The Story Never Ends

In the streets, people were escaping towards the cities near the Sect and the devils were chasing after them. But suddenly an icy beam of light came from behind which easily froze most of the devils on the ground.

The devils who were flying became alarmed after they saw this. They were about to turn back when flaming arrows started raining down upon them. Many of them were pierced and crashed on the ground. Then they started burning due to the flames. However, the strange thing was that nobody died as the flames immediately stopped after a few seconds.

Seeing this, the devils thought that they had a chance to flee. Yet, they were too naive. Large roots emerged from the ground which surrounded all of them in the vicinity including the frozen ones. The roots tied them up and dragged them in a certain direction.

"Amazing!" Davion who saw everything exclaimed and praised them.

"I could have never imagined that you girls could work so flawlessly." The moment Mia struck with her icy sword light, to how Amelia incapacitated the flying devils with her flaming arrows and the plant elemental spell cast by Stella to bring them to him was perfectly executed. Especially these roots, it was his first time seeing someone casting a plant-based spell.

"Thank you, Senior Brother, for your compliment. We have been doing missions together for a long time. So, it's easy for us. Nonetheless, this is not worth mentioning infront of you," Stella praised him too.

"Haha, I believe that you girls will be able to catch up soon." Davion laughed.

"Humph, why don't you take care of those devils first? We still have a lot remaining," Mia coldly said.

"This girl.." Davion sighed and set his sights on the devils that were tied up.

"Thunder Domain"

Streaks of lightning gathered around them and they died in the blink of an eye. Only burnt corpses were left behind.

"This was why I said to let me have the finishing blow." Davion thought of a valid reason. 

The girls had their mouths wide open. They couldn't believe that he was this strong. Stella finally understood why he was favored by Elder Liliana. But there was one thing that was bugging her mind. With this strength, why was he still staying in the bottom courtyard?

Mia and Amelia also had similar thoughts. However, they were confused about how he could use lightning energy. They had a fresh memory of being beaten by his dark energy. Earlier they had thought that it was the lightning energy stored in that halberd and its ability but it seems that they were completely wrong.

"Don't tell me he possesses a dual attribute spiritual root?" Mia whispered to Amelia.

"I think this should be the case. I heard that only the top disciples of the four major sects have such dual attribute spiritual roots," Amelia said.

"He is really terrifying in terms of both talent and strength," Although Mia didn't like him, she couldn't help but respect him.

"Why does this sound similar?" Amelia pondered.

"Eh!" Mia exclaimed when she heard where Amelia was pointing to.

"Are you thinking about the masked man?" Mia asked with a shaky voice.

Amelia nodded and looked at Davion carefully. She was without a doubt interested in getting to know more about him.

"Girls, you are doing it again," Davion reminded them.

"Oh! Sorry." They gave an embarrassing look and went to stop those remaining devils.

"Being handsome is a bit troublesome…" Davion muttered.

***

An hour later, almost all the devils have been wiped out from the city and the people have already been evacuated. Even though some devils managed to escape, they felt tired to chase them. So, they were sitting cross-legged on the ground and meditating to recover their Qi.

On the ground, there were corpses of hundreds of devils and lots of devil minions. A few distances away from them lay ten unique large corpses which still radiated a dangerous aura. Thus, one could easily recognize that these bodies were of the devil commanders.

"They really benefited a lot this time." Davion thought while looking at these corpses. 

"However, it's not that I didn't get anything. Although these ten devils are quite good, the most important thing for me is the contribution points. Now I am close to leveling up and the most surprising thing is that I can finally learn the Devil Soul Art." Indeed, Davion had enough experience points to learn this art at last.

"I should return back to the sect and learn it immediately." Excitement could be seen on his face. But it didn't last long as he heard a female crying out from the right.

"Please save my children. Someone." He looked over and saw a mature woman wearing tattered clothes approaching their direction.

"How could someone still remain here?" Stella stood up and gazed at her suspiciously.

"Yeah, is she some type of devil transformed into a human?" Mia even took her sword and got prepared if something happened. The same goes for Amelia.

Davion also had this same thought as he had already seen the children who could transform into a devil. He used his Mind-Eye and tried to see through her but found no traces of devil essence. Even so, he still couldn't completely trust her. 

Thus, he coldly asked, "Who are you? You should know that everyone has already evacuated."

Yet, he saw that the old woman didn't reply to him but directly started kowtowing. She then begged, "Please believe me. I'm not lying. I was hiding in the basement with my children. But who could have thought that suddenly an explosion would take place and blow up my whole house?"

She even started shedding off tears. Her tattered clothes, some wounds on her body, and this action made her seem very miserable.

Seeing this, the girls had a soft spot in their hearts and Stella was the first one to speak. "Maybe she might be really telling the truth."

Mia and Amelia glanced at each other and nodded their heads. If she was a devil, then she shouldn't have been able to act this realistically while showing such emotions.

Davion didn't know what to say. Thus, he could only ask, "Then what happened later on?"

She wiped her tears and replied, "I don't know. I had passed out due to the explosion and when I woke up, I found that my whole house had already collapsed. Not only that, my children were even missing."

After listening to this, Stella neared her and comforted her by patting her shoulders. Then she asked, "Did you find any clues?"

"Yes, I slowly came out from the ruins and saw two devils taking away my children." Anger could be seen on her face.

"Humm, but why did they leave you?" Davion questioned her as he found too many loopholes in her narration.

The woman shook her head and shed more of her tears.

"Senior Brother, how can you go so harsh on her?" Stella didn't like it.

"Why don't we try to search for them?" Amelia, who hadn't spoken for a while finally opened her mouth.

"Maybe she is leading us somewhere." Davion still had a cold on his face.

"Hehe, Senior Brother, what are you scared of? Even if she leads us somewhere you promised to protect us all." Mia mocked him.

"Did I really say that?" Davion pretended to forget it. Actually, he was in a hurry to reach the sect and learn the Devil Soul Art. So, he didn't want to waste any time here with this suspicious woman.

"Senior Brother, how could you be so cold?" Stella said.

"Wew, let's do as you all say." Davion could only go with the flow.

"So, where do we start to search from?" Davion asked since he knew that his Mind-Eye was not powerful enough to cover the whole city right now.

When he asked this, the woman immediately stood up and pointed her finger in a certain direction, and said, "I saw those devils taking my children there."

"Ok! Lead us the way," Davion ordered. Even though there might be some ambushes on the way, he didn't worry about it. He knew that the only things that could threaten his life right now were the devil kings and above. Since the sect hadn't sensed anyone of that level, he should be able to walk sideways confidently. 

*** 

A while later, they had already reached the open fields in the outskirts of the city. But who knows why the woman suddenly stopped here?

"Did you find something?" Davion asked. He was using his Mind-Eye and observing everything around him. Yet, he didn't feel the breaths of either the devils or her children.

However, the woman didn't answer but smiled while looking at Davion.

"See inside your ring." A male voice came out from her mouth.

"What?" The girls got frightened and immediately backed a few steps.

Davion knew that something like this might have happened and was prepared. So, he didn't react like them and peeped inside his ring as she told.

"How could this happen?" He got shell-shocked with what he saw.

"Haha..." A burst of manly laughter came out from the mouth of the woman and her skin started to peel off.