Using the teleportation circle, eared exactly at the same dipidated structure where we left earlier.

  During that time, Serarall was humming happily to herself.

  I wonder how she keep herself so positive every single minute. Not to mention, what is she even happy with? Because wherever she’s getting it, I want some of it.

  “Okay, first things first, I’m not going to force you to stick with me for my mission, if you want, you’re free to go around, however, you must not attract the attention of the Angels, you pinky promise me that?” She turns around to face me, uttering a few ditions that don’t seem that bad to follow.

  It sounds more like safety protocols that a mother would tell her child.

  “Yes, Mom,” I said with a simple roll of my eyes, just to tease her.

  “Hehe, alright son~” Serafall, startling me, adorned a grin on her face as she teased back. Before I could get ba her, she quickly disappeared before my eyes, leaving me alone in the dipidated building.

  Well, that’s great, now that she’s gone, everything that happened so far finally came crashing down on me.

  One moment, I was resting in my apartment when I got attacked by my former master, got stabbed in my heart, got actally transferred to another world again but this time, ba aimes, almost finding myself at death’s doorstep before I turned into a devil, visited Hell or Underworld whatever Serafall likes to call it and by the end of the journey, I’m back to the world of living once again.

  Great, simply great.

  The questio for me is, what do I do now? With the details that Serafall filled me in earlier, do I have to join this Great War that I don’t find any sense participating in just because I’m now part of the devil race? Do I even want to fight Big G of the Bible himself?

  Being in a new world finally gave me a small space to breathe. Uhe world of Marvel, at least I don’t have to stantly look behind my bad expeeet some Super-Vilin or worse, one of the Marvel Universe’s Gods.

  This world seems safer to me. I mean, from what Serafall told me about the Supernatural side of this world, this Universe is quite simir to the Marvel Universe except that it’s on Normal Mode instead of Nightmare in terms of difficulty.

  With all of these positive elements, as long as I keep my head low and focus on growing my strength, what could g?

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  “Are you sure he smells human?”

  “Yes, Milord! On my thousand years of living, I never doubted my sense of smell! Although his devil smell is overpping and almost dominating, it's impossible to hide the smell of a human from my smell!” Kneeling on the floor was someone whose appearance would put even the wealthiest person to shame in terms of clothing and aura.

  In front of this kneeling man was anure whose presence was so suffog that the space itself seemed to curve and bend like a waving surface of the sea.

  His sharp violet pupils bined with his eerie aura, pressed on the kneeling mae not moving, the ma a huge pressure weighing down on him, as if for every sed he spent, the heavier the pressure became.

  “…Good, you may leave now, as a reward for this information, the Barbartos will be grao take over the Animal Research department, I’ll inform Lord Lucifer myself about that.” After a moment of silehat seemed to choke the kneeling man, the man sitting ohrone finally spoke.

  “Thank you, Lord Zekram!” The man finally stood and bowed his head before leaving, not daring to use a teleportation circle directly inside as it is sidered taboo and very disrespectful to the owner of the house.

  As someoh a very wide and powerful influenside the Underworld aside from the freat Satans, Zekram has eyes in almost the entire Underworld, so he’s always informed of whoes in and out.

  It's also a ce that Serafall has been under his radar for quite a while, mainly due to her immealent in her ’s trait at such a young age. Such seedlings should be nurtured to increase the ces of them winning the Great War.

  Although her ck of participation in the war and inability to sistently follow orders from those above her is something that he’s been frowning upon, it is undeniable that she’ll be a very important piece to aplish their revenge on the being who vanquished them.

  “Hmm…Iing, what are you pnning bringing a devil who reeks of human, Serafall.”

  ***

  Not knowing that I just gained myself a stalker, my eyes were darting around as seeing the humans who lived in the past is almost surreal, although I know that they’re living and alive, I ’t help but see them as people who are already dead, after all, I’m kind of someone who was from future and these guys are long dead during that time, buried and forever fotten.

  Well, here’s to my past self thinking that history is just a bunch of bullshits that the gover made up.

  “Excuse me? May I ask you to not please block my passage?” Suddenly getting interrupted, I shifted my head and saw a random man carrying what seemed to be a basket filled with fruits aables, from the looks of his sweaty fad exhausted expression, I could tell that the man was a breadwinner.

  “My…apologies?” I muttered fusedly, I’m not sure if I’m supposed to uand the man in front of me nor is he supposed to uaher. Still, I stepped aside for the man to pass.

  “It’s fine, d. Just watch where you’re standing still ime.” The man gave me a short smile befoing back to seriousness. The weight of the basket he’s carrying is no joke sidering he’s human.

  Upon passage, I started weaving through the traffic of camels, carts, and busy men, before finally finding a good and safe pce to stay for a while.

  I o find somewhere I won't be disturbed.

  With this in mind, I sed my eyes around and saw a huge cart on its way toward Jerusalem’s front gates, probably to exit the city.

  Realizing that this was my ce to leave and explore outside instead of staying in a city that is the st pce a new devil like me would go into.

  Thankfully, I could still use some of my spells using this weird energy I could feel inside of me. I just retly discovered earlier that I no longer he assistance of a Dimension to borrow energy to harness my spells, instead, I now have my very own energy reserves to fuel my magic.

  It kind of feels weird at first but I know I’ll get used to it somehow.

  As soon as the huge cart passed by my location, I quickly but quietly cast a wind spell to disrupt the an, f him to stop the cart and cover his eyes from the clouds of dust attempting to enter his eyes.

  Taking the opportunity, I swiftly ducked uhe cart and used the cart’s body underh to carry my ow, effectively turnio part of the cart itself.

  Ohe an recovered and the wind finally dispersed, he wasted no time and resumed driving the cart.

  Meanwhile, I was surprised that I didn’t feel any strain on my muscles sidering I was literally carrying my ow underh a moving cart on a road full of bumps and small potholes that almost seemed as if every time the cart ran through it, it would overturn the cart.

  Hidden and uhe cart swiftly moved past through the gates of Jerusalem, finally entering the wide and outside world.

  ***

  In the meantime, Serafall just got reunited with her panions for Lady Leviathan’s given task of killing three popes of the Church.

  “Where have you been, Lady Serafall?” As someone who is the direct heir of one of the Devil’s pilrs, Serafall is still respected by them despite her unsatisfactory performance when it es to participating in the cause of the Great War.

  As much as they want to scold her for deviating away from the main mission, they only swallow their frustrations and wish that they were born with a higher status than Serafall so they could at least have a say against her.

  “I’ve been…scouting.” She lied, one already tell how bad she is at lying as her eyes dart around without daring to look them in the eye.

  “Sigh…Well, if you’re truly ‘scouting’ as you’re saying, Lady Serafall, I assume you now know the current locations of the three popes we’re targeting.”

  “….Of course! One is located on the north side of-” Before Serafall could tinue, she was interrupted by the person she was talking to, spping his own forehead.

  Sp!

  “Lady Serafall…we scouted around Jerusalem and found out that all the popes of the churches are having a secret meeting in an undisclosed location which we thankfully found. The only thing that’s holding us back from raiding them is because we’re waiting for your arrival, Lady Serafall.”

  “Oh.” Serafall, who was uo say anything, could only scratch her head and follow the lead of her panions for now.

  ‘Oh Lord Satans, please help us get through this task.’ Oain panion prayed in his heart.

  ***

  I almost fell asleep hiding uhe cart, thankfully, a certain pothole startled me, snapping me back to reality.

  I should be far enough now.

  Letting go of the rotting and deg wood I’d been grabbing onto for the past few minutes, I felt my back drop and rub against the rocky road, watg as the cart finally rode past me.

  Rubbing my bottom, I stood up and looked around me, finding myself in the middle of nowhere, lush trees surrounding me on both sides.

  Well, the road will probably lead me to another humalement, but I don't pn to stay underh a cart for entire days, I might as well drop off now and assess my current situation first.

  Walking past the side of the road aering the forest, my legs brought me forward for a few minutes until I arrived at a small clearing, enough to establish a small temporary home for me, away from anyone who might e to harm me.

  Putting that aside, I also have other pns for today. From what Serafall told me earlier, one of the boons that es with being a devil is the increase in all aspects of physical strength,

  I want to test them and ce is the best to test them but ay p the middle of nowhere.

  The first thing I want to test is my speed. Previously before I turned into a devil, my speed was above normal, which is pretty much obvious sidering that as a sorcerer, physical is part of our training ba Kamar-Taj.

  I don't o bend dorepare myself to run as fast as I simir to how professional runners do before the start of the petition, after all, during the middle of a fight, do I also o bend dorepare?

  So, a single and that my brain delivered to my legs, caused me to cover 50 meters in a single moment, I haven’t even blinked yet when I already found myself in my destination.

  Oh wow, I blinked.

  I didn't know I would be that fast. If my guess is correct, it would take a human around 10 seds to reach the same distance.

  It should be fast enough right? I mean, acc to what Serafall told me, I’m ohreshold of a Middle-css devil, so there’s still more room for improvement.

  is the strength, hopefully, it would be somewhere near Captain America’s strength, that way, I finally hold my ground against people like them.

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  [ Chapter: Ch. 7 - Attempt to go bae]