Chapter 422: Hijacking II

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Later that night at the same day when the four got summoned into this world, they then arrived at the very heart of the Elven Kingdom completely shocking every living elven citizens in the area. To be exact the four of them have arrived at the very center of the capital of the elven kingdom and at the very front yard of the royal castle for the elven queen itself.

With Argos Flight speed, traversing the whole human continent towards the elven continent in one day was nothing but child's play. All he had to do was to efficiently utilize his mana around his wings in order to lessen the burden it will receive from flying at such speed. After all flying manually is quite tiring since his wings are also part of his muscles, which requires the use of his stamina.

At first the elves in the kingdom were totally in admiration and in awe at the sight of a dragon appearing near their kingdom's border, but the moment Argos entered their air space, the whole kingdom was immediately in distraught and panic as they all knew what dragons are capable of.

Based on this worlds legends, even though dragons are rare and symbolizes power, the dragon itself were one of the most feared creatures in the planet due to their destructiveness. Wherever the dragon touches, destruction awaits their fate. In their history, many kingdoms were destroyed just because a dragon was annoyed by the buzzing population of a human kingdom.

Due to that the whole world were brought together in a united front as they formed groups of powerful people in order to subjugate one dragon. At that a total of more than a thousands of people had gathered at the united allies behest, however  only about 50 people have survived the subjugation despite the strength they posses before the operation.

From then on, dragons were hailed as a dangerous creature to be avoided due to their potential to be destructive no matter how strong a nation is. Thus when Argos "a dragon" had arrived at their borders, all elven citizens were in panic as they all remember the legend and history and wandered everyday, every second, whether their kingdom would be destroyed in the next few moments. All in all fear shrouded the whole kingdom itself.

Once the group arrived at the front yard of the elven castle, hundreds upon hundreds of elven royal palace guards surrounded the dragon while shaking in fear as they tried to protect the castle from the dragon itself. After all the castle houses the royal family of the elven kingdom, a symbol of its power in this world and the people who held the most importance for the stability of the elven race. Thus no matter what happens, they have no choice but to protect the royal family despite the dragon staring straight at them into their eyes.

What's more this fear was further enhanced at the appearance of a vampire, demon, and a beast man  on top of the dragon. They have no qualms with the beast man, after all the beast man race are one of their allies in this war against the demon race. However the presence of both the Vampire race and the demon race itself were on a whole new meaning itself.

After all the demon race and the vampire race are allied with each other. For a moment they even dreaded the idea that the dragon race had allied with the demon race while the beast man race had betrayed the allied nation and switched to the enemy side. Just the appearance of the four completely showcase a huge misunderstanding for the natives of this world.

However despite all that, the four didn't felt pressured at all. In fact they felt nostalgic since its been quite a while since people around them showed hostility towards them at all. Their original world was at peace, in Kaido's world they were in hiding. Thus this welcome ceremony that they experienced where hostility were around them were quite a nostalgic feeling.

Unfortunately they don't have time to relieve the feeling, since they have to rescue Kaido from who knows where, they have no choice but to cut through anything that is troublesome. At that Argos morphed back into his human form which surprised a lot of elves, as he amplified his voice with magic in order to alert the royal family of their intention.

"We wish to speak to the queen! Grant us audience right now!"

In response to Argo's call, numerous elves were offended to the point that they grit their teeth in order to suppress their fear and raised up their sword towards them.

"You! How dare you-"

But before the elven commander could finish his words, the door of the royal castle suddenly opened as it symbolizes that the royal family had acknowledge their request. In that moment numerous opposing voices rung out as they couldn't believe that the royal family just invited a vampire and a demon inside their sanctuary. After all the castle is held in a high regards for the elven kingdom, Thus such an act was truly surprising.

However since the royal family invited such strangers in, they had no choice but to give way to such enemies as pressure from Argos literally split the sea of elven citizen apart.

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Upon entering the royal castle, the four then slowly walked across the hallway as they were guided by a nervous wisp towards the reception area of the royal family. No matter where they look, they couldn't help but notice that the servants and people that supposed to occupy the castle had gone missing. Unknowingly such people were tooo scared of them to even greet their arrival, thus they were kept elsewhere to avoid offending the visiting party.

Naturally Calamity is going with them in her astral form. Through the senses of her children she could see what they see, hear what hear, and feel what they feel, thus being updated in the information isn't a problem for her at all.

Soon after they then arrived before the royal family of the elven kingdom, as they all showed a nonchalant expression in front of people with authority and power. Surprisingly the royal family consisting of the Elven King, the Queen,  the prince,  the princess, and the former King and Queen of the kingdom were not offended by their behavior and attitude. In fact they all felt shockingly restrained as they felt the mana surrounding the four people.

After all elves are quite sensitive to mana.

For the demon, they felt imaginable mana oozing out of him out of his body way stronger and fiercer than the demons they knew. As for the other three, their mana were simply way leagues above the threshold of this world. They cant even describe it, it was like they were facing a calamity straight at its face.

In order to break the tense atmosphere, the Elven King then spoke as he kept his dignity as a king.

"What have you come here? If your reason is valid, then i will ignore the part that an enemy demon is with us"

In response to the Elven King's question, Belial then simply gave off a benign smile which freaked out the royal family, as Aileen proceed to ask.

"We'll cut to the chase... The human king informed us that you guys know a clue on how to use a space transportation magic right? then i want you to fess it up right now!"

Hearing Aileen's tone of voice, the royal family felt slightly offended but kept their anger within as they remember the terrifying aura that their visitor's unknowingly exude.

"That is false!" said by the Elven King

"?!?!"

"We do know a clue about it, but we can't enact the magic... we just don't have that much of mana capable of doping such act" explained by the Elven Queen

"Huh? that's impossible! the humans were able to summon us here, why cant you? I feel like your just making an excuse at this point" complained by Fengris

"Yes! but that is in the occasion that we summon people into our world, but we don't have enough mana to enact of sending people away from our world... I guess based on how you asked the question, you guys are planning to send yourself off unto another place... unfortunately this place doesn't have the world tree to serve as it catalyst for your departure" said by the Elven King

"Wait! are you telling us that this huge tree which your family resides isn't a world tree?" asked by Aileen

"Sadly no! The world tree in this world is being occupied by the demon king in his kingdom, due to that the demon kingdom has a lot of abundance mana which can be converted into creating its own minion, which gives the reason why the monsters on his side seemed endless" explained by the former Elven King

"... Well that is surprising! Who knew the demons occupied the world tree in this world instead of the elves" murmured by Belial which only the four of them could hear.

"I see... since the catalyst which is the world tree which would serve as the battery for our space transportation spell is in the demon kingdom, then all we need now is the magic circle to activate or create the spell itself... Can you guys pass on the detail on the space transportation thingy to us?" asked by Aileen

Hearing her words, the rest then hesitated for a moment until the Elven King then spoke.

"We cant give it to you... but we can lend it to you... we have a mage who knows such a spell... if you can send her close to the world tree mana core, then she could create the spell for everyone to be transported"

"Is that so? then call her!" said by Aileen

in Aileen's behest, the king then called for the royal mage as she quickly presented herself in front of the guest while feeling nauseated from sensing their ominous mana. at that she quickly introduced herself, while the King presented her to everyone.

"Her name is Elfrune! She knows the magic you spoke off, I'll lend her to you... please take care of her"

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That very night after the talk with the royal elven family, the team then begun their departure at an immediate notice while also bringing along a baggage(helper) of some sort. It took them quite awhile till they were able to depart, after all the elf mage herself doesn't know just how long the journey would take, thus she packed quite a lot of bag, clothes, food, and necessity inside her spatial storage.

Alongside those she also said her goodbyes to her friends, relatives, acquaintances, and even the royal family. Truth be told none of the four ever expected that such elf would be popular to its people. There were advise for her not to anger the her companions, some were even warning her of the danger mostly to her companions instead of the travel, and even jokes how she would be eaten up by both the dragon and vampire before being sold into sex slavery. Nonetheless all of those things stems out from the misunderstanding they had earlier on.

Lastly before they depart, the King of the elven kingdom then handed her a type of an necklace artifact which would safely eject her back to the royal castle if she ever break it as a countermeasure if her life was in danger. After handing everything she needed to her, the group then departed from the kingdom in the dead of night and flew out into the sky without any obstructions at all.

During the travel on Argos back, Elfrune tried to interact with the other guys which served as her companion in her first journey. She was too scared to interact to Belial since he is a demon, as for Aileen she couldn't help but get scared whenever her fangs showed whenever she smiles, as for Argos he was too busy concentrating on flying, thus the only person she could converse freely was Fengris himself.

Surprisingly they both hit it off quite fine. For Elfrune, Fengris was the most enjoyable person among the group and easy to interact. They were like two peas in a pod. What's more along the way she also learned the age of the various people in the group which actually surprised her. After all her age was somewhere around the 120 and yet the people in front of her is much older than her.

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Not long after at the break of dawn, they finally arrived at the borders of the demon kingdom. Naturally their presences were clearly seen by the guards at the wall and were quickly reported back to the king  of the demons himself.

Along the way they had witnessed a lot of kingdom ruins destroyed down to the bone after the demons invaded the land, even thought there were struggling survivors and some people being either tortured both physically and sexually along the road, the group didn't even bat an eye as they continued to their initial goal.

Even thought even Elfrune felt sorry for the victims and even pleaded for the guys to help them, none of them even moved a single muscle to help the weak as  Argos gave her a reason for their action.

"Saving them is not their salvation, the moment they got caught it was already too late... even if they are saved, their lives wouldn't get any better... even if they got away from the demons, they will still be haunted by the things they have experienced mentally, spiritually, sexually, and even physically... in the end they would fall into depression and choose to end their life as it is... for them death is way much more sweater salvation than being saved"

"But... if we help them recuperate, maybe they would get better right?"

"For the minority, not the majority... once you've been marked, soiled, played, and used by the demons... you would never be able to live a normal life in the society a forever. In fact you would even be branded as filthy, trash, cursed, and even used goods... this cases are most apparent to women who got sexually tortured by the demons" said by Fengris, feeling quite bitter from the word cursed

"Plus... we are in no position to help them... its more like we don't deserve top do such a thing" muttered by Belial

After all everyone in this group excluding Elfrune had killed countless of people and have trauma in their past. Belial is a demon and naturally treated as a monster, Aileen was abandoned and betrayed causing her to rampage and become a blood thirsty monster in her earlier years, Fengris was cursed and loathed by his kind, and Argos was hunted down by a lot of people, to the point that he couldn't count how many people he killed just to survive. All of them aren't pure at all.

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At the strike of high noon, the group then finally arrived near the capital city of the demon kingdom. At the sight of such city, Elfrune couldn't help but be shocked on just how fast they were able to reach their destination. In fact they could already sea the world tree just behind the castle of the demon king reaching out towards the sky. Even the rest of the group were dumbstruck on just how big the tree is.

If one had to compare, such tree was much more taller than the tree that their original world has. What's more the mana in the area was much more denser than the elven forest and the human kingdom. It was no wonder why the demons had easily taken over a number of kingdoms already. just with density of mana they have, it was enough for them to actually create an army of soldier juggernaut. 

However from that moment on, their smooth sailing came to an end. The moment they passed a certain threshold for the demon's patience, thousands of demonic mages hidden on the ground then popped out like moles and begun casting thousands of spells towards them. In that moment the air was bombarded with magic as Argos quickly puts up a mana barrier all over his body and his passenger as he quickly did an evasive maneuver.

As he tried to dodge the attacks from below, the siege machines on the capital wall then begun to light up as they also spewed out mana blast towards him in the sky. Due to that Argos has no choice but to quickly alter his course as he warned everyone in his back.

"Everybody hold on!!!"

With a roar, Argos then quickly climb up into the sky as he used the height advantage in order to escape the range of the bombardment from the ground. But the moment he did such a thing, numerous portals opened up way above him as numerous wyvern army spewed out from the portal with demons as their rider and begun shooting out numerous spells towards him.

In the instant that the wyvern army popped out of the portal, Argos quickly folded his wings as he dived back down below and used the bombardment from the demonic mages and siege as a cover in order to obstruct the wyvern army from above.

However there were some wyverns who were quite fast and agile who actually trailed him from behind and followed him in the dangerous area.\

"Oohh! looks like there are some challengers" commented by Aileen as she held unto Argos scale

"Shut up! your not helping!" roared back by Argos

In order to deal with those wyverns, Argos had no choice but to actually kill them in a single confrontation. Thus taking a deep breath in, he then spewed out a black flames towards the demonic mages on the ground, causing their formation to create an opening for him to exploit. Using that opening he then quickly climb up into the air for about 50 feet before facing towards the trailing wyverns and spewed outa spell from his mouth.

"Darkness Renegade!!!"

Spewing out a laser like attack, few of the wyverns were able to dodge the attack that came down like a divine judgement, while the other who were caught in the spell were disintegrated into nothingness.

However despite dodging the spell, Argos quickly snatched two wyverns that managed to evade his spell and quickly bites their head off, while squashing the riders with his bare strength.

Afterwards he opened up his wings into the air as he constructed about 30 magic circle all around him and directed their trajectory to the army below, the sky, and in the capital itself.

"Calamity Rain!!!"

In that moment a hail of dark bullets, lasers, and lightning struck the ground, air, and the capital for about 3 minutes which completely decimated the whole army stationed outside. However despite all that destruction, the capital itself stayed safe as a some kind of barrier was protecting it citizens from the destruction happening outside their walls.

Nevertheless the scene in front of them was truly horrifying, as the bodies of the wyverns and its rider fall down from the sky due to the destruction that Argos made.

At that face with a barrier even Argos couldn't comprehend, Aileen quickly stepped out from behind him as she raised up her hand and used her spell and strength in order to destroy the barrier using brute force.

"Bloodborne"

Using the spell to enhance her strength, she then touched the surface of the barrier as she forcefully dug in her claws, before twisting it and pulling it apart using her strength. In just one try, Aileen completely destroyed the barrier surrounding the capital as they all rushed towards the castle.

Naturally their entrance caused a major uproar all over the city, especially to the fact that they easily broke through the barrier which made everyone panic.

However none of this were there concern. In just one powerful charge, the group then crashed inside the castle as they got ready to meet the demon king of this world himself.