The old woman saw Yuma dashing toward her and raised her head. With a hoarse voice, she asked, “My husband… do you see my husband? My child and I have been looking for him.”
Yuma ignored the woman’s shout and slashed his sword toward her.
Although his attack is slightly weaker than normal because he unconsciously restrained himself upon attacking someone that looked like a human. But, he has seen what the creatures that have turned into demons could do. Even the tamest rabbit will turn ferocious after turning into a demon. So, he still slashed the sword to the best of his capabilities.
Seeing Yuma ignoring her, the woman rampaged and clawed at him to knock the sword away. “Why wouldn’t anyone tell me where my husband is!”
Yuma saw her attack and changed the direction of his sword to evade the claw.
Seeing the sword had evaded her attack, the woman jumped backward to evade it. While jumping, she spat toward Yuma, who evaded it out of disgust.
While adjusting his body to evade the woman’s spit, he summoned flame that enveloped his sword. The flames increased the range of Yuma’s slash and he successfully injured the woman.
Although she didn’t get heavily injured, the attack still left a mark on her. There is now a diagonal burn mark on her body that extends from the stump of her left arm to her right waist.
After retreating, the woman realized she had left the small skeleton and the left arm Yuma had cut off. “Return my son to me!”
Yuma heard it and stood between the woman and that skeleton. He also prepared for the woman’s next attack by enveloping his sword with flames.
From his peripheral view, he saw the woman’s saliva had dropped on the city’s road and caused smoke to come out of it. ‘I guess I need to evade her body fluids, too.’
While focusing his sight on the woman that could attack anytime, Yuma felt a sharp pain in his ankle.
He glanced down and saw the small skeleton had somehow moved and pierced its small finger bone toward his right ankle. ‘What? It can move on its own?!’
Luckily, unlike the woman’s, the skeleton’s finger doesn’t contain any poison.
While holding the pain from his ankle, Yuma felt a sense of danger and jumped to the right. When he is distracted by the skeleton, the woman has attacked his previous location with a downward claw attack.
Seeing Yuma stopped being in the way. That woman picked the skeleton, who moved on its own and clung to her shoulder.
Yuma limped away while switching his attention between his injured ankle and the woman. After grabbing the skeleton. That woman once again focused on Yuma and ran toward him.
Venea, who saw it, commanded the surrounding soldiers to hold the woman while helping Yuma to retreat. The attack on his ankle has greatly decreased Yuma’s combat power. Making him unable to place much strength in his right ankle.
Inside the Divine Space, Cedric saw the battle and felt anxious. He switched his focus to Lacius’s group and saw they had separated into two groups.
Half of them are left to guard their ration. While the remaining half, led by Lacius, has rode their horses to rush toward River Stone city.
After leaving their burdensome rations, the group led by Lacius is now already extremely close to the city. Based on their speed, they should’ve arrived in around ten minutes.
“Damn it. I’ll spend another 10 GP for [Sealing Stone]! It’s better to waste this GP rather than having Yuma accidentally killed or lose his combat power at such an important time.”
After purchasing the [Sealing Stone], Cedric sent it toward city lord Venea, who instantly knew what to do.
He told the surrounding soldier to retreat and sealed that woman with the [Sealing Stone].
While tending to Yuma’s wound, the army led by Lacius has arrived.
Luckily, among them, there is granny Maude and a young woman who also has healing power.
Both of them went toward Yuma and healed the wound on his body and ankle. Although the recovery was quite slow, it still worked nevertheless.
Under Lacius’s command, the remaining soldiers surrounded the seal and prepared their attack.
Once Yuma’s wound had healed, he went towards the sealed woman and once again attacked it with his full power. This time, there are also the attacks from several other blessed that accompanied his attack.
Just like before, Yuma felt a repelling force from the sword in his hand after it shattered the seal. Although the flame in his sword still easily slashed toward the woman. He saw the attack from other blessed had been repelled by that force and dispersed.
Because Yuma is slightly distracted. The woman who has just exited her seal found enough time to evade the flame he slashed. She still sustained some injuries. But it’s not enough to affect her.
After retreating backward while slashing at the soldier in the way with her claw, the woman stared at her surroundings before her eyes focused on Lacius.
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“He found us! He found us! He has found us!!!” She somehow got agitated and screamed many incomprehensible words. “My king, HELP MEEE!!!”
Then, he madly ran toward Lacius while swinging her claws around.
Even Yuma’s attack isn’t enough to stop that woman in her tracks. She merely parried his attack with her claw and continued to run toward Lacius.
While clawing and killing every soldier that tried to stop her, she screamed with a shrill voice. “Ahhh! Die! Die! Die!.
Yuma could see the tears falling from the woman’s eyes.”Return me my son Liam! Give me back my Gratian!!!"
Yuma has no reaction upon hearing the woman’s words.
But Cedric who stayed in the Divine Space felt quite shocked as he finally guessed the woman’s identity. ‘Is she one of Gratian’s wives? But haven’t all of them been killed by Lacius?’
Watching the woman madly rushing toward Lacius. Cedric felt it’s the karma Lacius had sown when he slaughtered Gratian’s family. If not for the birth of the demon king that’s akin to the sword of damocles above his head. Cedric would’ve left Lacius to handle this karma on his own.
But, He doesn’t want any more unknown variables before the demon king’s battle. Coupled by the fact that woman’s power has surpassed his expectation. Cedric decided to command Yuma to activate one of the Fire Slash stored in the [Fire Sword].
“Anyway, it’s better to test how powerful the Fire Slash is now. So we can plan the battle against the demon king more thoroughly.” He sent a message and remind Yuma to use his Fire Slash.
[Find a way to separate that woman from the surrounding people and use the Fire Slash stored in your sword!]
Yuma found a message from Cedric and grumbled. “But I don’t have any way to separate her.”
Then he looked at the woman who had been targeting Lacius as an idea struck him.
He ran toward a deserted place without many soldiers and shouted toward Lacius.
“Lacius, use your earth wall to send that woman here!” Then, he shouted at the surrounding. “Everyone, hurry away from my surroundings!”
Lacius heard Yuma’s shout and erected a massive but thin earth wall between him and the woman. Then, he pushed the wall toward that woman at incredible speed. After doing so, he immediately fell to the floor in exhaustion while pressing his aching head.
Fitting to be an attack that caused Lacius to immediately fell into exhaustion. The moment that earth wall collided with the woman, the earth wall immediately cracked and sent the woman flying, just like she had been hit by a truck.
She flew in a parabolic shape toward the deserted place Yuma had run into.
When Yuma first reached level 2, Cedric has asked the System how to activate the Fire Slash and taught it to Yuma for emergencies.
So, Yuma followed what Cedric has taught him and imbued his power into the sword while thinking of activating the Fire Slash.
An extremely tyrannical flame appears from his sword and enveloped it. Even Yuma, who has gained some resistance to heat, feels the flame coming from that sword to be unbearable.
Which makes him quickly swing the sword toward that woman.
The moment the sword touched that woman. The flame that has enveloped the sword exploded. Luckily, the sword seems to have been designed to not release any flame on the side of the hilt. Otherwise, Yuma would’ve turned into crisps.
Once the flame subsided, Yuma looked at the woman’s location and only found a vague outline of a human. She has been thoroughly burned to the point most of her body has been carbonized.
In Divine Space, Cedric saw the Fire Slash has successfully killed the NE infected woman. Yuma’s level that has been stuck in the lower level 2 during the past months has finally advanced to mid level 2.
With the death of that woman. Cedric slightly relaxed and felt curious how she could survive Lacius’s genocide and arrive at River Stone city.
Activating his Past Observation, Cedric saw the scene from the past. To be exact, the day when Lacius began killing every single one of Gratian’s family members.
He found the woman has actually hid herself in a half completed escape road dug in the palace.
Cedric failed to see her because his usage of mental power at that time is only rudimentary at best. The way he saw things in the Crystal Cube world is similar to a 2D game without x-ray like functions. So, if there are hidden things, he won’t be able to see them.
The woman hid in that passage for two whole days until the situation calmed down.
By the time she exited the passage and returned to the palace. She has become pale and thin due to lacking nutrients. The first thing she looked for was her son, who failed to enter the secret passage together with her.
After occasionally stealing food from the palace that has been filled with unfamiliar people. She continuously searched for the corpse of her son until she finally found him.
Cedric felt it was around this time the woman had gone crazy. She is unwilling to accept everything and somehow leaves the palace to look for Gratian with her dead son.
Thanks to the road between cities that has been cleaned of most dangerous beasts, coupled with a little luck. That woman somehow followed the clues and arrived at River Stone city and looked for any trace of Gratian. She traveled the road day and night while visiting many houses.
Finally, she found a clue from a person and left toward the battlefield between Lacius and Gratian where she got infected by Negative Energy and returned to River Stone City when she failed to find Gratian anywhere.
Cedric paused it as he felt he couldn’t continue to watch her struggle.
Although Lacius is the one who started the genocide against Gratian’s family. Cedric felt his incompetence was also at fault. If only he sent a warning to Lacius, he is sure Lacius won’t dare to do such a thing.
Cedric felt his heart turn heavy and tried to switch his attention towards something else.
He chose to focus on the explosion like attack caused by the Fire Slash and felt it was incredibly powerful. Its power should be equal to the explosion caused by a kilogram of TNT.
It’s not like he has tried to explode a kilo of TNT in his past life. But Cedric recalls seeing a video of one.
Wait a moment!
Cedric realized something and asked the System. “Hey, is it possible for me to send explosives to the Crystal cube world? After all, Yuma could be teleported with the item he held.”
[It’s indeed possible.]
“Then, can’t I simply plant many bombs around the place where the demon king will be born and kill it with explosives?”
The System paused for a long time before replying.
[According to the database, as long as the demon king in your world isn’t in the shape of spirit, souls, or concept, it should be possible? Maybe? But the amount of explosive required will be quite massive. After all, the demon king will receive a buff from the surrounding Negative Energy.]
[The System has never heard of this kind of plan. After all, a demon king appearing in a small level 1 world is an extremely rare sight. It probably only happens in the universe once every a trillion years. Usually, demon kings only began to appear in level 2 or level 3 world. At that time, most of the demon kings would already have a certain level of immunity against pure physical attack.]
Cedric asked another question. “Using explosives isn’t limited by level like Divine Items right?”
[No.]
Cedric became tempted to visit Earth and buy some explosives. But he realized he didn’t know where to buy them on Earth.
Furthermore, after the demon king’s birth got advanced by a year due to the increase in Negative Energy, the Demon King should be born in just a few months. Converted to Earth’s insane time dilation, it is only less than a day, probably only equal to a few hours.
He doubted he could find any explosive within such a short time.