"Have you decided what kind of familiar you want?"
Walking in the dark forest, Leo led the way to the three dependent girls and asked without looking back.
The three girls followed Leo closely. After hearing Leo's question, they thought for a while and gave their own answers.
"I want a stronger familiar, preferably one that can help me in battle."
Yukino Yukinoshita remembered the last time he lost to Sharon, and it seems that it still bothers him, so he made this request.
"I prefer a familiar that can help me complete Devil's work. There are no special requirements in terms of combat ability."
Asuna Yuuki is completely opposite to Yukino Yukinoshita, and has very similar needs to the original Leo. After all, she is not very demanding about strength, but hopes to do her job as well as possible.
"Is there any kind of familiar that can help people write?"
Utaha Kasumigaoka's request is a bit strange, but if you think about it carefully, it is understandable.
The problem of dystocia in the second volume of her favorite work <Koi no Metronome> has not been resolved until now. She had once forgotten about it because of the Reincarnated Devil incident some time ago, but recently the editor urged her to write another draft, which reminded her of this matter, so now it has become a headache for her again.
After becoming Devil, she became stronger and entered another world, but now Devil relies on human society to survive, and the owner Leo has no intention of taking them away from the world, so she still doesn't want to give up writing.
It would be great if there was a familiar that could assist me in writing... Utaha Kasumigaoka couldn't help but think so.
But this request left Leo speechless.
"I don't know if there are such familiars. Anyway, I have never seen them, let alone heard of them." Leo said a little unbearably, "It's true that there are smarter monsters, but I'm not sure whether they can help you with your writing. I'll help you look for them later."
"Asuna's needs are quite satisfied. I know where there are familiars who are more capable in this regard. I will take you to find them later."
"As for Yukino's request..."
Leo thought for a while and said to Yukino Yukinoshita.
"It can't be said that there are all kinds of monsters with powerful combat capabilities here, but there are quite a few. However, if you want to sign a contract with a monster with powerful combat capabilities and make them a familiar, you usually need to defeat them."
"I can recommend several relatively powerful monsters to you. You should be able to defeat them based on your strength. However, being defeated by you proves that they are not stronger than you. It is difficult to say how much help they can give you in battle, not to mention that you are still in a period of rapid strength improvement. Even if you conquer a more powerful familiar, you will quickly throw it away, and finally reduce the familiar to a useless existence."
"So, I suggest you conquer some familiars that are relatively weak at the moment, but have great potential and can become stronger and stronger in the future. However, such familiars are usually scarce, so you have to be mentally prepared if you don't encounter them."
With that said, Leo led the girls around several turns and walked in one direction.
He had studied this forest before in order to conquer his familiars and learned about the habitats of various monsters in Familiar Forest.
Now, he is going to take the girls to a territory where powerful familiars live to see if Yukino Yukinoshita can take their fancy.
But just as Leo and his party passed by a relatively deserted sandy area, Leo suddenly stopped.
"Minister?"
"What's wrong?"
Asuna Yuuki and Utaha Kasumigaoka sounded confused at the same time.
Yukino Yukinoshita originally wanted to ask, but seemed to notice something and his eyes froze.
"Something is coming."
After Leo entered Familiar Forest, it released Magic Detection, turning the area around itself into its own radar area.
So, Leo looked in one direction and made a faint sound.
"They are a group of disgusting things, so you have to be mentally prepared."
Leo had just finished speaking when, from the other end of the sand, black shadows ran over from small to large.
"Hoo..."
"Hoo..."
Accompanied by waves of low roars like sticky saliva dripping down the throat, the black shadow slowly appeared in its entirety and entered the girls' field of vision.
After the girls saw the full picture of the black shadow, their expressions suddenly changed.
"What is that?!"
Asuna Yuuki exclaimed.
I saw humanoid monsters running from the other side of the sand one after another.
They have solid muscles with flesh and blood, like skinless aliens. They are huge and at least two meters tall. Their limbs are like beasts, kicking and moving very fast. Their long tongues are thrown out of their ferocious mouths, and their facial features are squeezed together, making them look extremely scary.
"That's a ghoul, a monster that feeds on corpses. When active in the wild, it often robs graves and feeds on the flesh and blood of the deceased's corpses or children. Sometimes it also lures passing travelers into the wasteland to kill and devour them. It is a very dirty and ugly creature."
Leo looked at the monsters that kept attacking and spoke in a calm tone.
"They usually live in sand or deserts and are migratory. The sandy land below us was originally the territory of a group of Sand Worm. Now it seems that the group of Sand Worm has been attacked by these migrating ghouls."
While he was talking, the hideous ghouls were already surrounding them. Some of them even jumped up high and pounced on Leo's group, causing the smell of blood and the rotting smell of corpses to rush over first.
"Don't come any closer!"
Utaha Kasumigaoka was the first one who couldn't bear it anymore and actually took action before the others.
"Buzz--"
As the atmosphere trembled, Utaha Kasumigaoka opened his hands and let a transparent barrier appear out of thin air, covering himself and others.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...
The incoming ghouls hit the transparent barrier one by one, as if hitting an extremely hard steel wall, and flew out with a dull impact.
Utaha Kasumigaoka then opened a barrier and laid a defense wall to block the attack of a large group of ghouls.
"Boom!"
At this time, Yukino Yukinoshita followed suit, and the cold air surged around him, sweeping out with a sudden burst, bringing with it a gust of wind and snow that was generated out of thin air and enveloped the ghouls.
Wherever the wind and snow passed, ice slag condensed from the atmosphere, and ice formed from the ground. The ghouls were either blown away with frost all over their bodies, or were directly frozen into ice, turning into terrifying ice sculptures, with their ferocious faces slowly coming to life.
"Asuna!"
Yukino Yukinoshita called to the girl next to him to let the girl understand.
Asuna Yuuki saw Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka taking action, took a deep breath, and suddenly rushed out of the barrier.
Her speed was very fast, so fast that one might wonder if her eyes were blurry. The figure hidden in the darkness quickly swept out like a ghost, and in an instant she was close to a large group of ghouls whose attack was blocked by the barrier and the snow.
And in her hand, divine waves emitted from nowhere, causing a weapon to take shape out of thin air.
It was a thin sword that made people feel sharp and sharp at first glance.
"Haha!"
Asuna Yuuki held a rapier in his hand and rushed forward. Several rays of sword light shot out like flashes of light, stabbing the ghouls one after another.
"Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"...
The sound of a sharp blade penetrating flesh and blood continued to sound, appearing one after another like a drumbeat, causing blood to splash.
"Ho!"
"Ho!"
Several ghouls let out pitiful howls. The places where their bodies were hit by Asuna Yuuki's sword not only instantly became bloody and bloody, but also began to emit black smoke, as if invisible flames were burning, causing them to turn into fly ash and disappear in just a few seconds.
The ghoul is undoubtedly Demonic Creature.
Since it is Demonic Creature, just like Devil, it is extremely afraid of Holy Attribute's attack.
The rapier created by Asuna Yuuki is a holy sword with only a single attribute. It only has the holy attribute, but even so, it is Demonic Creature's natural enemy. Once it hits, the opponent will either be seriously injured or die suddenly on the spot.
"... Is this what real fighting feels like, killing?"
Asuna Yuuki, who was running among the ghouls, had his sword-holding hand trembling slightly, as if he felt psychologically unwell.
This was her first fight, her first time killing a living creature.
For her who has never crushed an insect to death, the feeling of killing is definitely not a good experience.
In the past, Asuna Yuuki would definitely have been difficult to defeat, even if her swordsmanship was taught by Miyamoto Musashi, the strongest swordsman in history.
But now it is night, and she is no longer a human being, she is the real Devil. Devil's instinct to move in the dark night overwhelms most of the discomfort, allowing Asuna Yuuki to swing the sword firmly and kill the ghouls one after another.
Seeing this, Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka looked at each other, and at the same time took action not to be outdone.
Yukino Yukinoshita did not summon Ice Princess, but used Demonic Power to attack, causing countless ice blades, Ice Blade, ice picks, and icicles to appear out of thin air and shoot towards the group of ghouls, piercing and shredding the opponent's flesh.
Utaha Kasumigaoka also expanded the scope of the barrier, covering a large area of ghouls, allowing phenomena such as flames, Lightning, and storms to be born within it, blasting towards the group of ghouls, scattering them in an instant.
The three young girls in their prime slaughtered the ghouls in their own way, and actually the minority overwhelmed the majority, ravaging the group of ghouls unilaterally.
"Not bad."
Leo, on the other hand, did not take action from the beginning to the end. He just stood there quietly, watching his family members stand up and fight the ghouls, with smiles in his eyes.
Obviously, Leo is very satisfied with the performance of the girls.
Especially Asuna Yuuki and Utaha Kasumigaoka, their performance surprised Leo.