"Why do you want to know where the nearest population centre is?.What do you plan to do?."Orion asked as he wanted to know what the demon would do and hoped the demon wouldn't get him into trouble.
"Your a curious one aren't you.I need to find a population centre in order to build up my power and energy through gaining soul magic.I need to make an attempt to enter a more powerful vessel.The cause demands it."Varimathras talked about his need for soul magic in order to enter a new body.
"How are you going to gain soul magic by going into a population centre?."asked Orion as he was genuinely curious and believed it had something to do with harvesting it from people.
"You truly are from another world aren't you.I'm simply going to kill a bunch of living beings,crush their souls into paste and harvest their soul magic.Now tell me where the nearest population centre is."Varimathras explained the process behind obtaining soul magic but then got back to demanding where to find a population centre.
Orion didn't want to get killed by the demon so he came up with what to say.
"I don't exactly know where the nearest population centre is since I just recently arrived in this world but I do believe these people will bring us back to a population known as Ring City.I hope so anyway."Orion also wanted to go to Ring City so he could find out more about the world as well as about magic so he had less qualms about bringing a demon back to Ring City.
"Hmmm I was hoping to start off by harvesting the soul magic of all these humans sleeping on the ground but I suppose I need them alive now don't I.There might be high probability of us getting separated won't there but I'll remind you that the master is always watching so don't try to run out on our deal."Varimathras then undid his spell and Harkon seemed to retake control of his body whilst all the royal guard simultaneously woke up.
As everyone woke up so did the leading necromancers who appeared distraught at the interruption of the ritual.
"Why did Lord Varimathras interrupt the ritual we were so close to summoning him and creating a suitable body for him.Why did Lord Varimathras forsake us...aaarrrggghhh."Secthir's speech was ended when he was stabbed through the back by Derris's blade.
Kerry looked around whilst Terry was checking the soldiers for any abnormalities.They were both looking for demons or signs of demonic possession.They stopped once they saw no sign of either.
"Have any of the soldiers been possessed by a demon Terry."Kerry asked Terry as he finished checking the soldiers.
"No not as far as I'm concerned.Should I check the adventurers for signs of demonic possession."Terry hadn't checked the adventurers and wondered whether he should or not.
"Don't bother a powerful demon like the one they were summoning would never purposefully enter wesk vessels like them.Its simply not in their behaviour."Kerry easily dismissed the adventurers being hosts of demons as they were merely in the class C.
Even Mandar Schion's research subject seemed to be only at the low B class.Although from what Kerry had heard about Mandars research subject he should at least be at the mid B class and he was probably that low due to the fact that he had been starved by the necromancers.Regardless of his potential the demons preferred already strong vessels.
"Should we return the bodies for burial or should we just burn them?."asked Terry as he pointed towards the massive pile of corpses in the centre of the cellar.
"We'll just burn them there's a high probability of them coming back to life as undead due to the suffering they went through with the necromancers.They will just cause chaos and casualties if we bring them back."Kerry sighed and ordered some soldiers to burn the corpse pile in the cellar.
"Should we return Mandars research subject back to him.We should probably give him some clothes.I think his tired of walking around naked I doubt his sone exhibitionist."Terry wondered on what to do with Orion as he looked towards him
"Nope we'll return Valdel over to here to his family and tell Mandar Schion that he died.I don't approve of him experimenting on his fellow human beings regardless of how strange their bodies are."Kerry said and hoped Mandar Schion wouldn't find out he lied to him.
Thus the royal guard squads finished their task in coming here and returned to Ring City in a day.Orion was returned to his body's previous family and Harkon returned with his adventurers buddies.Wait...about Harkon.
Harkon stood over the body of his friend Reginold.Reginold lay on the bed with strange blood red sigils on his pillow and body.Most importantly his throat was slit and Harkon stood over him with his hands all bloodied and holding a knife.
"Oh no what have I done?."