Chapter 76: Krakens Are Annoying

3rd Person POV

"Yes! A prototype, we've done- NOOOO!" One mage shouted

Their celebration was too fast.

The rose that they thought stabilized then exploded and blew even past their barriers and all of the demons on the scene would have be severely hurt if it weren't for the fact that another barrier was cast to protect all of them, they turned to see the demon lord where they then bowed or kneeled before him.

"Up, no need to kneel." he commanded which people obliged to his order "Do not be disappointed, even though this is one of our more destructive results, this is the closest we've ever gotten, it stabilized for a bit, further reports please."

"Your grace, this might be a disappointment to hear, but even though the progress is smooth for a forbidden project..." a researcher mage gulped "We see a very high chance of never ever being able to bind someone as a guardian or creating one."

"What about the possibility of the rose being a success?" the demon lord asked

"The possibility remain the same despite it being in the realms of impossibility, very very low, but to be truthful, unless we have another 1000 years of even more resources and no disturbance will we even replicate a 90% of the power of the weakest rose."

"Then I will delay the war if necessary." the demon lord replied "Even though it puts us at risk of having the heroes grow stronger, we will do the same, 30% and 50 of them, is it possible by 4-5 years time."

"20-30% of the power and 40 people at best sir."

"Good, I like that, it's better than nothing, keep working, and keep in mind that I will always be proud of you for taking on this task." the demon lord announced "The humans are undoubtedly doing this too, but our sources said that they are at least 300 years behind, continue, and we shall be the victor of this long war and all our names shall be etched in history as the greatest demons to ever live!"

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Perseus POV

"I feel like our journey is going to smoothly."

"Our? Are you referring to the fact that you found another sister of mine to flirt with again?" Leilah pouted "The only journey that's going smoothly is your progress with women..."

"Like I said, we just talked, nothing else happened."

Something happened.

"Tell that to the fact that I can smell her on you yesterday." she grumbled

I even made sure to put perfume on in order to trick her, so how does she...never mind, as for what happened yesterday, you'll never know, at least not from me from the time being.

There are a couple of navy boats who agree to try to get us as close to the kraken as possible, we can fly there, but we're taking every possible measurement to save up our energy, one thing I learned since coming here is to never underestimate anything unless it's a cliché bandit on the side of the road.

I made fun of chief Aminu once, woo, he gave me a good beating, well at least that's what he told the others, he just wants to see how I fare as an upcoming chief even though I don't want that position.

'You'll be popular.'

'I don't care.'

'I see a lot of you in me, a careless boy who's using his freedom however he wish. But there will come a day where you are needed to protect our people, I will hold out until I see it so.'

Why do leaders to be so...motivational? He actually slightly improve the chances of me actually following his advice and almost took his stupid leadership class or whatever.

Anyway, 3 people came along and they are prepared to die just to save us if necessary as the others stay from afar as back up and shoot long range spells to help as well. The navy are pitching in as ridding of the kraken will help a lot more people in the long run.

Though on the way here it seems that some of the locals hired mercenaries to intervene with our efforts since the kraken is their main money source. Luckily the navy helped made that smooth. Once they got as close as possible in calm waters, I then used the powers of the rose to fly through the storm that it summoned out of nowhere.

The kraken easily sensed us and whipped out one of its tentacles at our direction but Leilah quickly summoned thorny vines from under the water to quickly restrain the kraken, since this is a quick cast, the vines aren't really strong enough to hold a creature of such strength, so Ruka pitched in, but it will still take a while before they can fully restrain it.

I then use light magic to brighten up the sky with green light to signal the navy to shoot their destructive spells all at once and its eyes turned to those spells, I cast another green flash brighter than the last and shoot it at the eyes to blind it. It then casted a giant barrier to protect itself.

I want to end this fast, but I know I can't, so it might not be merciful, this kraken will experience a lot of pain. A lot of its nerves are on its tentacles, and that's where it will hurt most.

Sorry Kraken, I know that I promised to make it as painless as possible, but I'll try to end this quick and I'll help kill the culprits in your place.

I then take out a mana storage ring that Lilith gave me, it's usually used to store extra mana to give you an extra edge in a fight, I had Leilah filled it to the brim and not I'm injecting a lot of mana to overflow past the limits, I threw it into one of the suckers and fly far away from it and it blew a bit later destroying one of its tentacles.

But this guy just healed in the next couple seconds, magical creatures sure are annoying.