Demons have arrived

Surrounded by a divine whirlwind and light. Mary returned back to earth satisfied with his answered question.

However, what he did not know is that the place that he is returning to was no longer the same.

"What the!" Mary exclaimed as he saw what was happening.

In front of his very eyes were a broken room, a broken house, and a broken neighborhood.

Rubble was found everywhere. Countless signs of fighting were marked into the destruction that he was watching. The blood of his neighbors to which he had no relation, was covering the parts of broken concrete and ground as a sign that they were brutally murdered.

But in the end, he did not feel remorse as he is already familiar with this scenario. Plus, he had a secret hidden plan whenever things like this happened. Now all that is left is the confusion of how all of this happened in a short period of time.

"Wait a minute!"

All of a sudden, Mary was hit by a sudden dolt of electricity that flowed to his brain. It was a warning signal coming from the detection spell that he used to cover the entire neighborhood whenever something dangerous would happen.

'What an enormous amount of demons. Why couldn't I have felt anything when there were this many?!'

Normally, when demons enter the vicinity of his detection spell it would immediately send off a warning signal to him. But this time, It took way longer than it should have.

'Could it be... That's right! I was in God's Realm. The entirety of God's Realm was inside another dimension, something like mana had no way of reaching me when I'm inside it. I should have known, this is why it is always better to be careful.'

After finding out the reason, Mary searched all around in case of survivors that could have lived in this invasion. Having seen no one, he used the detection spell to search for them instead.

'The entire area is gone with nothing left. According to the detection spell, some demons are still fighting with the group. I need to hurry up and help them while I still can, that way there's a chance that they can still forgive me.' He said while jumping off of what was left of the second floor of his house.

But before he could go, he stumbled upon the two that guarded the house.

All that was left of them was the lower half of their body, from the waist down. Scattered next to them are their organs some bitten off while some are still covered by their very own blood.

Mary could imagine what happened to them while he was gone. He encountered demons before that would bite off the entirety of one's body or only the upper part. And those demons are called demonic beasts. Seeing that the whole upper part is gone it might have been a really big beast, bigger than the ones that he fought in the forest.

'I apologize that I wasn't there to warn you guys. I'll make sure to properly let you rest and help those left as a way to pay you both back.'

"Soul magic: Cremate" Mary cast.

Using this spell on another human being wasn't really new to Mary as he normally cast it on the battlefield back then. But those that died back then in the world that he got transferred to, were soldiers that wanted to fight so they could be free from demons. This time it's different, those that died here trusted his spell. Yes, they are warriors so they should be prepared to die any moment, but they could have still fought and survived if Mary was there to warn them.

'There's no point being guilty now, I should just go and save as many as I can.'

Mary rushed towards the people that are still alive. Using his detection spell, he searched for those in critical condition first. Then, people who are injured. Lastly, those are still in good condition.

As fast as he could, he dodged rubble, broke some of them so he could free the critically injured, and healed them to the point that they have enough will to survive. Running through countless dead bodies, he rushed toward the people in the group that are injured, save them from gruesome demons, and healed them.

As he went around saving as much as he can, he encountered a group of people fighting a demon. That singular demon had wings that spread across its arms, it had the feet of a bird, yet the upper body of a human. The only difference was the mouth of the demon, it has a massive mouth that reached its feathery ears, with razor-sharp two layers of pointy teeth that exist in its entire mouth plus tounges that is as tall as a snake.

"A demonic harpy, huh? This should be easy enough."

A demonic harpy is a medium-tier demon, the same as the orc that Shea fought in the forest. Right now, Mary's level is around the Low-level high tier so it should be pretty easy for him. But for the people in the group... Not much.

All of them are high-level and low-tier. Even if they were to group up, a group of low tiers can't beat a medium tier.

So, the harpy obliterated them, injuring every single one of them. Before the harpy could kill them Mary appeared.

With a fireball, he burnt off one of the harpy's wings and made it fall to the ground. Unlike other magicians, his fireball was hotter and fiercer. That is why, the harpy immediately fell to the ground for a single fireball.

Mary walked towards the harpy that was trying to blow off the fierce fire that was on its wings using wind magic, but to no avail the fire just got fiercer and made the harpy squeal in pain. The fire made the demon lose energy and it started rolling in the ground. It kept using wind magic in an attempt to blow off the fire, but the fire became even fiercer.

As Mary reached the harpy, he stood next to the squealing harpy and stared at it coldly.

"No matter how much wind magic you use the fire will keep growing. After all, even water can make this fire burn better, it is simply different from the normal fire that you are used to."

Mary then snapped his finger causing a pillar of fire to appear on the harpy turning it into ash.

"Fire magic: Erupt," said Mary, is a spell that turns already existing fire to grow and burn faster.

After successfully killing the harpy, Mary looked toward the injured. There he noticed, some of the injured passed out while others were looking at him scared and dejected.

"You had this much power....? If only you were here... The demons wouldn't have killed everyone, where... did you... go...?" One of the injured crawled toward Mary completely injured and asked.

"Don't struggle, you'll only lose more will to live- Heal" Mary said as he used a magic spell at the crawling injured.

"That's right... Where did you go!!! Zhang Xiu..... trusted you to warn us! But when the demons arrived, you were gone! Even Zhang Qi'er... got taken away again because of you!..." Another injured person said.

Mary remained calm under the pressure of the words that the injured said and stayed healing every single one. No matter how much guilt they could put on him, his mind won't change and he stays true to saving as much as he can to pay for the lives of the people that died.

That was his goal and only goal in this scenario, save as much as he can. Mary knows that he can't save everyone, he knows because of experience. At some point in his life, he stopped caring for the dead and focused on achieving goals. That's how he defeated the demon lord that corrupted the world that he was a hero on.

"If only Zhang Xiu didn't trust you!!!" The Injured continued.

After hearing what the injured just said, he remained calm. But, this time he won't stay quiet.

"That's right, she trusted me. And whose fault did you think is that? You do know that I could just stop healing all of you right now and leave you here and ditch. But I wouldn't, do you know why? Because you are from another world. I... have an obligation to return those alive right now, and the dead can just perish into dust. You know...? If you just aren't from another world everyone could have been alive right now. In fact, if you just stayed and leave Zhang Qi'er here no one would have died. But you just had to follow her sister here into this hell hole. And whose fault do you think is that? YOURS."

Hearing all of the words that Mary said made the injured silent. Even those that wanted to speak out decided not to because he was right.

Mary looked at his detection spell and noticed that this group was the last that was injured. All that was left was to aid Zhang Xiu and defeat a high-tier demon that they were fighting.

'Although I said all of that, I still need to help Zhang Xiu fight and rescue Shea. I am responsible for the death of the people that are part of her group after all, if I stayed and warned them they would have lived..... Sadly, they can't be saved from the spell that I prepared for emergencies.' Mary felt guilt for all of the things he just said.

"Too bad, If only they weren't from another world," he said as he takes off in the direction of Zhang Xiu.

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A/N: Sorry, it took me long enough to continue this. Not only did I do my final exam but I also did a research defense so I had to contribute my time for reviewing. And because of that, I finished them all at the cost of my imagination turning into dust and being replaced with information that has no relation to me whatsoever.

I'll try to have a decent upload schedule and upload a lot this summer. After all, there's not much that I do in the real world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯