The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

Chapter 665: The Human on the Battlefield

Demon Realm, Eastern Region.

A battlefield in the wilderness.

Thousands of demons were engaged in a fierce battle.

These demons seemed to belong to two factions. One resembled goblins, with ferocious faces, pointed ears, and dark blue skin. The other had a human-like appearance, but with fish-like scales on various parts of their bodies, strangely beautiful.

Clearly, these were two different demon races.

Now, these two factions were locked in a fierce battle, the battlefield trembling.

“Release the monsters!”

A demon girl stood behind the human-like demon faction, shimmering scales on her neck and a beautiful face, bathed in the admiring gazes of her fellow clansmen, calmly issuing commands.

Under her orders, monsters were released from cages in the rear, roaring and charging into the battlefield.

“Mage unit, prepare!”

Seeing this, a demon man, clearly a commander, shouted from behind the goblin-like demons, and the magicians before him raised their staves and began chanting spells.

Powerful magic power fluctuated around them, indicating their high levels and extraordinary magic power.

Demons were indeed naturally gifted. Although not all born magicians like the Elves, they generally possessed powerful magic power, even warriors without magical talent.

Therefore, demon magicians were inherently stronger than human and even god magicians. The same spell, cast by a demon magician, would be more powerful than that of a human or god magician of the same level.

Thanks to this, although these magicians were only around level sixty, the spells they chanted were more powerful than those of human magicians above level seventy.

Soon, countless spells rained down on the battlefield, blowing away countless enemy monsters.

This made the demon girl frown, seemingly troubled.

A demon warrior standing beside her said anxiously,

“Lady Shajina, the situation seems unfavorable. Should we retreat?”

His nervous tone affected those around them, lowering their morale.

Shajina frowned even more and scolded the warrior,

“The situation isn’t clear yet, and our lines haven’t collapsed. You want to retreat so soon? Are you even worthy of being a warrior of the Shajin Clan, Werl?”

Hearing this, the demon warrior, Werl, lowered his head, seemingly ashamed.

The others also perked up, their morale slightly recovering.

Shajina looked out at the battlefield, watching their forces being pushed back by the enemy’s powerful magic, her mind racing.

Clearly, she hadn’t given up, or rather, wasn’t willing to give up.

The enemy commander noticed this and taunted her.

“Stop struggling, Shajina, just surrender. As long as you offer a hundred Shajin women to our Hoof Clan every year, we will stop our invasion, how about it?”

This was met with Shajina’s disdain.

“Want to capture our Shajin women and sell them at a high price? You’ll never succeed, Lacaid!” Shajina said, her face filled with killing intent, “I will never surrender!”

“Then there’s no helping it,” Lacaid said with a sneer, “Once we conquer the Shajin Clan’s settlement, we can still capture the Shajin beauties, including you, Shajina. We’ll definitely sell you for a high price!”

Saying that, Lacaid waved his hand, and the Hoof Clan magicians also sneered, beginning to chant a new round of spells, their magic power swirling.

This made Shajina grit her teeth, anxiety growing in her heart.

The Hoof Clan was a notoriously powerful race, specializing in invasion and war, their clan filled with strong individuals, and skilled at training magicians who used large-scale attack magic. Wherever they went, they were like a swarm of locusts, plundering and burning everything, only a few choosing to surrender and becoming their tributaries, offering annual tributes and being exploited.

The Shajin Clan, on the other hand, had almost no magicians, and even their warriors’ strength was mediocre. They specialized in raising monsters, which gave them some self-preservation abilities, but not enough to rival a war-focused race like the Hoof Clan.

This time, the Hoof Clan targeted the Shajin Clan’s renowned beauties, wanting to profit from selling them.

This was something the Shajin Clan couldn’t tolerate.

Therefore, under her father, the clan leader’s orders, Shajina led the Shajin warriors and their monster legion to fight against the Hoof Clan.

Unexpectedly, even with their monster legion, the Shajin Clan was no match for the Hoof Clan’s magicians.

“How many monsters do we have left?” Shajina asked Werl beside her.

“L… less than a thousand!” Werl said, sounding desperate, “Those monsters are newly raised and their levels aren’t high. If the Hoof Clan magicians cast another round of spells, they might all be wiped out!”

Hearing this, Shajina knew that the Shajin Clan was truly in danger.

“Do we really have to surrender?”

Shajina clenched her hands tightly.

Lacaid of the Hoof Clan immediately noticed the Shajin Clan’s declining morale, smirked, and ordered his magicians to increase their spellcasting pace.

The Shajin Clan was indeed no match for the battle-hardened Hoof Clan.

Seeing the Shajin lines continuously collapsing, Lacaid smiled victoriously.

However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.

“Weng—!”

Suddenly, a vortex appeared in the sky above the battlefield, swirling and trembling as if tearing through space.

“What is that?” The smile on Lacaid’s face froze.

“Huh?” Shajina was also startled.

All the demons on the battlefield were drawn to this phenomenon, looking up at the sky in surprise.

Then, a stream of light was ejected from the vortex, like a falling meteor, crashing towards the battlefield below at incredible speed.

“Bang—!”

With an explosion-like sound, the light struck the ground, creating a powerful shockwave and a cloud of dust.

“Careful!”

“Retreat!”

Both the Shajin and Hoof Clan members were startled and instinctively retreated.

Shajina and Lacaid quickly focused on the impact site, their faces filled with uncontrollable tension.

Such an anomaly during a battle was naturally unsettling.

Then, from the center of the dust cloud, a coughing sound came.

“Cough, cough, cough… dammit…!”

Cursing, a figure emerged from the dust, waving away the smoke and coughing.

Seeing the figure, both Shajina and Lacaid were stunned.

“No way?” Lacaid muttered.

“A human?” Shajina was also surprised.

There was some commotion in both camps.

Because the figure who appeared before them was a young human man.

Covered in dust, looking quite disheveled, seemingly not very old, around twenty years of age, he looked out of place on this smoky battlefield.

Even more out of place were his words and actions.

“There are a thousand roads to choose from, but safety is number one. Reckless driving leads to tears, and I can even get into an accident riding a dragon through a spatial tunnel. If I don’t get some compensation from that old geezer, I’m going to sue him for fraud…!”

The human grumbled, dusting himself off, then looked at the Shajin and Hoof Clan members around him with a confused expression.

“You… you look quite unique,” he said, “It seems this isn’t the Human Realm, but the Demon Realm.”

He seemed to have figured out his situation.

His casual demeanor, even on a battlefield surrounded by demons, made Shajina somewhat admire him.

Lacaid, however, didn’t feel the same.

He was about to win the battle and capture all the Shajin beauties, only to be interrupted by a random human, who didn’t even seem to care about the situation. This made Lacaid furious.

“Kill him!”

Lacaid gave the order without hesitation, not even bothering to speak to him.

Although the way he appeared was strange, a mere human wasn’t worth his attention.

Humans were generally weaker than demons, and powerful demons even looked down on the God Race, let alone a mere human.

Compared to this human, Lacaid was more interested in conquering the Shajin Clan.

Therefore, he gave the order.

“Careful!” Shajina cried out instinctively.

The different attitudes of the two commanders determined the course of events.

“Kill!”

“Kill that human!”

“Chop him into minced meat!”

The Hoof Clan warriors charged towards the human standing in the middle of the battlefield, their faces ferocious.

Their murderous aura made the human raise an eyebrow.

“Very well,” the human smiled.

“Just what I need to vent my frustration.”

Saying that, a terrifying magic power erupted from the human.

Instantly enveloping the entire battlefield.

Chapter 666: “Scram!”

“…What…!?”

As terrifying magic power erupted from the human, transforming into a storm and enveloping the entire battlefield, not only the demons present but also Shajina and Lacaid’s expressions changed drastically.

“Legendary Level!” Shajina exclaimed, “He… he’s a Legendary-level expert?”

The aura the human released told everyone this.

“This is bad!” Lacaid realized he had messed with someone he shouldn’t have, his face turning pale.

But it was too late for regrets.

“[Bestowal: Piercing].”

The human stomped his foot, injecting vast magic power into the ground.

In the next second, the ground trembled violently.

“Thud! Thud! Thud!”…

This was the sound of flesh being pierced.

Sharp earth spikes erupted from the ground around the human, like spears, impaling the Hoof Clan warriors.

“Ah!”

“No!”

“Aaaaaah…!”

With screams and wails, the Hoof Clan warriors were mercilessly impaled, hanging on the rock spikes.

Blood stained the spikes crimson.

This gruesome scene horrified the Shajin warriors, who retreated hastily.

“Quick! Fall back!”

Even Shajina, shocked, shouted with a trembling voice, clearly terrified.

The Shajin warriors and their monsters fled like frightened prey.

As for the Hoof Clan, most of them were already gone.

“Thud…” A Hoof Clan magician dropped his staff.

Those Hoof Clan magicians who were further away from the human witnessed the brutal massacre, terrified and trembling.

“Run… run away…!”

Lacaid was also scared witless.

Those were the Hoof Clan’s proud warriors. Although the Hoof Clan specialized in training magicians with large-scale attack magic, they also had many front-line warriors, each above level sixty, comparable to level seventy human warriors.

Now, seeing over a thousand Hoof Clan warriors annihilated in the blink of an eye was terrifying, and Lacaid couldn’t help but be scared out of his wits.

Lacaid abandoned his subordinates and fled, not noticing that the human amidst the blood-stained earth spikes had already locked onto him.

“[Bestowal: Binding].”

As the human chanted softly, Lacaid’s fleeing figure froze. The air around him suddenly pressed in, trapping him like a fly in amber, his eyes bulging.

“Swoosh!”

With a faint whooshing sound, the human appeared before him.

“Want to kill me?” The human’s mocking voice filled Lacaid with terror.

“Spa… spare…”

The Hoof Clan commander, tears and snot streaming down his face, tried to plead for mercy.

But before he could finish, a finger pressed against his chest.

“[Bestowal: Explosion].”

A bit of magic power flowed from the fingertip into Lacaid’s body, rampaging within him.

“Bang!”

With an explosion, Lacaid’s body burst apart, turning into a mist of blood, completely vanishing from this world.

“—”

Silence.

Deathly silence.

The Shajin Clan members, led by Shajina, looked at the human standing amidst the bloodbath, fear filling their hearts.

Shajina also looked at Shien with fear in her eyes.

“L… Lady Shajina?” Werl called out to Shajina with a trembling voice, as if pleading for help.

The Shajin Clan was also terrified. The Hoof Clan, whom they struggled against with all their might, was instantly annihilated by this human. They were naturally afraid, even fearing they might become the next victims.

“…Calm down, don’t panic,” Shajina said, taking a deep breath and forcing herself to compose herself.

She knew that if this person wanted to kill them, they wouldn’t be able to resist.

Although he was human, having reached Legendary Level, he was someone they had to look up to.

Before a Legendary-level expert, except for the powerful races at the top of the Demon Realm, all other races were mere ants.

The Shajin Clan, even weaker than the Hoof Clan, couldn’t compare to those powerful races, let alone resist a Legendary-level expert.

Realizing this, Shajina bit her lip and walked towards the terrifying expert.

“Milady!”

“Milady!”

The Shajin warriors, led by Werl, couldn’t help but cry out.

Shajina ignored them and came before the human.

“Shajina, daughter of the Shajin Clan Chief, greets you, Master,” she said, bowing respectfully.

The human, seemingly having vented some frustration, looked a bit more relaxed.

“Shajin Clan?” he asked, looking at Shajina, “Never heard of it. Are you famous?”

His somewhat hurtful words made Shajina smile wryly.

“The Shajin Clan is just a weak tribe in this Savage Demon Territory. We’re not worthy of being remembered by a human like you, Master.”

Shajina remained respectful.

However, the human’s reaction was strange.

“Savage Demon Territory?” He looked at Shajina thoughtfully, “Unfortunately, I’ve never even heard of that place.”

These words stunned Shajina.

After hesitating for a moment, she asked tentatively, “Could it be that you’re here in the Demon Realm for the first time, Master?”

“That’s right,” the human nodded readily, “I’m a human from the Mitra Kingdom, and I just arrived in the Demon Realm. Due to an unexpected incident, I’m completely unfamiliar with this place.”

Yes.

The newcomer was Shien, who had arrived here unexpectedly due to the collapse of the passage to the Demon Realm.

Shien touched the Holy Sword at his waist, seemingly relieved to have grasped the situation.

Shajina nodded as if she understood something. Seeing that this young, Legendary-level human expert didn’t seem arrogant, she felt slightly more relaxed.

“Although I don’t know what happened, Master, you saved our Shajin Clan with your absolute power. Please allow me to express our deepest gratitude on behalf of the Shajin Clan,” Shajina said carefully, “If you don’t mind, would you like to visit our settlement?”

Hearing this, Shien pondered, then looked up at the sky.

The vortex that had appeared there, seemingly tearing through space, was gone.

(I wonder how Lilith and Yulin are doing…)

Shien touched the mark on his arm.

It was the [True Mark], the proof of Lilith’s existence entrusted to him. With this mark, even if Lilith died, she wouldn’t truly die, but would be resurrected by his side.

(I shouldn’t have to worry about Lilith, but Yulin…)

He probably shouldn’t have to worry about her either, right?

Although not as reassuring as Lilith, Yulin was a Limit Level dragon. Logically, she shouldn’t be in danger so easily.

(She shouldn’t be in danger, but we’re separated now. That’s an undeniable fact.)

In that case, he should first find a way to understand the Demon Realm and then find them.

Thinking of this, Shien spoke to Shajina.

“Before I go to your Shajin Clan settlement, can you tell me which Demon Lord’s territory this is?”

Shien’s understanding of the Demon Realm was limited, but he knew it was ruled by six Demon Lords, each controlling one-sixth of the territory.

Therefore, if this was the Demon Realm, then it must be one of the six Demon Lords’ territories.

Shien only hoped he was in the Dragon Demon’s territory.

That way, he could quickly reunite with Airi.

At the very least, if it was the Moon Demon’s, the Beast Demon’s, or the Ghost Demon’s territory, it would be fine. He knew these Demon Lords, and contacting Airi wouldn’t be too difficult.

As for the other two Demon Lords, he hadn’t met them yet. Meeting them might be a bit difficult.

And as if his fears were confirmed…

“This is the territory ruled by the Succubus, the Succubus Territory,” Shajina revealed.

“The Succubus Territory is divided into eight regions, and Her Highness resides in the central region, the Succubus Domain. We are in the Savage Demon Territory, on the edge of the Succubus Territory, bordering the Poison Demon’s territory in the south of the Demon Realm.”

Hearing this, Shien was somewhat disappointed.

“The Succubus Territory?” Shien touched his nose helplessly, “Then do you know how to meet the Succubus?”

“This…” Shajina was startled.

How to meet the Succubus?

Was this Legendary-level human expert here for the Succubus?

Shajina looked at Shien with surprise, realization, sympathy, and pity.

This made Shien confused.

Why was she looking at him like that?

Shien felt like his imposing image had just crumbled.

But Shajina didn’t explain, simply replying,

“We are just an insignificant tribe in this Savage Demon Territory. We can’t possibly contact someone like the Succubus.”

This wasn’t a lie.

Shajina truly couldn’t reach the level of a Demon Lord.

“Alright,” Shien shrugged.

It seemed his journey wouldn’t be smooth sailing.