Carla was confused. Luna has suddenly appeared in front of her eyes rescued her, killed the demon and hugged her. But the most important point was that she was crying. Crying! In the ten years she knew Luna Carla had never seen her cry. You could see the sadness in her eyes when Luna spoke or thought about her past but she has never cried. But now she was crying.

'Is Luna crying ... for me? For me.'

Somehow this thought made Carla happy but she hated herself instantly for being happy about Luna's tears. No, there was something more important than Luna's tears. Her arm was injured because of Carla. And it would probably leave a scar on Luna's beautiful skin. Of cause there was healing magic, but this magic was only fast motion of the natural procedure. So everything that leaves a scar without healing magic also leave a scar with it. And the wound in Luna's arm was very deep. Furthermore they needed to apply healing magic at once, because waiting could lead to an infection. If there were germs in a wound healing magic would just close the tissue around those germs. It had been a mystery for magicians for a long time why there would be sometimes negative after effects of healing magic but then Luna came along with her knowledge about germs from her past live. Since then it was standard for army personal to have disinfectant highly concentrated alcohol with them to apply it on wounds before using healing magic.

"Luna, please snap out of it! We need to heal you wound!"

Luna wasn't crying anymore already but she was still hugging Carla with all her power.

"Luna, please!"

"Carla, I'm so glad that you are ok."

"Please let me treat your arm."

They slowly released each other from their mutual embrace and Carla impetuously took Luna's right arm in her hands, poured alcohol on the wound and applied healing magic. The wound closed but a big scar was left behind. Seeing this tears formed in Carla's eyes.

"Luna your arm!"

She was now crying.

"Your beautiful skin has now a scar just because of me."

But Luna didn't care about scars. She just petted Carla's head and answered in a calm tender way.

"Don't worry about such a small detail. It is a small price to pay for your safety."

But it was different for Carla. She had come along with Luna to help her but now she was just a burden again. She could never be together with Luna as long as she just cause harm to her. She had trained so much to be strong enough to fight together with the person she loves but she was just detrimental and this scar was proof of that. During this emotional scene Max came back. He had killed his arch demon and was now seeing Luna comforting a crying Carla.

"Luna? What are you doing here? I thought we would meet in Nar."

"You thought we would meet in Nar!? That is everything you have to say after putting Carla's live at risk!?"

Luna was angry. Very angry! Max understood immediately that he made a huge mistake. He had never seen Luna this angry and he was scared to death. suddenly Luna appeared in front of him.

'Teleportation?' was the only thing Max could think before he felt an indescribable pain in his chest were Luna's fist had hit his ribcage. Then all the trees began to move. In reality he just flew away due to the force of Luna's blow.

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'Fuck, that hurt! Luna is really scary when she is mad' thought Max Kunarar.

Max was the second son of the duke Kunarar. But two years ago his father died during the demon invasion, like so many other nobles, and his brother inherited the dukedom becoming the new duke Kunarar. Max had met Luna at the magic academy in Alinor five years ago, he was sixteen. There were rumors that she was a refugee from demon continent. At that time nobody had ever heard of humans on the demon continent. Were they hiding in caves or the dense forests in the south of Arkar? But the true story was much more horrible than anybody could imagine. They were used as livestock! Livestock!! How horrible. Max like many others hated the demons for their repeated attacks on villages near the coast and the many innocent victims of demon attacks but he had imagined that coexistence was possible as long as there is no war between humans and demons. But the story of Luna about human farms on the demon continent has changed everything. Suddenly it made sence that demon troop would kidnap children after destroying human villages. There can be no coexistence. The humans held in slavery as livestock by the demons need to be saved. How could Max enjoy the pleasant live of a noble as the second son of a duke while thousands of humans were held captive as cattle somewhere in this world. Max, who was sixteen at that time, would have dreams about white haired people, looking like Luna, being butchered and eaten by the dozens. At that time he decided that he would join the army and do anything in his power to save those humans. Could there be a more noble cause? Max also renounced his right to the Kunarar dukedom making his older brother the undisputed heir and future duke Kunarar.

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Then two years ago the demons invaded Namar. It wasn't a small attack like so many times before but a full scale offensive with the goal to annihilate the human race. The human kingdom has changed a lot since then. At that time the main objective of the humans was to defend themselves against demon attacks. Nobody wanted to invade the demon continent. It was simply to expensive. I would cost gold and human lives and what was there to gain? No human would want to live on the demon continent, so why would they want to conquer demon territory? The royal army at that time was very small and most soldiers were allegiant to their local lords not the king. The news about the sighting of a huge demon fleet spread like wildfire and panicked the general population. As a reaction almost all lords, dukes and other nobles gathered their private armies and waited for the demon army near the coast. But an army without a central leadership is easy to defeat. The demons, led by the demon king himself, obliterated the proud human army and many people, nobles and soldiers alike died. Even the two dukes of Namar, duke Kunarar, Max's father, and duke Maluruz were killed and two of the most important positions in the kingdom were filled by two very young men. Humanity would have been wiped out at that hour of peril if it wasn't for a young refugee girl named Luna Rubra. She collected the remains of the human army as well as volunteers and fought against the demon army. The raise of the human hero Luna Rubra and her duel with the demon king has already become a legend. Max heard bards sing about their duel in the midst of the battle at the last festivity at the royal castle he attended. He was after all still a noble from a ducal house. After the invasion was defeated the old feudalistic kingdom held together by the church became a centralized empire with only one army. The nobles and clerics lost a lot of power while the royal family became the central power in Namar. And now, two years later, humanity finally attacked back. Max was proud to be part of it. Not only was he part of the human army but he was part of the special force directly under Luna whose mission was central to the human strategy.

'Huh, did my live just flashed before my eyes? Luna's punches are really dangerous.'

Max casted healing magic on his body. He could feel how broken ribs reconnected and inner organs repaired themselves.

'Wow, scary. If I had waited any longer I would have died from internal haemorrhage.'

Healing magic wasn't a fast motion of what would happen, otherwise it would have no effect on fatal injuries. The mana stimulated the natural healing procedure of the human body. Therefore there was no time lapse internal bleeding in Max's case just a closing of capillary vessels, regeneration of destroyed tissue and coalescing of rib fissures. Healing magic was staggering but it had its limits. If the body wasn't able to regenerate something then healing magic wouldn't help. Examples were missing body parts, like arms, legs or eyes, and organs that have no natural healing process, like the heart or brain. Broken bones had to be adjusted before using healing magic, otherwise they would reconnect in the wrong way. Max had used voiceless blood magic to bring his rips in the right position before he used healing magic. Blood magic was obviously magic to manipulate blood, but it was nothing trivial to do. Manipulating the blood of an enemy was unbelievable difficult and Luna was one of the few mages who mastered it. The problem was to manipulate mana in the blood of a different being which usually has a different mana frequency. According to Luna mana was energy, floating in different dimensions connected to the four spacetime dimensions through the soul in living beings, and was therefore a particle and wave at the same time. Max didn't understand this at all but he had memorized this sentence. Luna had held lectures about magic theory. Most people found her theory of a ten or twentysix dimensional spacetime with an extra energy form limited to the extra dimensions ridiculous, but it was a fact that she was able to manipulate the mana in a different beings so her critics were silenced soon.

"Max come back!! I haven't punished you yet!"

'Huh? Nearly killing me doesn't count?'

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Authors note: This chapter is a little bit longer than normal. Quick question: Do you want more details on how magic works or on the demon invasion in the past or do you prefer that I concentrate on the present action? Is it annoying to have alternating chapters and side stories? Because I have some side stories left I want to include (side stories is everything that takes place parralel on the human continent during this war). I think that descriptions of magic and other details is often much too long and tedious. What do you think?