The Second Generation of Knights Encountering Demons Reappears

There was no other way. Facing the number of enemies that were almost filling up the entire passage, in order not to waste more time, Kaito could only choose to stay with Zack and Nishikino Maki to block their pursuit, and let Honoka Kosaka, who had the strongest combat power, and Mobius, who was the only one familiar with this intricate passage, go first.

So, not long after entering the passage, the team, which had already been reduced in number, had to face a second weakening.

It can be said to be quite unlucky. 】

Brother Jie: This must be intentional by Mobius!

Jie Shi: Indeed, considering the personality of Mobius in this world, she probably felt that if too many people acted together, she would not be able to do some small moves, so she deliberately concealed the defense system in the passage.

[ ]: It's troublesome. Originally, even if all the members gathered together, they might not be able to defeat Baiya, and now they have to act separately.

Temple City Elf King: It feels like every time everyone acts collectively in "Gaimu", someone in the team is thinking crookedly.

Mouth-chatting Ninja: No way, the green guys are all the idea kings in "Gaimu".

Fruit King: Will I fight Baiya alone at that time? I feel like I can't win.

Ichito Shura: Indeed, although Miss Honoka's general form is very strong, Baiya's strength is completely in another dimension. It's hard to imagine that she will lose.

Herrscher of Rice: I feel that the gap is even greater than when the other me fought against Aborut. No matter how strong Aborut is, at least we can use items such as Genius Bottle and Danger Trigger to break his defense, so it's not completely impossible to fight.

Konoha 50-50: I guess they should let it go in the end. Baiya is not as malicious to humans as Aborut, and even has the attribute of playing badly.

【“I didn’t expect that we would be such a wonderful combination in the end~”

Running in the secret passage, Mobius used the marker he carried with him to mark the three people who would arrive at the end on the wall, and sighed at Kousaka Honoka who was running in front of him.

“I thought you would stay there to help Mr. Kaito?”

This improper tone made Kousaka Honoka, who was already in a bad mood, even more unhappy, and she couldn’t help but turn around and glare at Mobius who was still smiling.

"Although I don't want to admit it, there is nothing wrong with Kaito's arrangement. Now is the time to race against time. However, I have not forgiven you for what you did before. If you are still planning something bad, I will never let you go!"

"Don't worry, I still have a strong sense of contract. Since I promised to help you sneak into the World Tree Tower, I will certainly do what I say. Look, am I not leaving a mark for Kaito and the others to find?"

As if to prove his innocence, Mebius drew a big arrow on the wall again, and added his favorite rattlesnake graffiti next to it in a very personal way.

"Miss Honoka, I hope you won't suddenly stab me in the back because of the past grudges."

"Who would do such a thing!"

Honoka Kosaka glared at Mebius, looking at the passageway behind him that had already walked a long distance, and the originally angry expression slowly turned into a hint of confusion.

"I really can't understand why you would prepare such a secret passage without anyone knowing? Do you really not trust your companions?"

"Companions..."

Mobius paused slightly, and the figure of a blue-haired girl floated into her mind, but was quickly forgotten by her.

"Maybe I might have had a chance before, who knows? Miss Kousaka Honoka, since there are people like you in this world who treasure the relationship with others, then naturally there are people who will treat this kind of connection as nothing. Unfortunately, I, Mobius, chose to be the latter, that's all."

"Humph, as expected, you and I don't get along. I don't want to experience such a pitiful life even if I die!"

"Haha, but I see that Miss Honoka, who thinks you are not pitiful, is not living an easy life now."

Mobius covered his mouth and chuckled. Kousaka Honoka's tongue was not a problem for her.

"You've been tripped up by the feelings of a group of so-called 'comrades', and you've suffered all kinds of hardships along the way, haven't you?"

"I don't understand what you're saying."

Mobius's counterattack made Honoka Kosaka feel very uncomfortable. The former chuckled and walked around the latter.

"Let me, an elder, give you some advice as a senior in life~

Abandon the captured family, eliminate the companions who betrayed you without hesitation, and don't take the dead in the past to heart. After all, they are just others who have nothing to do with you. As long as you stand a little more from your own perspective to test things, the many troubles you are holding now will be solved."

Marking a fork in the road again, Mobius turned back and smiled at Honoka Kosaka who followed him, and then continued to lead the way.

"What's wrong with living for yourself in life? Why can't you live a little easier?"

"Don't be ridiculous, I don't want to be such a cold-blooded guy!" Honoka Kosaka followed Mobius around a corner, but suddenly found that Mobius stopped.

Looking over her body, the road ahead has changed its style. It has a more technological feel and is also covered with plants that make Honoka Kousaka feel familiar.

"It seems that we are about to enter the enemy's hinterland."

Throwing the marker in his hand, Mobius knew that there was no need to mark the road ahead.

"The pleasant chat time is over. Are you ready, Miss Honoka?"

"Ah."

Nodding seriously, Kousaka Honoka and Mobius looked at each other and stepped into the territory of the overlord without hesitation.

...

In the laboratory where the instruments and hostages were stored, Jade, who was infusing the collected life energy into her exclusive weapon "Daba", gradually realized that something was wrong.

"Strange, the total amount of life energy is less than I expected?"

Originally, according to his estimate, at this point in time, the collected energy should be enough to achieve his goal, but the current situation is lower than his expectations. Although the current amount is not impossible to complete his plan, it is not safe after all.

Thinking of this, Jade looked around the room. The number of sacrifices gathered here was far higher than the target he had given to Nagasaki Suyo at the beginning, but the result was completely opposite.

The doubts in the red eyes did not decrease but increased. He finally set his sights on the instrument made by himself in the center of the room.

Reaching out to it, Jade was about to check the instrument, but was immediately distracted by the alarm spell he had buried in the plants of the entire World Tree Tower, which also gave up his idea of ​​checking the instrument.

In a strange vision, he saw Takasaka Honoka and Mebius rushing here.

"There are hidden passages in this kind of building that I haven't found out. Is this what humans call a cunning rabbit with three burrows? Trouble."

Jade rubbed his chin in distress. In order to make his plan more secure, he still wanted to collect more life energy.

But in the current situation, Suzaku of the Jade faction has been killed, and Nagasaki Suyo and Xuanwu, who were sent by him to catch Minami Kotori, have not returned yet. For a moment, he really found that there was no one available on his side.

"There is no other way. Can you please stop them? I need some time to fulfill the king's long-cherished wish, Day."

Emerald shouted to the shadow outside the room. Heavy footsteps sounded in the corridor that should have been empty. A white and strong bull-headed man walked out from behind the door and looked at Emerald in the room silently.

Unlike Suzaku and Xuanwu, the overlord named Day did not treat Emerald with respect. Instead, he looked at his compatriots across the room with a suspicious look.

After a long time, a dull sound came from the majestic bull head.

"You'd better not do as you said, otherwise, my Ashuim will chop off your head."

"Of course, you and I are both the king's subjects, aren't we?"

"Humph."

Ignoring Emerald's sweet talk, Day dragged his big knife named "Ashuim" and left the scene.

Although Day felt that Emerald was completely untrustworthy, since their king, Bai Ya, needed him to fulfill his sad wish, Day would do it. 】

Customer service Xiaoxiang: Finally I saw a loyal overlord to the king, it's not easy!

Banana: I didn't backstab Baiya either.

Asuna: Well, you didn't backstab, you just killed yourself.

Banana: 6.

Ms. Alarm Clock: The overlord of Baiya's faction, and the name of Zhu? Could it be... No, it's impossible, this muscle... is a bit too burly.

This is Tiantangkouhekouhe: Well, it's normal for the overlord form and the human form to have a size difference, isn't Baiya the tallest among all the high-level overlords?

Hualiu Huixian: Actually, if you think about it carefully, this image is quite reasonable, after all, I have extraordinary strength in reality.

Banana: Corridor God of War (convinced).

Ms. Alarm Clock:?

Ural Silver Wolf: The lower-level overlords of the white and green series have appeared, why haven't the red series appeared?

Infinite Snake: Puff, Qianjie, you are still a lone commander as always.

Brother Jie: Shut your mouth!

[On the other side, inside Helheim after Nagasaki Suyo left.

Bai Ya did not immediately attack Minami Kotori, the daughter of the origin, as the audience thought. I don’t know if she was interested in Nagasaki Suyo’s words. She observed the gray-haired girl sitting calmly in the corner and took the initiative to talk to her.

“Aren’t you afraid of the current situation, a human girl?”

“Of course I am afraid.”

Minami Kotori looked at her toes and did not look at Bai Ya’s figure.

The latter did not care about the girl’s disrespect, but just continued with this topic.

“Really? But you look quite calm.”

“I’m not worried about my safety.”

Minami Kotori shook her head.

"Since Su Shi said you don't bother to harm me, then you are definitely not such a person. I am afraid of Honoka and the others. In order to save me, they will definitely do a lot of dangerous things, and they may even challenge you who are extremely powerful."

"Huh~ This really doesn't sound like something a guy who has just been betrayed would say."

The girl's answer made Bai Ya look sideways, and there was a hint of confusion in her calm tone.

"Why can you be sure that your companions will come to save you?"

"Because my companion is such a person."

Minami Kotori answered decisively. After meeting Nagasaki Suyo, she was more convinced of this.

The way the brown-haired girl looked at herself before leaving was not the way she looked at the enemy. She still regarded herself as a companion and wanted to protect herself.

"Whether it is Honoka, Kaito, or Suyo, everyone is actually the same person. Everyone is doing what they think is right in their own way. It's just that Suyo has been walking alone for too long, so long that even if she went in the wrong direction, she and we couldn't notice it."

"It's really incomprehensible."

Bai Ya turned his back and looked at the tombstone in the center of the cemetery. Minami Kotori noticed the other party's movements and looked there. For some reason, she always felt that this tombstone seemed to have some connection with herself in the dark.

But she didn't have time to think about it, Bai Ya continued.

"Since you think your companions are all the same, how can you guarantee that others will not betray like her? Your words are inconsistent."

"There is no one in this world who will not make mistakes. Even the most powerful beings will make mistakes, but the real horror is not the mistakes themselves, but the fact that they cannot figure out the reasons for the mistakes until the end, and can only make the same mistakes again and again."

Nan Xiaoniao walked to Bai Ya's side.

"I won't say that Su Shi is innocent, but in order to atone with her, as a companion, I must also know. Why did Su Shi choose to do these things? Where did we take different paths? Only in this way can we understand each other and get back on the right path with her."

"Are you still willing to go with her?"

"Why not?"

Nan Xiaoniao looked up at Bai Ya who turned his head.

"After experiencing failure, can we only stagnate and never trust anyone again?"

"...Of course."

Bai Ya's answer was no longer full of condescending looks like before. Nan Xiaoniao seemed to understand something and turned to look at the silent cemetery.

"Is that so? That's why this place is like this now..."

Not long after, the white bull overlord named Hiru found Honoka Kosaka and Mobius who were looking for the hostages, and started a battle with them without any nonsense.

As soon as the fight started, Honoka Kosaka immediately felt the difficulty of this rare white overlord.

In terms of combat power alone, Hiru in front of her is completely on par with Shinku. Add to that the extraordinary strength and the narrow terrain of the corridor, Hiru is even more difficult to deal with than Shinku.

In just a few exchanges of weapons, Honoka Kosaka's hands were numb by the opponent, and even Dachengmaru was knocked out again.

"Hey, are you just watching there?"

Just by following the Dachengmaru who was knocked out, she found Mobius hiding behind and watching the show. Honoka Kosaka immediately shouted at her and distracted Hiru's attention to the opponent.

"Well, even if it's me, I can't just sit there and watch when I have so few chess pieces."

"Who are your chess pieces?!"

Ignoring Honoka Kosaka's dissatisfaction, Mebius transformed and joined the battle.

Facing the brute force slash displayed by Hiru, Mebius actually parried it head-on with a sonic arrow, and the ease with which Hiru was a little surprised.

And it's not over yet. After showing a power advantage far beyond the general Super Century Drive, the Duke further demonstrated abilities that other knights don't have, such as clone projection, optical camouflage and shooting enhancement, and suppressed Hiru, who could force Honoka Kosaka into a tough battle.

Honoka Kosaka was stunned.