[At the New Headquarters]

[Alaric point of view]

"Alaric!" [Linda]

"I know! Get ready!" [Alaric]

Just as we expected, they will come and attack us when the heroes are away. Of course, we have long prepared for it, but

"They're tough!"

"Without the heroes, we are essentially a snack for these canine devils!"

"Hurry up and block them! We can't let any of them harm the civilian!"

"For the Goddess! We will prevail!"

"RIGHT!"

It's true, even the presence of one of them will dramatically change the battle. For once, their heroic blessing will radiate throughout the battlefield, giving us boost not only in morale, but also in our attack, as their blessing together with our will to ward the devil off, resonate, and thus, making our attack effective against the devil. Not only that, those heroes are strong, even stronger when fighting against the devils, so that's why, heroes and those who fight against the devils, are forces to be reckoned with. Still, that doesn't mean one could stay overly-confidenct when they're with the heroes. When the devils sense the heroes, they will become stronger, as in they're ingrained to hate the heroes. Their power shoot up dramatically, they become even more violent, and they will almost always, focus on taking down the heroes through any mean necessary. Cannibalism to get stronger, suicidal explosion, throwing fellow devils corpses, name it, which understandably, causes those around the heroes to troubles. Unless a much higher, powerful and more intellectual devils giving them some orders, that's how they will behave once they set their sights on the heroes

"This dogs!"

"Help me!"

"SMASH!"

"Thank you, Mr Giant!"

"You're welcom..."

"Watch out!"

"Vampire skill: Life drain!" [Alaric]

Since one of the hunting devil dogs tried to target the carotid artery of the giant, I leap out and launch a surprise attack on it, slicing the throat with my knife all the while using my vampire skill to drain it life force, making it weaker before

"Space magic: Translocation" (There, on the Cerberus mouth) [Linda]

Seeing as one of the Cerberus tries to spit out poisonous fire breath from its mouth, Linda stuff the Cerberus mouth with the devil that was weaken by me. The effect, the devil instantly die while the Cerberus tries it best to spit the corpse of the devil out, before deciding to chew it for extra strength. Of course, this give us a chance to kill it off. Since we need to be strong and precise, both of us simultaneously targeted the neck, Linda with her golden scythe striking from above, and me with my mythril knife striking from below. It strong, the muscle that's keeping the neck is tough, but we managed to slice through it after putting in more effort, but some of the structure keeps the head dangling (and alive), so

"Space magic: PUSH!" [Linda]

A cube like structure arise from her palm, before becoming longer and longer in under a mere second. With that much forces, the Cerberus head finally detached from the body, killing the Cerberus. Parts of the dogs that it tried to chew also spewed out

~Bark~Bark~Bark~

~Bark~Bark~Bark~

~Bark~Bark~Bark~

~Bark~Bark~Bark~

~Bark~Bark~Bark~

The canine devils, they keep on coming, plus those dogs, they're night stalker. A creature of pure darkness with red eyes without any pupil. Since they're weak with light magic, Linda handle it, but

~Howling~

"Mirage wolves!" [Linda]

"I'm on it, just take care of the night stalker" [Alaric]

While Linda trap the night stalker in a large space cube before bombarding them light bomb magic nonstop one after another, amidst the explosive sound of her magic, I perform my regressed beastly transformation. Unlike most species, us vampires are actually half beastman and half demon. We know our beast racial magic allow us to undergo beastly transformation, while our demon part (unlike most demon who racial magic remain mystery) allow us to perform vampiric skill to steal other life forces. Well, to answer Ash's question from long back, I can undergo regressed beastly transformation, transforming into a large human sized bat before

~High pitch echolocation~

The wolves now become confused and in dire pain as their eardrum burst. I specifically targeted them thanks to my rigorous training to become the best bodyguard for Princess Diana. Not only the sound make the two mentioned effect, I also added life stealing magic from it, and when they're becoming weaker and weaker, just as they're about to lay down on the ground due to exhaustion, I strike, transforming back into my original form, throwing multiple knives at their vital, as well as shooting them with my pistol. Once it's done, I make a quick glance at the surrounding, even went as far as using search magic with 250 meters in radius just to make sure none of the mirage wolves escape from my grasp. Should they escape, they might perform mirage mirror spell like they (against Lara and Nara), and that will definitely spell trouble

"Onto the next one" [Alaric]

"True. I get a feeling we will fight nonstop throughout the night" [Linda]

What she said is nothing but the truth. All I see in front of me as I reloaded my pistol with some of magical bullets are sea of canine devils of various species glaring at us both. There are others adventures, knights, vampires and giants behind us, but those dogs, like a well-trained hunting dogs, quickly discrete Linda and I as a threat above the others. Some of the canine devils start to whimp, other start to bark, trying to scare us off, some glaring at us. Whatever it is, they're aren't retreating, that's for sure, and neither do us

Just as I am about to release a shot, a tremble happen, and a sight that from six years back, a sight that I could never forget no matter what, reappear. I could only gasp as I see

"That is..." [Linda]

"Zin..." (Saint Louis prediction hit the mark) [Alaric]

"Is that really a giant!?"

"A giant towering other giant... Isn't that what appeared back then during the beginning of devil invasion at the Holy Palace?"

"As a giant, this is the first time I feel like a dwarf, feeling threaten"

"Coming from a giant, that sound ominous!"

Indeed. Plus, just how many arms did Zin have this time around. I'm sure there are multiple other experimentation done on him. For once, his hair become that, like a demon, gray in colour, while his hands...

"Saintess Rumia!" [Alaric]

"WHAT!?" [All]

He is holding Saintess Rumia!