Chapter 49 - Reapers (2) (1/2)

It was roughly midway through the trip. Simon had been trailing in the forest for 20 straight minutes, zooming past the trees in a lush crimson forest. With each subtle step, he propelled himself further, without breaking a single branch or separating a single leaf. Each step, would be undetectable.

'Hmmm... I feel like I've seen this sort of thing in a popular cartoon back in the old days. Eh, I barely even watched them anyways.'

Simon quickly sped up his pace as he blinked into the brush of the forest, disappearing into the lush crimson trees.

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”Say, Keltz, you sure that the Diva's son will be here?” A muscular white horned devil asked as he popped his head out of a bush.

”Lorv, shush, I know that he will definitely take this path at exactly midday, with a small escort of 3rd tier demons. It is really nothing we can't kill. Demons aren't even worth a devil's time.” Keltz responded in an arrogant tone.

Thump thump thump thump...

”He's here, that naive fool! Trying to run away from home with just this much protection... bag him and we'll be rich!” Keltz laughed quietly.

A carriage with a noble child slowly moved through the clearing in the forest, making a decent amount of noise as the demonic beast mounts stomped on the ground.

”I see only 4 guards, why don't we go in now?” Lorv asked.

”Yes, let's get us some money-”

A blazing fast object moved across the brush, taking away the two devils' heads with a gentle motion of it's lower body, sending their heads flying to where the object had come from.

”Golso, did you hear that?” A guard asked as he felt the smell of blood appear in a purple mist-like form.

”Yes, it seems that there is death here. This purple mist is the blood of a lower class devil!” The other guard yelled.

”Golso, Lannix? What's going on? Why did we stop so suddenly?” A young white horned devil asked as he popped his head out of the carriage.

”Don't worry, my lord. We will investigate this immediately.” Golso announced as he leapt from the carriage and ran to the source of the mist.

”What in Blood's name...?”

”What is it, Golso?!” The devil asked.

”It seems we were lucky today...”

”WAIT! I found a pair of heads down here!” Another demon shouted as he ran back with a couple of beheaded devil heads.