AT. DEMON SLAYER
Chapter 18 - Aluna and Artemis

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Meanwhile the queen azarya who had been seriously injured by the smoke of death kai, he was also unable to fly any further while carrying the baby basket in his beak.

Finally the queen began to lose her balance and fell to the bottom of the deepest valley of the Caridbian forest under the abyss of the black hole, and she lost consciousness.

Tick. tick...

droplets of dew from the leaves of the trees there dripped down on the body of the queen azarya eagle, which at that time was sprawled with its wide wings covering the baby basket.

Queen azarya was unconscious at the time, he was around the swamp in the area of giant plant giant colocasia gigantea trees whose height can reach 4 meters to 5 meters with leaves that are very wide like an umbrella.

Aarrrgggh...

" Where am I? " said queen azarya in her mind.

His eyes that began to open looking around with a vague view, he saw a figure dressed in white carrying a shaman walking toward himself who was then unable to move at all.

Errgh...

" who? "

" who? " said the queen azarya in her bird language, who shortly afterwards had her eyes closed again.

Then the man took the queen azarya who was in the form of an eagle, and also brought the baby in the basket all along with him.

•••

Meanwhile at the same time...

Xavier and Kenz who entered through the cliff face of the underground surface layer, when they had come out and reached a hallway of the earthareum valley.

Earthareum is a branching passageway at the bottom of the deepest valley, which is the largest labyrinth tunnel under the mozzarck monstareum.

As soon as they arrived and landed there they got off the eislaufen magic vehicle belonging to xavier, and tried to look around the hallway that there were ten branch children.

" Where is this? "

" There are so many passages branching out in this place. "

" Which way to get out of this place? " ask the bewildered Kenz, as he never realized there was such a place in the forest of caridbian mist.

" This is the passage of the Earthareum labyrinth." replied xavier in a soft voice.

" Nobody can get out of this place, if he does not want to open the way." continued xavier who again turned his magic vehicle into a magic wand back.

" Him? "

" He who do you mean? "

" Are there any other creatures living here? " ask kenz.

" He is the keeper of this place" replied xavier, who took two small torch torches on the walls of the stone pillars in the aisles of the earthareum.

" There are so many wild creatures in this place, both those who are not or who live. "

" Even creatures that were deliberately created to guard this place, so be careful." said xavier asserted who then threw a small torch of wood torch torch to kenz, who was not involved, so that they both get light.

" We have to find the little elf. "continue, said xavier while fixing the bond of the crown prince's baby sling on his shoulder.

" For what? " briefly asked Kenz who seemed to be looking firmly at the place where they were, the room was quite damp and dark filled with rocks and the ground they were poking a little muddy.

" Because the fairy must know the way out of this place" replied xavier, who took a look at the location of the place.

At that time xavier also felt the energy of the little fairy who was hiding near them, by walking slowly he tried to trace a speck of gold powder particles scattered and attached to the ground or rocks there.

" Where is he hiding? "

" I can feel it around here. "

" The elf always leaves the pollen around here" said little xavier.

" What are you waiting for. "

" We just follow the powder trail. "kenz began to look for the trail that leads into a northern passageway.

Then the two of them entered the hall very carefully, but not long ago they entered the hall suddenly the steps of kenz and xavier stopped.

Tap...

a black shadow slowly walked from the north end of the hallway.

" There was another guest. "

" How dare you enter my area! " say the shadow, furious.

Then the black shadow figure smacked his hand on the ground where it stood, and made an attack.

Instantly from the underground vibrates and gives off a very dark energy electric shock, which can propagate on the ground very quickly and can also strike all directions.

Xavier and Kenz saw the attack, they swiftly and deftly tried to dodge the attack.

They salto and jump rocks, but the attack is like a rope with an electric shock that can travel all over the ground.

Then kenz jumped towards the higher rocks around him, while xavier himself ran away from the electric shock, quickly turning his wand into an eislaufen back and surfing the air.

The shadowy figure smiled, and controlled the attack and then turned the electric string snare into two large hand shadows that then chased after the kenz and xavier back and finally caught the kenz.

" What is this dark power? " kenz said in the heart that was then caught and trying to rebel, but the strength was increasingly binding tightly to the body of kenz and provide conduction electric shock.

Aarrrggghhh...!

While the xavier who was still being chased by the shadow of the hand became caught off guard after hearing the cry of kenz, he said, so that the big hand reached his eislaufen and pulled the magic vehicle strong until finally xavier fell from his magic vehicle.

" He...! " xavier immediately stood up, but the shadow of the big hand was in front of xavier and ready to catch him.

When the big hand was about to ambush the xavier, suddenly a white-robed person with a face covered in a veil came to stand in front of the xavier to block the attack.

" Stop...! " the voice of the man's cry faintly sounded from his voice as if it sounded familiar to xavier's ears.

Suddenly the hand was like listening to the words of the white-robed woman, as soon as the shadow hand immediately stopped its attack and went back into the ground and disappeared.

Taps... Taps... Taps...

A black-robed shadow figure with a face covered in a black hooded hat also walked from the end of the hallway, and came closer to the white-robed person.

He walked while carrying a baby basket and a wounded eagle on both arms, "what makes you come straight to this place? " ask the figure of the person in black hooded hat and black robed, as if they already know each other.

Then they seemed to speak in a different language spoken by the nobility in the past and understood only by those who were blessed nobles.

***

Not long after they talked, the man in white robes and wearing a veil turned to xavier who was carrying a baby in a sling behind his stage.

Then they approached the xavier, "welcome to the underground labyrinth earthareum mozzarck monstareum entrance. " Welcome said the figure of a person in white robes with a face covered with a veil, he also then release the veil coverings and veils that cover his head.

Xavier was so shocked when he saw the figure in white clothes that he turned out to be a young woman with curls hanging silvery white, the woman's face was as familiar as the blessed nobleman she had known and helped her as a child.

Xavier also tried to look at the entire appearance of the white-robed woman carefully, "his face was very similar to her, was that her? " xavier said in his heart.

But xavier could not remember clearly who the blessed nobleman who had helped him first, the memory was too long and blurred so that finally xavier could only guess in his mind.

" What's up? "

" Why do you keep looking at me like that? " ask the white-robed woman.

" May I know? "

" Are you the guard of this place?! " question xavier, diverting his thoughts from earlier just kept guessing because xavier did not feel sure that the woman was the guardian of this place.

For as long as xavier the keeper of this place should be old and aged, but precisely this in front of him was a young girl with silvery white hair that looked glittering.

" I'm sorry, can I know who you are? " call ask xavier.

But xavier's question was not answered by the white-robed woman, the woman was silent and then without saying much she took the baby basket from the shadowy figure's hand and walked past the xavier.

" Take them all! " the white-robed woman firmly told the black-clad figure.

" You didn't hear! "

" Take your friend and follow us immediately" said the black hooded figure who sounded a little heavy in tone.

Then xavier immediately swept the body of the kenz who was injured and unconscious by a high-voltage electric shock, then xavier followed them to go to a place in the basement of the earthareum.

•••

In the basement of the earthareum...

The little nymph was quietly hiding, peering out from behind the lamp on the table in the room.

" Why are they here? " by biting her index finger the little elf saw xavier and kenz walking into the basement.

" Come out feeya! "

" Don't hide anymore" said the white-robed woman who realized the existence of the little elf there, the little elf slowly came out of her hiding place with her head bowed.

" That elf?! " challenged little xavier as he watched the little elf come out.

" He is a little fairy feeya from kleine nymph. "

" She's the only little elf of kleine nymph's descent left here, and she's the kleine nymph who gets eternal life" the white-robed woman explained.

" We are ourselves a flawless witch nobleman, earthareum keeper and mozzarck monstareum" said the black-clad figure, who removed his hood.

When the black hooded figure also removed his headgear, xavier was again stunned by surprise because they looked like a betel in half.

There is almost no difference between the two of them, but only one is the difference between them, namely their gender type, one female and the other a man.

Xavier, who was still confused to see the two of them who were so similar, wondered in his heart.

" It's so weird...! "

" why are there two guards? " he said in his heart.

" As long as I am a guard in this place there is only one person. "

" It's even possible that he's hundreds of thousands of years old, how could it be two people and they look the same age as me. "then xavier thought in his heart.

" Include my name, aluna Flawless. "

" I'm the one guarding the mozzarck monstareum" said the white-robed woman, introducing herself.

" Flawless artemis. "

" Guardian earthareum." said the man in black robes to introduce himself who seemed stiff and did not like the arrival of strangers.

While the little fairy's feeya was busy disturbing the unconscious kenz, her head was crazily staring at kenz's face.

Fush...

The nosy Feeya blew on the pony hair of the kenz that covered half of the demon mask he had worn on his right eye.

Fush...

Suddenly as soon as his pony hair slid, from the eyes of the demon mask it gave off a bright red glow.

Faintly from the demon's eyes saw the shadow of the little fairy feeya flickering in confusion, "red...! " he said that even closer to kenz's face.

As soon as feeya approached kenz, xavier swiftly caught the feeya in his hand and all of it was seen in the eyes of the demon mask belonging to kenz.

" Detach..leave...! "

" If you don't miss it, you'll bite! " cried feeya who immediately bit xavier's finger.

" He...! "

" Fool elf, you always bother me. " said xavier who then released his feeya from his hand, and then soon Feeya fled behind the kenz robe to hide.

" You! " xavier was furious to the point of running out of words.

" Leave it. " cut off artemis.

" Feeya if she likes something, she will play with it. "

" Sometimes he would bite them to know what it was like" aluna explained dreamily.

" What he does will invite danger! " xavier insists on them.

" you mean? " ask artemis.

" Is something wrong? " aluna also questioned xavier's concerns.

" The demon mask... "

" The demon mask was worn almost by the demon beasts who had the highest ability." xavier tried to explain.

" Where is the problem? "

" Just a piece of mask in the eye only. "cut artemis trivialize.

" It's not an ordinary piece of mask" said xavier.

" The mask was bound by their comrades as well as the demon beast king himself, even becoming their tool to double their abilities. "

" If he is unconscious and the eyes on the mask are on, it means that his partner or the demon beast king himself is looking for him. "

" But the foolishness of this naive fairy instead shows us where we are, and she shows her face in the mask" xavier explained.

" You two call yourself guards, who are you really? "

" There's no way a guard doesn't know this...! "

" Are you two a con? " thin firmly xavier, quipped with a sinister smile on the tip of his lips.

" You! " artemis was immediately offended by xavier's words and smile back then.

" If it's not true, why should you be angry? " sinir xavier again smiled cynically.

" Sassy! "

" How dare you speak disrespectfully to both of us! " artemis who almost got angry then stopped by aluna, when aluna immediately held the hand of artemis so as not to be carried away by his emotions.