What were you doing before the end of the world? Are you going to be an assassin?

126. "Lower Level Demon"

"My relatives who exist in this world..."

The mist that appeared around Aqua turned into small water droplets, floating around her.

Connor and the others, as well as Huihui and Youyou, who claimed to be the strongest magicians or would be the most powerful magicians in the future, subconsciously sensed the potential danger from Aqua and moved a few steps to the side.

"Well, although there is a special fund for compensation, please try to reduce the damage as much as possible! It doesn't need to be that much, just a little bit will be enough, right?" Barda's back was pressed tightly against the wall, and for a moment he regretted agreeing to Connor's suggestion.

The situation had evolved to such an extent that they had decided to use flood and explosion magic to storm the lord's mansion because Connor and Aqua thought it would not hurt to give it a try.

There weren't even any residential areas around the manor. The only place that was relatively close was the Eris Church, which occupied the other half of the block.

The Church of Eris is protected by magic, and Kazuma was informed in advance that it must activate the protective magic and barrier. After learning that the other party intends to use magic to deal with a big demon hiding in Axel and has begun to harm people, the priests of the Church of Eris very reasonably said that they were also willing to contribute.

The old man who had lent Aqua three thousand Eris so that she and Kazuma could register as adventurers was among them. His true identity was actually the high priest of the Eris Cult. After noticing that there might be signs of the goddess coming to Axel, he came to Axel as soon as possible.

However, after hearing about the Anti-Blindness Team's plan, which was flood + explosion magic, the priests of the Eris Cult discussed it and still felt that the focus should be placed on post-disaster relief.

"A great demon at the level of the Duke of Hell can distort perception..." The high priest did his best to support the defense barrier of the Eris Church and repeated the message sent by Kazuma in a low voice. Even he was caught in the trap without realizing it.

"What do you mean by a general reserve team? You think too highly of me. Anyway, I will fight with my old bones."

Leaning on a scepter and wearing a robe that he would only wear when praying formally to Eris, the high priest stood at the door of the church and squinted in the direction of the lord's mansion.

In his perception, a very sacred and huge magical power had gathered not far from the lord's mansion.

"The goddess of water - Aqua orders you to do so!"

The high priest of the Eris religion, who was particularly sensitive to magic, suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. The air around him was trembling and the moisture in the air disappeared all of a sudden, and even his skin became much drier.

This kind of tense atmosphere only appears when the high priest borrows divine power from the goddess Eris.

The huge fluctuations in magic power had long made the Lord's Mansion uneasy. Lord Aldap rushed into the yard with his pants in his hands and yelled, "Who is it! Who dares not to obey my laws and cast high-level magic in the city!"

All the guards around kept silent, fearing that they would become the lord's punching bag.

"I'm asking you a question! Don't you all usually claim to be well-informed? How come you don't know anything when I ask you? If you don't know, go and find out for me!"

The lord roared, spitting all over the ground.

"Where's Barda? Has anyone seen Barda? Where is my adopted son? Why hasn't he come back yet? Go, go, go and find him!"

Lord Alderp looked around, but did not see the familiar figure of Barda, whom he envied, and roared once more.

The guards lowered their heads and trotted out of the courtyard. The maids and girls in the lord's mansion also became busy because of the lord's bad temper.

"Useless trash...you're running around in my future body all day long..." Lord Aldap cursed. His body, which resembled a combination of a pig and a bear, was not as bloated and weak as imagined. He just raised his hand and stretched out a chain.

The other end of the chain was tied around the neck of a blonde girl. Needless to say, she looked like Darkness.

The blonde girl rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue. She was almost suffocated by the chains but she didn't dare to beg. The previous one was strangled to death because the lord liked her begging sounds.

"Humph, you are also a useless piece of trash."

Aldap found that the blonde girl was about to be strangled to death by him. His interest was disturbed and he didn't want to continue playing. He just kicked the girl in the abdomen and kicked her far away.

"Why is it so wet... It's too dirty, someone come, clean it up for me!" Lord Aldap retracted his foot and looked at the traces of water mist on his pants, shoes and socks. He said dissatisfiedly and had the blonde girl dragged away as if she were kitchen waste.

Looking up at the sky, it was a gray day that was about to rain. Lord Aldap cursed and went back into the house.

No guard or maid dared to follow the lord and wait for orders, risking being beaten and scolded by the lord. Lord Aldap was happy with this and turned left and right to the secret room under the bedroom.

The annoyed Lord Alderp was taking out his anger on a filthy demon.

If Connor and others could see this, they would definitely be shocked.

They had caught him off guard, using flood and explosion magic, and notified the Church of Eris of a great demon at the level of the Duke of Hell, who was now curled up at the feet of Lord Aldap.

Lord Alderp kicked the demon that could distort perception again and again.

"How come you can't even fulfill a wish properly, you filthy fellow? Huh? Max?!"

"You are a low-level demon who can't do anything right! I know best that I used a divine weapon to summon a guy like you. What a waste! What a waste!"

Lord Alderp vented his anger recklessly.

Logically speaking, they had been together for such a long time and the devil had done a lot for him, but no matter how much time had passed, he could never get used to this "lower-level devil" named Max.

Yes, Lord Alderp always felt that he had summoned a low-level demon.

He even felt that the other party had a bad memory because he had never paid any price for the devil.

In his opinion, he had only been using this low-level demon because it did not cost him any money.

Outside the Lord's Mansion.

Aqua opened her arms and chanted magic to create a flood.

The sudden appearance of water flow fell straight into the courtyard in the center of the lord's mansion, forming a line with the fountain. Then the huge amount of water exceeded the limit of the fountain pool in the blink of an eye. The clear flood overflowed and washed away the demonic power in the lord's mansion.

Since Aqua started the flood, the current has increased with every second that passes.

The amount of water was so huge that it created huge splashes on the walls of the lord's mansion.

Then the flood water poured into the exquisite building.

"Um...it seems like someone is purifying this place..."

Max, curled up with his head in his hands, maintained this posture and casually said something very incredible.

127. Playing Big

"Purify this place?"

Lord Alderp ended his loud curse and kicked Max hard, sending him flying.

"Max, go find these ungrateful thieves, and twist their memories to my advantage, eliminating the contradictions. Do you understand?"

The lord said this and prepared to leave the dark basement.

"Swish, swish..." The lower-level demon made a strange sound as if it had lost its breath, and said, "I can't do it, Alderp. My power is not that strong."

As a result, Lord Alderp, who was about to open the door, stopped when he heard this.

"Can't do it?"

This useless low-level demon had never talked back before, let alone said the word "can't do it". No matter what I asked of him or how many times I distorted the facts, he never said that.

However, this guy actually said he couldn't do it?

Alderp was completely unaware that a demon who could lead the entire city and even the people of the royal capital to distort their cognition and eliminate contradictions could be a low-level demon who was controlled by him and beaten and insulted at will?

He couldn't think of so many things now, and the anger that he had just suppressed rose up again.

"You have no right to refuse! Do it! It doesn't matter if you can't do it or not, just do it! Distorting memories is obviously what you are best at, right? Hurry up and do it!"

With the divine weapon in hand, Lord Aldap is very confident.

He's just a low-level demon, and he looks so miserable.

"I can't do it. There is a force interfering with me, so I can't do it." The devil spoke the truth. He did feel a very strong interfering force outside.

Hearing the devil's refusal with the word "can't do it", Lord Alderp became more and more angry and shouted angrily: "Enough! You incompetent devil!"

"Who are you? I'm going to cancel the contract with you and summon someone with stronger abilities!"

The angry lord opened the door of the secret room and stepped out.

clack.

The sound of water.

The lord's boots were immediately filled with water.

Lord Alderp looked at the puddle on the ground with disgust, thinking that there was a leak in his house.

"Hey, that low-level demon, come and change my boots." Lord Aldap ordered. He didn't want to walk into the bedroom with wet boots.

The "lower-level demon" Max did not take any action. He did not obey Lord Aldap as usual due to the constraints of the artifact.

He did not pick up clean boots with his mouth, nor did he run behind Lord Alderp to use him as a chair.

Lord Aldap looked back at the other party in surprise. What happened to this low-level demon today?

Not only does he talk back but he also refuses to obey orders. I'm afraid he's really broken?

Just as Lord Alderp was thinking this, the low-ranking demon Max bowed with the highest respect with perfect movements that even the nobles would envy.

Oh! So you are thinking about etiquette? What a stupid devil, it takes so long to think about such a simple thing!

Considering the standard etiquette, Lord Alderp decided to keep Max for the time being to see what would happen next.

"Come on, give me some clean boots."

The lord's fat body trembled and he stretched out his foot towards the lower-level demon.

“Huhahahahahaha—”

Max suddenly laughed out loud, while Lord Aldap frowned, not noticing that the water outside the secret room door was gathering more and more, and even some water drops penetrated the ceiling of the secret room and dripped into the underground secret room drop by drop.

"Servant? Do you think that I, Maxwell, the Duke of Hell, am your servant? You are just a man with extremely good luck, arrogant and humble. You are just lucky."

"Because the first demon summoned happened to be Maxwell," the lower-level demon pointed at his chest exaggeratedly, "you can live in peace. If it was any other demon, you would have been torn into pieces the moment you were summoned without any cost!"

"Hahaha, but you are so lucky to have met Maxwell, who knows nothing; Maxwell, who has power and intelligence but always loses his memory; it is all thanks to Maxwell that you can climb to your current position!"

"You have terminated the contract, foolish human, and I have also descended from hell into the real world!"

Maxwell used the third-person pronoun three times in a row. When Lord Aldap decided to terminate the contract, the magic power suppressed by the artifact was gradually breaking out, and the information he had engraved in the magic power and would not lose due to amnesia also returned to his mind.

So your name is not Max? Maxwell?

Have I terminated the contract?

Lord Alderp was filled with deep regret. What he regretted was not his cooperation with the devil, but his own negligence.

"So, the price of cooperating with the devil..." Maxwell said cheerfully, making a flute-like sound from his throat.

"I know, I know. You want a price, right?" Just as Lord Aldap was about to say "get out", a dull voice echoed in the dark basement.

“My hand—huh? Ah…Ahhhhhhhh!!!”

Lord Alderp screamed. That was the sound of his arm being broken.

"Alderp! Alderp!"

Maxwell shouted.

"You scream so beautifully, Alderp!"

"I'm different from you who would kidnap a girl, torture her, and then abandon her. I will take good care of you and won't let you get bad! Whoosh-whoosh-"

The sharp voice of the great demon aroused the deepest fear in Alderp's heart.

He knew why he had never been able to get along with this "lower-level devil" because deep in his heart he had always been afraid of the devil's unrevealed nature.

run!

Lord Aldap had a thought in his mind: his arm was only broken, but his leg was fine! After he got out, he would let those damn adventurers and the church destroy the big devil, and then he would exchange bodies with Barda!

That way he could become younger, regain his health, and even marry Darkness legitimately!

Lord Alderp's cognition was distorted again. Without the contract with Maxwell, all the bad things he did would be made public tomorrow at the latest.

But at this time he no longer had the mind to think about the future.

Lord Alderp stumbled out of the secret room and fell into a puddle.

All the contradictions distorted by Maxwell returned to their original state when they came into contact with water, and Lord Aldap's last glimmer of hope suddenly turned into despair.

“Ahahaha, what delicious despair! Alderp, I will keep tasting your despair after I reach hell!”

Maxwell smiled happily, his smile was very innocent.

Rumbling--

Rumble!

The roar of the flood finally broke through the door to the secret room, and a huge amount of flood mixed with Aqua's sacred magic swept in, filling the Duke of Hell and the great demon Maxwell's stomach.

"啕——"

You've gone too far! You've forgotten to give yourself the halo of eliminating conflicts!