Old Journal’s Hint

*Crash! Clink, clink, clink* The sound of a glass cup shattering against the wall echoed inside a mansion.

"What the hell do you mean that our people at the Devil's Den disappeared!?" exclaimed Turner's father to a servant.

"That's what the informant said, Mr. Joseph," the servant replied, hiding his nerves behind a stoic expression.

"What about the camera footage!? Is there nothing!?" the man asked with frustration.

"They said police arrived and shut down the venue that night…" said the servant with his head lowered.

"Raaargh!" the boss shouted with anger as he swiped the laptop and paperwork on his desk to the side, slamming his fist down on its surface.

"I already talked to my contact in the police force. He said that no officers were sent to the Devil's Den yesterday…" Joseph muttered under his breath.

Trying to regain his composure, the man took a deep breath and gazed back at his servant.

"What about the hitmen we sent to kill the Jade Dragon girl and her accomplice? Why are they taking so long for such a simple task!?" The boss asked.

"T-they haven't returned, sir—and we haven't been able to communicate with them," the servant nervously replied.

As Joseph's face got red from anger and the veins on his forehead popped out, he let out a roar while throwing his large desk to the side of the office with ease.

"How the hell am I supposed to explain this to Sabelio!?" he shouted at himself before gazing to the other side of the office.

Turner, his son, had crawled in a fetal position against the corner of the room, with a visible dark aura emanating from his body.

"My son's treatment will end soon. I'll ensure he makes a name for himself in this family…" the boss said, approaching Turner in the corner.

When the man got closer, he detailed the black veins that had appeared on his son's body, which seemed to palpitate simultaneously to the rhythm of his heart.

Turner had his eyes shut while gritting his teeth, heavily breathing as he felt a sharp pain in all of his bones.

"Once the side effects are over, my son will take what belongs to him…" Joseph said, letting out an evil smirk.

"Maybe this isn't too bad. If Turner ends the Jade Dragon woman, we'll surely get Sabelio's favor," he continued, turning his attention back to the servant.

"Did the informants not say anything about Ruzen? He was using that place to increase his powers—I find it hard to believe he wasn't noticed…" Joseph commented.

"No, sir. They found no trace of the demon or any of the bodies he used," said the attendant.

With his rage and frustration satiated, Joseph calmly walked back to his chair, which was wholly uncovered as he had thrown the desk to the side of the room.

"I'll have to make a call, then. If Ruzen escaped, we need to find him ASAP—However, if he was killed, we need to watch ourselves," the boss explained.

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Late at night, Camille was in her office at the top of a skyscraper, admiring Cerberus' cuteness as the puppy played with a stuffed animal.

She was interrupted by her two attendants, Rina and Rona, who said they had found something important for the lady, showing her an old diary.

"Lady Camille, you said you couldn't find anything about the man named Sabelio. Correct?" Rina asked.

"Correct. Why? Did you find anything?" Camille said, focusing her whole attention on her servants.

"I thought I had seen it somewhere before, so I checked Lady Megan's grandfather's journal…" the woman explained, handing the tome to Camille.

When the platinum-haired woman read the page that was marked by her attendants, she widened her eyes in shock when she noticed that Sabelio was not only an old friend of Megan's grandfather but a member of the Jade Dragons.

In the diary, Alan Dunlap, Megan's grandfather, talked about the decline of his friend's mental health after reading a certain book.

"It says that Sabelio wanted to incorporate a cult into the Jade Dragons but was stopped by old man Alan…" Camille read.

Alan couldn't understand why his friend showed so much interest in dark magic, and after they had a heated fight, Sabelio left the family.

"I'll call Megan and her group to come over tomorrow. Dante might have some clues about this…" said Camille with a tired tone, closing the tome and focusing back on Cerberus.

The following day, the warlock made his way to Camille's office, accompanied by Megan, Sophia, and Zac, who were also called by the handler to attend.

As soon as they arrived, Camille handed the journal to them, explaining what she had found when reading it.

"We had been looking into that Sabelio guy after Dante got his name from the demon, but we couldn't find anything until now…" The handler explained.

She suspected that Sabelio was the leader of the Blood Dragons and that his attack on the Jade Dragons eight years ago was an act of revenge for the treatment Alan gave him in the past.

However, she couldn't understand why it took so long for Sabelio to act since Alan had been long gone by the time he attacked their bases.

"I'm guessing it took him a long time to complete the summoning rituals…" Dante interjected.

The warlock elaborated and said that since Sabelio was summoning demons using traditional dark magic, it would require a lot of time and sacrifices to complete.

"When I summon a demon, I control the umbra around me to create a passage for them to go through—The more powerful the demon I summon, the more power I have to transfer to it…" Dante explained.

"However, with traditional dark magic, you would have to sacrifice people atop a blood pentagram, accumulate the umbra on it, and use it as a catalyst to summon the demons," he continued.

Dante remembered the demon Ogmad saying that a general had been summoned, and he said that it could easily take hundreds of sacrifices to bring a demon general to the world.

"I understand. So, it probably took him years to get his revenge since he was preparing through all that time…" Camille commented.