Chapter 90: The Demons Strikes Back
While Kazuma and the others just found out the demon who got inside the alternate Earth, Catmod and the others are already working on pinpointing and finding the demons that managed to slip inside the area.
"Demonic monsters are now appearing slowly but surely all around the place of the Phantasmal Reality Dimension. The magicians are now fighting against them and I am sad to say that there are many casualties in the magicians right now," Otome reported as she monitored the situation of the place where Kazuma and the others are right now.
"Are there any sightings of the demons and how they managed to bypass our security?" Nekoyama asked, looking calm and composed.
"Yes. We found one footage in a secluded area near the mountains. Space suddenly got warped and seemed to be cut in half by the unknown entity which I presume to be a demon. I assume the demon that Voltaire fought in the school last time in Tokyo is the same demon that infiltrated in this place."
"Someone call my name?" Voltaire appears on the door while eating potato chips.
"It was me. I think we found now the whereabouts of the demon you tried to fight back then inside the Phantasmal Reality Dimension."
"You mean the girl demon that escaped?"
"No, the one who warps space and can make passageway out of nowhere. You stated it last time when we were talking about it."
When Voltaire heard this, his face got serious and approached Otome while shoving all the potato chips inside his mouth and munching it.
"You could have given a small amount of that for me, you don't have to be so greedy," Nekoyama shook his head.
"I haven't taken lunch, this is just a temporary food for my stomach. Anyways, can you show me any footage of this demon you are talking about? I want to confirm it with my own eyes."
Otome showed the footage of the scene to Voltaire and the latter looked at the video with a focus on it. In the video, everything was calm except for the casual monsters flying and walking around the mountain. Until the monsters started running away from the mountain for some unknown reason. It didn't take too long to show what caused the phenomenon. The sky above the mountain started showing some sort of crack and like a brittle wallpaper being torn apart.
The tear was slowly getting bigger and bigger until you can say that the place had been torn by some sort of rift. It became wide and two figures of clearly human figures go out of the rift. Of course, if you are not familiar with the two, you would think they are just humans but to people who keep on hunting demons like Voltaire, he can tell that the two are not humans. Also, he can tell that the two of them are the same demons he fought before not too long ago.
"I confirm the invaders to be high-class demons. The magicians inside the Phantasmal Reality Dimension are no match against them. I suggest that you deploy me and a few high ranking magicians to enter the Phantasmal Reality Dimension and forcefully remove the demons or much better to remove the participants themselves from the challenge."
"They are high-class demons?!" Nekoyama did not expect it to hear it from Voltaire.
"Yeah. They are high-class demons or a little bit more than that. I am not quite sure especially the guy. But I am quite sure that the woman with him is a high-class demon. I fought her before and I can tell that she is about to ascend from being a high-class to a disaster-class demon. As for the guy, he has the aura of the High-class demon but he might be also stronger than that. We never fought directly."
"You know that the expelling the participants forcefully is not possible and removing them one by one will take a lot of time and by the time we do that, the demons inside will already be able to wreak havoc inside the Phantasmal if left alone!" Otome said.
"That is why I am suggesting on me and a few high ranking magicians to enter and deal with the demons ourselves in there. We can also ask the participants to help us in support if necessary to destroy the demons. And besides, if we are not even going to help, we can't reassure that the Phantasmal Reality Dimension will remain as a peaceful place. It will be a very dangerous place and we cannot stop it if we leave it."
Catmod sighed and looked at the screen of the situation inside the Phantasmal.
"I think we will go with your plan Voltaire. In fact, I have to be the one resolving this problem instead of you."
"No, no. I have to deal with it too. That guy is someone strong and I have not faced this kind of demon before and my instincts tell me I have to face against him at all cost."
"You got some sort of stigma against this demon?" Otome asked.
"Sort of. But I can't have him roam free and terrorize the whole place. I am not just going to stay still and let him do what he wants. As a demon hunter, I have to deal with him at all costs."
"Alright. In the meantime, I will call in the headquarters and ask for help. I will also ask the chat group if any magicians are up for a small demon hunting in the meantime. You should prepare for the equipment we need to stop these guys."
Voltaire nodded and left the room, leaving only Catmod and Otome on the monitor.
"I never expected to encounter this kind of situation. I guess I am getting older now," Catmod sighed.
"Don't blame yourself. If these demons have that special ability, it is normal for you to not be able to anticipate their breaching. We should instead focus on getting them out of the Phantasmal."
Catmod sips a coffee despite being a cat and looked again at the monitor. "The demons were surely going to be up to something else and I doubt this will be the last event they will be attacking.