Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

Barbanus was punching the air, lost in thought, as if imagining how to fight an enemy with six detached arms.

"This demon was the reason for this Knights' Meeting. The six-winged demon was slain by the Sword King, and this time, it was the Star Flower Brigade, led by the 9th-level sorcerer Mr. Leon, the mercenary Mr. Mott, and Ms. Farina of the Feast of the Gods, who defeated it together."

The council members had long noticed Leon and Zoe sitting near Sisyphus, but they had no direct contact with each other. Some had met before, but they were not familiar with each other.

Hearing this, their eyes looking at Li Ang changed.

"Okay!"

Barbanus excitedly said to Leon, "Come and fight me, and see what level the demon is at."

Olivia clapped her hands and said, "Fight, fight."

Li Ang suppressed Zoe, who was eager to fight, and said, "This battle is not entirely my credit. Destroying the demon is not easy."

Dorothy muttered, "These cattle are so scary! I hate this kind of people the most."

Andasu asked, "Do you want me to try the paralyzing aroma?"

"And there's Farina, right? Her statue is indeed powerful, but she's unwilling to summon it to fight me."

"That's the Dragon God she believes in. How could he be summoned just for something like this?" Alulu said.

"You little girl." The leader of the Banquet of the Gods looked at Alulu and said, "I just noticed that your strength seems to be quite good."

"Can you please stop talking about irrelevant topics?" Olivia rolled her eyes.

Alulu paused and carefully tugged at Li Ang's sleeve: "Brother, how did he know that?"

Li Ang pointed at several council members and said, "Except for Virgil and Alafia, they are all martial artists who have cultivated to the highest level. Just by looking at your posture and movements, I can tell how strong you are."

Sisyphus took over the conversation. "Anyway, I also know from what Ellaphia told me that it was a very fierce battle."

The blond speaker lightly tapped his golden staff and unfolded the third scroll.

"This one also shows a blood-red demon."

Not only the congressmen, but also Li Ang and others looked carefully.

It turns out the guild knows more demons?

The image of the demon on the third scroll is incomplete; it is more like a design draft than a portrait.

The shapes of the demon's limbs are drawn on the paper from multiple angles.

"I borrowed this temporarily from a scholar in Qianta City. The work I commissioned her to trace the origins of demonic legends and folk tales is still ongoing."

Sisyphus pointed to the demon's limbs on the paper and said, "What makes this demon different from the six-winged, six-armed one is that the red spines on its body are more like teeth. It's like having a giant mouth full of sharp teeth all over its body."

"The scholar suggested I name it the 'Thousand-Throat Demon'. It's a demon slain by the goddess of mercy in the legend of Wattam."

Leon and Alafia exchanged a glance, then looked at Zoe and the others. Speaking of this, perhaps no one here understood it better than them.

"Scholars have discovered in their research that in areas where Watamu is practiced, churches are often decorated with stained glass windows depicting goddesses slaying demons. This has almost become a paradigm, and this paradigm implies a certain commonality.

"She visited many locations, looking for locations in the stained glass windows where shapes had been misidentified due to dissemination. By comparing and guessing, she concluded that this demon had a giant mouth all over its body. She also speculated that the goddess of love was a belief that evolved from respect for a female leader, but that's beside the point."

Sisyphus said: "From the perspective of time, demons have appeared two thousand years ago, three hundred years ago, and now, when the Watamu religion was formed."

"The Sword King's notes say that demons will increasingly visit and harass Newbis."

Sisyphus sighed softly: "Although he didn't tell me the reason, I think what he said must be true."

For some reason, although the Sword King seemed to know more about demons than anyone present, he did not pass down the complete information.

"Based on these three demonic accounts, I can make two inferences. One is more positive, suggesting that this world already harbors many demons, but we haven't encountered them. These three cases are merely reports of direct encounters.

"Another thing is that demons are indeed visiting more frequently. Based on this rate, the next demon appearance may be in the near future."

Ah Xiang sighed: "You still distinguish between positive and negative, neither of them is good news, how troublesome."

"What impact will demons have on the world? Do we need to take it so seriously?" Olivia asked.

Elafia said, "Aren't the examples in fairy tales enough?"

What the blonde said makes sense.

When Leon first read "The Adventure of the Sword King", it was impossible for him to imagine that the horrific scenes described at the beginning might actually happen.

Now, he himself may be one of those examples.

"Senior Espada's records are somewhat vague. Based on the responsibilities inherited from the guild as chairman and the warnings he left behind, I suspect there will be serious consequences."

"I think I have a say," Li Ang said, raising his hand.

181. Magical Civilization

When everyone's attention was focused on him, he stepped aside and introduced Andasu to them.

"This member of my group has been cursed by the devil for generations. I met the devil because I helped her break the curse."

Leon briefly told the story of the Crimson Hand in the Glittering Fields and the subsequent pursuit of the demons.

He thought about the curse and decided to keep it to himself for now. He couldn't guarantee that there wouldn't be some MPs here who wouldn't object. "Don't come over and rip his arm off and chase him down? That's too outrageous."

Ah Xiang's already slender eyes narrowed into slits: "You lifted the curse from a spiritual perspective, and then the curse itself turned into a demon. This is similar to the process of the super-veiled demon beast appearing, so it's not surprising.

"However, the remaining curses all separated from the body and pieced together to form a complete demon. This is a power that I cannot understand at all."

Li Ang nodded: "That should be a higher level of spiritual manipulation."

Sisyphus pondered, "Cursing a race so that its innate abilities are suppressed? The Rue Clan..."

He took out a piece of paper from the dimensional gap and wrote down the record. Then he said, "If that's the case, then the situation described at the beginning of the fairy tale may all be true."

Barbanus scratched his head and said, "I forgot what I said."

"A forgetful, bulky wretch." Alafia clicked her tongue and explained, "Missing residents turned into monsters, families subjected to blood sacrifices, and one person's loved ones, either having their consciousness transferred or transformed into wild beasts, could speak and recognize him."

Dorothy's face looked unhappy. "I was afraid of this part when I was a child. Did that person really kill his family members who were transformed into beasts by the devil? This is too..."

Patting her shoulder, Leon said, "Let me interject. This matter involves two speculations of the Speaker."

Sisyphus asked, "What do you think?"

"I think it's possible that both are possible, that the demon is both hiding in Newbiss and visiting frequently."

Li Ang explained that if he had not lifted the curse on the Ruten tribe, the six-armed demon would not have come. However, since the founders left instructions to be wary of the demon and passed them down from generation to generation among the speakers, it means that there may indeed be an imminent threat.

Sisyphus smiled and said, "That makes sense. Then let's use Mr. Leon's speculation as a premise to explain what happens next."

"As the Speaker, I secretly prepared to deal with the demons, and this also included issuing many missions that would grant additional merit."

The blond youth smiled at Leon and said, "Mr. Leon has more say on this. The most recent mission completed and Jedi conquered was Moonlight Island."

"The Ancient City of Dark Night?" Li Ang sighed.

Speaking of this, naturally everyone present knew it.

After all, even if you don't care about guild affairs, you still have to take a look at who gets promoted to number one.

Especially since the top groups are always the same ones all year round, and the oddballs like Walking in the Clouds and Super Lucky Group often change their rankings, and sometimes temporarily drop to sixth or seventh, but although they are used to being squeezed out, they probably all know who did it.

Soul Apex? Where did that come from?

I couldn't believe that groups like Feast of the Gods and Glory Above All were full of powerful ideas.

"Oh, so they kicked you?" said Virgil, who was not very talkative.

"It's you?" Olivia looked at Li Ang twice more.

Otto folded his arms and said nothing.

"Since Mr. Li Ang was able to assist the team in conquering the Dark Night Ancient City and defeat the demons, it seems to be no coincidence. I am honored to have you attend this meeting."

Sisyphus said, "But without you, there would be no such meeting."

"Are you naturally evil?" Li Ang complained.

Olivia giggled: "You just found out? If you interact with him a few more times, there will be other surprises. From what Xixi said, the devil is a big deal. Will you come here often in the future?"

She wanted to say something to Leon, but saw Alafia glaring at her. There was some confusion in the female fighter's eyes, but then she seemed to have figured something out and covered her mouth with her hands and chuckled.

Li Ang said, "The threat of demons cannot be underestimated. Although we don't know what they are planning to do, they can directly draw unlimited magic power from the magic dimension during combat. This process directly triggers the magic disaster."

"Could it be that they created the Demonic Disaster Realm?" Olivia began to have wild thoughts.

"We can discuss uncertainties and speculations later."

Sisyphus takes out an object

Looking at the ancient rune stone that Sisyphus took out, what is this?"

"A recording device."

Sisyphus handed it to Mort next to him, and asked him to pass it around so that everyone could hold it and look at it.

"Similar items were left in the Secret Vault by the founder. During the first hundred years of the guild's development, it was difficult to gain a foothold in the Demonic Disaster Realm, and there was almost no progress in its research.

"In the second century, high-end teams began to develop the Jedi and Secret Realms into places of recovery. During this process, successive Speakers worked with scholars from Thousand Towers City to confirm the existence of the 'Deus', or the people of God.

"The gods and their people possess true magical technology. This isn't the magical technology of the Makena Island nation. Using runes and magic power, they can easily achieve powerful effects, even incredible ones."

"Mr. Leon must have a deep understanding of this." Sisyphus looked at Leon meaningfully.

　"Yes."

The most critical link for the Soul Peak to conquer the Dark Night Ancient City is that Leon activated the mechanisms in the city by sensing the spirituality, thus reversing the offensive against the King of the Ancient City.

"Oh, come to our group!" Barbanus said immediately.

"Damn it, I've been to that place. Those garbage undead are nothing but chickens and dogs. If you were in my group, we would have conquered it. Glory Supreme is completely dumbfounded. Forget about taking first place for a few years!"

Li Ang declined, saying, "I've already formed my own group."

"It's not like we've merged groups before. Bring your members along. Oh, you mean them, right? It doesn't matter if they're not strong enough. Our newbie training isn't as comprehensive as Glory of the Sun, but I can hire someone to help them grow. Of course, if they can't handle the training, they can just leave. Hahaha."

Olivia rolled her eyes and said, "Who would go if you put it like that?"

"Yes, yes," Dorothy agreed. "I would never join a group that would definitely get kicked out."

"You feel confident at a time like this, right?" Li Ang said helplessly.

"I'm only in Leon's group," Zoe said.

Sisyphus smiled and knocked the golden staff on the ground, and a magic spell immediately silenced Barbanus' mouth.

Silence, intermediate magic.

"Okay, all the noisy people, please stop talking for now and finish the conversation."

Sisyphus said, "I personally visited the Ancient City of Darkness and confirmed that it belongs to the category of relics of the gods and people."

"So the investigation into this civilization was actually led by you?" Li Ang recalled the systematic research conducted by scholars when he was looking up information in the Qianta City Library before the conquest.

The Speaker nodded in acknowledgment: "Not only me, but also the previous and previous Speakers."

"These rune stones can serve various purposes. After the guild took over the Dark Night Ancient City, they discovered quite a few. The one I'm showing you is what I call an ancient atlas. It records all the features and geography of a piece of land, even the flow of magic and its natural cycles. However, it's very different from the Newbiss of today.

"The ruins also contain many runestones whose power has long since been lost. To use an analogy, small runestones are like our ordinary equipment, while these large, rich, and powerful runestones are our Noble Phantasms.

"The ravages of time cannot destroy Noble Phantasms, and the same goes for these large runestones."

The blond youth smiled and said, "I invited you all here today because I want to tell you that in order to ensure the peace of Newbis and guard against the harm of demons, please find and collect these rune stones."

Ah Xiang sighed and said, "It's so tiring and troublesome. Why didn't you tell me earlier? I saw some of them in a few places. I don't know if they are real. They can only emit light for illumination, but the people in our group kicked them around like balls."

"Haha." Sisyphus said, "The founder specifically said that while we must be wary of demons, we shouldn't be overly cautious. We should focus on improving the strength of the Aerial Knights."

Leon agreed with the idea of the founder of the guild, thinking that the Promise Keeping Festival of the Wattam religion was originally intended to guard against demons, but eventually became a tool for infighting between sects.

The chairman smiled at Axiang and said, "I usually hate to bother busy people like you."

A Xiang laughed dryly twice and said nothing.

"Why do you collect these stones?" Otto asked, a rare question.

Sisyphus said, "Look."

He took out a sword and placed it on the table.

The sword was covered in rust, the color of the rust so dark it was almost black, and it seemed as if it would break at the slightest touch.

Alafia stared at the weapon, as if she had thought of something but didn't dare to confirm it.

She jumped off her chair and stepped forward, standing on tiptoe and lifting the rotten sword.

Her face remained as cold as ice throughout the whole process, and anyone who dared to laugh at her small stature at this time would be doomed.