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As the split souls entered Selene, they sensed some people coming to their house through a carriage…

They had just entered the house and there was already someone coming here to annoy them, couldn't they catch a break?

Actually, the carriage was way bigger… what was this all about?

And as they glanced through the windows, there were also… people wearing white armor?

They looked like… crusaders or something… like Paladins.

Ad they were holding a large flag, that was completely white, with an old and bearded man-made of bright yellow-gold light on it… with a bright sun behind him.

This ridiculous flag was the flag of the Empire of Bestellen!

"Why is the Empire of Bestellen here?!" asked Veronica.

"How odd… Have the aristocrats sold us after they realized that I was the same Ervas that the Empire of Bestellen is calling the Demon King?" asked Ervas.

"I told you we should have changed our identities!" said Veronica.

"But it is a pain to be addressed as someone else you know?" sighed Ervas.

Knock, knock!

Ervas and Veronica felt strong presences outside… these were no normal paladins.

Ervas and Veronica decided to suppress their divine auras beforehand and made them incredibly dim until the point of merely resembling mildly strong mana auras, which was their limit, and then decided to walk outside, Ervas had considered shapeshifting his height to get the same size as before the time skip but decided to not.

Veronica opened the door as she and Ervas walked outside, as they were greeted by a group of ten paladins armed with fine high-grade orichalcum armor, mithril weapons of the highest grade conceivable, and powerful magical auras, the split souls checked their status, seeing that all of them had at least take 7 Jobs, so they were considered around A-Rank Adventurer level, comparable to Rank 7 Monsters at most…

However, the real threats were the other people…

"We are from the Empire of Bestellen. We had come to apprehend Ervas and Veronica Igni, as it has been discovered that you two were the culprits behind the slaughter of the people of a certain village, and the death of a duke and the King of Aquaria," said the "troublesome" man, one of the many present aside from the ten generic paladins who were kind of lick backup.

This man was tall, easily reaching above two meters, with bright yellow-gold hair, short and closed eyes that seemed to be gentle, who wore armor and a long white tunic, his weapon was an enormous golden spear, and he held many magic accessories…

Ervas and Veronica used Wisdom to analyze him in a quarter of a second, seeing that his name was Robert Silvercrown, and had the title of "Five Constellations - Fourth Star". He was no one else than a member of the strongest battle popes of the Empire of Bestellen!

At his side, a gentler voice spoke.

"You two have been a real headache, you even killed our good friend Graham… Well, not like we cared much, but yeah, you two are coming with us. Please, don't resist, it will make things easier and there might be the chance for you two and your people to repent," said another of the "troublesome" ones.

He was a youthful man with short pink hair and dazzling aquamarine eyes, his height was perhaps around one meter and 78 centimeters, with a slim and slender body, wearing light armor and a tunic as well, his weapon seemed to be a pair of golden rapiers imbued with the power of a god within, the same way Robert's weapon was.

A quick inspection showed that he was named Loid Diamond, and had the title of "Five Constellations - Third Star". He was also the same as Robert…

Ervas and Veronica glanced at the two rather expressionlessly, they saw their stats… they were comparable to strong S-Rank Adventurers, perhaps a bit more.

But compared to them, they were… not really much!

Perhaps they were not ants, but maybe like rats… a strong rat, they would guess.

But a rat that can easily be kicked to death, nonetheless.

"Hm, who gave us away?" asked Veronica, her clones had run out of mana the moment she left Kritias, so she needed to do surveillance all over again, depositing clones everywhere to finally take a grasp about everything once more.

"Probably Allan Westearth, right?" asked Ervas to Robert and Loid, who glanced at the boy with annoyed expressions.

Loid, however, sighed.

"Sure, if you want to know… Indeed, it was Allan, and probably around half of the aristocrats here. You've been doing a lot of sketchy stuff with your magic, if you kept doing it, the entire market would end up being shifted to your malicious products, so they wanted you out of here… They sadly sold you out," laughed Loid.

"Huh… Can you tell us their exact names?" asked Veronica.

"What? Alright, stop asking stupid questions, come with us peacefully. And don't think you can beat us because you have Anir or Kelsus Fragments, our weapons have been enhanced by the Gods themselves to slay these fragments with the power of Life-Light Magic," said Loid.

"Please, don't resist and accept your fate, no matter what you try, it will end in your defeat. If you grew any attachment to the people of this town, you will surely not want to make a fuss," said Albert.

Ervas and Veronica stood still, glancing at the two…

They glanced at each other back and then they glared at the two constellations again.

"With these two down, there would be another two, right?" asked Ervas.

"Yeah…" said Veronica.

The two constellations and the paladins behind them couldn't believe how leisurely and carefreely they were speaking!

"Alright enough games," said Loid, unsheathing his blades.

"Hm, demons are demons, we can't talk to them at the end," sighed Albert, raising his spear.

The paladins behind them quickly put on stances of fighting, releasing their magic auras.

"This is your last chance… Surrender peacefully," said Loid, glaring at the two while pointing his blades at them.

"Hmm… No," said Veronica.

"Nope," said Ervas.

"Then die!"

FLASH!

Suddenly, behind Ervas, the figure of a man covered in dark clothes emerged from within his shadows, being infused with the power of a Heroic God through Heroic God descent, his eyes flashed with bloodthirst!

It seemed that there was an assassin sent for a surprise attack the moment they rejected to peacefully surrender!

The man came from Ervas shadows, jumping over him and taking out his powerful daggers imbued with the power of another Heroic God, in fact, one in each plus the one possessing his body to enhance his stats!

And behind Veronica, a sudden whirlwind of icy winds emerged, taking the figure of a beautiful woman covered with an icy armor, raising her two rapiers of ice, each one infused with heroic gods alongside her body with the same method as the shadow assassin, aiming at Veronica!

The split souls were suddenly assaulted by these super flashy assassins they never saw coming!

Or did they?

SLASH! SLASH!

Ervas and Veronica's heads suddenly were cut down by the power of three Heroic Gods and the powerful S-Ranked assassins!

Splash!

A rain of blood fell over everyone, as the motionless bodies of the split souls remained standing still… However, their eyes glared at the scene as their heads rested over the ground while bleeding.

"How dull…" they thought.

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