Chapter 30 (1/2)

Ex Strongest, Heading Out to Save the Girls – Part 3

After safely meeting with each other, Soma and Camilla exchanged information and promptly left the village.

They judged that there was nothing else to be gained in this place, but that judgment itself was late.

Actually, Camilla couldn't get any information, but the information acquired by Soma alone was good enough.

Besides, above all, they greatly felt uncomfortable when thinking the reason why this place was a village, and not a town.

”Cheh, what a disgusting story.” (Camilla)

”…Well, it is probably reasonable in a sense.” (Soma)

The village was, as so to speak, a kind of sacrifice.

It wouldn't be possible to deal with invasion. In other words, the village would be destroyed if there was an invasion.

For the sake of letting others know, the village was set over there, and people were living over there as well.

The reason for doing such a thing was because the place where the Demons lived was widely separated from each other.

Anyhow, the place where dominated by the Demons had an area that double the size of the country where Soma and others lived, but the population was only one tenth of Soma's country.

In addition, this country had many places that faced many other Mankind countries, so it couldn't keep everything in perfect order.

For that reason, there were places that had not even skirmishes these days.

There was no mistake that it was a reasonable discretion.

Perhaps, there were also other reasons.

The atmosphere floating around the village was that kind of things.

Although the reasons were different from each other, there was no difference since people were staying there on their own accord.

That was how Soma and Camilla felt.

However, no matter what circ.u.mstances that was, Soma also didn't like it.

Which was why Soma didn't disagree with Camilla's decision to immediately leave.

Anyhow, there was no need to worry about it for now.

As they arranged their thoughts, they would confirm what they would do from now on based on the information gained by Soma.

”It will take on day if we are walking. On the contrary, one hour would be enough if we take into account that we are not used to this, but… will it be a problem with how much time it takes to find the ruin?” (Camilla)

”Yes. Nevertheless, we will not take more than two hours.” (Soma)

Strictly speaking, they would immediately understand what kind of that ruin was.

The main problem was the way to go there.

n.o.body would go to an altar where an evil G.o.d was wors.h.i.+ped. Consequently, it wouldn't be easy to go there because of what kind of place it was.

So, it would take one hour plus to do various things.

There shouldn't be any problem until they arrived at that place.

If there was a problem…

”Whether we can smoothly rescue Aina and Lina.” (Soma)

”It's going to be… Well, I also don't think anything bad until that time. Actually, I am more concerned because the opponent's strength is unknown. There is no mistake that the opponent is a Demon who had at least High Rank skills, but… I can't guess more than that. …I don't think that Demon Heavenly Generals are involved, but should we consider the worst possibility?” (Camilla)

”Demon Heavenly Generals… is it?” (Soma)

Soma was familiar with that term.

He heard that they were the strongest of the Demons side, and they were equivalent to the Seven Heavens of the King of the Mankind side.

However, if speaking in term of quality, the highest position of the Demons was the Demon King. It was something that never changed.

Nevertheless, the Demons were not annihilated because the Mankind didn't plan to do so… However, the fact still remained that the Mankind treated them as a dangerous existence.

While thinking of such things, the scenery around Soma and Camilla had changed.

From a plain field into a forest again.

Moreover, the forest had a darker green than the Demon Forest, and somehow it felt creepy.

But, Soma and Camilla weren't hesitated until this time around, so they just went ahead without worrying about it.

The magical landmarks were still visible.

Then, there was no problem.

While confirming the landmarks, they talked about the thoughts earlier.

”Hmmm… did you mean that if we meet such a guy, we will die?” (Soma)

”Yeah. It is never an exaggerated story, it is just a fact. The only ones who survived from them were probably someone from Seven Heavens, Heroes or Saints. Other than Seven Heavens, the Heroes and Saints were basically defeated.” (Camilla)

”Does that mean Seven Heavens are the only ones who can deal with the Demon Heavenly Generals? There was a time that they got defeated once, right?” (Soma)

”To be exact, there is no difference that a person became Seven Heavens, but… well, I wonder if is there really a big difference. Besides, it's not that the Seven Heavens are strong. That person became one of Seven Heavens because the predecessor was killed by one of the Demon Heavenly Generals.” (Camilla)

That was the reason why it was said that the quality was equivalent.

At the same time, although they were the strongest among Mankind, they were not completely isolated from others.

Although it might be the same on the side of the Demons as well…