The return of the Apostle God of Death
Disasterized
Julian immediately headed for the capital and talked about it with the first prince who was now already the emperor. To the emperor's surprise, he ordered his army to prepare a line of defense near the island of Kaifert to prevent a demon invasion of the Cotia empire. Julian was also given the task of supplying weapons and armor as he was close to the dwarves. Julian immediately returned to Athens and called everyone, Reinald was the representative of the army, ivory, damian, alfred, Julian's mother, Siegriedas well as the captain of the Athenian knights and the head of the guard there was also a guildmaster. Julian also spoke.
“i will be honest with you, It seems that in the near future, the invasion of demons like when Lucifer descended to earth will restart. This happened starting from the destruction of his siegried village which was attacked by demons and griffins. So I will give the order to respond to this crisis. First the reinald and the knight captain, ready the troops to face this invasion and will go to the border of the kaifert island with the emperor's army. Ivory, I want you to go to the witch queen's territory and deliver this with my letter, I hope he gives you some help. Damian I want you and your team to make a magic tool capable of forming a large shield to protect Athena from any side, if you need help there is Siegried. Siegried orders your team to make a mythril sword that contains sacred magic, and strong armor again. Chief of the guards, I need you to work with the church to tighten the city's inbound check to prevent undercover demons. Alfred sent a letter to the duke and archduke asking for supplies and military assistance from them to tighten the border. Guildmaster contact the guild in another city to put a quest in my name for the one who can hunt demons and bring his head to me, I give 1 golden head, he said, mother I want you to tell the servants to be vigilant, if anything suspicious immediately report to the knights of the mansion.”
For the considerable movements made by Julian, and the emperor. The people of Cotia experience anxiety and fear of a repeat of the Lucifer massacre incident. Julian also reminded his citizens to remain calm and active as usual and believed that the Athenian and imperial knights would protect them. Meanwhile Dareen who was now in the demon realm was trying to find the existence of the soul core of the demon king. He went deeper and continued into the demon realm. On his way Dareen found a ruined mansion that has a dark energy that is quite concentrated. Dareen tried to find the source of the dark energy and he found it in the middle of the ruins of an underground door. Dareen opened it and went inside, apparently inside it was like a huge labyrinth. Dareen tried to explore the labyrinth and along the way he met a monster that seemed to be affected by dark energy and became very violent. When Dareen was fighting one orc suddenly he was hit and bounced very far through the walls of the labyrinth, he was hit by a Minotaur who seemed to be the boss of the floor. Dareen also fought it and took out a third circle ice spell “Ice prison” to lock the Minotaur. But the minotaur had such great physical strength that the ice was easily broken and it hit Dareen again, and struck him, but dareen with his magic skills and made a shield layered with a fourth circle spell. Dareen also issued a wind spell “wing of the eagle” able to beat back the minotaur. With the distance that Dareen managed to make and then issued darkness magic “Loop of the death” shaped like a circle that has a sharp tip and is able to cut anything. The magic was directed at the head of the minotaur but the minotaur was able to avoid it which only resulted in the break of the left arm of the minotaur. When the minotaur tries to bring out its natural ability, the minotaur rage quickly dareen do multiple spell “loop of the death on the minotaur and is able to kill it. Dareen went back to explore the labyrinth deeper.
Meanwhile Julian who had received an answer from the duke and archduke was written that they were reluctant to cooperate with viscount Julian. And will only protect its own territory. Julian did not pay attention to that because from the beginning he felt that contacting them was useless. Julian meets Clarissa and Arion, and gives them a bracelet. The bracelet has the function of summoning a clone from Julian who has a quarter of the power of julian. Julian went to see the emperor.
“noble, I suggest when demons start the invasion in large numbers we lure them between the valley that is in the mountains 5km from the border coast of Kaifert island. Before that we prepare enough mages to cast fire and earth magic to make lava and then cool with ice magic then it will make a large wall. For a demon capable of flying we just have to kill them before passing through the valley and then me and some of my troops will go to Kaifert island to seal back the island.”
Emperor replied.
“that's clever and good but it's also a suicide mission for you Julian, you're one of the warlords that I have great respect for in this empire.”
“that's right viscount Julian, if you do that, it's the same as if you're confining yourself to the demons, but maybe that's also the best way to deal with this. If we do not address the source then this is endless.”
Suddenly a messenger came with a pale face and he said.
“Yes, demons have started to invade, their locking seals have disappeared and they started to attack the border.”
The emperor who heard that was forced to agree to Julian's idea. Julian went back to his mansion, and as he gathered all the troops ready to leave, Julian asked his mother and wife for their blessing and said goodbye to elenore and arion. When leaving on the main street of the city many residents lined up to take their departure. When they came out of the city suddenly appeared a large magic circle that surrounded the city, it was a magic tool made by the damian that was able to withstand archdemon-level magic or 7 circles of human magic. Julian left with a sense of calm because the city could now be safer. In the middle of the road he crosses paths with ivory and several groups of magicians with the power of 5 circles, with the group meaning the witch queen is willing to help. Julian continued his journey by joining a group of witches into his army, which currently numbered 1200. The journey takes 6 days but because of the magic given to the horse that makes the horse not tired, they can arrive in 3 days. Arriving there were already many destroyed guard posts and Julian immediately ordered his troops to comb the area and search for survivors or kill any remaining demons. Julian's troops managed to save 8 people from the imperial army with slightly worse conditions, some of them his body was cut but could survive because it had received first aid and got heal earlier. He told me that there were almost 700 soldiers here but all were swallowed by the earth because demons attacked with a very large number even the sky became dark and the demon army landed like ants scattered. Julian also said.
“all the troops that are here, I want to remind, this war is a war that holds the destiny of mankind, if we lose we will be extinct. I got a mission to get to Kaifert Island in 6 days and seal the kaifert island. I will not take you all, only you who dare to die and will give up everything for this suicide mission. I can't promise you guys a safe or a full return. All I can promise is that if we succeed, our loved ones will smile, so from tomorrow, those who will come with me will come to my tent. If you don't stay here and block their invasion until the imperial relief forces arrive.”