“Unique Skill [Holy Barrier] activate!”

Julia activated her unique skill and created a huge barrier that covered the entire city of Rigel.

This barrier has the effect of weakening the Devils trapped within and granting increased strength to those within the barrier. As soon as this barrier was formed, we all immediately attacked the demons who were weakened by being trapped by this barrier.

The other soldiers also immediately entered the city after the barrier was activated. Thanks to this plan, in the end many demons were killed easily. Our party also tried their best to kill the demons that tried to attack us.

“Magic sword skill [Fire Slash]”

“Magic sword skill [Wind Slash]”

“Light magic [Purgatory]”

“Sword skill [Double Slash]”

Various magical and non-magic attacks were launched at the demons, and it made their numbers decrease drastically.

Julia also continued to consume magic potions to stabilize her power and maintain her [Holy Barrier]. Rikka also stayed close to Julia to protect her.

This plan was proceeding smoothly, until suddenly a scream from a devil took us all by surprise.

“RAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!”

The shout came from one of the demons who seemed to be the leader of these demons. Even though it's difficult, the demon continues to run as hard as he can towards all of us.

The demon raised the large ax in his hand and slammed it into the ground.

*BOOOOM!!*

The ground began to shake after the huge ax hit the ground and smoke began to billow profusely into the air. When the smoke began to dissipate, the figure of a large demon with many scars was seen on its body.

Due to the attack, Julia lost her concentration and had her holy barrier shattered.

The demons who saw this opportunity immediately counterattacked all of us. I didn't think one demon person could make our plans fall apart just like that.

“Kuhahaha... So you guys are the humans designated as Heroes.”

I don't know what the demon said, but from the tone of his voice it was as if he was mocking us.

We immediately prepared as soon as the demon stood in front of us.

“My name is Roe, one of the captains of the Demon Kingdom's army.”

The demon said this with a very sly smile and gaze.

I also just realized, it turns out that the demon spoke in human language and introduced himself to us. I was also quite surprised when a demon like him could use human language.

*CLAAANNGG…!!!*

Roe suddenly slammed his ax on Xorra and sent herself flying several hundred meters.

“Sword magic [Ice Slash]”

I used this attack to attack the devil named Roe.

“Sword magic [Fire Slash, Wind, Light]”

Mark also issued various attacks to Roe.

“Unique skill [Psychokinesis]”

With his unique skill, Axel moved the surrounding debris to hit Roe's body.

All of our attacks hit Roe, but they didn't have any effect on him. The three of us were very surprised after seeing this.

Why!? Are our attacks weak…?

What kind of body does he have that our three attacks don't even scratch him? All these questions make my head spin.

“So this is your only strength… pffft, weak!”

With such a fast movement, Roe grabbed one of Axel's legs and immediately threw his body at Mark until they were both thrown quite far. I just froze when I saw this incident.

Suddenly Roe was standing behind me and pointing his big ax at me. I, who was surprised by this sudden attack, tried to block the attack with all my might. With the sword in my hand, I tried to block the attack from the ax though to no avail.

With its power, the demon easily broke the defenses and sent me flying from the attack.

Damn it!!

I was thrown into a building that looked like a bar. After looking at some of the scattered alcohol bottles, I suddenly started to think of a way.

For now, only our group can face off against this Devil named Roe. This is because the soldiers who joined us on this mission to capture the city are also still busy with other demons.

Having managed to get rid of the three of us, now the demon was walking towards Rikka and Julia. The two of them seemed to be preparing for an attack from Roe, although they still had frightened expressions on their faces.

I also understand their feelings right now… we're all dealing with demons for the first time, so it's only natural that we all feel scared.

A knight ran very fast towards Julia and Rikka, then he immediately pointed his two swords at the Devil. Yes, that person is Xorra.

"Hey demon! If you want to beat them, then you have to go through me first.”

With a very serious gaze, Xorra openly challenged a Demon.

“Unique Skill [Hundred Sword]”

Xorra activated his unique skills and created hundreds of illusory swords, these blades started to attack Roe making him look like he was in trouble. Roe continuously parried these swords so they wouldn't hit him and hurt him.

Julia and Rikka also immediately moved away from the place where they were fighting after seeing such a fierce battle. Of course I didn't keep quiet about this situation, I immediately threw a few bottles of alcohol at Roe and managed to hit his face and upper body.

"Rikka! Burn that asshole!!"

I shouted and ordered Rikka to burn Roe's body which had been exposed to alcohol.

Rikka realized what I was doing and immediately aimed her fire magic at Roe.

"Fire magic [Fire Ball]"

Roe's upper body was completely burnt and he looked in a lot of pain.

Yes…!! Our attack was successful.

"Dark magic [Shadow Bind]"

Axel also immediately used his dark magic to turn off the movement of the demon Roe. Currently Roe looks very sick and is still trying hard to escape from Axel's magic.

“AAAARRGGHH…!! FUCK YOU HUMAN!”

Roe, who looked in pain at first, suddenly changed his expression to anger. And at this time he started releasing magma balls from within his body.

The magma balls began to fly in all directions and burn anything they touched. Seeing the attack, Xorra immediately grabbed Julia's body and immediately walked away from where Roe was.

Mark and Rikka also immediately went away after seeing the magma balls start attacking blindly. Axel, who was very close to Roe was silent when the balls came out.

Huh!? What is he doing there?

I immediately returned to save Axel. With my unique skill, I moved very fast and managed to grab Axel's body. But there was one magma ball that flew very fast towards the both of us. I who saw it immediately released Axel and pushed him to avoid the magma ball's attack.

And finally I hit the magma ball so that my left hand was scratched and burned. Rikka immediately activated her earth magic and created a shield around me, Julia also came straight to me and immediately healed the wound on my left hand.

"Yoru.. are you okay?"

"Shhh… ahh…"

I could only wince in pain after being hit by the attack.

"Okay calm down, I'll heal you soon."

Julia immediately cast healing magic on me, and the pain in my hand slowly disappeared.

“*Huft…* thanks Julia, you always save me.”

Julia just returned my thanks with a smile on her face.

After a while, finally the attack of the magma balls released by Roe began to stop. Maybe he ran out of mana, I don't know either.

Rikka and Mark started to attack Roe with various kinds of magic, I also readied myself to prepare to attack. Even though Roe had stopped his magma attack, he was still trying to free himself from Axel's magic.

After trying hard, Roe finally managed to escape the magic that bound him. The demon immediately ran towards all of us with an extremely horrifying expression. Roe immediately raised his ax into the air and prepared his attack.

“Ice magic [Ice Arrow]”

Rikka cast her ice magic and managed to freeze Roe's hand which was holding his big ax. Once again, we managed to keep Roe from moving.

Seeing that, I immediately activated my unique skill and combined it with the sword technique I had mastered. With very fast movements plus sword skills, making this attack very difficult to dodge.

“Feel this!! [Ultimate Slash]”

With this attack, I managed to cut Roe's right arm off. Suddenly the demon's face turned very pale; I don't know what happened, but he looked really scared.

After seeing his severed hand and falling to the ground, Roe immediately rushed into the sky and left the city of Rigel. The remaining demons also immediately left the city after seeing their leader flee.

With the cooperation of all of us, the city of Rigel was finally free from the invasion by the Demon Race.

I sat down after the demons left the city and it happened to the others too. Although I feel happy that I managed to repel the demons, I can't hide the fatigue from this battle.

“Good job to all of you...”

With a very big smile, Xorra was constantly praising us.

“But undeniably, the MPV in this battle is Yoru…” Mark said.

"You said he was mpv? We've all weakened that demon, and he's only doing the finishing touches. He's just using us to look like a hero."

Said Axel in an annoyed tone.

"Huh!? What are you saying?"

I say this with a bit of emotion.

"You are weak. In fact you always get hurt in every fight we do.”

What!?

I still continue to listen to his babble, even though my ears hurt when I hear this.

"It's fine... you two don't need to fight."

Mark was constantly trying to break us apart.

"*Tch…* Weak is weak!"

*BUG… BAG… POW… *

I threw three punches at Axel's face at once and made him fell down. I couldn't hold back my emotions when I heard his chatter.

“You said I was weak, you said I was always hurt! If it weren't for me, you would have been burned by the demon's attack earlier. Even your carelessness in the dungeon back then, could have wreaked havoc on all of us. So who are you calling weak?”

I said all this while continuing to beat him, Axel just kept quiet and kept trying to hold myself back.

Xorra and Mark grabbed both of my hands to stop beating Axel, I finally stopped after the two of them separated us. Rikka couldn't help but stare at this happening, while Julia looked very worried and a little scared.

“Cuh...”

Axel spat out the blood that was in his mouth, still looking very angry at me.

“Yoru...”

Julia approached me with a very worried look. And of course, Axel looked even more angry when he saw this.

"Julia! Can you stay away from me, you're a little annoying!"

I finally said this.

I honestly feel good when Julia is nice to me; but if Axel is always annoyed when I'm close to her, it's better for me to succumb to staying away from her.

Of course Julia was very surprised when I said that, even a little tears came out of her eyes because of this.

“Why are you saying things like that to Julia?”

“I just said something that has been bothering me for a long time”

*Plakk!!*

Rikka's hard slap landed on my cheek.

Aww…! The slap was painful, but I guess I deserve this.

"I didn't think you were this kind of person."

"Huh!? Do you think that you have known me all this time? This is the real me.”

From the look in the eyes Rikka showed me, it was obvious that she was disappointed in me. But to be honest, this is how I feel right now.

After saying all that, I went to calm my mind for a while. Xorra tried to stop me from leaving, but Mark stopped him.

“What are you doing, Hero Mark?”

“...I think Yoru just needs some time to be alone right now…”