92 The Necromancer and the Priestess 25 (1/2)

”Joshua's strength lies in the power of his legs, along with his speed and agility. He is truly the perfect soldier, his only weakness being that he is slightly rash.” El said.

”On the other hand, though Kai has high offensive power for a Knight Templar, the knights focus on a more supportive and defensive style of fighting. Because of this, the issue in this case is time and stamina - if Kai can outlast the demon, then he should be able to cinch the win.” Leon added on.

The two of them had on very serious expressions as they continued with a play by play commentary of the fight. How Yin Mei could tell despite the fact that one of them was wearing a mask was instinct!

Yin Mei stared dead eyed into empty air, not knowing what to think about this situation. She felt like she was at some sort of sports game, and not a life or death battle that would decide the course of the war.

”Hmm... If Kai loses, I'll kill him,” Yin Mei said, with an equally serious expression, interrupting the commentary of the two.

The three of them had on fierce expressions, their serious aura almost visible to the eye. On the other hand, only Rosella was left out, a worried expression on her face.

The two had already begun fighting. Joshua, the ram horned demon, was using a spear, and Kai a sword and shield. The two exchanged blows, and Yin Mei could tell that Joshua truly had a great amount of strength in his legs. Because of this, he was extremely fast. And with his maneuvering, the result was that each of his blows packed a lot of power in them as well.

But, Yin Mei tried not to be too worried. She had already decided to trust in the power of heaven's beloved son, aka, the protagonist's halo.

They would always pull through when it counted - that was the protagonist.

The issue was that whether or not Kai himself was supportive of the treaty. Because if he didn't feel passionate enough about it, how could he bring out the inner strength of the protagonist that would give him all sorts of power ups to allow him to overcome obstacles?

Yin Mei didn't think that Kai would purposefully lose - his ”righteous” personality would prevent him from doing that sort of underhanded thing, even if he wasn't in support of the treaty. Though, Yin Mei thought that treaty would be just the sort of thing that this guy filled with thoughts of justice and fairness would like. Even so, if he was just half hearted about it, how could he activate his hidden power?

”And now Joshua launches himself at Kai again! His blade is covered in black flames! How interesting! What sort of enchantment is that? It's not something that is seen in the human world, a magic unique to demons! Kai attempts to dispel it, but it doesn't look like it worked. Huh... how interesting, just how in the world does that work...” Leon became so distracted that his commentary was interrupted and he continued muttering, trying to figure out the properties of the enchantment magic on the demon's spear.

”This black fire cannot be put out by any known means, aside from the will of the user. It will continue burning until its target becomes ash. It can even eat through magic.” El explained, and Leon let out a whistle.

But, he also felt cold on the inside. Such fierce magic, if their army had battled against them... he didn't even want to imagine it.

The sun continued inching its way across the sky as hours passed, with no end to the battle in sight. Yin Mei couldn't be bothered to stand around watching them exchange blows and pull off all sorts of fancy finishing moves that never actually finished off the other person, and so... started playing poker with Rosella!

She had taught Rosella and the White Bird party all sorts of games when they camped out for missions, and as a result, now the White Bird party was addicted, especially to gambling with blackjack and poker.

Yin Mei had been surprised that this world didn't have those games, but apparently it did have similar games, but they were also different. After all, it was a different world, huh?

Some of the demons around them became intrigued, and though they didn't have good thoughts about humans, still couldn't help their curiosity, gathering around to take a look. In the end, a few even joined in.

By evening, the group had split into two - one group was watching the battle, with El and Leon continuing to provide generous commentary, seemingly not getting bored of it, and the other group was playing or observing the poker game.

”And the bet goes to this player here!” Yin Mei said, acting as dealer as she pushed all the chips toward a leopard-faced beastman. Yin Mei was surprised to find that among the many demon races, included were not just the classic demons, but also races like beastmen, vampires, succubus/inccubus, mermen/mermaids, harpies, and all sorts of different fantasy non-human races. Even races that were normally thought of as ”good”, such as elves, dwarves, and etc. were included!

For humans, they were all classified under the same title of ”demon”, but in actuality, that was just the result of human ignorance.

”For a human, you're not too bad!” The leopard faced man said in the demon language with a boisterous laugh, clearly having a good time after winning. ”Your demon language is pretty good too!”

That's because of magic... Yin Mei retorted in her heart, but put on a polite smile. ”Thanks,” she said.

”You said this is your original game? You're quite good to come up with something as interesting as this. I could make a good buck or two selling it to one of the merchants back home,” a demon who had been observing mused, rubbing his beard and mustache in thought.

The soldiers broke into laughter. ”Yeah right! Not before someone else manages to sell it before you!”

Yin Mei didn't really care what they wanted to do with the game, but she was glad that something like this was enough to win over their hearts! Damn, if she knew this, she wouldn't have needed to have Kai duel at all, would she?

And here El had been saying that they would be hard to persuade! Bah, how dare he lie to her?

El: I'm innocent...

Two days of this passed, and by the time it was over, the demon army camp had practically become a casino. Meanwhile, even the full of stamina Joshua and Kai were becoming tired.

”It... looks like... you're getting tired... how about you forfeit already?” Joshua said, panting heavily as he had his hands on his knees.