Deus vult, te perdere deamones|||C12

."Haha, I won, once again." The empire's Archduke, Ray said as he pulled all of the guard's money towards himself.

"Anyways, seems like he got here just now, so let's postpone the next match for later."

The guards and mercenaries wondered what the duke meant with that, but a few seconds later, emperor Rudra showed up so they delayed that train of thought for a few seconds and began bowing.

Ray walked in the direction where he predicted the emperor to come from with [Temporal Awareness] and bowed when he opened the door leading into the room all the nobles were gathered.

"You may higher yourselves. again" Ray immediatly looked at the emperor meeting his gaze.

"Emperor if I may."

"You're allowed to speak"

"We, the empire's nobles, got here to discuss what will happen to the fiends that dared to rebel against our great empire. But! What I've witnessed here saddened me to no end.

I watched those dirty pigs standing beside me." A few nobles seem enraged to no end, but after a small dose of Ray's killing intent they promptly shut up, "Defile our most beautiful empire, with their fake smiles, their scrupulous methods, and their unending greed and lust.

So I in the name of the people, understand why the poor king decided to rebel against us, to fight off those who deserve naught but death."

A dramatic pause ensued.

"My emperor may I suggest, ending the evil reign of fools" As these last words came out of Ray's mouth he manifested a book in his hands detailing every evil deed a noble committed, from sexual assault to mass murder.

A smile formed on the emperor's face as he read the book, this is exactly what he wanted, a way to destroy the nobles with minimal backlash. Add to that, that only completely useless nobles, were listed inside the book, he wouldn't harm the empire in any way.

Rudra (the emperor) looks one last time at Ray, whose worth just skyrocketed, due to his speech (he didn't steal from a politician of his old world's past).

'He's a valuable asset to have on my side, the only thing hindering him from being as valuable as Velgrynd is his lack of seemingly any Motivation, and the secrets surrounding him, he at least seems to be on my side.'

"After seeing what those nobles have done, I must agree, naught but death is acceptable for such people, that dare to call themselves human. Guards!"

"You can't do this do you know who I am?!"

"Get your dirty hands off me you scum!"

"You'll suffer for this I promise!!"

With that, the hall once filled with dozens of nobles, turned empty, only around five noble families still there.

"Now my emperor, to the Rebellion of the vassal nation. If you would allow me to handle them, I would be truly honored."

"I actually wanted to send the intelligence corps to deal with it, but after showing your worth just now I'll entrust them to you."

"Thank you, my emperor."

Yuji and the rest of the nobles stared blankly at Ray and Rudra talking with each other, they ruined and ended multiple lives a second ago, and switched the subject of discussion so easily.

"Now then, am I allowed to leave and do my duty as the emperor's sword, or am I needed here for anything more?"

"No, your presence here isn't needed"

Everyone got what they wanted, Rudra got solid reasons to deal with all the useless nobles, and Ray was allowed to handle the lake shore dyed red incident.

And while Ray didn't need to show the actions of the corrupt nobles to receive the mission, he showed them the Emporer nevertheless, to create a power vacuum in the empire he can use for his advantage.

Now of course you must be asking yourself where he got all of this crucial evidence, right? Well, twenty years are a really long time, and having absolutely nothing to do makes one really creative in how to spend one's time.

Anyways, Ray took Yuji with himself and set off into the direction of the rebelling vassal nation, that will summon a primordial demon soon.

Rudra got to work to handle the situation at hand meanwhile and sent a few more spies into Ray's city in case a promising fighter for his case is an enemy in disguise.

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In a fancy hall decorated with various silks and golden statues, tens of mages performed a ritual, every single mage wearing dark blue robes.

They stood in a circle around the edges of a sinister magic circle and poured all of their magicules into said circle. Whenever one mage fell dead to the ground another one would emerge from the shadows taking their former colleagues' place.

In the middle of the room was a single mage, wearing red robes coupled with silver and gold jewelry, he was clearly this country's archmage.

"Finally, our fallen brother's sacrifices were not in vain. Oh, great demon come forth and heed my orders."

*Fwushh*

The room was tinted with darkness and the bodies of all the other mages collapsed, they died.

A single blurry figure manifested on top of the magic circle. The figure was ethereal like it had nobody to anchor to bind it to the real world but a few features could be made out, for example, its scarlet eyes radiating immense pressure and its long and white hair.

"bRiNg mE tHE pRInceSs"

It said, with a terrible voice that could drive normal humans mad, and sadly for the archmage, he was only slightly above normal, and the demonic aura alone made him insane, coupled with its voice the poor man lost every semblance of logic and followed the demon's orders.

The demon began inspecting its body and the world around it for a few minutes until the archmage came back with the princess, knocked unconscious by a weak spell.

The demon sprouted a wicked smile as it entered the frail body of the princess and took over her body.

The body of the princess, transformed, her eyes began reddening, her skin paled and her hair grew longer and took on a white color.

At the end of the transformation, nobody would be able to tell that this was the princess anymore, to add to this was the dark aura emanating from her, this was now blanc, the white primordial.

Blanc clenched her fist and used magic to kill the archmage in mere moments

*Bam*

The king entered just as the archmages corpse dissipated into thin air, his DNA being plucked out of his cells like pimples.

"YOU DEMON! YOU ARE UNDER MY COMMAND SO...."

The demon didn't say anything as it killed the king too, mere ants shouldn't speak to her, like this, they should bow down before her."

Blanc began to form her next plans, she was a genius commander but in the end, her demonic side took over and she wanted nothing more than spilling human blood, for the first time in her existence.

That was until she noticed two figures, sitting on a roof beam watching her.

"Sir. I think she found out where we were hiding." The smaller man spoke, he was just like her kind, but different.

"Ya, but that also means that the fun part can start." The man with clock structures in his eyes said, he was clearly stronger and far more experienced than his companion.

"What do you want," Blanc asked as she stared at the duo awaiting their answer.

"I got here to look for subordinates, companions even, people worth looking out for."

"And who do you have in mind for that?"

"Isn't that a dumb question?" Ray said as he pointed at Blanc.

"You think I would put myself under somebody weaker than me?"

"Ah come on, just because I don't have the magicule reserves of Guy or Milim doesn't mean I'm weak. I could easily defeat any of the primordials except for Guy"

"You know Rouge... that's beside the point, if you really want me to join you then prove to me that you're worthy."

After saying that Blanc jumped at Ray, swinging her magic coated hands at him while preparing a magic spell.

But before the hit connects, Ray vanished, reappearing next to blanc in an instant and swinging a Warhammer at her, made out of black and white strings.

Blanc's instincts scream at her, saying that this attack is dangerous, but before she can evade the Warhammer connects...

And does nothing

It evaporated as soon as it touched Blanc, "Say... could it be that you have a time related magic shield?" Ray said, a chuckle accompanying him.

He never fought with somebody at primordial level, and had, therefore, no experience, in battling somebody who learned the basics of time, darkness, or light magic, the three special magic elements, beyond the five basic elements fire, wind, water, earth, space.

Blanc smiled at Ray and laughed inwardly at him, she completed her spell, and powerful black flames began spewing out of several different magic circles, all of the aimed at Ray.

Ray locks his eyes on the black flames and uses [Greater Temporal Magic], freezing all of the flames in their track, costing him a sixth of his total magicule amount.

"Yuji, emergency weapon!" Ray yelled out to Yuji, who until now didn't move a finger.

"Which one Sir?"

"I don't really care, as long as you actually give me the weapon!"

Ray dodged another melee attack and froze another barrage of black flames until a saving grace gets thrown into his arms, a military saber.

"Haha payback time"

*Swwiiiiinnngg*

Ray swung his saber sideways, cutting through the air, making terrible sounds, and destroying most of the castle's walls, a true miracle that it still stood.

"Timestop"

*CREAAAK*

Ray used [Greater Temporal Magic] freezing the whole world for a few moments, Blanc can still move but she has never experienced frozen time before, giving Ray a flaw to be exploited.

*Swwiiiiinnngg*

*Swwiiiiinnngg*

Two more sword swings, one getting evaded by the confused blanc, the other utterly decimating her left part of her body, both the left arm and leg being cut apart.

*CREEAAK*

Time started flowing again.

"Guess its my loss."