Chapter 198- Trip to the East 17

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Just as a recap, there are four hierarchies in the demonic level for demons, which start from Lower, Greater, King, and then Grand. Each has its tier, starting from 1st, the weakest, to the 7th, the strongest, depending on the number of demonic cores present. Currently, Raph lived in a period where most nobles weren't even aware of the Gate openings and the invasion of demons, which occurred scarcely throughout the whole Continent, and this was because of the barrier separating the Demonic Realm and the Mortal Realm . Though demons of the lesser hierarchy had the opportunity to make holes through it and invade the Mortal Realm, the strongest demons of the higher hierarchy did not. So at the moment, after going through the Demonic Encyclopedia that had been engraved into Mercenaries and Adventures from the demons that nearly whipped the people of the earth, during the Dark Age, Rodrick was able to identify the.....creature he was staring at. Raph recognized the demon as well from his past life memories, and the thought of how it got here gnawed at them the wrong way. Further into the Cave, where their gazes were locked on, was a human baby head, the size of an automobile vehicle, protruding from the walls of the Cave. The patterns on the Cave were drawn towards the baby's head, pulsating and shimmering in a demonic, emerald hue as it supplied an endless source of energy to the baby. Two tiny horns protruded from its forehead, and the green patterns formed the orifices for its face on the wall. The demon was embedded in the wall, and its figure just simply formed a counter, while it protruded the walls out. It seemed like an ethereal sight at first, but with the pulsating energy and glowing lights, one would wonder what the source of the energy truly was. Raph, for example, had his mind boggled by the thought as he walked backward with Rodrick. 'I thought the green light was caused by the sun's rays? Is there something more to this that I don't understand? He wondered for a moment as they continued to take slow steps. Even for him, if he were to use every power he had, he would not be able to face a 7th-tier Grand Demon. They were amongst the epitome of demonic creatures and the most susceptible to advancing into a devil. 'In general, these things are dangerous'. He must have made up his mind a long time ago. They needed to leave, flee, Vamos, and quickly so. "Um, I don't need to tell you, Rodrick, but you know what to do, right?" He muttered when they got away from the creature and approached the merchants. Rodrick glanced at Raph, turned around, and rushed up to his teammates with hastened footsteps. 'Oh, he does then'. Raph thought sarcastically as he glanced at the Merchants. Most had gotten their things ready and were prepared to leave. They were climbing onto their carriages now and leading them outside the cave. It seemed like everything was going well, and according to plans, but something gnawed at him at the moment. He searched amongst the merchants for a particular Man, and he slowly began to get worried about not finding him. 'Could he have seen it as well?' he wondered and walked towards the Merchant's carriages. 'The Mountain Baby is usually found in deep slumbers, but they can be easily awoken once something that affects it directly has been tampered with.' His head was boggled in confusion at the sight until it snapped into realization, and in an unprepared manner, as soon as he crossed the entrance, he pulled his body backward into the cave before a loud explosion shook the cave. The red light illuminated a glowing crimson explosion that shook the cave entrance and collapsed the structure of the wall like a demolished building, blocking the sunlight that permeated through it. Rodrick and Colyn, in confusion, threw away their things and pulled out their weapons in a hurry to burst through the entrance when Raph snapped at them. "Are you crazy! Drop your weapons!" he cried out in rushed adrenaline, while a shiver ran down their spines as they turned to him in shock. Cruz, on the other hand, suddenly stood up and pointed his mana staff at the entrance, and a spark of flames ignited and grew into a fireball. "You don't tell me what to do," he said before releasing the spell and causing a further explosion that blew the rock debris apart, causing a small human-sized opening within the piles of rocks that had blocked off the entrance. It was slowly closing up again, but Cruz had already seemed to have prepared beforehand as he rushed towards the entrance. "Cruz?! What the fuck are you doing?!" Rodrick asked in confusion as he went after him, only to be frozen in fear by the sound that caused a ripple effect to the green patterns of the Cave. "Shit! Shit!" Raph cursed and pulled out his sword, endowed it with aura, and thrust it forward as soon as Cruz wriggled his way out and rushed away. His sword glowed blue and an energy of blue light sparked before blowing the rest of the debris away. "Come on you fools! Unless you want to be dead!" he charged out first, and without picking up their things, Colyn and Rodrick rushed after him as well. "What–What is going on?!" Colyn asked in confusion when the sound they had heard echoed again. The sound was like the giggle of a baby, only distorted with a monstrous, inhumane voice. "Shit! What was that?!" he asked as he turned to look around. "Focus on running, you bastard!" Rodrick cried out as they headed towards the exterior of the dome, only to find Cruz already outside the structure, the Red orb glowing within his palm, as he closed off the dome to prevent them from leaving. Your next read awaits at My Virtual Library Empire "The fuck, Cruz?! What are you doing?!" Rodrick asked as he slammed himself against the dome, slamming and striking it in fury. "Let us out, you bastard" he cried out in fury, while Raph and Colyn stood behind him. Cruz simply remained quiet, with a disgusted expression on his face as he stared at Rodrick. The loud, monstrous baby laugh echoed again, and their bodies were sent on high alert as the top of the Mountain was broken through by a large fist. Raph stared at it and then at Cruz before clicking his tongue in annoyance. He took a step forward and pushed Rodrick away. "I've had enough of this". He pulled down his hoodie and stared at Cruz. "Look into my eyes".

Chapter 198- Trip to the East 17

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