The Simple Life of Killing Demons - Book 12: Chapter 58

Volume 12 Chapter 58 : In Face of Survival

“Who are you?!” The guards of the palace were not comparable to those in the city as they were all elites. As soon as the bird came into sight, they stopped it.

“I’m from Selga, and I’m Taroma, the son of the lord of the fog element, Tasser Dylan. Now, we’re in a critical situation. Please treat my mother first.” Taroma jumped off the bird with Senna in his arms.

“What proof do you have to prove that you belong to the Dylan family?”

“I, I don’t. Let me in quickly.”

“You can’t go in without proof.”

“Are you blind?! Can’t you find a spirit to treat my mother first?! Didn’t you see that she was hit by an arrow?!” Taroma shouted. He was calm just now, but at that moment, the guards were going to interrogate him to the end. He left too hastily before and did not manage to bring along his family badge, so how could he prove it?

“Oh? Is it alright for you to speak so loudly? Aren’t you afraid that I won’t let you in? Instead, arrest you?” Seeing Taroma like that, the guard folded his arms and stared at him, completely unmoved. As guards of the palace, they all had their own dignity.

“Damn it! You can arrest me! But, give my mother treatment first. She can’t wait any longer.”

The guard looked at Senna in Taroma’s arms. She was breathing weakly, her lips had turned pale, and she had lost too much blood. If she was not treated, she would definitely die.

“For the sake of you bringing a wounded woman, I’ll let you in, but be well-behaved. This is the palace, the king’s castle, not a place for nobles like you to run wild and yell. Hey, I’ll go to the healer, you guys watch him and never let him run around. This guy is a fog spirit and this woman might be an illusion he imposed on us.” The guard who spoke should be the captain of the guards. The other guards nodded. Nobody refute what he ordered.

“Let him wait in the guard room.” After speaking, the captain of the guard quickly left.

“Phew~” Taroma heaved a sigh of relief, “Mom, did you hear that? Hold on a little longer, someone will come to treat you soon.”

Senna just closed her eyes and responded to Taroma with the sound of her breathing.

“You heard what the officer said. Go to the guard room first.”

“Sure.” Taroma looked at Senna as he walked very carefully, fearing that he would hurt her.

After taking two steps forward, it suddenly occurred to him that there was something urgent to report apart from his mother, “You must go to the king, we are in huge trouble!”

“What’s the meaning of this?”

“Do you know about the prophecy? According to the prophecy of the Great Spirit Elder, the spirits will suffer an unprecedented disaster.”

“What’s that?”

“It’s the prophecy of the Great Spirit Elder! Now, that prophecy is about to come true! And there are traitors among us spirits, they abandoned us and chose to be with the demons. Currently, Margado has been under attack!”

“Why didn’t we receive any information about this? We’ll talk about this later, go to the guard room first. Our officer will find a spirit to treat your mother.”

“But… fine.”

Following the guards to a guard’s lounge, Taroma put Senna on the bed. He was in a state of confusion now. He wondered: What if Delza’s inability to teleport was related to the demonic creatures? It probably was being attacked by those monsters in that moment.

Reidy, Lin Xiang, should be fine, right?

He was not sure. Not to mention, he was worried about his father too. Currently, Senna was what worried him the most in his sight.

“Wait…” Taroma suddenly felt a little strange, “Just now, I told them that there are traitors among the spirits. They seem to be surprised. However, their kind of surprise can be divided into two types. One, they didn’t know at first, so they were surprised by my words, or it could be that… they already knew about the prophecy, but they were surprised when they heard it from me…”

“Kachack.” The sound of the door being locked made Taroma’s heart skip a beat.

“Damn it, so that’s how it is. These guys are also traitors!” Taroma, who realized it, was furious. He turned around and kicked on the wooden door, but the door seemed to be enchanted. No sound was made when he kicked, nor would it bulge. Although Taroma was anxious, he did not yell. Anyone with a little brain knew that it was useless to yell if one was imprisoned by the enemy. Therefore, he must first find a way to escape.

He had to escape in a short time.

His mother could not tolerate him for wasting too much time there.

Taroma looked around. It was a small room, where three or four guards usually slept. The material of the wall was mixed with soil, so it was impossible for the fog magic, which had relatively weak physical damage, to cause damage to the wall. The window was also tightly shut. Could he escape under the watch of several guards? Furthermore, would there be any accomplices after that?

“Damn it!” Taroma stomped, what should he do now!

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The captain of the guard, who brought a doctor to the guard lounge, saw several guards standing in front of the door, looking absent-minded, and could not help but asked, “Where’s that spirit named Taroma?”

“He left. The woman in his arms was an illusion! We were, were deceived.”

“Yes, that’s right, after we brought him here, he suddenly ran away! Please punish him, officer.”

The captain of the guards looked around the guard lounge. There were many rooms, which were similar to dormitories. If it was the usual, there would be nothing concerning. However, there was one, and only one, with the door closed, and a magic lamp was lit inside.

The captain of the guard nodded, “You are right, I am only to blame for my misinterpretation. Alright, go back and be on guard now. Don’t allow anyone else to come in.”

“Understood.” The guards looked at each other, and finally one guard was left there. The guard that stayed behind might be a cover for the guards to prevent the captain of the guard from inspecting the rooms.

After the other guards left, the captain of the guard walked up to that one guard and patted him on the shoulder, “Tell me what’s going on, Steve. You know, I don’t like you guys keeping things from me.” The captain had always been getting along well with his subordinates, so he could tell at a glance that they had something to hide from him.

“Sir…” Steve was a little embarrassed by the stares of the captain, and at the same time he was also entangled in whether he chose the right side or not. Although by doing that, his parents and family members could survive the disaster, some of his friends might be about to die.

The captain of the guard usually treated his subordinates well. Steve respected him very much.

“I… sir, do you know about the prophecy?”

“What prophecy?”

“I don’t know the details either, and I’m so scared. That Taroma is still inside, and his mother is probably not going to make it. You should ask the doctor to treat his mother first, and then I will explain it to you. Taroma should also know something.”

“Alright.” The captain of the guard nodded, but at that moment, the guards who had left for duty had returned.

“Steve! We really shouldn’t have let you stay behind! How dare you betray us!”

“I…” Steve shrugged his shoulders in fear.

“I don’t know what’s going on with all of you! However, I do smell something dangerous. If you can explain it to me, I won’t punish you. This doctor is also my friend. We won’t share what you disclosed.”

“Sorry, captain, if it was the usual day, we would definitely be willing to listen to you, but now, it is a matter of our survival, so you have two options. One, join us as we seek refuge with the powerful demon clan, or two, we kill you.”

“Heh~ you actually said the demon clan? Are you going to seek refuge with the low demons? That’s ridiculous.”

“No, the demon clan is different from the low demons. As I said just now, they are powerful. They will give us new strength, the strength to survive in the future.”

“I’ve generally understand this, so, for that strength, the strength to survive, you rather hurt your companions?”

“Did you know? Sir, we have planned to let you join us, but due to your intelligence and unconditional love for the Spirit Country, you are willing to sacrifice yourself, so we concealed it from you and wait until the day when the outbreak erupts to invite you again. As long as Spirit Country is gone, you can’t refuse. However, it seems that that’s not possible now. You still choose Spirit Country, right?”

“Spirit Country is the place where we were raised. If you betray it, it is equivalent to betraying your own relatives. If we say that survival can be achieved by betraying your beloved ones, then I would rather die with vigor. Have you all forgotten what I usually teach you?”

“I’m sorry, Sir, but this is a one-way path. We’ve made up our minds and we’ll keep going. We’re not like Steve.”

“I, I want to protect Spirit Country. I always feel that we shouldn’t do this.”

“Great, Steve, fine. Now, I’ve realized that we shouldn’t have brought you in.”

Five guards pulled out their weapons. Meanwhile, on Steve’s side, there were two guards and a healing spirit, who was not good in combat.

“Come on! Captain, I have long wanted to have a serious fight with you.”

“It seems that in face of survival, friendship has become unimportant.” The captain of the guard smiled and drew his weapon, “Hurry up, I don’t have much time to waste with you. What has become of Spirit Country will be a race against time.”

————Delza

“What happened to them? There’re so many wounded.” Delza, the city that would have been quiet at night, was now filled with noise.

“Come on, people! We need gauze here, the blood isn’t stopping! Are there any fire spirits? Slightly heat up his wound!”

“What’s the situation outside now? Why are there so many wounded spirits?”

“Where is Xiao Hu?! Isn’t he in the same team as you? Where did he go?”

“Everyone, we may not be able to hold on much longer. The defense line in the North has been taken down. The demonic creatures are heading towards General Hawke and the soldiers in the South. Now, they are all in a tough fight… It’s probably sooner or later when the monsters will attack the city gate and invade here…” A soldier sighed deeply. After he said that, the crowd fell into silence at first, and then, there was a burst of reluctance.

“No way! Why do we have to deal with this?!”

“Are there only these soldiers left in the North?! Where’s Xiao Hu?!”

The spirits were very disturbed.

Meanwhile, five kilometers away, the soldiers defending by the big river in the East and South were also fighting hard.

The lowly rock demons had already walked ashore at that moment.

The soldiers who fought hard kept cursing at those damned traitors.

Originally, the captain of the water spirit team made arrangements, so that everyone could be united to create a big whirlpool to suck all the rock demons in and trap them. Everything went very smoothly. However, a traitor appeared later, which made them stopped releasing magic together, followed by attacking their companions, causing the whirlpool to disappear and the rock demons to go ashore. Due to the interference of the lowly rock demons, the archers and magic gunners could not concentrate on attacking the flying demons, causing the flying demons to land, one after another.