Seirei Gensouki's
Chapter 80: The Devil's Hand Approaches from the Shadow

Moments after Rio left the Liselotte house, a group of abominations appeared at the west gate of Almond.

Although they were called abominations, their appearance was close to that of humans, they even wore slightly dirty clothes.

But, their appearance could not be considered as human.

Each of them had a different appearance; there were ten in number

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Their eyes were unfocused with pure white eyeballs, their skin was dyed in gray, bat-like wings were growing on their backs, no matter how you looked at them, they were definitely not human.

Almond, as a trading city, basically does not restrict people entering and exiting.

There were soldiers stationed at the east and west gates, although the soldiers were on standby, they would not carry out continuous inspections of pedestrians.

Conducting individual inspections when there are so many people is too unreasonable, because the way people come and go as they please is related to the increasing activity of the city.

By the way, even though there was a fence surrounding the city during the expansion even until now, if one felt like it, one could climb the fence easily.

Moreover, the soldiers on guard looked at the group of abominations that had emerged from within the forest, they were shaken even while surrounding them from a distance.

After which, near the group of grotesque creatures, suddenly a group of adventurers who had just returned from the demon hunt passed nearby.

「Cih, no luck today. We had a party with a lot of people. The demons were not greedy at all. Shouldn't the devil be much? Numeros

「Ha ~, maybe because of your breath, even the goblins escaped from it right?」

"What?"

Even while insulting each other, there was a lively festive laughter from them, no dangerous atmosphere coming out of them.

This might be the exchange they used to do.

This instant should be followed by a happy daily life.

「!!!!! 」

But, then they noticed the group of abominations that stood about 10 meters away from them, the adventurers were stunned and became completely stiff. .

Their bodies trembled as they felt the creatures glaring at those pure white eyes.

「O, A-What the fuck are you?」

Immediately, an adventurer asked the group of creatures.

The color of the skin, eyeballs, and wings on their backs was ruled out, because from their appearance to their physique, they were very human-like, they were extremely human-like, they thought that the group might not be able to speak in human language.

「…………」

But, the group of abominations remained silent which made them even more frightened, they did not say anything, and just stared at the adventurers.

「M-Satan what is it?」

「I've never seen this kind of demon you」

Section 2

Although they felt like demons, adventurers had never encountered this kind of demon before.

While still confused between pulling their swords to the group of grotesque creatures that remained silent, or greeting them.

「EH? A-AAAAH! 」

An adventurer in the back raised his voice and pointed to one of the abominations with an excellent physique.

「You, M-Maybe ......... Gene?」

Somehow, there was a man with a familiar face among the abominations.

Although they were indistinguishable if one did not look at them closely due to the color of their skin, the man noticed because of the many years they were acquainted.

「I-That's Gen?」

「...... No, that person should have gone missing about a week ago right?」

The adventurers showed confused expressions.

The one who called out to Gene looked at the adventurer who called out his name with ama.

「Haha, what the fuck, for you to wear such a strange costume, Gene. Did you become a street player and stop being an adventurer 」?

Laughing with a narrow smile, an adventurer spoke to his acquaintance.

Although strangely strange for costumes, humans are creatures who adapt to something that goes against their common sense when facing an event outside the norm.

Therefore, even though the warning alarm echoed in the man's head, he decided to trust the other party, his own acquaintance called Gene.

"Aah?"

But, at that moment, the eyes of the individual called Gene shone in red, the adventurer let out a questioning tone.

The next moment, the group of abominations began to move simultaneously.

With the given speed of reinforced physical abilities that exceeded the limits of their muscles, they reached the adventurers with a single breath.

After crossing the distance in an instant, one of the demons smashed into the body of an adventurer with all his strength.

「GOH」

With their weight on top of their hands like that, a hole that let the wind in opened up on the body of the adventurer.

「Gu-GUHA-GUHAHAHAHA」

Then, it caused a terrifying laugh.

That laughter was definitely not a human laugh.

「EH? UH? fu 」's

The man who pierced his body timidly lowered his line of sight.

What had just happened was incomprehensible to the man at that moment.

But then a smile tinged with despair floated on her face, as she was taught reality—

Section 3

「GAGAWA」

Zaku, zaku, zaku, the individual pierced the man's stomach as if pierced with sharp nails.

「O-Obhu's chat. A-AAA-AAAAAAAAA！ 」

The man shouted as he felt a lukewarm feeling that wrapped around his stomach.

He was confused, his body was trembling and despair appeared on his face, immediately his body stopped moving, the man's life was gone.

The adventurers stood dumbfounded without saying a word to the screen of that strange killing drama.

「B-HOW DARE ANDAUU!」

And finally recognized the enemy within the creature in front of them.

Each of them drew their swords, and charged towards the abomination.

「KAAAa ~. Tee .... 」.

But, the adventurer holding the sword was easily repelled.

Their gray skin was as strong as steel, those people were equipped with cheap swords, so that the blades did not penetrate the demon skin.

In order to deliver a proper blow, adventurers would have to attack with every bit of their strength in a single blow or, they might need to strengthen their physical abilities with magic.

But, those people could not use body strengthening magic.

「WHAT ARE YOU!」

Although the possibility of getting an answer was close to zero, the adventurers gathered together to attack again.

After that, IT displayed a smile like a smile.

「GA ....」

Abomination group – their true identity as expected, the devil.

Anomalous life forms that appeared over 1000 years ago during the era of the Demon-God wars.

Their ecosystem is unknown, they have magic stones as their core, when exterminated by humans, they simply disappear without leaving anything, except magic stones, and then die.

Thus, even the adventurers who made their living by conquering demons, the true nature of these demons was unknown to them.

They are the corpse-eating demon demons、demons who were originally humans and ate humans, damned existences that would be weakened unless they continued to eat on humans ―― gh Giant.

Their intelligence and ego are low, they will continue to chase and eat humans as if crazy, it's a ghost.

「GUG」

Section 4

They all approached the adventurers.

After the adventurers prepared their weapons in a confused state, they attacked the demons without hesitation.

But they can't cut it.

Although their swords hit their targets, their attacks were no more than half-hearted.

「GUGAUT」

The ghost counterattack easily tore the adventurers apart.

The number of adventurers was 20, the number of ghosts was 10, their advantage in numbers could not even be called as an advantage.

One-sided cruelty is like an open hell painting.

「G-GOHA ....」.

And then, the sound of one vomiting blood resounded a second time, the other losing his life.

Spreading blood, the smell of blood filled the air, screaming and roaring around it.

The ghosts with their superhuman strength, which made one doubt that they were human from the beginning, were trampled by adventurers.

When a person is struck with their hand protected by hard skin, it becomes a weapon like a hammer, when they are pierced with their hand which is equipped with sharp and long nails, they would become weapons like spears, with just capturing power, they were already unrivalled.

The ghosts actually defeated the adventurers using their own bodies as weapons.

「OH ..... O-OH .....」.

The movements of the gatekeepers came to a halt due to the truly terrifying spectacle.

Some of them vomited because they could not continue to see the slaughter.

Their minds could not react to the situation.

All they felt were goosebumps that caused fear.

They were completely unable to fight in this condition.

Immediately, after the adventurers were completely annihilated, the line of sight of the ghosts turned towards the city gate.

「Hyiii ....」.

Gulp.

Instinctively, the premonition of death struck the soldiers and made them shout unintentionally loudly.

The giant was at a distance of about 100 meters from the city gate.

It was a distance that could be crossed in a few seconds with their physical abilities.

"……AH……"

Although each of the soldiers started to say something, it was clogged in their throats.

It's scary! They're akankillmekillmeI'mgonna diediekillmescarydiekillmescarydie.

Shadows of fear and death kept spinning inside their heads.

But, those ghosts did not seem to be interested in the soldiers, they started to greedily devour the adventurers they had just killed.

―― As if to say, I can kill people like you anytime.

That's really the connection between prey and predators.

When they feel nauseous watching this spectacle.

This time, "screeching", the forest tree near the ghost made a rustling sound.

Section 5

「GEgGE」

The thing that appeared from within was, a goblin.

No, it's not just goblins.

Following after that, demons appeared one by one.

Orcs, ogres, hunting dogs, boars, bi-kongsnakes, buruarm snakes A pack of known demons inhabit near human territory.

The total number cannot be measured with the eyes.

It was possible that it gathered most of the demons living around it.

「RR-RERERe-REPORT THIS ONCE！ LANCE！ YOU GO AND REPORT THIS ISSUE TO GUARDROOM!」

The warrior commander who was at that place ended up shouting out his orders in a puzzling manner.

If they were to be invaded by this demon army, they could not fight against them unless they had gathered every Almond army.

In addition, if they attacked DEMONS grey it――

The destruction of the city―― is the worst ending that comes to their mind.

「Y-Yes!」

Although the soldiers were paralyzed from fear, thanks to the Commander's shout, they started moving again.

The fellow soldier who received the order quickly ran towards the city as if he had wings on his feet.

Different from the ghosts greedily devouring the corpses of adventurers, the horde of demons began to move forward towards Almond.

（Quick make your preparations）

The commander muttered in his mind as he looked at the back of the departing newcomer.

He decided that this was not over, he could not die.

If they failed to defend this place one minute or one second, they would kill many demons even just one of them――

The soldiers, each of them loved this city called Almond.

Although Liselotte rules this city, this city is much easier to live in compared to other cities, a peaceful city will also—

Is what they think even if it doesn't make sense, facing a situation like this, the soldiers take on their mission and prepare to bet on their own lives.

☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★

「I'll entrust the ghost command to you. Alphonse-kun 」

While looking from within the forest some distance away from where the panicked soldiers were, Reis who was wearing a black robe happily said that.

「Because they are valuable individuals who remove the ratio of 1/3, please use with caution. Since it seems that they are also starving, the first step is to eat 」

「Understood」

Section 6

The so-called Alphonse replied while breathing roughly.

Although her individual traits resembled ghosts, her skin color was black, in short, she was different from the other ghosts. [FW: OMG ………. Oga …. Phonse !?]

Even smart enough to understand Reis' words.

「Other demons are just a trick. It should be fine to let them move as they please. In addition, you can use 5 ghosts as a distraction by throwing them into the city. After you lure the defense forces, lead the remaining ghosts to kill the Governor of Liselotte Prefecture. You understand correctly 」

「YAH. DEFINITELY KILL. LISELOTTE, THE DUKE, THAT WOMAN, THAT MAN 」

Alphonse replied with an ominous tone of anger.

As for what his pure white eyeball saw, it was as if his lost reason was found.

The person who is aware of this is the person himself.

「Well, if you can't even kill a woman living in this city with this war potential, you'll just be incompetent. Then, that's all from me because I have a business elsewhere. Please wait there as much as possible 」

After saying that and turning around, Reis slowly floated in the air.

After flying away from the ghost once known as Alphonse, he headed southwest from Almond.

「Ha ~, as I thought, even if their bodies are strengthened, ghosts are ghosts. Their low intelligence is their flaw. Well, although in his case, that point may be hopeless from before the transformation of 」

After sighing, Reis filed a complaint in a tired tone.

Exactly like that, when he narrowed his eyes to look towards the southwest.

「Now is the person who has been bothering me since some time ago who is in that direction」

So he said.