Huh? Are they all real?...

"I'm sorry, I didn't notice. But Ms. Hillis, weren't you being a bit too forward just now?"

Hillis said strangely:

"What's wrong? We can't waste food, can we? Or do you think we're being too intimate? Hahaha, it's nothing. If I were really interested in you, I would have just kissed you and licked you clean. Okay, let's go back!"

After Moen reluctantly caught up, El, who was at the very back, looked at Sirius at the front in shock.

This woman seems to be a bit too high-level for her.

It reached a point where she had no idea whether the other party was actually an enemy.

-

As that time comes.

Leda, who had been reminiscing about that massive composite ceremony, finally returned to the Old World.

After quickly confirming that nothing in the vicinity had changed,

Leda ran straight towards the memorial shrine.

And they eventually found Quintus, who was also having trouble sleeping.

When the other person looked at Leda with heavy dark circles under their eyes.

Leda said directly:

"I have a way to save all of this!"

The sound wasn't loud, but it silenced the entire sanctuary.

Everyone who had been busy with various things suddenly looked at Leda.

After a brief hesitation, Quintus asked, wondering if he was hallucinating:

"Excuse me, did you just say something?"

Leda said with utmost seriousness:

"I said I had a way to save everything!"

Quintus stood up abruptly.

Everyone stared in utter shock at the girl from another country.

A moment later, a table that had been temporarily cleared out was immediately surrounded by people.

They all watched intently as the foreign girl drew on the map.

"I am a stranger in this land, as everyone knows."

"So I'll be frank, on my way back I found the retinue of Saint Constantine."

As the crowd grew increasingly agitated, countless hopes also arose.

Saint Constantine is the only universally acknowledged demon hunter.

If you were to ask who demons and the abyss fear most, it wouldn't be a particular god or king, but rather the abyss slayer Constantine!

"The other party told me how to invoke Saint Constantine."

Looking at the enormous ceremony, even just a part of it, one of the honor guards asked very seriously:

How do we confirm this?

Leda kept saying in her hand:

“I know your name is Dahls, and you were one of the original twenty-seven commanders of the Army of Honor. This is something many people know.”

"People say that you were discovered by Augustus from among the laborers, but what if I said that you were indeed a laborer, but you were sent to labor service because you didn't pay prostitutes?"

The crowd immediately turned to look at Wanfdars, who quickly said:

"That was a forced sale! I was scammed, okay? How did you know?"

Leda, however, continued speaking without stopping:

"And Lord Quintus, you were a slave that Augustus bought from Capua, but no one knows the specifics. But what if I knew that you initially said the only Augustus you recognized was not Lord Augustus?"

Quintus was also surprised:

How did you know that?

Without looking up, Leda said:

"Because Saint Constantine is Lord Augustus."

"All of this was told to me by the saint through his retinue, so that you might believe me."

"Both Saint Constantine and Lord Augustus have fulfilled their missions, but he knows you still need him. However, he cannot return on his own, so he needs your help."

"You need to bring him back from his resting place!"

After she finished speaking, Leda also drew the entire complex ritual.

This is just the most basic framework; more details are naturally beyond what can be drawn.

But that's enough to make people understand what they're going to do.

It was indeed the massive scale that was foreseen from the very beginning.

It was so great that it left them utterly speechless.

Because many of the places required for this ceremony have already fallen.

After a moment of silence, people asked earnestly:

"how long it takes?"

"The summoning can begin once the ritual is complete."

"Is there a problem with the confirmation ceremony?"

The question isn't whether it can succeed, but whether the ritual was remembered correctly.

Leda said just as seriously:

"I can vouch for my memory, the only thing I can guarantee!"

Both the former and current honor guards looked at each other before addressing Leda:

"We will retake the occupied areas to ensure the ceremony proceeds smoothly. We guarantee that no matter how many people die, we will hold them until the ceremony is completed."

Knowing what this meant, Leda involuntarily swallowed and said:

"Please remember, we are racing against time!"

People all laughed and said:

"We will definitely win."

Even though Lord Augustus had completed his mission, he still cared about them and wanted to return to handle everything that should have been their responsibility.

Those who have the most right to ignore everything that is happening are still trying to save others, so what reason do they, who should be saving themselves, have to say no?

Chapter 264 The counterattack begins

According to calculations by survivors of the Old World.

If they want to complete that massive complex ritual, they will need to reclaim three times more of the existing land.

Furthermore, they need to find as many missing materials as possible in the reclaimed territory.

They did store a large amount of supplies in the memorial chapel, but these supplies were mostly food and basic necessities.

They were missing many of the precious materials needed for the summoning ritual.

Therefore, to succeed, they must pray that they can find enough materials or clues in the recaptured area, otherwise they will have to move into deeper and more dangerous areas.

This is something the Old World, already struggling to make ends meet, does not want to see.

At the same time, in order to ensure the greatest possible success.

They chose to launch their counterattack late that night.

For demons, the word "rest" is very vague, because as representatives of chaotic creatures, some demons need rest, some do not, and some have rest times that are the opposite of humans. In short, they are all different.

Therefore, nighttime raids are of little significance to the demons themselves.

The Old World knew this but still made this plan in order to seize an opportunity by surprise.

These days they've been shrinking their defenses and abandoning land.

In addition, the resistance here is fierce, so the demons pay little attention to or guard against this area.

In this situation, the demons who think humans should be resting will only be more unprepared.

So when the honor guards began their advance under the cover of night.

Almost no demon expected them to appear.

-

On a town that had only recently fallen to the Japanese.

A demon with a dog's head is wandering through a town that has been burned to the ground, carrying a human leg in its mouth.

It doesn't need rest, so it wants to go out and have some fun.

There are hardly any humans left in this place.

It even makes it impossible for it to find any fun.

They didn't eat all the humans here.

There were quite a few humans here when they arrived.

What they found particularly interesting was that the humans here actually killed the human soldiers who came to escort them away.

When they arrived, the humans all fawned over them, bringing up the soldiers' corpses.

This even includes their comrades who died in the fight, as well as their people who were still alive but injured.

They seemed to think that this would demonstrate their loyalty.

To be honest, even the dog-headed demons didn't know where they'd heard all this from.

They are demons. Don't humans know that demons are naturally opposed to them?

The dog-headed demon could never understand the thoughts of those humans, but it knew what fate awaited them.

As instructed by the new lord, these humans, whose legs had been bitten off, were sent to the lord's side.

What it's holding in its mouth now is the last leg it has left.

Before he bit off his own leg, he remembered constantly pushing the human girl, who smelled very similar to him, towards him.

Well, according to human terms, that should be his daughter.

That's strange. Did he think that would let him escape?

The dog-headed demon shook its head before chewing up the last leg and swallowing it.

Touching its completely empty belly, it crawled on the ground to a pile of embers.

This is where those humans piled up the soldiers' corpses.

The corpses had long been eaten by the demons.

Now all that's left are dozens of spears stuck in the ground.

The heads of those soldiers were hanging on it.

The demons found it amusing, so they didn't take it down and eat it.

It used to think so too, but now it feels better to have a treat.

It quickly picked out the head it wanted.

It was a head with endless rage still hanging on its face, and the most wonderful thing was not the lifelike anger on its face, but the deep sorrow hidden in its eyes.

Every time he saw the deep sorrow hidden in his eyes, the dog-headed demon felt an irresistible urge to stop.

This indicates that he experienced extremely intense emotional fluctuations before his death.

This is like a drug to the devil, so addictive.