Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

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Around the center of capital city of Lakmer, some distance away from the arena where the cometation was taking place, there was a famous jewellery shop that was mostly frequented by the nobles and the higher standing people of the society.

Their speciality of their diamond carving techniques that they had become famous for over the course of a decade they had settled in this city.

It was a large, three sporty building with a loyal customer base and there were many customers that came here to purchase jewellery occasionally, and many who traveled from faraway lands each year for the cometation made sure to pay a visit to their favourite shop.

So, this place was famous among the citizens and the outsiders.

There were around fifty employees in this shop during one shift on one floor and since there were around three shifts each day, the shop had over a four hundred and fifty employees working each day.

The owner of the shop was a reputable person that was respected within the society and was known by quite a few people, and, people considered him a gentle and kind person.

Though, his truth was something else entirely. 

"Three, report."

"Point 2, 4, 9. Complete. Awaiting command. Point 1, 3, 5 on standby. Gate activation. I initiates at command. Point 6, 7, 8. The beasts are hungry."

A major store in the capital city of the centre of politics was a stronghold of the demonic humans, the force that was done with their side of the preparation for the attack that would soon begin under the gentle blue light of the full moon.

The owner of the store, a gentle and caring personality that took good care of his employees was a mask that hid his demonic side so well, it was impossible for even the mastermind of political circles, the lady of the President, to find the truth of these bastards.

"Let them starve. Tonight… is a banquet anyway."

"Yes."

It was afternoon so sun was still shining brightly in the sky. The jewels in the stores were shining under the lights beautifully. The people were roaming the streets carelessly, unaware of the dangers that were lurking right under their feet.

They did not know about these people, however, every single employee of this shop, every single demonic human wearing a thick mask of smiling humans, were aware of the chaos that was on the horizon.

They had waited, prepared, trained, and ahead ahead blood and tears in order for this very day. Nothing was going to stop them from achieving what was rightfully the will of their lord.

They had numbers, strengths, weapons, ways, reinforcements, demonic beasts that were hungry for blood and souls, and, they also had the support of some demons working with them.

Just their shop alone possessed enough forces to bring down a few great cities of major powers of this world. 

And, they weren't the only shop like that in this city.

"Hohoho! Welcome to (Traveller's Island)! What would you like dear travellers!"

There was a famous tavern at the northern edge of the capital city of Lakmer.

Small, just a two story wooden house that was famous for more than a decade, however, a famous place that many adventurers frequented on daily bases for their strawberry flavoured alcohol.

It was a unique beverage that only they sold in this city. And, the female adventurers especially loved to frequent this place with their party members or their lovers.

They believed their beverage had some sort of unique calming effect that wasn't found in any other drink of this capital, however, they were better off not knowing the 'secret ingredient' of this unique taste was demon worms… 

The ones who drink it willingly sign their own death sentences. And the ones who drink it frequently, well, they sign up to forsake their humanity.

Demonic worms, as known to few who knew about the demonic realm, were creatures that slowly consume their hosts from inside out and after a certain point, they overtake their beings, turning them into puppets that the masters of these insects can control at will.

This tavern, known to have served to tens of thousands of citizens of of this city, was essentially farming minions for this very day for decades now. And, even though the influences of the ones that could control these bugs might not reach too far from this city, just the ones within the city were going to more than enough to havoc enough chaos to summon a noble demon from Hell.

And, this wasn't the only weapon this stronghold possessed.

There was an underground level below the house that was practically a factory producing what is called 'golem'.

Just that this factory produced golem that had only purpose for their existence: destruction.

Their forces were so great that they could cover half of the city themselves and still have enough forces to send in as reinforcements to the other half of the city.

"Hohoho! Here's your order dear customers! The speciality of our home, The dragon tongue!"

They had few employees above the ground, just around ten or so. However, the people working in their underground factories numbered in hundreds, same as the jewellery shop on the other side of the city.

These two places, the strongholds of the demonic forces, had been hidden from the eyes of the President, the management, or the royal family of Lakmer for a long time now, however, that was all going to end soon.

"Six, go serve a 'glass of water' on three."

"Yes."

They were finally going to make thei move tonight. And, their patience until now was going to be rewarded for that.

And, this was only two of their strongholds that were inside of the city, conclesd from the eye of the society and the world of politics.

There were more outside the city, guarded by their forces four greater and stronger than what they had on the inside.

They were nothing less than a modern army with summoned beasts, magicians, knights, artifacts, siege weapons, greater magic, hungry beasts, however, in addition to all that, they had support of the demons, the other forces that weren't connected to them, the 'seeds' they had planted over the years, and the other madmen that just wanted a spark to start their own bloodbath.

There were all kinds of crazy people in this world after all, and they knew very well how to recognize these madmen.

[[ "The fourth round would start shortly." ]]

[[ "Everyone did good. Better than I had expected actually." ]]

[[ "Still though, it's not over yet." ]]

[[ "You all should focus on what is going on instead of chitchat. Look, there seems to be people wanting to talk with Lady Mia and the others from our schools that passed." ]]

The scales of the evil's forces was too great. They were trained by powerful people, one can tell just by the way they were able to conceal themselves while staying in the society for all this years.

They were good with what they were doing, and, they had strength.

Knowledge to create facilities that could not detracted by the higher level surveillance devices of the capital city; mages of (tier-4) to (tier-9) that could handle advanced artifacts; knights that had physical capabilities to tame down the demonic beasts so ferocious that even the normal royal knights might have hard time against even one of them; taming techniques that were able to hold them in one place without a territorial dispute; and enough capital backing to making all this possible.

This was not work of some backalley gang of thugs. They were a terrorist organisation with force great enough to tereample even a mid sized kingdom all by themselves.

And opposed to them were a little over a hundred people…

Including four that were still associated with their schools.

This fight was not going to fair in the slightest. However, they knew including more people will only lead to more unnecessary deaths.

Their main objective was to save as many people as they can through any means possible. 

[ "The wait will come to an end soon everyone! We will start the fourth round of the cometation in thirty minutes! Please call back all your friends and families who had went out for break and snacks!" ]

And for that, they were going to divide the forces of outside the city and the forces within the city as the first course of action.

They were going to fight multiple isolated battles on the different fronts, take care of the forces out of the city, and leave the forces inside of the city to the experts that were specialised in long range fights, covert operations, group enemy handling, specialised support magic, and combat methods that can take care of enemies without destroying the surroundings.

They had a plan to deal with the citizens that had the demonic worms, they also had a method to deal with the initial attack of their enemies, and, also a detailed strategy of how they were going to progress with the battle… however, the only thing they had yet to find out, was the 'goal' of the enemy forces.

[[ "It will start soon now." ]]

[[ "President… let's not worry about that and look forward to the dinner we will have with everyone." ]]

[[ "Ah, yes." ]]

Few select individuals were given the task to capture the highest ranking officials of each of the strongholds. And, President Zodiac was one of those people that was going to deal with the jewellery store near the area.

He will have company, of course. The one he had to capture was speculated to be a (tier-8) dark mage, after all. However, he had the responsibility to capture that person…

And, currently, he was having difficulty suppressing his urge to chop down every single demonic bastard, their pets, and anything related to them.

He resented them more than anything in this world, however, instead of giving against many of those bastards, he was assigned one target.

And, he had to follow the instructions of the people around him as closely as he could while doing that… just like how every single person that was part of this mission was going to do.

Or try to do, at least.

Their ultimate goal was to stop them, their wicked plans, and save people. 

As long as they were going it, well, they should also be fine cutting off a few bastards on their way.

That's how war worked anyway…