Chapter 41: Infiltration (3)

3rd Person POV

The highest ranking officials of the 4 human kingdoms gathered at the Tartians' largest underground bunker where the summoning took place about 15 years ago, they've been waiting for so long and the heroes are finally going to arrive.

They are all surrounding this super large array with the king of Zoris and Reiner there to greet their upcoming guests.

Everyone there is looking forward to it, heroes are beings that are only summoned every few centuries. Mages lives longer the more stars they got, heroes and rose lords lives even longer than that. Even then, it will take generations till heroes are summoned, the lives needed for the sacrifice and the amount of mana needed is ridiculous.

The conflict 15 years ago caused the amount of lives needed mixed in with the mana stone stored caused the summoning to be a success. Sending someone and teleporting them to the world of the heroes and returning them is easy and don't even need the sacrifices, even if it's a 30 year round trip that is in a blink of an eye for them.

But it's the amount of sacrifices that change and modify the bodies of the people brought over as heroes, including that of the spy they sent over will also become a hero, though the modified spy will still be weaker than the other heroes when they're all at their peak.

The array started glowing meaning that they're only minutes away, the officials were all excited, especially those who are from the other continents who came to Zoris hosting of the event.

But the happiness got ended quick as the demons on the scene went wild, the demons who came to sacrifice themselves alongside their demon lord started killing everyone left and right.

Blood is splattered everywhere as the demons got their weapons out and cut everyone down. Reiner and Rowan then got into action. the other demon spies who were there even before the demon lord planned this joined in as well, they started to kill everyone around them.

A storm of red rose petals started to swirl around Reiner and the storm start form a light red armor overlapping over his current one, it formed a red helmet and created a super dark red feathery wings.

Rowan's body started to distort and transform into a large pristine white blade with a red rose design on the guard of the blade with black thorns design sprouting from the shoulder.

In a flash, Reiner flew to one of the demons and cut the demon down without the demon being able to retaliate. He flew to another and brought his sword down, this demon was more prepared and barely dodged in time despite of the preparation, but he still lost an arm and have a large bleeding gash across his body before other guards in the area finished him off.

He flew around very quickly and no one stood a chance at the attack. The nobles knew that danger could come, but this is the first time that an attack actually took place so many died as they evacuate leaving the guards behind to protect the array.

A few died to the demons, but most of the numbers came from an old man who transformed into a large bulky black minotaur with scales. It has sharp claws and every time he open his mouth, a lightning bolt shoot out and strike a spot causing an explosion every time.

"The demon lord...? He came here personally?!" Reiner exclaimed

"It must mean that he's willing to die, a successor has been chosen!" Rowan shouted "Weaken him! The powers of the previous demon lords have left him and he only have a little left, you are strong enough to hold him down for a couple minutes!"

The roses, despite being such powerful beings and are amongst the first beings born onto the world, they are weaker than the demon lord, they were only created in the first place to please their mother, unless all of them unite, they cannot fight the demon lord.

The heroes are of the same strength as the lord, but there are more of them and one special ability that the heroes have that the roses don't is that when they are together, they have this magical resonance that increased their output, that is why they're valued more, the increase output is so large that only a demon lord who possessed the shared ability of several demon lords at once can take them.

The reason why the demon lord still hasn't been able to conquered the world is due to the fact that the rose guardians exist, they can hold the demon lord down and the humans have more sheer numbers that outnumbered the demons, if an all out war were to pursue, the humans would survive, even if it means 90% of the world is destroyed and most of their population died.

It sadden the demons as well as some of their cousins in Tehios decide to coexist with the lesser beings.

Reiner charge in at the demon lord, but the demon lord smashed him and he flew so far away and crashed against the wall.

"If you weren't a lord, you would have definitely died from that hit, your body has improved significantly to not take any damage just now." Rowan commented

"If it weren't for the 2 layers of armor, that would have definitely bruised some of my ribs." Reiner replied and charged at the demon lord again, he was faster, so he flew rings around the much larger opponent.

But the array finally lit up brighter and brighter and sure enough, a group of people, the heroes arrived at a very bad timing.

"Huh, what's going on?! There was a flash earlier and-" the student didn't even get to finish his sentence as an arrow flew past the guards coming from a person that looks like...Reiner?!

The fake Reiner then shoot a lightning bolt this time and they did block it in time as the spy push everyone away. The guards took the hit and the lightning bolt exploded.

The demon lord created 2 magma axes out of magic and charge at the heroes, Ruka and Reiner intercepted him, but only slowed him at best.

The demon lord know that the rose guardians can't die and it will take a lot of hits to end Reiner, but that means letting the heroes run away scotch free, the girl he saw earlier seems to have taken a disguise and killed one of his target, 2 more to go.