I regressed and became the Sword Ice King-Chapter 198 - - Trip to the East 17

Just as a recap, there are four hierarchies in the demonic level for demons, which start from Lower, Greater, King, and then Grand. Each has its tier, starting from 1st, the weakest, to the 7th, the strongest, depending on the number of demonic cores present.

Currently, Raph lived in a period where most nobles weren’t even aware of the Gate openings and the invasion of demons, which occurred scarcely throughout the whole Continent, and this was because of the barrier separating the Demonic Realm and the Mortal Realm .

Though demons of the lesser hierarchy had the opportunity to make holes through it and invade the Mortal Realm, the strongest demons of the higher hierarchy did not.

So at the moment, after going through the Demonic Encyclopedia that had been engraved into Mercenaries and Adventures from the demons that nearly whipped the people of the earth, during the Dark Age, Rodrick was able to identify the…..creature he was staring at.

Raph recognized the demon as well from his past life memories, and the thought of how it got here gnawed at them the wrong way.

Further into the Cave, where their gazes were locked on, was a human baby head, the size of an automobile vehicle, protruding from the walls of the Cave.

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The patterns on the Cave were drawn towards the baby’s head, pulsating and shimmering in a demonic, emerald hue as it supplied an endless source of energy to the baby.

Two tiny horns protruded from its forehead, and the green patterns formed the orifices for its face on the wall.

The demon was embedded in the wall, and its figure just simply formed a counter, while it protruded the walls out. It seemed like an ethereal sight at first, but with the pulsating energy and glowing lights, one would wonder what the source of the energy truly was.

Raph, for example, had his mind boggled by the thought as he walked backward with Rodrick.

’I thought the green light was caused by the sun’s rays? Is there something more to this that I don’t understand? He wondered for a moment as they continued to take slow steps.

Even for him, if he were to use every power he had, he would not be able to face a 7th-tier Grand Demon.

They were amongst the epitome of demonic creatures and the most susceptible to advancing into a devil. ’In general, these things are dangerous’.

He must have made up his mind a long time ago. They needed to leave, flee, Vamos, and quickly so. "Um, I don’t need to tell you, Rodrick, but you know what to do, right?" He muttered when they got away from the creature and approached the merchants.

Rodrick glanced at Raph, turned around, and rushed up to his teammates with hastened footsteps.

’Oh, he does then’. Raph thought sarcastically as he glanced at the Merchants. Most had gotten their things ready and were prepared to leave. They were climbing onto their carriages now and leading them outside the cave.

It seemed like everything was going well, and according to plans, but something gnawed at him at the moment. He searched amongst the merchants for a particular Man, and he slowly began to get worried about not finding him. ’Could he have seen it as well?’ he wondered and walked towards the Merchant’s carriages. ’The Mountain Baby is usually found in deep slumbers, but they can be easily awoken once something that affects it directly has been tampered with.’

All this time, they had been in the Cave in the afternoon, and towards the evening, but they had not noticed the green light that showed up once morning came.

His thoughts began to reel in as the series of events played out in his head. ’The green light, does it only appear in the day? Or was it just feeding after a long time….’

He did have an idea of what it was feeding on. After all, there were hordes of dead bodies of Walking Worms lying about, and they could easily permeate the floor in search of their bodies to obtain nutrients. ’but there are cases when they feed on humans too, no, in fact, there are many instances where it feeds on humans’.

Just the thought put a shiver down his spine. ’They eat their meals in a parasitic manner, sucking out energy and blood from the living or dead things that have seeped through the earth closest to its nest’. Raph thought with a sigh. They were currently in the demon’s nest, and its ability to suck energy from living things had become one of his biggest concerns.

’...After all, it would mean we are being eaten alive as we remain in this cave’.

With this conclusion, he thought it wise to leave at once. Especially with Azby and Lucky being unconscious.

His thoughts were still in the air when he finally found Malen, who was currently at the entrance of the Cave, staring at the walls of the interior.

’.....what is he thinking?’ He thought as he approached him.

"Malen! What are you doing? Get on board so we can leave," he said with a loud tone, getting his attention.

’He wasn’t here a moment ago….did he go outside? Why?’. His senses were on high alert, and his energy began to boil with adrenaline in anticipation of the unknown.

"Oh, Mister Kael" Malen greeted with a smile as the first carriage, led by his messenger boy, rode to the entrance. It stopped next to them, with the messenger boy, named Rick, an unassuming boy whose backward hairline was the most noteworthy thing of his features.

"We’re ready to leave, Master Malen," he said as he stroked the reins, causing the three horses to neigh in unison and walk out.

"All right, I’ll be there in a minute," he instructed as he rode it out, followed by the other merchants and their messenger boys, while the Mercenaries approached last with their bags on their backs. Azby and Lucky were secured in the third Carriage, kept away from the goods in a safe spot while they walked behind the group.

Raph stared at the carriages with a raised brow and glanced at Cruz, who approached them with the others.

’Isn’t Cruz the controller of the orb? Why are they leaving when he’s walking behind the group?’. He thought in confusion when his senses were triggered, as a whooshing sound like that of a whistle echoed in the air. His body immediately acted before he could process the source of the sound, and he rushed towards Cruz and pushed him aside before grabbing an arrow that whistled through the air before he stopped it by grabbing it a few inches away from his forehead.

Rodrick and Colyn immediately stood on guard and pulled out their weapons while Malen, at the same time as the arrow was shot at, ran away from the Cave entrance towards the third Carriage and pulled out a disc-like structure as he held onto the end support of the carriage, hopping onto it at the same time.

He tapped it twice, and the carriage increased its pace while the horses neighed as they rode off in speed.

Raph, startled by their sudden action, prepared to charge forward when he noticed the glowing red lights around the cave entrance.

His head was boggled in confusion at the sight until it snapped into realization, and in an unprepared manner, as soon as he crossed the entrance, he pulled his body backward into the cave before a loud explosion shook the cave.

The red light illuminated a glowing crimson explosion that shook the cave entrance and collapsed the structure of the wall like a demolished building, blocking the sunlight that permeated through it.

Rodrick and Colyn, in confusion, threw away their things and pulled out their weapons in a hurry to burst through the entrance when Raph snapped at them.

"Are you crazy! Drop your weapons!" he cried out in rushed adrenaline, while a shiver ran down their spines as they turned to him in shock.

Cruz, on the other hand, suddenly stood up and pointed his mana staff at the entrance, and a spark of flames ignited and grew into a fireball.

"You don’t tell me what to do," he said before releasing the spell and causing a further explosion that blew the rock debris apart, causing a small human-sized opening within the piles of rocks that had blocked off the entrance.

It was slowly closing up again, but Cruz had already seemed to have prepared beforehand as he rushed towards the entrance.

"Cruz?! What the fuck are you doing?!" Rodrick asked in confusion as he went after him, only to be frozen in fear by the sound that caused a ripple effect to the green patterns of the Cave.

"Shit! Shit!" Raph cursed and pulled out his sword, endowed it with aura, and thrust it forward as soon as Cruz wriggled his way out and rushed away. His sword glowed blue and an energy of blue light sparked before blowing the rest of the debris away.

"Come on you fools! Unless you want to be dead!" he charged out first, and without picking up their things, Colyn and Rodrick rushed after him as well.

"What–What is going on?!" Colyn asked in confusion when the sound they had heard echoed again. The sound was like the giggle of a baby, only distorted with a monstrous, inhumane voice. "Shit! What was that?!" he asked as he turned to look around.

"Focus on running, you bastard!" Rodrick cried out as they headed towards the exterior of the dome, only to find Cruz already outside the structure, the Red orb glowing within his palm, as he closed off the dome to prevent them from leaving.

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"The fuck, Cruz?! What are you doing?!" Rodrick asked as he slammed himself against the dome, slamming and striking it in fury. "Let us out, you bastard" he cried out in fury, while Raph and Colyn stood behind him. Cruz simply remained quiet, with a disgusted expression on his face as he stared at Rodrick.

The loud, monstrous baby laugh echoed again, and their bodies were sent on high alert as the top of the Mountain was broken through by a large fist.

Raph stared at it and then at Cruz before clicking his tongue in annoyance. He took a step forward and pushed Rodrick away. "I’ve had enough of this".

He pulled down his hoodie and stared at Cruz.

"Look into my eyes".