Chapter 15: Chapter 15 : the spy and his plan
The moment the war began,
the king called for reinforcements.
The four of us—Zephyr, Fysal, Hana, and I—left the princess in the care of the general and joined the battle.
Meanwhile, the general took the princess and used his squad to escape in a carriage.
These carriages were more advanced than cars;
they could fly, glide over sand, and even move like regular vehicles.
He placed the princess inside and returned to cast a curse barrier—one that only demons could pass through.
When he opened the door of the carriage again,
he was stunned to find us already inside:
me, Zephyr, Fysal, Hana, Layla the princess, the king, and the grandmaster—the ruler of the royal house.
I looked at him and said,
"You've been played. Give it up, nice guy."
Shocked,
he realized too late that every member of his squad had already been taken out.
What we did was simple.
I had asked Alpha to order the demons to test the defenses by sending weak demons first.
This strategy allowed us to observe the enemy's strength, leadership, and tactics from afar.
Just half our army was enough to defeat them.
I also gave the princess six marbles infused with teleportation magic.
I swapped our positions using those marbles,
playing the general at his own game.
Unknowingly,
he helped us identify other traitors.
As we prepared for the next phase,
three high-level demons advanced,
assuming the general had outsmarted us.
I said to the king and the grandmaster,
"The three of us will handle the next wave.
Let Hana, Zephyr, and Fysal deal with those demons."
We used the marbles again and teleported out,
leaving the trio to protect the castle.
The king asked,
"Are you sure they'll be okay?"
I answered,
"Believe in them.
They have incredible potential, even if they don't know how to use it yet.
Sometimes that uncertainty fades when a life must be protected.
You'll see their true strength soon."
Then I unleashed my chains and used my signature move,
Carmatic Fangs: Soaring Chain Slash.
I pushed myself past my limits,
moving faster than a dash,
with instinctual turns, flips, and direction changes—
my chained dagger weapon enhancing every motion.
Back at the castle,
the demons arrived.
Bat demons.
They looked humanoid,
with purple skin, dark eyes, tufts of fur, and leathery wings.
Their combat style was mostly close-range.
One of them teleported behind Zephyr
and launched an explosion at his back.
But Zephyr stood still, unfazed, and said,
"Don't tell me that's all you've got,"
looking over his shoulder with calm confidence.
His dark-blue attire glowed faintly.
He had trained just like I had—
through long meditations,
physical rigor,
and mental clarity.
He had awakened his aura to the point of projecting it as a presence.
You could feel his strength just standing near him.
A man who has nothing to lose is dangerous.
But a man who fears nothing... is unbeatable.
Then the one who caused the explosion said,
"What a shame."
That's when everyone got shocked —
except me.
Let me explain why it was such a huge shock.
Demons are monsters, and they are terrifying —
scary to the core.
But not all demons are evil.
As I've said before, some demons belong to specific creature types.
Take these bat demons for example.
They have bodies like humans —
And those demons who look human?
They are demons with intelligence.
Demons with intelligence are just monsters with demon powers,
but with human-level thinking.
They talk.
They eat.
They wear clothes.
They play.
They're practically human in behavior.
But...
Once they become anointed by the Demon King,
once they receive his direct power —
They change.
They transform into a monster so powerful,
they lose their intelligence completely.
That's what we call:
> "Insanity."
So we're always on alert.
Because if a demon ever sacrifices themselves to tap into that state,
they lose all sense of logic...
They become a force of destruction —
a weapon with no mind.
And that's why...
this battle just got way more dangerous.
They are two male bat and one female bat demon.
The female bat demon said,
"I will take the girl, you two take the boys."
Then the other demon said,
"You go ahead and beat the one you began with, and I will beat the all high and mighty guy."
Then they separated and began to fight.
They all got out to get 1 vs 1 fights, and there they began the fight.
Zephyr and the bat demon started their fight.
The moment they both ran and clashed hand to hand,
the demon would have the power if it's hand-to-hand because Zephyr is a human,
and his hand is naturally weaker than a demon's,
and the bat demons are more solid.
So the other girl came and attacked Hana,
and the other demon attacked Zephyr.
So there they began to fight.
That's when Zephyr ran faster and faster and clashed with the one who attacked him,
and he said,
"You're using your barriers on your hand so that you won't get hurt."
Then Zephyr said,
"It won't even repel the force of our clash—
it returns it twice!"
And just like that,
they both began to laugh.
At the very least, they are doing it right.
While that was happening,
the other demon and Hana were fighting.
Hana specializes in creating manipulation of sand—
that is, creating what she wants from it:
shapes and other forms.
And that's how she manipulated the sand
and created a huge hand out of earth and sand magic.
She began to fight with the demon.
The demon—
she is just avoiding her attack and playing it safe,
and that's just how it went.
She felt bored as well.
And Fysal felt so humiliated seeing the barrier user fight like a pro.
So he said,
"I won't use my realm. I'm gonna fight hand to hand."
And the demon felt really bored and said,
"Aren't you a magician or something? Hit me with your spells and stop playing around, kid."
Then Fysal continued.
After a while, he used his realm:
Earth Realm: Upside-Down – Shattered Ruin.
And then the demon evaded everything
and started to begin the real fight.
The demon said,
"Now that's impressive, but it's weak.
A weak mind and a weak spirit kill a strong spirit.
What a waste of talent.
You call this a realm?
Even that girl over there manipulated sand and earth—
you're the same as what she did,
but it's only upside down.
That's why you don't deserve my attention.
'Cursed Hills V Demon Realm: Sharp Ruins'"
And stones—very sharp stones—began to grow,
even reached the upside-down earths and destroyed them.
And the demon dog walked to Fysal and played him.
He used Cursed Grounds and raised him up,
then threw him from the sky and burst his belly wide open,
leaving him coughing blood on the ground.
The stones went through his stomach,
so he screamed.
Hana ran, forgetting her opponent.
And at that moment,
she got hit by the female bat.
Zephyr tried to get to him,
but his opponent was no joke,
and still stopped him.
Then his opponent said,
"You are still immature, you know.
Think about the end after you die."
And said,
'Cursed Realm: Vivid Hell'
Then the demon started to glow dark purple fire
and began to rain dark flames.
Zephyr used Mega Barrier and was about to defend them.
And in that very moment,
they melted the barrier and passed through,
and began to burn the place.
Hana and Fysal were heavily injured,
so he turned over to see the princess Layla,
with burned wounds covering her.
Her very own friends—Hana and Fysal—were getting burned.
And he said,
"For how long am I just going to be a burden?
For how long am I going to disappoint everyone around?
Isn't it enough?"
And his body began shivering—
his hands glowing,
his legs and hand joints,
his back,
his abs and chest,
and his shoes as well.
Then the glowing thing shone brighter,
and it turned out it was aura,
and it covered his body,
but it seemed like it was swallowing him.
And the moment it finished swallowing him,
he screamed so loud with a raging voice and said,
'Eternal Art: Barrier Mode – White Knight'
The Realm is for mana users,
and Eternal is for aura farmers,
though usually it's only for the special ones—
just like him, with only one skill.
And he was wearing armor like a knight.
And suddenly,
he had a sword made of light,
and his form possessed a holy power.
That is because of his family—
they are noble,
and that's why his first form was connected
to Holy Light Magic of his ancestors.
Demons,
no matter how much curse they have,
their weakness is holy powers.
That's when he said,
"You're dead, demon. You're dead."
Then Fysal saw some sort of his past.
When he was a kid,
the king met someone who said he saw the future,
and said:
"You people don't train and invest much in this kid (Fysal).
He is definitely going to be the strongest ever,
but leave him be for now.
I see someone from far, far away
who will teach him everything he needs to know
with an improper duel.
Until then,
let him stay all high and mighty."
From that day on,
he went on high and royalty mode—
that Delta taught him.
Then he was able to learn
that his realm was nothing.
And he needs to accept
that hand-to-hand is in fact the most important one for survival.
And that he needs to balance.
Even after that,
he needs to train physically
and always respect everyone.
Thinking that everyone is under him
is something that only a fool will do
in a world full of monsters.
It made him feel like he is a fool,
just full of himself.
And that's how he heard his scream
and saw the light and said,
"Is that Delta?
No, he is Zephyr.
Wow, hard work really beat talent.
It's not that I didn't really do some work,
I just didn't realize its worth.
My magic and me—
my strong mind,
strong spirit,
and my strong soul—
make me stronger.
That's all I need.
I'm coming, Zephyr!"
And he melted the rock
that its tip went in,
and woke up and walked to Hana and Princess Layla,
and threw two regeneration potions.
And when they saw he was standing in front of them,
he said,
"Hana, we have an unfinished mission."
And she said with a smile,
"Yes love, we do."
And they walked to their opponents.
And she said,
'Earth Realm: Breathing Statue'
And statues of savage fighter style formed.
They are solid and indestructible,
at least not by any regular and normal attacks.
And then they began to fight
while she used them to attack.
Fysal saw his opponent from the ground and said,
"Let's go another round."
The demon didn't say a word.
He jumped straight to his face and shouted,
"Cursed Hills Demon Realm: Sharp Ruins – Complex Ground!"
Then sharp stones grew,
and the land expanded and filled with them.
They were mega large this time,
and the stones were randomly growing.
They all thought Fysal was already done—
even the demon said,
"He can't survive this,"
and turned around to fight.
That's when Fysal said,
"I'm not done talking to you."
And walked with ease.
Every stone and even the ground he touched began to melt and get hot.
That's when they all realized—
he had already passed the first realm
and was using the second realm.
Fysal said,
"Earth Realm – Second Stage: Volcano Ensnarl!"
Even though the volcano was melting the ground,
it was just like moving tentacles,
pulling the demon in the moment he stood.
And when it pulled him into the magma,
it was like quicksand.
The moment the demon was engulfed up to his neck,
his whole body melted away,
and eventually,
even his head melted—
just like quicksand.
Then Fysal stood on the magma,
and using his feet,
he rolled over and skied on it,
moving toward Hana.
At that time,
Hana had already surrounded the demon,
and she used her sand technique
that she learned from the king called Paralipsis.
She could paralyze anyone she cut
after activating it for 3 minutes.
After she got her,
her statue did the demon dirty.
They really did—
smashing her with this and that with brutal force,
and finally killed her.
And Zephyr finished his fight too,
with his new form's cool attack named
"Piercing Light."
He just stabbed the demon,
and the demon exploded from the inside out
because of the high holy light power surged into him.
Then they all slept on their backs,
and Zephyr destroyed the demon barrier
and fell on his back.
It was his first time using ancestor power.
Layla came and let him lay down on her lap,
her fingers brushing through his hair.
She said while crying,
"You did it again… you saved us, my hero."
And he said,
"Don't cry, sweetie,"
and pulled her over and hugged her
while they both slept on the ground.
"Well, when they both got their asses beat up
and cuddled each other,
I fought with my damn life on the line!"
Everyone and the king saw that the barrier was gone.
He said,
"There must be something going on there…
but I feel like it's not something to worry about.
I'm a king—
as a father,
I want to be there for my daughter.
That's the same for big brother;
he wants to be there for Fysal.
But we can't ignore what happened here and go.
We need Delta for a real fight.
We are fighting for our royal family's benefit—
it doesn't concern the kingdom.
So should I go check in on them or…
may…be… not."
Then I saw him thinking like that and said,
"Wait a second."
I teleported there and came back and said to him,
"They're sleeping on the grass."
Both the Grandmaster and the King said,
"What?"
I said,
"You heard me right.
They're sleeping.
I don't know what they're doing,
but yeah…
they're definitely enjoying it."
And they said,
"Could it be…?
We better finish fast and get back."
Believe it or not,
we were chatting while killing.
It was almost like wiping them off.
Then more demons came.
And the king said,
"We've already killed so many,
and they're the last ones.
So leave them to me and go back.
We've already won."
I was shocked by his confidence
and saw what he had to do.
He said,
"Earth Realm – First Stage: Instant Paralysis!"
And every demon got paralyzed.
Then he said,
"Give me the Seraphant Potion we have,"
and I gave it to him.
He drank it and closed his eyes for 10 seconds
and said,
"Let's go back."
Then I saw what he did.
He drank the potion—
which is venomous—
and he circulated it throughout his body
and gathered it in the sand,
getting it out first from the tips of his fingers
and into the sand.
He controlled the sand
and delivered it to every demon.
He used his realm to multiply it in amount as well.
And that's how he was able to do it.
We got back,
and I had already placed
a camera inside the castle
around the wall.
And today is movie night.
We're gonna see the movie
of our beloved fighters.
Well of course I took video and preprepared live camera and I began to show them all.
Then everyone celebrated,
and danced the whole night.