Flillian, I want to live.

Lord Alden pleaded with Hugh Tark in a sincere tone.

Chapter 156 When Your Dinner Comes to Your Door

"Because this matter itself cannot be made public, is this the reason why they gave the task to us?"

Gutel looked down at the military map that Hugh Tark had received from Lord Olden, picked his teeth with his fingers, and said with some dissatisfaction.

"It's really troublesome. If I had known earlier, I would rather walk a little further than get involved with their family."

Fulilian closed the magic book she had just finished reading and spoke in the same complaining tone.

"Don't say that. Haven't you two been well entertained by Lord Alden these past two days?"

Zain looked at the two guys in front of him who were bent on slacking off, smiled bitterly and came out to persuade them.

"Is there such a thing?"

Gutel blinked, then reached out and picked up an expensive, premium dessert from a delicate disk beside him and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Yeah? I just know that our trip will be delayed again."

Fulilian turned her head and searched for the magic that interested her among the piles of magic books around her.

"No matter what, Fieren might be in danger. We can't just stay here and ignore her, right?"

Looking at the two old men whose skins were thicker than the city walls, Xu Tark gave them a reason they couldn't refuse.

"That's true, but since Philen is willing to follow that kid named Welter, it must be because she is confident enough."

Gutel picked up the glass filled with milk beside him and swallowed the dessert he had just put into his mouth. Then he tilted his head and said nonchalantly.

"He's just a demon general. Compared to the enemies we've faced before, he's nothing, right?"

Of course, there was a reason why Gutel was neither anxious nor slow. She was very clear about Philen's current strength, and she also probably guessed that the reason why Philen acted abnormally on his own was probably because he wanted to test himself before the first-level magician exam.

"That's not necessarily..."

However, at this moment, Fulilian suddenly poured cold water on the confident Gutel.

"Huh? Are you serious?"

Gutel looked at Fulilian with some surprise, but she did not see any joking expression on her face.

"He's a pretty tough guy."

Fulilian raised her head with a slightly melancholy expression on her face.

"Eh? Is that demon general difficult to deal with?"

Xu Tark looked at Fulilian and asked anxiously.

"That was one of the few demons who escaped from Xin Meir's sword..."

As Fulilian said this, she turned her attention to Guter.

"Survive from Sinmeier's sword?"

Gutel blinked her eyes. She originally thought that only she and Aura could survive the sword of that monstrous blue-haired boy by their own ability, but she didn't expect that there was still a fish that escaped the net.

"Then he must be incredibly strong."

Gutel changed his previous attitude and said firmly.

"In short, I'm afraid Philen can't handle him alone—well, we should put an end to that guy, just like with Guval. Although we didn't succeed in conquering him back then, that's no longer a given."

Fulilian stretched lazily, stood up from the sofa, and moved her body.

"So, you already have an idea of ​​how to deal with that guy, Fulilian?"

Gutel glanced at Fulilian who was stretching her muscles.

"That's it."

In response to Gutel's question, Flillian gave an ambiguous answer.

"What? You're still pretending."

Gutel glanced at Fulilian, who was unwilling to answer him in detail, and muttered in dissatisfaction.

"Alright, alright, aren't you all companions? Just trust that Fulilian can take care of that demon general, right?"

Zain had to come out again to smooth things over.

"Without further delay, let's get ready and go."

Hugh Turk also made a concluding statement.

After making the decision, the four of them returned to their respective rooms and began to pack up their things.

At this moment, in the empty living room, a sneaky guy suddenly peeked in from outside the door.

After being rejected by Shuttark, Elu, feeling somewhat dissatisfied and bored, wandered around the castle of the Olden family. When passing by this room, she accidentally heard the words "Demon General".

"Is it right here?"

Elu slipped into the room and picked up the military map that Gutel had casually thrown on the coffee table. He saw the place where the demon general might be lurking, which Lord Olden had marked with a red circle on the map.

"Um……"

As an excellent student who graduated first from the magic school, Elu is undoubtedly a genius girl in the eyes of ordinary people, and her photographic memory is an ability that is different from ordinary people.

It only took a few seconds for Elu to imprint the map in front of him in his mind.

"Since you don't want to take me with you, I'll go by myself."

A cunning smile appeared on the corner of Elu's mouth. She put the map that had been memorized back to its original position, and then muttered to herself with a hint of revenge in her tone.

"Ah-"

In the village that had been reduced to ruins, in a meeting room that had been converted from a roofless church, a demon who looked like a little girl sneezed while covering her mouth.

"Hahaha, Maya, are you catching a cold like humans?"

Next to the young demon girl named Maya, a huge demon as tall as a hill, three or four meters high, was sitting on a huge seat converted from the podium used to preside over the holy scriptures, and spoke to Maya in a loud voice.

"Hmm... Master Fas, I have a bad feeling."

Maya rubbed her nose with her hand and muttered to the giant beside her.

"Are those humans attacking again? They're so restless."

The demon general named Fas twisted his head and complained in an unhappy tone.

"The protective barrier surrounding the village seems to have been destroyed."

As if to confirm Maya's premonition, the female demon sitting on the side, dressed in human nun's clothes, turned her head, her eyes wrapped in bandages, and warned the demons resting in the church in a deep voice.

"How many people are there on the other side? Mutt."

Fas reached out and grasped the giant sword leaning against the damaged goddess statue, and asked the demon Mute who was in charge of vigilance.

"It seems like there are only two people."

Mutt replied in a somewhat puzzled tone.

"Two people?"

The young demon leaning against the church door showed a disdainful expression on his face after hearing Mute's information.

"I'm afraid they are adventurers who got lost and stumbled here by mistake. Lord Fas, let me kill them and bring them back as dinner tonight."

The young demon turned to look at Fas, who had put down the giant sword, and said with a smile.

Chapter 157: Quietly Enter the Village and Shoot

"Strange, according to Lord Mutt, the invader should be here."

In the woods outside the village, a young demon holding a long sword was looking around with some confusion.

He had volunteered to take over the mission from the demon general Fas to deal with the invaders, but after rushing here, he did not see the reckless adventurer he had expected.

It was evening now, and the forest was empty. Apart from the chirping of birds returning to their nests, there was no other sound.

"Did Lord Mutt make a mistake? Or has he escaped?"

The young demon put the long sword in his hand back into the scabbard behind him. He seemed a little disappointed because he did not encounter the expected prey. He muttered to himself that he was going to go back and report the situation here.

However, what the young demon did not expect was that in the bushes under a big tree not far from him, there was a pair of eyes watching him secretly.

When discovering and destroying the protective barrier set up by the demons around the village, Philen had already anticipated that his and Wilt's infiltration would definitely be noticed by the demons in the village.

So she did not act on her own, but immediately took Wilt to lie in wait nearby.

Since the goal is to behead the enemy general, we naturally cannot alert too many enemies. Because there are only two people here, Philen is sure that the other party will not send too many people to check the situation.

In fact, things were just as Philen had expected. After being alarmed, only the young demon in front of him came here.

Philen turned his head and glanced at Welter who had his hand on the hilt of the sword. He shook his head slightly, signaling the other party not to act rashly.

Now that the opponent has completely let down his guard, it is not difficult for Philen to snipe him with the demon-killing magic, but if he kills this demon who came to investigate the situation here, it will surely make all the demons in the village alert.

As long as he could make the enemy relax their vigilance, Philen was confident that he would find an opportunity to kill the enemy general after sneaking into the village.

Seeing that the young demon had put away his weapons and was about to return after searching in vain, Philen showed a smile of having made his plan.

It seems that the infiltration plan will go smoothly - just when Philen was thinking this, an accident suddenly happened.

"Rock Missile Magic."

Just like a sudden thunderstorm in summer, countless fist-sized stones suddenly appeared above the young demon's head and smashed towards the young demon who was turning around and preparing to leave at an extremely high speed like cannonballs.

Huh, huh, huh——

The young demon didn't expect that there would be new invaders suddenly appearing. In his surprise, he was hit by rocks falling from the sky. Amidst dull explosions, he fell to the ground covered with bruises.

"Humph, the so-called demons are nothing more than this."

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Elu, floating in the air, watched the severely injured demon on the ground gradually turn into black smoke and dissipate. She slowly raised her staff with a somewhat smug smile on her face.

Relying on her memory of secretly looking at the map, Elu was the first to find the village that was used as a camp by the demons. Because Philen had destroyed the defensive barrier in advance, she could easily enter here. She quickly used magic to detect the demons in front of her and immediately launched an attack.

"A magician?"

This sudden attack also surprised Philen, who was lurking nearby. She raised her head and looked at Elu in the sky.

"Isn't this girl the marriage partner my father arranged for me? Why is she here?"

And Welter beside Philen was even more surprised. After seeing the portrait of his marriage partner given to him by Lord Olden, he quickly recognized that the brown-haired girl in the air was Elu, the granddaughter of the first-level magician Lyon.

"She's that girl? Putting that aside, her undisguised use of long-range detection magic...will expose her position to a true expert."

What concerned Philen more than Elu's identity was that Elu not only used magic to kill the young demon who came to investigate the situation, but also used long-range detection magic to investigate the situation in the village. In the eyes of the powerful magician, she was as dazzling as a lighthouse in the dark night.

However, Elu, who was fighting against the demons for the first time, did not realize her ostentatious behavior. She had just killed a demon and was full of confidence. She was now eager to find the demon general hiding in the village and use the demon's head to prove that she was qualified to participate in the first-level magician test to be held soon.

And the demon general she was waiting for soon appeared.

The only difference is that it appeared on... her face.

Play——

Almost in the blink of an eye, the huge demon general Fas appeared in the air in front of Elu without any warning.

"Eh?"

Elu, who had never expected the enemy to suddenly appear in such a way, panicked instantly. She subconsciously used a large amount of magic power to raise a defensive magic shield to protect herself. However, like a volleyball, she was slapped away by Fas's big hand. After breaking several trees as a buffer, she fell heavily to the ground.

Although Elu was not seriously injured due to the protection of defensive magic, the fall was quite severe, causing her to fly out without even being able to hold the staff in her hand firmly.

boom--

After knocking Elu away, the demon general Fas also adjusted his body shape, opened his arms, and landed steadily on the ground, making a loud noise like an earthquake.

"Are you the intruder? Didn't they say there were two?"

After landing, Fas slowly stretched his stiff body, muttered to himself, took big steps, pushed aside the big tree blocking the road in front of him, and walked to Elu who fell to the ground and almost fainted.

"Hoo, hoo-"

Looking at the demon general in front of her who was as tall and strong as a city gate, Elu's breathing suddenly became rapid. Before this, she had never fought against such a huge monstrous enemy.

Is this the demon general?

Elu ignored the pain in her body, and crawled to grab the staff beside her, then tremblingly pointed the staff at the monster in front of her.