The invasion. I'm not a hero but...

" Impossible!"

Sarila's face paled and her knee dropped to the ground.

" Sarila sama?"

" Alexandra, it's the demon race."

" How could that be? The barrier—"

" There's not much time. Call the heroes."

Alexandra quickly nodded. He realized the seriousness of Sarila's words.

" Quickly inform the heroes and prepare the army! We won't let the demons get what they want!"

The tension engulfed the entire palace. The barrier of the goddess of light Sarila covered the whole kingdom. To summarize, the high-ranking demons couldn't overcome this barrier until the right time. She can't even imagine the barrier being penetrated, there was only one possibility, only a single entity capable of doing this. Her twin sister, The shadow goddess Marilia. Looking afar at the burning sky, Sarila bit her lips.

' Marilia, are you crazy? Do you even know the consequences for breaking the law?'

' I know, my dear sister. However, if I don't do anything, everything will be on your way.'

' You're going to pay the price with your life!'

' Ha. So what?'

' Marilia!!'

' Try your best, dear sister, I hope your little heroes survive this.'

Sarila clenched her lips till they bled. On Agratha's map, red dots spread everywhere, they came from the sky. A massive invasion was underway. Among them, giant red dots descend on six central cities of the kingdom.

The Adeoryon plains, the border between darkness and light. Countless demonic beings gathered here, dragons, golems, undead… Belmonth's fingers gently swept down the faint light that separates Mordox and Agratha. The warcry of monsters resounded in the air, their bloodlust was so intense that countless small battles took place right there.

" Lord Belmonth, please take this opportunity to wipe out those lowly cattles."

There was a roaring and roaring everywhere, just a single word of Belmonth, demons would instantly flood the human world.

" No."

" Great Belmonth, the barrier was gone, we can't waste the opportunity that Marilia sama has given us."

" That's right. We will respect her flesh and blood."

" Yes, great Belmonth my king, blood for blood. Our god was sacrificed, now it's their turn.

" Hmm…"

[Bang!]

A terrible sound startled the entire group of demons. The sky was blazing red and the rain of fire turned the ground into a sea of flame.

" Fools. Have you forgotten? As long as Sarila's alive, she won't let us invade Agratha. What Marilia could do, she can too."

Although there were still many dissatisfied sounds, Belmonth prevented most of the demons from entering Agratha. However, it also meant that he wouldn't be able to participate in the ongoing war.

" Haruki kun, the heroes. I hope you won't disappoint me."

If the hero died and Agratha destroyed, Belmonth would have no choice other than to slaughter the human and demi-human races.

Torei rushed back to the inn, goosebumps filled his skin, and an unbelievable fear filled his mind. He could feel the terrible bloodlust in the dark sky. A big war was going to happen right there.

" Miro!"

It was strange, Miro was not there. He looked everywhere in the inn but couldn't find the kid's figure.

" For f*ck sake! Where could that kid go?"

Not much time left, the most urgent thing was to go to the church area as Shizu said. There was a barrier there, Abert was there as well. He should leave Miro alone and go to church, after all, he had only seen the kid for a mere day. There was no reason why he had to face danger because of it. Not to mention that he had no idea where it was either, searching now would likely cause him to die in vain.

" I-I have to go. Mabe the kid already ran to the church."

Torei paused as he exited the shop door, some cash was missing and there were tracks of footstep that lead to the opposite direction to the church, there's still a possibility that the kid ran away. He recalled Shizu's expression, during the time when he was still in the group of heroes. They always risk themselves when someone was in trouble, he always told himself that it was because they had power, but he understood it was not that simple. Even in the old world, he couldn't match them. He was always a weak person who always follows Shizu and Haruki's shadows.

" Can't I do anything?"

Always the same, both past and present. All he could do… was dependent on them.

" Damn it!"

Torei started to run. He knew the roads in this city. He knew where the people would likely go to.

" Sorry did you see a kid this tall with a bald head passing by here?"

" Sorry, did you see …"

He ran through the streets, nooks, and crannies, everyone in the city was informed and began to evacuate to special locations. In this chaotic moment, no one had the heart to care about other affairs.

" Sorry did you see …"

" I remember a boy like that going into the market just now."

" Really! Thanks, Madam!"

Torei rushed into the market, at the same time he could sense his time was running out.

A bunch of giant alien-capsule-looking objects falling from the sky.

" Discharge!"

Thousands of magical beams from the ground aimed at the wraps, causing them to burn. Most of them were destroyed before they even touched the ground.

" That's right, they've fought for a thousand years with the demon race. There's no way they don't prepare for things like this! "

However, Torei's optimistic thinking was quickly extinguished when a large bundle touched the ground, a dim of red light was emitted, and then came A giant hand that tore through the capsule. Torei had heard of it. The great devil Diablos, an upper-class demon of the demon race. Its difficulty was S, only S-rank adventurers will be able to handle it.

Diablos screamed and the ground shook violently. Torei could feel the mana flow inside him become chaotic, a sudden nausea almost made him collapse. There were no longer any attacks coming from the military. He guessed this monster could interfere with mana. And then the worst happened, thousands of wraps fell on this city, tens of thousands of demons swarmed everywhere and a massacre was about to take place.

" Sh*t! Sh*t!"

Anguish sounds came from the direction Torei ran to. The scenery in front of him was a nightmare, blood and flesh were scattered everywhere. The cries for help of the people who were burned alive, being eaten, and torn apart. Torei turned to an alley. He activated his stealth skill and used a special potion from Abert's room. This helped the adventurers to hide their odors and lower their body temperature, but it made him constantly tremble from the cold.

Torei was sprinting through the alleys, past the monsters, trying to hold his breath so he wouldn't be heard. After nearly a year in this world, he was at least prepared for these crucial situations. After a while, he also reached the market. The atmosphere here was much quieter and the smell of blood was also stronger. It seems this place was slaughtered when the demons arrived and they are currently spreading out to other areas. However, Torei could not lower his guard as there probably were many more.

' Please, please Sarila. Don't make me run to the thing that has strong sensing…'

That's what he prayed for. There are several types of monsters with special abilities or magic that help them search for living objects. If he was unlucky enough to meet one like that, he would be dead. Torei passed a butcher shop. He could hear peeling noises, it seemed like a 'party' was going on in there. Torei quickly left the place. Right now he had no clue to find Miro, other than searching every corner. Suddenly he saw three figures running out of a house. They were the owners of the noodle shop he often visited. 3 people the husband, the wife, and a young girl. They were running away from something. Torei leaned down and hid behind a stall. If they saw him, they would probably run to him.

He took out a flare from the bag on his side. Depending on the situation, he could use it to distract the monsters from the noodle family. However, what he saw made him give up that thought.

It looked like a Komodo dragon but had 4 long legs. Demonic Earth Dragon, that thing's sense of smell and hearing were very high, if he got into its sight, there would be no way he could hide from it. Currently, the direction of the noodle family was different from where he was hiding, so if he left them alone, he would be temporarily safe.

" Hah… hah.. hah".

The shopkeeper used to be an adventurer even though he was a junior, he soon knew that they couldn't escape the earth dragon. He signaled the other two to run away and stayed behind to buy for a few more times. His wife, however, could not accept it. She stood dumbfounded and hesitated when she saw her husband suddenly stop. At this rate, all of them would die.

" H-Honey …"

" Idiot! Take her away! There is not much time!"

" And what about you?"

" I will follow -"

Didn't wait for the touching conversation between the couple to end. In just a blink of an eye, the shop owner's neck was crushed by the earth dragon's jaw. His whole body convulsed violently before he became motionless. The earth dragon tore apart the man's neck right in front of the other two. The wife stood bewildered, tears began to spread. All of the strength had slipped away from her body. The little girl was panicked, she left her mother who standing dumbfounded, and ran away by herself, but she did not run far as her shaking legs made her fall, she dragged her painful body to hide in one of the stalls.