45.Lily's dark Side and Tomoki's foolishness , Hibiki's worries and Trap

Turning back the time a bit...

Inside of a Gritonian tent is princess Lily thinking about several matters, first is how Hibiki and the priestess with her doesn't seem to be affected of Tomoki's Charm and how much of a threat Hibiki to her future plans. She hopes that in this upcoming battle Hibiki gets killed and Limia weakening its force so that there'll be less obstacles for her, then about Tomoki and how much of a cowardly hero he is as she remembers that event where the captive Demons became totally subservient after numerous times of applying Charm on them. How easy for Tomoki to kill from a distance yet he's shaken up when it comes to kill up close, truly a cowardly hero in Lily's opinion but a tool can be used is another additional help for her plans to come to fruition.

Then the matter with the development of firearms is slowly being complete as the testing phase have misfires, but they slowly improve it step by step until it finally becomes usable and mass-produced. She also remembers about that person's information about Sophia's betrayal and the Demon's trap.

Hibiki on the other hand is worried about the upcoming fight as she has no experience in large-scale battles, then with Navarre on her back Hibiki's nervousness starts to loosen up as they chat about any topic that navarre can think of. This is the only thing she can do for Hibiki aside fighting after all, for she believes in Hibiki as a hero after all they've experienced this past months especially the time when they fought the Black Calamity where Hibiki didn't back down even she's already tired. This makes Navarre to be truly loyal to Hibiki and to be a true friend.

The night finally arrived and Tomoki is doing the Goddess' speech in order to buff allies and debuff enemies according to his gamer mind.

And the march to the fortress begins, and Hibiki is getting worried once again. She thought about the what if scenarios and she doesn't like the outcome, like for example if the Humans win then the Demons will be enslave since they don't have the Goddess' Blessing just like the Demi-humans and how badly they are treated. Hibiki wants to break this current trend as soon as possible, otherwise it won't be just Demons they'll have to fight but all the Demi-humans as well(she doesn't know that the Demi-humans are already under Ei's leadership) and worse is about internal conflict if there's no more Demons to fight against and Humans starts to fight themselves resulting in over-all weakening as a whole.

It is too easy for them to advance to the fortress without any resistance from the Demon army, so Hibiki ordered Woody to prepare some magic in case of an ambush or a trap happening.

And her hunch was right, there was indeed a trap. A trap that made a lot of people fall to their deaths and only Hibiki's party and the soldiers lucky enough to survive as Tomoki's floating shoes preventing him to fall to the massive hole the Demon's Tactician made, and as for the Tactician it is a trap in order to see the heroes' capabilities especially Tomoki who possess a lot more firepower but that's it, what she wants dead is Hibiki with her potential to be a major threat to the Demon Army's momentum in this present War.