As several fighter jets lifted the Great Serpent and passed through the spatial gate, the recovery team at the third location also began their withdrawal one after another.
Grabbing Humphrey by the scruff of its neck and making it guarantee that it wouldn't skim off any of Jean's Serpent materials, Jean prepared to take Milim and return.
However, because the Great Serpent's body had already been carried away, the berserk magical beasts in the surrounding area gathered once again.
It seemed that the berserk state had indeed weakened their intelligence, as they dared to approach such a dangerous place.
"Hehehe."
Following the laughter, Jean glanced at Milim, who was eager to jump into action, and began to offer a moment of silence for those magical beasts in advance.
"Then, leave this to me, okay?" Although Milim phrased it as a question, having watched Jean fight the Great Serpent and feeling itchy for a fight for half the day, there was no way she could be stopped.
"Then let me admire your heroic figure from here."
Upon hearing Jean's words, Milim once again performed the move of flicking her cape and soaring straight up; it seemed she really liked doing that.
Then, she accelerated toward the rampaging magical beasts and dove straight into the fray.
An impact several times the speed of sound instantly blasted a giant crater into the midst of the magical beasts, forcibly halting the horde with the sheer force of the impact.
"Milim Kick!"
"Milim Punch!"
The various moves looked exceptionally simple and unadorned, but each one carried terrifying power.
A graze meant death, a brush meant demise; that was roughly the effect.
She even got excited on a whim and wrestled with a bull-like magical beast, easily grabbing its horns to lift it up and using it like a mace to play with.
After playing enough, she shouted toward Jean: "Jean, watch closely! Next is my ultimate move!"
Then, she pressed her hands together, and it seemed as if she was brewing something in her palms.
However, among the few people at the scene, no one could see anything; only Jean, after observing with full concentration, seemed to see a star flickering at the very last moment.
"Assigning a direction to destruction. Milim Star Dragon Wave."
She said the name of this ultimate move, which sounded like it hadn't been seriously considered, but its effect was not casual at all.
Just after Milim released something, in the next instant, all the magical beasts on the entire plain turned into dust at the same moment, all of them completely 'destroyed.'
Yet everything other than the magical beasts—whether it was weeds, shrubs, rock, soil, or airflow—remained completely unchanged; only those magical beasts had been 'destroyed.'
At this moment, the scene across the entire plain became so surreal that the brain seemed to be refusing to comprehend it all.
If a magnificent explosion had turned the entire plain into a basin, Jean would have marveled at it but wouldn't have had any other thoughts; however, this was different.
Common sense had been torn apart.
"This, what on earth is going on!" As a spellcaster, Medea received the biggest shock; the scene before her made her brain overload and ache.
Witnessing an instance of something as bizarre as 1+3=2 happening, she, as a spellcaster, felt doubts about all the spell formulas she had ever established.
"Assigning a direction to destruction? Conceptual endowment? Something feels wrong."
While Jean was pondering, Milim clapped her hands and flew back, "How was it, Jean? Cool, right?"
"It's cool, very cool, but what exactly was that at the end?"
"Hmm? I don't know! I used it instinctively after leaving the world; I don't know exactly what it is, but it's very cool! Right?!"
"Yes, yes, yes, super cool." Watching Milim, who looked like a child showing off to a teacher, Jean encouraged her in the way one would a child.
However, seeing how much she enjoyed it, let it be.
"It's about time to go back; the cuisine is almost ready," Jean reminded her.
"Cuisine!!!"
Delicious food clearly piqued Milim's interest; this child was quite the foodie.
Once again using Medea's group teleportation, they arrived at the nearest interface. There was a large-scale teleportation device here that could easily transfer between each of the affiliated underworlds. It is said that the equipment Hozuki is currently building in Fuyuki City is the same.
Simply stepping into it and charging it to activate, one could return to the core part of the Comprehensive Underworld—the office area—in an instant.
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In the Demon King's Palace in Area 45, the vampire ninja Seraphim was executing a surveillance mission.
Because of her master, Eu, she came to the Comprehensive Underworld's Second Affairs Office to learn knowledge and experience regarding intelligence gathering.
And now, this task was incredibly easy for her, having already undergone training for a period of time.
After all, in the entire large Demon King's Palace, there were only two people in existence.
The current Demon King and the Head Maid responsible for the Demon King's daily life.
Although the Head Maid would often summon ghosts to do odd jobs in order to maintain the operation of the entire Demon King's Palace, the ghosts alone could not discover Seraphim's concealment.
However, although it was surveillance, this Demon King had no other hobbies besides reading books every day. As for the demons in Area 45 who had undergone several purges and dispersals, their Demon King didn't have any substantive power either.
Thus, the conversations between the Demon King and her Head Maid were just about trivial daily matters, and Seraphim would record these trivial conversations truthfully and report them; this was her job.
'ε = ( ´ ο ｀ * ) ) ) Sigh, doesn't this just make me like an ordinary stalker? But a so-called ninja naturally values the character of "endurance." Speaking of which, the size of this Demon King's chest is really obscene.'
Seraphim, who was slandering the Demon King in her heart, didn't mind at all that she was of similar size.
Just then, the Head Maid seemed to receive some notification from the ghosts and hurriedly ran to the Demon King's side, and Seraphim also pricked up her ears to listen carefully.
"Lord Demon King, the ghost that made contact with Lord Serpent God has returned. Although Lord Serpent God broke through the seal as expected, it was quickly eliminated by unknown individuals."
"Did this path fail too? Forget it, I didn't have much hope to begin with. Ultimately, I still have to pin my hopes on my dear Hero. It will surely be the singularity that completely severs this fate."
"Lord Demon King, I've told you to read fewer romance novels. You don't even know the gender of that prophesied Hero, yet you're already prepared to give yourself to them."
"Eh? The Hero is obviously a very cute girl! Eh, wait, Head Maid, are you really taking a step back? I won't do anything to you."
Seraphim recorded these words seriously. Although most of them were just banter, the one or two useful sentences among them were enough to make her feel that her work had become meaningful.
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In the specially prepared banquet hall, an array of dishes had been 'piled' onto a huge round table. Unexpectedly, this was actually a Chinese-style banquet.
Because the main course had been temporarily replaced and they still needed to wait for a while, the banquet itself could already begin.
The lids of the dishes were opened one by one, and beams of golden light shot up into the sky; at the same time, the rich aroma spread all around.
Jean, who had been somewhat shocked, saw the three characters "Ju Xia Lou" painted on the side of the plate and was no longer surprised.
However, although the scene before them was mouth-watering, they couldn't start eating before the host of the banquet gave a speech.
And at this moment, this role was being filled by Jean.
Seeing that everyone looked impatient, Jean didn't intend to be long-winded; she raised her glass and delivered the toast:
"Meeting in another world, enjoy the delicious food! Cheers!"
"Cheers!" XN
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