What the member of Vivians Party didnt know is that the person that theyre waiting for has already come.

Its just that theres a bunch of brainless fools constantly getting in his way, thus slowing him down.

Caw!

Roar!

Howl!

Following a number of out of control roars, monsters that have already completely transformed into unrecognizable refining demons charged at Shien one after another.

Shien had already slain a number of them, littering the ground around him with the corpses of these refining demons, but the rest of them still continued to mindlessly charge at him, with some even going for the corpses of the refining demons that he had killed and attempting to devour them.

Youre seriously disgusting!

Before his sight, those monsters not only tried to attack him but also go for the corpses of other refining demons, devour their corpses, before bloating up and having limbs of various demonic beasts rip out from its body. Such a scene seriously disgusted Shien, and he started cursing away while half throwing up.

Hmph!

Airi also had an utterly cold expression as she breathed out huffs of breath from her tiny mouth, spitting out needle thin bursts of dragon breath at one monster after another.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

In mere instants, the refining demons that were touched by Airis dragons breath continuously exploded into puddles of blood.

[Enchant Burn].

Shien also used magic to set the air ablaze and consuming one refining demon with the flames after another, burning them all of the to ash.

[Enchant Melt].

Shien also enchanted the ground beneath him to liquefy the ground, turning it into a quagmire.

The refining demons still charging at him sank into the quagmire one after another. They furiously struggled, but soon enough, they disappeared beneath the surface and stopped moving.

Even so, Shien and Airi were getting impatient.

The closer were getting to this canyons depths, the more refining demons there are.

Shien frowned.

How troublesom. Airi also spoke impatiently, Lets just completely destroy this canyon then.

This wasnt the first time that Airi had brought up this particular suggestion.

Truthfully, Shien rather wanted to do that as well.

That way will have them the most amount of trouble. With that, everything will be taken care of. Not only will the ritual be destroyed, the masterminds carrying the ritual out will also be taken care of one one swoop and all be sent to hell for free.

The problem with that though

Vivian and them are still in the canyon though.

Shien sighed.

If not for that reason, Shien might have completely flattened this canyon before even Airi could.

Airi was rather dissatisfied with that concern though.

Dont they have that super tough girl with them after all? It should be fine with her protecting them, right?

Airi actually said something like that.

My lady really do like joking around.

Shien could only laugh dryly at that.

Although Vivians defense is indeed powerful, the matter if she can take the force required to destroy the entire canyon is another question entirely.

It must be said, the canyon is huge. So huge that not even the Capital can match it in size.

The amount of force thats required to completely destroy such a canyon is definitely not low by any means.

By Shiens estimates, even for him, unless he were to unseal the Holy Sword, something like that would at least take him casting [Auroras Meteoric] with his full might to accomplish.

As for Airi, she would definitely be able to do it, but the amount of power shed need to sue would definitely not be any lower than Shiens full powered [Auroras Meteoric].

In that case, Shien really would have a hard time believing that the level 50 Vivian will be able to withstand such force.

Even if she could, would she still be able to protect the others at the same time?

This isnt even mentioning the fact that Shiens goal isnt for them to just come out alive.

What if they lived, but ended up losing an arm or leg?

Thus, they cant just indiscriminately completely destroy this place.

Sigh Airi of course understands this as well, so she just sighed as she spoke, If I knew this would happen, I would have kept that Leisha girl with me.

Is this a development were Leishas going to end up getting kept as a teleportation taxi?

How great for you miss Leisha. If not for the fact that youve gone missing, youll definitely love the treatment tat youll be getting here.

Sigh

In the end, Shien ended up sighing as well.

Just as Shien was about to speak up again though, Airis eyes suddenly flashed.

Someones coming!

Airis voice suddenly turned as cheerful as a little kids, filled with joy that wasnt present before.

People?

Shien paused for a moment before immediately detecting the magic power coming from afar.

This made Shien perk up in response as well.

Since hes been seeing nothing but disgusting stuff lately, anyone in his place would have been happy at encountering actual people as well.

This is simply an emotional response.

Thats why Airi was so happy.

Of course, due to the emotional response, Airi didnt notice that those were people that she knew.

As for Shien, he had already realized who those course of magic power belonged to.

Hes here too?

Shien was rather surprised at that.

However, since they did end up encountering each other, they do need to meet.

Lets go over and take a look.

Shien immediately grabbed Airis hand and started moving toward where the other party is.

Truly, fate is mysterious.

Just as Shien got close to where he was heading, three figures appeared there.

Jace, Liece. Have you still not found it?

A frivolous sounding voice rang out.

Of the three there, one is a frivolous and lazy looking demon walking at the back while being guarded by a pair of identical brother and sister.

That person was obviously Jacinta.

Jacinta is somehow here.

The siblings in front of him were the Jace and Liece that Jacinta had mentioned. Theyre the demon twins who were extremely loyal to Jacinta and Shien guessed to be homunculi.

Jace is the that male demon, and Liece is the female demon.

That pair of twins continued to guard Jacinta as they respectfully replied.

Were getting close to it, master.

Based on the traces of magic power, it should be nearby.

Jace and Liece immediately reported.

Very good.

Jacinta smiled. However, there were no emotions in his eyes.

I had originally intended on talking with the royalty to get their permission to join in the investigation on the abnormalities near the Capital. It would have been fine even if I leaked a few details after all. However, I didnt expect them to end up showing themselves first.

Jacinta had received his subordinates report and found out that a Demon Refining ritual was taking place in the Ataru Canyon. Thus, he rushed on over with Jace and Liece in tow.

For that, Jacinta even went as far as using a valuable one use magic item to teleport straight into the depths of the Canyon.

It was well worth it though.

Its because thanks to that, Jacinta managed to get right at the source of this ritual.

Right now, it still hasnt started devouring the sacrifice yet, so it hasnt fully grown up yet. In that case, well deal with it while its still weak.

Jacinta gave out his orders.

Yes, master.

We wont let it get away.

Jace and Liece immediately replied. Their expressions were also utterly cold.

This task needs to be done in a beautiful manner. Jacinta continued to give his directions, Master had left this matter to me, so if we dont properly deal with this, Id be too shamed to show myself to her.

Jace and Liece immediately nodded.

In such a situation, Jacinta, Jace, and Liece finally reached a corner.

Then

Wha-!?

Youre!?

Jace and Lieze shouted out in surprise.

Oh, good evening.

Shien turned the corner and showed himself with a grinning expression on his face.

In the meanwhile, Jacinta had met the eyes of the little girl that Shien was pulling along.

Fate truly is mysterious.