Chapter 43: I Hate Self Destruction

Perseus POV

I summon the storm of roses and the petals then turned into lightning fast needles that dug themselves into the demon lord's skin, his skin then started to turn to ice. In the moment, Reiner charged in and sliced open his belly...bruh this demon lord got a 16 pack?! WTF.

Anyway, he then slammed in full force and push the guy backwards. My blue petals gathered in my arms and formed a dagger which I threw and nailed the demon right in his eyes.

"Go on, kill him then."

"I am!" Reiner jumped and cleaved his sword across the demon lords face taking his other eye. The demon lord then blasted out a purple beam out of his hand, Ruka got out this whip and pulled me out of the way of the beam which took out most of our remaining forces in here.

She then whipped it out and wrapped the thing around one of the demon lord's leg and the whipped then all of a sudden grew thorns and held him there. I formed a light sword and charge in with Reiner. The demon lord shot out another powerful blast, which Reiner charge forward head on and used body to block it.

I run past him, slid under and cut off his heels and tendons weakening him since I noticed he hasn't healed himself once. he fall on to his knees and it seems like his body is expelling this poisonous gas, but he's also weakening quicker and quicker the more he released that gas.

"His powers are going away! Finish him!" Rowan shouted

The demon lord swung his arm and with his backhand, I flew to the other side of the whole basement and hit the wall, my eyes are really starting to get blurry from all this, my skin is also irritated from the poison earlier.

He grabbed onto Ruka's whip and quickly smashed her against a wall as well. I got to her as he killed almost everyone, about only less than 10 people are left.

But instead of using our moment of hesitation and healing his body, he stored up for a...what is it with people and self destructions.

"Run!"

*****

It seems that even people close by the palace were evacuated, but there's not enough time I created the rose petals and spread them around, they swirl around people and lifted people away, I used wind magic to lift some more away as, I did this to as many people as I could, and Ruka followed my lead.

If people call me their savior later, I'll smack them in the face though, I'll just take free food as payment.

The explosion started and so the prince and his guardian used the last of their energy to create a barrier and joined us to drop on the ground as the ground shook and our eyes are blinded by a flash of light.

Luckily the basement or whatever had arrays inscribed onto the wall to prevent energy from dispersing outwards, so it contained a lot of the explosion and directed it all mostly upwards, but the smoke and ashes that came from it...it's poison.

A lord and rose guardians can breathe it in, but not everyone else, so I used magic to blow it all away and created an air bubble for everyone to breathe in and sorta wait for help to arrive as I tried my best to heal myself, my skin is being literally melted of, it really hurts.

*****

"Whew, you might be needing a new place to live, Edward, cuz there is nothing left of your palace."

"Are you okay? Healer!" Edward called one "I can see your cheekbone and even the bone of your forearm."

As the healers are tending to me, I just turned to the remains of the palace, which is nothing but poisonous ashes.

There's nothing left of it, not even debris, everything was just erased, luckily thanks to Ruka knowing Rowan and getting some insider information, every time they do the summoning, they always move their treasure away to an undisclosed location, due to all their security focusing on the summoning, it would mean security elsewhere is weak.

So they only erased the palace, the palace that was built since the first hero, Zoris is a legendary place since that's where the first hero was from, it's going to be about a few months till they can rebuild everything. Magic sure is useful.

"Where did you stay?" he asked "I thought you were staying close by just in case knowing your nature, but there are no records of you getting in."

"The border security sucked, even the ones for the capital, besides camping out isn't that bad."

"It's the autumn season, it's cold." he pointed out

"It's actually my favorite season, I love the cold, heck, I love winter too, though it's usually too cold, that's why I love autumn more."

"Are you sure it's because you aren't bias, everyone on our continent put this season as number 2 at the very least." he sighs "Look the heroes are over there, let's go see them."

"Nah, me and Ruka got a more important assignment to do after this."

"What's more important than meeting the strongest people on the planet?" he asked

"You won't understand, but trust me on it, where's the continental teleportation array? I don't want to spend several days seasick."

This world have super fast ships, every kingdom must have a great navy or else, every continent is super far away from each other and each are on an average the size of North America.

So ships are usually more ideal for traveling between continents due to cheap expenses, ideal vacation islands in between continent, and they're super quick. Teleportation cost a lot of money, so it's a luxury, but even nobles rather travel through ships to enjoy those islands.

"Well I would say that we have one in the palace...it's about 2 days walk that way, luckily we have several spread all around the continent, if you want the cheapest one, it's about a 5 month walk since after all, we're on a continent."

"Thanks. I'm gonna go to the northern continent now. Be sure to give the heroes my regards as you people from the 4 continents fight to take them in."

*****

After our injuries are healed, me and Ruka left very quickly, the girl who I disguised as would also disappear, people would have just assumed she died in the explosion due to not getting away in time.

The news that the demon lord attacked and killed 4 heroes spread all over in just a couple hours as we head to this teleportation array. 18 heroes left including that teacher/spy, that's still a good thing due to the sheer numbers.

Well I'll just go get Leilah for now.

*****

3rd Person POV

"I knew it, you 2 really are on the other side..." Leilah muttered

On the altar where the rose was, there is a symbol of the sun and the crescent moon, she placed her hands on it throughout the whole day and finally opened her eyes.

She sensed the energy of her parents on the other side.

"Why would you connect your energy to where I am?" she questioned "Why are you 2 on the other side and leave this here on purpose...? Are you 2 the reason why people start developing special powers on the other side?"

*Flashback*

3rd Person POV

Keith help lead Loki who is in several restrains to another large room with his seniors, Loki is cuffed and chained to a bed after their small experiment. Once they got to the room they released them except for the mask on his face and give him a tablet.

They are accompanied by several armed guards throughout their whole walk.

In the room, there is one more person with several armed guards all around the room. It doesn't have a lot of things, only shelves of books, some board games, and the other person who is sitting in a chair in a restraint jacket.

"Why are we letting the boy interact with the other project?" Keith asked

"Just watch." they replied "It's very interesting."

On the door of that particular room is a black sign, and the label got a star on both sides.

'*Project: Lucifer*'