First Blood

I was on the pursuit behind them as they entered into the village. The 'Young Master' was especially rowdy along the way.

I decided to end this quick as I can see that they were planning something real soon.

I watch as they entered into the middle of the village while the young master had his chest held up in pride before bragging,

"Haha! Do you dogs see the might of my noble Naberius Clan!"

I roll my eyes as his two minions began to kiss his ass and continue to inspect them.

"Alright, Father told me the first siege would begin today! We need to prepare our routes!"

...Siege! It looks like they plan to attack Camelot!

I decide to divide and conquer with these devils as it's better to be safe than sorry, I need more experience and I have never fought a Devil before so this is a good opportunity.

"Bile!"

"Yes, Young Master?"

...pfft, this dude's name is Bile.

"Go get the map I left in the main house when we were here previously!"

"Right away!"

Bile separated from the group and I decided to follow after him.

He walks through the town while inspecting some bodies along the way, he gives some of the females a lecherous look before reeling it in and continuing his objective.

These devil are scum! He even lusts for a corpse! Alas, why must the show be so far from reality!

He enters an old house that has the appearance of a large wooden cabin that I had located before and swiftly enters inside, I follow while concealing my presence.

I walk slowly towards him while using some magic I learned from Merlin that nullifies my sound in conjunction with my cloak that lowers my presence.

The door creaks as he enters into a bedroom, I peak through the door as he uses Devil Magic to make a flame so he can see around the room.

"Ah ha!"

He approaches the large desk at the center of the room that has multiple books that settle upon it, he swiftly pushes the books aside which reveals a large parchment paper underneath.

I slowly approach behind him and peek at the map.

!!

On the map are multiple drawings and labels, it show many outposts and labels full of details, the one he is looking at currently is the one we are in, Beagbury!

I decide to act quickly and take the sealed Excalibur out from under my cloak.

SHINK

The Devil flinches from the sudden sound of Excalibur being unsheathed from Avalon and quickly panics as the blade rests along his throat.

"W-who are you?"

I lower my voice to sound more intimidating and respond,

"What are you devils planning?!"

He smirks as his confidence is returned, "Ah, so a filthy ape wants to make demands of me?!"

His confidence was surely misplaced since his skins paled as I undid Excalibur's first seal, showing but a fraction of its holy might.

"A-a Holy Sword?!" He shrieks as his skin begins to burn like it was poured in acid from the Holy Aura exuded by Excalibur.

"That's right."

"I-impossible! Only 4 Holy Swords are known!"[1]

"Quiet! Or I will make you!"

He shivers from fright as sweat drips from his forehead before responding,

"W-what do you want?!"

"Tell me everything about this map!"

"O-ok!"

He begins to tell me of the symbols and labels on the map as well as their plan, the devil have decided for the initial siege on Camelot to be dealt by the Naberius Clan.

The Naberius Clan would kill all the civilians at the bordering towns and resurrect them using their family's inherited magic, Necromancy.

They would prevent drawing attention by having the town seem to be still alive as they infiltrated more towns and built up more resurrected underlings in the mean time.

The labels on the map showed the different towns that had been put under their control along with the days and places of the coming siege they would send towards Camelot.

The 'Zombies' would walk along specific routes such as trade routes towards Camelot and destroy any supplies along the way while headed towards Camelot, this method would be used while King Lott trained up his own army to use after the Devils delayed Camelot's resources and supplies.

The reason they used this method is because it would drive Camelot towards desperation and fatigue, the Zombies while not as powerful as a trained knight are much stronger than the average civilian.

This would tire Camelot out in time for King Lott to lay siege with his main military and unify the country, while the Devils benefit through preventing the increase of God's influence and also gaining a puppet monarch of a large country.

I was very angry since these people who are just trying to live their lives after an already destroyed economy are throw into another unnecessary war for beings they don't even know exist.

The Devils are ambitious and want to conquer the world and having a greedy fool like King Lott to use to unify the county makes it all the better.

It gives them a country to have free reign over while also allowing a large population up for grabs to use in contracts, further increasing their power.

These current Devil are scum and I sure as hell don't want them anywhere near me or my country.

After Bile spits out all the information he knows along with their plan he hesitantly asks, "W-will you let me g-go?"

I look him the eyes before giving a cold glare with an emotionless voice,

"No."

I say before slitting his throat as he attempts to shriek from not only the pain of having his throat cut but also the pain of having his insides burn from the poisoning the Holy Aura does to him.

Soon enough, he falls slack and his corpse drops to the ground, before I cause it to combust as it withers to ashes before blowing away with the wind I generated from within the house.

I proceed to pocket the map and exit the building, also making sure to grab some of those books along the way and resealing Excalibur.

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[1] The only holy swords known to the Devils at the moment are Durandel, Ascalon, Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi, and Caliburn.

The rest have yet to make an appearance in history and Caliburn was only recently made by Merlin, along with the help of Vivian.

While Excalibur has existed but is unknown to Devils at this point as it has been hidden under the protection of multiple generations of Vivian's ancestors.