Chapter 61: Progress

3rd Person POV

Black javelins, each the size of a regular man, started to rain down. Leilah and Perseus made sure to rain them on the right spots and not hit their own allies. It just phased through their barriers spells and sunk all their enemies' ships.

Anyone who get caught in the attack just have their bodies' erased and the attack just pierced through them at lightning speed. Those who fall into the water and swam out of the attack zone just gets scooped up by Zoris' navy and killed or captured.

The rain was relentless and the demons were definitely not expecting an attack of that level, only a 9 or 10 star mage in their prime would use this kind of attack since the area and range of it is just beyond even an elite, but the deadliest thing is that barriers don't work as it just phases through and once it hit them, they're as good as dead.

Everyone was basically jumping out of their ship in order to survive or let their ship self destruct in the hopes of doing some damage. no one stood a chance in this chaotic massacre, the demons are heavily regretting not sending stronger mages to come along to help.

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Perseus POV

Some of the ships sped up without a regards for our side's ships for land, Leilah said that she's got the attack and let me and Ruka go to land to help out Reiner and some men take care of those on land.

As I flew to land, I turned to see all those being obliterated into oblivion, screams can be heard as Leilah killed them all, barely anyone was left and those who sped for lad are the safest since we focused the attack on both their area and escape routes.

I can see that only about 10 ships arrived on land and over a hundred demons came out. I used the power of the blue rose and materialize a blue sword and charge in.

One came at me and swung down and I used my sword to block it from above, I then kicked the person's knee from the side real hard and bent his leg in a super weird angle.

But my enemy then healed himself, he then gathered all his mana into the palm of his hand and shot out a powerful fire blast, I then used Leilah's powers of shadow mastery and teleported into his shadow to dodge the attack, as he is questioning where I am, I popped out of his shadow once his guard is down and cut his neck off from behind.

If that battle was just going to be of a magic clash 1 on 1, I would have easily lost, that was a 6 star mage. I then shadow travel from one demon to the other and cut them down, those who I can't kill in 1 swing, I at least bleed them out.

Those who are occupied with fighting my ally are the easiest to kill since their guard is against someone else, I'm only managing to kill a lot due to the unfair advantage of the roses' powers.

No one knows where I'll pop up from and that's what makes me deadly as I either cut their muscles and paralyzed them a bit for my ally to finish them or I cut them down and let my ally help others gang up on the other demons.

"Yo watch out!" I popped out of Reiner's shadow and used my sword to block a sword that is swung at Reiner's neck.

The demon pulled his sword back to pull off another attack, Reiner spun and I melt back into his shadow and he cleaved through both the demon's sword and the demon themselves. They even casted a barrier to their side, but he cut them down like clean butter.

"I got armor on, that kind of attack would only bruised me at most." he said as I got back out of his shadows "Lemme presumptuously guess, she's the black rose, isn't she?"

"Good call, let's talk after all of this is over, you also are probably thanking Edward in your head for befriending me."

"I am, let's go."

The fight lasted for about another 30 minutes, travelling between one shadows to another makes me incredibly nauseated, when everything was over, that plus the smell of death, made me throw up near the forest, I used water magic to clean my mouth and rid of the smell as Ruka approached me.

"Well that's about every demon there is." Ruka commented as she dematerialized her thorn whip

Since the requirement for Leilah's rose is kept a secret due to their oath, I don't have to worry about my identity of being the sole reincarnate, but the fact that I am the lord of the black rose should be spread all over now.

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In the demon continent, the new demon lord head into his castles basement once his day and job was over, he is still getting used to his powers and so he practice a lot and learned through the books left by his ancestors.

The news that the heroes arriving and his master dying did not make him feel happy even though he received the position of the highest honor and authority. At least his master was reported to kill a lot of their forces and a few heroes.

He head down and pulled a book on one of the shelves and activated some machinery in the castle and he then head to one of the walls and walked though the illusion and walked to this dungeon where he head several of his people working on something.

"Ah, your highness, we did not expect your presence today, apologies for our mess." one of his demon said as he knelt in front of his lord and the rest followed

"How is our progress?" the demon lord asked

"Well, our attempt of summoning our heroes counter is failing and as our predecessors said, it seems to have 0 chance of receiving success since the other world is just humans and can only be summoned by their own."

"Then scrap it and store those data, I'm using my authority to end it once and for all and use our resources for other projects." the demon lord ordered "Our other project?"

"It's hard to say for now, your highness, but I can safely say that the artificial rose project will make some progress if you were to summon the roses here for closer inspection, we just need one day." the demon reported

"I'll see what I can do. Good work."

*End of Volume 1*