How I Became the Strongest Sovereign

Chapter 89 - Hostile Takeover II

Who was I kidding? I started running east towards safety, a small proportion of the demon army followed me separating from the main army, who were charging for the safe zone.

Facing all those demons, that's suicide! Maybe I could massacre a few of them and gather Exp but what were the chances they were all weak foot soldiers? If I used my big spells, I would attract too much attention. 

I needed a plan.

I took off my eye patch and attached it to my other eye. The dampening effect was still there but my demon eye could be seen now.

I looked back, about 30 foot soldiers were following me. There seemed to be one strong one leading them. I could tell as his mana pressure was much stronger than the others. 

I finally stopped and faced them. 

"Who are you? Identify yourself!" The demon at the front spoke pointing his sword at me.

"I'm a spy for the Demon Kingdom. I work under Astaroth." I said putting my arms up to show I was surrendering.

"Astaroth huh? How do we know you're not lying." The demon said. 

"I can smell a human's scent from him. He's lying!" The demon to his side hissed. Sh*t!

"Nice try human! That fake demon eye of yours isn't deceiving anyone, "Men attack!!"

At least I tried. 

'Lightning Aura.'

'Lightning Gloves.'

I sped towards them parrying the leader's blade to the side before I roundhouse kicked his head. He flew laterally crashing into one of the houses. 

"Boss!" The demons rushed to his side but I wasn't giving them any room to pick their leader up.

'Indra's arrow.'

My incantation caused a large 10 meter lightning bolt to form above my palm. I threw it towards the demons immediately; it cut through the air crisply causing the atmosphere to vibrate with lightning mana particles.

Some were lucky to move out of the way but others weren't as fortunate. The violent lightning bolt cut through half of them, leaving purple blood and gooey remains of carcasses all over the floor.

[You have used 500 MP]

The lightning bolt didn't stop and decimated the housing behind them, causing a trail of destruction for 300 or so metres. The demons looked at their friends and the trail of destruction, then started to run in the other direction to flee. 

[You have earned 5000 EXP for killing a Soldier Demon!]

[You have earned 5000 EXP for killing a Soldier Demon!]

[You have earned 5000 EXP for killing a Soldier Demon!]

[You have earned 5000 EXP for killing a Soldier Demon!]

…

[You have levelled up!]

[You're now level 80]

[You have 50 Total Available stat points]

"Where are you guys going?! Come back!" The stronger demon finally appeared out of the house, his armour all dusty.

"I'm going to kill you human!" He released his mana pressure and charged at me with a sword in his right hand. 

I unsheathed Voadhailis's Claw and our blades collided together. We exchanged blows back and forth and it seemed like I was winning but with every move, he was getting faster. Slashing and parrying our blades moved at a mind splitting speed. This demon was experienced for sure.

Thankfully I was able to predict most of his movements with my demon eye; this helped me to dodge his swings and counter successfully. 

He had the Earth Element so my lightning element was ineffective, I couldn't use many lightning attacks and mainly used flame mana to boost my swings with power.

"Take this!" Jumping up, the demon swung his blade down hard, imbuing it with Earth mana. I put up my blade to block the blow but his power was too strong and I had been caught off guard. 

A loud sonic boom erupted the atmosphere and Voadhailis's Claw shattered in 2, his sword cut across my torso diagonally and a splatter of blood flew everywhere.

[You have taken Critical damage]

[You have lost 2000 HP]

[Blood loss will cut 10 HP per second for 2 minutes]

Sh*t!

I winced at the pain and leapt backwards. I didn't have time to curse my luck and he charged at me to deal the final blow. This time he conjured a rock solid shield in his left hand just in case and held his dark sword in his right. 

'Gravity zone!'

I faced my palm towards him and he froze in place.

[Mp is dropping at a fast rate]

'Indra's Spear'

I channelled my mana into my right hand and flashed towards the demon. This was my final attack, I couldn't waste any more time. 

"Die!!"

My arm pierced through the frozen demon's chest, leaving a large hole in his chest, where his heart was supposed to be.

I deactivated 'Gravity Zone' and fell to my knees in exhaustion. Gravity magic was strong but it drained MP very quickly.

[You have earned 10,000 EXP for killing a Baron Demon!]

"Look! There's a rat!" A demon shouted a couple hundred metres away. I could hear trampling footsteps getting closer to the site of the massacre. I had to leave.

I picked myself up and panted heavily, before I hid my mana signatures and sped towards the buildings that were still intact. 

I had to hide until I could regain my strength. The group coming for me had many numbers and had strong demons like the Baron I killed.

I created an ice wall behind me as a diversion and started running in a different direction. I had to get far. 

Scanning with my demon eye I spotted 5 or 6 powerful life forms in the direction I was heading. Were they elves or demons I didn't know. If they were demons I was done for, but if they were elves I could ask them for help. 

I wasn't going to gamble, I had to imagine the worst case scenarios. I changed directions again and moved deeper into the vast amount of buildings.

I put the eye patch back on to cover my demon eye. I closed it to let it rest, it was already strained from the overuse in my previous fight.

Randomly entering a house, I closed all the blinds and headed for the basement to hide. 

Clack!

I closed the hatch to the basement and looked around but I couldn't see anything in the dark. 

Then suddenly 2 green glowing eyes popped up in the darkness. I tried to activate a spell but someone had grabbed me from behind with a rock solid grip. 

I tried to break loose from the person's grip but it was no use. Who was this monster?

A bright light finally illuminated the basement revealing the person standing in front of me. It was a young elf girl, maybe around my age. She held a knife to my throat and glared at me with her glowing green eyes. Menacing.

I spotted 2 young boys behind her staring at me with fearful eyes; they wore tattered clothes and seemed to be around the age of 5 or 6. 

"Who are you?" the young elf girl demanded, shoving the blade in my face.

"My name is Zeref Amara and I'm a human. I came to the elven Kingdom with my friends but this happened and they made it to the safe zone without me. 

"I ended up killing some demon soldiers and I stumbled here to hide, coincidentally." I answered without a sense of hesitation in my voice.

"He's telling the truth Michelle." A womanly voice echoed from behind me. So this strong monster was a woman? Nice.

"How old are you?" Michelle, the elf girl with the knife asked.

"I may not look it but I'm 13." I replied.

"Oooo, he's your age Michelle and he's super tall. Interesting. I sense no ill intentions from him so I'll let him go, he won't harm us. You can put your guard down." The woman from behind me let go of her vice-like grip.

Michelle put her knife back to her side and went to sit next to the two little kids on the ground; she still glared at me with her taunting eyes like she was warning me.

"My name is Alfreda Morwen and these are my siblings." The woman from behind me swivelled round and appeared in front of me. She wore silver plated armour and I sensed a powerful mana pressure oozing from her.

She had hazelnut brown hair and the same pair of green eyes as her sisters; she had a tanned complexion from being in the sun a lot and countless scars marked on her fists. All my instincts were telling me, she was a powerful warrior: A battle hardened beast. 

"I'm 18 years old and I'm part of the Valkyrie force of the Elven army. She's Michelle, a 13 year old student mage." Alfreda began introducing the people in the room, pointing at Michelle first. 

"Those 2 little ones are Myshal and Pyshal. They're non-identical twins." 

Myshal and Pyshal. I laughed internally at the elves' funny naming. I'm sure the names must have had a good meaning to them.

It cut me quite strange she trusted me so easily though, was she planning something? Or was I just being paranoid?

"Why'd you trust me so easily?" I asked, curious.

"My special skill allows me to sense the intentions of a person and if they're trustworthy; you passed the test with flying colours that's all." She replied.

"Please take a seat over there. We have a lot to discuss." She said pointing at the corner of the room, where a cloth was placed on the ground.

The basement wasn't too big, maybe around 5 metres by 5 metres in size. Many wooden boxes were stacked up on top of each other in the back, making the room smaller than its actual size.

I took a seat as she said and she did the same, sitting on the other side of the room with her siblings. I kept my guard up and still did not trust her. For all I knew she may have just been lying about this skill of hers. 

"So what's the situation outside?" Alfreda asked, playing with the Knife that Michelle used on me.

"Grim. The demons have taken over and there are literally no elven guards in sight. This side of the kingdom has been completely taken over." I replied.

"I thought so. I was meant to be dispatched to fight them off but my parents went instead; they told me to stay here and protect the little ones."

"Why didn't you guys head for the safe zone?" I queried.

"We can't. Myshal and Pyshal both suffer from a lung disease, which doesn't let them breathe properly when there's lots of dust. The outside conditions were terrible for us." She answered. 

"Do you guys plan to stay here until the demons are all gone?" 

"Yes. That was the plan but we found out that our food supply was actually infested with maggots. We weren't prepared for this happening so I'm not sure anymore." she sighed in disappointment.

"I understand. This situation is just really disturbing. I'll take a rest for a bit, I still haven't healed from my battle." I said leaning back against the wall.

"That's fine. Rest well."

Damn.

What could I do now? I could either hide here with them with no food supply or fight. My dimension rings were empty from the long journey, meaning I had no food supply myself.

  If I could fend off the demons somehow, I could maybe get a reward from the Elven royal family. That would help me in the future in many ways but fending off that many demons was a stupid idea. I struggled against a small group, fighting a whole army was not in my strength yet.

I needed more power. 

That brought me back to my broken blade, my poor, beautiful piece of art. I took out the remaining pieces of Voadhailis's Claw and inspected the hilt of the sword. There was no way to fix it, no blacksmith would be able to fix it. 

Using my sixth sense, I enhanced my human vision and I could tell the blade was completely ruined. It's magical capabilities and molecular structure were all messed up. Whatever that demon's blade was, it was stronger than this claw.

Eureka!!! That's it!!!

I had a lightbulb moment. 

I was in the Elven Kingdom!

Hastily, I opened my status menu and went to the quests section. I didn't have to navigate with my hands, instead I navigated the system with commands from my head.

There it was!

[Quest Title: Tame the Dragon of flames, become Voadhailis's master!]

[Quest: Retrieve the potion of life from the Elven Kingdom and revive The Dragon of Flames Voadhailis]

[Rewards: Instant Level Up]

[Quest: Make a bond with the Dragon of Flames Voadhailis]

[Reward: Instant Level Up x5]

Perfect! I just had to find this potion and revive the dead true dragon in my dimension ring. Bonding with it would bring me immense power and I may even have a chance to beat the demon army, if the elves helped.

Now the only issue was, how do I find this potion of life?