THE BATTLE OF 1000 SPIRITS

CHAPTER 22: THE CULPRIT OF BILLIONAIRE LUX

Right after 7 months since Lirisa was known to be pregnant.

"Holuka, do you really need to go? I have a bad feeling that something is going to happen, can't you stay here until our child is born? I'm sure your boss will understand" said Lirisa worriedly staring at Holuka who was preparing her things, especially weapons.

A gentle smile appeared on Holuka's face, she held Lirisa's head gently "Don't worry, we were sent because it was found that there was a small amount of demon troops passing by near the capital. Our main purpose is not to kill them but to check the truth of the news, if the number of demons is really small then we will clean them up. But if it turns out that there are many of them, we will immediately retreat to report them to the capital. Therefore, you are too worried. Besides, this mission will take at most only a month, I will definitely return and be by your side when our child is born".

Lirisa nodded heavily, she stopped being stubborn because she already knew Holuka had made her decision "I know you are a stubborn person, especially as long as it involves war and loyalty to the kingdom. For that reason, I won't try to stop you again. But you need to promise me 1 thing, you will come back here in good health, I have a bad feeling that we will never see each other again".

"Lirisa, don't talk carelessly!", said Holuka remained gentle and caring "You've been thinking too much strangely about being pregnant and about to give birth, I understand what you're worried about. The problem is you need to remember, you're pregnant with our child now. If you're too worried, it might affect our son. You need to keep your mind in order not to think strangely, I must have come back before our son was born, trust me! Your job is to take care of your health, do you understand?".

Lirisa nodded heavily, Holuka knew it was still heavy for Lirisa to accept so she hugged Lirisa "Don't worry, I will return as soon as possible! Even if the mission isn't finished yet, I will definitely run towards the capital for you".

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As Holuka thought, they completed the task the kingdom had given them for a month. They had indeed found a demon deep in the forest near the capital, the number of demons was less than 50 people and most of them were only weak demons, so they managed to clear the demon army without any problems.

But when they reached the capital, the 100 troops who set out with Holuka froze, they were shocked to find the entire prosperous capital of the Alv Kingdom turned into ruins. The city wall that had always looked majestic and impenetrable, there were now countless holes as well as shattered parts on the city wall, even the thick iron gate had been shattered and fell to the ground.

At the top of the city walls were many corpses of soldiers who were supposed to be guarding there, the blood of the soldiers dyed the city walls blood red.

In addition, some parts of the capital were still burned by the fire, this made all members and Holuka's colleagues become silent to the point of not being able to say anything.

One of them opened his mouth that was trembling in fear and confused "Actually what is going on here? How could our prosperous Capital of the Alv Kingdom turn into ruins like this-No, actually who did all this?".

The Alv Kingdom is one of the strongest empires in the whole world, there are so many strong fighters here that they never think that with less than a month they are gone, the capital has turned into ruins.

The surprised Holuka suddenly recalled the smiling Lirisa waiting for her. While recalling Lirisa, he unhesitatingly ran towards the capital that turned into ruins.

"Holuka, don't be rash! There may still be a powerful enemy that can destroy the capital there-", a soldier trying to remind Holuka of the danger heading towards the capital now.

But what Holuka had in mind now was only Lirisa, for that reason she ignored the words of her colleague.

Ignoring all the corpses on the ground, Holuka rushed towards her partially destroyed home as well as the roof of the house.

Kicking the door of her house without hesitation, Holuka ran into the living room while shouting loudly "Lirisa!".

Holuka's entire body froze, she stared at everything in front of her in disbelief.

In front of Holuka's eyes now, the living room where Lirisa had always been waiting for her to return from work was completely destroyed as the figure of Lirisa lay on the ground filled with blood.

The wounds all over Lirisa's body were quite numerous, especially the trace of something like a spear slashing down her neck.

Holuka advanced step by step towards the corpse of Lirisa lying on the ground, she continued muttering in denial believing what was happening in front of her "No way, this is definitely impossible! It's all just a dream!".

Holuka fell to her knees next to Lirisa, she touched Lirisa with trembling hands before tears fell from her eyes as she discovered Lirisa's once warm body had become cold, already cold, there was no trace of life on his body. Holuka immediately hugged Lirisa's body, her whole body which was a strong soldier shaking from crying while hugging Lirisa's body.

"Yeah! Lirissa! If only I hadn't stubbornly gone hunting demons! If I had believed your words about a bad feeling, none of this would have happened! Pardon me! Sorry Lirisa! Aaaaa!", the heartbreaking screams of Holuka continued to be heard from the room.

Tears kept falling from the face of Holuka who was kneeling on the ground hugging Lirisa's corpse, she bit her lips until the blood flowed down from being too sad.

A soldier who was Holuka's colleague came to the house as a result of hearing Holuka's cries.

His steps had stopped when he found Holuka who hugged Lirisa, as a friend of Holuka, of course he knew the figure in the hands of Holuka was his wife.

Walking closer, the soldier said carefully for fear of making Holuka go mad from losing her precious person "Holuka, the captain and I found someone alive for about 2 minutes before taking their last breath, he told us who did all this, even though he had not yet told us what really happened because he had died first".

Holuka immediately stood up after putting Lirisa's body gently to the ground, she held her comrade's shoulders quite firmly and said full of a vengeful aura in her eyes "Who? Who did all this? Is that a demon? Or another kingdom? Whoever did it, I must have killed them all! I don't even mind destroying their entire kingdom".

The soldier felt a pain on his shoulder because Holuka's grip was too strong, but he also understood that Holuka was now grieving which made him do it unconsciously "The culprit who destroyed the capital and killed everyone in the kingdom, before dying the soldier said that the real culprit was the Strongest General of the Kingdom of Alv, General Milier Lux".