The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　And amidst this fear, there was also a sense of relief and relief.

　There could be no moment more fortunate for them than this.

　At this most dangerous moment since the founding of the City of Freedom, professors from St. Marian College happen to be here.

　The city of freedom, blessed by destiny!

　……

　"Boom!"

　The "Rock Armor Giant Bear," covered in leather armor, knocked the "Earth Bear" to the ground. Its raised giant claws blotted out the sky, and it had already gained a temporary advantage amidst the countless monsters being slain.

　The giant claw slammed down directly onto the "Earth Bear's" head, slamming its head into the ground.

　However, the "Earth Bear" is a pure ground-type magical beast. Even if its entire head is buried in the ground, it will not suffocate.

　Its claws clenched into fists, pounding the ground again and again, producing a thunderous roar like the beating of a drum.

　The earth keeps cracking open and closing.

　The "Earth Bear" is desperately fighting the "Rock Armor Giant Bear" for control of the land beneath its feet.

　A large portion of the ground-type energy was absorbed by the "Rock Armored Giant Bear," but some of the ground-type energy was still taken away by the "Earth Bear."

　The terrifying wounds on its body, each several meters long, were healing at a speed invisible to the naked eye, and the energy fluctuations within its body were growing stronger.

　"Roar!"

　The "Rock Armor Giant Bear" roared, suddenly transforming its palms into fists and forcefully pounding the "Earth Bear's" head, neck, and back, smashing the solid flesh until it caved in.

　A short while later, half of the "Earth Bear's" body was buried in the ground.

　But it did not die, and the energy fluctuations within its body showed no signs of abating.

　"Roar!"

　An unusually muffled cry pierced through the ground.

　The energy fluctuations of the "Earth Bear" surged to their peak, surpassing the "Rock Armor Giant Bear" at this moment and seizing control of most of the ground-type energy.

　Countless earth elements converged on its body.

　It pressed its paws to the ground, enduring the "Rock Armored Giant Bear's" hammering, and forcibly lifted its upper body out of the soil.

　Its face was now covered in blood, and its eyes were bloodshot as if it had gone berserk.

　At its heart, a core of earth element is rapidly coalescing.

　Once this earth elemental core is fully formed, the "Earth Bear" will undergo a tremendous transformation.

　"Ok?"

　Professor Parva Jones, standing atop the wall, immediately noticed the condensation of this earth element core.

　According to normal logic, she should have immediately given the order to launch a full-scale attack on the "Rock Armored Giant Bear" and killed it completely before the "Earth Bear" could undergo its transformation.

　But Professor Jones smiled and instead of giving the order to launch a full-scale attack, he made the "Rock Armored Giant Bear" take a small step back.

　"This is a freshly forged earth elemental core! Even in the academy's dungeons, there are few opportunities to obtain such a treasure."

　She even wanted to cheer for the "Earth Bear"!

　……

　Just then, from the west, in the demons' hiding place, a blood-red shadow shot out like lightning!

　The blood-red figure was surrounded by fluctuations of blood power, clearly a high-ranking vampire!

　"Earl, Marquis, or Duke?"

　The question flashed through Professor Jones's mind, and he put his hand into his card wallet, ready to face the challenge.

　However, "Wind Spirit King Sylph," which was floating above Professor Sylph's head, had already flown away the instant the blood shadow soared into the sky.

　This "Wind Spirit King Sylph" is no longer a simple magical spirit in Professor Sylph's hands.

　There is an invisible thread connecting her to "Sylph, the Wind Spirit Queen".

　That wasn't a "bond," but it was even stronger than a "bond."

　Because that is... a "soul link"!

　Through "soul link," Professor Sylph infused a small portion of her soul and consciousness into the body of "Wind Elf Queen Sylph."

　That small group of soul consciousnesses has been slowly nurtured over the years. Now, it has finally given birth to a unique spirituality.

　After she established a link with "Wind Elf Queen Sylph", the latter was able to simulate thinking in a way that was almost identical to hers.

　The tacit understanding between the two is like that of twins who are in perfect harmony; they act in unison without needing to speak.

　"Wind Elf Queen Sylph" and Aleister Aldridge's "blood clone" meet a kilometer away.

　With the gods absent, the battle for supremacy in this world begins at this moment.

　Fierce battle!

　……

　Aleister Eldri's "Blood Doppelganger" only condenses a portion of the vampire power within him. However, it lacks diversity, not sheer power.

　From the perspective of the adventurers standing on the wall, all they could see in the distant night sky was the golden thread formed by "Wind Spirit Sylph" and the blood-red light formed by "Blood Clone," which were weaving together, creating a streak of light that resembled flying swords attacking each other.

　At the very first moment of contact, both sides surprisingly chose to engage in close combat.

　"Wind Spirit Sylph" condensed into a "Wind Element Spear" in her hand, and the "Blood Clone" also used a Blood Source Spear.

　The two sides clashed with spears, moving at high speed through the night sky. The spear tips pierced through bodies and left afterimages. Countless exchanges took place in the blink of an eye.

　But when they wrestle and collide and separate, you will find that there is not a single scratch on them.

　—Originally a condensation of wind and blood, it is naturally impossible for it to have any scars.

　However, the magical power flowing through the body is consumed in great quantities.

　When the "explosion" sounded in the night sky, it was already the sixth minute of the close-quarters battle.

　"Wind Spirit Sylph" finally began to unleash wind-attribute magic.

　Aleister Aldridge's "blood clone" has finally begun to unleash blood magic!

　……

　As the fierce battle unfolded, Professor Mitia's pumpkin carriage remained hidden in the night sky.

　At this moment, the one who reacted the most inside the carriage was not Professor Mitia, nor Victor Gold, but Ophelia Brad!

　Demon King, Vampire, Blood Magic!

　Even from such a distance, Ophelia Brad could still sense the mixed aura that instinctively aroused her psychological disgust.

　She covered her mouth, gagged several times, and her face grew paler and paler.

　Witt Gold tried to comfort her, but to no avail.

　Professor Mitia, however, was constantly observing the images transmitted from the crystal ball, channeling most of her mental processing power into "overall planning." She had no time to pay attention to Ophelia Brad's reaction.

　The last person in the carriage, Aurora Montilfali, was also focused on relaying Professor Midia's instructions and had no time to pay attention to anything else.

　Just as they had predicted, signs of large groups of magical beasts passing through the city to the south and north also appeared.

　Among these magical beasts, some escaped from the furnace in the west, while others were originally lurking here.

　Following Professor Mitia's advice, the Ice Moon Legion, assigned to guard the north and south city walls, were on high alert.

　At one point, a monster more than ten meters tall appeared outside the main gate of the south city.

　Led by those "giant beasts," a monster tide, much smaller than that outside the West Gate but still dangerous, appeared!

　Shortly thereafter, signs of a monster tide were also discovered outside the main gate of the North City.

　……

　At this moment, the "Blue-Eyed Tyrant Young Dragon's" "Destruction Burst Gale Bomb" devoured the demons outside the government building. Dark Dimon took the opportunity to mount the dragon's back and, together with the two-legged wyvern following closely behind, flew towards the top of the west city wall.

　When Dark appeared on the battlefield, the "Earth Bear" had just completed its transformation, stood upright under the moonlight, and raised its arms to shout.

　The aura it exuded was no weaker than... and even stronger than the "Rock Armor Giant Bear"!

　However, the outcome of a battle cannot be determined solely by so-called "hard power".

　The "Rock Armor Giant Bear" roared and pounced on the "Earth Bear".

　The ground shook.

　Above, the magic released by "Wind Elf Queen Sylph" and "Blood Clone" exploded in the night sky, as dazzling as fireworks.

　Both sides chose magic that could be released quickly at this moment.

　These spells may have limited power, but if used to their fullest extent, they can create a powerful disruption to the opponent.

　The most common use of it is to block the opponent's movement route!

　Once the opponent is forced to stop, the acceleration process required to move at high speed again becomes a tiny flaw in this seamless high-speed combat.

　The advantages that are built up from a series of tiny flaws are like small weights that can tip the scales.

　The battle between "Wind Spirit Queen Sylph" and "Blood Clone" intensified further.

　As the two forces intertwined and collided like rays of light, the explosions resulting from the magical clash followed closely, spreading across the night sky.

　……

　"Hey!"

　The Blue-Eyed Tyrant Young Dragon roared and finally landed on the wall.

　Dark immediately jumped down and walked solemnly to Professor Sylph's side.

　Professor Sylph did not turn around as the footsteps approached.

　The wind has already carried back the message she wanted.

　"Professor, have you found it?"

　Dark looked at the gradually darkening beast tide and asked in a low voice.

　During the flight from the government building to the top of the wall, Professor Mitia, who had a comprehensive overview, had already given him a brief summary of what was happening on this side of the wall.

　Although he had just arrived, he was not entirely unaware of what was happening here.

　Instead, because Professor Sylph was completely focused on listening to the wind, Professor Mitya did not find an opportunity to send a message about what was happening inside the government building.

　Therefore, Professor Sylph countered, "Is it over there?"

　Dark nodded and said, "It's not over yet, but it's close. In short, everything that needed to be done has been done. Now it depends on the city's own recovery ability."

　Professor Sylph immediately grasped the general situation. Without moving her lips, her clear voice continuously reached Dark's ears: "We've just started here. We've located the hiding place of Number Two and his men. But we can't be sure if they've moved again."

　As for the beast tide, it is nothing to worry about.

　Dark narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping across the two battlefields, and said in a low voice, "Should we take the initiative?"

　“Hmm.” Professor Sylph nodded slightly, but quickly added, “Not you.”

　Dak paused slightly, then touched the bridge of his nose with a hint of helplessness.

　Their purpose in coming here was not to defend the city, but to find Number Two and reseal it.

　If he were simply standing on the city wall, Number Two wouldn't have deliberately run into the tree stump like a rabbit.

　Based on normal reasoning, given the current situation of the remnants of the demon race, if the battle here becomes difficult to reverse, they will definitely retreat quickly and go into hiding again.

　Therefore, only by seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and taking the initiative can we achieve something.

　It was unexpected to be caught in a furnace on the very first day of arriving in the Free City. But this unexpected event might also be a pleasant surprise.

　Dak's heart skipped a beat as he finally noticed that one person was missing from the city wall.

　Lily Laplace has been gone for a long time.

　……

　"found it!"

　Lily's eyes sparkled with excitement.

　Deep in the dense forest, more than ten miles from the city wall, a clearing appeared out of nowhere.