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Chapter 295: Hot Pursuit

Chapter 295:  Hot Pursuit

After Daedalus finished telling his story, and everyone had recovered slightly we looked around. We weren’t entirely sure why the Lieutenants had picked this place to meet. Was it just for an ambush, or was there some other reason?

Aside from the entrance tunnel, there were a few more ruins that we found in the area. In the center of the massive stone dome, there was a summoning circle made similarly to the one we’d found in the mansion back in...

Chapter 294: Heaven is a Place on Earth

Chapter 294: Heaven is a Place on Earth

I looked at Daedalus, trying to understand what he meant. The time in my dustbin had obviously changed his physical appearance to be much more fabulous; the look in his eyes gave me the impression he wasn't just referring to that.

"What do you mean? The physical changes, your fire, or something else?"

"It changed me," Daedalus repeated with a shudder. "How long was I in there, anyway?"

I replayed my memories, finding t...

Chapter 293: Rainbow Radiance

Chapter 293: Rainbow Radiance

Harold hadn't made it too much further in tracking the Lieutenant before the promised backup had arrived. It was Susan, the demon's... No. Lord Void's intelligence officer. It was still hard for him to think of Void as anything but a horrific demon that wanted to consume his very soul. However, many times, the Warden corrected him, but the fear was still instinctive.

Having met the strange creature, or godling, as some would call it, Harold did have...

Chapter 292: An Upset Stomach

Chapter 292: An Upset Stomach

The pair of Lieutenants leaped back in surprise at my assault. I hurried after them, spraying arcs of acid after them. Unfortunately, I only had a limited amount of the caustic liquid. It wasn't a simple mix of chemicals that was doing the damage. It was a specific concoction that Beatrice had spent ages preparing, and the magic imbued in it required time to develop, time that I could not speed up or even replicate myself, not without more research. So, I...

Chapter 291: Fighting Fire With Fire

Chapter 291: Fighting Fire With Fire

As the runes flashed and the tunnel opened, Bee ran through it as fast as she could, chasing after Archibald. His extra levels on her were really showing in the physical stats department. She felt a slight rippling in the air as Void whipped past her. Gritting her teeth, she poured more energy into her legs, trying to push off the ground harder and run faster. But she could only go so fast.

She burst into the massive dome at the end of the tu...

Chapter 290: Water We Doing

Chapter 290: Water We Doing

With Daedalus situated in my dustbin, I could see him floating in the void, unaffected by everything around him. It didn't look too unpleasant or anything, but I tried to think of any other ways to make it as comfortable as I could. Drawing on some of the energy floating within, I projected a gentle light so that he could observe some of the other things going on around him. Maybe that would make it feel less claustrophobic.

"You should be fine. We'll...

Chapter 289: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Chapter 289: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

We all flew along high over the trees at an impressive pace. Beatrice was the limiting factor of our traveling speed, as carpets could only move so fast. As much as I enjoyed a good carpet, I considered that they might not have been the best method transportation. I could fly circles around it. Though I could also do the same around Daedalus if I tried. So maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.

We continued pretty much straight in the dire...

Chapter 288: Dragon Everyone Else Along

Chapter 288: Dragon Everyone Else Along

As I got closer to Daedalus's form on the ground, my sensors made out Archibald sliding off of his back and stretching his legs. The human champion walked around, bending over a few times to limber himself up.

"Hello, my friend!" Daedalus called up to me as I hovered toward the ground.

I returned the greeting excitedly with a beep and a projected message. "It's good to see you. How have you been?"

"Oh, you know. Busy. Archibald...

Chapter 287: Keep Calm and Clean On

Chapter 287: Keep Calm and Clean On

I watched as the massive red-scaled form of Daedalus appeared above the trees. With my sensors, I could see him before the humans did; even so, I was slightly surprised when they had such a violent reaction to my friend's arrival.

Of course, Beatrice had already seen Daedalus before and was not so surprised. However, she certainly seemed a little bit more concerned at first than I thought she should be. I wondered why that was. But Harold… W...

Chapter 286: Following the Breadcrumbs

Chapter 286: Following the Breadcrumbs

It took Susan nearly 20 minutes to show up in the throne room. Bee wasn't exactly surprised, though. Susan was a very busy woman, and she felt bad about pulling her away from whatever important task she was taking care of. But this was pretty dang important.

In the meantime, she had called for refreshments. Some of the palace servants who had returned to work after the invasion pulled out a small table and served tea. Harold and the Warden ...

Chapter 285: Secrets Dusted Off

Chapter 285: Secrets Dusted Off

Daedalus soared high in the, his draconic silhouette blotting out the sun, before diving down low to skim over the mountaintops. He angled his wings to maintain flight, slowing down as much as possible without falling out of the sky. His vision wasn't quite sharp enough to pick out every flake of snow that littered the ground. Still, he was more than able to see the melted patch from the fiery Lieutenant that his little brother and godling friend had fo...

Chapter 284: Plumbing the Depths

Chapter 284: Plumbing the Depths

The next day, after I had managed to put the city into some kind of reasonable shape, I put a temporary pause on further renovations. Handling the rest of the city was still a top priority but had shifted down on the list. We needed to track down the Lieutenant who fled.

After a quick chat with Beatrice, I started following its trail. But it was a struggle. The illusions it used to cover itself lingered long enough to obscure the trail it left. T...

Chapter 283: The Student Becomes the Master

Chapter 283: The Student Becomes the Master

Bee just stared at her former headmaster and the Dean of Demonology, a man about whom she had very mixed feelings. Her Scan gave her a new result, which was cool but not very useful in this case.

Name: Sir Loyd Farlow, Level: 42, Race: Human, Class: Administrator, Titles: The Warden, Age: 73, Highest Stat: Wisdom, Lowest Stat: Constitution, Status: Nervous, Weakness: Freshly-baked Donuts.

"Yeah. We've met." Her words were short a...

Chapter 282: He Knows If You've Been Bad Or Good

Chapter 282: He Knows If You've Been Bad Or Good

"I can't believe it. How did you manage to do all that?"

Beatrix's eyes shone with a mixture of astonishment and pride as Bee finished speaking. The more detailed recounting of her recent exploits seemed too fantastical to be real, even to Bee herself.

"Well, I didn't do it alone..." Bee demurred. "I've had plenty of help along the way."

"Yes, but still..." Beatrix leaned back in her seat. "Wow. Why didn't you tell me?...

Chapter 281: Extreme Makeover: City Edition

Chapter 281: Extreme Makeover: City Edition

When Beatrice had declared that the city was Void's, she'd expected a lot of changes. This wasn't one of them.

Later, on the same day they took the city, she groaned, stretching in her chair as the latest petitioner left. It was a relatively nice one that had been taken from elsewhere in the castle to set below the throne.

She used her brief break to glance around the space. Most of the damage had already been repaired thanks to ...

Chapter 280: Dawn of a New Kingdom

Chapter 280: Dawn of a New Kingdom

By the time Susan and I got Tony outside, he had mostly figured out his floating and was able to move around at a brisk walk. Luckily, he didn't need to move any faster than that, as most of the demons ran away screaming when they saw him.

We avoided running into anything super powerful, or perhaps it was more accurate to say that they avoided us. However, once we were outside, more of the actual conflict appeared. Our soldiers had taken up mos...

Chapter 279: Eye of the Storm

Chapter 279: Eye of the Storm

All four of us stared at Tony and the foot and a half of air between his feet and the floor. He pointed his toes and wiggled his legs, trying to reach it, but was incapable of touching down. His hair floated above his head as if static electricity was keeping it aloft, cerulean blue eyes widened in panic.

"Your eyes..." Beatrice said.

I was a bit surprised that she commented on that first and not Tony's newfound ability to fly. That seemed lik...

Chapter 278: Classy as Always

Chapter 278: Classy as Always

Tony's soul slowly pieced back together, each little part pushed into place with vigorous brushing, polishing every surface. After I had ensured it was completely free of debris or any other foreign elements, I carefully fit them together, drawing on the power and skills of each and every person who had faith in me. The pieces melded together almost perfectly, but there were still small lines running through each connection I forged, no matter how hard I ...

Chapter 277: Picking Up the Pieces

Chapter 277: Picking Up the Pieces

I registered the new demon's appearance just a moment too late. I hadn't initially been sure what I was seeing on my sensors. But I got the idea pretty quickly when it lashed out at Tony. I reached out with my soul sense to check on Tony's condition. I couldn't believe my sensors.

Not because I thought the illusion-master lieutenant was messing with me, though. Susan, Arthur, and Beatrice had it on the ropes, and based on how my other sensors w...

Chapter 276: A New Challenger Appears

Chapter 276: A New Challenger Appears

As I felt the demon out with my auditory sensors, I reached out with Air Manipulation. I decided to make another non-lethal attack just in case it had more tricks up its sleeve than I expected.

I had a lot of options, but I thought it would be best if I could enable my allies to regroup while I held the demon's attention. I attempted to encase the demon in a cocoon of air. Tendrils of wind wrapped around its form, freezing its limbs in place...

Chapter 275: Brave, Brave Sir Robin, Stood and Fought?

Chapter 275: Brave, Brave Sir Robin, Stood and Fought?

As my Sensory Disruption settled over the Lieutenant, I got excited. Maybe I had actually confused the enemy and turned its own tricks right back at it. But after its initial gasp of surprise, I heard a roar of rage. A sudden force slammed into my undercarriage, thrusting me up at the ceiling. I beeped in distress as I realized that my thrusters wouldn't be able to flip me over and counteract the force in time, and I smashed into ...

Chapter 274: Do You See What I See

Chapter 274: Do You See What I See

Our party stepped past the archfiend's body and continued down the hall. The tide of incoming enemies proved no match for their teamwork, as expected. Soon, all five of us sat before the throne room doors. There was a quarter of a second where we all stood still, staring at what we knew to be the toughest fight ahead of us. But then Arthur led the way forward.

He kicked the center of the door with the heel of his boot. Something cracked, and I ...

Chapter 273: Kingdom Come

Chapter 273: Kingdom Come

"Uh." Tony looked at me with confusion in his eyes. "I'm your paladin. Paladin of Spot."

Ah, that's cool. They named a class after me. That was cute.

"I think a good portion of our army is actually a similar class." Arthur chimed in. "Though with how much you've been involved in the church, I wouldn't be surprised if you get a more unique class upgrade at 50."

Susan nodded. "I have some Rangers of Spot working under me."

Beatrice perke...

Chapter 272: Seize the day

Chapter 272: Seize the day

At the first real threat of danger, I finally made my move. Zipping down through the air above the city, I went to intercept the tide of demons that came flooding out of the castle grounds. It appeared that, whatever they'd been waiting for, the invasion was enough for them to stop hiding.

Some of the demons that had been masquerading as humans shed their flesh with a rather disgusting-looking transformation. Some flapped their revealed leathery wings ...

Chapter 271: Organized Chaos

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Chapter 271: Organized Chaos

As the sharp, staccato, clanging sound resonated through the air, I rose up above Beatrice to get the lay of the land. In the distance, I could see the column of men marching along the road. They were still a little bit of a way out, but further than I honestly expected them to get. The fact that they had just now started to trigger alarms was astonishing. This was good. It meant that the attack was as much of ...

Chapter 270: The Coming of the Lord

Chapter 270: The Coming of the Lord

Arthur scratched his head as he watched Lord Void zip out of the tent. After a moment of silence, Captain Major coughed behind him.

"Do you think their plan is going to work?" He asked casually.

"Probably not exactly the way they intend, but I think it won't matter too much," Arthur mused. "The city is as good as ours, from what I can tell. As long as the demons serving the king are contained to the castle instead of being able to roam f...

Chapter 269: The Armies of Heaven

Chapter 269: The Armies of Heaven

It didn't take me very long to find Arthur's army. Their camp stretched out alongside the road in a column 15 tents wide, disappearing over the next hill. They were marching in step and still a couple of days out. I was certain the city knew about their coming, as scouts surely could have made it back to report such an obvious force. But there had been no preparations, from what I could tell, for their attack.

Perhaps the city wasn't as well pre...

Chapter 268: A Discerning Eye

Chapter 268: A Discerning Eye

The rest of Bee's meeting in the salon went more to plan than the first half. Her aunt kept drinking a shocking amount but never really seemed affected by it. Bee eventually questioned her after what must have been her tenth drink, and she said he had something to do with her merchant class. After that, Bee became even more wary of the strength of these drinks. Instead, she got the waiter to bring her some water and real orange juice.

As she cut int...

Chapter 267: Fruits of our Labors

Chapter 267: Fruits of our Labors

Harold wrapped three times on the closed door. He waited a second and then knocked twice more in a particular cadence. The door creaked open, and he slipped inside, checking over her shoulder to make sure he still wasn't being followed.

He was greeted with the sight of an elderly woman standing over a bedridden figure. A fireplace crackled merrily near the back of the room, silhouetting the pair.

"How's he doing?" He whispered to the heale...

Chapter 266: Family Business

Chapter 266: Family Business

Nearly ten minutes later, Bee found herself in what her aunt called a salon. Sure, it looked a little fancy, like what she would expect, but that was only at first glance. The nice building with gold trim and pretty pastel colors housed an entryway. They went up to the door, and soon, a well-dressed maid led them to a table in a private alcove with a small candle lighting up the dimness.

Before they had a chance to look at any menu or ask about what ...