Understand humans!

The convoy stopped immediately.

"Stay where you are and wait for me. I'll be back soon."

Aura flew out of the carriage, moving very quickly on the grass. Without using magic, she relied on her physical strength to run at a speed several times faster than the horse, regardless of the terrain.

Going against the direction of the wind, she quickly found the source of the strange smell in the air.

At the edge of a distant grassland, on a high cliff, a tall, thin figure with a hood was looking at the convoy in the distance. With human vision and the cover of a black cloak, it would be normal for no one to be able to spot it hidden in the shadows of the woods.

So, it also let down its guard.

It was visibly stunned when suddenly a slender hand pressed its shoulder from behind.

Wow! !

A claw with distinct joints was raised from under the black cloak, and the magic circle with demon characteristics was activated without chanting. However, before it could take shape, the slender hand pierced through the magic circle in the air.

A crisp breaking sound sounded.

The inhuman-looking demon under the cloak was strangled by the neck and hung on the cliff. He struggled desperately, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not pry open even the smallest of the five fingers on his neck.

Aura lifted the hood covering the head of the humanoid creature whose neck he was holding, and laughed when he saw the two horns growing on its head.

Sure enough, we are compatriots~

brake!!

Aura threw the weak demon in his hand away, breaking several waist-thick tree trunks. He nodded in satisfaction after hearing the sound of several bones breaking.

The strength of this demon is not bad, probably at the level of a third-level human magician. If it is not made aware of the difference in strength, it will not obey.

"Human..." The seriously injured cloaked demon uttered a painful death cry.

Aula took off her hat, revealing her horn. The left horn was mostly broken off and buried in her hair, so it couldn't be seen.

"You are also a demon?" The seriously injured cloaked demon opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

"That's right." Aura looked down at it and said coldly: "Next, I will ask questions and you answer them."

"Yes... sir." The cloaked demon lowered his head. In the demon clan, it is an iron rule that the weak must obey the strong, even if they met by chance at this moment and did not know each other before.

"How is the battle situation on the demon front?"

"Earlier, humans were shrinking their front lines, and all the great magicians retreated to the rear to recuperate. The demons were in the upper hand. After accumulating advantages for several years, the demons were preparing for a large-scale attack, but the great magicians returned to the front lines and were constantly roaming around hunting lone great demons. The demons were forced to shrink their territory, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate again."

This kind of harassment again - humans are so disgusting.

Aura showed a look of disgust.

Using high-end combat power to harvest mid- and low-end demons is a common method used by humans to fight demons.

In fact, in terms of mid-to-high-end combat power, humans are far inferior to demons. If the number of low-level demons was the same as that of humans, no, if there were only one-third of humans, then the demons would have occupied all the human territories long ago.

The reason why humans can hold out against demons is because the number of demons is insufficient. If they want to force humans into a desperate situation, they must disperse the demons. Once dispersed, they will be shamelessly killed by the top combat power of humans. Only by gathering together can they protect themselves from the hands of great magicians like Volame.

The big demons have all gathered together, and the suppression they cause to humans is not enough. If you attack here, the human army will retreat there - it will not cause any effective casualties at all.

Of course, the demons can also choose the same method as humans and use their highest-end combat power to hunt the mid- and low-end humans on the opposite side.

If you kill my big demon, then I will kill your first or second level magician.

The high-end combat forces are avoiding each other, and the worst that can happen is that both sides will suffer losses.

This is where the problem lies - if a group of mid-level human magicians are killed, a new group will appear after ten or twenty years, and if a group of mid-level demons die, it will be difficult to see the same level of magicians again after a hundred years.

The demons cannot outlast humans - so as long as those great magicians keep avoiding the demons' highest-end combat power and only focus on killing the mid- and low-end combat power, the demons' highest-end combat power can only choose to guard the demon concentration areas and dare not act rashly.

The battle situation reached a stalemate.

This situation had to wait until the demon sages represented by the Seven Collapse Sages grew up and developed supernatural one-on-one military magic such as [Obedience Magic] and [Magic of Turning Everything into Gold], which enabled the demons to overturn the situation of humans and eventually massacre two-thirds of the world's humans.

But this kind of thing can't be rushed -

Now the demon clan is still not completely unified. Aura has asked Hart to instigate the seven sages under Xiuharat to rebel. After Aura finds a way to kill Xiuharat and takes the demon clan into her hands, she will naturally make use of the seven sages and other gifted demons to develop their war potential.

Only then will it be the time for the demons to counterattack.

"The second question is, what is your purpose for being here? Is Vahlan City your target?"

"Yes, sir. There are more than one demon lurking near the city of Vahlan. We plan to concentrate our forces and enter the city of Vahlan in three days. After killing all the resistant magicians in one go, we will slowly slaughter the humans... But this plan must be abandoned immediately."

"give up?"

"I just observed that there are magicians from Kribi heading to Vahlan in a carriage. For the sake of prudence, we will abandon this operation."

"That's my convoy you see."

"Your convoy? But aren't you a demon? Wait, are you Lord Aura?"

"You know me?"

"I was fortunate enough to observe a meeting of the top demons. Master Xiuharat mentioned you in front of the Demon King, saying that you were the only one who succeeded among all the demons he sent out to try to infiltrate the human rear. The Demon King therefore greatly praised Xiuharat."

"This bastard Shuharat... is really good at taking credit for himself..."

"Do you have any instructions?" After knowing Aura's identity, the demon's eyes were obviously different. Before, he was angry and wary of Aura's sudden attack on him, but now there was only admiration.

This man was a great demon sage who had sneaked into Kribi, the forbidden land of the demons, to carry out a life-threatening mission.

This courage, this determination to face death head-on, is indeed admired by other demons.

"Don't do anything to Vahlan anymore. This is part of the plan."

Chapter 156: Magic Family

Aura was disappointed after learning from the cloaked demon that he had worked so hard but in the end it became a capital for Shuharat to seek credit in front of the Demon King.

Anyway, she had asked all the questions she wanted to ask, and didn't want to ask the others. Sheila even stopped the convoy halfway to wait for her. Aura waved to the cloaked demons and prepared to leave.

"Yes."

The cloaked demon possessed Aura and respectfully saw him off.

There was no movement for a while, and when it looked up, there was no one in front of it.

"You are so amazing, Lord Aura. You are indeed a great demon who can lurk in the human heart, Kribi."

No matter Aura's coming or going, the cloaked demons didn't sense any fluctuations in magic power.

This shows that in order to carry out Shuharat's mission, Aura forcibly suppressed his demon nature and completely restrained the surging magic power into his body. Even in his daily actions, he subconsciously controlled himself from using magic power.

This is an almost impossible feat for the demons who live with magic power.

The mission that made Aura, a powerful demon, willing to endure humiliation and heavy burdens to complete was to steal the magic that was the backbone of human magic education.

The cloaked demons had stayed in the Demon King's castle for some time before, and it happened to be the time when Shuharat was telling the Demon King about the future direction of the demons and humans that he saw.

According to Shuharat, in the mythological era, the magician Celia will spend a hundred years developing a magic that will solve most of the problems in the human magic education system in one fell swoop. From then on, human magic knowledge will be passed down from master to master, talented magicians will emerge from generation to generation, and magic will enter an era of rapid development.

If one wants to stop all this, one only needs to send Lord Aura to Kribi a hundred years ago to steal the original magic plan, which will prevent human magic education from making any breakthrough progress in the next thousand years, or even lead to a regression.

This is something that only the great demon Aura can do!

"Thank you for your contribution to the great cause of the demon clan—"

The cloaked demon bowed slightly in salute as he headed towards the carriage heading towards Vahlan.

-

When they arrived at the city of Vahlan, they were received by the city lord. All the way to the residence prepared by the city lord for them, Aula was silently observing the passers-by on the street.

Because of the existence of magic families, Vahlan is not a magic-free city. In fact, there are more magicians on the streets here than in San Lorenzo, where the association education system is popular.

This shows that the magic family Odysseus here learned the theory as soon as the Magic Association announced that everyone could learn the magic theory system, and spread it in Vahlan.

Generally speaking, the Continental Magic Association will not interfere with this kind of autonomous magic inheritance system, but will allow it to develop.

After all, the field of magic should not be a one-man show for the Magic Association. Long-standing magic families in various places should also have the right to pass on their family magic.

Especially for a family like the Odysseus family, who even made their family magic public for all civilians to learn, this is a selfless act that deserves encouragement.

However - since Celia sent her, Aura, here, it means that there must be some problems with the magic teaching here.

Aula squinted her eyes. All along the way, Sheila was talking to the mayor of Vahlan. Even if the mayor of Vahlan tried to talk to Aula, she would ignore him.

Aura just patiently observed and counted the characteristics of the magicians he had met on the road.

"Are these magicians a little too weak?"

Finally, Aura discovered something was wrong.

It would be fine if one or two magicians had weak magic power, but magicians with poor talents exist everywhere.

But all the magicians Aura has seen so far have weak magic power, all equally weak. Could it be that there is not a single good seedling in Vahlan?

Good magic only requires the flow of magic power to be exactly the same. After all, there are only one or two paths in the entire magic world and everyone is pretty much the same.

But it would be strange if the magic flow of a bad magician was exactly the same. Generally speaking, seedlings that grew crooked would look all kinds of strange, but there is only one possibility for short seedlings that grew the same.

——Someone deliberately shortened all the seedlings.

The means are the same, and the finished product is naturally the same.

Aura suddenly turned to the Lord of Vahlan and asked:

"Are all the magicians here from the Odysseus family?"

"Not entirely, Minister Aura. Most of the magicians in Vahlan City are not direct descendants of the Odysseus family. They are just civilian magicians who have developed their magical talents through them and can only use some basic magic."

"Could it be that among the civilian magicians, there are no ones with outstanding talents, and all of them can only use basic magic?"

"That's true. Is there anything strange about this, sir? Isn't magic talent inherited through blood? Apart from the bloodline of Odysseus, which has a long history, if civilians with other magician bloodlines can have the ability to use magic, it is already a blessing from God."

Lord Vahlan was puzzled by Aura's inexplicable question.

But no matter how unreasonable the questions Aura asked were, he always bowed and knelt to maintain respect for Aura.

After all, he is also a powerful magician with noble blood flowing in his body, unlike them who are born unable to use magic and whose descendants will inherit the inferior bloodline that makes them unable to use magic.

"..." Aura remained silent, without correcting the mistakes made by Lord Vahlan. She looked up and observed the magicians among the passers-by for a while, then asked;

"Is it normal for magicians here to have a black mark like a collar on their necks?"

"Oh, that's the mark left by the adults of the Odysseus family. Any civilian in Vahlan who wants to awaken his magical talent must be willing to let the adults of the Odysseus family leave this spell on their bodies."

"Did they explain to you the effect of this technique?"

"One is to awaken the magical talent, and the other is that when facing the magicians of the Odysseus family, these civilian magicians who have been cast with the spell must obey orders."

"I thought you didn't know the effect of this latter rule."

"Obeying orders... this is only natural, right? There is no such thing as a free lunch. The Odysseus family helped us test and awaken our magical talents, so it is only natural that we obey their orders. We are willing to do so, sir—"

Lord Vahlan said this sincerely and from the bottom of his heart.

There was a look of admiration, almost reverence, in his eyes for natural magicians like Aura and the Odysseus family who possessed noble magical blood.

The magicians from Kribi who followed Aura were hesitant to speak.

They wanted to tell the people of this place the truth about magic, but were restricted by regulations. They could not impart magical theories without the permission of the local magic families.

The autonomy of magical families over their territories must be respected.

This was the agreement made between the Continental Magic Association and the various major magic clans when it was first established.

"Come on, Sheila, let's go visit the local magic family, Odysseus."

Chapter 157: Unkind Visitors

Before Lord Vahlan brought Aura to the welcoming banquet prepared for her, Aura walked out of the team and decided to visit the Odysseus family first.

"Minister Aura, Vahlan has prepared a banquet to welcome you. Wouldn't you like to eat and rest before visiting the Odysseus family?"

“Can eating solve the problem?”

"cannot……"

“If eating doesn’t solve the problem, then don’t eat.”

Aura shook her head slowly, and when she reached the Osdi family's mansion outside the city, she headed straight in that direction.