Now that there was a second flagship available, Daimon for a split of a second thought about giving it to Aisha, but her expression clearly said "I won't be leaving your side", so he gave the option to Calvin and Michael.
"One… two… three!".
"Damn it", with a quick rock paper scissors game, they decided the winner, which in this case was Calvin.
"I'm never listening to the end of this", mumbled Michael, while Calvin and also Loren moved to the other flagship, at the same time, Amber and Jade separated from Scarlet and the others and took each one of the two now empty ships.
With a wave of his hand, Daimon made the last ship he owned, which was the first one he got, appear below the water, making it emerge a couple of seconds later, creating the illusion that the ship has always been waiting below the surface, this time Lapis took control of it.
The float now consisted in two flagships occupied by Daimon and Aisha, as well as Calvin and Loren, then there were six more normal ships, three from the tribes and three from creatures, that being said the third one from the creatures was now being used by the girls from the Blue-Sky academy.
Daimon then pointed at the south and all the ships advanced in that direction, just as Daimon as about to enter the captain's cabin with Aisha, he saw the alfear and dwarf girls landing on the deck of his ship.
And while didn't show it, he didn't lower his guard, someone that can block the aftermath of Aisha's Thunder Arrow or his Hell Storm Javelin isn't weak by any means, specially if it isn't even a six-star mage or knight.
"Demon of the elite class, we want to discuss some things with you", said the alfear girl, making Daimon raise an eyebrow.
But he still agreed to them.
"I'm all ears, also stop calling me that, my name is Daimon Licht, formalities aren't my thing".
The alfear girl and the dwarf girl stared at each other for a couple of seconds, before they introduced themselves.
"I'm Tessa Evergreen, the first princess of the alfear race".
"Femi Hepha, likewise I'm the daughter of the ruler of the dwarf race".
Tessa then pointed at the human girl which earlier threatened Daimon.
"That girl is Jenna Penddra, she is also a princess in the territory.
"Okay, so what you want to discuss with me?", slowly asked Daimon, Tessa then took out a small white compass, whose arrow pointed at their overall direction.
"There is currently a war among three sides, the human, the creature and us at an island … and I noticed your current direction is headed perfectly towards them, so my question is, if that's your goal too?".
Daimon shook his head in response.
"No, but they happen to be in the middle of my final destination, so I would go through them, or at least that was the original ides, but since there seems to be something important ongoing there, then I don't mind making a small store here".
Tessa didn't know whether she should laugh or cry, she might have ended up inviting a shark without noticing.
'Whatever it's not like I could do anything… something tells me that to take this guy on, one must be as monstrous as Adam at least, so I will leave that problem for him to deal with', she thought.
After having asked what they wanted, Tessa and Femi returned to the spaceship they were assigned and then simply entered the captain's cabin.
Daimon and Aisha as well as the others soon did the same, according to the radar, the next detectable ship was quite far from their current position, and it wasn't just one, there were a lot of them gathered at some place.
"But that didn't make sense, the location signaled by the badge doesn't stop at that point at all, but directly goes through it", mumbled Daimon.
…
And so, they travelled for the next couple of days or so without any problem, nor any new finding, just the vast sea, but at some point, everyone stopped their ships.
Daimon who was sitting on a throne like seat at the captain's cabin, with Aisha sitting on her son's lap while she snuggled with him.
Their sweet flirting was interrupted by the shouts of the others, Daimon stood up and left the captain's cabin.
There from the deck, Daimon saw Calvin on the beak of his ship and Michael doing the same, both of them were evaluating a situation ahead of them.
There were only two ships but both of them were as big as the ones, Daimon confiscated from the royals.
To everyone's surprise the demons in those two ships didn't attack them, instead they instead raised a white flag and approached Daimon's ship.
A dim gray skinned guy then came out of the captain's cabin, and then evaluated all the people present here.
But the opposite was also true, this newcomer had gray skin, short red hair and the number "2" tattooed on his forearm, which was visible as he was wearing a short-sleeved shirt.
The demon, then looked at Tessa who was technically the strongest here, in terms of realm at least, and then made a gesture like a gentleman.
"Greetings, alfear princess princesses, dwarf princess, I wonder, where you asked by them to be reinforces?".
Tessa nodded.
"Yes, the creatures and those strange guys already killed more than a half the guys that are fighting against them, if not they wouldn't have asked for our presences".
The demon nodded.
"We are the same, can we tag along with you all, at least until we arrive at that island, in a bigger group, the creatures and those savages won't dare to aim at us, of course one we reach our destination, everyone is up to themselves, what do you say?".
The expression in the demon's face became grim when she saw Tessa shaking her head.
"It's not a bad idea, but I'm not the one in charge here so if you want answer to that, you should ask him instead.
The demon then looked at Daimon who was evaluating them as well, and he tried his best to sound friendly.
"I'm Akeem from the twelve-demon clan, what are your thoughts about a temporal truce to deal with the immediate enemy?".
Daimon rubbed his chin with a contemplative expression, on his face.
"It can be discussed, as longa as you tell me what is making the vice leaders of two different teams to rush from wherever they were, can't be possibly normal".
The expression in the demon's face became ugly.
"I can't answer to that… it would be against the purpose of being reinforcements for my Black Grave Academy".
Daimon's eyes narrowed a bit, apparently there was something interesting going on in that island, something that even Tessa didn't mention him.
"You can tag a long, but I'll have you sign a magic contract beforehand, just to be completely safe".
The other demon nearly lost it after listening to that, but since the rumored, "demon" was in front of him, he just mumbled some words in a strange language exclusive to the demons.
"Rfhggsh treefgsgsa…".
For the others the words meant nothing, but the demon that was speaking with earlier, shook his head, not happy with whatever the other daimon said.
"What kind of contract?".
"The kind that doesn't allow you to think on doing things like what that guy just spoke about a second ago".
"Watch out!", the demon with the number two tattoo, felt a sudden raise in the mana around daimon and he shouted to warn his friend, but he was a step too late.
By the time he reacted two black lines of light, pierced the chest of the other demon, life immediately escaped from him and his corpse collapsed on the floor.
The sudden change in the situation made the Paladins feel uncomfortable, Daimon was talking with the demons and then he killed someone out of nowhere, or that's what they thought.
A rough translation of what the other demon said would be:
"If we act low, we can deliver them to lord Marcus as sacrifices and help him deal with that annoying human".
Daimon managed to understand him for some reason, so of course he killed him, as for why the two small Hell Storm Javelins, the reason was very simple, demons had more than one heart.
Some of them wouldn't die if you destroyed their heads as long as their hearts were intact, most of the people from the younger generation didn't know that and the first years had yet to see the anatomy of the different races,
But Aura having fought, hunted or killed countless of different living beings, of course taught Daimon the weak points of them, including some words in their secret language, which he heard, meant he was being taken in for a sacrifice.
"So now Mr. number two pillar, are you going to sign the contract or not, I want the cooperation from the Lord realm sent by the Black Grave academy".
