Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 56 Mission: 08-2 The First Beast
Nero's question wasn't a whim. When Beatrice had led them on their demon-hunting expedition, it was a public spectacle. Many knew of her close association with outsiders, and Nero was worried that she might become a target of troublemakers.

"My daughter is fine, so please don't worry about her." The lord obviously didn't want to answer the question directly, and simply said, "Please."

Nero knew that "nothing" was just an excuse to appease her. But as long as the lord's daughter was still in the lord's mansion, there wouldn't be any major problems.

Since the evil spirit caused by the evil energy is directed at outsiders like them, it should calm down a bit when they leave the town.

Now it seems that the birth of this singularity had nothing to do with this genius girl. Although she had ideas that were ahead of her time, she could not change the course of history.

Nero withdrew his gaze and followed Ritsuka out of here.

"I'm sorry, Master." Hernan whispered, "I can't stop them."

Li Xiang shook his head and whispered, "Let's wait for Dr. Georgos to come back."

Seeing the group leave the lord's mansion, the crowd gathered at the door made way for them like Moses parting the sea. Nero couldn't help but shake his head: the malice might be the influence of demonic energy, but this tendency to bully the weak and fear the strong is simply human nature.

After leaving the town, Kriemhild stopped in the empty, dark land and asked in a cold voice, "What are your plans?"

Her eyes held a cold madness, and anyone who met their ocean-blue gaze would be unfazed by the fact that she was a Berserker. As she asked her question, she stared intently at Ritsuka, as if to say, "If I'm not satisfied with this answer, I'll go it alone."

Li Xiang raised his head, looked towards the east of the town, and said:

"Counterattack."

Kriemhild smiled. That was what she wanted to hear.

"It can only be the."

Nero also expressed his approval.

With the situation now at hand, they were left with few options. They had to advance, fight their way through the demons, and then advance into the caverns to defeat the Demon Pillar. This was the only way to protect the town, retrieve their missing companions, and resolve the singularity.

"Nice idea."

A voice sounded from behind them. Nero felt the voice was familiar, so he turned around and saw it was indeed the Sphinx.

She quietly appeared behind everyone and said calmly, "But unfortunately, your current strength is still insufficient."

"insufficient?"

"Insufficient." The Sphinx nodded. "You may be wondering why we can't observe the situation in the west from Chaldea. Actually... you already know the answer."

Already knew? What on earth was she talking about?

"In this case, you will understand."

As he spoke, the Sphinx grabbed a handful of the evil magic that filled the air, gathered it into a ball, and began to fluctuate violently.

"This is impossible!" At this moment, Mashu, who was far away in Chaldea, exclaimed: "This, this magical reaction is!"

Thanks to the Sphinx's actions, Chaldea finally succeeded in analyzing the enemy's magical fluctuations. Da Vinci's solemn voice rang out: "Goetia... no, to be more precise, its inverse."

"Goetia?!" Ritsuka froze in place upon hearing the name: "But we've clearly already..."

It had clearly been defeated, but at a heavy price.

Nero knew about the Demon King Goetia, a growing malignant tumor throughout human history, one of the seven "Evils of Humanity." They appeared as beasts, bringing with them catastrophic disasters capable of destroying humanity.

Before Ritsuka and the others arrived at this singularity, the beast had already completely perished when King Solomon, the Chaldean doctor Roman, used a Noble Phantasm to negate its own existence. Goetia was born from Solomon's corpse, and since Solomon has completely vanished from the timeline, it cannot possibly reappear.

That's right, it's impossible for it to appear again.

Holmes' voice resonated. "Indeed, judging by the reaction of this magic, the enemy is none other than the defeated 'Beast I'. Or... should I call it 'Beast I/N'?"

"What do you mean?" Nero asked.

"Let me explain in detail."

The Sphinx spoke, and for once, she stopped being the riddler. "Beast I is the king's beast. The Goetia you defeated was born from the first divinely appointed king, Solomon. Therefore, the evil principle it represents is 'pity,' the sense of superiority that the higher-ups have over the lower-ups."

"And the beast that appears this time... no, the beast that is about to be born is the opposite. It exists on the other side of Goetia, representing the king's malice and violence from above. Indeed, if Goetia is seen as a wise king who passively endures evil, then Beast I/N is a complete tyrant, exercising evil from subjective motivation. The evil it represents is 'domination.'

"You are unable to observe it because of one of its properties: anti-prophecy. This beast wishes to control fate as well. Therefore, this ability can negate all forces related to fate, prophecy, and divination, including your Chaldean observation methods."

"I see..." Mashu suddenly realized, and then her face suddenly changed, turning a little pale: "Oh no, if that's the case!"

Chaldea's means of observing singularities, the simulated celestial sphere Chaldeas, was originally created to observe humanity's future. With the enemy's awakening, Chaldea's range of observation will undoubtedly shrink.

Once they completely lose the ability to observe the singularity, Ritsuka will be trapped in this era forever.

By then, even if he succeeded in defeating it, Ritsuka wouldn't be able to go back.

"Don't worry yet." Li Xiang comforted her: "There should be a way."

"As you said, Goetia is dead," the Sphinx continued. "So, a new Beast I requires a new egg. To this end, the Demon Pillars summoned a Heroic Spirit and fused it with the Demon Pillar Astaroth, who was once the incarnation of Venus. Through this shared symbol of Venus, it became a demon of equal status to Satan, the Lord of Demons."

"Impossible!" Da Vinci flatly denied. "It's true that before his fall, Satan was nicknamed 'Star of the Dawn,' but that alone..."

"But what if that Heroic Spirit is already considered the embodiment of arrogance?"

"what?!"

After uttering these shocking words, the Sphinx changed the subject: "However, whether calling her by her original name or Satan, it is indeed inappropriate.

"For this newborn demon king, the beast within the egg, the most appropriate name for it should be—

"Pavoni, which means 'arrogant person'."

(End of this chapter)