Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

Chapter 696 The great evil

[Eon's POV: ]

The time was scarce.

[[ "Eon, we will enter the southern stronghold now." ]]

[[ "Be careful" ]]

[[ "Yes…" ]]

The dangers were still present as the battles prolonged.

'Lucy, (: Cerebral scan) please.'

[[ *Yes master.* ]]

-Ooooooooooong!

We had captured the two captains that were inside the city after a fierce battle however, their forces were nothing capable to what they had in the outskirts of this city. 

'Compared to them, the inside of the city was more like a bunch of soldiers doing reconnaissance.'

The real battle, the the true war with the lives of people from our side on the line, was happening in that place at the moment.'

They needed me, my strength more now. 

I have to go there personally. 

However, before I do that, I have to fish out the plans of this evil group of strange demonic humans from the minds of the ones that was most probably in the possession of that knowledge from my observation throughout the day.

'There was a possibility that they might into be the ones to know the original plans of their groups or perhaps they mioght also be completely independent groups that received separate orders, however, I will only know that once i look at their minds myself.'

[[ *There is a strange resisting force master, and it matches the mental barrier that the demons have in a way. I will disable it.* ]]

'Yes, please.'

She was amazing, and thanks to her, the dark curtain that was covering the mental bodies of these bustards was lifted, and after removing all the useless memories, I was able to see something… 

'Oh lord…'

[[ *This, master… however, no… but this?* ]]

I searched their memories, and thre were traces of the orders they had received from the people they call 'Grand Apostles'.

One of them thought there were six of these grand apostles however, the other's memories said there were nine so, whoever these grand apostles were, were most certainly not the highest authority of this bunch of bastards.

There was someone even above these apostles that even they did not know about, perhaps even this apostles weren't real, I couldn't figure it out even after searching deeper into their memoirs.

However, one thing I figured out for certain, was the fact that these people were certain trained. And that too, in individual places located in different demonic plains.

They were completely different from one group and even the people they worked with were people they had not ever met in their lives.

However, they were following the absolute orders of the Grand Apostles, and passing their training's to the others that they were currently working with.

The strongholds they were guarding contained people from the different 'nests' that they were raised in, and some were people raised by different ones like them.

'They were given the titles of [Bishops]. Their direct superiors that the two of them had hardly ever seen once or twice in their three decades in this so called [Order of liberation], were the [Archbishops] of their order.'

According to them, there were three cardinals of their order and one pope. 

Above them were the grand apostles, the absolute beings comparable to the gods, genuine god that people worship. And, according to the memories of one of them, these grand apostles followed the will of one of the supreme existences of this nature, the [Demon god]. 

'However, that was bullshit.'

I can tell without even knowing the details of all this, whoever these so-called 'apostles' were following wasn't the demon god. Hell, I can even bet he wasn't any demon in the first place.

'Demons don't make elaborate plans as detailed as these. The nobles don't even care about the pathetic humans in the first place.'

Demons are beings of corruption, destruction, evil that follow all the cardinal sins. 

Making a structural organisation was the last thing they would choose and that too, only when their plans involved an all out invasion of the human world.

'Demons don't do this kind of shit, they don't even have time or authority to do things like these in this nature. And as for the demon god, well, he is a being even I look up to so, doing something as despicable as creating unfair chaos in the world by 'detailed planning' was not something they would ever appreciate.'

I knew these grand apostles were at least some scammers that wanted something entirely different and, whoever they were working with, or working for, and different intentions.

'However, that aside… these bastards, they are disgusting.'

When I searched their memories, I saw a hell that was a perfect depiction of the fantastical hell born from the imagination of the people who feared demons and the evil.

That was a land of death, dread, flames, and misery.

These bastards obtained their powers by doing heinous, indescribable things to normal people, to people who possessed talent and could have been of great use to this world.

They sacrificed them, tortured them using methods that I could not even speak of, and after sucking out all they could from them, they used them as mere tools for pleasure, or garbage that was better fed to the demonic creatures that they had raised.

These motherless pieces of shits were the real crazy ones. The psychopaths. Who knew how they chose these bastards and made them like this that their memories of their own training and their past was completely erased from their minds.

'They were worse than the real demonic humans. Worse than the demons who only did it for their own absolute pleasure instead of for some 'grand' purpose they believed would lead them to libration from this wretched world.'

They, this organisation they called [Order of liberation], and their purpose of dedicating a decade of their life, a shit tone of capital, and alll the resources… all of it, was fucked up.

'Their grand goal of today… was to ultimately just test the current level of their organisation. Nothing too grand, just testing the waters. Just that, fuck.'

They were treating all of this like it was merely a test run. Not even death threatened their faith in the grand orders from their superiors.

'Fucking cultists.'

They wanted to achieve the most they can today, that's why they were killing people left and right even though their plans were partially busted.

'They originally wanted to annihilate ever single person in this city and the surrounding areas from inside out. Even going as far as targeting the royal family and all the participants of the annual competition that were present in the city.'

And to do that, they were going to perform 'specific demon summoning'. Something unheard of from the conventional wisdom of this world, however, I knew the best how a specific kind of summoning was, in fact, possible.

[[ *Master, this is dangerous. We should-* ]]

'It's alredy too late, Lucy.'

These bastards were going to summon a high ranking demon noble according to the sacrifices they gather after a certain time, however, now that they all knew their plans and decade worth of preparations had failed, they wouldn't care about anything anymore.

'Their order was to cause as much destruction as they can, Lucy.'

I can sense it in my heart alredy…

-Ooooooooooooong!

"This…?!"

"The south! In the south!"

"That's where the Emperor and his group went! The stronghold with the strongest forces!"

"They had finished a demon summoning alredy?! How?!"

I can sense the presence of a demon with my entire being.

A powerful demon, most probably a noble.

"I will be heading off, everyone."

"What?"

"Eon! Eon, wait!"

"What did you find! At least tell us what they are planning, damn it!"

"What's their goal?!"

I did not look back, and just told President Zodiac the summary of everything they needed to know through Celes' connection. I knew he would rely my words better than I could at the moment.

'Rein…'

Those impatient, fucking motherless bitches!

They didn't care about shit and just summoned a creature without any fucking thoughts!

'Fucking cultists!'

They had received orders to cause as much harm to the city as they can, that was their goal. 

They had killed people, thousands of them alredy. 

And all the people they had killed, all the children, all the elders, all of them combined… these bastards offered the souls of those innocents, perhaps souls of their own people as well, and finished a summoning that should have taken much longer.

[[ "Rein! How's the situation?!" ]]

[[ "Bad… shit, this is bad…" ]]

I can tell from her voice, she was stunned right now.

Whatever they had summoned had surprised her. Whatever kind of demon it was, she had lost her absolute calm after facing that creature. 

Which obviously meant the situation was bad.

[[ "Wait, I am coming there-" ]]

I was on my way to her, however, right in the middle, I stopped. I had to stop.

"Fuck…"

[[ Master! Master! In the north! ]]

Another demon.

In a completely opposite side from this place. 

And, that one was just as strong as this one.

[[ "Eon." ]]

Rein called my name, but I did not want to listen to the words she was about to say next.

[[ "Stop where you are, Eon. Stop before I have to use the 'wish'." ]]

[[ "No!" ]]

[[ "We have the emperor here, darling. There's no need for you to be here as well." ]]

-Boooooooooooom!

[[ Master, the forces in the north have received a surprise attack! ]]

[[ *Master! Please command K to focus on the northern side!* ]]

"Shut up you to! Please! Shut up for a moment!"

They summoned two demons.

One was before my Rein, and it was obviously going to be dangerous even with the emperor being there. 

The other one was in the weaker strongholds, and the forces there might not be enough to stand against the demon, as well as the remaining forces in that place, as well as the demonic creature.

They would need my help, if not direct help, they would at least need my support.

However, if I help then… 

[[ "I will be alright, darling. Go help them. Show them a little more of your skills." ]]

She was saying that, but… but…

[[ "Please, darling. Don't come here. If you do-" ]]

[[ "It will only offend you, I know miss prideful bloodthirsty witch." ]]

She can take care of herself, I knew that much.

[[ "Alright. Promise me you won't be hurt too much." ]]

[[ "I will if you do the same." ]]

[[ "You little…" ]]

She knew if I wasn't going to be there, whatever I will do here will be so flashy I will be put in a difficult position.

She knew that, that's why she was requesting something difficult form me.

'But if it means she will be safe out there…'

I did not mind that difficult promise.

[[ "Take care of yourself, miss." ]]

[[ "Marry me quickly so that you can call me your wifey, bastard." ]]

"Haha, silly girl." 

She made me laugh in a time like this as well…

[[ "Go, and let them do the work this time." ]]

[[ "Can't do that, baby. Heheh~." ]]

That's the kind of answer I had expected from her. 

"Celes, guide the people there. Distract the bastards and the demon if needed until I get back to K." 

[[ Yes master~! ]]

The night will come to an end soon, however, looks like the war was going to last a little longer than we had expected.

'Haaaa…'

I don't like all this.

Especially the new knowledge about this shitty cult and the great evil that was behind all this.

'That person, whoever or whatever he is, is very dangerous.'

The plans, this organisation, the structure, the knowledge, the abilities, and the strengths that was provided by him… they were no simple being if they managed to accomplaish so much behind the backs of the entire world.

'And if they were revealing their existence to the world now…'

It means they had finished their preparations or accomplished the bare minimum that they needed.

'They are after something.'

And, they had started moving now.

Which, ultimately means, the world was going to face another great evil, and thus, another era of war, once again…