Chapter 37 Battle and Demons "I've made some gains." Mary...

“We’ve made some progress.” Mary pushed open the door and walked alone to the unlit alleyway where Ethan and the others were waiting for her. “We’re now certain that the group is in this town.”

Three or four days had passed since they received the mission and began their tracking. They had conducted a thorough search, but were misled by information from the group of heretics and went in the wrong direction several times. It was only with great difficulty that they finally found this inconspicuous town, located in the most remote part of the country, by using divination and perspective-taking.

It's so remote. If Starfall City is in the far north of the country, this town is on the far right, right next to the border of the country. You can even walk to other countries.

Although it's very remote, the ecological environment here is excellent, and it's also a somewhat well-known tourist attraction online, with occasional visitors coming here for sightseeing.

It's currently peak tourist season, so there's a lot of people coming and going. People dressed in all sorts of outfits are showing up, and I only found out about Jeka's experience after asking around.

Everyone thought the description sounded like those heretics, and it even seemed like they had summoned a demon. That made things even worse; they had to find the demon quickly, or everyone in the town might be eaten.

Mary took out the eight-pointed star badge, her expression somewhat serious: "This should be their badge representing their identity? I destroyed the magic circle inside, but there's already a very strong demonic aura. They must have successfully summoned a demon."

"Can I take a look?" Ethan was more concerned about the demon being summoned, and his heart sank.

“Of course.” Mary certainly wouldn’t refuse Ethan’s request; she had already seen it.

When Ethan took a look, he indeed saw that the demonic aura still lingered. It wasn't hard to imagine how deep the demonic aura was before Mary destroyed the formation.

Ethan gently stroked the fine lines, recalling the magic circles he had seen before, trying to match the one in front of him with the one in order to deduce which type of demon had been summoned.

No, that's not it. There's an extra circle here.

No, that's not it, it's missing a corner.

No, that's not it. This summoning circle has an incompatible material and requires sacrificing a life.

How strange, which one is it? It's not this one, it's not this one, it's not this one... Wait, what happened?

Ethan's memory of the summoning circle in the forbidden section of the Starfall Library flashed by rapidly, and he finally managed to grab a familiar one.

Ethan tried to recall.

He remembered everything. He had seen this demon summoning circle in Starfall's library. When Starfall showed it to him, he told him not to summon demons for fun. If he was really curious, he could summon some low-level demons first. If he couldn't handle them, he could come back to him.

...Can demons be summoned and played with? Faced with the hardcore Starfall, Ethan didn't dare to voice his doubts. In short, he wouldn't dare to summon them for fun; demons aren't toys.

In short, when Ethan was told by Starfall that he could summon demons to play, he happened to be looking at that page, which explained the summoning circle.

The demon summoned by that summoning circle should not be of high level, probably low to mid-level, and not too difficult to deal with. However, the name it called out didn't match up, so the heretics must have summoned the wrong one.

Ethan shared this relatively good news with his teammates, and the worry on their faces lessened a bit, because even though they had become magicians, their experience was still not very rich, after all, they hadn't been with the team for very long.

The four of them relaxed a bit and didn't have the tact to ask him how he knew so much. Where did he learn a summoning circle that could summon demons? They didn't ask.

Ethan and his companions followed Mary to the area around the abandoned house she had found out about, which was considered their continued pursuit of the heretics' hideout.

They arrived too late. Even though they carefully infiltrated, they couldn't change the fact that the heretics had left and moved away.

But a blood-red magic circle remained on the ground. Dan touched it with his finger: "It's blood."

This is not good news.

Even without a deep understanding of these heretics, I had learned about their madness while tracking them. Many lower-ranking heretics would voluntarily sacrifice their lives to leave a last chance for higher-ranking heretics to escape, and they would laugh maniacally, saying that their faith would protect them.

If someone is willing to die, to go mad, and doesn't even care about the lives of their own people, how could they possibly care about the lives of others? Mary and the others thought the chances of that were very slim.

They need to find those heretics faster, otherwise the number of people being murdered will continue to increase. Even if they are low-level demons, they are still demons and still have the ability to kill people easily, so they need to resolve this matter quickly.

Terry took out a map of the town and spread it out on the ground. The five of them then used their own methods to perform divination.

Dan took out a gemstone pendant and held it above the distribution map. The pendant swayed and stopped, moving left and right intermittently.

Terry took out a crystal ball and stroked it; white mist slowly emerged from the crystal ball.

Cassie bit his finger and drew something in the air. The blood actually stayed in mid-air. After he finished drawing, he moved forward a little, and the blood slowly condensed into an arrow made of blood, pointing in a direction.

Mary took out a tarot card, flipped over one of them, her eyes lit up, and she began to interpret its meaning.

Ethan glanced at Dan on the left, then at Mary on the right, and fell silent as he looked at the coin he was about to toss in his hand.

Ethan: "..."

Ethan had just asked himself where the new direction for the heretics was, and he had just gotten a general idea of ​​the direction when the other four all said they had found it, they had found it, and the result was still the same.

Ethan fell into deep thought. Flipping a coin seemed like a good option when making a decision, but divining a location that was important and needed to be found quickly didn't seem to suit him.

Does he need to find other divination methods? I'm not really ready to learn anymore; I feel like I won't have much time later. Oh well, I'll think about it when I have time.

With his teammates so enthusiastic, he really wanted to relax. Oh, wait, he still had his Guardian duties, so he decided against it.

Everyone packed their things, and Dan simply wrapped the pendant around her left wrist, then pulled her sleeve so that it was completely invisible.

Terry put the crystal ball in his backpack and thoughtfully handed Cassie a band-aid. He turned around to ask Mary if she should put the tarot cards in his backpack too, but found that Mary had long since forgotten where she had put the cards, leaving him empty-handed.

Ethan silently tossed the coin back into his storage space.

The four people all divined the same direction, which wasn't far from the abandoned house, but it was also at the other end of the town.

Because they didn't have the exact coordinates, they didn't open a portal. Instead, they found a deserted spot and flew to the vicinity in an instant, then began searching for places where the heretics might be hiding.

Dan and his group found a basement and detected a faint demonic aura; this must be the place.

They were prepared before breaking down the door, their magic ready to be unleashed, waiting to strike down anyone who attacked them, showing no mercy to the madman.

As the door was broken open, the first thing that came into view was a large group of white-cloaked heretics standing on both sides. In front of them, at the very back of the room, was a figure with more intricate and ornate dark patterns on his cloak, who was probably the leader. He was handing a cup of blood to the demon, and next to him, a person who was obviously tied up and bleeding was not known to be dead or alive.

How can this be tolerated? Demons naturally grow by absorbing negative human emotions: anger, fear, jealousy, and greed. These are the best ways for demons to increase their power. Drinking fresh human blood is even worse; it's another huge boost.

Therefore, you must never let the summoned demon drink blood. Otherwise, the more blood it drinks, the more its power increases, and the stronger its thirst for blood becomes. It will not suppress its desire to kill at all, and directly absorbing souls will be a great supplement.

It's unclear how long these lunatics have been summoning the demons, but Terry and the others certainly won't tolerate the possibility of the demons growing stronger.

So they unleashed their magic simultaneously. The combined magic of the five of them not only shattered the cup containing the blood, but the aftershocks also sent the leader flying. Some of the magic even landed on the demon, diverting its attention from the delicious food in front of it to the uninvited guest at the door.

"You're courting death!" the demon roared, its voice neither male nor female and echoing, making it difficult to hear clearly. With a wave of its hand, an attack came at them.

Ethan and his companions, of course, wouldn't stand still and foolishly let the demon hit them. The five of them decisively split up and rushed into the crowd of heretics, advancing towards the demon while knocking away all the heretics.

Ethan even saw the fastest-moving Trek check on the pitiful man who had been bled, stuff something into his mouth, and then angrily retreated to kick the man he had already knocked down several times. Of course, his magic didn't stop either, knocking away those who attacked him.

Perhaps noticing Ethan's gaze, Terry wasn't guilty at all: "The victims would have bled to death if they had come any later! What's wrong with kicking them a few times? I didn't kill them."

That seems to be true. Besides, quite a few people have died at the hands of heretics. What's wrong with kicking them a few times?

Ethan was persuaded. Although he didn't kick them, he ruthlessly stomped on the heads of those who were still conscious but unable to move.

Whether he felt pain or not was no longer his concern; what he was more concerned about was how to defeat this demon, and whether the poor victim had just taken something that restored his health. If not, would he be able to hold on until they finished their treatment?

Terry was supposed to be the first to arrive at the demon's vicinity, but in his anger, he went back and fought a few times, making Cassie the first to arrive. Cassie then directly engaged the demon in hand-to-hand combat, and for a time, they were evenly matched.

Ethan was shocked. He had thought that magicians relied more on their magic than on physical combat. Cassie was so brave.

Unfortunately, Cassie soon showed signs of being outmatched and eventually resorted to magic. Mary and Dan, who arrived later, attacked the demon from different angles.

Ethan glanced at Terry, who was cursing and kicking heads around like a football in the crowd, and resolutely joined Cassie and the others.

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Author's note: Ethan: No, is it that my divination method is a bit inferior?

Try writing something longer. The octopus monster I fought with my Guardian colleagues was defeated in no time […], with absolutely no description. Let's see if this helps us understand the quest.

The demon was only recently summoned and hasn't had much healing, so it's not particularly strong yet; it's considered a beginner dungeon.

I don't want to do my homework QAQ

The plagiarized article that I found on a certain search engine has been deleted, leaving only four images, but it still feels uncomfortable to look at. Although the original article isn't displayed in the browser search, clicking on the website still leads to […].