[Master Cain, we have located the moron. What should we do with him?] The Oath Breakers asked suddenly as Cain was chatting with the residents of the farm.
[If he suddenly disappears, there will be chaos, and many won't believe that he is dead. Make sure that he doesn't escape and I will be there soon with a retinue to deal with the issue.] Cain responded with a smile.
"Miss Morgeth, Djinn, we have found the leader of the army that is causing so much trouble in Morgeth's name. I would like you to come with me so that we can prove to the army around him that he is a fraud and that they aren't doing the will of Morgeth by taking over cities and treating people horribly." Cain asked the two guests beside him.
"Of course. But do you have a way to avoid his skills?" Morgeth asked hopefully.
"But of course. Record Keeper is immune to Debuffs, and I can keep a second one further back in case he manages to get through the resistance somehow. Without the ability to mind control, he has nothing that can take out my forces.
We could have done this the messy way and just eliminated his armies, but that is a lot of transfers, and they will be needed by their families and home cities in the future. The Southern Continent has already lost too many people for us to be making the situation any worse.
Even here on this side of the continent, we are short on capable defenders, and we didn't lose any to battle, so I can only guess how bad things are in the regions that were conquered by force." Cain explained.
"It's time for an adventure!" Luna cheered from her spot around Cain's neck, making him look down at his overly enthusiastic daughter.
"Oh no, you Miss will be staying back with Kone and the others. It's not the least bit safe for you to be headed off to a battlefield while wrapped around my neck." Cain admonished her.
"You should have thought of that in advance."
The shout came at the same moment that a Demon appeared in a flash of light, and the Oath Breakers' voice sounded in Cain's mind.
[He activated some sort of transport item. He's gone. Oh, he's with you, that's fine then.]
That was not fine at all, but at least Cain already had one copy of Record Keeper merged with him to prevent Mind Control.
Cain had expected him to start with that, but the attacking Demon was a half step too slow. Before he could stabilize in this location and start to activate an ability, the Bunnies all acted together and let loose a strange whistling wail.
It was some sort of group spell that Cain didn't recognize, and suddenly he found that he couldn't read their minds to see what it was. So, he went on the attack and tried to use [Balefire] The combination of Holy and Fire damage, to burn the Demon from existence. But that wouldn't activate either.
"Damn you, Ancient. Your anti-magic bubble won't save your life." The Demon screamed, pulling a pair of swords.
Cain forgot all about what he was doing before and drew his scimitar and Spear from his inventory.
[There are forces at the perimeter. Ten thousand or more, but they don't look strong.] Victor reported.
[A civilian force, it looks like he took the whole adult population of at least one city. Deal with him, we can't get close to that Anti Magic bubble without being dispelled.] Lou agreed.
The Bunnies had really outdone themselves this time, using Divine Magic targeted at the enemy General to prevent the use of his mind-controlling abilities. The only problem was that now, Cain had to fight him without the help of any skills or summons.
The situation actually might favor the large Demon, at least in theory, but [Malleable Form] didn't need Mana usage, so Cain could still shift forms.
Cain parried the first sword strike, noticing that the man's System Interface was hidden, so he couldn't decipher anything about his potential skills, not even his true name. That must have been how the Oath Breakers found him, the lack of anything distinguishable was a big red flag.
Cain shifted back to his Demon Progenitor form, putting him on equal grounds with the enemy, as far as size went, and then returned the strike with a brutal thrust of his spear, following it up with a downward slice from his scimitar, forcing the enemy back.
As soon as he had evaded Cain's blade, the enemy General tried to make a break for the houses, where the healers were still working. It was clearly out of the range of the anti-magic spell, but as he approached, their healing stopped working and the Bunnies grabbed their patients to flee the area.
"Give up, the spell is cast on you. You won't escape using your mind control." Cain informed him.
Neither of them could be sure how long that spell was going to last though. The whims of the Divine were finicky, and there was no guarantee that the Bunnies' efforts would hold up for the whole battle.
With a snarl the demon charged Cain again, flailing wildly, and driving Cain's blade and spear wide. He went in for a savage headbutt, attempting to knock Cain to the ground, but Luna's body flashed forward, biting his neck and then wrapping around it to cut off his oxygen.
The little Lamia might be woefully under-leveled for this battle, but her poison was Mythic, and her muscles were strong enough to crush the average person's windpipe.
Cain made the most of the situation and stabbed his spear into the exposed thigh of the demon, eliciting a howl of pain and making him drop one of his blades.
The demon used his free hand to wrench Luna from his neck and hurl her across the farm, landing close to where Kone and Jin were standing. She didn't look too good, and having her body stretched like that had to be painful, but she was moving, so she would survive, given that Kone gave off a healing aura at all times.
The poison was already showing as black streaks on the Demon's neck, but he wasn't backing down, and a rapid flurry of strikes landed a deep cut across Cain's unarmored left forearm.
"Once you fall, the summons will all disappear, leaving both this Continent and the Central one to me for the taking." The demon gloated, to which Cian only responded with a smirk.
If this man thought that the Darklight Host would fall because of a lack of Cain, he was sorely mistaken.
