“Demon King! The Hero has already led the main army into the fortress!”
Realizing that the two Demon King officers were about to be overwhelmed, Daphiel frantically called out to Natalie, who was currently enjoying a “lap pillow.”
“The Hero? I never thought I’d run into her here.”
Natalie responded while reluctantly getting up from Emily’s lap.
Of course, upon hearing the word “Hero,” Emily also grew tense.
Emily hadn’t expected Hadia to assist the Empire in attacking a Demon Race fortress.
With the Demon King right beside her, Emily once again began to worry about Hadia’s safety.
After all, if Natalie took action, Hadia had almost no chance of surviving.
The agreement Emily had reached with Natalie last time couldn’t possibly work a second time.
If Hadia angered Natalie again this time, Emily truly had no way to save her.
“Well, no need to be so hasty. My wyvern troops aren’t just for show. Let’s give those humans a little warning first. It’s perfect—the human army is surrounding the fortress. Is there a better target than that?”
“…Understood, Demon King!”
Upon receiving the order, Daphiel pulled the rope signaling the attack.
Pulling this magical rope would cause the corresponding bell to ring.
At the same time, it would activate the entire wyvern force, letting them know they could launch their assault.
After all, you couldn’t issue commands by shouting in the sky; you had to rely on this method to direct the troops.
Takeoff, landing, retreat, attack—each had its corresponding rope for signaling.
*
“Aaah!”
With a cute cry, a golden-haired cat-girl loli charged towards Hadia.
In her hands was a greatsword completely unsuited to her small frame.
After closing in on Hadia, the cat-girl loli leaped into the air, swinging her greatsword with all her might towards Hadia.
Facing such an attack, Hadia merely flicked her Holy Sword, sending both the girl and her greatsword flying away.
After deflecting the cat-girl loli, as the red-haired Demon Race member raised her hand, countless magic circles surrounded Hadia from all directions.
The next moment, a barrage of magic shot forth from the circles.
Confronted with this, Hadia simply swung her Holy Sword rapidly.
The simultaneously released spells were almost instantly deflected by Hadia’s Holy Sword.
The deflected magic continuously blasted various parts of the fortress.
“What kind of monster is this…?”
Seeing her full-powered magic so effortlessly neutralized by Hadia, the tone of the bespectacled Demon Race member was filled with utter disbelief.
Just as Hadia dealt with all the magic, the cat-girl loli who had been knocked away earlier returned to the bespectacled demon’s side and asked, confused, “What do we do now, meow?”
Given the current state of the battle, the two of them simply couldn’t hold Hadia back.
Moreover, because the combat power of the two Demon King officers was tied up here, the fortress’s defensive lines were being gradually eroded by the Imperial army.
It was only a matter of time before the Imperial forces breached the walls.
But the two Demon King officers were already struggling to protect themselves, with no energy left to support the defenses.
“You two, if you surrender, I might be able to spare your lives.”
Hadia raised her Holy Sword, advising the two Demon King officers.
Although the enemies before her were defined by the Church as foes of the Demon Race, Hadia truly couldn’t bring herself to mercilessly kill someone who looked like a child, like the cat-girl loli.
Of course, Hadia was only appearing this formidable now; it wasn’t due to some sudden enlightenment or power surge.
She was simply performing normally.
An uninjured Hadia could handle five Demon King officers without much trouble.
Hadia just couldn’t defeat Natalie!
Before suffering that defeat at Natalie’s hands, Hadia had truly never known loss.
This was also the reason the Empire was so certain that the Hero’s party led by Hadia could surely defeat the Demon King.
“Ha! Don’t even think about it, human! I won’t surrender, meow!”
In response to Hadia’s advice, the cat-girl loli hissed while raising her greatsword.
“Even if I die, I won’t hand over the fortress I’m supposed to protect for the Demon King!”
Beside her, the bespectacled demon adjusted her glasses, preparing to attack Hadia with magic again.
“Is that so… Then there’s no helping it.”
After hearing their responses, Hadia could only prepare to kill the bespectacled demon and capture the cat-girl loli alive.
And just then, a tremendous draconic roar suddenly reverberated across the entire battlefield.
Because over a hundred wyverns were roaring simultaneously, it even drowned out the explosions on the battlefield.
Hearing the roar, Hadia naturally looked up at the sky.
What appeared in her vision was a vast, orderly formation of wyvern troops.
“What in the world is this…”
Faced with such a number of wyverns, Hadia was naturally dumbfounded.
From the carriages on the wyverns’ backs, Hadia understood this was Demon Race reinforcement troops.
But in the past, Hadia had never seen such a force.
For a moment, she couldn’t figure out the purpose of these troops.
And the next moment, the wyverns directly spewed breath attacks, bombarding the Imperial army assaulting the fortress.
Wherever the wyvern breath struck, dozens perished instantly.
Not only that, the demons in the carriages began wantonly bombarding the Imperial army with magic, taking advantage of their elevated position.
In the blink of an eye, several thousand troops were swallowed by the sea of fire created by the magical explosions.
“Meow, it’s Lady Daphiel coming to support us!”
“Hero, it seems the outcome is decided!”
“I never imagined you demons were hiding such a powerful weapon… However, things won’t end so easily!”
“What?”
Under the bespectacled demon’s puzzled gaze, Hadia leaped with all her might.
Though it was called a leap, the effect was practically indistinguishable from shooting straight into the sky.
“No way…”
“Meow, is this creature really human?!”
Under the astonished gazes of the two Demon King officers, Hadia “flew” in the blink of an eye right up to one of the wyverns.
The demons on top spotted Hadia and immediately launched magical attacks at her.
But she deflected all the spells with her Holy Sword, then gripped it tightly and swung.
A flash of white light, and the wyvern’s head was cleanly severed.
Instantly slain, the wyvern plummeted straight towards the ground.
The demon soldiers on the wyvern also leaped from the carriage one after another.
Of course, they could use magic to slow their descent, so they wouldn’t die from the fall.
Hadia had no spare time to finish off these soldiers.
Dealing with these wyverns was the priority now.
Naturally, since Hadia couldn’t fly, after easily dispatching one wyvern, she too began falling towards the ground, just like those soldiers.