Dangerous Situation

Within a residential area of commoners' buildings surrounded by stone walls.

Han Dong had already carried the seriously injured Demps away.

[Adelaide], who had been directly exposed to the Intense Light, knelt on one knee and slowly recovered from the pain.

His face area, several of his eyeballs were completely burned by pebbles.

Foul-smelling pus flowed from the gaps in the eyeballs.

Crackling sounds!

Many of the pebble eyeballs fell off, revealing a face woven from shredded flesh, with the remaining red flesh completely charred.

Kanajima Soichiro's flashlight.

It's not just about shining Intense Light on it; when it's pointed at ordinary ghost stories, in addition to evaporating the physical body, it also absorbs the entire soul of the ghost story into it.

The same thing happened just now; it almost pulled Adelaide's soul out of her body...

The dumpling that was about to be eaten was gone just like that, and the demon had even burned his mouth. Naturally, he was furious.

Adelaide vented all her anger on the civilians living in the current building.

One by one, the wriggling pebbles began to move in each household's home, forcibly burrowing into their bodies and forcibly seizing control.

"Next time we meet, I won't consider capturing him alive... I'll just take the body back with me."

Underground Tavern

The team members have collected information on the cement delivery points managed by different organizations and have all gathered here.

When Han Dong returned carrying the seriously injured Demps.

Mia is the only one in the team who can be considered a medical professional.

The immediate priority here is to provide emergency treatment and prevent the injury from worsening as much as possible... Once the situation is stabilized, then consider transferring Demps to the first aid station on the second floor of the Holy City.

"What are these things!?"

Lifting his outer garment, one could see a large number of small pebbles tearing at Demps ' inner soft armor...

"The attributes of the Otherworldly Demons..."

"You've encountered [Otherworldly Demons]?!"

"We'll talk about it later, let's check on Demps first..."

Knight Veno, standing nearby, aimed directly at the area of rubble and cast a small-scale Holy Light spell... Instantly, the pebbles lost their vitality and fell to the ground.

Mia then took over the treatment.

When carefully removing Demps's inner lining soft nails.

What was exposed was a body covered in wounds... completely at odds with Demps's fair and delicate British appearance.

Various forms of burning, cutting, and even branding were applied to the flesh.

These are all permanent Scars left on Demps's body from his past traumas.

After a brief examination, Mia said gravely, "Complete fracture of the lower ribs, ruptured kidney, severe internal bleeding. But..."

"But what?"

"It's strange. An ordinary person would probably be on the verge of death long ago... but Demps's vitality shows no signs of diminishing."

Mia has already started grinding the ointment.

As the highly effective healing ointment was evenly applied to Demps's body... bizarre imaginings began.

Demps's skin has become like a 'feeding' system, absorbing the ointment instantly upon contact with it.

At the same time, his injured area began to heal at an extremely rapid pace.

Han Dong noticed something and immediately said, "Mia... pour all the ointment on his injured area."

"Good."

As expected.

Within a short time, all the ointment was 'eaten up' by Demps's body.

In less than five minutes.

Demps reopened his eyes and abruptly sat up... He ignited fire element in his left hand and condensed icy energy in his right, seemingly still believing he was fighting the [Otherworldly Demon].

"Hmm? They escaped... I was too careless; I got distracted by the stone wall."

Demps, looking completely unfazed, quickly put on his coat.

Only the surprised teammates remained.

"Demps, your physical body?"

"... The adaptive effect from spending three hours a day soaking in the Pool of Enchantment allows my body to automatically absorb the potion."

Demps remained calm, showing no concern whatsoever about his recent serious injuries.

"By the way, has everyone collected the 'cement delivery points'?"

The topic was immediately shifted, and at Demps's suggestion, everyone marked the locations on a map.

Knowing that the cement is used for 'rebuilding the wall', connect the nearest marked points with short straight lines.

Slowly...

A familiar mark was drawn on the map.

"This is!"

The shapes drawn on the map almost perfectly match the markings on the surface of the coin.

"If all the stone walls are rebuilt, some kind of large-scale unknown formation will be activated... The consequences will be unimaginable."

"We can't handle this; we must report it immediately!"

When Knight Veno learned the truth, she no longer considered her own interests; such a large-scale conspiracy had to be dealt with by the Knight Order.

Every second of delay was extremely risky, so Vino turned to leave.

"Etc!"

Han Dong reached out and grabbed Vino.

"What are you doing? This matter involves the basic security of the Holy City. Stop thinking about your own interests; there's no time to waste." Vino regarded Han Dong's behavior as an expression of his own selfish desires.

Han Dong explained patiently:

"Sister Wino."

When I took over the "Secret Stone Incident", I consulted Mr. Black and White... His attitude was that we could handle it, but we needed to be careful.

Mr. Black and White's astrological skills must be well aware of what is currently happening in the Slums.

You should know what I mean, right?

"And... I'm not stopping you from reporting, it's just that there are some things that haven't been fully explained yet."

Vino nodded. "Go ahead."

There is one thing I cannot understand.

Why wasn't there a single knight patrolling the area where Demps and I just encountered the [Otherworldly Demon]?

Vino immediately shook her head, "Impossible! The Secret Stone Incident has been officially announced to the Knight Order. If we can kill the invading demons, we can get a considerable reward and also improve our reputation."

Knights who haven't been assigned work recently should all be patrolling the Slums with their squires... there shouldn't be any 'missing' knights.

"When we encounter the demons, they will activate the barrier."

Formal Knight wouldn't be unaware of a "barrier" that covers at least a thousand square meters? Besides, we stayed inside the barrier for at least five minutes, and we caused quite a commotion during the battle.

I eventually escaped, carrying Demps across three blocks without seeing a single knight patrolling the area.

Vino looked shocked. "You mean... someone in the Holy City is orchestrating all of this?"

"I'm afraid this 'master' who can control the Knight Order' patrols is also the mole who led the Otherworldly Demons to secretly invade through the abandoned Underground Sewer... Mr. Black and White probably wants to use this incident to investigate who this mole behind the scenes really is, right?"

Or perhaps Mr. Black and White already knows who it is, but the other party's status and identity require reasonable and sufficiently strong evidence to challenge.

"Therefore... I suggest that Abel report the situation directly to Commander Kaimon."

This will prevent problems from occurring in the intermediate stages.