Attention

'I understand his facial expressions are weird but what do you mean by not having a good feeling about it?' I asked Merlin as I descended a few meters away from the slime demon but the next moment the demon ran toward me staggering as I prepared myself to defend.

'No need.' I heard Merlin's voice and soon understood his meaning as a slime demon fell on both his knees and slammed his head on the hard floor.

'What the fu…' I instinctively backed away but the demon didn't flinch from his place and soon his body started to become all wiggly like a slime while also trying to maintain its demonic form.

'That is the sign of him not being able to control his emotions.' I heard Merlin's voice and wondered why.

I was about to tell him to get up and explain himself but I heard a shout from the edge of the city wall.

"Hey, you two there, what are you doing?" My vision shifted to the two demon guards patrolling at the edge of the wall approaching our location carrying a sword in their hands.

Not wanting to embarrass anyone anymore, the slime demon stood on his position with lightning quick movements carrying a golden token in his hands.

As soon as the guards saw the token their complexion worsened and they crawled on their knees asking for forgiveness.

In his hands, the slime demon held a golden token which emitted a visible pressure engraved with the words Earl Luther.

'His status is 2 levels higher than mine.' I said, glancing at my baron title.

Ignoring the cries of guards, the slime demon turned toward me and spoke.

"Allow me to apologize for showing you such an ugly sight my lord. If it is fine, I would like to explain myself at a more appropriate place." The slime demon said, glancing at guards and gesturing them to leave us alone."

"Very well." I spoke and took the lead heading toward the city gates and the slime demon followed behind me.

'What is going on Merlin, care to explain?' I asked because based on Merlin's reaction, I understood he knew something about this situation.

'It would be better to show you my memories.' Saying this merlin touched my corporeal figure inside my sea of consciousness and information about a certain past even when merlin was supporting the demon king played in my mind and my expression became ugly.

'Isn't that mean this clan of demons are loyal to the demon king to the bone, should i kill him when he has his guard lowered around us and misunderstanding our position?' I asked and kept my attention focused on the slime demon following behind me.

'Oh, you have strengthened yourself mentally quite well in the past decade, I can't imagine, 10 years younger, you make a decision to kill someone who doesn't have the slightest intention of harming you.' Merlin chuckled and pointed out the wrong call I just made.

It wasn't a big deal according to me who has just massacred thousands of beasts, demons and humans just a while ago but that is when I realized what I was thinking wrong.

Previously, I killed so many people because we were at war and the iron rule in the battlefield of any world is to kill or be killed but the demon walking behind me had saved my life a few hours ago even though due to the implications of his mission nevertheless he did me a favor.

The killing on battlefield and completing my mission i had undertaken was necessary to achieve my objective of becoming strong and reaching the beast continent but killing this demon who hasn't done anything to me was the proof that all this killing was affecting my mentality, changing my core morales trying to make me a demon under the human skin.

'I am sorry.' I said to merlin.

'Don't apologize to me, I am fine either way, whether you kill this demon or not, just don't make the important decision involving the life of other peoples hastily or you might regret your own decision in the future.'

'I understand, thank you for your guidance.' I said and Merlin just nodded.

"Should i call you slime demon for the rest of our journey or will you give me your name, an alias would also be fine." I said walking with a straight face ahead toward the city gate while the slime demon ran toward me hurriedly with an acute expression on his face and answered.

"I apologize to you my lord for not introducing myself properly the first time we met. My genesis alias is 'Abandoned Wave' and my real name is Luther." The demon said the truth without any hesitation and retracted back.

He also took out his silver genesis Id and displayed his name and the details of his mission he was supposed to carry out.

[Silver Member : Abandoned Wave]

[Age : 58]

[Gender : Male Demon]

[Evolution Stage : Upper Mythril Ranked Expert] (Click to see details)

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[Mission difficulty : Bronze Rank → Silver Rank] (Due to fight with marquees ranked demon, the mission difficulty has been raised)

[Mission Id: 333652]

[Mission Issuer: Unknown]

[Mission Requirement: Escort Mr. Lightning emperor safely to the headquarters of genesis in vatican city and collect as much information about him as you can without alerting him. Based on the value of information provided, the rank of mission can be upgraded from silver to gold.]

"My lord would you like to rest in the city i know a very good inn which would suit…"

"I don't plan on resting, let's head toward the capital city ventico as soon as possible." I said cutting off his suggestion.

"I understand, even after reaching the capital city it will take us two to three days to reach the main base of genesis by airship, we will have plenty of time to rest if we don't encounter any disturbance along the way." I nodded at the Abandoned wave's words as we arrived near the city gate where a bunch of demons and humans who looked to be having authority inside the city were waiting to greet us.

'Look at the effect of revealing his Earl identity, all the low level officials must have gathered here after hearing words from those guards.' Merlin said in my head.

Not far from the people gathered at the gate, I saw a glimmering carriage parked which was to be pulled by four black muscular horse like beasts which looked to be the definition of luxurious from one glance.

When we arrived near the gate, all demons and humans present in the immediate vicinity bowed their heads in our direction shouting 'Welcome Esteemed Guests' in myriad languages.

'And here I was trying to avoid seeking attention.' I sighted visibly looking at the distance from where many more powerful energy signatures were coming to welcome us.