System vs Rebirth

“Fil!” Gargan let out a roar filled with anger. He never thought that he would lose his best friend here.

All he could think was to kill the one who caused all this. But Laufey was the first one to put some sense on him. He struck Gargan’s cheek with his fist, smashing him to the ground.

“Shut up! Control your rage if you don’t want to cause more mess than this.” Laufey gnashed his teeth. He could feel the contempt from the people on top of the wall.

As much as he wanted to destroy them, he had to refrain himself since his priority was Noel, who should have prepared to leave the city from the opposite direction.

‘What should I do? If we loop around the city, we can reach the other side within ten minutes. But that would be too late. They would have covered their tracks and set up another ambush when we split up. If we don’t split up, we will fall into their trap and fail to kill them.’

‘But if we remain careful here, we will be too late. In that case, what should we do to turn around the situation?’

Laufey couldn’t find any plans that allowed them to catch up to Noel. However, looking at the raging Gargan gave him some inspiration.

‘Wait a minute. They left because they knew they were our targets, right? What if we attacked this city instead? If we destroyed this city, it would be a great blow to the Demon Banner Army.’

‘There is a possibility that they would ignore them. But it would surely leave a bad record on them. In addition, even though we couldn’t finish our mission, we got another objective.’

‘It’s said that the Vice Captain of the Demon Barrier Squad is inside. And if we massacre all the people inside the city, the terror of the Supreme Devil Organization would surely resound across the country.’

‘It will lead to another implication, but if we do this, there is a chance they will come back. After all, they don’t like to have a bad record since it’ll make cooperation with other squads more difficult.’

‘The time limit is still a day…’ Laufey’s expression became serious. It seemed that he was thinking about the numerous people they would have to kill inside the city.

This was the only way to lure Noel and the others.

Laufey took a deep breath to calm his heart down before ordering, “Gargan, you want to kill them, right? In that case, go rampage. We’ll destroy the city and bury thousands of people with him.”

Gargan obviously didn’t like the idea. It wasn’t that he hated killing people. He just wanted to take his revenge.

Seeing the doubt on Gargan’s face, Laufey added, “There is a high possibility that they will return to the city when they realize we’re attacking the city instead of them. That’s why you can do everything you want, the bigger the better.”

When he heard the possibility of revenge, Gargan’s eyes brightened. He knew that he had to do it.

Meanwhile, the serpent, who was in charge of their utilities, came to them with a few bottles. The bottles stored a mysterious transparent liquid inside. It looked like water, but its smell was a bit sour.

“This is the Demon Potion. If we’re going to attack the city, we should use this to avoid getting attacked by the demons.”

They took the potions and started smearing the liquid on their clothes. Since the liquid had been used up, the serpent dropped the bottles to the ground and used her poison to melt the bottles and the remaining liquid.

“Go!” Laufey shouted to Gargan.

Gargan nodded with a serious expression. He could finally unleash his rage.

Without hesitation, he charged at the wall while raising his glaive.

The soldiers on the wall looked shocked. They never thought they would be the target, but it was too late. Gargan was already close enough with the demons and surprisingly, he didn’t get attacked by them.

In fact, it looked like the demons thought Gargan was one of them and ignored him.

Gargan took advantage of this to step on the demon’s body before launching himself into the air. His jump surpassed the height of the wall.

He could clearly see all the scared soldiers on the wall. But at the same time, he was stunned when he saw Damian standing among them.

“Huh?!” Gargan was too late to react as a huge ice crystal appeared on top of the wall and expanded in his direction, engulfing him. Just like Fil, he was covered in thick ice. Since the demons would be the cushion when he fell, Damian waved his sword, releasing a crescent-shaped sword strike that split Gargan in half.

Damian smiled as they finally managed to gain the balance.

On the other hand, Laufey and the others were stunned when they saw the ice that killed Gargan.

“What? He is still up there?” Laufey gulped down. The group was already near the demons, but they all hesitated because Damian and the Demon Relief Squad might still be there.

Damian stood on top of the wall with a smile on his face as if looking down on them. He couldn’t help but recall the conversation they had before this.

“I want Jonathan to stand on top of the carriages so that you look like you’re carrying all of us. But once you spot the enemies, you are to disengage and return to the city wall. Of course, you’re going to carry Sir Damian as well.” Noel explained his plan.

“In that case, are we going to use the gate in the opposite direction to leave? This way, they would have to loop around the city and chase after us. We can employ the previous tactics to defeat some of them.” Rose had already thought about the possibility that would appear in Laufey’s head. 𝘣𝘦𝑑𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝑙.𝘯𝑒𝘵

However, Noel shook his head calmly. “No, have you heard the saying, ‘Don’t drive your enemies into the corner because they would do the unthinkable in desperation?’ That will be the case when we leave the city. But my father always asked, ‘What if we know what they will do in desperation and take advantage of it?’ The answer is simple. We can devour them, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”