
Perhaps because of hearing about it, Lycros himself was came to stop Lalaine along with a muscular man who also seemed to be a general like Lycros.
They both believed that they would be able to stop Lalaine easily at that time when they both surrounded Lalaine. However, they looked down on Lalaine too much just because she was a half-demon.
When the big man who came with the Lycros swung his huge fist wrapped by dense magic power at Lalaine, Lalaine saw through the technique in just a second and was able to recopy the man's technique in her own way.
Before the man's fist could even hit Lalaine, part of the man's body had vanished due to the burst of magic power emanating from Lalaine's punch.
The incident at that time was one of the reasons behind why all other slaves like Lalaine had to be given the slave seal of the Demon King directly. After all, at that time, if the Demon King himself hadn't come and stopped Lalaine, Lycros would have now become a pile of ground beef on Lalaine's fist.
Even today, Lycros can still remember the events of that day clearly. That terror-filled look that wanted nothing but his death... Lycros found it strange that Lalaine would just leave it alone just by threatening him with her kick like before.
Besides, "What did she mean by the smile just now?" Lycros thought that Lalaine of all people would not be able to smile after failing to kill him.
"She must be planning something." Therefore, he immediately snatched the scroll that was in Gafuel's hands and opened it. He immediately widened his eyes when he saw that.
"T-this is...?!"
"Eh? What's wrong, Lord Lycros? Why do you look so shocked just from seeing reports about human armies and Hero?"
"You fool!! Hurry up and contact the Demon King right now!!! That girl...! How dare you... You... Do you intend to challenge the Demon King?!! YOU LITTLE GRASSHOPPER!!!" Lycros suddenly screamed to exhaust all the air he could expel from his lungs. His hands shook with anger and made the scroll become tangled and began to tear in places.
"E-eh? O-oka_"
*SHUUU!!!*
"...?!"
Before Gafuel could even answer Lycros' orders, a giant light leser suddenly appeared and scorched Gafuel so that there was not even dust left from it along with their small hideout half.
"A-ah..."
Lycros know this laser. He had seen it several times in the past. It was one of the worst Behemoth attacks in human and demonic history.
In the last war between humans and demons 500 years ago, that creature suddenly emerged from the bottom of the sea and scorched half of the human and demon armies fighting on the front lines.
It was the kind of Behemoth that even the Demon King couldn't defeat unscathed. Calamity Behemoth number 057: Mistic Phantasm. It is a huge island-shaped monster with tentacles that can float.
"Hahaha... I didn't expect that you have been living in this kind of place all this time after that, huh?"
On that day, the entire demon hideout that was in the Great Blue Forest was destroyed without even leaving a single dust, leaving only a giant crater in the middle of the forest. Of course, none of the survivors on demons' side included the Lycros. They have all been annihilated at the hands of Mistic Phantasm and several other mutant monsters living in the Great Blue Forest.
#POV: Lalaine.
From the outermost point of the Great Blue Forest, I quietly watched as that scene of destruction unfolded right before my eyes.
Everything. Low-level demons, Necromancers, even that little bastard were also wiped out one after another without being able to make any resistance in front of the monsters from the forest.
"But, isn't it a bit overdid... Maybe?"
Even now I still remember everything Arisa told me about this plan.
"In that case, we don't need to fight from the front, right? How... If we just make a monster that fights in place of Mom?"
By the time Arisa told me that, I was completely confused about what she meant by that. I mean, it's about using monsters, you know. According to everything I know, only someone who has studied true dark magic or a demon possessing an extremely rare Job Monster tamer can do such a thing.
"Eh, but Mom doesn't have that kind of ability...?"
When I told her that, Arisa immediately looked at me like someone who had discovered something completely stupid for the first time in her life. Stop! Please don't look at me like that Arisa! I-I'm not stupid, you know... Mom just lacks knowledge. Hn, that's right! Lacks!!
"Sigh~... Geez, can you stop thinking about doing everything by just your own ability? You're only going to make your life harder if you keep living like that."
What does that mean...?
"Em, does that mean we have to ask someone for help or somethin - ?!" Arisa instead started giving me a truly condescending look at that very moment. I mean, I haven't even finished my sentence yet!
I don't want to be stared at like that by my own daughter!!
"Ah, I understand. Mom is idiot, huh." Aaghhhhh!! S-she has even said that with her mouth now!!
"It seems that I really have to explain everything from the beginning, huh."
"S-sorry..."
"Don't apologize. That ignorance is a natural thing. What matters is whether or not you remember what you already know afterwards. I also want you to remember it so that mom won't always be as stupid as it is now."
Arisa suddenly became wise... Eh? Where did Arisa find out about it all? She spoke like someone who had figured out the way life goes.
Hmm... Well, whatever...
"Alright! Mom will try her best to remember it from now on!"
"Well. First of all, Mom is strong, right?"
"Of course! If it is now, I think I can even make that little hero into a ball of meat!"
"O-oh, is that so... It was a relief then."
Hm-hm! In this way, Arisa will definitely start to realize how great her mother is, right? I'm sure she'll start relying on me more after this! I'm strong anyway, anyway~! Fufufu~
"And next..."
"Hm?"
"What about Mom's ability if you have to infiltrate the... Well, for example a masas full of enemies?"
"Hmm... I think Mom will be able to infiltrate well without fear of being known as long as there is no one who can see and sense someone who can make herself change to spirit form and teleport."
Eh? Arisa looked at me with a strange look again... Is it possible that I have said something strange again?!
"Sigh~..." With a sigh, Arisa turned her face away from me and started writing something in the book she had on her desk.
Ah, I guess her gaze before was just my imagination? Fufu...
"Then..." Saying that at the beginning, Arisa handed me a small piece of paper containing something she had written before, "I have a mission for my mother-that-is-so-powerful-that-it's-actually-quite-beyond-this-reason. For your plan of revenge on the Necromancers, I want you to steal some magic scrolls called Crimson bite stored by the Fhandefis Empire in the place listed there."
"Ah, Hn-mn... Eh? W-wait!"
"What? Since my mother is so powerful and great, isn't even that place just a piece of cake for you?"
"T-that's right, anyway... But..."
"In that case, there is nothing to worry about, right? Just go, go goo!!"
"A-ah... Wait! Before that, what the heck was the nickname you gave Mom just now?! It's cruel, you know~!!"
After that, I finally went to the Fhandefis Empire which was in the West of Ervania Kingdom and managed well to take 10 of the scrolls requested by Arisa.
It was easy because I just had to retrieve it from the Imperial national treasure depository.
Using the scroll, Arisa began to do several things to her book and finally gave the scrolls to me after adding some unknown letters to the scrolls.
"Remember, Mom, all you have to do is scatter 1 or 2 of these scrolls around the hiding places of the Demons and then give one to one of the demons then make them open the scroll after you leave saying that it is a report about hero and the army of mankind."
"After that?"
"After that? You're right... After that..."
"... ?"
"... I think mom can enjoy the sight of the destruction of those demons that you hate so much, I guess?"
-Now.
"To be honest, instead of enjoying it... I'm starting to feel sorry for them instead, Arisa~..."
My feelings right now are very complicated. After all, Lycros, the person I really wanted to kill finally died. And it was a death that happened very quickly. I'm not even sure if he even felt pain in the process before he burned to nothing. If I can... I wanted him to feel the same suffering we did.
However, I was unable to do so. This was the only way and opportunity my little Arisa had given me to kill him along with the other demons that were there.
If Arisa wasn't around, I might have lost my cool when I met him and ended up killing him which would eventually lead to me being killed by the Demon King as well.
Thank you, Arisa. My dear daughter. I can now feel that the burden on my back began to become much lighter with your help and that shit's death.
"Ah, Mom? Has mom finished watching the destruction of the demons? Isn't now a good time to report about the Hero and the state of the human army now to the other demon hideouts in order for Mother to escape suspicion? Ah, don't forget to also say that mom saw what happened there and finally, decided to go to the another demon's hideout, okay?"
As I gazed silently at the sight of the destruction unfolding in the middle of the Great Blue Forest, another tool that Arisa had told me to steal from the Fhandefis Empire – or rather, from a magic academy in the Empire began to sound and transfer the voice from my very melodious and sweet little Arisa even though we were so far away at the moment.
"Ah, Hn... Yes ma'am!" Wiping my slightly wet eyes for some reason, I briefly saluted my genius daughter in the way she had taught me a moment ago and started teleporting again to another demon's hideout according to Arisa's instructions for our plan to succeed perfectly.
Well, just look at mom, Arisa! You this mom will going to try very, very hard for the happy life of our little family!