The Demon Ancestor

Twenty xenon lamps nearby and six searchlights in the distance switched on at the same moment. The entire harbor turned as bright as day, dispelling the darkness.

They also illuminated the Evil Profession members who had leaped from the yacht onto the shore. They wore identical black robes with hoods that concealed their faces.

More than a dozen New Covenant County police officers lying in ambush behind the containers hefted six shoulder-fired rocket launchers and pulled the triggers at the hooded figures.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Six trails of smoke shrieked toward the black-robed figures. Explosions boomed in succession, and flames engulfed the Evil Profession members from District Two.

The firelight warped their silhouettes, and the black-robed figures shattered like phantoms. Then, they reappeared more than ten meters away.

No, they had been there all along. The New Covenant County government police had fallen under an illusion and fired at an empty patch of ground.

"Sending a bunch of ants to disgust us?"

One black-robed figure stepped forward and raised his head. Dizzying vortices surfaced in his eye sockets.

When the officers carrying rocket launchers met those eyes, filled with translucent vortices, the fear in their hearts exploded. They frantically threw down their weapons and fled the harbor.

Against ordinary mortals as insignificant as ants, this Illusionist could not even be bothered to use Mental Strike. He did not think they were worth losing Moral Value over.

Whoosh!

A sudden, piercing howl of wind rang out. With a crisp bang behind the Illusionist, a deep slash appeared, and his body slowly split apart, cleaved in two by the sudden wind blade.

His organs spilled out with a splash as blood spread across the ground.

A Saint-stage Illusionist had returned to the Spirit Realm just like that.

Whooo~ A gale swept up, and