The Sended's

Chapter 76: What're a Sons of Men, But as Leaves that Drop at the Wind's Breath

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The shadow had disappeared somewhere, but I'm sure it moved here before it vanished which means from here either it went to the sky or down to the ground.

I see it here is different from other forest areas, as if no plant would grow in this circle area that is about 7 meters in diameter, the ground here was dark and contained dense magic like I felt before

"Hey where are you?! Oh... Here apparently, why are you so eager to pursue that thing?" Yuuna got here

"If what you said before is true, then that is the cause of it all. It's possible that this forest holds more secrets than we know,"

Rather than guessing, if it's in the ground then let's try to figure it out.

I used the same magic as before to make the ground beneath me see through, now I want to see if there's anything down there

"It's...."

"It's magic, aren't you interested in Yuuna?"

"It's amazing" he said

Magic does look beautiful when the first time someone sees it, it looks like.

But as it is studied and used, the reason for the existence and development of magic is none other than war. It is also the reason behind the development of technology and civilization, the fear of being left behind by other civilizations.

Speaking of civilization, below there appears a tomb that looks very ancient

"Will this be an archaeological site?" Yuuna asked after seeing that as well

"Maybe" I answered

Hm? Why does it look like someone is moving? It doesn't look like this clearly but. ah! Why don't I just use my accuracy skills? I haven't used it in a long time

Let's see... huh?

Eh?!

"Cabin! Yuna!!"

"Huh?"

Shit, I gotta get there.

I moved quickly to undo the magic, approached Yuuna and directly used the barrier magic on the ground, it did not take long so that the reason behind me was discovered

We were bounced into the air due to the impact the barrier received with something from within the ground

"Eh?!! What's going on?!"

"Hold my hand!" My exclaim

This time she did not hesitate to obey what I said, when Yuuna just touched my hand, I immediately teleported with her back to the ground.

Yuuna and I sighed because of the shocking situation earlier, but on the other hand I knew that the shadow was coming from underground

"What was that? Is it something similar to the one that attacked us earlier?" Asked him while lying on his back to the location and sighed

"That's right, I think it came from the tomb earlier,"

"So it's true that there are damned spirits here... We shouldn't be bothering her," Yuuna.

But maybe there is no such thing as superstition in this world, everything can be true.

"I'm considering that but it's not going to be easy" I said, pointing behind him.

A woman standing right in the middle of the circle area that was not overgrown with anything, she had long hair up to her back that was slightly wavy, it was pitch-black. The woman was also wearing an all-black dress and a wide hat that made her look like a noble from somewhere. He wore dark red gloves and high heels of the same color.

The figure looked at us with those reddish-yellow eyes like fire in seriousness, but his gaze seemed to want nothing

"Hikk! That's right what I said!" Yuuna.

"The evil spirit of wrath! It's your fault for bothering him!" Further

He's really like a kid...

"Creature I don't understand, first I want to thank you for raising me," she lowered her head and lifted her dress up a little

"Sama-sama but can you introduce yourself?" Much

"My name is Gressila, I'm one of the Demon Generals, right?" Huh?

"I-Devil?! Isn't that scary?!"

"Let Yuuna be calm, if she was a Devil then this would be much more complicated,"

How not? The race almost went extinct thousands of years ago, even in the present I don't think anyone knows where they are. And he says he's a Demon General, damn it. My luck is garbage if it's not near Kyouka.

Now what am I supposed to do? Just leave or....

"As I said before, you guys are a race I don't understand, how long have I been sleeping?" Ask Gressila

"Let's know, what I know is that the civilization of Satan was destroyed thousands of years ago,"

"Huh?"

He looked down, I could not see his face anymore because it was covered by his wide hat

"Haha.... Ahahaha!!" Eh? She laughs?

"I didn't expect that the war was turning in this direction, so my race that excelled in all of those things could be defeated by a bad idea like a coalition right? Alright, then I will restart the Demon race from the beginning!"

"H-Hey what did he say?" Asked Yuuna who was still scared behind me

Shit, this isn't gonna end well

"I'll start here, I'll destroy the entire coalition and I'll build the Devil's kingdom again,"

"That can't be done, miss," I said

Gressila looked back at us

"This is Ruby's territory, and if you don't know yet then we are the human race. You can't set up a government here, it'll be high risk for the outbreak of war,"

"Human? I've never heard of it, sorry for my lack of knowledge. But I don't care about that, I'm going to start from here" he said

Huh...

"I'm Ruby's military man in charge, where I might just let you go,"

"Oh? So you're a general too? Good, that means we are in an equal position to duel," Gressila said

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Gressila was the third general of the Devil nation who served the King right after he rose. Because of that, he had a great influence within the Demon Kingdom and could have anything he wanted

His obsession with poison and magic earned him the nickname Witch by his fellow races.

He did not hesitate to conduct experiments and kill hundreds or even thousands of fellow Devils to get what he wanted. But killing a fellow is not allowed even by the Demon race, which may kill another race

Unfortunately the effect of the magic produced from killing other races was not as good and as Gressila wanted, especially if the sacrificed races were only Dwarves or Elf warriors, respectively, it's not comparable to the Seraphim who certainly get it will be difficult

So the easiest way is for him to kidnap hundreds of Devils every night for his obsession

After decades of doing so, the Demon King became fed up with Gressila's continued life-wasting behavior for her experiments, and sent two generals to kill her.

There was a civil war that was not too famous because Gressila was very small, and the small one I meant was himself...

Well... For hundreds of years he had already killed tens of thousands of his own race?

The outcome of the civil war was obvious, Gressila was defeated and buried deep underground and sealed using dark magic by the Demon King instantly, forever asleep and forgotten by the world.

Hundreds of years after that happened, as we know that the Devils were cornered to the place where they started it all, but managed to survive because of the internal problems of the coalition itself.

Ah... that makes it clear that the Eastern Continent used to be the territory of Devils? How else would they have been a great nation.

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I used wind magic to cut through his body, but that black shadow that could form anything always managed to cut through whatever magic attack I was wearing

"Your magic is diverse but weak,"

He replied, I should avoid.

Behold, even the land of his former attack appears very deep though not wide

"Yuna! Be aware! Don't you want to be the strongest fighter?!"

The other attack was like the stab he launched, I could avoid it again by shifting to the left towards Yuuna

"T-T-No... I-I..."

Was he really afraid of superstition or was it one of Gressila's skills? He could have been hit by some kind of fear debuff or something.

Nawat, because I approached Yuuna, if I dodge then Yuuna will be exposed to Gressila's attack. I have to hold it back with Barrier again, this time let's try two Barrier to stop the knock

The first barrier was instantly destroyed, but it managed to withstand Gressila's other stabbing attacks, then the second Barrier only scratched a little and still stood firm because its purpose was only to withstand a blow

"Oh? You try things that remind me of the Elves I once killed, they try to fuse their defense magic to the Elves I attacked, it managed to keep the Elves alive but the other Elves are at risk of being attacked, because I can do this..."

Eh?! Shadow branching!

"Dry!" I pulled Yuuna forcibly to avoid the piercing holes that Gressila had launched

The second barrier shattered instantly with just a single prick from one branch of his shadow.

We managed to evade me who pulled him quite far from that place, now we have some time to think and strategize. That was if Yuuna could control her fear...

"Yuuna, look at me, hey Yuuna," She sat on the ground, lowered her head, and her hands held her head like a child taking refuge from something

Ughhhh! This is not gonna work

"Borrow your katana, Yuuna," I drew the sword at his waist

He continued to mutter not too clearly, but I heard the words "fear" and "no" repeating

I don't dare to use voiding magic because where I've been drained a lot, I also still need some to fight Gressila here, too, then I don't know how much mana Gressila used to put a fear on Yuuna if it was true

Then it's time to reminisce, it's been a long time since I've taken the sword seriously. Lastly when I was consumed by my anger against the forces of the Nonna Revolution in the world before, I really did exert everything I had back then

Let's show the Demon General how much power man has.