I gotta say I should come to human settlements with high level foreigners more often. These guys have some impressive gear. Really I got a full plate chest armor, gauntlets, swords, potions, money and a bit more from the idiots who tried to ambush me in my room.
Really did they not learn from the failures of others. If they watched the room and saw others go in and not come out why go in as well.
Half way through the night I got annoyed since I have to wake up and deal with them so I set up traps to capture them and do DoT (damage over time) so that I could sleep. The used small 1 meter large circles with a triple stacked flame field which would kill in two minutes but only stretch within the circle and not damage the floor.. I also made sure to put a strong enough restraint spell to keep them from reaching for potions the annoying mages who healed themselves though I had to deal with so put simply I slept at best 5 hours this night as well as having to wake up a lot. Even then it felt horrible to sleep. I would continuously see nightmares of being eaten by the flames that ate the Silverback. No matter how many times I wake up and go back to sleep I have the same dream.
The recoil from that spell seems little but try to sleep knowing you will have nightmares.
As I walk downstairs I notice quite a lot of people unlike the night before and many are glaring at me.
Girl: Did you sleep well sire.
Baal: Hmm ya it was ok. I do have a complaint though.
Girl: Hm What would that be?
Baal: I would suggest increasing security because the friends of all these idiots behind me kept breaking into my room last night.
I could feel the killing intent run wild in the room after I called everyone stupid. I did notice though there were a handful who didn’t care which were normally detached tables in the back.
Those were probably just travelers who didn’t care much about what was going on. I gave her a tip of 1g and left toward the stable.
The scene I saw their just made me face palm myself.
In the open area in front of the beastmaster stable where monsters stay. Many half head unconscious people lay their
Baal: Didn’t that old man say this place was hidden. Hey guys I’m here.
The doors to two stables opened up and the two came out and stretched themselves.
Rook: better to sleep outside.
Kitsu: I agree these humans are a pain to deal with.
Baal: Hmm...I can’t argue with you.
I jump on Rook and we walk to the stable managers horse area.
Baal: Hey old man.
I call and soon he appears from his house near the back.
Manager: oh young man you need something.
Kitsu: I think you need to remake that spell of yours. We were attacked during the night though we easily wiped them out.
Manager: REALLY!! Oh thats right there was another beast master that passed by so he was able to get around the spell. He must have led his friends. I’m sorry I will try to remake it so that only me and the owner of those inside the stable can go their.
He bowed and quickly ran off.
I opened my pouch and pulled out 3g and tossed it hard enough for it to hit and stick to his homes door then left. The three coins make a loud *Thud* each as they hit the door and we bolt off towards the north gate. As we leave the area we were a womans voice.
???: honey someone left us with 3g.
I smiled as we turned the corner.
Rook didn’t lunge forward instead he walked through the streets. Suffice to say we attracted a lot of attention. Without trying I could see a few who were planning something.
We ignored then though we are still on the alert.
We figure out what they were planning when we reach the gate. Outside about 1 km away was a large group of at least 40 people. From the looks they seem to be between the low 200s up to mid 300 fully armored. When we finally pass the gate. Rook shacks himself and gets into position.
Baal: Ready guys they seem to have horses.
Kitsu: Those low great animals can't compare to us.
Rook: Heh weaklings.
We started with a slow walk and then it turned into a run before Rook drew his powerful hind legs in deeply and angled upwards and with a lot of force he hit the ground and sprang up and flew the usual 200 meters and as soon as he landed he was already in the air. Kitsu was no slouch he was running as fast as Rook could jump. His feet were also burning leaving burning paw brings where he stepped. At before we reached the wall of surprised people Rook landed 100 meters from them and Kitsu jumped onto his back and undid his disguise and held onto him with 3 tails while hiding the other 2.
With the final jump we hurled over the wall and landed 100 behind them. They turned and tried to follow but with a few more jumps we were already long gone with no hopes to follow us.
Leader: Fuck they got away so easily. How are we going to tell the Guild master about this.
Vice: We don't have a choice. At least we know his general direction. Seems he is going to Hesona from the looks.
Leader: Fine call them. Guys go back into town and buy provisions we will need. We will need to go I’m sure the guild will send men to kill him.
Vice: Yes sire. You heard him we can't let anyone shame the White Wing Hero’s Guild.
Preparations were getting done while the raiding party leader was talking with the guildmaster.
Leader: Seems we are are to head for Hasona. Other raiding parties will be meeting up while we go. The orders are to return because we have other objectives in Hasona besides a single Beastmaster.
Soon the party set off behind Baal.
Dok PoV
Its been rough these past 2 days. When Lilian went out to test out her Layered Magic Circles she came back with a happy smile and success. But behind her she was followed by a demon no one wants to follow them. Yep the worst kind of Mage in the world a Necromance and to make it worse its not just any kind of Necro but a Lich. I still get creeps by having this guy work with me.
*Flashback 2 days ago*
From down below we saw Lilian descending into the castle grounds. I walked out to see the results.
Dok: HI Lilian. How was the experience?
Lilian: Ya it worked perfectly though the mana cost is heavy.
Dok: I guessed so. You said before you needed teams to make the circles and to feed the circles because of the leaks. Now that their aren’t much we can see how much they spend normally.
Lilan: ya but it seems something only high leveled mages can use.
Dok:Ya how much did it cost?
Lilian: 3000 mana to cast a double layered spell. Here is how it came out and what the chant was like.
She passes me the notes she wrote down. I was surprised by the fire power. It made a really high level AoE spell which could kill because of its sheer firepower.
Suddenly I feel the area grow cold as my heart sinks into despair.
???: So this is where this strange angel lives.
The voice was deep and sounded like death itself. I slowly looked at the source. Standing with great pride while he sent out murderous killing intent towards everyone.
Rachet: Vil'crI what are you doing here.
Vil'cri: Ohh General Rachet. What a pleasant surprise. Who knew you would team up with an angel. Did you hit your head to hard when you were exiled.
Rachet: No but it seems you did. You seem talkative for the quiet Lich General. Got exiled as well did you.
Vil'cri: That man has completely lost it. He is exiling in mass now. He kept yelling “He” is alive. Any idea?
Rachet: ...It was about 3 years ago right that he went made right? Did he exile someone then?
Vil’cri: …
Rachet: Tell me!
He voice was a tone deeper and he was releasing quite a bit of killing intent.
Vil’cri: It was...his newborn son.
Rachet: …
Rachet looked towards everyone. It was common knowledge in the castle that Baal the exiled son of Lucifer. The exiled Prince of the Demons
Vil’cri: The boy was born as a Lesser Imp with the curse of the God of Evolution.
Rachet: We know.
Vil’cri: How would you know. It was never said in the demon world.
Lilian: Thats because Baal is my brother.
Vil’cri: I wasn’t talking to you brat. If you dont want to die then dont interupt. I’ll get to the strange feeling I get from you later.
Rachet: Don’t speak with her in that tone. She is the exiled daughter of that bastard King of the Gods Thadius. Also Baal is Lucifer’s son.
The flames in the eye sockets of the Lich lit up to an intense blue.
Vil’cri: So he did survive. An why do you protect a weak Imp Rachet. I thought better of you but really.
Rachet: I met the boy on the day he ranked up from High Imp into a lesser Tengu (variant).
The intense blue dropped down to bright green to dark red.
Vil’cri: Tengu. The noble crow clan of the underworld. They went extinct ages ago. If they boy is a Tengu the he didn’t rank up, he evolved. He completely changed into a different evolutionary path. A high Imp ranks up to a lesser Great Imp. Then it will become a Royal Imp which is what Lucifers family is.
Lily: I’m going to be like master. Don’t make fun of him.
Lily was holding her duel sickles ready for a fight.
Vil’cri: What a curious Imp. Orange skin instead of red.
Lilian: The imps were born when Baal became the dungeon boss of this castle. The cupids are mine. The imps don't have negative light affinity so they don't get as much damage as normal demons do.
Vil’cri: Minions follow the affinity of their master so the boy has some affinity to light magic.
Rachet: He was trained to get rid of his negative affinity. Anyway he isn’t here. You can leave.
Vil’cri: Ah but I can not. I saw this child use magic circles. The teleportation circles in the underworld is of the same source so I will remain here studying the magic to discover a way to open a new portal to the underworld so I can return.
Rachet: *sigh* great one more. If your going to research then that human there can help you. Magic circles work with technology of the foreigners.
He looked by way and then came over. Grabbing the color of my shirt he began walking away.
Vil’cri: lead me to the library human.
*flashback end*
Now I’m here with death in the...bone researching the magic. I’m happy though that Rachet spared me the slack and handed over all the books on the Magic Circle Formation. Everything is moving at speeds you wouldn’t imagine.
I’ve been drawing many different kind of circles. Each one gets more complicated to the next. The main reason is this.
You gained a new skillMagic Circle Drawing (Basic 9)
The ability to devise magic circles for many spells even though you don't use them. As long as the spell is seen once then it can be thought up of how to make it.
Because of this skill all I need is for the many spellcaster demons to use spells in front of me and I can think up of circles for them. It even surprised the Lich how fast I can do them. Don’t underestimate my obsession with programming and robotics.
Anyways as I finish making a complex drawing for a tetragram Formation for Baal I get the message that my skill reaches Intermediate 1.
At this point I finally call Lilian.
Dok: I finally got to Intermediate level in drawing magic circles. Can you show me a teleportation circle? I heard you and Baal made one to teleport some priests to the first floor.
Lilian: If its that I can do it easily by myself now.
She leads me and Vil’cir up to the throne room and touches the dungeon core. At the center of the room a 1 meter wide circle that was glowing white.
Vil’cri: Yes this is definitely similar to the one we used in the underworld. The problem is that it was unimaginably complex and was 40 meters wide.
Dok: Thats...big. Where did you hide that thing?
Vil’cri: Underground of course.
Dok: Well we need to make a two way portal so we need make it into a foundation of stone then carved into it the circle. The problem appears when we need to charge it.
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Vil’cri: Yes the circle takes unearthly amounts of mana to activate and it takes months for it to naturally charge.
Lilian: Can you draw the circle I try preparing the space to use it.
Dok: Leave it to me.
I bolts off without a care for the monsters.
Vil’cri: I should go before the fool kills trying to get to the library.
He leaves after me and uses magic to fly behind me.
Lilian PoV
Dok is a strange person. A few weeks ago he would try to keep from teaching us but after simply showing him a few good books he was bought easily. His eccentric nature reminds me of a few tailors I saw while in Hasona. I wonder if Baal is alright I wonder what he is doing.
I should get to work. Its been awhile since I’ve seen Plum and Kumi. I wonder how they are doing. I think KumI is staying at the chapel with other holy fox the same with Plum is with the holy rabbits. I wonder how they’ve grown.
I open the throne room balcony windows and jump down. (Think Assassins creed leap of faith)
Halfway down I spread my wings and direct myself towards the chapel. I got their really quickly. The place had grown. They made an expansion and its to the point I can’t call it a chapel anymore so I will say its a proper church. They also seemed to have build paladin and priests quarters. It was to the left (when facing the church) while on the right they cleared and fenced in a large area with stone walls. I could hear voices from in their as well as sounds of magic.
I entered the fenced area and find a practice area but in the far corner there is a large hole that could fit an elephant. The area had many rabbits and fox performing magic and physical training. Some had heavy weights while others were sitting while mediating. It was interesting to see how...unique this place was. You wouldn’t expect to see a rabbit or fox meditating or using magic.
I walk towards one of them and call out to a 3 tailed fox.
Lilian: Excuse me. Can you tell me where KumI and Plum are?
Fox: The two mistresses they are in the quarters over their.
She points with her tail at the large hole. I thank her and walk down. I soon reach a large chamber which spreads into several other corridors. I once again ask directions and this time a bihorn rabbit leads me until we reach a huge chamber. At its center was a huge rabbit with 3 large yellow with glowing white horns and next to it was a 5 tailed holy fox.
Rabbit: Mistresses this young girl wishes your presence.
Kumi: Who is… Master!!
KumI runs over and begins running her head on my waist. Then she walks around me and wraps her lush white tails around me and lifts me up.
Rabbit: Miss KumI what!!
Kumi: Hush boy this is my master just as you are to us to you should be courteous to her.
Lilian: Wow you two sure grew.
Plum: Master is beautiful now. Baby ingrown body.
Lilian: A-Am not a baby! And what about you two. Your even younger than me.
Kumi: We are beasts. We grow quickly.
Lilian: I can tell what KumI is but what are you Plum.
Plum: High Celestial Beast: Holy Trihorn Drill Rabbit.
Kumi: High Celestial Beast: 5 Tailed Holy Fox.
I get a wide smile on my face as I see my two best friends.
Kumi: Did you come to seek comfort?
Lilian: No the thing is that I need a space wide enough to fit a magic circle at least 40 meters wide.
Kumi: We heard about these circles but why one so large.
Lilian: You heard about the human and Lich that appeared right.
Plum: Yes. Want Lich gone or dead.
Lilian: Well the Human Dok and the Lich are at the moment drawing up a magic circle to teleport into the realm of demons the underworld. The Lich wants to return their and I want to go as well.
Kumi: Why would you go to such a place.
Lilian: Because when I ascend to godhood I want to do it by helping the demons and be their goddess. They have been forgotten by the gods and are treated like trash and leftovers so I want to be someone that looks after them.
Plum: Master is nice. We will make space. Must be under castle.
Kumi: If I remember correctly Rook made a warren under the castle with demon rabbits.
Lilian: I’m a dungeon boss they won't attack. Also you guys are my best friends, I wish you would live closer than the chapel. Baal has his companions close.
The two give a smile and rub their heads on her.
Plum: Climb on my back. We take you to castle to prepare.
I jump on and they walk out and soon we leave the confines of the tunnel. Plum looks up and with a powerful jump easily jumps the wall landing on the streets.
Taking a moment to look around she gives a powerful jump passing overhead many and landing in areas with no one and quickly reaches the main street which she walks in.
We take 5 minutes to reach the castle and we go and find the large hole where the demon rabbits are living. As we enter the rabbits look uneasily towards us but don't do anything because we could easily kill them. This room warren was simple in design. Few corridors all leading to rooms or storage for food and one huge chamber for Rook and Kitsu.
Plum: hmp simple minded rabbit.
Kumi: I agree. To not even make a labyrinth like warren to protect themselves in.
Lilian: Its not nice to insult others even though they aren’t hear.
Kumi: Let us begin. It shouldn’t take more than a day after we put these lazy bums to work.
I get off as Plum stood on her hind legs. The room had space to give her room for this. She began growling at the rabbits who all shook in fear.
Plum: Spread the room make it wide 40 meters.
It was instantaneous all the rabbits charged at the wall and clawing at it or using their horns. The larger bihorns dug fast because of their large paws.
Kumi: Go speak with the human about the drawing.
I nod and head up. Flying into the library I find Dok with a large meter long paper on the table next to the books he wrote on magic circles. He has given me a book with many spell circles which I could use to combine.
I was looking from one book to another and then back at the drawing every few minutes we would look at one book or pull out another.
Vil’cri: He is human but I must credit him on his skills.
I look back and see the Lich sitting back reading one of Dok’s books.
Vil’cri: It’s best not break his concentration he works faster that way.
Lilian: I came to say that the space will be done by tomorrow.
Vil’cri: That is fast.
Lilian: i’m using the demon rabbits warren under the castle as the place and the rabbits are digging under the instructions of my companions.
Vil’cri: The holy trihorn correct. It is an interesting creature. To be become like that simply by infusing magic into its horns. Anyway from his pace I would say tomorrow by noon he should be done. Also have those Imps bring food. They boy will starve if he doesn’t get some and with him like that I doubt he will notice his own hunger but will it if food is present.
I nod and leave. I do as he suggests and then go to bed.
The next day I slept in so I would be at my best and was only woken up near noon when Aiden came with a bowl full of food.
Aiden: Master get up its noon already and that annoying human and that smelly bag of bones are already done with the drawing and miss Plum and KumI have already finished preparing the basement for the Magic circle.
Aiden was a tomboy unlike the others who talked nicely with me she wouldn’t think twice about kicking me awake though with food in her hands she wouldn’t dare. I sat up groggy and took the food. It was somewhat bland soup. Guess even here we are starting to feel the effects of proper production of food.
I gulped down the food quick and got dressed before heading down. In the basement which was now a basement and not a rabbit warren because the ground and walls were all packed tight and held with support beams Dok was ordering the rabbits to dig in the proper place and with a small chisel was doing it himself as well.
Lilian: I’m amazed at out something like this could be made in one day.
Kumi: Magic of course master. Rabbits have natural affinity for earth magic.
I look at plum and she had someone tell her how to draw a spot and with a stick they made the outlines of a large area. Then Plum lowered her head and thats when I saw it. The white lights in her horn turned brown and she hit stuck the ground with her drill horn and the outlines became deeply imbedded and perfectly like the drawing. There were many imps who were doing just like the person with Plum. They were carefully preparing the center area which was the most complex. Jesse was there and showing her swordsmanship as she carved away at the ground making the proper groves in the ground.
In less than an hour the groves were done and Plum just went around and made them deep finally finishing it off.
Vil’cri: Girl since you are the most experienced you create the circle. We all will begin feeding the circle until it can remain on its own.
I nodded and walked to the center and kneeling down I placed my hand on the floor and focused. With on large push all the groves were suddenly lit up with bright light. At the came time all those capable of using magic pushed their mana into the circle making it brighter.
In my head I could feel the circle fluctuating and the more mana in it the more stable it became.
When all of us were nearly drained the circle reached stability and began self sustaining.
Lilian: Its good.
Everyone let out a deep breath and collapsed
Vil’cri: I never thought I would be able to comprehend the circle that was always an enigma to us. Now we just need to make sure this goes to the underworld.
A light suddenly filled the underground room. Small rays of light hit the circle at many points changing a few parts, filling others, cutting new ones. The moment it was finished the white light in the groves turned into a bloody red.
???: This is my present to you Lilian.
Lilian: Valeria
Valeria: Go and become stronger, I shall activate the circle with my own power those who will go step in the center.
The moment that was said everyone started comeing
Lilian: Stop everyone are you going to leave the castle by itself.
Kumi: We will not let you go by yourself.
Vil’cri: I did this so I can return to the demon world you will not stop me girl.
Jesse: we will not let you leave without us master.
Valeria: Then I shall decide. No more questions. Lilian, Kumi, Plume, Vil’cri, Jesse, Flow, Aiden, Mason, Lax. You all shall go to support Lilian. Vil’crI you may do as you please because I wish you away from Lilian.
Vil’cri: I plan on watching her. I want to see what she will do in the poisonous miasma of the underworld.
Valeria: She will be unaffected because she has a small part of Baals mana inside her because she became a dungeon boss by adding her mana to the dungeon core which held it. She also has demon followers. The same for her minions who were born from her mana after she became a boss. Plum and KumI are celestial beasts their very being repels black miasma.
Vil’cri: Tsk and her I thought I would see her suffer. Weaklings move it I’m sure the goddess is doing something she sould not so we can’t waste this chance.
Valeria: Know this though Lilian. This is a one way trip. The only other portal is in the demon lords castle so you will need to fight all the way in to return to the human world.
Lilian: Do not worry we are ready.
The chosen ones walk into the circle as it begins to shine brightly.
Lilian: Lona, Rachet watch over the castle until Baal returns and tell him where I am and tell him not to follow. I need to do this by myself.
Rachet: If that is what you wish so be it.
Lona: Good luck and be well. Don’t get corrupted by that bag of bones.
The light grew blinding and as the red light reached its peak the nine bodies turned into particles of light and vanished from this world going towards the Underworld.